Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Hosoki

Mitsuhiro Hosoki 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).

  • Patent number: 10026438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reproduction section which acquires reproduction data corresponding to a reproduction position of content data by reproducing the content data, an output section which causes the reproduction data acquired by the reproduction section to be output from a region of an output device, the region corresponding to the information processing apparatus, a control signal acquisition section which acquires a control signal generated and output by a control device based on a predetermined input recognized by a recognition device, and an output control section which controls output of the reproduction data to the output device performed by the output section in accordance with the control signal acquired by the control signal acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michinari Kohno, Fujio Nobori, Satoshi Miyazaki, Yoshiki Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Hosoki, Tomohiko Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9805390
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, a display control method is provided. The method includes defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information, and defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Okazaki, Michinari Kohno, Yoichi Kobori, Yoshiki Tanaka, Fujio Nobori, Mitsuhiro Hosoki
  • Patent number: 9626423
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a plurality of pieces of post information sent from a first user, to obtain a plurality of pieces of evaluation information of another user with respect to the received plurality of post information, to classify the plurality of pieces of post information into a plurality of clusters, and to determine, as an advantage cluster of the first user, a cluster with the highest evaluation in the plurality of pieces of evaluation information out of the plurality of clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norifumi Kikkawa, Yuichi Kageyama, Junichiro Takagi, Mitsuhiro Hosoki
  • Publication number: 20130262468
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a plurality of pieces of post information sent from a first user, to obtain a plurality of pieces of evaluation information of another user with respect to the received plurality of post information, to classify the plurality of pieces of post information into a plurality of clusters, and to determine, as an advantage cluster of the first user, a cluster with the highest evaluation in the plurality of pieces of evaluation information out of the plurality of clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norifumi Kikkawa, Yuichi Kageyama, Junichiro Takagi, Mitsuhiro Hosoki
  • Publication number: 20120306911
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, a display control method is provided. The method includes defining at least one clipping region, within an image to be displayed, according to detected object information, and defining clipping region content for displaying in the clipping region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Okazaki, Michinari Kohno, Yoichi Kobori, Yoshiki Tanaka, Fujio Nobori, Mitsuhiro Hosoki
  • Publication number: 20110080478
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reproduction section which acquires reproduction data corresponding to a reproduction position of content data by reproducing the content data, an output section which causes the reproduction data acquired by the reproduction section to be output from a region of an output device, the region corresponding to the information processing apparatus, a control signal acquisition section which acquires a control signal generated and output by a control device based on a predetermined input recognized by a recognition device, and an output control section which controls output of the reproduction data to the output device performed by the output section in accordance with the control signal acquired by the control signal acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Michinari KOHNO, Fujio Nobori, Satoshi Miyazaki, Yoshiki Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Hosoki, Tomohiko Okazaki
  • Patent number: 7614010
    Abstract: An interface apparatus controls at least activation and termination of one or more registered application programs in accordance with user operations. The apparatus includes a first holding section configured to hold information of the application programs; a user operation acceptance section; a second holding section configured to receive and hold status information of each application program; a list presentation section configured to present an application program list window and to indicate at least whether a status of each application program is a running status or a terminated status based on the status information; a selection section configured to select an application program to be controlled from among the application programs in accordance with a predetermined first user operation; and a control section configured to control the status of the selected application program based on the status information when the user operation acceptance section has accepted a predetermined second user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hosoki, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070143713
    Abstract: An interface apparatus controls at least activation and termination of one or more registered application programs in accordance with user operations. The apparatus includes a first holding section configured to hold information of the application programs; a user operation acceptance section; a second holding section configured to receive and hold status information of each application program; a list presentation section configured to present an application program list window and to indicate at least whether a status of each application program is a running status or a terminated status based on the status information; a selection section configured to select an application program to be controlled from among the application programs in accordance with a predetermined first user operation; and a control section configured to control the status of the selected application program based on the status information when the user operation acceptance section has accepted a predetermined second user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hosoki, Hiroshi Yamaguchi