Patents by Inventor Baiping Liao

Baiping Liao 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: 20070206101
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include the following elements: an image information obtaining unit which obtains image information having at least position information added thereto as additional information, a map information storage unit which stores map information, a template information storage unit which stores template information including a template of content information, a map information obtaining unit which obtains map information corresponding to the position information added to the image information obtained by the image information obtaining unit from the map information stored in the map information storage unit, and a content information creating unit which creates content information using at least the map information obtained by the map information obtaining unit on the basis of the template information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20070203897
    Abstract: A search apparatus may include the following elements. A provisional search condition inputting unit inputs character string information as a provisional search condition. A character string/position correspondence information holding unit holds character string/position correspondence information including a correspondence between character string information and position information. A position information obtaining unit obtains position information corresponding to the character string information input as the provisional search condition from the character string/position correspondence information. A search object information storage unit stores search object information with additional information including at least position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20070182627
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power supply controller configured to control power supply to the GPS device; and a device controller configured to monitor a state of use of the information processing device by a user, to calculate a use frequency of the information processing device per unit time, and to cause the power supply controller to intermittently supply power to the GPS device if the calculated use frequency is lower than a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao
  • Publication number: 20070126627
    Abstract: A positioning information processing apparatus includes positioning information acquiring means for acquiring positioning information at predetermined standard time intervals; and positioning information transmitting means for transmitting outside the positioning information acquired by the positioning information acquiring means through a predetermined data communication path only if the positioning information is effective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao
  • Publication number: 20070109414
    Abstract: An image pickup position information acquisition unit acquires, from a position fixing unit, position information of an image pickup location of a moving image being picked up. A preceding image pickup position information storage unit stores position information of a preceding image pickup location as preceding image pickup position information. A change point detector compares the image pickup position information and the preceding image pickup position information. If the position indicated by the image pickup position information is spaced apart from the position indicated by the preceding image pickup position information by a predetermined distance, the change point detector detects the current position as a change point. The change point is recorded onto a change point position information. Thumbnail data generated by a thumbnail generator is recorded as a change point thumbnail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Baiping Liao, Ichiro Ueno