Sony Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony United Kingdom Limited

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Goro Takaki

Satoshi Akagawa

Mitsuo Okumura

Makoto Niijima

Koji Arai

Nobuki Furue

Satoshi Asai

Shigeya Yasui

Hidehiro Komatsu

Youko Masubuchi

Yoshihito Ohki

Shinichi Iriya

Makoto Imamura

Ippei Tambata

Katsuji Miyazawa

Takahiro Kawaguchi

Daisuke Kawamura

Kazuma Takahashi

Masanori Matsushima

Henry Newton-Dunn

Tatsushi Nashida

Yasushi Okumura

Steven Friedlander

Daisuke Sato

Tohru Kurata

Jin Sato

Keiichi Yoshioka

Takamoto Tsuda

Kazuto Mugura

Shoichiro Moriya

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Kazuto Nishizawa

Yoshiyasu Kubota

Ryuji Nakayama

Tatsuya Hama

Tatsuya Yokoyama

Ayumi Mizobuchi

Mami Uchida

Shoji Imamura

Nariaki Satoh

Travis Charles Baurmann

Rui Yamagami

Wataru Tajika

Nariaki Sato

Masayuki Ebisawa

Yushi Sayama

Yuka Ohashi

Roger Ibars

Kirihito Ogawa

Chris Shi-Chai Liu

Jon Gaiser

Kou Kusanaga

Kirihito c/o Nippon Inform Dev Co Ltd Ogawa

Display panel or screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

A contents management system manages multiple contents stored in a plurality of apparatuses. The contents management system includes a command input unit that assigns a viewing style for guiding a user to desired contents and a contents search condition; a screen format generating unit that generates a screen format according to the assigned viewing style; a contents search unit that searches a contents providing space constituted by the plurality of apparatuses, each storing contents, according to the assigned search condition; and a contents presenting unit that displays and outputs information on the individual contents searched by the contents search unit on the screen format through mapping.

Contents management system, contents management method, and computer program

Display panel or screen with graphical user interface

Display panel or screen with an icon

In a cooperative processing system for performing cooperative process between a portable terminal and a television terminal through a service server and a device control server, content and content information separately managed by a content server connected to the television terminal and the service server are searched based on a search condition extracted from the content or the content information reproduced and displayed by the portable terminal, and the search result of the content and the content information is seamlessly displayed on the television terminal. Consequently, the convenience of the user in content usage can be enhanced.

Information processing apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, information providing apparatus, device control apparatus, cooperative processing system, and program

Display panel or screen with a graphical user interface

Portion of a display panel or screen with an icon

A remote control handsetis provided for navigating a user interface of an entertainment device, the user interface having a hierarchical menu structure. The remote control handsethas a buttonon its upper surface, and a buttonon its lower surface. The buttonon its upper surfaceis used to navigate deeper into the hierarchical menu structure, and the buttonon its lower surfaceis used to navigate in the other direction (i.e. higher) in the menu structure. The remote control handsetis thus configured to make navigation of a graphical interface having hierarchical menu structure more intuitive, logical, and efficient.

Remote control handset

Icon for a portion of a display panel or screen

A remote control handset for intuitively navigating a user interface of an entertainment device, the user interface having a hierarchical menu structure. The remote control handset of the present invention is not required to have any buttons. The remote control handset has a first control surface, and a second control surface. The first control surface has a substantially planar portion and allows navigation with a level of the hierarchical menu structure. The second control surface has a component in an axis that is normal to the substantially planar portion of the first control surface, and is for navigating between the levels of the hierarchical menu structure.

There is provided a video display system in which when supplying a video signal from a base station () to a plurality of display units (transportable oneand large-screen one), an operation instruction generator generates a screen select instruction corresponding to the direction of the user's touch on a touch panel () provided on the display screen of the transportable display unit () that displays an image corresponding to a video signal supplied from the base station () and transmits the operation instruction from the transportable display unit () to the base station (), and a controller included in the base station () controls the channel selecting operation of two turning means included in the base station () correspondingly to the supplied operation instruction. Stroking the surface of the touch panel () on the display screen of the transportable display unit (), the user can transfer an image between the plurality of display units (). Thus, the user can intuitively select an operation of the video display system in a manner different from that using a button on the conventional remote controller.

Video display system and video display control apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa, Japan

Goro Takaki