Sony Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Thomson Licensing

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Yoshimitsu Funabashi

Shunsuke Kunieda

Atsushi Imai

Takamoto Tsuda

Takeshi Matsuzawa

Mayu Irimajiri

Keiko Hiraoka

Tatsuhiko Nishimura

Takeshi Tanigawa

Tomoharu Okamoto

Akihiko Adachi

Motoki Kobayashi

Shinichi Iriya

Seiji Muramatsu

Kayo Sasaki

Miwako Yoritate

George A Arriola

Jorge Furuya

Takashi Kawakami

Brian Bellamy Johnson

Takahiro Kawaguchi

Seigo Iwasaki

Kichiro Kurozumi

Takashi Hasegawa

Takahiro Okada

Tetsuya Takahashi

Masatoshi Inagawa

Hironobu Aoki

Brian Johnson

Takamasa Kuramitsu

Erica Kato

Makoto Kamiya

Akitaka Kimura

Brian W Johnson

Hiroyuki Kawakami

Kenta Ohmori

Xiaoyu Ruan

Tomoharu c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Okamoto

Keiko c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Hiraoka

Matsuzawa c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Tanigawa

Akihiko c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Adachi

Takamoto c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Tsuda

Tatsuhiko c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Nishimura

Takeshi c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Tanigawa

Atsushi c/o Sony Ericsson Mobile Imai

[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 currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen that is a shooting mode. When a time dialis rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image PI captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image Pcaptured before the reproduced image PI is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images PI and Pare displayed at the same time on a display screen STas a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dialis rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images PI to Pare displayed on a display screen that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced image, the reproduced images PI to Pare displayed along a time axis.

Imaging apparatus, user interface and associated methodology for a co-existent shooting and reproduction mode

An information processing apparatus includes a 3D(three dimensional)-matrix arranging portion and a luminance/transmittance display controller portion. When a plurality of contents are list-displayed, the 3D-matrix arranging portion arranges the plurality of contents in a 3D-matrix-like form ('3D-matrix,' hereinbelow) in accordance with predetermined three axes. The 3D matrix includes a plurality of planes each containing a group of contents of the plurality of contents. The luminance/transmittance display controller portion displays on a display portion the respective groups of contents of the plurality of contents arranged in the 3D matrix, in a manner that luminance is gradually reduced in a direction from contents on a front-most plane of the plurality of planes to contents on a rear-most plane, and transmittance is gradually increased in the direction from the contents on the front-most plane to the contents on the rear-most plane.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and mobile terminal device

A user operates a GUI with a thumb and an index finger while holding an information processing device with left and right hands. The GUI screen image displays a directional keys input area at the lower left on the screen image, a button input area at the lower right on the screen image, an L/Lbutton input area at the upper left on the screen image, and an R/Rbutton input area at the upper right on the screen image. The L/Land the R/Rbutton input areas are in the form of circle sectors, whereby the center angles of the circle sectors are at right angles of the two upper corners of the screen, and by internally dividing the center angles further so as to divide the sectors into two sectors respectively, the Land Lbuttons, and the Rand Rbuttons are distinguished.

Method and apparatus for area-efficient graphical user interface

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.

A screen STof an LCD with which a digital camera is provided displays an icon of a folder Findicating that the folder Fhas been selected. Image files Pand Pare captured reproduced images. A display frame SC displays a currently captured picture of an object, files Pand P, and the icon of the folder F. To switch the folder Fto a folder F, the user presses a down button of a cross key. When the user presses the down button on the screen ST, the screen STis switched to a screen STthrough a screen ST. On the screen ST, the number denoted in the icon is changed. The screen STdisplays a state of which the folders are being switched. An icon displayed on the screen STindicates that the folder Fwas switched to the folder F

Imaging apparatus and user interface

An information processing apparatus includes a user evaluation value table and a display controller portion. In the user evaluation value table, user evaluation values each corresponding to the number of processes of the respective content are stored on a basis of the respective content. When performing display changing of a respective content intended for display on a display portion, the controller portion detects from the user evaluation value table a user evaluation value of a content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion. Then, the controller portion performs change control to change a display time period for the content intended to be graphically displayed on the display portion in accordance with the detected user evaluation value.

Information processing apparatus, method and computer program storage device having user evaluation value table features

An acquisition unit acquires a content image corresponding to content. A content image display unit arranges a plurality of content images side by side in a display screen image, and a related information display unit displays information related to an arranged content image. A first reception unit acquires a first moving instruction for the content images arranged side by side, and a second reception unit acquires a second moving instruction for the content images arranged side by side. The content image display unit moves the content images according to a moving instruction acquired by the first reception unit or the second reception unit. A related information display unit displays different types of related information when the first reception unit acquires the first moving instruction and when the second reception unit acquires the second moving instruction.

Electronic device, method of displaying display item, and search processing method

Display panel or screen with graphical user interface

A currently captured image of an object is displayed at a center of a display frame on a display screen in a shooting mode. When a dial is rotated, the currently captured image is moved rightward. A reproduced image captured before the currently captured image is displayed on the left thereof. Another reproduced image captured before the reproduced image is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image and the reproduced images are displayed simultaneously on the display screen as a co-existent shooting and reproducing mode. When the dial is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images are displayed in a reproducing mode. The reproduced images are displayed along a time axis.

Imaging apparatus, user interface, and associated methodology for a co-existent shooting and reproduction mode

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshimitsu Funabashi