Patents by Inventor Yosuke Hiratsuka

Yosuke Hiratsuka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120281117
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20120249838
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a main image as an image satisfying a main composition condition indicating a condition regarding a predetermined composition. The image processing apparatus includes: a condition determining unit that determines whether a captured image obtained through imaging of an imaging unit satisfies a preliminary composition condition which is based on the main composition condition; a processing unit that executes a process of obtaining a preliminary image as an image satisfying the preliminary composition condition in accordance with the determination result of the condition determining unit; and an image processing unit that generates the main image by processing the preliminary image obtained through the process based on the main composition condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke HIRATSUKA, Saori Sugita, Naoto Makino
  • Patent number: 8228412
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 8199208
    Abstract: An operation input apparatus includes a body portion detection unit for receiving image data and detecting a certain body portion of a subject in an image of the image data, a state determination unit for determining a certain state corresponding to a priority-level setting condition for each body portion, a priority-level setting unit for setting priority levels to the individual body portions in accordance with results of the determination, an operation determination unit for determining whether the body portions performed a predetermined motion corresponding to a certain operation in accordance with determination allowance degrees of the body portions serving as determination subjects which are set in accordance with the priority levels, and a control unit for controlling the operation input apparatus so that the operation input apparatus performs a predetermined operation in accordance with the determination that the certain motion corresponding to the certain operation has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Katsumata, Yosuke Hiratsuka, Shingo Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20100277618
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image-effect determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item, the environmental information item being associated with the image data item, a dynamic image effect in which, when the image data item is displayed, a visual change is generated for the displayed image data item; and a display control unit configured to control, for display of the image data item, a display operation so that the dynamic image effect which has been determined by the image-effect determination unit is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20100277491
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image-effect determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of an environmental-information difference, an image effect that is to be provided, when an image data item that is a playback target is displayed, for the displayed image data item, the environmental-information difference being obtained by comparing an environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target with an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information items being associated with the corresponding image data items; and a display control unit configured to control, for display of an image data item, a display operation so that the image effect determined by the image-effect determination unit is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20100073497
    Abstract: An operation input apparatus includes a body portion detection unit for receiving image data and detecting a certain body portion of a subject in an image of the image data, a state determination unit for determining a certain state corresponding to a priority-level setting condition for each body portion, a priority-level setting unit for setting priority levels to the individual body portions in accordance with results of the determination, an operation determination unit for determining whether the body portions performed a predetermined motion corresponding to a certain operation in accordance with determination allowance degrees of the body portions serving as determination subjects which are set in accordance with the priority levels, and a control unit for controlling the operation input apparatus so that the operation input apparatus performs a predetermined operation in accordance with the determination that the certain motion corresponding to the certain operation has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Katsumata, Yosuke Hiratsuka, Shingo Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20080297638
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke HIRATSUKA