Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Jorge Furuya

Yoshimitsu Funabashi

Takashi Kawakami

Brian Bellamy Johnson

George A Arriola

Takahiro Kawaguchi

Seigo Iwasaki

Kichiro Kurozumi

Takashi Hasegawa

Takahiro Okada

Tetsuya Takahashi

Masatoshi Inagawa

Hironobu Aoki

Erica Kato

Makoto Kamiya

Takamasa Kuramitsu

Shunsuke Kunieda

Akitaka Kimura

Brian W Johnson

Hiroyuki Kawakami

Kenta Ohmori

Xiaoyu Ruan

Brian Johnson

Taskashi Hasegawa

[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

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 GUI screen image is a standard screen image, and displays a first combined GUI area, which is a combination of a GUI of the directional keys and a GUI of a joystick, and a second combined GUI area, which is a combination of a GUI of the four-type operation buttons and a GUI of a joystick, at the lower left and at the lower right on the screen image, respectively. Depending on an area in the first combined GUI area or in the second combined GUI area to which a user newly touches, which of the combined GUI to be used is determined and a screen image is switched, and if a finger or a thumb detaches, the screen image switches back.

Method and apparatus for area-efficient graphical user interface

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Jorge Furuya