Patents by Inventor Kazuto Nishizawa

Kazuto Nishizawa 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: 7703043
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. Plural first icons representing first items of a high hierarchy are arrayed along a direction of a display screen, and plural second icons representing second items of a low hierarchy which belong to a selected one of the first items are arrayed along an intersecting direction with the selected first item positioned at the intersecting position. The selected noticed icon from among the plural second icons is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed item icon is displayed in the proximity of the display position of the noticed icon. In response to a scrolling instruction, scrolling is executed while explanation information of the second icons other than the noticed item icon is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20100092107
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Daisuke Mochizuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Mitsuo Okumura, Takaomi Kimura, Tomohiko Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20090278997
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuya Sano, Kazuto Nishizawa, Iori Nishiuchi
  • Publication number: 20080178085
    Abstract: An audio/visual amplifier for processing video signals and audio signals includes a display controller operable to control display of a menu such that an input name, which is an item of the menu and represents a unit of an input to be selected by a user, a name of a first terminal that is assigned to the input name and that receives a video signal, and a name of a second terminal that is assigned to the input name and that receives an audio signal are displayed so as to be assigned to each other; and a selector operable to, when the user selects the input name as the item of the menu, select the video signal received from the first terminal and the audio signal received from the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Kazuto Nishizawa, Taku Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20080063226
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a speaker setup section that sets up each of a plurality of speakers; and a display control section that controls display of information regarding arrangement of the plurality of speakers and setting of the plurality of speakers set up by the speaker setup section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Koyama, Reiko Miyazaki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Taku Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20070050811
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus including: a selecting block configured to select, from programs to be broadcast on each channel, a program of which program information contains a registered keyword; and a display controlling block configured to display predetermined information in the vicinity of an icon indicative of a channel on which a program selected by said selecting block is broadcast among icons to be displayed in line as information indicative of a selectable channel and, when a predetermined operation is executed in a status in which a channel with said predetermined information displayed in the vicinity of an icon is selected, displaying said keyword contained in program information of a program to be broadcast on a selected channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Moriwaki, Naoki Fukino, Kazuto Nishizawa, Ko Kusanagi
  • Publication number: 20060056796
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a selection unit for analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to at least one still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and a playback unit for playing back a music track selected by a user, applying at least one effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuto Nishizawa, Keiichi Yoshioka, Taku Sugawara, Yohei Fukuda, Masayuki Inoue, Masakazu Mori, Shinji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20060024021
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20060020969
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. Plural first icons representing first items of a high hierarchy are arrayed along a direction of a display screen, and plural second icons representing second items of a low hierarchy which belong to a selected one of the first items are arrayed along an intersecting direction with the selected first item positioned at the intersecting position. The selected noticed icon from among the plural second icons is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed item icon is displayed in the proximity of the display position of the noticed icon. In response to a scrolling instruction, scrolling is executed while explanation information of the second icons other than the noticed item icon is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20060020970
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. A plurality of representation images individually representing different selection object items are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen. A noticed representation image selected from among the representation images is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image. If a scrolling information for the array of representation images is issued, then scrolling is executed such that explanation information also of the representation images other than the noticed representation image is displayed. Further, a bar display including a mark representing the position and the group of the noticed representation image in the array of representation images is displayed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano