Patents by Inventor Akinobu Sugino

Akinobu Sugino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8847789
    Abstract: An information provision system includes a terminal device, and an information provision device that can communicate with the terminal device. The information provision device includes a communicating section configured to communicate with the terminal device, a head count information managing section configured to manage current head count information for each position, and a crowd information generating section configured to determine a position for making a notification display based on the managed head count information, and generate crowd information containing information of the determined position, and a transmission control section configured to transmit the generated crowd information from the communicating section to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada, Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 8687925
    Abstract: An image storage processing apparatus includes an image acquisition means for acquiring taken image data imaged at an imaging apparatus unit, a bio-information acquisition means for acquiring bio-information of a user of the imaging apparatus unit at the time of imaging the taken image data acquired by the image acquisition means, a subject information acquisition means for acquiring subject information as an image analysis result of the taken image data acquired by the image acquisition means and a storage processing means for performing processing of recording the taken image data acquired by the image acquisition means, the bio-information acquired by the bio-information acquisition means and the subject information acquired by the subject information acquisition means in a recording medium in a state in which they are associated with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yoichiro Sako, Hideko Tabata
  • Patent number: 8688370
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information display method whereby an information processing apparatus displays a map on a display screen such that a cursor is displayed at a position measured as the current position of a position indication object on the map. The method includes the steps of, when the moving speed of the position indication object is equal to or less than a threshold speed, scrolling the map on the display screen in accordance with the movement of the position indication object in a first display mode, and when the moving speed of the position indication object is greater than the threshold speed, fixing the map on the display screen in a second display mode or reducing the speed of scrolling the map on the display screen so that the scrolling speed is less than that in the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Yasunori Kamada, Kazunori Hayashi, Masamichi Asukai, Akane Sano, Akinobu Sugino, Taiji Ito, Yoshiteru Kamatani
  • Patent number: 8670048
    Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation section that performs a shutter operation, and a control section that causes the temporarily retaining section to retain picked-up-image-data items in a shutter-operation period, that selects, on the basis of detection results obtained by the movement-detecting section in the shutter-operation period, a picked-up-image-data item from among the retained picked-up-image-data items, and that causes the storage-process section to perform the storage process on the selected picked-up-image-data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Sugino, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano, Hirotaka Sakaguchi, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Yoichiro Sako, Itaru Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8660293
    Abstract: An imaged image data processing apparatus includes obtaining means for obtaining imaged image data, which is imaged by an imaging section that images the sight of a user, extracting means for extracting identification data for identifying a viewed program from the imaged image data obtained by the obtaining means, and transmitting means for transmitting the identification data extracted by the extracting means to an external viewing information creating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano
  • Publication number: 20140047466
    Abstract: An imaged image data processing apparatus includes obtaining means for obtaining imaged image data, which is imaged by an imaging section that images the sight of a user, extracting means for extracting identification data for identifying a viewed program from the imaged image data obtained by the obtaining means, and transmitting means for transmitting the identification data extracted by the extracting means to an external viewing information creating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano
  • Publication number: 20130335352
    Abstract: According to some aspects, an image display apparatus is provided comprising a display apparatus comprising a display section and a controller. The controller may be configured to display a map image via the display section, set location specification information based on an input specifying a position on the map image, and transmit the location specification information to a server apparatus, receive image data transmitted from the server apparatus in response to the transmission of location specification information to the server apparatus, the received image data having been obtained by photographing by an imaging section of an imaging apparatus configured to be worn on a head of a user, and the received image data having been transmitted to the server apparatus from the imaging apparatus in addition to additional data comprising location information detected at a time when the image data was photographed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki Tsuruta, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Nozomu Ozaki, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yonetaro Totsuka
  • Patent number: 8473544
    Abstract: If a user specifies a location on a map image, he or she can see an image shot at that location. An imaging apparatus (an imaging/display apparatus 1 or an imaging apparatus 30) placed on a movable body transmits shot image data to a server apparatus together with additional data that includes location information about a photographing point, so that they are stored in the server apparatus. That is, the server apparatus accumulates pieces of image data obtained by photographing in various places by a great number of imaging apparatuses together with the location information thereof. A user of the display apparatus (the imaging/display apparatus 1 or the display apparatus 40) specifies a location on the map image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki Tsuruta, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Nozomu Ozaki, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yonetaro Totsuka
  • Patent number: 8456536
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes a sightline detection unit that detects the line of sight of a subject directed toward an imaging device in a captured image captured by the imaging device and containing at least one subject and a sightline indicating unit that clearly indicates, in correspondence to each subject, whether or not the line of sight of the subject directed toward the imaging device has been detected based upon sightline detection results provided by the sightline detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Sugino, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 8385894
    Abstract: An information delivery apparatus is provided, including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Patent number: 8363910
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device that includes a facial image extraction portion, a positivity computation portion, and a selected image update portion. The facial image extraction portion specifies a facial region of an imaged subject within at least one sequentially input selection-eligible image and extracts from the selection-eligible image a facial image that corresponds to the facial region. The positivity computation portion computes for the selection-eligible image, using the corresponding facial image, a positivity of the imaged subject toward a person who acquired the selection-eligible image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20130013186
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information display method whereby an information processing apparatus displays a map on a display screen such that a cursor is displayed at a position measured as the current position of a position indication object on the map. The method includes the steps of, when the moving speed of the position indication object is equal to or less than a threshold speed, scrolling the map on the display screen in accordance with the movement of the position indication object in a first display mode, and when the moving speed of the position indication object is greater than the threshold speed, fixing the map on the display screen in a second display mode or reducing the speed of scrolling the map on the display screen so that the scrolling speed is less than that in the first display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Yasunori Kamada, Kazunori Hayashi, Masamichi Asukai, Akane Sano, Akinobu Sugino, Taiji Ito, Yoshiteru Kamatani
  • Patent number: 8321127
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information display method whereby an information processing apparatus displays a map on a display screen such that a cursor is displayed at a position measured as the current position of a position indication object on the map. The method includes the steps of, when the moving speed of the position indication object is equal to or less than a threshold speed, scrolling the map on the display screen in accordance with the movement of the position indication object in a first display mode, and when the moving speed of the position indication object is greater than the threshold speed, fixing the map on the display screen in a second display mode or reducing the speed of scrolling the map on the display screen so that the scrolling speed is less than that in the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Yasunori Kamada, Kazunori Hayashi, Masamichi Asukai, Akane Sano, Akinobu Sugino, Taiji Ito, Yoshiteru Kamatani
  • Patent number: 8280225
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device capable of communicating with a purchase history storage device for storing purchase history data and a display device, the information processing device including a storage unit for storing user image data and property data; a communication unit; a purchase history data acquiring unit for acquiring the purchase history data; a property data recording unit for generating and recording the property data based on the purchase history data; a property data updating unit for updating the property data to property data including a second property image represented with a time interval from when the user purchased the property until present based on the property data and time information; and a display data generating unit for generating display data shown with the user image and an image of the property according to the display request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kamada, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Takashi Fukushima, Masamichi Asukai, Akane Sano, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Mitsuru Takehara
  • Patent number: 8175571
    Abstract: A communication system includes: sender-side communication equipment including a detection unit configured to detect information indicating the condition of a user, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating the condition of the user detected through the detection unit to a communication partner; and receiver-side communication equipment including a reception unit configured to receive information indicating the condition of the user transmitted from the sender-side communication equipment, a notification unit configured to notify the condition corresponding to the condition of the user received through the reception unit, and a control unit configured to control the notification unit based on information indicating the condition of the user received through the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kamatani, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako, Akane Sano, Akinobu Sugino
  • Publication number: 20120094641
    Abstract: An information delivery apparatus is provided, including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Patent number: 8107771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-image acquisition section and configured to use the pixel area of a photographed-subject image of a specific type in the taken image as a to-be-processed area of an image conversion process in accordance with the size of the photographed-subject image if a result of the analysis indicates that the photographed-subject image exists in the taken image. The apparatus further includes an image conversion section configured to carry out the image conversion process on the photographed-subject image with the pixel area thereof used as the to-be-processed area in order to generate a post-conversion image obtained as a result of the image conversion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Itaru Kawakami, Masaaki Tsuruta, Nozomu Ozaki, Hirotaka Sakaguchi, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8077209
    Abstract: An imaging preventing apparatus includes imaging means for obtaining an imaged image signal by performing imaging processing, image analyzing means for performing image analyzing processing on the imaged image signal obtained by the imaging means, imaging preventing operation performing means for performing a preventing operation against imaging by a different camera system, and control means for determining the possibility of being imaged by a different camera system based on the analysis result information by the image analyzing means and, if it is determined that there is a possibility of being imaged, causing the imaging preventing operation performing means to perform the preventing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kamatani, Nozomu Ozaki, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Akane Sano, Hirotaka Sakaguchi, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 8055246
    Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Patent number: 8009219
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and a control section that controls transmission of image data and speed information to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a movable body speed management section that manages the moving speed of the movable body using the speed information; and a control section that identifies an imaging apparatus that matches speed specification information, and causes image data to be transferred from the identified imaging apparatus to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display section; and a control section that performs a speed specification process, an image request transmission process, and a display process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki Tsuruta, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Nozomu Ozaki, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yonetaro Totsuka