Patents by Inventor Masanao Tsutsui

Masanao Tsutsui 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: 20100169774
    Abstract: An electronics apparatus includes an information storing unit that stores map data; a display unit that displays an image; a touched position detecting unit that detects a touched position on the displayed image in the display unit; and a control unit that displays a map in the display unit using the map data, wherein the control unit sets a target position in accordance with the position detected by the touched position detecting unit, and if the target position is located on the map, the control unit displays the map so that the target position is matched with a predefined position by scrolling the map, and if the target position is not located on the map, the control unit creates another map in which the target position is matched with the predefined position using the stored map data, and replaces the map displayed by the display unit with the created map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Oda, Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20100169012
    Abstract: A map data display control apparatus includes: a position information acquiring section acquiring position information; a latitude determining section determining whether a latitude identified by the acquired position information is in the excess of a predetermined latitude threshold or not; a display range calculating section calculating a display range for displaying a map with reference to a position identified by the acquired position information based on the result of the determination made by the latitude determining section; and a rendering section rendering a map associated with the reference position based on the calculated display range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanao TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20090141142
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that records a picked-up image and time information indicating when the picked-up image was picked up includes a unit that obtains location information and UTC and generates positioning information indicating the obtained result, a unit that determines the time difference between the time corresponding to the location information and UTC using the location information, a unit that calculates the local time of a location indicated by the location information using UTC and the time difference, and a unit that performs correction of a system time of the image pickup apparatus when the time difference between the system time and the local time exceeds a predetermined time period and that causes the correction of the system time to be delayed until after the completion of a recording operation of the picked-up image when the recording operation is being performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20090140888
    Abstract: A map display apparatus for displaying a map image at a plurality of display resolutions includes the following elements. An information recording unit associates an image signal of a captured image with imaging position information to record the associated signal and information as image information. A map information storage unit stores map information for the map image. A classification information recording processing unit divides a map area shown by the map information into mesh cells such that different mesh cell sizes are suitable for the respective display resolutions, and generates and records imaging classification information. A display control unit determines on each of mesh cells on the map image, each mesh cell having a size suitable for the display resolution, on the basis of the imaging classification information whether the image information is relevant to a mesh cell, and arranges an imaging identification representation in the appropriate mesh cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20090091616
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided, in which content and position information generated independently of each other are recorded in a recording medium. The apparatus includes a recording medium in which the content and the position information are recorded and a deletion unit deleting position information temporally associated with a piece of the content from the recording medium when the piece of content is deleted from the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki ICHIHARA, Masanao TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20090088968
    Abstract: A map display apparatus includes an image storage unit that stores images in association with corresponding items of image capturing position information of places where the images were captured; an image information reading unit that reads image capturing position information of a specified image from the image storage unit; an image capturing position displaying unit that displays a map represented by map information on the basis of the image capturing position information; a current position obtaining unit that obtains current position information from a position determining unit determining a current position; a current position displaying unit that displays a map represented by map information on the basis of the obtained current position information; and a map display switching unit that selectively switches between the map information of the image capturing position displaying unit and the map information of the current position displaying unit in response to a display switching instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20090067815
    Abstract: An image playback apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image content including still images and movies and photographing information involved in photographing a subject to create the image content, an image classifying unit configured to classify the image content into a plurality of image groups on the basis of the photographing information, and an image playback unit configured to organize all still images belonging to one of the image groups into a still-image slideshow and successively playing back one or a plurality of movies belonging to the one image group and the still-image slideshow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20090066575
    Abstract: A positioning apparatus includes: a position computing part configured to receive signals from a plurality of radio transmitters to compute a position of the positioning apparatus; a reception status determining part configured to determine a reception state of the signals from the plurality of the radio transmitters; and an intermittent drive setting part configured to set a time interval for receiving signals by the position computing part according to the reception state determined by the reception status determining part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20090060263
    Abstract: A map information display apparatus for displaying map information on the basis of information on image-capturing times and image-capturing positions that are respectively associated with a plurality of captured images includes a captured image extraction unit configured to extract images captured within a predetermined time period that includes the image-capturing time of a predetermined captured image from among the plurality of captured images; a map area selection unit configured to select an area of a map so as to include the image-capturing positions of the captured images extracted by the captured image extraction unit by using as a reference the image-capturing position of the predetermined captured image; and a map information display unit configured to display map information in such a manner that the area of the map, which is selected by the map area selection unit, is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao TSUTSUI
  • Patent number: 7333772
    Abstract: In order to have an electronic apparatus in which user's feeling of operation upon making a connection to a desired slave apparatus through wireless communication is improved, the present invention provides an electronic apparatus in which a control microcomputer lowers a transmission power of a Bluetooth module than a normal condition and determines the number of apparatuses to be searched to transmit an interrogation signal on a wireless communication line. Information of a service class of an apparatus responded to the interrogation signal is obtained from received information and a connection link is established to the apparatus if the apparatus is capable of handling an application to use. If the apparatus is not capable of handling the application or if no apparatus responded, the transmission power is set higher to increase the number of the apparatuses to be searched and to retransmit the interrogation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20050079819
    Abstract: In order to have an electronic apparatus in which user's feeling of operation upon making a connection to a desired slave apparatus through wireless communication is improved, the present invention provides an electronic apparatus in which a control microcomputer lowers a transmission power of a Bluetooth module than a normal condition and determines the number of apparatuses to be searched to transmit an interrogation signal on a wireless communication line. Information of a service class of an apparatus responded to the interrogation signal is obtained from received information and a connection link is established to the apparatus if the apparatus is capable of handling an application to use. If the apparatus is not capable of handling the application or if no apparatus responded, the transmission power is set higher to increase the number of the apparatuses to be searched and to retransmit the interrogation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Tsutsui