Patents by Inventor Motoki Kobayashi

Motoki Kobayashi 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: 8218057
    Abstract: A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen ST1 that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image P1 captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image P2 captured before the reproduced image P1 is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images P1 and P2 are displayed at the same time on a display screen ST2 as a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed on a display screen ST3 that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced images, the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed along a time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Miwako Yoritate, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Shinichi Iriya, Kayo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8214739
    Abstract: A screen ST1 of an LCD with which a digital camera is provided displays an icon of a folder F1 indicating that the folder F1 has been selected. Image files P11 and P12 are captured reproduced images. A display frame SC displays a currently captured picture of an object, files P11 and P12, and the icon of the folder F1. To switch the folder F1 to a folder F2, the user presses a down button of a cross key 27. When the user presses the down button on the screen ST1, the screen ST1 is switched to a screen ST3 through a screen ST2. On the screen ST2, the number denoted in the icon is changed. The screen ST2 displays a state of which the folders are being switched. An icon displayed on the screen ST3 indicates that the folder F1 was switched to the folder F2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Miwako Yoritate, Motoki Kobayashi, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Shinichi Iriya, Kayo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20120011069
    Abstract: A content distribution system includes a content distribution server and a portable game terminal. The content distribution server 4-0-retains a first license for comprehensively permitting the use of multiple digital contents and issues to the portable game terminal a second license for individually permitting the use of a digital content selected by a user from among the multiple digital contents. The portable game terminal retains the second license and permits the use of the selected digital content if it is within the license period of the second license at the time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Tsunehisa Kazawa, Kenjiro Komaki, Akihiko Kusumoto, Kaoru Morishita, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110250956
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus configured to: display on a screen a display target range, which is a part of a display region including display elements arranged therein; and move the display target range in the display region in accordance with a direction of a scroll instruction when the scroll instruction is received from a user in a state in which the display target range is displayed, in which a movement amount of the display target range in accordance with the scroll instruction is changed based on a position of the display target range in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110249027
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus configured to: display on a screen a display target range, which is a part of a first display region extending along a first direction, so as to be superimposed on a first background image; move, when an operation of specifying a direction along the first direction is received from a user in a state in which the display target range is displayed, the display target range in the first display region in accordance with the specified direction without changing a display position of the first background image; and display a predetermined partial range of a second display region extending along the first direction so as to be superimposed on a second background image when an operation of specifying a direction along a second direction intersecting the first direction is received from the user, irrespective of whether or not the display target range is moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110252361
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that stores a plurality of programs, sequentially activates the programs in response to a user's instruction, and restricts the number of programs exceeding a predetermined number from being activated, in which the information processing apparatus displays the predetermined number of symbol images and displays the same number of symbol images as the number of programs that are already activated in a manner that is different from the other symbol images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110252363
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that displays on a screen at least a part of a display region, in which display elements are arranged; terminates the display of the display region when an operation of specifying a first direction with respect to a predetermined region in the screen is received from a user; and shifts into a state, in which the termination of the display of the display region, when an operation of specifying a second direction that is different from the first direction with respect to the predetermined region is received from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110214145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such that the enlarged images are continuous spirally in the time-series order from the inner circumferential side. In this manner, according to the present invention, it is possible to understand easily a before-after relationship between a large number of images which are consecutive in time series by applying the present invention to a set-top box for digital satellite broadcasting, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Tatsushi NASHIDA, Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Motoki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 7937726
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus and method for displaying program information outputted from a plurality of information sources to facilitate selecting of a program. A first obtaining unit obtains a first program information from a first information source. A second obtaining unit obtains a second program information from a plurality of second information sources. A memory stores the first program information and the second program information. A controller unitarily manages and classifies the first program information and the second program information into a plurality of categories and displaying the plurality of categories in a layered menu having a plurality of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Takeshi Hashimoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7928546
    Abstract: With the objective of enabling a reduction in the size of a final semiconductor device and its thinning, and attaining facilitation of a manufacturing process, the semiconductor device includes a circuit chip having a flat mounted surface, a circuit chip smaller in size than the former circuit chip, and a sheet-like support. The latter circuit chip is formed over a substrate and has a flat back surface fixed to the substrate and a flat surface positioned on the side opposite to the back surface. The support is bonded to the surface of the latter circuit chip and supports the latter circuit chip. Then, the back surface of the latter circuit chip supported by the support is peeled from the substrate and pressed against the mounted surface, thereby fixing the back surface of the latter circuit chip and the mounted surface by an intermolecular bonding force (e.g., hydrogen bonding).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morifumi Ohno, Motoki Kobayashi, Makoto Terui, Shinji Ohuchi, Mitsuhiko Ogihara
  • Publication number: 20110045327
    Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical device which is compatible with high-temperature reflow soldering using lead-free solder. An electric double-layer capacitor 10-1 has a structure in which a positive terminal 12 and a negative terminal 13 are led out of a package 14 where an electric storage element 11 is sealed. The entire package 14 and the bases of led-out portions of the positive terminal 12 and the negative terminal 13 are covered by a thermal insulation material layer 16 having a thermal conductivity lower than that of the package 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Yawata, Motoki Kobayashi, Katsuei Ishida, Naoto Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20110033745
    Abstract: An electrochemical device capable of being mounted by soldering includes a film package made of a film; an electrodes part encapsulated together with an electrolyte in said film package; a pair of terminals, one end of each terminal being connected to said electrodes part and another end of each terminal being exposed to an exterior of said film package; and an armor in contact with a substantially entire surface of said film package and in contact with partial surfaces of the exposed ends of said pair of terminals, respectively, to encapsulate said film package, said armor exposing remaining portions of said pair of terminals to an exterior of the armor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuei Ishida, Kazushi Yawata, Naoto Hagiwara, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7884873
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display that displays one of image data including an operation menu or operation key image data representing operation keys; an external output section that outputs the image data including the operation menu to the outside; an output state detector that detects that the external output section is in a state capable of outputting the image data to the outside; a display data instruction section that instructs to display the operation key image data on the display and to display the image data including the operation menu on an external display device, which is an output destination of the image data in the external output section, when the external output section is detected to be in the capable state, and instructs to display the image data including the operation menu on the display when the external output section is not detected to be in the capable state; a display data supply that supplies one of the display or the external output section with one of the image data incl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shiota, Kazuhiko Nishiwaki, Tetsuya Oda, Makoto Omata, Kazunori Takagi, Kanako Tamamatsu, Motoki Kobayashi, Ryoko Amano, Kumiko Tsukuda, Tsutomu Kume, Hidefumi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20100182481
    Abstract: A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen ST1 that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image P1 captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image P2 captured before the reproduced image P1 is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images P1 and P2 are displayed at the same time on a display screen ST2 as a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed on a display screen ST3 that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced images, the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed along a time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Miwako Yoritate, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Shinichi Iriya, Kayo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7714926
    Abstract: A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen ST1 that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image P1 captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image P2 captured before the reproduced image P1 is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images P1 and P2 are displayed at the same time on a display screen ST2 as a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed on a display screen ST3 that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced images, the reproduced images P1 to P4 are displayed along a time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Miwako Yoritate, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Shinichi Iriya, Kayo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7610599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such that the enlarged images are continuous spirally in the time-series order from the inner circumferential side. In this manner, according to the present invention, it is possible to understand easily a before-after relationship between a large number of images which are consecutive in time series by applying the present invention to a set-top box for digital satellite broadcasting, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Takeshi Hashimoto, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7607150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Information for indexes is obtained through a network, and information screens are classified by this information to create a menu screen. In this manner, the present invention can be applied to a set-top box for digital satellite broadcasting, and a desired program and the like can be selected easily and rapidly even in case where a large number of information screens such as programs and the like are provided from a plurality of sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Takeshi Hashimoto, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 7600192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing method. The display is switched through a transit screen based on a zoom-in screen or a zoom-out screen of a menu screen, and the menu screen is scrolled so as to display a focused icon at a predetermined position. In this manner, the present invention can be applied to a set-top box for digital satellite broadcasting, and the operationality can be improved even in case of providing a large number of programs and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Tatsushi Nashida, Motoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090118008
    Abstract: To enable images of game screens concerning a plurality of game programs to be systematically stored in a storage unit and a desired image to be swiftly displayed on a display unit in a later time, a game device of the present invention includes: a program executing unit for executing each of a plurality of game programs; an identification information acquiring unit for acquiring identification information on the game program during execution of the game program; an image acquiring unit for acquiring at least one image of a game screen generated during the execution of the game program; an image storing unit for storing the at least one image into the storage unit in association with the identification information; and a display control unit for reading the image stored in association with any one of the identification information from the storage unit based on a specification made by a user, and displaying the image on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yousuke Kimoto, Yoshiaki Jitsukawa, Keisuke Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20080276280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such that the enlarged images are continuous spirally in the time-series order from the inner circumferential side. In this manner, according to the present invention, it is possible to understand easily a before-after relationship between a large number of images which are consecutive in time series by applying the present invention to a set-top box for digital satellite broadcasting, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Takeshi Hashimoto, Motoki Kobayashi