Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Okumura

Mitsuo Okumura 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: 10838619
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20200233579
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 10592101
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20190317646
    Abstract: User's connection operation is facilitated using a user interface screen. A user interface screen is displayed on which a combination of an arbitrary source apparatus and a destination apparatus is designated from a predetermined number of source apparatuses and destination apparatuses, to operate a connection. Based on operation on the user interface screen, the connection between the source apparatus and the destination apparatus is controlled. On the user interface screen, a button is disposed in which a combination of a source apparatus and a destination apparatus is registered. When the button is operated, control is executed such that the source apparatus and the destination apparatus of the registered combination are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: MITSUO OKUMURA, HIROFUMI HIBI
  • Patent number: 10353546
    Abstract: User's connection operation is facilitated using a user interface screen. A user interface screen is displayed on which a combination of an arbitrary source apparatus and a destination apparatus is designated from a predetermined number of source apparatuses and destination apparatuses, to operate a connection. Based on operation on the user interface screen, the connection between the source apparatus and the destination apparatus is controlled. On the user interface screen, a button is disposed in which a combination of a source apparatus and a destination apparatus is registered. When the button is operated, control is executed such that the source apparatus and the destination apparatus of the registered combination are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hirofumi Hibi
  • Publication number: 20190187886
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes circuitry that displays a user interface screen including device information that identifies a plurality of output device groups and a plurality of input device groups to control connection between one of the output device groups and one of the input device groups; and receives an input that designates a combination of said one of the output device groups and said one of the input device groups, the user interface screen includes a matrix comprising a plurality of cells in a row direction and a column direction, the input designates the combination by designating one of grouped cells corresponding to the combination of said one of the output device groups and said one of the input device groups in the matrix, and the grouped cells are grouped such that the input designates the combination as a group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hirofumi HIBI
  • Publication number: 20190172269
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which can improve user-friendliness of a description screen for assembly of parts in creation of a robot. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform display control to: separately display a plurality of parts for creation of a robot, display a line connecting joint surfaces of the respective parts, and display animation in which the respective parts are jointed in accordance with the line connecting the joint surfaces in assembly order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayaka SATOH, Mitsuo OKUMURA, Takehiko SASAKI, Masaaki ISOZU, Shohei TAKAHASHI, Marika NOZUE
  • Patent number: 10241666
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes circuitry that displays a user interface screen including device information that identifies a plurality of output device groups and a plurality of input device groups to control connection between one of the output device groups and one of the input device groups; and receives an input that designates a combination of said one of the output device groups and said one of the input device groups, the user interface screen includes a matrix comprising a plurality of cells in a row direction and a column direction, the input designates the combination by designating one of grouped cells corresponding to the combination of said one of the output device groups and said one of the input device groups in the matrix, and the grouped cells are grouped such that the input designates the combination as a group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hirofumi Hibi
  • Patent number: 10007975
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a first housing, a second housing, a first display device, a second display device, a video input terminal, a video output terminal, a storage unit, a video combining unit, a configuration control unit, a first GUI control unit, a second GUI control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Nakata, Mitsuo Okumura, Jo Wada, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Kenji Otsuka, Naomi Egashira
  • Patent number: 9986218
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a creation unit to combine first section data in moving image data with other content data to create a composite moving image content, a reproduction unit to reproduce the moving image data, an operation reception unit to receive a predetermined operation input by a user during reproduction of the moving image data, and a control unit to extract second section data including a reproduction position of the moving image data at a time when the predetermined operation input is received and control the creation unit so that the creation unit changes the first section data in the composite moving image content into the second section data, the second section data being different from the first section data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniichiro Naruse, Hisashi Hosaka, Mitsuo Okumura, Yukiko Akiyama, Kosuke Kimura, Kazuma Igari
  • Patent number: 9841665
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Mochizuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Mitsuo Okumura, Takaomi Kimura, Tomohiko Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20170139589
    Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20170116709
    Abstract: To easily understand the contents of a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus. An image conversion block 150 converts a taken image on the basis of conversion information. A transparency conversion block 160 converts the transparency in the converted taken image. A image synthesis block 170 synthesizes the taken image with the transparency converted with a log image and holds a resultant new log image in an image memory 180. An index image extraction block 190 extracts a new index image from among the converted taken images on the basis of the coordinate position and size of an index image in an image taking space. A selection block 270 selects an index image on the basis of the position of a selected representative image when the position of a panorama image displayed on a display block 292 is selected. A display control block 291 displays a panorama image on the display block 292 and displays the selected index image, overlapped on the panorama image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masatomo Kurata, Shingo Tsurumi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170102835
    Abstract: User's connection operation is facilitated using a user interface screen. A user interface screen is displayed on which a combination of an arbitrary source apparatus and a destination apparatus is designated from a predetermined number of source apparatuses and destination apparatuses, to operate a connection. Based on operation on the user interface screen, the connection between the source apparatus and the destination apparatus is controlled. On the user interface screen, a button is disposed in which a combination of a source apparatus and a destination apparatus is registered. When the button is operated, control is executed such that the source apparatus and the destination apparatus of the registered combination are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: MITSUO OKUMURA, HIROFUMI HIBI
  • Patent number: D786930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Kurokawa, Yuki Shoji, Osamu Sakurai, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Sanae Hirai
  • Patent number: D789381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D797802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Kobayashi, Yunha Cho, Masahiro Takahashi, Keiichi Yoshioka, Mitsuo Okumura, Roxy Chaney, Julia Framel, Nobuki Furue, Toshiyuki Kimura, Keisuke Yanagisawa, Tamao Kawai, Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: D835119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Motoki Higashide, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: D844648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Tomoko Takahashi, Shoji Watanabe, Aya Suzuki
  • Patent number: D878406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Tomoko Takahashi