Patents by Inventor Nariaki Satoh
Nariaki Satoh 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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Publication number: 20220164059Abstract: An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Nariaki SATOH, Ikuo YAMANO
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Patent number: 11281324Abstract: An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Nariaki Satoh, Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 10282408Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tsunayuki Ohwa, Satoru Inoue, Nariaki Satoh, Shinji Yuhara, Daiki Ito, Takayuki Usami
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Patent number: 10241582Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10216356Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170139896Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Tsunayuki OHWA, Satoru Inoue, Nariaki Satoh, Shinji Yuhara, Daiki Ito, Takayuki Usami
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Patent number: 9600498Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Tsunayuki Ohwa, Satoru Inoue, Nariaki Satoh, Shinji Yuhara, Daiki Ito, Takayuki Usami
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Publication number: 20160378248Abstract: An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Nariaki SATOH, Ikuo YAMANO
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Patent number: 9507414Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user, a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector, and a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160313800Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro NODA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATOH, Osamu SHIGETA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9411410Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160162155Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro NODA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATOH, Osamu SHIGETA, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9274605Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8791962Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display section configured to display a first object in a virtual three-dimensional space having a depth direction of a display screen, an operation section configured to acquire an operation for moving the first object in at least the depth direction, and a controller configured to move the first object on the display screen in accordance with the acquired operation, to execute, when a region of the first object overlaps a first overlap determination region, a first process to one or both of the first and second objects, and to execute, when the region of the first object overlaps a second overlap determination region, a second process to one or both of the first and second objects. The first overlap determination region may be a region obtained by extending the second overlap determination region in at least the depth direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8640051Abstract: An information processing unit according to the present invention includes: a content information acquiring portion which acquires meta data containing a thumbnail of a content corresponding to the content data and information indicating presence/absence of a preview of the content and the content data; a display control portion which displays a list of the content thumbnails on a display portion; and an operation detecting portion which detects the operation of a position specifying object for specifying the content to be reproduced from the displayed thumbnail, wherein if the position specifying object stays in the thumbnail corresponding to the content whose preview is present in a predetermined time interval, the content information acquiring portion acquires content data relating to the preview, and the display control portion automatically reproduces the acquired content data relating to the preview.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fujio Nobori, Nariaki Satoh, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 8510784Abstract: In a cooperative processing system for performing cooperative process between a portable terminal and a television terminal through a service server and a device control server, content and content information separately managed by a content server connected to the television terminal and the service server are searched based on a search condition extracted from the content or the content information reproduced and displayed by the portable terminal, and the search result of the content and the content information is seamlessly displayed on the television terminal. Consequently, the convenience of the user in content usage can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignees: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Fukuda, Kazuto Mugura, Nariaki Satoh, Ippei Tambata, Goro Takaki, Rui Yamagami
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Patent number: 8458260Abstract: An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display control for reproducing the content data on a display portion; and a bidirectional communication portion which carries out bidirectional communication with other information processing unit connected to the content providing server, in which, when the content data is reproduced, the bidirectional communication portion selects a communication message to be received from communication messages sent from the other information processing unit corresponding to an execution state of the bidirectional communication.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fujio Nobori, Mamoru Tokashiki, Nariaki Satoh
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Patent number: 8341555Abstract: An image managing apparatus includes a storage part, an input part, a grouping-processing part, a representative image extraction part, a folding-button preparing part, a folding-screen preparing part and an output part. An image is stored in the storage part. A user's instruction is input by the input part. The grouping-processing part is configured to classify images displayed on a screen into a group for display based on the instruction. The representative image extraction part is configured to extract an image in the group as a representative image of the group. The folding-button preparing part is configured to generate a folding button for displaying the representative image of the group on the screen. The folding-screen preparing part is configured to generate an image-listing screen (“folding screen)”) on which the representative image of the group and an ungrouped image are displayed when the folding-button displayed on the screen is operated.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuji Ayatsuka, Yukiko Sakata, Junichiro Sakata, Nariaki Satoh
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Publication number: 20120166560Abstract: An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display control for reproducing the content data on a display portion; and a bidirectional communication portion which carries out bidirectional communication with other information processing unit connected to the content providing server, in which, when the content data is reproduced, the bidirectional communication portion selects a communication message to be received from communication messages sent from the other information processing unit corresponding to an execution state of the bidirectional communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Fujio Nobori, Mamoru Tokashiki, Nariaki Satoh
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Publication number: 20120062603Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Nariaki Satoh, Ikuo Yamano