Patents by Inventor Shunichi KUSANO

Shunichi KUSANO 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).

  • Information input apparatus
    Patent number: 10175858
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kusano
  • INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170364217
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichi KUSANO
  • Information input apparatus
    Patent number: 9766780
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kusano
  • Information processing control device
    Patent number: 9104310
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes a display, a touch panel that detects a gesture operation, a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations, and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Mukai, Shunichi Kusano
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140333567
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes a display, a touch panel that detects a gesture operation, a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations, and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicants: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki MUKAI, Shunichi KUSANO
  • Information processing control device
    Patent number: 8854324
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes a display, a touch panel that detects a gesture operation, a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations, and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Mukai, Shunichi Kusano
  • INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140157126
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Shunichi KUSANO
  • Information input apparatus
    Patent number: 8704789
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kusano
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120293427
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes a display, a touch panel that detects a gesture operation, a memory that stores a correlation between each of a plurality of effects that can be applied to an object displayed on the display and one of a plurality of gesture operations, and a processor that applies one of the plurality of effects that corresponds to the detected gesture operation to an object displayed on the display, and controls the display to display the object to which the one of the plurality effects is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Mukai, Shunichi Kusano
  • INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120206382
    Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Shunichi KUSANO