Patents by Inventor Tatsunobu Koike

Tatsunobu Koike 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: 20070258005
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus may include a function holding unit configured to hold functions of the image capturing apparatus, the functions being classified into corresponding categories; an identifier holding unit configured to hold category identifiers indicating the categories and function identifiers indicating the functions; a category display control unit configured to allow the category identifiers to be displayed along the horizontal direction; a function display control unit configured to allow the function identifiers corresponding to the category to be operated in accordance with an operation input to be displayed along the vertical direction; and an operation accepting unit configured to accept an operation input for selecting one of the function identifiers displayed by the function display control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunobu Koike, Yuuji Takimoto, Noriaki Nakagawa, Masahiro Takahashi, Kayo Sasaki