Patents by Inventor Ko Kusanagi
Ko Kusanagi 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).
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Patent number: 10674216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20190324984Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Patent number: 10380178Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20180288487Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 9918133Abstract: 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 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 9805117Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20160147877Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20130311491Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Patent number: 8538914Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Patent number: 8484684Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2006Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Moriwaki, Naoki Fukino, Kazuto Nishizawa, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20120246183Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi FUKUDA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Takuo IKEDA, Ko KUSANAGI
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Patent number: 8244665Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Patent number: 8239894Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20120183273Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 7703043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20090327349Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20070050811Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Moriwaki, Naoki Fukino, Kazuto Nishizawa, Ko Kusanagi
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Publication number: 20060024021Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20060020970Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20060020969Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano