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).

  • Patent number: 8766766
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a projection control section configured to control projection of a projection image containing first information for authentication onto a second information processing apparatus placed within a projection region, an authentication control section configured to control an authentication process with the second information processing apparatus using second information for authentication detected based on a picked-up image of the projection region, and a communication control section configured to control communication with a second information processing apparatus authenticated by the authentication control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Ikuo Yamano, Hiroyuki Mizunuma
  • Patent number: 8730158
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that decides information to be displayed on a second display section based on an attribute of an operation subject displayed on a first display section when the operation subject is operated, and a communication section that transmits control information for causing the second display section to display the information decided by the controller to a device having the second display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Reiko Miyazaki, Yoshihito Ohki, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Patent number: 8730161
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reception section which receives contact position information indicating a contact position of an operating tool on a contact surface, a cursor position control section which decides pre-movement position information indicating a position on a display surface of a cursor before being moved based on the contact position information. The reception section further receives an operating tool-movement vector indicating a direction in which and a distance by which the operating tool moves on the contact surface from the contact position while being in contact with the contact surface. The cursor position control section calculates a cursor-movement vector based on the operating tool-movement vector, and decides post-movement position information indicating a position of the cursor after being moved on a basis of the pre-movement position information and in accordance with the cursor-movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20140112533
    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: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, KENICHI OKADA, KEN MIYASHITA, AKEMI TAZAKI
  • Patent number: 8704778
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which includes a display control unit which displays predetermined information on a display screen, a position detecting unit which detects a touch position on the display screen touched by a touch substance, and a display splitting unit which, when the position detecting unit detects at least two touch positions, splits the display screen into at least two display areas according to movement of at least one of the at least two touch positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8624931
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that classifies objects having the respective attribute information which are disposed on a display screen of a graphical user interface, the apparatus including an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information containing movement information which indicates a position of a movement destination of the object on the display screen, an instructive request estimate unit that estimates an instructive request for classification processing on the object based on the attribute information and the movement information of the object, a classification processing unit that classifies the object based on the estimated instructive request, and a display control unit that controls display of the object on the display screen. Thus, the user can easily classify the objects without explicitly specifying classification conditions or instructing the performing of the classification processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20130249926
    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: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumihara, Shoichiro Moriya, Akemi Tazaki, Fuminori Homma, Yasushi Okumura, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20130019176
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an input unit, and a controller. The input unit is configured to receive an input of a first keyword from a user. The controller is configured to retrieve first character information including the input first keyword from a database configured to store a plurality of character information items converted from a plurality of voice information items by voice recognition processing, extract a second keyword that is included in the first character information acquired by the retrieval and is different from the first keyword, and control the display to display a list of items including first identification information with which the acquired first character information is identified and the second keyword included in the first character information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Tomohiko Hishinuma, Yoshihito Ohki, Ryohei Morimoto, Junya Ono
  • Publication number: 20120328196
    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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20120314953
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a selecting unit that selects figures from a candidate figure group based on recognition values obtained through character recognition with respect to an input image, and a display control unit that performs control to display the figures selected by the selecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Fuminori HOMMA, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Publication number: 20120313975
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a selection part selecting a parameter from graphic data, a display control part controlling an object corresponding to the parameter selected by the selection part to be displayed and an extraction part extracting a parameter having a correlation with the parameter selected by the selection part, wherein the display control part controls the object to be moved based on the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Publication number: 20120313870
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a graphic acquisition unit for acquiring graphic data, an operation acquisition unit for acquiring an operation of a user, a determination unit for determining the operation acquired by the operation acquisition unit, and a processing unit for performing a process on the graphic data based on a determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Fuminori HOMMA, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 8327295
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a direction detection unit that detects a drawing direction of a locus drawn in an input process of a gesture when the gesture is input, a gesture search unit that searches for the gesture matching the drawing direction of the locus detected by the direction detection unit from among a plurality of predetermined gestures, and an auxiliary information display unit that displays a search result by the gesture search unit in a screen as auxiliary information each time the drawing direction of the locus is detected by the direction detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nashida, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20120300086
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an image pickup unit photographing a subject; a movement detecting unit detecting changes in movement of a subject photographed by the image pickup unit; a data generating unit generating first timing data relating to change timing at which the movement detecting unit detected a change in the movement; a receiving unit receiving second timing data, which relates to change timing when movement of a subject photographed by another apparatus was detected, from the other apparatus during photographing by the image pickup unit; and a determining unit determining, based on the first timing data generated by the data generating unit and the second timing data received by the receiving unit, whether the subject photographed by the image pickup unit and the subject photographed by the other apparatus are the same or a similar subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Ken MIYASHITA, Osamu SHIGETA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATO, Kazuyuki YAMATOMO, Takuro NODA
  • Patent number: 8314777
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that moves a display position of an object in accordance with movement of a contact position when the position in a screen where the object is displayed is contacted and moved and a vibration control unit that vibrates the contact position with a vibration amount in accordance with a parameter amount of data associated with the object when the display position of the object moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nashida, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20120256824
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing a first image projected toward a target. The apparatus includes a processing unit for detecting that an object exists between a projector unit and the target, wherein when an object exists between the projector unit and the target, the apparatus determines an area of the object and generates a modified first image, based on the area of the object, for projection toward the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120200489
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that decides information to be displayed on a second display section based on an attribute of an operation subject displayed on a first display section when the operation subject is operated, and a communication section that transmits control information for causing the second display section to display the information decided by the controller to a device having the second display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Reiko Miyazaki, Yoshihito Ohki, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Publication number: 20120158878
    Abstract: In a service providing system, a client computer displays chat log data received from a server in a log display area and shared information in a shared-information display area. The chat log data and the shared information, both of which are received from the server, are displayed with graphical information which supplements a relationship between the chat log data and the shared information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20120127107
    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: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Publication number: 20120086722
    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: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyazawa, Tetsuo Ikeda, Fuminori Homma, Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya