Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160129344 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSOR, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processor determines data content to be transmitted and a destination device to which to transmit the data on the basis of the posture of the information processor identified on the basis of detection results of a sensor adapted to detect the posture thereof, a control method of an information processor, a program, and an information storage medium. A game process execution section determines a transmission destination device on the basis of the posture of the information processor identified on the basis of detection results of the sensor. A missile data generation section determines data content to be transmitted to the transmission destination device on the basis of the posture of the information processor identified on the basis of detection results of the sensor at a time different from when the transmission destination device is determined. A missile data transmission section transmits the data to the transmission destination device. | 05-12-2016 |
20160112762 | MEDIA FINGERPRINTING FOR CONTENT DETERMINATION AND RETRIEVAL - Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110589 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an image acquirer acquiring a shot image of a user; a registered user information holder holding face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication carrying out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; an information processing section executing information processing on a basis of an authentication result by the face authentication section; a face identification data registration section updating the face identification data on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image; and a provisionally-registered data holder temporarily holding data relating to the face image when the face image satisfies a predetermined condition. The face identification data registration section determines whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110588 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user from an imaging device; a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication section configured to execute authentication processing of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; a shooting condition controller configured to adjust a shooting condition to bring a characteristic of the face image close to a characteristic of a face image of an acquisition source of the face identification data and make the imaging device perform shooting in order to improve an authentication result in the face authentication section; and an information processing section configured to execute information processing on the basis of an authentication result of a face image obtained by adjustment. | 04-21-2016 |
20160109957 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND APPLICATION EXECUTION METHOD - A recording unit records an event list in which time information and physical solid image information are associated with an event. An image processing portion determines whether an image corresponding to physical solid image information recorded in the recording unit is included in a picked up image picked up within a time zone specified by the time information recorded in the recording unit. A condition determination portion determines that an event starting condition is satisfied if it is determined that the image corresponding to the physical solid image information is included in the picked up image. A starting instruction portion instructs an application execution section to execute processing of the application. The application execution section starts processing of the application associated with the event whose starting condition is satisfied. | 04-21-2016 |
20160030845 | POSITION-DEPENDENT GAMING, 3-D CONTROLLER, AND HANDHELD AS A REMOTE - Methods and systems for using a position of a mobile device with an integrated display as an input to a video game or other presentation are presented. Embodiments include rendering an avatar on a mobile device such that it appears to overlay a competing user in the real world. Using the mobile device's position, view direction, and the other user's mobile device position, an avatar (or vehicle, etc.) is depicted at an apparently inertially stabilized location of the other user's mobile device or body. Some embodiments may estimate the other user's head and body positions and angles and reflect them in the avatar's gestures. | 02-04-2016 |
20160006797 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing system capable of controlling a user s own name disclosed to other user in accordance with the relationship with the other user. A user management server stores, for each of a plurality of users, an identification name adapted to identify the user in association with a restricted disclosure name registered by the user and information identifying a user entitled to disclosure to whom the disclosure of the restricted disclosure name is permitted. The user management server receives a request for acquisition of name information of a requested user including information identifying a requesting user from a client device. The user management server transmits the restricted disclosure name of the requested user as a reply to the acquisition request if the requesting user is registered as a user entitled to disclosure of the requested user. If not, the user management server transmits the identification name of the requested user. The client device shows the transmitted name information of the requested user on a display screen. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004894 | READER FOR RFID TAG FOR NEAR-FIELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND NEAR-FIELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a reader for a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part. | 01-07-2016 |
20150370456 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A screen generating unit | 12-24-2015 |
20150362826 | CAMERA AND CAMERA ASSEMBLY - A main body of a camera accommodates a light receiving part. The main body has a flat bottom surface. A support is aligned with the main body in a left-right direction, and supports the main body in such a manner that an orientation of the light receiving part can be controlled in a vertical direction. A bottom surface of the support is located on a common plane on which a bottom surface of the main body is also located. The bottom surface of the support can be attached to and detached from a stand member which is mounted to a display device. This camera promises enhanced stability of mounting of the camera to an edge of a display device. | 12-17-2015 |
20150358679 | MEDIA FINGERPRITING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify media, such as movies, television shows, and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user then can share this information with other users, such as by uploading to a social networking site or passing the information to peers on a peer network as part of a container. Users can have the ability to add tagged content, provide comments and ratings, and otherwise interact based at least in part upon the tagged media content. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356018 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FILE - A media drive is loaded with a ROM medium on which a plurality of files constituting an application are recorded. A readout block reads out data from the media drive. A memory temporarily stores the read-out data. A providing block provides the data stored in the memory to game software. A recording processing block records the data stored in the memory in an auxiliary storage device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150352447 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A game system that can offer motivation promoting participation to players is provided. An information processing device accepts an investment instruction to specify any of plural game players as an investment-target player from an investor player and records a play result of a game by the investment-target player. Furthermore, the information processing device decides investment performance of the investor player according to the play result of the game recorded about the investment-target player specified by the investor player. | 12-10-2015 |
20150339805 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging device includes a first camera and a second camera and shoots the same object under different shooting conditions. A shot-image data acquirer of an image analyzer acquires data of two images simultaneously shot from the imaging device. A correcting section aligns the distributions of the luminance value between the two images by carrying out correction for either one of the two images. A correction table managing section switches and generates a correction table to be used according to the function implemented by the information processing device. A correction table storage stores the correction table showing the correspondence relationship between the luminance values before and after correction. A depth image generator performs stereo matching by using the two images and generates a depth image. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334448 | Information Processing Apparatus, Tuner, And Information Processing Method - Methods and apparatus provide for: displaying a program guide on a display device, the program guide being such that respective program frames for a plurality of programs are arranged in a display area having a time axis of one or more time slots and a channel axis; displaying a cursor on the display device and allowing a user to move the cursor, highlight desired ones of the program frames, and select from among the plurality of programs in the program guide; and displaying detailed program information regarding content of one of the programs of one of the program frames that is highlighted and/or selected by the user via the cursor, where the detailed information is displayed by enlarging the one of the program frames as compared with others of the program frames. | 11-19-2015 |
20150326547 | METHOD FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION USING ASYMMETRIC & SYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION OVER INSECURE COMMUNICATIONS - Data may be protected using a combination of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. A symmetric key may be generated and the data may be encrypted with the symmetric key. The symmetric key and a only a portion of the symmetrically encrypted data may then be encrypted with an asymmetric public key. The entire set of encrypted data, including the asymmetrically encrypted symmetric key, the doubly encrypted portion of data, and the remainder of the symmetrically encrypted data may then be sent to a remote device using insecure communications. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325116 | SCHEME FOR EMBEDDING A CONTROL SIGNAL IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING PSEUDO WHITE NOISE - A method includes generating an audio signal, generating a control signal that is configured to control a haptic feedback device that is incorporated into a device for delivering audio based on the audio signal to a user, and embedding the control signal in the audio signal by using a pseudorandom signal to form an encoded audio signal. Another method includes receiving a signal that includes an audio signal having an embedded control signal, recovering the control signal from the received signal by using a pseudorandom signal, using the recovered control signal to control a haptic feedback device that is incorporated into a device for delivering audio, recovering the audio signal from the received signal, and using the recovered audio signal to generate audio in the device for delivering audio. Systems perform similar steps, and non-transitory computer readable storage mediums each store one or more computer programs. | 11-12-2015 |
20150321096 | NETWORK DELIVERY OF ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - A system and method for preparing entertainment software for reduced network delivery time includes analyzing entertainment software to identify a first stage implementing a subset of the functionality of the entertainment software such that the first stage is deliverable to an entertainment platform across a network more quickly than the delivery of the entire entertainment software, and preparing the identified first stage for download, such that the identified first stage may be downloaded and used on the entertainment platform. | 11-12-2015 |
20150317826 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing device, an information processing section performs information processing according to an instruction input by a user. An alpha buffer generating block of an image processing section generates an alpha buffer representing, in an image plane, the alpha value of each pixel when designated objects formed by a plurality of objects are collectively regarded as one object. A rendering block reads each piece of model data from an image data storage section, and renders an image also including other objects than the designated objects. A shading processing block approximately calculates degrees of occlusion of ambient light on the image plane, and subjects the rendered image to shading processing on a basis of a result of the calculation. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - When a user fast-forwards pages and there arises a necessity to display pages ahead of image data generating processing by a page image generating unit | 11-05-2015 |
20150317043 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MENU DISPLAYING METHOD - An operation button | 11-05-2015 |
20150278583 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR - Provided is an information processor which readily permits operation input to be made so as to point a position on a screen when an operation input is received from a user using a captured image obtained by imaging the user. The information processor acquires a captured image including a user's face, identifies the position of the user's face included in the acquired captured image, sets an operation area at a position on the captured image determined in accordance with the identified face position, detects a detection target within the operation area, and receives, as a user-pointed position, a position on the screen corresponding to a relative position of the detected detection target within the operation area. | 10-01-2015 |
20150271555 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screen | 09-24-2015 |
20150270610 | Antenna Device and Portable Information Terminal - An antenna device includes a feed terminal configured to feed a first radio-frequency signal at one end part of an antenna element having both end parts, a feed terminal capable of feeding a second radio-frequency signal concurrently with the first radio-frequency signal at the other end part, and a grounding terminal configured to connect to a grounding point at a substantially center part. Based on this, signals in plural frequency bands are allowed to be concurrently used in common in one antenna element. | 09-24-2015 |
20150254891 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF IMAGE FILE - Thresholds b | 09-10-2015 |
20150254396 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A communication section receives a connection request from a game controller to connect the game controller with an information processing apparatus. A registered user information holding section holds biometric information of a user registered in the information processing apparatus. A biometric authentication portion compares biometric information of a user included in a taken image with biometric information held in the registered user information holding section to determine whether the imaged user is a user registered in the information processing apparatus. After the imaged user is found to be a user registered in the information processing apparatus, a login controller executes login processing of the user, or to be more specific, stores information for identifying a device included in the taken image and information for identifying the user into a login user storage portion by relating these items of information with each other. | 09-10-2015 |
20150248204 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A home screen display unit displays a home screen indicating a plurality of menus. If an execution menu of a game application is selected in the home screen, a game screen display unit displays in full screen a game screen indicating an execution result of the game application. If an execution menu of an application other than a game is selected in the home screen, a browser screen display unit displays in full screen a browser screen indicating an execution result of the application other than a game. A screen transition control unit allows a direct transition from the game screen to the browser screen if a predetermined operation is performed while the game screen is displayed, and allows a direct transition from the browser screen to the game screen if the predetermined operation is performed while the browser screen is displayed. | 09-03-2015 |
20150243078 | Methods and Systems for Social Sharing Head Mounted Display (HMD) Content With a Second Screen - Systems and method for processing video frames generated for display on a head mounted display (HMD) to a second screen are provided. One example method includes receiving the video frames formatted for display on the HMD, and while passing the video frames to the HMD, selecting a portion of content from the video frames and processing the portion of the content for output to a second screen. The video frames viewed in the HMD are a result of interactive play executed for viewing on the HMD. The second screen configured to render an undistorted view of the interactive play on the HMD. In one example, the method and system enable additional content to be rendered on the second screen (e.g., second screen content, such as social interactive play with others, other non-game content, player-player communication, etc.). | 08-27-2015 |
20150235530 | Haptic Device - There is provided a haptic device including a small-size haptic unit. The haptic device includes a weight, a magnet fixed to the weight, a coil that generates a magnetic field to reciprocate the magnet along a predetermined direction, and a current control unit that presents a haptic sensation to a user by controlling a current flowing in the coil to vibrate the weight. | 08-20-2015 |
20150231505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An acquisition unit | 08-20-2015 |
20150229927 | MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION FILE - A tile image sequence | 08-13-2015 |
20150223011 | Communication Device and Communication Method - A communication system includes a game machine and a headset. The headset detects a state change in the present device, the state change in the present device being caused by a predetermined action of a user, and transmits a signal indicating the state change in the present device to the game machine. The game machine receives, from at least one of one or more external devices, a signal indicating a state change in the external device. The game machine identifies a partner device in predetermined communication processing from among the one or more external devices on the basis of the received signal indicating the state change. | 08-06-2015 |
20150207876 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A timing at which communication is to be attempted subsequently is set such that a timing when an information processing apparatus is incommunicatable with a communication counterpart and communication is not carried out is later than a timing when a condition different from the condition that the information apparatus is incommunicatable with a communication counterpart is satisfied and communication is not carried out. When a communication timing comes, if communication with a server is impossible, a timing is set later by a time period than the communication timing as a new communication timing but sets, if a predetermined condition different from a condition that communication with the server is impossible is satisfied, a timing later by a time period, which is shorter than the time period, than the communication timing as a new communication timing. When the set communication timing comes, data is communicated to the server if the predetermined condition is not satisfied and besides communication with the server is possible. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207759 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM, CLIENT COMPUTER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, SERVER COMPUTER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A distributed computing system is provided that is configured to allocate more non-use time of each client computer to distributed computing. This distributed computing system includes a server computer and a plurality of client computers. Each of the plurality of client computers has a schedule data storage block ( | 07-23-2015 |
20150207730 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - It is made possible for a user to set whether to download data used by a program without waiting for the acceptance of a download permission or download the data in response to the acceptance of the download permission via a screen that allows for making the setting for a plurality of programs. An input/output control section ( | 07-23-2015 |
20150202534 | VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM, VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device produces own device video data and own device sound data to be displayed and reproduced, respectively, on the video display device; displays the own device video data and reproduces the own device sound data; encodes these data into a data format which the portable video display device is able to handle, to thereby produce other device video data and other device sound data; and sends to the portable video display device. The portable video display device receives these data, and decodes and displays the other device video data, and decodes and reproduces the other device sound data. | 07-23-2015 |
20150199117 | CUSTOMIZATION OF GUI LAYOUT BASED ON HISTORY OF USE - A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch interface. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) perform a tessellation that divides the image into one or more regions that fill the display, each region corresponds to a different active element, a size of each region depends on a corresponding probability of use of the corresponding active element within a given time frame; c) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to a corresponding one or more of the regions; and d) activate a particular active element in response to a touch on a corresponding active portion. | 07-16-2015 |
20150178952 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARTUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system in which an object corresponding to each of two or more users are arranged in a virtual space and moving image information indicative of a moving image indicative of a manner in which the virtual space is viewed from a predetermined viewpoint arranged in the virtual space is generated, this information processing system comprising activity information acquisition means for sequentially acquiring activity information indicative of an action of at least one of the two or more users, arrangement region determination means for determining a partial region in the virtual space, in the partial region of which the object is arranged in accordance with the acquired activity information, motion data acquisition means for acquiring motion data stored as related with the activity information in accordance with the acquired activity information, and object control means for making the object act in the partial region in accordance with the acquired motion data. | 06-25-2015 |
20150177898 | TOUCH INPUTTING DEVICE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND TOUCH INPUTTING DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD - A driving unit successively selects one drive line from among a plurality of drive lines of a touch inputting device and applies a driving voltage to the selected drive line. A voltage detection unit successively selects one sensing line from among a plurality of sensing lines and detects an output voltage of the selected sensing line. An arithmetic operation unit determines a resistance value of a pressure-sensitive resistive element provided at the location at which the selected drive line and the selected sensing line cross with each other based on the driving voltage and the output voltage. The driving unit applies 0 volts or a bias voltage equal to or lower than the driving voltage to the other drive lines than the selected drive line. | 06-25-2015 |
20150163473 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - An image generating device configured to provide a cloud service to a head-mounted display via a network is provided. A photographed image receiving section | 06-11-2015 |
20150145952 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A bus interface/camera control interface connects a processor and a plurality of imaging units. A control data pass-through logic exchanges data between the bus interface/camera control interface and the plurality of imaging units. A pass-through mask register includes: a write register used to specify, of the plurality of imaging units, one or more imaging units to be selected so as to selectively supply write data to the one or more imaging units; and a read register used to specify, of the plurality of imaging units, a single imaging unit to be selected so as to selectively receive read data from the single imaging unit. The control data pass-through logic use the pass-through mask register to switch between input and output operations. | 05-28-2015 |
20150142959 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARTUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus has login information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of pieces of login information with user IDs for identifying users related with terminal IDs for identifying terminals for use by the users; terminal ID registration means for registering the acquired login information by relating each of the user IDs with the plurality of terminal IDs; delivery information generation means for generating different pieces of delivery information to be delivered to each terminal that are identified by the plurality of terminal IDs for each of the user IDs; and delivery means for delivering the generated different pieces of delivery information to the each terminals. | 05-21-2015 |
20150128195 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide a video reproduction system that can synchronize the reproduction timing of plural videos when contemporaneously reproducing the plural videos. One or plural video distribution devices each give, to a frame image included in a distribution video to be distributed to a video reproduction device, timing information indicating the generation timing of this frame image, and distribute the distribution video given this timing information. The video reproduction device receives plural distribution videos distributed from the one or plural video distribution devices and reproduces the received plural distribution videos in synchronization based on the timing information included in each of the plural distribution videos. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124883 | MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION FILE - A frame sequence of moving picture data is divided into a tile image sequence | 05-07-2015 |
20150119135 | Game Device - A game device includes: a first requirement achievement determining unit operative to determine whether or not a requirement of gameplay predefined in a game is achieved based on a progress status of the game; a second requirement achievement determining unit operative to determine whether or not a result of determination by the first requirement achievement determining unit meets a predetermined condition; a display processing unit operative to display information related to the requirement of gameplay determined by the first requirement achievement determining unit as being achieved, and information related to the predetermined condition determined by the second requirement achievement determining unit as being met, where the first requirement achievement determining unit is implemented by game software and the second requirement achievement determining unit is implemented by system software. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116453 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A multiview imaging part includes a plurality of imaging units. An exposure setting section individually sets an exposure value in each of the plurality of imaging units. The exposure setting section sets, in each of the imaging units, an individual reference exposure value and relative exposure values. The relative exposure values are obtained by changing the reference exposure value in a given number of steps in such a manner that the relative exposure values are centered around the reference exposure value. A panoramic image storage section stores captured images having different exposure values captured by the imaging units whose exposure values have been set by the exposure setting section. An HDR synthesis section synthesizes the captured images having different exposure values so as to generate a captured image having an adjusted dynamic range. | 04-30-2015 |
20150085435 | PORTABLE TYPE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PORTABLE TYPE ELECTRONIC DEVICE GROUP, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PORTABLE TYPE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A first antenna ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150074724 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM TABLE DISPLAYING METHOD - A program information acquisition unit | 03-12-2015 |
20150070277 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a hand shape recognition unit that performs hand shape recognition on an input image to detect a position and a size of a hand with a specific shape in the input image, a determination region setting unit that sets a region in a vicinity of the hand on the input image as a determination region used to recognize a gesture performed using the hand, based on the position and the size of the hand, and a gesture recognition unit that recognizes the gesture by monitoring movement of the hand to the determination region. | 03-12-2015 |
20150046573 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SERVER - In a media server, a registration processing block registers a client apparatus connectable to the media server and an information provision block provides information related with the registered client apparatus to an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus, when an information acquisition block acquires information related with two or more client apparatuses, then a display processing block generates display data for displaying type identification information and device identification information for each client apparatus. The type identification information is a name of the client apparatus and the device identification information is a MAC address. | 02-12-2015 |
20150031458 | Operating Device - An operating device has an operating shaft, engagement protrusions, and a movable body. The movable body can rotate relative to the operating shaft. The movable body engages with the engagement protrusions at positions separate from its rotation center. The movable body rotates relative to the operating shaft through the engagement with the engagement protrusions according to the translation of the operating shaft. A base abuts against the movable body in the rotational direction of this movable body and receives a force due to the movement of the operating shaft from the movable body. Sensors detect the force acting on the base. According to this, an operating device having a novel structure allowing detection of the translation of the operating shaft is implemented. | 01-29-2015 |
20140370983 | APPLICATION PROVISION SERVER AND APPLICATION PROVISION METHOD - Disclosed herein is an application provision method in a client-server type system providing a game application to a plurality of users via a network. The method causes a computational resource of a server to perform the steps of: providing, to a first user using a client terminal connected to the server, a game application selected by the first user; providing, to a second user specified by the first user, the game application provided to the first user after the game application is ended by the first user; and notifying achievement levels of the first and second users to the client terminals of the first and second users after the game application is ended by the second user. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368399 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING IT - An antenna device includes a ground conductor, a radiation conductor having a feed point, and a guard conductor that is insulated from the ground conductor and is disposed at a position that is closer to a specific site of a user than the radiation conductor in one use form and is such a position that at least part of the guard conductor overlaps with a place where the intensity of an electric field radiated from the radiation conductor is high. | 12-18-2014 |
20140365627 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication processing device including: a storage section configured to store a policy table associating an identifier identifying a communication unit with an identifier of a policy applied to the communication unit and a priority; an obtaining section configured to refer to the policy table and obtain the identifier of the policy and the priority, the identifier of the policy and the priority being associated with the identifier of the communication unit, at a time of protocol processing of the communication unit; a policy applying section configured to group one or more communication units associated with an identifier of an identical policy, and apply the identical policy to the grouped one or more communication units; and a band control section configured to perform band control on a basis of the priority for each communication unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365205 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIA - There is provided an information processing system, an information processor, an information processing method, a program, and an information storage media capable of striking a balance between ensuring readability of transmitted information and keeping traffic to a minimum during transmission of the information. Disclosed herein is the information processing system including: a transmitter; and a receiver. The transmitter has a language determination section adapted to determine a plurality of languages based on a setting of the transmitter and a transmission section adapted to transmit a plurality of pieces of data, each written in one of the plurality of determined languages that are different from each other. The receiver has a reception section adapted to receive the data and a display control section adapted to display the data written in at least one of the plurality of languages. | 12-11-2014 |
20140364228 | SHARING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAMEPLAY - A method for sharing three-dimensional gameplay of a video game to a social network is provided, the method including: receiving a request to share a recorded gameplay portion to a social network, the recorded gameplay portion defined by three-dimensional recorded video; generating a two-dimensional video clip based on the three-dimensional recorded video; sharing the two-dimensional video clip to the social network. | 12-11-2014 |
20140364212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN TRANSPARENT MODE AND NON-TRANSPARENT MODE IN A HEAD MOUNTED DIPSLAY - Systems and methods for executing a game presented on a screen of a head mounted display include executing a game. The execution of the game renders interactive scenes of the game on the screen of the HMD. Images identifying a shift in gaze direction of the user wearing the HMD, are received. The gaze shift is detected during viewing of the interactive scenes presented on the HMD screen. Real-world images that are in line with the gaze direction of the user, are captured from a forward-facing camera of the HMD. A portion of the screen is transitioned from a non-transparent mode to a semi-transparent mode in response to the shift in the gaze direction such that at least part of the real world images are presented in the portion of the screen rendering the interactive scenes of the game. The transparent mode is discontinued after a period of time. | 12-11-2014 |
20140364197 | TRANSITIONING GAMEPLAY ON A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A method for transitioning gameplay is provided, the method including: receiving a signal to interrupt gameplay of a video game, the gameplay being presented on a head-mounted display; in response to receiving the signal, transitioning the gameplay from an active state to a paused state; wherein transitioning the gameplay includes identifying an intensity of a gameplay aspect, and progressively reducing the intensity of the gameplay aspect before entering the paused state. | 12-11-2014 |
20140364047 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT STAND - Disclosed herein is a stand attachable to and detachable from an outer face of electronic equipment to support the electronic equipment, the stand including: an attachment face opposed to the outer face of the electronic equipment on which a ventilation section is provided; a first ventilation port formed on the attachment face and opposed to the ventilation section of the electronic equipment; a second ventilation port formed at a position different from the attachment face; an air channel formed inside the stand to connect the first and second ventilation ports; and an attachment section attached to the ventilation section of the electronic equipment to fasten the stand to the electronic equipment. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit controlling playback of an image of an edit target, and a generation unit generating edit information including information indicating multiple edit effects applied in combination with the image of an edit interval and information indicating the edit interval, where, in a playback interval of the image, the edit interval is an interval from a playback position at a time an instruction is given during the playback of the image to a position a predetermined time after the playback position. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362529 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus including a component disposed inside the electronic apparatus, a vent that is located in a first direction with respect to the component disposed inside the electronic apparatus and is opened toward the external of the electronic apparatus, a plurality of first louvers that are provided in the vent and are lined in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction when the vent is viewed along the first direction, and a plurality of second louvers that are located between the component disposed inside the electronic apparatus and the plurality of first louvers and are lined in the second direction when the vent is viewed along the first direction. A straight line that passes between adjacent two first louvers and is along the first direction intersects any of the plurality of second louvers. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362500 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes: a first cover forming a first external surface of the electronic apparatus; a second cover forming the first external surface in conjunction with the first cover, the second cover being capable of being separated from an edge of the first cover in a first direction along the first external surface; an elastically deformable first engaging portion formed at the edge of the first cover; and a second engaging portion formed at an edge of the second cover, the second engaging portion being engageable with the first engaging portion. The first engaging portion is elastically deformable in a second direction intersecting the first direction and being along the first external surface. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362188 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires data of a shot image obtained by a camera, a depth image acquirer that acquires a depth image obtained by representing a distance of a subject from the camera in the depth direction as a pixel value, and a first object detector that detects a region of an image of a first object from the shot image or the depth image. The image processing device further includes a second object detector that detects a region of an image of a second object based on the region of the image of the first object and the pixel value in the depth image, a clipping region decider that decides a clipping region including at least the regions of the images of the first and second objects, and a display image generator that generates a display image by using the clipping region. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING OPTICAL REPRESENTATION OF VIEWS PROVIDED BY A HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY BASED ON OPTICAL PRESCRIPTION OF A USER - Systems and methods for operating a screen of a head mounted display includes executing a program. The execution of the program causes rendering of images on the screen of the HMD. The screen renders the images using a first optical setting. A first image is presented on the screen. The first image has a first size and is presented at a distance. Input is received identifying a clarity level for the first image. A second image is presented on the screen. The second image has a second size and the distance. Input is received identifying the clarity level for the second image. Based on the clarity level received for the first and the second images, the first optical setting for the screen is changed to a second optical setting. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362096 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, SCREEN TRANSFER DEVICE, AND SCREEN TRANSFER METHOD - There is provided a display controller for reading frame data from a frame buffer, and generating a screen output image to be displayed on a display, wherein the display controller is provided with a path for extracting the screen output image as a screen image for transfer to be transferred to another apparatus, and writing the screen image for transfer to a dedicated memory provided separately from the frame buffer. | 12-11-2014 |
20140361977 | IMAGE RENDERING RESPONSIVE TO USER ACTIONS IN HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for rendering images on a head mounted display (HMD). One method includes operations for tracking, with one or more first cameras inside the HMD, the gaze of a user and for tracking motion of the HMD. The motion of the HMD is tracked by analyzing images of the HMD taken with a second camera that is not in the HMD. Further, the method includes an operation for predicting the motion of the gaze of the user based on the gaze and the motion of the HMD. Rendering policies for a plurality of regions, defined on a view rendered by the HMD, are determined based on the predicted motion of the gaze. The images are rendered on the view based on the rendering policies. | 12-11-2014 |
20140361976 | SWITCHING MODE OF OPERATION IN A HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the display of images on a head mounted device (HMD). One method includes an operation for tracking the gaze of a user wearing the HMD, where the HMD is displaying a scene of a virtual world. In addition, the method includes an operation for detecting that the gaze of the user is fixed on a predetermined area for a predetermined amount of time. In response to the detecting, the method fades out a region of the display in the HMD, while maintaining the scene of the virtual world in an area of the display outside the region. Additionally, the method includes an operation for fading in a view of the real world in the region as if the HMD were transparent to the user while the user is looking through the region. The fading in of the view of the real world includes maintaining the scene of the virtual world outside the region. | 12-11-2014 |
20140354786 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - A mode setting part | 12-04-2014 |
20140347272 | AUDIO, VIDEO, SIMULATION, AND USER INTERFACE PARADIGMS - Consumer electronic devices have been developed with enormous information processing capabilities, high quality audio and video outputs, large amounts of memory, and may also include wired and/or wireless networking capabilities. Additionally, relatively unsophisticated and inexpensive sensors, such as microphones, video camera, GPS or other position sensors, when coupled with devices having these enhanced capabilities, can be used to detect subtle features about users and their environments. A variety of audio, video, simulation and user interface paradigms have been developed to utilize the enhanced capabilities of these devices. These paradigms can be used separately or together in any combination. One paradigm automatically creating user identities using speaker identification. Another paradigm includes a control button with 3-axis pressure sensitivity for use with game controllers and other input devices. | 11-27-2014 |
20140340391 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF CONTENT FILE - Information is configured in a tree structure, and an image is prepared for each node. To an image | 11-20-2014 |
20140327616 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire multiple images to which position information showing an imaging position is attached, and a display control unit configured to display a first map on which a pointer indicating the imaging position shown by the position information is displayed while switching a reduced scale and a display area according to an operation of a user, and configured to display a second map of a fixed reduced scale together with the first map while causing a display area to cooperate with a display area of the first map. | 11-06-2014 |
20140323219 | MANIPULATOR AND MANIPULATION APPARATUS - A manipulator includes a manipulation body having a plurality of bar-shaped portions which intersect orthogonally with each other at one intersection point, and a plurality of detection bodies which detect a displacement of the manipulation body. The plural bar-shaped portions include a bar-shaped portion and another bar-shaped portion which intersect orthogonally with each other. The plural detection bodies include a first detection body which detects a displacement of one end side of the bar-shaped portion with respect to the intersection point, a second detection body which detects a displacement of the other end side of the bar-shaped portion with respect to the intersection point, and a third detection body which detects a displacement of one end side of the bar-shaped portion with respect to the intersection point. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321722 | FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - The present invention provides a facial image display apparatus that can display moving images concentrated on the face when images of people's faces are displayed. A facial image display apparatus is provided wherein a facial area detecting unit ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140320689 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes: an image data production unit configured to produce data of a plurality of kinds of images from a picked up image and successively output the data; an image synthesis unit configured to cyclically connect the data of the plurality of kinds of images for each pixel string within a range set in advance for each of the kinds of the images and output the connected data as a stream to produce a virtual synthetic image; and an image sending unit configured to accept, from a host terminal, a data transmission request that designates a rectangular region in the virtual synthetic image, extract and connect data from the stream and transmit the connected data as a new stream to the host terminal | 10-30-2014 |
20140317566 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE SAME PROGRAM, DATA STRUCTURE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER,AND INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL - Methods and apparatus operate to: execute one application; store group information, the group information being associated with a plurality of pieces of execution status information each of which represents one of a plurality of execution statuses of the execution, a plurality of pieces of content information each of which represents one of the contents of the plurality of pieces of execution status information, and group identification information identifying groups to which the plurality of pieces of execution status information and the plurality of pieces of content information belong; and generate, based on the group information, menu information which displays the content information included in at least one of the groups. The at least one application is executed using the execution status information associated with at least one piece of the content information included in the menu information. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317285 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system that displays the content of games in accordance with the impact on each of the games resulting from network states including an execution unit that executes at least one application from among multiple applications, a sending unit that sends to a terminal the result of the execution, a communication information acquisition unit that acquires communication information representing the communication states between the sending unit and the terminal, a suitability information storage unit that stores suitability information representing the suitability of executing each of the applications in relation to application identification information identifying each of the applications and to the scope of the communication information, a suitability information acquisition unit that acquires the suitability information based on the acquired communication information, and a display that generates display information for displaying part or all of the content of the multiple applications in accordance with the acquired suitability information. | 10-23-2014 |
20140309039 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A front end server receives a request to start executing a game on at least one game server, the at least one game server being capable of executing at least one game, having an upper limit set to a total of amounts of resources that can be secured in executing at least one game, and executing a game as an object of execution when an amount of resources associated with the game as the object of execution can be secured. A management server starts a new game server when an amount of resources associated with the game according to the execution start request exceeds an amount of remaining resources that can be secured in each game server already started or being started at a time of receiving the execution start request. The management server makes one of the game servers execute the game according to the execution start request. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309038 | MOBILE PHONE GAME INTERFACE - Systems, apparatus and methods for enabling a mobile station to control a virtual world being executed on a console system are described. The method can include establishing a communication link between the mobile station and a console system, identifying user interface characteristics of the mobile station, and providing a controller application to the mobile station, the controller application being based on the identified user interface characteristics and configured to transform user interface inputs into controller commands. The method can further include receiving signals containing data representing the controller commands from the mobile station over the communication link and determining a sequence of events of the virtual world based on the received controller commands In one aspect, the controller application can execute in the context of an application on the mobile station. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306952 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF IMAGE FILE - In an image processing apparatus, a sensor output data acquisition unit acquires data of layered image information from a sensor group. A slice image generation unit generates data of a two-dimensional image for each slice plane surfaces in which distribution is acquired. An image axis conversion unit generates similar data of a two-dimensional image for a plurality of plane surfaces that are perpendicular to an axis different from a sensor axis. A slice image management unit of a display processing unit manages a slice image that is used for drawing according to the position of a viewpoint or the like. Memory for drawing sequentially stores data of an image necessary for drawing. An additional object image storage unit stores image data of an object that is additionally displayed such as a cursor or the like. An image drawing unit draws a three-dimensional object using data of the slice image. | 10-16-2014 |
20140302899 | GAME DEVICE, GAME CONTROL METHOD, AND GAME CONTROL PROGRAM - A game device is provided with an input reception unit that receives an operating input from a player, a control unit that controls a game in accordance with the timing of the operating input, and a screen generation unit that displays a screen of the game, wherein the screen generation unit generates and displays a screen of a player's character in the motion of making a shot, and a power determination unit and an impact determination unit determine the power or impact of a shot in accordance with the degree of the progress of the motion of making the shot at the point when the operating input is received. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300693 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A region-of-interest setting portion sets, during image pickup, a region of interest in an image picked up using a camera built in portable equipment. A component image generation unit generates a component image in which, with the image picked up using the camera built in the portable equipment, posture information of the portable equipment and the region-of-interest information set by the region-of-interest setting portion are associated. A panoramic image generation unit combines a plurality of component images between which the posture of the portable equipment is different to generate a synthesis image. | 10-09-2014 |
20140294289 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a stereo matching unit configured to obtain right and left disparity images by using stereo matching, based on a pair of images captured by right and left cameras, respectively, a filter processing unit configured to perform filter processing on the disparity images, and a first merging unit configured to make a comparison, in the disparity images that have undergone the filter processing, between disparity values at mutually corresponding positions in the right and left disparity images and to merge the disparity values of the right and left disparity images based on a comparison result. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293002 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A posture detection unit detects posture information of three axes of portable equipment using at least one of a three-axis gyro sensor, a three-axis acceleration sensor and a three-axis geomagnetic sensor built in the portable equipment. A pan angle-elevation angle calculation unit calculates a pan angle and an elevation angle of a camera built in the portable equipment based on the posture information detected by the posture detection unit. A component image generation unit generates a component image in which the pan angle and the elevation angle calculated by the pan angle-elevation angle calculation unit are associated with an image picked up using the camera built in the portable equipment. A panoramic image generation unit combines a plurality of component images having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other to generate a synthesis image. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292783 | DRAWING PROCESSOR, DRAWING PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DRAWING PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a drawing library section adapted to transmit a drawing command via a network; and a data transmission management section adapted to transmit reusable data, used to execute the drawing command, via the network at a time different from when the drawing command is transmitted. Also disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a data reception management section adapted to receive reusable data, used to execute a drawing command, via a network at a time different from when the drawing command is received; and a drawing library section adapted to set the reusable data, received by the data reception management section, in a graphics processor as a resource and adapted to receive the drawing command via the network and supply the drawing command to the graphics processor. | 10-02-2014 |
20140283039 | ENHANCED SECURITY FOR HARDWARE DECODER ACCELERATOR - A software security layer may be used to protect a system against exploitation of a hardware encoder accelerator by malicious data embedded in the one or more frames of encoded digital streaming data. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281585 | COMPRESSION OF STATE INFORMATION FOR DATA TRANSFER OVER CLOUD-BASED NETWORKS - Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for compressing a set of RAM data that may have some portions duplicated in a set of ROM data. The ROM data may be divided into a plurality of data chunks and hashed to obtained unique key values. Then a second hash may be performed on the RAM to see if there are any RAM data chunks that match the ROM data chunks. RAM data chunks with matching key values are replaced with pointers to the location of the data in the ROM. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280974 | PROFILE GENERATION FOR BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - Profile generation for bandwidth management is provided. A content provider receive a notification regarding a new application or media file. Profile information for the application or media file is determined. Such profile information includes information regarding consumption of bandwidth throughout a time period of usage of the application or media file. The profile may be stored in memory in association with the application or media file. A request is received from a user device regarding access to the application or media file. Access to the requested application or media is provided to the user device; the profile is also provided to the user device for use in evaluating whether bandwidth requirements of the application or media file exceeds an available network bandwidth of a network of the user device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280847 | BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT BASED ON PROFILES - Bandwidth management based on profiles is provided. A requesting user using a user device may submit a request concerning access to an application or media file hosted or provided by a content provider. A profile associated with the requested application or media file may be accessed. Such a profile provides information regarding consumption of bandwidth throughout a time period of usage associated with the requested application or media file. Bandwidth requirements associated with the request may be determined based on the profile information, and bandwidth consumption by the user device may be managed based on the bandwidth requirements determined for the requested application or media file and available network bandwidth. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274396 | DETECTING AND PREVENTING FALSE POSITIVES - Detection and prevention of false positives associated with a handheld controller are provided. Information is stored in memory regarding indicia of false positive input associated with a handheld controller used to control media usage. Sensor information is monitored at the handheld controller. It may be detected that the monitored sensor information matches one or more indicia of false positive input. Subsequent input received from the handheld controller may then be nullified, such that the nullified input is not registered and does not result in control changes to the associated media. It may then be detected that the monitored sensor information no longer matches one or more indicia of false positive input. Subsequently, nullification is ended, and subsequent input received from the handheld game controller is registered normally and results in control changes to the associated media. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274393 | USER ORGANIZING APPARATUS, USER ORGANIZING METHOD, AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - A participation inviting block invites users wanting to participation in same content to be executed in a shared manner upon a notification from a promoter client apparatus connected to a content providing apparatus that makes two or more client apparatuses execute the same content in a shared manner through a network. An information notifying block references a user information storage block storing content provided by the content providing apparatus, information for identifying a user to whom the content was provided, and skill level information suggestive of a skill level of that user with respect to the content by linking the content, the information, and the skill level information in order to get the skill level information with respect to the content for which the participation was invited for each user wanting the participation accepted by the participation inviting block. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274392 | USER-GENERATED RECORDINGS OF SKELETAL ANIMATIONS - User-generated recordings of skeletal animations are provided. Information is stored in a memory regarding a plurality of animated movements in memory. Each animated movement may be mapped to one or more skeletal-based body parts of a game character. A recording of a plurality of user movements may be captured over a period of time. One or more body parts of the user may be identified for each captured user movement. It may then be determined which skeletal-based body parts correspond to the identified body parts of the user. A custom animation may be generated that comprises a plurality of animated movements in which the determined skeletal-based body parts are mapped to the associated animated movement. The custom animation may be stored in memory and played during play of a game as designated by the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274391 | DIGITAL INTER-PUPILLARY DISTANCE ADJUSTMENT - Stereoscopic viewing systems may be adjusted for a user's inter-pupillary distance (IPD). Software-generated calibration images may be presented on a display having two optics. One or more settings for presentation of the calibration image are adjusted. The settings are related to an inter-pupillary distance (IPD) of the user. An input is received from a user when the user perceives the calibration image to be acceptable at a particular value of the one or more settings. An IPD value that corresponds to the particular value of the one or more settings is then determined. The determined IPD value is used in presenting subsequent software-generated images with the stereoscopic display. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274380 | CONTROLLER EMULATION FOR CLOUD GAMING - A server may determine a client device type from an identifier and generate a user interface configuration profile for the client device using the client device type. The client device can use the profile to configure a first user interface to provide inputs for a software title emulated by the server. The software title is configured for use with a device having a second user interface. The server sends the profile to the client device and emulates the software title with inputs received from the client device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMPLIFYING WIFI SETUP FOR BEST PERFORMANCE - Performance of WiFi devices, including WiFi access points are affected by a variety of parameters, including the location of setup of device and nearby sources of interference. Optimization of WiFi setup is enabled via quality metrics observed by the WiFi device and provided to the user. The system enables a user to change conditions that affect connection performance, such as the location of the WiFi access point, while the system automatically measures performance for each set of conditions. The system can then determine for the user which set of conditions provides the system with optimized WiFi connection performance. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267594 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - A characteristic point extraction unit extracts a characteristic point in an overlapping region of a plurality of component images picked up using a camera built in portable equipment and having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other. A self-position estimation unit estimates three-dimensional coordinate values of the characteristic point and three-dimensional coordinate values of a camera position, which are associated with each other, at the same time in two component images in which the camera positions are displaced from each other. A panoramic image generation unit adjusts, based on the estimated three-dimensional coordinate values of the camera position, the three-dimensional coordinate values of the characteristic point of the component image to correct the component image and combine a plurality of component images having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other to generate a synthesis image. | 09-18-2014 |
20140248958 | OPERATION ELEMENT AND OPERATION DEVICE - An operation element ( | 09-04-2014 |
20140245314 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACHIEVING THERMAL MANAGEMENT USING PROCESSING TASK SCHEDULING - The present invention provides apparatus and methods to perform thermal management in a computing environment. In one embodiment, thermal attributes are associated with operations and/or processing components, and the operations are scheduled for processing by the components so that a thermal threshold is not exceeded. In another embodiment, hot and cool queues are provided for selected operations, and the processing components can select operations from the appropriate queue so that the thermal threshold is not exceeded. | 08-28-2014 |
20140243092 | INPUT CONTROL DEVICE, INPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM - A game device includes a screen generator that displays a display target on a display screen of a display device, and an input acquirer that acquires the position or direction of operation input to the display target from a touch panel annexed to the display screen of the display device and a back touch panel provided on a surface on the opposite side to the display screen of the display device, a determining section that determines the direction in which to operate the display target according to the position or direction of the operation input and the kind of the display target as the target of the operation when the input acquirer acquires the operation input to the display target from the back touch panel, and a movement controller or a rotation controller that operates the display target in the direction determined by the determining section. | 08-28-2014 |
20140235349 | OPERATING DEVICE - Provided is an operation device which allows various kinds of operation information to be input to a main body thereof as needed without unnecessarily increasing the weight of the operation device. The operation device includes: the main body having a shape elongated from one end to another end; a light emitting member provided to the one end of the main body; and a connection portion provided to the other end of the main body, to which an arbitrary one of a plurality of other operation devices is to be connected. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233640 | RANDOM ACCESS POINT (RAP) FORMATION USING INTRA REFRESHING TECHNIQUE IN VIDEO CODING - A random access point is generated in a stream of coded digital pictures containing a plurality of predictive coded frames that have two or more predictive coded frames in which one or more subsections of each of the two or more predictive coded frames are intra coded. Information is added to a stream of digital pictures that identifies for a decoder which of two or more predictive-coded frames in the stream have intra-coded subsections at different portions that can be combined to form a patch frame. | 08-21-2014 |
20140232937 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR UPSCALING VIDEO - In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect content that represents original image information; detect a direction of the content wherein the direction corresponds to a portion of the original image information; compare a variation between adjacent pixels that are represented by the original image information; and generate new image information based on the direction of the content and the variation between the adjacent pixels. | 08-21-2014 |
20140218367 | Rendering Processing Device and Rendering Processing Method - A rendering processing device includes: a rendering processing section configured to generate a vertex calculation result of an object on a basis of a rendering command, perform a rendering process on a basis of the vertex calculation result of each object, and store a rendering result in a rendering buffer; and a rendering command interpolating section configured to generate an interpolated vertex calculation result of each object on a basis of set values of rendering commands and vertex calculation results of each object at two different times. The rendering processing section performs the rendering process on a basis of the interpolated vertex calculation result, and stores an interpolated rendering result in the rendering buffer. | 08-07-2014 |
20140201632 | CONTENT PLAYER - The present invention provides a content player allowing a user to select content to view using a viewing history of content viewed by another user. The content player performs a content playing process in response to a user instruction. The content player acquires viewing history information about content viewed by a related user related to the user with a content player different from the content player. The content player presents, to the user, the acquired viewing history information. The content player performs, if the user selects the presented viewing history information, a playing process of content indicated by the selected viewing history information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201284 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND SERVER - There is provided a technique to assist operation in a social network system. An information processing device includes a motion data acquirer that acquires motion data of a user, a motion data comparator that compares the motion data acquired by the motion data acquirer with comparative motion data, and an operation executor that executes predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result of the motion data comparator. An information processing method includes acquiring motion data of a user, comparing the acquired motion data with comparative motion data, and executing predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FILE | 07-17-2014 |
20140200077 | CONTROLLER FOR INTERFACING WITH A COMPUTING PROGRAM USING POSITION, ORIENTATION, OR MOTION - A method for determining the position of a controller device, comprises: receiving dimensions of the display input by a user of the computer-based system; capturing successive images of the display at the controller device; determining a position of the controller device relative to the display based on the dimensions of the display and a perspective distortion of the display in the captured successive images of the display; providing the determined position of the controller to the computer-based system to interface with the interactive program to cause an action by the interactive program. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198382 | INTERFACE USING EYE TRACKING CONTACT LENSES - Methods of eye gaze tracking are provided using magnetized contact lenses tracked by magnetic sensors and/or reflecting contact lenses tracked by video-based sensors. Tracking information of contact lenses from magnetic sensors and video-based sensors may be used to improve eye tracking and/or combined with other sensor data to improve accuracy. Furthermore, reflective contact lenses improve blink detection while eye gaze tracking is otherwise unimpeded by magnetized contact lenses. Additionally, contact lenses may be adapted for viewing 3D information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140195940 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DATA STRUCTURE OF CONTENT FILE, GUI PLACEMENT SIMULATOR, AND GUI PLACEMENT SETTING ASSISTING METHOD - A GUI placement information file in which the positions of GUIs are set as the ratio to the screen size and the sizes of the GUIs are set as fixed length is prepared in association with content. In a screen having such a screen size A that the GUIs do not overlap with each other even when the setting is obeyed, the respective GUIs are displayed with the positions and sizes in accordance with the setting of the GUI placement information file (screen | 07-10-2014 |
20140193136 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, a cue playback decision unit | 07-10-2014 |
20140191590 | ELECTRICAL APPARATUS - An electrical apparatus is provided which can reduce, when it is shipped in a state in which a secondary battery is built therein, power consumption before a user starts to use the electrical apparatus first. The electrical apparatus includes a secondary battery, a load which operates by power supplied from the secondary battery, and a switch element disposed between the secondary battery and the load. The switch element remains in an off state until a user starts use of the electrical apparatus. | 07-10-2014 |
20140184473 | IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD AND DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY - First and second division patterns are defined so that main areas A and A′ are similar to each other in shape, having the same horizontal-to-vertical ratio. Even if an image output apparatus is connected to a display unit having both first and second display screens, the image output apparatus generates an identical image for the main area A or A′ regardless of the aspect ratio of the display screen. The main areas A and A′ display important information and the like. Sub areas B and B′ display auxiliary information. The first and second division patterns may be determined so that the sub areas B and B′ are similar to each other in shape like the main areas. | 07-03-2014 |
20140181675 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION PROVISION METHOD - In a cloud computing system having a plurality of computational resources that are connected via a network, a table display section | 06-26-2014 |
20140173006 | ELECTRONIC MAIL RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD - A preview generating section | 06-19-2014 |
20140163708 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PLAYBACK METHOD - Provided is a portable electronic device including a signal processing unit, a controller that supplies a control signal to the signal processing unit, and a power generation unit that generates an electrical signal as power and supplies the generated electrical signal to the signal processing unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20140153634 | MOVING IMAGE DATA GENERATION DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE DATA GENERATION METHOD, MOVING IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF MOVING IMAGE FILE - Frames of a moving image are configured as a hierarchical structure where each frame is represented with a plurality of resolutions. Some layers are set as original image layers, and the other layers are set as difference image layers in hierarchical data representing a frame at each time step. In the case that an area is to be displayed in the resolution of the difference image layer, to respective pixel values of a difference image of the area, respective pixel values of an image of a corresponding area retained by the original image layer of lower resolution, the image enlarged to the resolution of the difference image layer, are added. A layer to be set as a difference image layer is switched to another layer as time passes. | 06-05-2014 |
20140149112 | COMBINING AUDITORY ATTENTION CUES WITH PHONEME POSTERIOR SCORES FOR PHONE/VOWEL/SYLLABLE BOUNDARY DETECTION - Phoneme boundaries may be determined from a signal corresponding to recorded audio by extracting auditory attention features from the signal and extracting phoneme posteriors from the signal. The auditory attention features and phoneme posteriors may then be combined to detect boundaries in the signal. | 05-29-2014 |
20140141885 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device ( | 05-22-2014 |
20140139988 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic device | 05-22-2014 |
20140139740 | IMAGING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING FRAME DATA OUTPUT - A shift time monitoring section of a host terminal monitors a shift between the input timing of frame data from an imaging device and the ideal input timing for the frame data, the ideal input timing being obtained from the output frequency of a display. An operation cycle adjusting section transmits a request signal for adjusting the operation cycle per frame in the imaging device according to the magnitude of the shift in the input timing. An H-counter section of the imaging device counts the outputting of the horizontal synchronizing signal with a vertical synchronizing signal in the imaging device as a starting point, and generates a signal at a predetermined scanning line. A VSync adjusting counter section counts a pixel clock with the signal from the H-counter section as a starting point, and generates a vertical synchronization signal at a value set to the pixel clock. | 05-22-2014 |
20140132628 | REAL WORLD ACOUSTIC AND LIGHTING MODELING FOR IMPROVED IMMERSION IN VIRTUAL REALITY AND AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods for modeling acoustic and lighting to provide improved immersion in a virtual reality and/or augmented reality environment are provided. In one aspect, systems and methods are provided to promote “improved augmented reality” which increases the realism and/or presence of virtual objects in the user's real environment. In some embodiments, changes in the user's actual room lighting are modeled in the virtual world to have a similar effect. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided to promote immersion of a user in a virtual environment by extending the virtual world into the user's real world room. In this embodiment, lighting and/or sound from the virtual world is used to simulate the same or similar properties in the users actual, or real world environment, thereby improving virtual reality. | 05-15-2014 |
20140126884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A recording information acquisition unit | 05-08-2014 |
20140125819 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including multiple imaging units included in a stereo camera, the multiple imaging units configured to photograph a chart pattern including a pole, and a correction parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a correction parameter that corrects a gap between the multiple imaging units, based on the pole and a pattern included in the chart pattern photographed by the multiple imaging units. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125772 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a plurality of imaging units included in a stereo camera, the plurality of imaging units being configured to image a first chart pattern including a pattern that is a plurality of feature points and a mirror surface, and a correction parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a correction parameter that corrects a gap of the plurality of imaging units, based on the pattern included in the first chart pattern imaged by the plurality of imaging units and a pattern mirrored in the mirror surface. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125634 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: an image acceptance section configured to accept an image of an operation inputting apparatus picked up by an imaging section; an operation signal acceptance section configured to accept an operation signal representative of an operation for the operation inputting apparatus from the operation inputting apparatus; and a process execution section configured to execute a process in response to the position of the operation inputting apparatus in the image accepted by the image acceptance section and the operation signal accepted by the operation signal acceptance section. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125579 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY, MOTION DETECTOR, MOTION DETECTION METHOD, IMAGE PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a head mounted display including: an enclosure accommodating a presentation section adapted to present a three-dimensional image and located in front of the eyes of a viewer when worn on the head of the viewer; and an imaging element provided in the enclosure and adapted to turn light external to the enclosure into an image, in which the imaging element images light that is vertically downward relative to the enclosure and forward in the direction of line of sight of the viewer when the enclosure is worn on the head of the viewer. | 05-08-2014 |
20140121002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING USER ATTENTION - A system and method for conditioning execution of a control function on a determination of whether or not a person's attention is directed toward a predetermined device. The method involves acquiring data concerning the activity of a person who is in the proximity of the device, the data being in the form of one or more temporal samples. One or more of the temporal samples is then analyzed to determine if the person's activity during the time of the analyzed samples indicates that the person's attention is not directed toward the device. The results of the determination are used to ascertain whether or not the control function should be performed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118513 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - A display image generation part | 05-01-2014 |
20140114655 | EMOTION RECOGNITION USING AUDITORY ATTENTION CUES EXTRACTED FROM USERS VOICE - Emotion recognition may be implemented on an input window of sound. One or more auditory attention features may be extracted from an auditory spectrum for the window using one or more two-dimensional spectro-temporal receptive filters. One or more feature maps corresponding to the one or more auditory attention features may be generated. Auditory gist features may be extracted from feature maps, and the auditory gist features may be analyzed to determine one or more emotion classes corresponding to the input window of sound. In addition, a bottom-up auditory attention model may be used to select emotionally salient parts of speech and execute emotion recognition only on the salient parts of speech while ignoring the rest of the speech signal. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112556 | MULTI-MODAL SENSOR BASED EMOTION RECOGNITION AND EMOTIONAL INTERFACE - Features, including one or more acoustic features, visual features, linguistic features, and physical features may be extracted from signals obtained by one or more sensors with a processor. The acoustic, visual, linguistic, and physical features may be analyzed with one or more machine learning algorithms and an emotional state of a user may be extracted from analysis of the features. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111172 | DC/DC CONVERTER AND GAME MACHINE USING IT - The present disclosure is to provide a DC/DC converter capable of suppressing increase in the ripple amount of the output voltage in association with switching of the number of drive phases. N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) switching circuits each generate a switching voltage at the switching node according to an input pulse signal. A phase controller dynamically switches the number K (K is an integer equal to or smaller than N) of drive phases according to the state of a DC/DC converter at the time. A pulse modulator generates a pulse signal whose frequency changes according to the number K of drive phases. A distributor selects K switching circuits among the N switching circuits and distributes the pulse signal to each of the selected K switching circuits with a phase difference of (360/K) degrees. | 04-24-2014 |
20140102869 | OPERATING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an operating device including: a circuit board; a frame arranged on top of the circuit board; a plate-shaped operating member located on top of the frame, the plate-shaped operating member including a surface touched by a user's finger and a touch sensor adapted to detect the position of the user's finger that has touched the surface, the plate-shaped operating member being arranged to be able to move up and down so that the operating member can be pressed by the user; and an elastic member arranged between the frame and operating member to bias the operating member upward. | 04-17-2014 |
20140098419 | SHUTTER GLASSES - Provided are shutter eyeglasses that can have simplified internal wiring. The shutter glasses include: a circuit board to which a drive circuit adapted to drive a left eye shutter and a right eye shutter is mounted; a battery adapted to supply power to the circuit board; and a reception element adapted to receive a synchronizing signal transmitted from an image display device. The circuit board, battery, and reception element are arranged between the left eye shutter and the right eye shutter. | 04-10-2014 |
20140092278 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - When an accepting section | 04-03-2014 |
20140092048 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORING MEDIUM - The present invention is to allow change of the area in which information as a display target is not displayed in a display according to a detected position by a touch sensor disposed opposed to a touch sensor that is so disposed as to be overlapped on the display. An information processing device ( | 04-03-2014 |
20140087877 | COMPOSITING INTERACTIVE VIDEO GAME GRAPHICS WITH PRE-RECORDED BACKGROUND VIDEO CONTENT - A method for compositing realistic video game graphics for video games is disclosed. The method includes rendering images of interactive game objects based on the current gameplay and virtual game camera parameters such as a pan angle, tilt angle, roll angle, and zoom data. The rendered images constitute the foreground of a game's display, which is superimposed on prerecorded video content. The prerecorded video content constitutes the background of the game display and may include one or more real live videos or animation transformed from a prerecorded panoramic video based on the virtual game camera parameters and the gameplay. The generation and superimposition of the foreground images and background videos can be performed repeatedly using synchronization methods to dynamically reflect the user actions within the virtual game environment. | 03-27-2014 |
20140082673 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device | 03-20-2014 |
20140080607 | Game Controller - A game controller includes a plurality of LEDs formed on the rear of a case. The plurality of LEDs are arranged two-dimensionally in its layout area. The game controller has a plurality of PWM control units which are provided inside the case and control the lighting of the plurality of LEDs, respectively. The PWM control units control the lighting of the LEDs based on a control signal from a game apparatus. The game apparatus acquires a captured image of the game controller, and acquires the position of the game controller in the captured image based on the positions of the LEDs in the captured image. | 03-20-2014 |
20140078312 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOVEMENTS OF AN OBJECT USING A DEPTH SENSING CAMERA - A controller ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140078265 | MOVING PICTURE CAPTURING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - An image synthesis unit receives respective pixel values for a single horizontal row of a ¼ demosaiced image, a 1/16 demosaiced image, and a 1/64 demosaiced image from a pyramid filter for reducing, in a plurality of stages, a frame of a moving image that is captured. The image synthesis unit then connects the pixel values in a predetermined rule so as to generate a virtual synthesized image and outputs the synthesized image in the form of streams. A control unit of an image transmission unit notifies a data selection unit of a request from a host terminal. The data selection unit selects and extracts necessary data from respective streams of pieces of data of the synthesized image, a RAW image, and a 1/1 demosaiced image, and generates a stream of data to be transmitted. A packetizing unit packetizes the stream and transmits the packetized stream to the host terminal. | 03-20-2014 |
20140075450 | MULTI-THREADED PROCESSING WITH REDUCED CONTEXT SWITCHING - Multi-threaded processing with reduced context switching is disclosed. Context switches may be avoided through the use of pre-emption notification, a pre-emption wait time attribute and a no-context-save yield. | 03-13-2014 |
20140073431 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR GAME MACHINE - An operating device used in a game machine for playing a television game includes a main body and first and second finger-manipulatable operating units positioned symmetrically on the main body. The operating device may include first and second grips projecting at spaced positions from the main body, with the first and second operating units being positioned adjacent the first and second grips. The operating device may further include vibration-imparting units for imparting vibrations to the user's hands. | 03-13-2014 |
20140059484 | VOICE AND VIDEO CONTROL OF INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICALLY SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT - A method of moving objects in a graphical user interface, includes obtaining a video image of a user of the interface; displaying the video image on a display such that the video image is superposed with one or more objects displayed on the display; and moving one or more objects displayed on the display based on recognition of motions of the video image of the user. Recognition of motions of the video image may include recognition of motions of an image of the user's hand. | 02-27-2014 |
20140045594 | Illuminating Controller for Tracking During Communicating With a Gaming System - A controller is provided. The controller includes at least one button, an object integrated with a body, and the object defined from a translucent plastic material. Further included is an inertial sensor, an LED device defined to illuminate the object, and a circuit for interpreting input data from the at least one button and the inertial sensor and for communicating data wirelessly. The circuit further configured to interface with the LED device to trigger illumination of the LED to switch from an un-illuminated state to an illuminated color. The LED device is activated depending on data received from a computing system. The activation occurring in response to a state interpreted by the computer program during execution. | 02-13-2014 |
20140039896 | Methods and System for Grammar Fitness Evaluation as Speech Recognition Error Predictor - A plurality of statements are received from within a grammar structure. Each of the statements is formed by a number of word sets. A number of alignment regions across the statements are identified by aligning the statements on a word set basis. Each aligned word set represents an alignment region. A number of potential confusion zones are identified across the statements. Each potential confusion zone is defined by words from two or more of the statements at corresponding positions outside the alignment regions. For each of the identified potential confusion zones, phonetic pronunciations of the words within the potential confusion zone are analyzed to determine a measure of confusion probability between the words when audibly processed by a speech recognition system during the computing event. An identity of the potential confusion zones across the statements and their corresponding measure of confusion probability are reported to facilitate grammar structure improvement. | 02-06-2014 |
20140036440 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is an electronic apparatus including a cooling fan and a cover configuring an outer wall of an air flow path and having a heat sink arranged therein, and effectively utilizing a frame as a member for heat radiation. | 02-06-2014 |
20140031120 | Using a Portable Device to Interface with a Video Game Rendered on a Main Display - A method for interfacing with a video game is provided, including: rendering display data on a main display, the display data defining a scene rendered by the video game, the display data being configured to include a visual cue; capturing the display data by an image capture device incorporated into a portable device; analyzing the captured display data to identify the visual cue; in response to identification of the visual cue, determining additional information that is in addition to the scene of the video game that is displayed on the main display, the additional information defining graphics or text to be added to the scene of the video game; presenting the additional information on a personal display incorporated into the portable device, the presentation of the additional information being synchronized to the rendering of the display data on the main display. | 01-30-2014 |
20140028593 | INPUT DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND INPUT DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A conversion unit converts output data detected by an input device based on any one type of conversion table among a plurality of types of conversion tables. An output unit transmits the output data thus converted to a main processor via an interface. A switching unit receives, from the main processor via the interface, a mode switching signal for switching detection sensitivity. The conversion unit switches the conversion table for reference based on the mode switching signal. The conversion table is a bit conversion table for reducing the number of bits of the output data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140026152 | DISK LOADING DEVICE AND DISK DEVICE - An apparatus includes a rotation section to engage with a disk in a housing and rotate the disk around an axis of the disk; an information reading/recording section to carry out reading and/or recording from/to the disk; a holding member to hold the rotation section and/or the information reading/recording section; and a moving section to move the holding member in a direction that the holding member moves toward the disk and/or that the holding member moves away from the disk. The moving section includes a first cam member surrounding at least part of the holding member for arcuate movement along the holding member around an axis. The holding member and/or the first cam member has a grooved portion inclined with respect to a direction along the axis of the arcuate movement while the other has a first engaging portion for engaging with the grooved portion. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025699 | MEDIA FINGERPRINTING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify media, such as movies, television shows, and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user then can share this information with other users, such as by uploading to a social networking site or passing the information to peers on a peer network as part of a container. Users can have the ability to add tagged content, provide comments and ratings, and otherwise interact based at least in part upon the tagged media content. | 01-23-2014 |
20140022003 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Electronic apparatus that can suppress the operating voltage of an incorporated semiconductor integrated circuit to a low voltage is provided. Electronic apparatus | 01-23-2014 |
20140018170 | INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, AND OPERATION TERMINAL - A controller | 01-16-2014 |
20140015813 | INPUT APPARATUS USING CONNECTABLE BLOCKS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A block tool, which can be assembled by a user, is configured with multiple types of blocks and is shot by a camera for capturing a still image or a moving image. The position coordinates of a marker of the square-pillar block in a three-dimensional space are obtained by image recognition. Also, a connecting position and the type of each block, a gradient vector of the square-pillar block, an angle between two blocks constituting the square-pillar block, and the respective blocks' lengths are obtained so as to derive the shape, posture, and position of the block tool, and corresponding information processing is then performed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015646 | User Grouping Apparatus And User Grouping Method - An RFID aggregate storage stores a radio-frequency ID aggregate structure. The RFID aggregate structure is an aggregated data structure of a plurality of RFIDs, in which each RFID is associated with a location and time read out from a RFID tag, and RFID related information, hierarchically constructed by classifying RFIDs based on the readout location and further by classifying them based on the readout time. A proximity evaluator evaluates the proximity between the first user's RF ID aggregate and the second user's RFID aggregate. A user classifier classifies the first user and the second user in one group when the proximity is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. | 01-16-2014 |
20140007132 | RESILIENT DATA PROCESSING PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE | 01-02-2014 |
20140004957 | SUSPENDING STATE OF CLOUD-BASED LEGACY APPLICATIONS | 01-02-2014 |
20140004956 | ADDING TRIGGERS TO CLOUD-BASED EMULATED GAMES | 01-02-2014 |
20140004949 | HAPTIC ENHANCEMENTS FOR EMULATED VIDEO GAME NOT ORIGINALLY DESIGNED WITH HAPTIC CAPABILITIES | 01-02-2014 |
20140004941 | CONVERSION OF HAPTIC EVENTS INTO SCREEN EVENTS | 01-02-2014 |
20140002616 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140002329 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20130344967 | Game Control Program, Game Device, Game Server, And Game Control Method - Methods and apparatus provide for managing multiplayer play among a first player and at least one second player, where a first mode of multiplayer play is defined such that a game server selects the second player by: (i) selecting candidates by consulting a player database of information concerning a plurality of other players, (ii) sending invitations to the selected candidates to be the selected second player, (iii) receiving acceptances of the invitations from the candidates; and (iv) selecting the second player from among the candidates from whom acceptances were received; and where a second mode of multiplayer play is defined such that the game server selects the second player by consulting a player database of information concerning the plurality of other players, without consideration of an invitation to, or an acceptance from, the selected second player. | 12-26-2013 |
20130328928 | OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE APPARATUS AND OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHOD - An obstacle detecting unit detects an obstacle for a user wearing a head mounted display from an image of the outside world. A distance calculating unit calculates the distance from a detected obstacle to the user wearing the head mounted display. An obstacle replacing unit replaces the detected obstacle with a virtual object. A virtual object synthesizing unit generates a virtual object at a position within a virtual space displayed on the head mounted display, in which the position is determined according to the distance to the obstacle. | 12-12-2013 |
20130324254 | Flat Joystick Controller - A controller device to interface with a computer gaming system includes a body having a handle and an object disposed at one end of the handle. A touch surface is disposed on one side of the handle. The touch surface has an indicator that is identified by a surface characteristic on the touch surface. The touch surface provides an area for receiving directionality control in response to interfacing by a finger of a user. In addition to the touch surface, a plurality of buttons are disposed on the body. A circuitry is disposed in the body of the controller. The circuitry is configured to receive data indicative of a directionality control and transmit the data to a game console for impacting an action by a program executing on the computer gaming system. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324244 | MANAGING CONTROLLER PAIRING IN A MULTIPLAYER GAME - A method for managing multi-player interactivity with an interactive application is provided, including the following method operations: determining a location of a first controller; determining a location of a second controller; determining a location of a biometric identifier of a first user; determining a location of a biometric identifier of a second user; pairing the first controller to the first user based on the location of the first controller and the location of the biometric identifier of the first user; pairing the second controller to the second user based on the location of the second controller and the location of the biometric identifier of the second user. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324243 | MULTI-IMAGE INTERACTIVE GAMING DEVICE - An image capture device includes: a housing; a first camera defined along a front surface of the housing; a first camera controller configured to control the first camera to capture images of an interactive environment during user interactivity at a first exposure setting; a second camera defined along the front surface of the housing; a second camera controller configured to control the second camera to capture images of the interactive environment during the user interactivity at a second exposure setting lower than the first exposure setting, the captured images from the second camera being analyzed to identify and track an illuminated object in the interactive environment. | 12-05-2013 |
20130311765 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA GENERATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A differencing generator generates difference data between a first data set and a second data set. An encryption unit encrypts data. An electronic signature generator generates the electronic signature of data. A transmission data generator generates transmission data. The encryption unit encrypts the difference data generated by the differencing generator so as to generate encrypted difference data. The transmission data generator generates transmission data containing both the encrypted difference data generated by the encryption unit and the electronic signature of the second data set as generated by the electronic signature generator. | 11-21-2013 |
20130303187 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing system capable of, while avoiding running out of storage capacity, increasing the possibility that a program executed in the information processing system can use data according to a calculated position, even when the information processing system cannot receive data from a device. An item communication section ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130300749 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to execute processing for: acquiring a tentative time interval between a frame for generating an image and a previous frame; acquiring, when a condition associated with action data indicating a posture of an object in accordance with time is satisfied, the posture of the object at a time point at which a time interval shorter than the tentative time interval has elapsed since the previous frame based on the action data; and rendering the image indicating the acquired posture of the object. | 11-14-2013 |
20130299369 | ACCOMMODATING CASE FOR PORTABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An accommodating case from which a user can easily detach a recording medium is provided. An accommodating case includes an inner surface thereof with a medium disposition area that is an area to dispose the recording medium. In addition, the accommodating case includes an engagement plate portion for engaging with edges of the recording medium so that the recording medium disposed in the medium disposition area is prevented from separating from the inner surface thereof. Furthermore, the accommodating case includes a movable plate portion defining a part of the inner surface thereof. The movable plate portion is movable relative the other portion of the inner surface of the accommodating case to be recessed toward the outside of the accommodating case. The movable plate portion is located over the medium disposition area and an outside area of the medium disposition area. | 11-14-2013 |
20130297298 | SOURCE SEPARATION USING INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH MIXED MULTI-VARIATE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source separation described herein involves mixed multivariate probability density functions that are mixtures of component density functions having different parameters corresponding to frequency components of different sources, different time segments, or some combination thereof. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297296 | SOURCE SEPARATION BY INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOURCE DIRECTION INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source direction information is utilized in the separation process, and independent component analysis techniques described herein use multivariate probability density functions to preserve the alignment of frequency bins in the source separation process. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294611 | SOURCE SEPARATION BY INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN CONJUCTION WITH OPTIMIZATION OF ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals and perform acoustic echo cancellation. Independent component analysis may be used to perform the source separation in conjunction with acoustic echo cancellation on the time-frequency domain mixed signals to generate at least one estimated source signal corresponding to at least one of the original source signals. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294608 | SOURCE SEPARATION BY INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH MOVING CONSTRAINT - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract moving source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source motion is modeled by direct to reverberant ratio in the separation process, and independent component analysis techniques described herein use multivariate probability density functions to preserve the alignment of frequency bins in the source separation process. | 11-07-2013 |
20130290986 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is an information processing device capable of issuing a notification of an occurrence of an event depending on a current operation mode in a case where the information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes. An information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes including at least a first mode and a second mode, receives event information output by an event output program, and notifies a user that the event information has been received, and the information processing device changes a pattern of notification between a case where the event information is received during the operation in the first mode and a case where the event information is received during the operation in the second mode. | 10-31-2013 |
20130285919 | INTERACTIVE VIDEO SYSTEM - An interactive video system includes a processor unit configured to provide output signals to a short throw projector. The output signals cause the short throw projector to project images on a projection area located on or parallel to a floor. The processor can receive input signals from one or more user input devices. The input signals represent a simulated user interaction with the images projected on the projection area. The processor can also alter one or more of the images projected on the projection area in response to the input signals. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 10-31-2013 |
20130279724 | AUTO DETECTION OF HEADPHONE ORIENTATION - A detector located on or near an ear piece may automatically detect whether a left or right ear or neither ear is wearing the ear piece. A signal mixer may automatically apply a correct configuration to signals transmitted to or from the ear piece according to whether the left or right ear or neither ear is determined to be wearing the ear piece. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 10-24-2013 |
20130271671 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To provide an electronic device capable of preventing an enclosure from falling down without providing a stand and also improving heat dissipation of the enclosure. An electronic device ( | 10-17-2013 |
20130271656 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL ADJUSTMENT METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A receiver receives a stream of program data that includes: an image signal including a plurality of frames; a sound signal; and a playback timing signal used for synchronized playback of the image signal and the sound signal. A clock signal generation unit generates a clock signal that is independent of the playback timing signal. A reception timing signal acquisition unit acquires a reception timing signal indicating a receiving time of the program data. An analysis unit analyzes a trend of time-dependent variation in a detected difference between the reception timing signal and the playback timing signal. An adjustment amount generation unit generates an adjustment amount of the clock signal, which causes the difference between the reception timing signal and the playback timing to be constant, by referring to a trend of time-dependent variation analyzed by the analysis unit. | 10-17-2013 |
20130269969 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A slide cover has a engaged portion formed thereon. A rotatable member includes a stopper portion which is abutted against the engaged portion so as to restrict a relative movement of the engaged portion of the slide cover when the slide cover is arranged at a closed position. The stopper portion is positioned away from a rotation center of the rotatable member, and the rotatable member rotates to allow the relative movement of the engaged portion when the stopper portion is pushed by the engaged portion. This makes it possible to increase an angle between an stopper surface formed on the stopper portion and a movement direction (right-left direction) of the engaged portion. As a result, the cover is stably held at the closed position. | 10-17-2013 |
20130268272 | TEXT DEPENDENTSPEAKER RECOGNITION WITH LONG-TERM FEATURE BASED ON FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS - One or more test features are extracted from a time domain signal. The test features are represented by discrete data. The discrete data is represented for each of the one or more test features by a corresponding one or more fitting functions, which are defined in terms of finite number of continuous basis functions and a corresponding finite number of expansion coefficients. Each fitting function is compressed through Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) to generate corresponding sets of principal components. Each principal component for a given test feature is uncorrelated to each other principal component for the given test feature. A distance between a set of principal components for the given test feature and a set of principal components for one or more training features with the processing system is calculated. The test feature is classified according to the distance calculated with the processing system. | 10-10-2013 |
20130262786 | MEMORY SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A memory system method for controlling the same, and an information processing device using the same are provided. The system includes a plurality of memory chips electrically connected with one another by a bus (e.g. address bus, data bus, control bus, etc.), which are disposed in a stacked arrangement and extend through the plurality of memory chips in a stacking direction, and a memory controller connected to a plurality of processors and to the bus, and further to a chip select signal line for outputting a chip select signal to each of the plurality of memory chips. The memory controller converts an address signal from each of the processors into a set of the chip select signal and the address signal, which is outputted to the address bus, so as to relay inputs and outputs of data between each of the processors and each of the memory chips. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257751 | DETECTION OF INTERACTION WITH VIRTUAL OBJECT FROM FINGER COLOR CHANGE - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting inputs for a computing device. One method includes an operation for receiving images for an area where the hand of a user is situated, and an operation for analyzing the received images to determine the location and the color of a finger of the user. Further, a change in the color of the finger is detected, where the change in the color is caused by contact of the finger with a physical object. In other operation, the method determines the location of the finger when the color change was detected. The determined location is associated with an input for the computing device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130252741 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system includes a controller port having a plurality of ports to which a plurality of operation signals are input from a plurality of operation devices via a network. The information processing system also includes an execution unit configured to execute a game program in response to each of the plurality of operation signals input from each of the plurality of operation devices to each of the plurality of the ports, and an assignment unit configured to assign each of the plurality of operation devices to each of the plurality of respective ports. The assignment unit changes assignment of each of the plurality of operation devices to each of the plurality of ports in a predetermined case. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251196 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A non-transitory information storage medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing including obtaining a search region for a search of the outside of one object and selecting any object in the search region as a search result from among a plurality of other objects. | 09-26-2013 |
20130241692 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTAINER SYSTEM - An authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing according to power generation information from a power generation unit configured to generate electric power from ambient energy. | 09-19-2013 |
20130234724 | DISCRIMINATING APPARATUS, DISCRIMINATING METHOD AND DISCRIMINATING SYSTEM - A discriminating apparatus includes a discrimination section configured to discriminate the presence or absence of an abnormality, in accordance with information on power generation from a power generation section. | 09-12-2013 |
20130229546 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGES - A low dynamic range (LDR) image data storage stores LDR image sets each of which includes a plurality of LDR segmented images captured with a camera panned. Here each LDR image set is of a different exposure level, respectively. A high-dynamic-range (HDR) synthesizing unit combines and merges a plurality of LDR segmented images of different exposure levels so as to generate an HDR segmented image set including a plurality of HDR segmented images of different pan angles or tilt angles. A panoramic image synthesizing unit generates an HDR panoramic image by stitching together adjacent HDR segmented images. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229484 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A control point detector detects controls points, with which moving images are associated with a region of a panoramic image, by detecting feature points between the panoramic image and a frame of part of the moving images. An alignment processing unit adjusts the alignment of the moving images relative to the panoramic image, based on the control points. A mapping processing unit maps the panoramic image and a still image frame of the moving images the alignment of which adjusted by the alignment processing unit, onto a three-dimensional (3D) panoramic space as textures. A 3D image generator generates a 3D panoramic image, when the three-dimensional panoramic image is viewed in a specified line of sight. When a moving image reproduction unit receives instructions to reproduce the moving images in the 3D panoramic image, the moving image reproduction unit reproduces the moving images. | 09-05-2013 |
20130223813 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD - A moving image reproduction apparatus is provided with a reproduction unit that decodes pictures included in a chunk of a video stream and displays the decoded pictures and a control unit that gives an instruction to start the reproduction process. When a reproduction target is switched to a second video stream that corresponds to a second bit rate during the reproduction of a first video stream that corresponds to a first bit rate, the reproduction unit continues to reproduce a chunk of the first video stream that is being reproduced. The control unit instructs, when pictures included in a chunk of the second video stream overlap with pictures included in the chunk that is being reproduced, the reproduction unit to hide the overlapping pictures in a reproduction process performed on the chunk of the second video stream. | 08-29-2013 |
20130214932 | Center Device - A center device communicates with a plurality of controller devices each having a light emitter, receives an instruction operation from a user of each device, and carries out a process based on the instruction operation, where light emission control is carried out such that each light emitter of the plurality of the controller devices emits light of a different color. | 08-22-2013 |
20130212632 | PREDICTIVE FRAME DROPPING TO ENHANCE QUALITY OF SERVICE IN STREAMING DATA - Methods and apparatus for optimizing quality of streaming data transmitted between a first node and a second node over a network, the streaming data including one or more frame groups is disclosed. A processor-readable medium having embodied therein processor readably instructions for implementing a method for optimizing quality of streaming data transmitted between a first node and a second node over a network is also disclosed. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212530 | MENU DISPLAY DEVICE, MENU DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A menu display device includes: means for displaying on a screen a given range within a menu, in which a plurality of menu items are arranged in an array; means for moving the given range in response to a predetermined operation performed by a user; means for determining whether or not the menu item at an end within the menu is displayed in a predetermined position of the screen; and means for changing, when the menu item at the end is displayed in the predetermined position of the screen, the space between the menu items displayed on the screen in response to the predetermined operation performed by the user. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212504 | CUSTOMIZATION OF GUI LAYOUT BASED ON HISTORY OF USE - A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a processor is operably coupled to a visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212503 | CUSTOMIZATION OF GUI LAYOUT BASED ON HISTORY OF USE - A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements. | 08-15-2013 |
20130201918 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CHANNEL SWITCHING METHOD - A first communication control unit and a second communication control unit share a single transmission and reception unit. The second communication control unit maintains connection with a terminal device while the first communication control unit is scanning frequency channels to search for an access point. When a search processing unit | 08-08-2013 |
20130201285 | 3-D GLASSES WITH ILLUMINATED LIGHT GUIDE - 3-D or other glasses with an illuminated light guide for tracking with a camera are presented. The light guide can be a light guide plate (LGP) or other transparent and/or translucent material that conveys light through its interior. LEDs embedded within the frames illuminate the light guide and optionally can be dimmed or brightened depending on ambient lighting. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201221 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image display device, including: display means for displaying on a screen a partial area image indicating a given area within an image to be displayed; display area moving means for moving the given area in response to a predetermined operation performed by a user; and determination means for determining whether or not the given area is located at an end portion of the image to be displayed, in which, when the given area is located at the end portion of the image to be displayed, the display means changes a display magnification of the partial area image displayed on the screen and display the partial area image on the screen in response to the predetermined operation performed by the user (S | 08-08-2013 |
20130200869 | DC/DC Converter - Based upon a detection voltage V | 08-08-2013 |
20130198686 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT, CONTENT CREATION DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When the user enters a request for moving a viewpoint, whether or not a displayed area is encompassed in a link area that is set for an active image is kept monitored. When the displayed area is encompassed, a corresponding link is determined to be valid, and an image of a link destination mapped to the link area is displayed. Whether or not the displayed area moves outside of a link area set for an image of a link origin is further monitored. If even a part of the displayed area moves outside of the link area, a corresponding link is determined to be invalid, and the display is switched back to the image of the link origin. If none of the above-stated conditions applies, the initial image continues to be displayed while moving the displayed area according to the movement of the viewpoint within the active image. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS STORED - Provided is an information processing system with which a new function can be added without altering an application program itself. The information processing system includes: a first execution information obtaining unit configured to obtain first execution information which indicates an execution state of a first execution unit configured to execute an application program; an execution information storing unit configured to store the first execution information; and the first execution unit or a second execution unit configured to execute the application program, in which the first execution unit or the second execution unit uses the stored first execution information to execute the application program. | 08-01-2013 |