Patents by Inventor Ken Miyashita

Ken Miyashita 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: 20170208246
    Abstract: The client terminal includes a candidate display control unit configured to control a candidate for a reference captured image to be displayed on a display unit, the reference captured image being retrieved based on a preliminary captured image obtained by preliminary image capture in an imaging unit and being referred to during actual image capture, and a detailed information output control unit configured to control detailed information to be output, the detailed information being attached to a reference captured image selected from among the displayed candidates for the reference captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jun KIMURA, Tomohisa TANAKA, Osamu OOBA, Ken MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 9671875
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a movement information acquisition part acquiring information which is based on movement of an operation device, and a control information generation part generating, based on the information, control information for changing a display status continuously in a non-linear manner according to the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Atsushi Izumihara, Yoshihito Ohki, Yasushi Okumura, Fuminori Homma, Akemi Tazaki, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Patent number: 9659572
    Abstract: There is provided a speech processing apparatus including: a data obtaining unit which obtains music progression data defining a property of one or more time points or one or more time periods along progression of music; a determining unit which determines an output time point at which a speech is to be output during reproducing the music by utilizing the music progression data obtained by the data obtaining unit; and an audio output unit which outputs the speech at the output time point determined by the determining unit during reproducing the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20170123620
    Abstract: A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke MIYAZAWA, Tetsuo IKEDA, Fuminori HOMMA, Reiko MIYAZAKI, Ken MIYASHITA, Shoichiro MORIYA
  • Patent number: 9635249
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a client terminal, display control method, program, and system capable of supporting the user's actual image capture using a reference image based on preliminary image capture. [Solution] The client terminal includes a candidate display control unit configured to control a candidate for a reference captured image to be displayed on a display unit, the reference captured image being retrieved based on a preliminary captured image obtained by preliminary image capture in an imaging unit and being referred to during actual image capture, and a detailed information output control unit configured to control detailed information to be output, the detailed information being attached to a reference captured image selected from among the displayed candidates for the reference captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kimura, Tomohisa Tanaka, Osamu Ooba, Ken Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9632528
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a virtual clock controller configured to update a first virtual clock on the basis of a system clock, and a synchronization part configured to perform given data synchronization processing with another information processing apparatus on the basis of the first virtual clock and a second virtual clock that is updated by the another information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Kiyoshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9619135
    Abstract: A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SONY Corporatuon
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyazawa, Tetsuo Ikeda, Fuminori Homma, Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Publication number: 20170003852
    Abstract: An information display terminal includes a first operation information acquiring unit that acquires first operation information including first location information on a display screen via a touch panel including a contact detection surface and the display screen. A three-dimensional coordinate space is projected onto the display screen. An object is arranged within the three-dimensional coordinate space on the basis of three-dimensional coordinate information of the object. The information display terminal also includes a second operation information acquiring unit that acquires second operation information including second location information on the display screen via a contact detection surface provided on a surface on a side opposite to the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Ken MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20160358343
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include an apparatus including a memory storing instructions, and a control unit configured to execute the instructions to detect an image of an object of interest within an image of real space, detect an orientation of the real space object image with respect to a real space user perspective, generate a modified image comprising an image of a modified object, corresponding to the real space object, such that an orientation of the modified object image corresponds to a desired user perspective, and display the modified image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Ken MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 9513791
    Abstract: A method of operation of an electronic device system includes: detecting a drag performed on a touch screen, the drag having a starting point and an ending point; detecting a stretchable cursor extendable based on the drag, the stretchable cursor having a cursor length, a cursor direction, a starting portion, and an ending portion at the ending point and larger than the starting portion at the starting point; displaying the stretchable cursor on the touch screen; and performing a process routine based on the cursor length and the cursor direction, the process routine continued after the stretchable cursor is pasted with the drag performed on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: George Arriola, Michael P. Bauerly, Brian W. Johnson, Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida, Ken Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9513765
    Abstract: An information display terminal includes a first operation information acquiring unit that acquires first operation information including first location information on a display screen via a touch panel including a contact detection surface and the display screen. A three-dimensional coordinate space is projected onto the display screen. An object is arranged within the three-dimensional coordinate space on the basis of three-dimensional coordinate information of the object. The information display terminal also includes a second operation information acquiring unit that acquires second operation information including second location information on the display screen via a contact detection surface provided on a surface on a side opposite to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20160309312
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of utilizing a plurality of mutually relating functions in a plurality of devices effectively. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a functional information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a first device that executes a first function and a second function that relate to each other, functional information related to the second function; and a function transmission unit configured to transmit the functional information acquired from the first device to a second device in a manner that the second function among the first function and the second function that have been executed in the first device is executed in the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hikotatsu CHIN, Ken MIYASHITA, Katsuya HYODO
  • Publication number: 20160299684
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display section which displays, as a first layout state, an object group including a plurality of objects arranged in a first direction, a detection section which detects an operation input that is input to the display section, and a control section which, when the detection section detects an operation input in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, changes the first layout state into a second layout state in which the respective objects constituting the object group which has been selected are spread and pieces of information associated with the plurality of objects, respectively, are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 9443348
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include an apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions, and a control unit configured to execute the instructions to detect an image of an object of interest within an image of real space, detect an orientation of the real space object image with respect to a real space user perspective, generate a modified image comprising an image of a modified object, corresponding to the real space object, such that an orientation of the modified object image corresponds to a desired user perspective, and display the modified image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20160246388
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a positional information acquiring unit acquiring information related to a movement of an operation target by a user operation, and a display control information generating unit generating control information to control display content, based on the information related to the movement. Among a first direction component and a second direction component of the movement, the display control information generating unit preferentially generates the control information for the first direction component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: ATSUSHI IZUMIHARA, SHOICHIRO MORIYA, AKEMI TAZAKI, FUMINORI HOMMA, YASUSHI OKUMURA, KEN MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20160219316
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a novel and improved transmission apparatus, relay apparatus, and reception apparatus that have improved quick response performance involved in content processing. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, there is provided a transmission apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store first encoded data used for playback at first quality and second encoded data used for playback at second quality higher than the first quality, for same temporally continuous content; and a communication unit configured to transmit the first encoded data to a reception apparatus, and thereafter, receive first position information relating to a data position from the reception apparatus, and transmit a portion of the second encoded data corresponding to the first position information to the reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken MIYASHITA, Naoyuki SATO, Satoshi OOTSUKA, Nobuhiro OGAWA
  • Patent number: 9383898
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display section which displays, as a first layout state, an object group including a plurality of objects arranged in a first direction, a detection section which detects an operation input that is input to the display section, and a control section which, when the detection section detects an operation input in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, changes the first layout state into a second layout state in which the respective objects constituting the object group which has been selected are spread and pieces of information associated with the plurality of objects, respectively, are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9355617
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a positional information acquiring unit acquiring information related to a movement of an operation target by a user operation, and a display control information generating unit generating control information to control display content, based on the information related to the movement. Among a first direction component and a second direction component of the movement, the display control information generating unit preferentially generates the control information for the first direction component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumihara, Shoichiro Moriya, Akemi Tazaki, Fuminori Homma, Yasushi Okumura, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20160117096
    Abstract: A display control device according to the present invention includes a detection unit for detecting contact of an operating object on a display surface of a display unit, a position calculation unit for calculating a contact position, on the display surface, of the operating object whose contact has been detected by the detection unit, an operation process determination unit for determining, from a plurality of operation processes associated with a motion of the operating object, one operation process to be performed, according to a length of a contact time of continuously contacting the display surface within a first area including a reference contact position which is a contact position of the operating object at a time of the operating object being made to contact the display surface after a state of separation from the display surface, and an operation processing unit for changing display of the display unit by the operation process that is performed, based on a motion of the operating object that is furt
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KEN MIYASHITA, TATSUSHI NASHIDA
  • Patent number: 9298987
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit, an attention object detection unit, and a calculation unit. The input unit is configured to input a plurality of temporally continuous images taken by an image pickup apparatus. The attention object detection unit is configured to detect an attention object as an attention target from a first image which is an image taken at a first time point out of the plurality of images input. The calculation unit is configured to compare the first image with one or more second images which are one or more images taken at a time point previous to the first time point, to calculate, as a second time point, a time point when the attention object appears in the continuous plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Kenichi Okada, Ken Miyashita, Akemi Tazaki