Patents by Inventor Tatsuhito Tabuchi

Tatsuhito Tabuchi 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: 9143691
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing image, includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor selects a frame containing an image of a person's face from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium, generates a thumbnail image of a face region extracted from the selected frame and displays on the display unit a list of generated thumbnail images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ebato, Kenji Tsushio, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Kou Kobayashi, Yoshihito Okizaki, Shigeru Masuda
  • Patent number: 8897625
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: reading means for reading still image data from a recording medium on which the still image data are recorded in a predetermined order; display control means for displaying the still images read by the reading means; and still image accepting means for accepting commands regarding display of the still images, wherein when a command for a slideshow of the still images has been accepted by the still image accepting means with one of the still images under display, the reading means reads pieces of the still image data successively, starting with the still image data next to the still image data corresponding to the one under display, and the display control means displays still images corresponding to the still image data read by the reading means successively, following the one under display, whereby to make the slideshow display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Takeshi Harada, Yuji Saitou, Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Patent number: 8760554
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing image, includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor selects a frame containing an image of a person's face from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium, generates a thumbnail image of a face region extracted from the selected frame and displays on the display unit a list of generated thumbnail images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ebato, Kenji Tsushio, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Kou Kobayashi, Yoshihito Okizaki, Shigeru Masuda
  • Publication number: 20130335613
    Abstract: The total imaging time period and recorded volume of each image is displayed in association with the imaging date and time of the image. Information on the imaging dates and times and recorded volumes of images is acquired. A period setting part sets the period of a period display. An imaging start position deciding section decides the position corresponding to the imaging start date and time of each image in the period display. An imaging time length deciding section decides the display range of the imaging time length of each image in the period display. A recorded volume length deciding section decides the display range of the recorded volume length of each image. Based on these decision results, an imaging position display is created in which the imaging start positions, and the imaging time lengths or the recorded volumes, of the images are displayed relative to the period display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Mitsuo Okumura, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Takeshi Harada, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8612653
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of recording media, an operation unit receiving an operation from a user, a communication unit outputting data stored on the recording media to an external device, and a controller displaying, on a display unit, a setting screen for setting a mode for outputting data via the communication unit and to control the apparatus on the basis of information input on the setting screen. The controller displays, as the setting screen, a function selection screen enabling the user to simultaneously select a recording medium serving as a source from which data is output via the communication unit and a function to be executed. On the basis of information input on the function selection screen using the operation unit, the controller performs a setting operation to output data recorded on the selected recording medium in accordance with a communication mode based on the selected function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Nitta, Tatsuhito Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20130293739
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing image, includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor selects a frame containing an image of a person's face from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium, generates a thumbnail image of a face region extracted from the selected frame and displays on the display unit a list of generated thumbnail images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Satoshi EBATO, Kenji Tsushio, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Kou Kobayashi, Yoshihito Okizaki, Shigeru Masuda
  • Patent number: 8531575
    Abstract: The total imaging time period and recorded volume of each image is displayed in association with the imaging date and time of the image. An imaging information acquiring section acquires information on the imaging dates and times and recorded volumes of images. The acquired information is held in an index table. A period setting part sets the period of a period display. An imaging start position deciding section decides the position corresponding to the imaging start date and time of each image in the period display. An imaging time length deciding section decides the display range of the imaging time length of each image in the period display. A recorded volume length deciding section decides the display range of the recorded volume length of each image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Mitsuo Okumura, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Takeshi Harada, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8260090
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an image includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor generates a contracted image of an image selected at predetermined time intervals from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium and displays on the display unit a list of generated contracted images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ebato, Kenji Yoshida, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Kou Kobayashi, Yoshihito Okizaki, Shigeru Masuda
  • Patent number: 8077243
    Abstract: A video output device includes an OSD generation means for generating OSD (On Screen Display) for controlling the device itself, a detection means for detecting a connected state in which the device is connected to a prescribed external display device in a state realizing a mutual device control function which can perform control between devices mutually and a forced output means for outputting the OSD generated by the OSD generation means to the external display device forcibly and displaying the OSD on a display portion of the external display device regardless of any setting of the device when detecting the connected state by the detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Morita, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Mayumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7978225
    Abstract: An image recording/playback control apparatus includes a moving image capturing section capturing a moving image and generating moving image data; a still image capturing section capturing a still image and generating still image data; a still image information generation section generating still image information in which the moving image data and the still image data are associated with each other by an image-capturing time; moving and still image coding sections coding the moving and still image data, respectively; a recording section recording the coded moving and still image data; a separation section separating the coded moving and still image data; moving and still image decoding sections decoding the coded moving and still image data, respectively; a still image information indication section indicating the moving or still image data; a selection section selecting the moving and still image data; and a display control displaying the moving or still image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Yuji Saitou, Takeshi Harada, Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Publication number: 20110058086
    Abstract: The total imaging time period and recorded volume of each image is displayed in association with the imaging date and time of the image. An imaging information acquiring section acquires information on the imaging dates and times and recorded volumes of images. The acquired information is held in an index table. A period setting part sets the period of a period display. An imaging start position deciding section decides the position corresponding to the imaging start date and time of each image in the period display. An imaging time length deciding section decides the display range of the imaging time length of each image in the period display. A recorded volume length deciding section decides the display range of the recorded volume length of each image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Mitsuo Okumura, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Takeshi Harada, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7746384
    Abstract: An image data recorder coding a still image in accordance with a moving image coding system, and recording a still-image-converted moving image acquired by coding onto a recording medium includes: a reading unit reading out an aspect ratio set for the recording medium; a determining unit acquiring an aspect ratio of the still image, and determining whether the acquired aspect ratio is the same as the aspect ratio for the recording medium; a coding unit adding an interpolation area on the top and bottom, or left and right of the still image in accordance with the result of the determination to generate an interpolation-area-added still image whose aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio for the recording medium, and coding the interpolation-area-added still image in accordance with a moving image coding system to generate the still-image-converted moving image; and a recording unit recording the still-image-converted moving image onto the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Takeshi Harada, Tatsuhito Tabuchi
  • Patent number: 7742690
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for recording an imaging result on a recording medium includes an imaging device operable to obtain an imaging result; an optical system operable to form an optical image on an imaging plane of the imaging device; a first motion detector operable to detect a movement of the imaging apparatus and to output a detection result; and a recorder operable to record the imaging result, together with the detection result, on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Takeshi Harada, Yuji Saitou, Kenji Tsushio, Atsushi Okumura, Tetsuji Ogata
  • Publication number: 20090174818
    Abstract: A video output device includes an OSD generation means for generating OSD (On Screen Display) for controlling the device itself, a detection means for detecting a connected state in which the device is connected to a prescribed external display device in a state realizing a mutual device control function which can perform control between devices mutually and a forced output means for outputting the OSD generated by the OSD generation means to the external display device forcibly and displaying the OSD on a display portion of the external display device regardless of any setting of the device when detecting the connected state by the detection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Morita, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Mayumi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080226198
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an image includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor generates a contracted image of an image selected at predetermined time intervals from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium and displays on the display unit a list of generated contracted images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi EBATO, Kenji YOSHIDA, Tatsuhito TABUCHI, Kou KOBAYASHI, Yoshihito OKIZAKI, Shigeru MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20080225155
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing image, includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display unit for displaying the display data. The data processor selects a frame containing an image of a person's face from a scene as a moving image recording unit recorded on the recording medium, generates a thumbnail image of a face region extracted from the selected frame and displays on the display unit a list of generated thumbnail images arranged in a time-series order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ebato, Kenji Tsushio, Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Kou Kobayashi, Yoshihito Okizaki, Shigeru Masuda
  • Publication number: 20070162949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of recording media, an operation unit receiving an operation from a user, a communication unit outputting data stored on the recording media to an external device, and a controller displaying, on a display unit, a setting screen for setting a mode for outputting data via the communication unit and to control the apparatus on the basis of information input on the setting screen. The controller displays, as the setting screen, a function selection screen enabling the user to simultaneously select a recording medium serving as a source from which data is output via the communication unit and a function to be executed. On the basis of information input on the function selection screen using the operation unit, the controller performs a setting operation to output data recorded on the selected recording medium in accordance with a communication mode based on the selected function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Nitta, Tatsuhito Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20070147803
    Abstract: An image data recording apparatus that sets a video image aspect ratio for a recording medium according to a predetermined recording format includes a determining unit for determining whether the aspect ratio has been set for the recording medium, a selecting unit for allowing a user to select the aspect ratio to be set for the recording medium, a writing unit for writing the selected aspect ratio information in a predetermined area of the recording medium, a reading unit for reading out the aspect ratio information set for the recording medium, a setting unit for setting each unit of the image data recording apparatus according to the aspect ratio information written in the predetermined area of the recording medium or the read out aspect ratio information, and a forbidding unit for forbidding changing of the set aspect ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi HARADA, Yuji Saitou, Tatsuhito Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20070147793
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: reading means for reading still image data from a recording medium on which the still image data are recorded in a predetermined order; display control means for displaying the still images read by the reading means; and still image accepting means for accepting commands regarding display of the still images, wherein when a command for a slideshow of the still images has been accepted by the still image accepting means with one of the still images under display, the reading means reads pieces of the still image data successively, starting with the still image data next to the still image data corresponding to the one under display, and the display control means displays still images corresponding to the still image data read by the reading means successively, following the one under display, whereby to make the slideshow display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhito TABUCHI, Takeshi Harada, Yuji Saitou, Masahiro Takahashi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Publication number: 20070147790
    Abstract: An image data recorder coding a still image in accordance with a moving image coding system, and recording a still-image-converted moving image acquired by coding onto a recording medium includes: a reading unit reading out an aspect ratio set for the recording medium; a determining unit acquiring an aspect ratio of the still image, and determining whether the acquired aspect ratio is the same as the aspect ratio for the recording medium; a coding unit adding an interpolation area on the top and bottom, or left and right of the still image in accordance with the result of the determination to generate an interpolation-area-added still image whose aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio for the recording medium, and coding the interpolation-area-added still image in accordance with a moving image coding system to generate the still-image-converted moving image; and a recording unit recording the still-image-converted moving image onto the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Takeshi Harada, Tatsuhito Tabuchi