Patents by Inventor Sadamichi Bamba

Sadamichi Bamba 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: 20230139463
    Abstract: A terminal device is caused to execute an event data management process that performs a process for storing image data received via communication with an imaging device and additional information containing at least rating information corresponding to the image data, both as event data associated with a specific event, and an update process for updating the event data according to operation input, a user interface control process that controls presentation of images and the rating information associated with the event data of the specific event, and detects the operation input, and a communication control process that controls communication for synchronizing the event data of the terminal device with event data of a server device disposed outside, according to storage or update of the event data of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki Murata, Ayako Chiba, Haruka Kawata, Ryoko Kato, Shin Hasegawa, Ryo Suzuki, Sadamichi Bamba, Akira Inamura, Satoshi Asai, Chikako Yoshinaka, Taku Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8700732
    Abstract: A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Akira Ando, Muneaki Osawa, Hiroshi Aruga, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kazuo Yamaoka, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8437613
    Abstract: A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Muneaki Osawa, Kazuo Yamaoka, Hiroshi Aruga, Akira Ando, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8300972
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting a subject area having a predetermined feature in an image; a first calculation section calculating a first blur degree indicating a blur degree of the extracted subject area; a second calculation section calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is one, a second blur degree indicating a blur degree of the entire image based on the first blur degree, and calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is plural, the second blur degree based on a value obtained by performing weighted averaging on the plural first blur degrees in accordance with dimensions of the plural subject areas; and a sorting section sorting an image having the calculated second blur degree equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, as a blur image, from plural images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hosaka, Kosuke Kimura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Kazuma Igari, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Okumura, Akira Kikuchi, Hidefumi Kashima
  • Patent number: 8238667
    Abstract: A moving image creating apparatus includes a memory that stores a plurality of template files each of which holds a plurality of component templates each for accommodating an image. An input device that selects any one of the template files stored in the memory. A processing unit analyzes metadata about each of a plurality of images. The processing unit analyzes metadata about each of the component templates in the selected template file. Further, the processing unit places the images into the component templates of the selected template file in accordance with the analyzed metadata about the images and the analyzed metadata about the component templates and places one of the images into one of the component templates of the selected template file, in response to a determination that none of the metadata about each of the images matches the analyzed metadata about the one of the component templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hosaka, Kosuke Kimura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Mitsuo Okumura, Yukiko Sakata, Shinji Kimura, Sadamichi Bamba
  • Publication number: 20110116726
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting a subject area having a predetermined feature in an image; a first calculation section calculating a first blur degree indicating a blur degree of the extracted subject area; a second calculation section calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is one, a second blur degree indicating a blur degree of the entire image based on the first blur degree, and calculating, when the number of subject areas from which the first blur degree is calculated is plural, the second blur degree based on a value obtained by performing weighted averaging on the plural first blur degrees in accordance with dimensions of the plural subject areas; and a sorting section sorting an image having the calculated second blur degree equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, as a blur image, from plural images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi HOSAKA, Kosuke Kimura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Kazuma Igari, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Okumura, Akira Kikuchi, Hidefumi Kashima
  • Publication number: 20100180008
    Abstract: A disc reproducing apparatus includes: program readout means for playing back a disc loaded therein to read a program recorded thereon; disc-content readout means for executing the read program to read a content recorded on the disc; network-content acquisition means for executing the read program to acquire a content stored in a device connected over a network; and display control means for executing the read program to control display of the content read from the disc, and the content acquired from the device connected over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Akira Ando, Muneaki Osawa, Hiroshi Aruga, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kazuo Yamaoka, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20100166390
    Abstract: A content display control apparatus includes control functions, in which, a content is obtained, data associated with a character string corresponding to the content is obtained, the character string associated with the data is segmented into a line in accordance with a criterion determined in advance, a display duration time of the character string is set on a line-by-line basis, the segmented line is sequentially superimposed and displayed in accordance with the corresponding display duration time set thereby, the number of characters included in the segmented line is counted, a period of time corresponding to the counted number of characters is calculated, the calculated period of time is set as the display duration time corresponding to the segmented line, and subsequent to completion of displaying of the segmented line of the character string corresponding to the obtained content, a different content is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Fukuya, Muneaki Osawa, Kazuo Yamaoka, Hiroshi Aruga, Akira Ando, Eriko Matsumura, Fuyuki Matsuyama, Nobuhiro Inoue, Sadamichi Bamba, Yukiko Akiyama, Shinya Miyoshi