Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Hiraiwa

Kenichiro Hiraiwa 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: 8245148
    Abstract: According to an operation of a frame on an arrangement of history information displayed in a sequence, shared history information including action information which relates to action information having a first identifier selected by the frame and has a second identifier is obtained from a server. Identifiers included in action information items included in the shared history information are displayed in the sequence, in parallel with the arrangement of the history information so that the second identifier is displayed adjacent to the first identifier. Via the first and the second identifiers, the frame is moved between the arrangements of the history information and the shared history information, and according to an operation of the frame in the before-after direction of the sequence on the arrangement to which the frame is moved, an identifier included in an action information item in the before-after direction of the sequence is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Hiraiwa
  • Publication number: 20110283228
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a displaying section that displays a page including a plurality of text elements, a detecting section that detects a position designated by the user to be magnified, on the page displayed by the displaying section, a selecting section that selects one of the text elements which is located near the position detected by the detecting section, a placing section that places a character string of the text element selected by the selecting section, in a pop-up window so that the character string is displayed in the pop-up window, and a display controlling section that controls display so that the pop-up window in which the character string has been placed by the placing section is displayed on the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Kenichiro HIRAIWA, Koichi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20100131898
    Abstract: According to an operation of a frame on an arrangement of history information displayed in a sequence, shared history information including action information which relates to action information having a first identifier selected by the frame and has a second identifier is obtained from a server. Identifiers included in action information items included in the shared history information are displayed in the sequence, in parallel with the arrangement of the history information so that the second identifier is displayed adjacent to the first identifier. Via the first and the second identifiers, the frame is moved between the arrangements of the history information and the shared history information, and according to an operation of the frame in the before-after direction of the sequence on the arrangement to which the frame is moved, an identifier included in an action information item in the before-after direction of the sequence is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Kenichiro HIRAIWA