Patents by Inventor Yuji Ishimura

Yuji Ishimura 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: 10674216
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20180288487
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Patent number: 9918133
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Patent number: 8880695
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Yuji Ishimura, Keiichi Aoyama, Naoki Ode, Masayuki Ebata, Tadashi Ehara
  • Publication number: 20130151544
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing content data may include a memory. The apparatus may also include a buffer controller, which may be configured to overwrite recorded content data stored in the memory with new content data. The buffer controller may also be configured to receive a command signal indicative of a search request. Additionally, the buffer controller may be configured to, in response to the command signal, stop the overwriting. In addition, the apparatus may include a result display unit, which may be configured to generate a display signal to cause display of information regarding content represented by at least a portion of the recorded content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Ishimura, Masaki Yoshimura, Masaki Ito, Toshihiko Matsumoto, Takahiro Chiba
  • Patent number: 8239894
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. A plurality of representation images individually representing different selection object items are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen. A noticed representation image selected from among the representation images is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image. If a scrolling information for the array of representation images is issued, then scrolling is executed such that explanation information also of the representation images other than the noticed representation image is displayed. Further, a bar display including a mark representing the position and the group of the noticed representation image in the array of representation images is displayed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20120183273
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Patent number: 8160724
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
  • Publication number: 20110040551
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
  • Patent number: 7853334
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
  • Patent number: 7703043
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. Plural first icons representing first items of a high hierarchy are arrayed along a direction of a display screen, and plural second icons representing second items of a low hierarchy which belong to a selected one of the first items are arrayed along an intersecting direction with the selected first item positioned at the intersecting position. The selected noticed icon from among the plural second icons is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed item icon is displayed in the proximity of the display position of the noticed icon. In response to a scrolling instruction, scrolling is executed while explanation information of the second icons other than the noticed item icon is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20090138542
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information; a selected-information acquiring section that acquires selected information pertaining to a function selected by a user from the list of the functions displayed by the display section; and a coordinate function executing section that causes the external device to execute the function selected by the user. Such a configuration provides the information processing apparatus designed such that even if the information processing apparatus and the external device do not have information about each other, the function of the external device can be executed by operating the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Yuji Ishimura, Keiichi Aoyama, Naoki Ode, Masayuki Ebata, Tadashi Ehara
  • Publication number: 20070168983
    Abstract: A test management program causes a computer to execute a process, the process including selecting from among modules prepared for a plurality of platforms, a distribution definition holding module that holds a distribution definition of an event and a distribution module that distributes the event, according to a platform on which an application to be tested runs; causing the distribution module to distribute the event to the application to be tested according to the distribution definition held by the selected distribution definition holding module; and estimating the state of the application to which the event is distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Ishimura
  • Publication number: 20070093914
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second control means has state transition control means for defining states of application not dependent on the system and controlling transitions of the defined states and conversion means for converting a command into a format which can be recognized by the system when the command instructing a state transition to the state transition control means is issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shimon Sakai, Naoki Ode, Tomohiro Taira, Yuji Ishimura
  • Publication number: 20070044036
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of handling a plurality of content. The apparatus includes: a display information generator adapted to generate display information related to each of the content; a state manager adapted to manage a display state of the display information; a display layer manager adapted to manage a display layer of the display information; and a display controller adapted to control display of the display information on the basis of the display state managed by the state manager and the display layer of the display information managed by the display layer manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Yuji Ishimura, Satoshi Kanda
  • Publication number: 20070044098
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing an application includes system state transition managing means for managing a transition of a state which depends on a system on which the application can operate, application state transition managing means for defining the state transition of the application using a primitive element so as to manage the state transition of the application, and instruction sending/receiving means for storing information indicating a relationship between instructions each recognizable by the system state transition managing means or the application state transition managing means and, on the basis of the information, executing sending/receiving of the instructions to and from the system state transition managing means and the application state transition managing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Ishimura, Kazumi Hirano, Ryoichi Imaizumi, Naoki Ode, Shimon Sakai
  • Publication number: 20060038744
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus for updating a display state of an object for movement with a predetermined period. The display control apparatus includes: a setting section for setting a final state as a final target display state of the object; a calculation section for calculating an update amount of display state at next update timing from a different between the final state set by the setting section and a current state as a current display state of the object; and an update section for updating the display state of the object based on the update amount of display state calculated by the calculation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventor: Yuji Ishimura
  • Publication number: 20060024021
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20060020970
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. A plurality of representation images individually representing different selection object items are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen. A noticed representation image selected from among the representation images is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image. If a scrolling information for the array of representation images is issued, then scrolling is executed such that explanation information also of the representation images other than the noticed representation image is displayed. Further, a bar display including a mark representing the position and the group of the noticed representation image in the array of representation images is displayed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20060020969
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item upon scrolling. Plural first icons representing first items of a high hierarchy are arrayed along a direction of a display screen, and plural second icons representing second items of a low hierarchy which belong to a selected one of the first items are arrayed along an intersecting direction with the selected first item positioned at the intersecting position. The selected noticed icon from among the plural second icons is displayed emphatically at a fixed position on the display screen, and explanation information of the noticed item icon is displayed in the proximity of the display position of the noticed icon. In response to a scrolling instruction, scrolling is executed while explanation information of the second icons other than the noticed item icon is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano