Patents by Inventor Takatoshi Nakamura

Takatoshi Nakamura 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: 20080032269
    Abstract: A method of generating a table in which data having time or period information is laid out at corresponding positions along a chronological axis includes the steps of displaying a table generating screen including a table generating area; displaying the chronological axis in the table generating area; obtaining a plurality of pieces of the data according to a selecting instruction; and generating the table by laying out the plurality of pieces of the data in the table generating area along the chronological axis on the basis of the time or period information of the individual pieces of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuichi Abe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Itaru Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20080024444
    Abstract: A display scrolling method for scrolling content displayed on a display screen of a display device according to a user operation includes the steps of, when a pointer of a pointing device is started to be dragged, calculating an amount of scrolling of the content to be scrolled with respect to a unit amount of movement of the pointer on the basis of a distance between the position of the pointer and a predetermined reference point; and displaying the content by scrolling the content displayed on the display screen by the determined amount of scrolling in a direction associated with a moving direction of the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Abe, Yoichiro Sako, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080022199
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information presentation method for presenting specific information in a basic presentation frame image on a display, the method comprising the steps of: indicating a time axis in the basic presentation frame image in one direction of the basic presentation frame image; providing a presentation area extended along the time axis in the basic presentation frame image; and presenting the specific information in the presentation area at a location along the time axis indicated by and corresponding to chronological information pertained to the specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Motoyuki Takai
  • Publication number: 20070261538
    Abstract: A method of retrieving and selecting content includes the steps of detecting a motion tempo of a user; determining whether a time during which the detected motion tempo is continuously outside a threshold range of the motion tempo corresponding to content being played back exceeds a waiting time that is set or calculated; and retrieving and selecting content suitable for the motion tempo of the user if the motion tempo of the user is outside the threshold range for a time period longer than the waiting time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki Takai, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Akihiro Komori, Akane Sano, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Hirofumi Tamori, Kenichi Makino, Takatoshi Nakamura, Susumu Takatsuka, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20070262990
    Abstract: An information providing method includes a step of setting a relative chronological scale having a reference year set to be a calendar year designated as a birth year or a calendar year of a birth year calculated from a designated age, creating a chronology in which pieces of information related to individual eras on the relative chronological scale are indicated, and displaying the created chronology on a display, and a step of changing a range of era presented on the display of the chronology in response to a change instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Terauchi, Toru Sasaki, Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20070245267
    Abstract: A content-retrieval device includes first and second operation units, a display unit, storage storing contents, and a control circuit. The control circuit shows at least two thumbnails of the contents stored in the storage and an image of a mark indicating one of the thumbnails on the display unit, performs filtering, when showing the thumbnails, for the shown thumbnails under a predetermined selection condition, changes the strength of the selection condition under which the filtering is performed when the first operation unit is operated, and changes the thumbnail indicated by the mark image to another of the thumbnails when the second operation unit is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Mitsuru Takehara, Toru Sasaki, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi
  • Publication number: 20070237136
    Abstract: A method of using contents includes the steps of setting public time information and private time information, the public time information being associated with each content and defined universally for use by a large number of unspecified users, the private time being associated with the content and defined for use by a small number of particular persons, and searching for a content according to the public time information and/or the private time information and using the content detected in the searching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toru Sasaki, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Toshiro Terauchi, Motoyuki Takai
  • Publication number: 20070223037
    Abstract: A content list display method includes the step of displaying a list of private content owned by a user and public content not owned by the user on a screen by using a predetermined common attribute as a search key attribute for search and display such that a difference between the private content and the public content can be visually recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Sasaki, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Mitsuru Takehara
  • Publication number: 20070221045
    Abstract: A playback device includes a storing unit storing a contents database in which contents including at least music and tempo information indicating the tempo of the music are correlated with each other; a playback unit for performing playback of the contents; a tempo measuring unit for measuring an exercise tempo obtained along with the body movements of a user; a searching unit for searching contents from the contents database based on the information of the measured exercise tempo by the tempo measuring unit; and a contents selecting unit for selecting the contents searched by the searching unit as contents to be played by the playback unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Terauchi, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Susumu Takatsuka, Yoichiro Sako, Hirofumi Tamori, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Motoyuki Takai, Kenichi Makino, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Komori, Akane Sano
  • Publication number: 20070223878
    Abstract: A video playback apparatus includes a thumbnail creating unit for creating thumbnail image data for a video file, and a user operation unit for receiving an instruction from a user. The thumbnail creating unit divides a total playback duration time T of the video file into 2ˆn intervals and creates the thumbnail image data from the first frame of each of the divided intervals. The thumbnail creating unit then supplies the created thumbnail image data to an image displaying unit to display thumbnail images. Upon the user operation unit receiving a first predetermined operation, the thumbnail creating unit increments the value n by 1 to increase the number of thumbnail images. Upon the user operation unit receiving a second predetermined operation, the thumbnail creating unit decrements the value n by 1 to decrease the number of thumbnail image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Abe, Toru Sasaki, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070220431
    Abstract: A data display apparatus includes: an extraction condition setting section that sets, based on an original data row where a plurality of data are arranged in a predetermined order, an extraction condition of extraction data that is to be displayed on a predetermined display section; and an extraction data display section that displays, out of an extraction data row where the extraction data extracted from the original data row based on the extraction condition are arranged in the predetermined order, the extraction data that are within a predetermined range in a predetermined display size on the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Yoichiro Sako, Toru Sasaki, Toshiro Terauchi, Katsuya Shirai, Mitsuru Takehara, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20070208770
    Abstract: A music content playback apparatus includes: a selection section that selects a piece of music content out of a plurality of pieces of music content; a recognition section that recognizes playback elapse state about a previous piece of music content played immediately before the piece of music content is selected; and a playback section that plays back the selected piece of music content from a playback point corresponding to the playback elapse state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yuichi Abe, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Mitsuru Takehara, Katsuya Shirai, Toru Sasaki, Toshiro Terauchi
  • Publication number: 20070192786
    Abstract: A method of transmitting, receiving and reproducing a content, includes steps of transmitting content data of the content from a transmitting terminal to a receiving and reproducing terminal constructing a network together with the transmitting terminal, determining whether a predetermined reproducing permission condition is satisfied, and controlling reproduction to limit or inhibit the reproduction of the content data on the receiving and reproducing terminal if the determination result in the determining step shows that the predetermined reproducing permission condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki Takai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masamichi Asukai, Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: D551652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D559882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D559883
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D560245
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D560246
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D560523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D560524
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura