Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Arriola, George

Shuji Hiramatsu

Shigeru Enomoto

Taku Sugawara

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Motoki Kobayashi

Munetaka Tsuda

Shinji Kimura

Takahiro Fujii

George A Arriola

Yumiko Tanaka

Anahi Bagu Casas

Akio Ohba

Ikuo Kobayashi

Masaki Higuchi

Akira Suzuki

Carsten C Schwesig

Toru Morita

Ryuji Nakayama

Masakazu Suzuoki

Ryuji Yamamoto

Masaki Takahashi

Toru Yamamoto

Hidenori Karasawa

Tomokazu Kake

Shunsuke Kunieda

Muneki Shimada

Kenjiro Komaki

Toyoshi Okada

Masaharu Sakai

Yousuke Kimoto

Hiromasa Horie

Keiso Shimakawa

You Asakura

Kojiro Umemura

Tyler Daniel

Yuta Kimura

Hidehisa Onai

Takanori Minamino

Edgar Allan Tu

Daisuke Kawamura

Takeshi Nakagawa

Takashi Hatakeda

Yurika Kondo

Satoshi Kobayashi

Koichi Aoki

Wataru Kaneko

Shoi Yonetomi

Yuto Hayakawa

Yoshinobu Matono

Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface

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

An information processing device includes a receiving section configured to receive an input of a usage purpose of the information processing device from a user, an identifying section configured to identify a procedure including one or more steps necessary for realizing the usage purpose, a first screen generating section configured to generate an operating screen for completing one step in the identified procedure, and a second screen generating section configured to generate an information screen including information regarding the identified procedure.

Information processing device and screen generation method

Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.

Menu screen display method and menu screen display device

Display panel or screen with an icon

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 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.

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.

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a novel user interface capable of switching a number of images for display on a screen. The information processing apparatus displays a menu image representing one or more menu item images on a screen, displays, when any one of the one or more menu item images is selected, a selection target image associated with the selected menu item image on the screen, stores a selected order of already-selected ones of the one or more menu item images, displays, when one direction along one side of the screen is specified, another selection target image, which is selected in accordance with the stored selected order and the one direction, and redisplays the menu image when an opposite direction to the one direction is specified in a state in which the selection target image associated with the menu image selected most recently is displayed.

Information processing apparatus for navigating and selecting programs

A portable terminal is provided with: a display device; a sensor configured to detect the orientation or position of the portable terminal; a data storage unit configured to store data; and a display control unit configured to display on the display device an icon or object that corresponds to the data stored in the data storage unit. The display control unit acquires information regarding the orientation or position of the portable terminal from the sensor and determines a display mode of the icon or object in accordance with a change in the orientation or position of the portable terminal.

Portable terminal having user interface function, display method, and computer program

Display screen with a graphical user interface

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.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shuji Hiramatsu