Patents by Inventor Katsuya HYODO

Katsuya HYODO 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: 20160048271
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of enabling a user to select a desired playlist easily from among a plurality of playlists [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a playlist acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of playlists each including content, and list evaluation information for each playlist; and a display control unit configured to cause a selection screen for selecting one playlist from among the acquired plurality of playlists to be displayed. On the selection screen, the display control unit adds a virtual object based on the list evaluation information for each playlist and causes the virtual object to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya HYODO, Takashi KITAO, Kenichi YAMAURA, Nobuhiro JOGANO, Kazuto NISHIZAWA, Tatsuya HAMA
  • Publication number: 20150350264
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire display information for displaying a state of collaborative editing in which a plurality of editors collaboratively edit a same editing target, and a display control section configured to cause an editing screen to display, based on the display information, the state of the collaborative editing performed on a not displayed part not included in a display range displayed when the editing target is displayed on the editing screen referenced to by a first editor among the plurality of editors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuya HYODO, Shuichi KONAMI, Tomoya NARITA, Akemi TAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9167223
    Abstract: A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shuichi Konami
  • Publication number: 20150237598
    Abstract: An information notification device includes an equipment management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of equipment which are in a vicinity of a user, and a function execution unit that executes transmission of notification information to any one of the plurality of pieces of equipment by determining a notification strategy that will perform notification of notification information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, KATSUYA HYODO, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20150128291
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user analysis unit configured to analyze a result of detection by a user detection apparatus that detects users neighboring a device and to acquire user attribute information indicating a characteristic of each detected user, and an interface control unit configured to control a mode of presenting information to be provided for the users, the mode being determined based on the user attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20150128065
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, HIKOTATSU CHIN, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Patent number: 9013561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stereoscopic video processing apparatus, method, and program that can reduce visual fatigue on watching a stereoscopic video. A scene change detecting unit (61) accumulates, in an internal buffer or the like, frames corresponding to a stereoscopic video for three seconds extracted from a stereoscopic video signal, and specifies a scene change frame. A parallax adjusting unit (62) acquires a frame that precedes the specified scene change frame by three seconds and a frame that lags behind the scene change frame by three seconds, based on a frame number for the scene change frame specified by the scene change detecting unit (61), and calculates a parallax coefficient ? by specifying a maximum parallax value in the two frames. Thus, the value of the maximum parallax of a parallax plane is adjusted by using the parallax coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20150106750
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire first display information for displaying, for an editing target edited by a plurality of editors collaboratively, a third component obtained by merging a second component into a first component by performing a merge manipulation for merging the second component into the first component from among a plurality of components included in the editing target, and a display control section configured to cause the third component to be displayed based on the first display information, and to cause the third component to be displayed, in a manner that the first component and the second component are discriminated from each other, when a cancellation manipulation is performed to cancel the merge manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Konami, Katsuya Hyodo, Akemi Tazaki, Tomoya Narita
  • Publication number: 20150046874
    Abstract: Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kosuke YOSHITOMI, Daisuke NAKATA, Takeo TSUKAMOTO, Katsuya HYODO, Junichirou SAKATA, Shoichiro MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20150035955
    Abstract: A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya HYODO, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Shuichi KONAMI
  • Publication number: 20140380161
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a communication apparatus through a communication network, and a control unit configured to perform control to place, in a virtual space, a communication-apparatus image that represents the communication apparatus and content being executed by the communication apparatus, and to display the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: HIKOTATSU CHIN, TAKASHI KITAO, KOJI IHARA, KATSUYA HYODO, RYO FUKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 8918738
    Abstract: Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Yoshitomi, Daisuke Nakata, Takeo Tsukamoto, Katsuya Hyodo, Junichirou Sakata, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Patent number: 8872902
    Abstract: A stereoscopic video processing device includes a candidate coordinate range calculation unit configured to calculate a range of candidate coordinates of a display position of a reference point of a two-dimensional object in a screen, a parallax total value calculation unit configured to calculate a total value of parallax values of pixels of a region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, for each candidate coordinate, a display position determination unit configured to determine a candidate coordinate having a smallest total value of the parallax values as the display position of the reference point of the two-dimensional object, a maximum value specifying unit configured to specify a maximum value of the parallax values of the pixels of the region overlapping the two-dimensional object in the stereoscopic video, and a parallax setting unit configured to set the parallax of the two-dimensional object displayed in the stereoscopic video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shuichi Konami
  • Patent number: 8774604
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo
  • Publication number: 20140019881
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section which acquires display information for displaying a manipulation GUI (graphical user interface), the manipulation GUI being manipulated when an editing target to be collaboratively edited by a plurality of users is edited and displaying content of the editing, and a display control section which displays a first manipulation GUI on an editing screen based on the display information, the first manipulation GUI being manipulated by a first user among the plurality of users, the editing screen being referred to by a second user different from the first user when the second user edits the editing target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoya NARITA, Shuichi Konami, Akemi Tazaki, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20130139079
    Abstract: A plurality of GUIs are displayed on the screen of a display. A hit determination area of each GUI is defined within a graphic of the GUI. When a user touches a point of contact, four virtual points of contact are generated in the shape of a ā€˜Vā€™ within the screen. A GUI desired to be selected by the user is identified according to a predetermined rule by referring to whether points of contact are located within each hit determination area, the number of points of contact, the priority level defined for each GUI, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kitao, Katsuya Hyodo, Arito Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20120293622
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stereoscopic video processing apparatus, method, and program that can reduce visual fatigue on watching a stereoscopic video. A scene change detecting unit (61) accumulates, in an internal buffer or the like, frames corresponding to a stereoscopic video for three seconds extracted from a stereoscopic video signal, and specifies a scene change frame. A parallax adjusting unit (62) acquires a frame that precedes the specified scene change frame by three seconds and a frame that lags behind the scene change frame by three seconds, based on a frame number for the scene change frame specified by the scene change detecting unit (61), and calculates a parallax coefficient ? by specifying a maximum parallax value in the two frames. Thus, the value of the maximum parallax of a parallax plane is adjusted by using the parallax coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20120249543
    Abstract: In an image display apparatus for displaying plural-viewpoint images, a position specifying unit specifies a position of a user viewing an image, an image determination unit determines an image at a viewpoint recognized by the user from the plural-viewpoint images based on the position of the user specified by the position specifying unit, and a display control unit controls the display of the image determined by the image determination unit on a display. The present disclosure, for example, is applied to a display for implementing naked-eye stereoscopic vision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20110305438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Kuniaki TORII, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo
  • Publication number: 20110209096
    Abstract: An input device includes a pointer movement control unit that controls movement of a pointer to select a component in a GUI represented spatially on a two dimensional screen based on a user operation, and a movement direction setting unit that sets a direction of movement of the pointer to be in a first direction or a second direction vertical to the first direction of the GUI in accordance with an orientation of the input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuya HYODO