Patents by Inventor Masaaki Isozu
Masaaki Isozu 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: 9077885Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one sensor configured to detect an orientation of the apparatus, and at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one display. The at least one processor may be configured to, in response to receiving input from the at least one sensor that indicates a change in the orientation of the apparatus within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, cause the at least one display to display one or more previously created photographs. An information processing method may include detecting an orientation of an apparatus having a display, and in response to detecting a change in the apparatus's orientation within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, displaying one or more previously created photographs on the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8837919Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes a processor that reproduces video data, and an interface that receives an instruction to perform a fast forward operation or a rewind operation on the reproduced video data. The processor, upon receiving the instruction, controls a display to display a first line of thumbnail images each corresponding to a frame of the video data selected at a first time interval, and subsequently controls the display to display a second line of thumbnail images each corresponding to a frame of the video data selected at a second time interval.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8792926Abstract: Disclosed herein is a group creation system for readily creating a group of nearby information processing apparatuses to let data be exchanged easily within the group. Portable terminals A and B exchange their ID's using hello messages being broadcast to create a nearby device list each. To request creation of a group with the portable terminal B, the portable terminal A transmits a group request including the ID of the portable terminal B to a server while sending an invitation to the portable terminal B. If the portable terminal B consents to the invitation and transmits a group request to the server within a group participation allowable time, the participation of the portable terminal B in the group is finalized, and a grouping notification to that effect is transmitted from the server to the portable terminals A and B.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8755294Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals including a first communication terminal to broadcast a route request message to a third communication terminal via a second communication terminal, the second and third communication terminals create a route to the first communication terminal. The second and third communication terminals include a route creation device for creating a plurality of the routes to the first communication terminal by broadcasting the route request message to each terminal included in the plurality of terminals to duplicatively receive the route request message. The second and third terminals further include a route management device for storing and managing the plurality of routes. The second and third terminals further include a route management device that establishes one of the created routes as a communication route to the first communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masaaki Isozu
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Patent number: 8589781Abstract: In a case where a link to jump to a destination page is included within a source page, when movement information indicating that the link is moved to a predetermined position while being selected is input via an input section, a control section determines whether or not the link is moved to a predetermined region within a display surface based on the movement information and region information, and, when determining that the link is moved to the predetermined region within the display surface, the control section acquires from a storage section and causes a display section to execute processing of displaying on the source page, a page analysis result associated with the region information for specifying the predetermined region of a movement destination of the link.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Tsugutomo Enami, Shinichi Kawano
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Patent number: 8584007Abstract: There is provided an information processing method, including the steps of: obtaining a first format document described using a mark-up language; and generating, based on definition data defining a hierarchical relationship of at least two types of tags of the mark-up language in a document structure, a second format document representing a tree structure having at least a node thereof corresponding to the tag or to a text related to the tag from the first format document.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Tsugutomo Enami, Shinichi Kawano
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Patent number: 8578415Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing information to a user is provided. The method includes providing, on an output device, program content, generating, by a processor, descriptive data including identification information corresponding to the program content, and providing a notification to a user based on the descriptive data, the notification corresponding to the program content.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Mitsuru Takehara, Seishi Tomonaga, Atsushi Okamori, Yuan Wei
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Publication number: 20130257715Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage, and a controller. The storage is configured to store rule information indicating a rule for calculating points of a user in accordance with a type of an operation by the user. The controller is configured to calculate, based on a detected operation of a first user and the rule information, points of the first user in accordance with a type of the detected operation, to control the storage to store first point information indicating the calculated points, and to control the communication unit to perform one of transmission of the stored first point information to another information processing apparatus and reception of second point information from the other information processing apparatus, the second point information indicating points of a second user and being stored in the other information processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8495495Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masaaki Isozu
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Publication number: 20130159884Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include at least one communication interface configured to receive notification of one or more other apparatuses in proximity to the apparatus; and at least one processor configured to, in response to the notification and based at least in part on a calculated sharing recommendation degree, cause at least one display to display a prompt to share content with at least one of the other apparatuses. An information processing method may include determining that one or more other apparatuses are in proximity to a first apparatus; calculating a sharing recommendation degree; and in response to determining that the one or more other apparatuses are in proximity to the first apparatus, and based at least in part on the calculated sharing recommendation degree, displaying on a display of the first apparatus a prompt to share content with at least one of the other apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130147844Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one sensor configured to detect an orientation of the apparatus, and at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one display. The at least one processor may be configured to, in response to receiving input from the at least one sensor that indicates a change in the orientation of the apparatus within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, cause the at least one display to display one or more previously created photographs. An information processing method may include detecting an orientation of an apparatus having a display, and in response to detecting a change in the apparatus's orientation within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, displaying one or more previously created photographs on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8451801Abstract: A wireless communication device configured to perform communication with another wireless communication device which exists outside the wireless communication range by performing communication through a path via a neighboring wireless communication device includes: a communication control unit configured to compute the number of links until a signal from the other wireless communication device is received; a device information holding unit configured to associate the number of computed links with information relating to the other wireless communication device and holding therein; and a display control unit configured to control the information relating to the other wireless communication device associated to the number of links based on the number of links, so as to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130024792Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a first detection unit configured to detect a movement of an operation device having a user interface that can be operated by a user, a second detection unit configured to detect a user operation on the user interface, and a processing unit configured to perform a process based on one of a detection result obtained by the first detection unit or a detection result obtained by the second detection unit. The processing unit, when, while performing a process based on a detection result obtained by one of the first detection unit or the second detection unit, a detection result obtained by the other detection unit is detected, selectively changes content of the process being performed based on the detection result obtained by the one of the detection units, based on the detection result obtained by the other detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Isozu, Tomohiko Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130016108Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit to receive, from another information processing apparatus, image data in an imaginary region having a first area, first tree information indicating a tree structure of the image data, and layout information indicating a layout of the image data; a cache memory to cache at least a part of the received image data; a display including a display region having a second area smaller than the first area, and to display a part of the cached image data in the display region; and a controller to divide the imaginary region into regions based on the second area and the received layout information, generate second tree information indicating a tree structure of the image data in accordance with the regions, and control the cache memory to cache the at least a part of the image data based on the second tree information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masaaki Isozu
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Publication number: 20120296958Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing a request for image data. One exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising at least one storage device configured to store a plurality of processor-executable instructions and at least one processing unit communicatively coupled to the at least one storage device. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processing unit receives from a client computer one or more requests for image data, generates at least one coupled-image file and a conversion layout file based, at least in part, on information in the one or more requests for image data, wherein the at least one coupled-image file includes image data for a plurality of images to form a combined image and the conversion layout file includes identifying information identifying the plurality of images in the combined image, and sends the at least one coupled-image file and the conversion layout file to the client computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Masaaki Isozu
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Publication number: 20120223898Abstract: Provided is a display control device including an operation display unit for detecting operation positions, on a display screen, in accordance with a user operation on the display screen, a state determination unit for determining, based on a detection result of the operation positions, a first operation state where two operation positions are detected, a process determination unit for determining, based on a change in the operation positions in the first operation state, a process related to display that is to be performed, and a display control unit for performing, based on a determination result of a process, a process which has been determined to be performed, and causing the display screen to perform display corresponding to the process. The display control unit continues the display corresponding to the process which has been determined to be performed, according to a duration of determination for the process which has been determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki
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Publication number: 20120201299Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an encoded-data generating section configured to generate encoded data including a first picture that can be decoded without referring to other pictures and one or more second pictures that can be decoded referring to other pictures; a transmission-data generating section configured to combine the first picture of the encoded data and the one or more second pictures of encoded data immediately preceding the encoded data to generate transmission data; and a radio communication section configured to intermittently transmit, in a unit of the transmission data, a plurality of the transmission data included in a video stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: Takehiko Sasaki, Masaaki Isozu, Kazuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8213352Abstract: A set-N table (110) is a table holding information regarding other wireless communication devices that can be reached from a wireless communication device (a node) in one hop. A set-N2 table (120) is a table holding information regarding other wireless communication devices that can be reached from a wireless communication device (100) in two hops. A set-F table (170) is a table holding information regarding nodes whose reachability of flooding from the wireless communication device (100) has not been verified. An MPR setting unit (160) sets optimal MPR nodes with consideration of communication states of links in a wireless ad hoc network by selecting, with consideration of communication states of links between individual nodes, the communication states of links being held in the set-N table (110) and the set-N2 table (120), MPR nodes and setting the MPR nodes in an MPR table (180) while deleting nodes whose reachability of flooding has been verified from the set-F table (170).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu
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Patent number: 8203990Abstract: A wireless-communication device configured to communicate with a different wireless-communication device provided outside a wireless-communication range through a path via a neighbor wireless-communication device includes first identification-information storage storing information about at least one first opposite station, second identification-information storage storing information about at least one second opposite station, a broadcast-signal-generation unit generating a broadcast signal including a propagation-node number and a transfer-finish-instruction signal, and transmitting the broadcast signal to another different wireless-communication device, and a broadcast-signal-transfer unit setting the transfer-finish-instruction signal, so as to instruct to finish transferring the broadcast signal, setting another propagation-node number, and transferring the broadcast signal to another different wireless-communication device when being instructed not to finish transferring the broadcast signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu
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Patent number: RE44560Abstract: In an environment in which various usable information processing device exist in the neighborhood of a user, it is possible to a detect, from a main terminal used by a user, an information processing device having the function corresponding to a user request. By using the detected device, it is possible to perform data processing and data communication corresponding to the user request, which cannot be performed by one device. By transmitting a resources finding/using query packet to devices capable of data communication, the function confirmation and the environment setting of each information processing device can be performed. Even if the function of the information processing device dynamically changes, the device can be used based on the updated information.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masaaki Isozu