Patents by Inventor Kenji TOKUTAKE

Kenji TOKUTAKE 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: 20150323963
    Abstract: A device includes a display configured to display an interface, wherein the display includes one or more touch sensors configured to detect a touch operation on an operating surface of the display. The device includes a cover that includes one or more projections arranged on a surface of the cover that opposes the operating surface of the display when the cover is in a closed position. The device includes circuitry configured to determine when the cover is in an open position and the closed position; determine, based on an output generated by the one or more touch sensors, an arrangement position of the one or more projections; and control, when the cover is determined to be in the closed position, the display based on the determined arrangement position of the one or more projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20150324039
    Abstract: To improve ease of operation in a case where a display device and a small terminal apparatus are connected to each other, and coordinated display is performed. When a contact or approach of an object having a size greater than or equal to a threshold value with or toward the surface of a display panel is detected, a video or an instruction corresponding to the motion detected by the motion sensor is output. The display device, on the basis of the video or the instruction that is output, displays a video in which the position of a pointer or the like is changed in response to the motion detected by a motion sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Patent number: 9134764
    Abstract: A device includes a display panel configured to display one or more interfaces. The device includes one or more motion sensors. The device includes circuitry configured to determine, based on an input from the one or more motion sensors, a tilt angle of the device. The circuitry is configured to select, based on the determined tilt angle, an interface, of the one or more interfaces, and to control the display panel to display the selected interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Patent number: 9128562
    Abstract: To improve ease of operation in a case where a display device and a small terminal apparatus are connected to each other, and coordinated display is performed. When a contact or approach of an object having a size greater than or equal to a threshold value with or toward the surface of a display panel is detected, a video or an instruction corresponding to the motion detected by the motion sensor is output. The display device, on the basis of the video or the instruction that is output, displays a video in which the position of a pointer or the like is changed in response to the motion detected by a motion sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Publication number: 20150244944
    Abstract: A device includes one or more image sensors that capture live video data and a memory that stores the captured live video data. The device includes circuitry that determines an angle-of-view for one or more frames of the live video data and generates wide angle video data that has a larger angle-of-view than the one or more frames of the live video data. The circuitry determines one or more angles-of-view not represented in the wide angle video data by the live video data. The circuitry generates make-up image data captured at a later time than the live video data, wherein the make-up image data has an angle-of-view corresponding to at least one of the one or more angles-of-view that are not represented in the wide angle video data by the live video data. The circuitry updates the wide angle video data to include the make-up image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Patent number: 9116696
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Publication number: 20150177788
    Abstract: A device includes a display panel configured to display one or more interfaces. The device includes one or more motion sensors. The device includes circuitry configured to determine, based on an input from the one or more motion sensors, a tilt angle of the device. The circuitry is configured to select, based on the determined tilt angle, an interface, of the one or more interfaces, and to control the display panel to display the selected interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20150153803
    Abstract: A device includes a proximity sensor configured to detect when an object is within a predetermined proximity range of the device, and input detection circuitry configured to detect when an input operation is performed on the device. The terminal device includes control circuitry configured to determine a proximity detection state of the device, wherein an object detection state corresponds to a proximity state in which the object is detected within the predetermined proximity range, and an object non-detection state corresponds to a proximity state in which the object is not detected within the predetermined proximity range; control a suspended state of the device, wherein the suspended state is a state of reduced processing and/or power consumption; and control the input detection circuitry such that, when the device is in the suspended state and in the object detection state, the input detection circuitry stops input operation detection processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140368469
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140354583
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a touch panel display including one or more sensors for detecting an input operation by an instruction object. The apparatus includes circuitry that acquires one or more coordinates corresponding to one or more positions of the instruction object on the touch panel display, and determines whether a current condition of the instruction object during the input operation is an up condition or a down condition. The circuitry determines, when the current condition is the down condition, based on one or more previous conditions of the instruction object stored in a memory, whether the previous condition immediately preceding the current condition is the up condition and if so, converts the immediately preceding previous condition to the up condition. The circuitry controls the touch panel display to output a continuous line corresponding to the acquired one or more coordinates at which the instruction object is in the down condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Patent number: 8872794
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Publication number: 20140248034
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising that includes a reproduction unit to reproduce video content comprising a plurality of frames; a memory to store a table including object identification information identifying an object image, and frame identification information identifying a frame of the plurality of frames that includes the object image; and a processor to extract the frame including the object image from the video content and generate display data of a reduced image corresponding to the frame for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140244269
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a voice command via a microphone in order to activate the device and execute certain applications. The apparatus comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) and a host controller which are responsible for processing the voice commands. The DSP recognizes and processes voice commands intermittently while the host processor is in a sleep state, thereby reducing the overall power consumption of the apparatus. Further, when the DSP is configured to recognize voice commands intended only to activate the device, a memory having a sufficiently lower storage capacity suffices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Patent number: 8787618
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising that includes a reproduction unit to reproduce video content comprising a plurality of frames; a memory to store a table including object identification information identifying an object image, and frame identification information identifying a frame of the plurality of frames that includes the object image; and a processor to extract the frame including the object image from the video content and generate display data of a reduced image corresponding to the frame for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokutake
  • Publication number: 20140198052
    Abstract: Discussed herein is an information processing apparatus that detects a touch input at a touch panel disposed on or formed integrally with a display panel, performs sampling of the detected touch position and utilizes a predictive filter to estimate the coordinates of the touch position. The apparatus comprises a controller that actuates the predictive filter based on the application being executed and updates the display panel with the estimated coordinates when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140080550
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a touch panel and a near field communication interface. The information processing apparatus detects that an input received at the touch panel corresponds to a predetermined input when the information processing apparatus is in a suspended state; and controls the information processing apparatus execute a predetermined function via the near field communication interface and awake from the suspended state upon detecting that the input corresponds to the predetermined input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji INO, Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140022190
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20140011547
    Abstract: A terminal device that includes an operation surface; an input detection unit that detects an indicator and determines at least one of a position of the indicator contacting the operation surface and a distance of the indicator from the operation surface in a vertical direction; an operation determination unit that determines information about an operation input by movement information of the indicator detected by the input detection unit; and a control unit that performs predetermined control when a first operation which is an operation performed to move the indicator in a vertical direction away from the operation surface is detected by the operation determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yuka JINGUSHI, Kenji Kimura, Yuichiro Kojima, Yoshitsugu Kitada, Kenji Tokutake
  • Publication number: 20130321329
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display disposed on a casing of the information processing apparatus to display an image; outputs, by a communication interface of the information processing apparatus, the image displayed on the display; detects an orientation of the casing; and generates different images as the image displayed on the display and the image output by the communication interface when a predetermined change of orientation of the casing is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20130321335
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects, at a touch panel formed on or integrally with a display, an object touching or approaching the touch panel; determines a change in an angle that the object forms with the touch panel based on an output of the touch panel; and controls content displayed on the display based on the determined change in angle between the object and the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji TOKUTAKE