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).

  • Publication number: 20100208051
    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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Shingo TSURUMI, Takuro Noda, Akiko Terayama, Eijiro Mori, Kenichi Okada, Atsushi Koshiyama
  • Publication number: 20100145982
    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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako IWASE, Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100061637
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a binarization unit that binarizes a selected image region based on prescribed criteria into an image trimming target white pixel region and a background black pixel region, a hole filling unit that fills a hole of the white pixel region by converting a black pixel surrounded by the white pixel region into the white pixel, a distance conversion unit that calculates a distance value from each white pixel to the black pixel region, a skeleton extraction unit that extracts points indicating a skeleton of the white pixel region according to each distance value, and a trimming outline determination unit that excludes a less significant point based on prescribed conditions, draws an oval or perfect circle according to each distance value, centered at a non-excluded point, and determines an outer edge of ovals or perfect circles as an outline for trimming a trimming target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Daisuke Mochizuki, Akiko Terayama, Takuro Noda, Takuo Ikeda, Eijiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20100057235
    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: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, Akiko TERAYAMA, Takaomi KIMURA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090150772
    Abstract: There is provided a display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes: a time difference calculating unit which calculates a time difference between the contents adjacent in terms of time based on time information possessed by the contents; and a content display unit which displays the plurality of contents at an interval corresponding to the time difference along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Takuro NODA, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20080232695
    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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa