Patents by Inventor Asami OKADA

Asami OKADA 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: 20130212458
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display control device including a selection information acquiring part 2 for acquiring a program ID showing a program currently being selected from among a plurality of cells which construct an electronic program guide, a cell searching part 3 for referring to attribution information stored in a cell attribute information storage unit 1 to search through the plurality of programs for programs each having the same attribute as the program currently being selected, and a reallocation processing part 4 for deleting the cells other than the cell currently being selected and one or more cells found by the cell searching part 3 from the plurality of cells, and for shifting the cell currently being selected and the one or more cells found by the cell searching part 3 forward in a vertical direction or in a horizontal direction to display these cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Asami OKADA, Takehiko ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20130212624
    Abstract: Disclosed is a program guide display device including: a cursor display part 4 for displaying a cursor which is a mark indicating a cell currently being selected from among cells associated with a plurality of programs which construct an electronic program guide in a vicinity of the cell; a moving operation receiving part 5 for receiving an operation of moving the cursor; and a cursor control part 6 for, when a direction of movement of the operation received by the moving operation receiving part 5 is a rightward or leftward direction of the electronic program guide, outputting a command for moving a display position of the cursor in the rightward or leftward direction without changing a coordinate in an upward or downward direction of the cursor to the cursor display part 4 to change the cell currently being selected from one cell to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Asami OKADA