Patents by Inventor Takuro Noda

Takuro Noda 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).

  • Patent number: 8791962
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display section configured to display a first object in a virtual three-dimensional space having a depth direction of a display screen, an operation section configured to acquire an operation for moving the first object in at least the depth direction, and a controller configured to move the first object on the display screen in accordance with the acquired operation, to execute, when a region of the first object overlaps a first overlap determination region, a first process to one or both of the first and second objects, and to execute, when the region of the first object overlaps a second overlap determination region, a second process to one or both of the first and second objects. The first overlap determination region may be a region obtained by extending the second overlap determination region in at least the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8780075
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an input position acquisition unit, a depressing force acquisition unit and an input control unit. An input position acquisition unit obtains an input position detected with respect to an input operation. A depressing force acquisition unit obtains a depressing force detected with respect to the input operation. An input control unit fixes the input position as a position of an input candidate in response to a timing at which an increase amount of the depressing force has exceeded a first threshold value, at a stage prior to an input candidate determination operation of determining the input candidate as input information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Takuro Noda, Tetsuo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8726153
    Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the contents, a content arranging unit configured to arrange the contents based on time information possessed by the contents, a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between adjacent contents in terms of time based on the time information possessed by the contents, a display position setting unit configured to set a position of each content along a time axis based on the time difference between the contents, the display position setting unit determining whether the time difference between the contents is larger than a predetermined value, and a content display unit configured to display the plurality of contents based on position information on the time axis along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa
  • Patent number: 8659649
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Takuro Noda, Akiko Terayama, Eijiro Mori, Kenichi Okada, Atsushi Koshiyama
  • Publication number: 20140033100
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an imaging section configured to image an object, a display section configured to display at least an icon for controlling the imaging section, an operation section configured to acquire a first operation and a second operation on the icon, and a controller configured to, when the operation section has acquired the first operation, set a timer in accordance with an operation amount of the first operation and change a display of the icon on the display section in accordance with a progress of the timer, and to, when the operation section has acquired the second operation or when the timer has expired, cause the imaging section to image the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro NODA, Yasushi OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 8578286
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an imaging section configured to image an object, a display section configured to display at least an icon for controlling the imaging section, an operation section configured to acquire a first operation and a second operation on the icon, and a controller configured to, when the operation section has acquired the first operation, set a timer in accordance with an operation amount of the first operation and change a display of the icon on the display section in accordance with a progress of the timer, and to, when the operation section has acquired the second operation or when the timer has expired, cause the imaging section to image the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Yasushi Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130088426
    Abstract: There is provided a gesture recognition device that recognizes a gesture of shielding the front side of the imaging sensor, the gesture recognition device including a first detection unit that detects a change in a captured image between a state in which a front side of an imaging sensor is not shielded and a state in which the front side of the imaging sensor is shielded, and a second detection unit that detects a region in which a gradient of a luminance value of the captured image is less than a threshold value in the captured image in the state in which the front side of the imaging sensor is shielded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20130010003
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a display control unit that controls displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user; and a state information acquiring unit that acquires state information representing a rear surface side state of the display, wherein the display control unit changes the displaying on the display in response to the state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yasushi Okumura, Takuro Noda, Qihong Wang
  • Publication number: 20130009921
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a display control unit that controls display of a reflective first display member and a self-emitting second display member that is provided in superimposition on a display surface of the first display member, has higher rewriting responsiveness than that of the first display member, and may transmit display of the first display member, wherein, when predetermined information is displayed on the first display member and the second display member, the display control unit performs predetermined display control on the first display member in an area corresponding to an area in which the second display member displays information or on the second display member in an area corresponding to an area in which the first display member displays information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yasushi Okumura, Takuro Noda, Qihong Wang
  • Publication number: 20130009956
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus controlling display of a transmissive display which includes a screen configured to transmit light arriving from an object located on a side of a first surface so that the object is viewable from a viewpoint position set on a side of a second surface which is an opposite surface to the first surface and which displays a display object to be stereoscopically viewed. The display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a relative positional relation between the transmissive display and the object, and a display control unit that changes, in accordance with a change in the relative positional relation in the position information, a depth of the display object from the screen perceived from the viewpoint position, the display object being displayed to be stereoscopically viewed by the transmissive display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20130009863
    Abstract: A display control apparatus controls display of a transparent display which includes a screen configured to transmit light arriving from an object located on a side of a second surface so that the object is viewable from a viewpoint located on a side of a first surface which is an opposite surface to the second surface. The display control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating relative positional relations between the transparent display and the viewpoint and between the transparent display and the object; and a display control unit that controls the display of the transparent display based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20120313896
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an object in a space and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a reference object such that the reference object appears to be located in the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro NODA
  • Publication number: 20120317510
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a detecting unit that detects a pinch operation of a user, and a control unit that determines a stereoscopic object as an object to be selected, when a pinch position by the detected pinch operation corresponds to a perceived position of the stereoscopic object by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: TAKURO NODA, KAZUYUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120300086
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an image pickup unit photographing a subject; a movement detecting unit detecting changes in movement of a subject photographed by the image pickup unit; a data generating unit generating first timing data relating to change timing at which the movement detecting unit detected a change in the movement; a receiving unit receiving second timing data, which relates to change timing when movement of a subject photographed by another apparatus was detected, from the other apparatus during photographing by the image pickup unit; and a determining unit determining, based on the first timing data generated by the data generating unit and the second timing data received by the receiving unit, whether the subject photographed by the image pickup unit and the subject photographed by the other apparatus are the same or a similar subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Ken MIYASHITA, Osamu SHIGETA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATO, Kazuyuki YAMATOMO, Takuro NODA
  • Patent number: 8321897
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling the transmission of contents among a plurality of audio/video (AV) devices by using a general purpose network In case of transmitting the contents held in a first device (source) to a second device (sink) by way of a designated transmission path, information relating to the transfer protocol for transmitting the contents is added to each content when the contents information held in the first device is disclosed to a controller on the network. Transmission management is performed based on the information on the transfer protocol added to each content when starting transmission of the contents between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Tatsuya Igarashi, Yukihiko Aoki, Takuro Noda, Hisato Shima
  • Publication number: 20120256856
    Abstract: A method is provided for issuing a command for executing a process according to a selected input. The method comprises receiving input data corresponding to operating member inputs from a plurality of input units. The method further comprises selecting one of the inputs based on priorities assigned to the input units. The method also comprises issuing a command for executing a process according to the selected input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Takuro NODA, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20120256963
    Abstract: A method is provided for generating a command for executing a process according to analyzed input data. The method comprises calculating a movement speed of a plurality of operating members based on input data corresponding to input operations of the operating members. The method further comprises analyzing the input data based on the movement speed. The method also comprises generating a command for executing a process according to the analyzed input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Takuro Noda, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20120249527
    Abstract: A display control device includes, a calculation unit which calculates difference information which denotes a deviation between a predetermined first direction and a second direction from which a user views a stereoscopic image, a transformation unit which transforms the stereoscopic image on the basis of the difference information; and a display control unit which displays the transformed stereoscopic image on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro NODA
  • Publication number: 20120249582
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a changing unit changing a two-dimensional location representing locations in a horizontal direction and an orthogonal direction of each of a plurality of objects having different depths for a display screen of a display unit according to a direction in which a user views the display unit; a transparency adjusting unit for adjusting transparency for each of the plurality of objects; and a display control unit for displaying the plurality of objects in which the two-dimensional location is changed and the transparency is adjusted on the display unit, so as to overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro NODA
  • Publication number: 20120182257
    Abstract: A positional information correction device includes a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information showing a position of an operation body, which is detected by a position detection unit, from a touch sensor that includes a plurality of first electrodes wired along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes wired along a second direction, and the position detection unit that detects the position of the operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on capacitance on the first and second electrodes, a capacitance value acquisition unit configured to acquire a capacitance value showing a value of the capacitance on the first and second electrodes from the touch sensor, and a positional information correction unit configured to correct the positional information by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Takuro NODA, Ikuo YAMANO