Patents by Inventor Reiko Miyazaki

Reiko Miyazaki 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: 20160370884
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display first layer data, detects movement of the information processing apparatus, and controls the display to display second layer data corresponding to the first layer data together with the first layer data based on a movement detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 9513765
    Abstract: An information display terminal includes a first operation information acquiring unit that acquires first operation information including first location information on a display screen via a touch panel including a contact detection surface and the display screen. A three-dimensional coordinate space is projected onto the display screen. An object is arranged within the three-dimensional coordinate space on the basis of three-dimensional coordinate information of the object. The information display terminal also includes a second operation information acquiring unit that acquires second operation information including second location information on the display screen via a contact detection surface provided on a surface on a side opposite to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9513791
    Abstract: A method of operation of an electronic device system includes: detecting a drag performed on a touch screen, the drag having a starting point and an ending point; detecting a stretchable cursor extendable based on the drag, the stretchable cursor having a cursor length, a cursor direction, a starting portion, and an ending portion at the ending point and larger than the starting portion at the starting point; displaying the stretchable cursor on the touch screen; and performing a process routine based on the cursor length and the cursor direction, the process routine continued after the stretchable cursor is pasted with the drag performed on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: George Arriola, Michael P. Bauerly, Brian W. Johnson, Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida, Ken Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20160334982
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit; and a control unit performing a process corresponding to dragging and displaying, on a display unit, a cursor which elongates from a start point of the dragging to an end point of the dragging and of which at least one of a size and a shape is different at one end portion, which is on a side of the start point of the dragging, and at the other end portion, which is on a side of the end point of the dragging, when the dragging is executed through the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: LINE Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Tatsushi NASHIDA
  • Patent number: 9489070
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display first layer data, detects movement of the information processing apparatus, and controls the display to display second layer data corresponding to the first layer data together with the first layer data based on a movement detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 9465531
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit; and a control unit performing a process corresponding to dragging and displaying, on a display unit, a cursor which elongates from a start point of the dragging to an end point of the dragging and of which at least one of a size and a shape is different at one end portion, which is on a side of the start point of the dragging, and at the other end portion, which is on a side of the end point of the dragging, when the dragging is executed through the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Line Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 9443342
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an operation unit, and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, a data image representing the contents of temporally continuous data along a time axis. Here, when a gesture operation for cutting the data image perpendicularly to the time axis is performed through the operation unit, the control unit divides the data at a position on the time axis in accordance with the position cut by the gesture operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20160259512
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a user interface to display content, acquires position information corresponding to an input received at the user interface, determines a condition corresponding to the position information, and controls the user interface to display data corresponding to the input based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: REIKO MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9395908
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an operation unit; and a control unit performing a process in response to an operation executed through the operation unit. Different gesture operations are able to be assigned to an operation corresponding to copy of information and an operation corresponding to cut of information, respectively. The control unit selects a portion designated by a user in information displayed on a display unit, and then copies the selected portion when the user executes the gesture operation corresponding to the copy through the operation unit, whereas the control unit cuts the selected portion when the user executes the gesture operation corresponding to the cut through the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Akihiro Komori, Ritsuko Kano, Yoshihito Ohki
  • Patent number: 9372601
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a user interface to display content, acquires position information corresponding to an input received at the user interface, determines a condition corresponding to the position information, and controls the user interface to display data corresponding to the input based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20160142767
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a client apparatus, control method, system and program capable of presenting emotion expression data showing viewing reactions of other users or a user himself or herself. [Solution] There is provided a client apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires a reaction of a viewing user to a content; an emotion estimation unit which estimates an emotion of a viewing user based on reaction information of the viewing user acquired by the acquisition unit; a determination unit that determines emotion expression data representing an emotion estimated by the emotion estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs emotion expression data determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Naoki Saito, Reiko Miyazaki, Takayuki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20160134938
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a display control device that can allow users who are concurrently watching and listening to content to know the scale of the users with ease and allow the users to smoothly communicate with the other users with ease. [Solution] There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Takayuki KANEKO, Yukihito ONO, Naoki SAITO, Seiji SUZUKI, Osamu SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20150363961
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an operation unit, and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, a data image representing the contents of temporally continuous data along a time axis. Here, when a gesture operation for cutting the data image perpendicularly to the time axis is performed through the operation unit, the control unit divides the data at a position on the time axis in accordance with the position cut by the gesture operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150355809
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation section; and a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through the operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and execute, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; the control section changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150347577
    Abstract: There is provided a communication terminal including an acquisition unit that acquires, from another communication terminal, meta-information associated with content stored in the other communication terminal, and a playlist management unit that manages a playlist which is shared with the other communication terminal and which is for playing back content corresponding to the meta-information acquired from the other communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Yasushi Okumura, Tomoo Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20150294137
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a person recognition unit that recognizes a person included in each of a plurality of captured images, an image evaluation unit that evaluates one or more captured image groups extracted from among the plurality of captured images, on the basis of a degree of appearance for each person of interest recognized by the person recognition unit, and an image selection unit that selects a captured image group having the highest result of the evaluation by the image evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Yasushi Okumura, Tomoo Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20150296031
    Abstract: There is provided a communication terminal including an information acquisition unit that acquires, from another communication terminal, first information that includes connection information for connecting to a communication service and identification information of a user of the other communication terminal, and an information generation unit that, on the basis of the first information acquired by the information acquisition unit, generates second information that includes the connection information and identification information of a user of the current terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Yasushi Okumura, Tomoo Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20150288779
    Abstract: There is provided a communication terminal including an acquisition unit that acquires service identification information associated with a communication service from an information processing device that manages shared content, a user identification information issuing unit that issues service user identification information associated with the service identification information to another communication terminal, and a transmission control unit that causes a communication unit to transmit the service identification information, and the service user identification information issued by the user identification information issuing unit to the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Okumura, Reiko Miyazaki, Tomoo Mizukami, Takeru Kaneko
  • Patent number: D766252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: D771060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida