Patents by Inventor Yoshitake Matsumoto

Yoshitake Matsumoto 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: 9471649
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting search results. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a search engine results page in a first presentation mode or a second presentation mode, wherein, in the first presentation mode and the second presentation mode, the search engine results page includes (i) a text region that displays textual information relating to one or more search results that are responsive to a search query and (ii) an image region, wherein, in the first presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to two or more of the search results that are responsive to the search query, and wherein, in the second presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to a single search result that is responsive to the search query; and receiving a user input, then switching the search engine results page between the first presentation mode and the second presentation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Dragan Zivkovic, Yoshitake Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8484187
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for presenting search results. A method includes displaying a search engine results page in a first or a second presentation mode, wherein, in the first and in the second presentation modes, the search engine results page includes (i) a text region that displays textual information relating to one or more search results that are responsive to a search query and (ii) an image region, wherein, in the first presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to two or more of the search results that are responsive to the search query, and wherein, in the second presentation mode, the image region displays contextual information relating to a single search result that is responsive to the search query; and receiving user input, then switching the search engine results page between the first and second presentation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Dragan Zivkovic, Yoshitake Matsumoto