Patents by Inventor Masahiro Urano
Masahiro Urano 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: 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: 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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Patent number: 7164551Abstract: A tape drive apparatus employing a tape cassette including a solid-state memory in a cassette half unit that accommodates a magnetic tape. When recording application data on the magnetic tape, the application data is written in an area of a preset size of the memory, beginning from a leading end of the application data. In this manner, it is assured that the management information located at the leading end of the application data can be stored in the memory. In reproducing the application data from the tape cassette, the management information stored in the memory is exploited to save time in accessing the management information recorded on the magnetic tape.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiro Urano, Yoshihisa Takayama, Hiroshi Ishibashi, Tatsuya Kato
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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: 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
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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: 20040114266Abstract: A tape drive apparatus employing, as a recording medium, a tape cassette (1) including a memory (4) in a cassette half unit (6) having accommodated a magnetic tape (3). When recording the application data on the magnetic tape (3), the application data to be recorded on the magnetic tape (3) is written in an area of a preset size of the memory (4), beginning from the leading end of the application data to be recorded on the magnetic tape (3). In this manner, at least the management information located at the leading end of the application data can be stored in the memory (4). In reproducing the application data from the tape cassette (1), the management information stored in the memory (4) is exploited to save time for accessing the management information recorded on the magnetic tape (3) to speed up the accessing to the data recorded on the magnetic tape (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Masahiro Urano, Yoshihisa Takayama, Hiroshi Ishibashi, Tatsuya Kato