Patents Assigned to Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8207899
    Abstract: Disclosed is a folded dipole antenna device which is of an unbalanced feed type and includes an antenna element of approximately plate-like loop structure, connected to an antenna feed point and an antenna ground provided on a base plate. In the folded dipole antenna device, the antenna element of loop structure includes a pair of first element sections which extend approximately parallel to the base plate, a second element section formed by merging element sections that are folded back from both ends of the first element sections and extend approximately parallel to the first element sections, and a third element section which extends from a folded top part of the second element section toward the first element sections and an end part thereof is close to the first element sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsunori Ishimiya
  • Patent number: 8204270
    Abstract: Face images are extracted from still image content and linked to communication address information. When a person is selected from the still image content the communication address information is acquired, and a communication section is controlled to prompt a telephone call or e-mail according to the communication address information. In the still image content, the image of the person determined to be linked to the communication address information is displayed in a display mode that is different from a display mode for a person not linked to communication address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tanigawa, Keiko Hiraoka, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Mayu Irimajiri, Atsushi Imai, Seiji Muramatsu, Takamoto Tsuda, Takeshi Matsuzawa, Tomoharu Okamoto, Akihiko Adachi, Tatsuhiko Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8203537
    Abstract: A user interface device and a PDA include: a transparent panel unit possessing plural layers, each provided with plural transparent deformation sections deformable to a specified shape by injection or discharge of fluid; a fluid channel unit possessing, in common or separately, two transparent fluid channels to inject and to discharge fluid to and from the deformation sections; a fluid pump unit to discharge or suck fluid to and from the fluid channel unit; a display panel unit provided with the transparent panel unit over an upper surface of the display panel unit and possessing a screen surface to display an image; and a controller to control injection and discharge of the fluid to and from the deformation sections of the transparent panel unit, corresponding to an image to be displayed on the screen of the display panel unit. Information can be conveyed tactilely and visually to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Tanabe, Tsutomu Takahashi, Fumisada Maeda, Akira Suzuki, Nobuyuki Nagai
  • Patent number: 8200724
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a first storage section configured to store address information for performing connection to a communication terminal of a communication partner and an address book containing information about the communication partner, a second storage section configured to store first data files, a search section configured to search through the second storage section for first data files corresponding to information about the communication partner linked to the communication terminal of the communication partner selected on the basis of the address book, a compiling section configured to compile the retrieved first data files into a predetermined unit to generate a second data file, and a communication section configured to perform communication between the present communication terminal and the communication terminal of the communication partner and transmit the second data file to the communication terminal of the communication partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Kanno, Tetsuya Naruse
  • Patent number: 8200808
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes history information storing means for storing history information on communication; displaying means for displaying a calendar; means for classifying the history information on the communication of each day into a plurality of patterns; and image storing means for storing beforehand images corresponding to the plurality of patterns, wherein the displaying means displays an image corresponding to a pattern corresponding to the history information on the communication of each day, in correspondence with each day of the calendar, when the calendar is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Maiko Ishida
  • Patent number: 8190529
    Abstract: An information processing system, information communication terminal and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of enabling safer electronic commercial transactions. A point-of-purchase server generates purchasing information using a card Identification number allotted to a non-contact IC-card of a mobile telephone. A point-of-receipt server acquires this purchasing information and confirms the card identification number allotted to the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone and a purchasing card identification number. The authentication server calculates user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness based on temporary commercial transaction information stored in the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone. The calculated user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness is then reference by the mobile telephone and point-of-purchase server in the next commercial transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Abe, Shuichi Sekiya, Yuji Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 8159182
    Abstract: A contactless power transferring coil unit is provided. The contactless power transferring coil unit includes a flat coil, a magnetic film, and a leaking flux detecting coil. The flat coil is formed by winding a conductive wire into a spiral on a substantially flat plane. The magnetic film is disposed so as to cover one entire flat surface of the flat coil. The leaking flux detecting coil is disposed in a periphery outside an outer edge of the flat coil and the magnetic film and detects leaking magnetic flux from the flat coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Kuniharu Suzuki, Katsuya Suzuki, Manabu Yamazaki, Kota Onishi, Kentaro Yoda, Yoichiro Kondo, Mikimoto Jin, Takahiro Kamijo, Haruhiko Sogabe
  • Patent number: D659131
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Eijiro Mori