Patents by Inventor Yukiko Akiyama

Yukiko Akiyama 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).

  • Patent number: 10198175
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a coordinate input unit for inputting coordinate data series, a recognition unit for recognizing a character based on the coordinate data series inputted, and a page/note management unit for managing a data aggregate of the character recognized as a page, receiving a search condition from a user, and managing one or more page aggregates hit by the condition as notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shoji, Yukiko Akiyama, Yoshinobu Endo
  • Patent number: 9986218
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a creation unit to combine first section data in moving image data with other content data to create a composite moving image content, a reproduction unit to reproduce the moving image data, an operation reception unit to receive a predetermined operation input by a user during reproduction of the moving image data, and a control unit to extract second section data including a reproduction position of the moving image data at a time when the predetermined operation input is received and control the creation unit so that the creation unit changes the first section data in the composite moving image content into the second section data, the second section data being different from the first section data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniichiro Naruse, Hisashi Hosaka, Mitsuo Okumura, Yukiko Akiyama, Kosuke Kimura, Kazuma Igari
  • Patent number: 9298820
    Abstract: A terminal device includes circuitry configured to acquire designated image data stored in a memory. The circuitry may sort the designated image data based on a time at which the designated image data was captured. The circuitry may divide the sorted image data into a plurality of time slots and calculate, based on features of the designated image data corresponding to each time slot of the plurality of time slots, a time slot score for each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may allocate, based on the time slot score, a portion of a digest video to each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may generate, for each time slot, a local digest video by assigning an amount of the designated image data to the local digest video corresponding to the time slot, and generate the digest video by connecting the generated local digest videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Kosaka, Tatsuya Hama, Kenichi Yoneda, Takamoto Tsuda, Yukiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20150104147
    Abstract: A terminal device includes circuitry configured to acquire designated image data stored in a memory. The circuitry may sort the designated image data based on a time at which the designated image data was captured. The circuitry may divide the sorted image data into a plurality of time slots and calculate, based on features of the designated image data corresponding to each time slot of the plurality of time slots, a time slot score for each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may allocate, based on the time slot score, a portion of a digest video to each of the plurality of time slots. The circuitry may generate, for each time slot, a local digest video by assigning an amount of the designated image data to the local digest video corresponding to the time slot, and generate the digest video by connecting the generated local digest videos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi KOSAKA, Tatsuya HAMA, Kenichi YONEDA, Takamoto TSUDA, Yukiko AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140380253
    Abstract: [Object] To improve operability of an information processing apparatus. [Solving Means] It includes a coordinate input unit for inputting coordinate data series; a recognition unit for recognizing a character based on the coordinate data series inputted; a page/note management unit for managing a data aggregate of the character recognized as a page, receiving a search condition from a user, and managing one or more page aggregates hit by the condition as notes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shoji, Yukiko Akiyama, Yoshinobu Endo
  • Patent number: 8700732
    Abstract: A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Akira Ando, Muneaki Osawa, Hiroshi Aruga, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kazuo Yamaoka, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8437613
    Abstract: A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Muneaki Osawa, Kazuo Yamaoka, Hiroshi Aruga, Akira Ando, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8300972
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting a subject area having a predetermined feature in an image; a first calculation section calculating a first blur degree indicating a blur degree of the extracted subject area; a second calculation section calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is one, a second blur degree indicating a blur degree of the entire image based on the first blur degree, and calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is plural, the second blur degree based on a value obtained by performing weighted averaging on the plural first blur degrees in accordance with dimensions of the plural subject areas; and a sorting section sorting an image having the calculated second blur degree equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, as a blur image, from plural images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hosaka, Kosuke Kimura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Kazuma Igari, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Okumura, Akira Kikuchi, Hidefumi Kashima
  • Publication number: 20110116726
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting a subject area having a predetermined feature in an image; a first calculation section calculating a first blur degree indicating a blur degree of the extracted subject area; a second calculation section calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is one, a second blur degree indicating a blur degree of the entire image based on the first blur degree, and calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is plural, the second blur degree based on a value obtained by performing weighted averaging on the plural first blur degrees in accordance with dimensions of the plural subject areas; and a sorting section sorting an image having the calculated second blur degree equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, as a blur image, from plural images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi HOSAKA, Kosuke Kimura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Kazuma Igari, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Okumura, Akira Kikuchi, Hidefumi Kashima
  • Patent number: 7823180
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus. The apparatus also includes a reproduction unit that reproduces content data. Additionally, the apparatus includes a control unit that controls the communication unit to receive list information including identification information of the content data, controls a display unit to display the list information, designates the identification information of the displayed list information based on an input to an operation unit, controls the communication unit to automatically receive a part of the content data corresponding to the designated identification information when the designation of the identification information continues for a defined duration, and controls the reproduction unit to reproduce the received part of the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izuru Tanaka, Makoto Imamura, Yukiko Akiyama, Toshikazu Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20100180008
    Abstract: A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Akira Ando, Muneaki Osawa, Hiroshi Aruga, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kazuo Yamaoka, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20100166390
    Abstract: A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Muneaki Osawa, Kazuo Yamaoka, Hiroshi Aruga, Akira Ando, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20100054692
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a creation unit to combine first section data in moving image data with other content data to create a composite moving image content, a reproduction unit to reproduce the moving image data, an operation reception unit to receive a predetermined operation input by a user during reproduction of the moving image data, and a control unit to extract second section data including a reproduction position of the moving image data at a time when the predetermined operation input is received and control the creation unit so that the creation unit changes the first section data in the composite moving image content into the second section data, the second section data being different from the first section data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniichiro NARUSE, Hisashi HOSAKA, Mitsuo OKUMURA, Yukiko AKIYAMA, Kosuke KIMURA, Kazuma IGARI
  • Publication number: 20050091679
    Abstract: In EMD service, when a user listens to a sample of a musical piece, the user listens to the sample of the musical piece being reproduced by an EMD client on judgment of the EMD client itself without the user performing an operation for starting the trial listening reproduction. Specifically, when the user presses a upward key 44 or a downward key 45 in a state in which a musical piece presenting page 91 as a list of musical pieces (musical piece information for identifying them) is displayed, the EMD client updates a musical piece to be reproduced for trial listening, and displays only the information of that musical piece in inverse video 92. The EMD client obtains trial listening data of the musical piece from an EMD server and reproduces the musical piece (one part thereof) corresponding to the trial listening data from a speaker 21 on judgment of the EMD client itself without the user performing an operation for starting the trial listening reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izuru Tanaka, Makoto Imamura, Yukiko Akiyama, Toshikazu Minoshima