Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Adrian Crisan

Nikolaos Georgis

Fredrik Carpio

Paul Jin Hwang

Gary Lyons

Yi Zhou

Edward Theodore Winter

Sean Kennedy

Andrew Lee Lawton

Kirk Dulaney

Hong Ye

Christopher Mark Ohren

Rommel Garay

Marc Steven Birnkrant

Gary Robert Lyons

Arvind Knudsen

A computer with multiple software applications has defined for it plural software profiles for selection of one of the profiles in response to a system and/or user signal. Each profile when selected enables a respective set of applications to run on the system.

System and method for configuring plural software profiles

Internet connection may come through a single host computer and sent to appliance computers, as in a laptop or camera. This application intends to automatically connect the appliances to the Internet established by the host computer by means of either electronic communication or preprogramming both computers with the same network access information.

Automatic internet connection sharing among related devices

A camera system includes an image sensor and a processing apparatus receiving image frames from the sensor before and after receipt of a user picture signal. The processing apparatus discards frames that do not meet a quality criterion such as under-exposed frames. Also, the processing apparatus compresses only a subset of remaining frames, specifically, those that meet a compression amount threshold. The remaining frames are presented to a user, who can select a representative frame as the 'picture' that was taken.

Pre- and post-shutter signal image capture and sort for digital camera

A method and system for providing computer application support. The method comprises determining a set of installed applications on a source computer using a software manager module executing on a computer, generating a set of usage information for the set of installed applications on the one or more source computers, deriving a set of analysis results from the usage information using a software analysis module executing on a computer, generating a list of applications from the set of analysis results using the software analysis module, and providing the list to a destination computer.

Method and system for providing computer application support

A system and method for effectively supporting software distribution in an electronic network includes a software server and a network of client devices. The software server stores software items received from a software provider. The software items include various types of trial software that is provided to device users for temporary evaluation and potential purchase. A recommendation engine of the software server creates recommendation lists to identify optimal candidates from among the stored software items for performing an automatic and transparent software download procedures. The recommendation engine creates the recommendation lists by analyzing selectable software-ranking criteria related to device users of the client devices. The software server then downloads the optimal candidates from the stored software items to respective target devices during the software download procedures.

System and method for effectively providing software to client devices in an electronic network

A method for touchpad edge gesture detection comprising detecting touch input on a touchpad, determining if the touch input originates externally to the touchpad, determining if the touch input ends internally to the touchpad and performing a command on a computer corresponding to the touch input.

Method and apparatus for enabling touchpad gestures

Images are offloaded from a portable camera automatically to a network server at the time the images are taken, transparently to a user of the camera. The server executes processing functions on the images and returns the output of the processing over the network to the camera and/or other user-defined destination device to thereby relieve the camera processor of potentially complex processing chores.

Offloading processing of images from a portable digital camera

A method and apparatus to providing higher resolution images on an embedded device by performing a super resolution technique on a compressed image sequence and one or more motion vectors are described. In one example, the method includes compressing an image sequence using a video compression technique, wherein the image sequence comprises a plurality of lower resolution images and applying a super resolution technique to the compressed image sequence to generate a higher resolution image.

Method and apparatus for providing higher resolution images in an embedded device

A user of a user computer whose hard disk drive (HDD) is 'fried' can press a special key to cause BIOS to automatically gather location information about the computer from its GPS receiver and gather information about the HDD, activate a WWAN transceiver, and automatically send the location and HDD information over the WWAN to a service computer, which may return a location of a nearest service center to the user computer and any other advice including recovery advice for the HDD that the service center might be able to divine from the information sent to it by the user computer.

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Adrian Crisan