Sony Corporation

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sony Electronics Inc

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Tetsuya Kohno

Junichiro Sakata

Shinichi Iriya

Takatoshi Nakamura

Takamoto Tsuda

Kazuhiro Kondo

Tatsuya Hama

Kazuhiro Akaike

Yukiko Ohkura

Yukako Morimoto

Ikuo Terado

Katsunori Miura

Satomi Yonezawa

Makoto Imamura

Keiji Yuzawa

Yuriko Kishitaka

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Osamu Sakurai

Toshihiko Kawai

Tota Hasegawa

Atsushi Sakaida

Masamichi Ono

Kazuo Ishii

Tatsushi Nashida

Jun Suzuki

Masahiko Sato

Keigo Ihara

Yuichiro Ishii

Toshiaki Sato

Junichi Nagahara

Seiji Muramatsu

Kazuya Umeyama

Yuji Morimiya

Mayu Irimajiri

Satoshi Iino

Mototsugu Tsutsui

Naoki Fujisawa

Kayo Sasaki

Junji Ooi

Kanae Fukamatsu

Soichi Sato

Ryutaro Sakai

Emi Arakawa

Hideo Terasawa

Kazumasa Okumura

Toshiyuki Masui

Hideaki Nishino

Miki Furuya

Kuriko Takeshima

Yukiko Okura

Toshiro Ozawa

Naoki Kigawa

Mika Ito

Yoshifumi Ueno

Tomoe Tanaka

Yoshiko Sakamoto

Mizuho Ikeda

Yukiko Machiyama

Atsuko Deguchi

Yuriko Kishtaka

There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.

Menu display apparatus, menu display method, and storage medium containing menu display program

An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

An information processing apparatus comprising a first sending/receiving means for a first information processing apparatus; a second sending/receiving means for a second information processing apparatus; a first recording means for recording normal content data and restricted content data; a second recording means for recording information required for selecting data; an updating means for updating the information recorded; and a selection means for selecting data to be sent to said first information processing apparatus from the first content data and the second content data recorded by said first recording means based on the information recorded by said second recording means in response to a request signal from said first information processing apparatus received by said first sending/receiving means.

Information processing apparatus with first and second sending/receiving units

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

An object of the present invention is to allow a client to make a request for music data stored in a server and to receive it and play it back. A client programcontrols the sending of a request signal to a server, the reception and playback processing of music data from the server, and the display of a GUI performed by a display controller, and outputs the music data received by a communication unitfrom the serverto an audio data converter. A server programcontrols the sending of music data to the client, and registration of information in a music database, a link information database, and a ranking information database, searches the music databasefor the requested music data, and sends the music data to the client. The present invention can be applied to a personal computer, a PDA, a cellular telephone, a desk-top playback device, a portable playback device, and a simplified playback device.

A portable terminal in which the labor in inputting plural characters and a variety of information can be relieved in case limitations are imposed on the number of available keys. The portable terminal includes an LCDa memoryfor storing the dictionary information comprised of plural words and exemplary sentences, a key input unitfor inputting unit characters, a CPUfor retrieving from the memory the words and/or exemplary sentences displayed on the LCDbased on the input from the key input unitand/or on the character string already finalized, and a jog dialA desired word and/or exemplary sentence is selected from the plural words and/or exemplary sentences retrieved by the CPUresponsive to rotation of the jog dialand displayed on the LCDand the information on the finalized character string is generated.

Portable terminal, method for inputting the information, method and apparatus for dictionary retrieval and medium

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

Disclosed herein is a portable terminal apparatus having a novel surface lighting portion which can appeal to user's vision intensively and variously and can effectively make the notification of incoming calls or the like by means of light. The portable terminal apparatus includes a housing, a surface lighting portion provided on the outer surface of the housing, and a panel member detachably mounted on the housing so as to cover the surface lighting portion. At least a part of the panel member is transparent or semitransparent. The surface lighting portion has a flat outer surface, and the panel member is a flat plate like member, wherein the housing has a device for holding the flat plate like member placed on the flat outer surface of the surface lighting portion. The whole of the surface lighting portion is illuminated upon receiving an incoming call, for example, and the panel member is also illuminated according to a pattern formed thereon.

Portable terminal apparatus

This invention is relative with a text displaying terminal unit used for preparation, transmission/reception and display of a text message. A text message entered by a user is collated to a keyword and, if there is a keyword in the text, displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image are added to the text to send the resulting text added by the displaying attributes to a server (). Alternatively, the server may collate the text to the keyword to add the displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image to the text. A receiving side terminal unit receives an XML document (), added by the displaying attributes, from the server to display the XML document added by the displaying attributes as a motion text message. This motion text message may also be provided by the server to the user as the Web information.

Text display terminal device and server

A method of three-dimensionally rotating a plurality of menus displayed in an ordered stack on a display unit of a portable telephone. The method displays the plurality of menus three-dimensionally on the display unit according to the ordered stack. The menu displayed in front is a current menu and the remainder of the menus are displayed in order behind the current menu. A menu rotation direction is selected and the plurality of menus are rotated in the menu rotation direction in accordance with the ordered stack. In this manner, the next menu in the ordered stack is rotated in the menu rotation direction to the front and becomes the current menu.

Information processing device, item display method, program storage medium

According to the present invention, when displaying a jog-dial window menu on a liquid crystal display, hierarchically-structured menu items are displayed with a hierarchy icon, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize whether or not that menu item is hierarchically structured and improving the operation of menu selection. Furthermore, scroll display of a character string indicating a menu item is performed in an identification frame, thereby enabling the user to read the entire character string from beginning to end for easy recognition thereof and improving the operation of menu selection. Still further, a character string of a menu selected from among a plurality of menu items is displayed in a different color from other character strings, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize the selected menu item and improving the operation of menu selection.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium for controlling and displaying a menu

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuya Kohno