Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080256450 | INFORMATION PRESENTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In an information presenting apparatus, information associated with each of one or more motion images stored in a storage apparatus is displayed at a location corresponding to a file production time in the form of a calendar view. A plurality of frames of representative images are extracted from each motion image in accordance with a specified frame extraction method. Thumbnail images of the respective extracted representative images are produced, and each thumbnail image is related to a playback position in the motion image. The resultant thumbnail images are managed as a set of motion image thumbnail images in accordance with a production time of the motion image. Information associated with each motion image is displayed at a location corresponding to the production time of the motion image in the form of the calendar view. Thumbnail images associated with each motion image are displayed in an expanded form in the order of time. | 10-16-2008 |
20110014006 | SELF-TAPPING SCREW - According to the present invention, a self-tapping screw capable of obtaining large fastening force as accurately tapping an internal thread with small screwing torque includes a screw shaft | 01-20-2011 |
20110106842 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TUNER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a program image displaying unit configured to display an image of a program on a predetermined display device; a search key acquisition unit configured to acquire program related information as a search key from a source of the information; a search execution unit configured to transmit a search request designating the search key to a predetermined search server and acquire a result of the search; and a search result display unit configured to display the result of the search in a part of a display screen on the display device showing the image of the program. | 05-05-2011 |
20120124620 | Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing Method - An information apparatus is provided with: a comment processing unit that acquires, from an external posting site, a comment of a viewer by using a tag as a search key, the comment is a viewer's feedback on the content of a program being viewed and related to a tag for grouping with other comments; and a display processing unit that generates data to be displayed on a screen, the data include image of a program being broadcast by a first broadcasting station and at least one comment for a program being broadcast by a second broadcasting station different from the first broadcasting station. | 05-17-2012 |
20120249876 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TUNER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a portal screen displaying unit configured to display a portal screen that serves as a source of transition for a plurality of screens related to the viewing of a program on a predetermined display device; an indicator acquisition unit configured to acquire an indicator indicative of the number of viewers viewing a program being broadcast from an information management server; and a popularity determination unit configured to determine the popularity of the program being broadcast in accordance with the indicator. The portal screen displaying unit displays on the portal screen an object to be selected to transition to a screen for viewing the program being broadcast and displays information indicating the popularity of the program. | 10-04-2012 |
20130132890 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A file management apparatus includes the following elements: a representative image storage device storing representative image data of each of a plurality of content files in association with a creation time of the content file; a rendering unit rendering the representative image data at a position corresponding to the creation time with a calendar continuous over days, months, and years serving as a background; a display state maintaining unit maintaining, as a display state, a time-axis range of the calendar being displayed and a position thereof; an operation receiving unit receiving a change operation to change the display state, the change operation commonly being a scrolling operation in a time-series direction in any time-axis range; and a controller controlling, in response to the change operation, the rendering means to render the representative image data on the calendar on the basis of the display state. | 05-23-2013 |
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