Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Network Entertainment International LLC

Zero360, Inc.

Arriola, George

George A Arriola

Carsten C Schwesig

Michael Bauerly

Takahiro Kawaguchi

Kichiro Kurozumi

Taku Sugawara

Motoki Kobayashi

Shuji Hiramatsu

Shigeru Enomoto

Yoshimitsu Funabashi

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Yumiko Tanaka

Shinji Kimura

Rui Yamagami

George Williams

Mike Bauerly

Takashi Kawakami

Brian Bellamy Johnson

Brian W Johnson

George Edward Williams

Jorge Furuya

Seigo Iwasaki

Corianda Rocklein

Takashi Hasegawa

Tatsushi Nashida

Takahiro Okada

Tetsuya Takahashi

Reiko Miyazaki

Ken Miyashita

Masatoshi Inagawa

Kenichi Yamaura

Keisuke Yanagisawa

Anahi Bagu Casas

Hironobu Aoki

Brian Johnson

Kou Kusanagi

Erica Kato

Makoto Kamiya

Takamasa Kuramitsu

Akitaka Kimura

Hiroyuki Kawakami

Manabu Sakamoto

Peter Karsten

Kenta Ohmori

Nicholas Trotta

Kouji Kodera

Joachim Müller-Lancé

Xiaoyu Ruan

Taskashi Hasegawa

A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a library icon used to search for an item of content.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A life management system receives data from a client device worn by a user, the data comprising biotelemetry data and activity data collected about a user wearing the client device. The life management system generates snapshot information using information from a group consisting of: the biotelemetry data, activity data, social data associated with the user, and user profile information associated with the user. The life management system generates a recommendation using portions of the snapshot information, and updates the snapshot information with the recommendation. The life management system executes a recommendation associated with the snapshot information in accordance with the user controls associated with the user.

System and method for making a recommendation for a user of a life management system

Methods and apparatus are provided for a user interface to allow for navigating a hierarchical menu. In one embodiment a method includes displaying a user interface including one or more menu elements, wherein each menu element is associated with a row of content titles that may be displayed by the user interface and detecting an input command associated with a menu element. The method may further include updating the display of the user interface based on the input command, wherein presentation of a row of content titles associated with the menu element is updated to allow for navigation within the row, and wherein content titles presented by the user interface for the menu element are a subset of content titles that may be accessed based on the menu element. The method may allow for bypassing one or more levels of the hierarchical menu.

Method and apparatus for navigating a hierarchical menu based user interface

[Object] To enable a user to simply and easily confirm update information of a plurality of pieces of content data handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. [Solving Means] A plurality of update information display cards () are aligned and displayed on a display screen (). The update information display cards () displayed on the display screen () are associated with different pieces of content data, and update information of the content data is individually arranged on the corresponding update information display card (). Moreover, the update information display cards () on which the update information of the different types of content data are arranged are aligned and displayed on the display screen () in a chronological order of the updates of the content data.

Information terminal, information presentation method for an information terminal, and information presentation program

A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.

A system and method for employing a user interface to facilitate user access to games. The example method includes displaying a band of plural adjacent tiles, wherein each tile represents a game, and wherein the band is scrollable in response to a specific user input; and arranging adjacent tiles based on a sorting rule, wherein the sorting rule includes arranging each tile according to a time of use and/or a time of download of a game associated with each tile. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes illustrating, via the adjacent tiles, one or more games corresponding to one or game recommendations obtained in response to accessing a social network associated with a user of the user interface. Menu selections can allow access to recommendations; access to related games; access to games based on social network usage, and so on.

User interface for accessing games

A screen generating unitgenerates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unitfurther arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.

Display panel or screen with an animated graphical user interface

An information terminal enables a user to simply and easily confirm a plurality of pieces of update information handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. An information storage stores a plurality of different types of information. An update information storage stores a part of information updated in the information storages as update information associated with the respective types. An update information manager monitors an information update in the information storages and stores, when an information update is made in the information storages, the part of the updated information in the update information storage as update information associated with the respective types. Further, an information selector extracts the update information stored in the update information storage in time series and outputs them to display them on a screen.

A home screen display unit arranges and displays a plurality of content icons indicating a plurality of pieces of content in a first area in a content zone screen. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor and if a preset determination operation is performed, a content playback unit starts playback of the content indicated by the focused icon. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor, a related information acquiring unit acquires related information relating to the content that is indicated by the focused icon that is registered in an external device from the external device without starting playback of the content. A home screen display unit displays the acquired related information in a second area of the content zone screen and displays, if related information is updated, the updated related information in the second area so as to replace the related information displayed until that moment.

In one embodiment, a method of controlling a user interface can include: displaying first objects in a foreground on a display screen, where each first object represents media content, and where the first objects are displayed with a first display characteristic; accepting a signal indicating user selection of one of the first objects; displaying media content for the selected object in a background on the display screen, where the media content is displayed in the background with a second display characteristic, where the second display characteristic includes a changed cinematic characteristic from the first display characteristic in order to reduce attraction of attention for the second display characteristic relative to the first display characteristic; and displaying second objects in the foreground on the display screen, where the second objects are associated with the selected object, and where the second objects are displayed with the first display characteristic.

Platform agnostic UI/UX and human interaction paradigm

A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screenthat is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screenthat is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screenwith image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen

A method of operation of an electronic device system includes: detecting a drag performed on a touch screen, the drag having a starting point and an ending point; detecting a stretchable cursor extendable based on the drag, the stretchable cursor having a cursor length, a cursor direction, a starting portion, and an ending portion at the ending point and larger than the starting portion at the starting point; displaying the stretchable cursor on the touch screen; and performing a process routine based on the cursor length and the cursor direction, the process routine continued after the stretchable cursor is pasted with the drag performed on the touch screen.

Electronic device system with process continuation mechanism and method of operation thereof

Display panel or screen with graphical user interface

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

George A Arriola