Patents by Inventor Shimon Sakai
Shimon Sakai 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: 20210165540Abstract: An information processing device includes a designation generation unit that generates a plurality of designations based on an official name of a predetermined item, a selection unit that selects at least one designation in a case where the item is displayed as recommendation information, and a display control unit that displays the selected designation together with information indicating the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazunori Araki, Shimon Sakai
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Publication number: 20200279006Abstract: More beneficial recommendation information at a timing suitable for a state of the user is provided. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a presentation control unit configured to control presentation of recommendation information to a user on the basis of a recommendation score regarding content, in which the presentation control unit controls presentation of the recommendation information further on the basis of an acceptability score calculated from matching between a content situation regarding the content and a user situation regarding the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: MITSUHIRO MIYAZAKI, SHIMON SAKAI, KAZUNORI ARAKI, SHOSUKE MOMOTANI
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Patent number: 10674216Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20180288487Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 9918133Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 8880695Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Yuji Ishimura, Keiichi Aoyama, Naoki Ode, Masayuki Ebata, Tadashi Ehara
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Patent number: 8788567Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing the external apparatus to execute a selected function with respect to a selected program content.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Masayuki Ebata, Naoki Ode, Keiichi Aoyama
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Patent number: 8239894Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. A plurality of representation images individually representing different selection object items are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen. A noticed representation image selected from among the representation images is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image. If a scrolling information for the array of representation images is issued, then scrolling is executed such that explanation information also of the representation images other than the noticed representation image is displayed. Further, a bar display including a mark representing the position and the group of the noticed representation image in the array of representation images is displayed together.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20120183273Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Patent number: 8160724Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
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Publication number: 20110040551Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
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Patent number: 7853334Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
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Publication number: 20100121900Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing the external apparatus to execute a selected function with respect to a selected program content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Masayuki Ebata, Naoki Ode, Keiichi Aoyama
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Patent number: 7703043Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. Plural first icons representing first items of a high hierarchy are arrayed along a direction of a display screen, and plural second icons representing second items of a low hierarchy which belong to a selected one of the first items are arrayed along an intersecting direction with the selected first item positioned at the intersecting position. The selected noticed icon from among the plural second icons is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed item icon is displayed in the proximity of the display position of the noticed icon. In response to a scrolling instruction, scrolling is executed while explanation information of the second icons other than the noticed item icon is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20100040212Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an external device's information obtaining unit for obtaining external device's information containing held function's information on functions held by an external device from the network-connected external device; an application obtaining unit for obtaining an application used for utilizing a function requested to be executed by the external device from a network-connected application providing server, the function being contained in the held function's information; and an external device's function execution request unit for requesting the external device to execute a function held by the external device based on the obtained external device's information and the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Keiichi Aoyama, Naoki Ode, Masayuki Ebata
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Publication number: 20090138542Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Yuji Ishimura, Keiichi Aoyama, Naoki Ode, Masayuki Ebata, Tadashi Ehara
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Publication number: 20070093914Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
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Publication number: 20070044098Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing an application includes system state transition managing means for managing a transition of a state which depends on a system on which the application can operate, application state transition managing means for defining the state transition of the application using a primitive element so as to manage the state transition of the application, and instruction sending/receiving means for storing information indicating a relationship between instructions each recognizable by the system state transition managing means or the application state transition managing means and, on the basis of the information, executing sending/receiving of the instructions to and from the system state transition managing means and the application state transition managing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: February 22, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuji Ishimura, Kazumi Hirano, Ryoichi Imaizumi, Naoki Ode, Shimon Sakai
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Publication number: 20060024021Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
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Publication number: 20060020970Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. A plurality of representation images individually representing different selection object items are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen. A noticed representation image selected from among the representation images is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image. If a scrolling information for the array of representation images is issued, then scrolling is executed such that explanation information also of the representation images other than the noticed representation image is displayed. Further, a bar display including a mark representing the position and the group of the noticed representation image in the array of representation images is displayed together.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano