Sony Corporation

Yoshihiro Chosokabe

Tomohiro Yamada

Atsushi Ishihara

Ikuo Matsumura

Makoto Sato

Daisuke Mochizuki

Kenji Fujita

Nobuhiko Ohguchi

Hirotomo Fukuda

Tomoyuki Oguchi

Disclosed herein is an image displaying method for a head-mounted type display unit which includes a frame of the glasses type for being mounted on the head of an observer, an image display apparatus attached to the frame, and a control section for controlling image display of the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes an image forming apparatus, and an optical apparatus. The image displaying method includes the steps of: storing a data group configured from a plurality of data in a storage section; adding a data identification code to each of the data; sending a designation identification code and display time information at predetermined intervals of time; and reading out the data whose data identification code coincides with the received designation identification code from the storage section and controlling the image forming apparatus to display an image based on the read out data.

Image displaying method for a head-mounted type display unit

A content reproducing apparatus includes: a recording unit that records content impression values obtained by digitizing impressions of plural contents, respectively, and a list for registering the plural contents corresponding to the plural content impression values in a selection area with a reference impression value set as a reference and causing a user to use the contents; a reproducing unit that reproduces the contents; an evaluation-value detecting unit that detects evaluation values of the plural contents registered in the list according to reproduction of the contents by the reproducing unit; a selection-area changing unit that changes the selection area on the basis of the evaluation values detected by the evaluation-value detecting unit; and a list correcting unit that corrects the list according to the selection area changed by the selection-area changing unit and the plural content impression values.

Content reproducing apparatus, list correcting apparatus, content reproducing method, and list correcting method

A content selecting method allows a target content to be selected as desired from a plurality of contents. The method includes transforming a three-dimensional image into a content selection image made up of a two-dimensional image viewed from a predetermined point of view, the three-dimensional image including content indicators each representing one of a plurality of contents, each of the content indicators being designated by a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates made of first, second and third impression item values obtained by converting three items representative of impressions of each content into numerical terms; displaying the content selection image; and discriminating a target content selected from the plurality of contents in accordance with the position of a selected target part on the content selection image and with the positions of the plurality of content indicators on the content selection image.

Content selecting method and content selecting apparatus

Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an impression of the content with which the mark is associated; and a selection section configured to select two or more content indication marks from the plurality of content indication marks arranged in the image. When the two or more content indication marks are selected by the selection section, the display control section displays, on the image, a line segment that joins the selected two or more content indication marks so as to indicate an order in which the contents corresponding to the selected two or more content indication marks are arranged.

Display apparatus, display method, and display program

The present invention provides a portable electronic device including an operator block, a display block, detection means, and control means. The operation block has a plurality of operation buttons arranged in matrix. The display block, arranged in the vicinity of the operator block, is capable of displaying a screen divided into a plurality of areas corresponding to the arrangement of the plurality of operation buttons, displaying a cursor for selecting each the areas, and entering the selection by operation of each of the operation buttons. The detection means detects whether any one of the plurality of operation buttons has been operated. The control means positions the cursor to the area corresponding to the detected operation button and displays the cursor on the display block.

Portable electronic device, display method, program, and graphical user interface thereof

A process execution apparatus and method is disclosed by which a process can be executed significantly simply and readily. The process execution apparatus includes a direction recognition section for recognizing a housing member shaking direction in which a housing member is shaken, and a process execution section for executing a process in response to the housing member shaking direction recognized by the direction recognition section. The direction recognition section recognizes the housing member shaking direction with respect to a direction of the gravity detected when the housing member is held by a person.

Process execution apparatus, process execution method and process execution program

An electronic device includes a main body, a drive mechanism configured to move the main body, a detector having a plurality of sensors mounted in the main body for detecting distances to an object which is present in a space around the main body, a calculator configured to calculate a direction of the object relative to the main body based on the detected distances, and a controller configured to control the drive mechanism to change an orientation of the main body dependent on the calculated direction.

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Nagano, Japan

Yoshihiro Chosokabe