Patents by Inventor Akiko Terayama

Akiko Terayama 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: 9672227
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display device; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of image data having information corresponding to a search key; a search key specifying unit configured to specify a search key used for image search; a search unit configured to search and extract image data having information relating to the search key specified by the search key specifying unit from the storage unit; and a display control unit configured to control the image corresponding to image data extracted by the search unit to be displayed on the position corresponding to the degree of association as to the search key on the display screen of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Iwase, Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9154690
    Abstract: An image search device includes: a shooting unit configured to photographically shoot a subject; a display unit; a control unit configured to display a search key for image search on the display unit according to a shooting situation at the time of a shooting mode whereby the subject can photographically be shot by the shooting unit; a specifying unit which is used for specifying the search key displayed on the display unit; and a searching unit configured to search, in the event of the search key being specified via the specifying unit, an image based on the search key thus specified; with the control unit displaying, in the event of the image being searched by the searching unit, this search result on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9001051
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position detecting section that detects a touch position of a pointing object on a display screen of a display section, a region detecting section that detects a region on the display screen which is hidden by the pointing object, and a control section that displays information associated with the touch position outside the region detected by the region detecting section, when the touch position is detected by the position detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8988347
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an instructed-position detecting unit configured to receive an instruction operation by a user on a display screen of a display device and detect and output a position where the instruction operation is performed; a storing unit configured to store multiple image data items each including information corresponding to a search key; a search-key display controlling unit configured to cause at least one search key to be selectively displayed on the display screen of the display device; a searching unit configured to, if the search key displayed on the display screen is instructed by the search-key display controlling unit through the instructed-position detecting unit, search the storing unit for the image data corresponding to the search key to extract the image data; and a display controlling unit configured to collectively display images corresponding to the image data in a certain part on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Iwase, Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8773566
    Abstract: Provided is a photographing condition setting apparatus including: a display unit; an image capturing unit which generates image data by capturing a photographing object; a photographing situation determination unit which determines based on the image data generated by the image capturing unit which type of the photographing object is photographed in a photographing situation; and a display controller which displays on the display unit one or a plurality of photographing condition icons indicating the photographing condition settable to the determined photographing situation if the photographing situation is determined by the photographing situation determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8726153
    Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the contents, a content arranging unit configured to arrange the contents based on time information possessed by the contents, a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between adjacent contents in terms of time based on the time information possessed by the contents, a display position setting unit configured to set a position of each content along a time axis based on the time difference between the contents, the display position setting unit determining whether the time difference between the contents is larger than a predetermined value, and a content display unit configured to display the plurality of contents based on position information on the time axis along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20140104456
    Abstract: An image search device includes: a shooting unit configured to photographically shoot a subject; a display unit; a control unit configured to display a search key for image search on the display unit according to a shooting situation at the time of a shooting mode whereby the subject can photographically be shot by the shooting unit; a specifying unit which is used for specifying the search key displayed on the display unit; and a searching unit configured to search, in the event of the search key being specified via the specifying unit, an image based on the search key thus specified; with the control unit displaying, in the event of the image being searched by the searching unit, this search result on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8659649
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Takuro Noda, Akiko Terayama, Eijiro Mori, Kenichi Okada, Atsushi Koshiyama
  • Patent number: 8643729
    Abstract: An image search device includes: a shooting unit configured to photographically shoot a subject; a display unit; a control unit configured to display a search key for image search on the display unit according to a shooting situation at the time of a shooting mode whereby the subject can photographically be shot by the shooting unit; a specifying unit which is used for specifying the search key displayed on the display unit; and a searching unit configured to search, in the event of the search key being specified via the specifying unit, an image based on the search key thus specified; with the control unit displaying, in the event of the image being searched by the searching unit, this search result on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8629847
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes: a display portion that displays a plurality of function buttons that respectively correspond to a plurality of functions included in the information processing device; a position detection portion that detects a position where an operating body touches or approaches a display screen of the display portion; a button selection portion that selects, from among the plurality of function buttons, at least one function button that corresponds to an operation state of the information processing device; and a display control portion that causes the function button selected by the button selection portion to move on the display screen such that the function button approaches the position on the display screen detected by the position detection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Arai, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, QiHong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa
  • Patent number: 8294018
    Abstract: A playback apparatus is provided that includes an operation plane, a detection unit to detect which of contact relationship including first contact relationship, second contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the first contact relationship and third contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the second contact relationship the operation plane and an operation object have, a creation unit to create a list screen of content data for selecting content data based on movement of the operation object with respect to the operation plane in the first contact relationship, a playback unit to play back content data, and a playback control unit to cause the playback unit to play back content data selected on the list screen when becoming the second contact relationship from the first contact relationship if contact relationship becomes the third contact relationship from the second contact relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takaomi Kimura, Ryo Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 8064633
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of content; a background-image storage unit storing a background image corresponding to the plurality of pieces of content stored in the content storage unit; an attribute-information storage unit storing attribute information for each of the plurality of pieces of content in association with the plurality of pieces of content, the attribute information including a corresponding position in the background image; a classification unit classifying the plurality of pieces of content into one or more clusters on the basis of the attribute information; and a rendering unit rendering images indicating the classified pieces of content in a predetermined order on a cluster-by-cluster basis and rendering an area of the background image, the area including the corresponding position included in the attribute information of content corresponding to at least one of the images rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20110271193
    Abstract: A playback apparatus is provided that includes an operation plane, a detection unit to detect which of contact relationship including first contact relationship, second contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the first contact relationship and third contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the second contact relationship the operation plane and an operation object have, a creation unit to create a list screen of content data for selecting content data based on movement of the operation object with respect to the operation plane in the first contact relationship, a playback unit to play back content data, and a playback control unit to cause the playback unit to play back content data selected on the list screen when becoming the second contact relationship from the first contact relationship if contact relationship becomes the third contact relationship from the second contact relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takaomi Kimura, Ryo Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 8003875
    Abstract: A playback apparatus is provided that includes an operation plane, a detection unit to detect which of contact relationship including first contact relationship, second contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the first contact relationship and third contact relationship with a higher degree of contact than the second contact relationship the operation plane and an operation object have, a creation unit to create a list screen of content data for selecting content data based on movement of the operation object with respect to the operation plane in the first contact relationship, a playback unit to play back content data, and a playback control unit to cause the playback unit to play back content data selected on the list screen when becoming the second contact relationship from the first contact relationship if contact relationship becomes the third contact relationship from the second contact relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takaomi Kimura, Ryo Mukaiyama
  • Publication number: 20110122153
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transformed-coordinate calculating section that calculates transformed coordinates for each of a plurality of superimposed images associated with coordinates in a background image, by transforming coordinates of other superimposed images with respect to one superimposed image as a reference image in such a way that coordinate intervals within a predetermined area with respect to the reference image become denser with increasing distance from the reference image toward the boundary, a coordinate setting section that sets coordinates of the reference image on the basis of a mean value obtained by calculating a mean of the calculated coordinates of the other superimposed images with respect to the reference image, and a display control section that displays the background image and the plurality of superimposed images on a display section in such a way that the reference image is placed at the set coordinates in the background image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Yuki OKAMURA, Daisuke Mochizuki, Akiko Terayama, Takuro Noda, Eijiro Mori, Takuo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20110063236
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes: a display portion that displays a plurality of function buttons that respectively correspond to a plurality of functions included in the information processing device; a position detection portion that detects a position where an operating body touches or approaches a display screen of the display portion; a button selection portion that selects, from among the plurality of function buttons, at least one function button that corresponds to an operation state of the information processing device; and a display control portion that causes the function button selected by the button selection portion to move on the display screen such that the function button approaches the position on the display screen detected by the position detection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Arai, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, QiHong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa
  • Publication number: 20110050915
    Abstract: Provided is a photographing condition setting apparatus including: a display unit; an image capturing unit which generates image data by capturing a photographing object; a photographing situation determination unit which determines based on the image data generated by the image capturing unit which type of the photographing object is photographed in a photographing situation; and a display controller which displays on the display unit one or a plurality of photographing condition icons indicating the photographing condition settable to the determined photographing situation if the photographing situation is determined by the photographing situation determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20110025873
    Abstract: An image search device includes: a shooting unit configured to photographically shoot a subject; a display unit; a control unit configured to display a search key for image search on the display unit according to a shooting situation at the time of a shooting mode whereby the subject can photographically be shot by the shooting unit; a specifying unit which is used for specifying the search key displayed on the display unit; and a searching unit configured to search, in the event of the search key being specified via the specifying unit, an image based on the search key thus specified; with the control unit displaying, in the event of the image being searched by the searching unit, this search result on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20110018827
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position detecting section that detects a touch position of a pointing object on a display screen of a display section, a region detecting section that detects a region on the display screen which is hidden by the pointing object, and a control section that displays information associated with the touch position outside the region detected by the region detecting section, when the touch position is detected by the position detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20110022982
    Abstract: A display processing device includes a display element, a grouping mechanism configured to group such that each of a plurality of selectable items belongs to one or more groups based on information which each item has, an assigning mechanism configured to generate and assign display objects corresponding to related items to the respective groups generated by the grouping of the plurality of selectable items by the grouping mechanism, and a display processing mechanism configured to display the display objects assigned to the groups by the assigning mechanism on a display screen of the display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Takaoka, Akiko Terayama, Qihong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara