Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shionozaki

Atsushi Shionozaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20200116513
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that make it possible to implement navigation that is safe and less affected by an ambient environment. [Solving Means] The information processing apparatus includes a controller that specifies a second user who travels to a destination that is the same as a destination of a first user, and causes output of identification information for identifying the second user who has been specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10613538
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile body control system, a control method, and a storage medium in which a mobile body can move to an appropriate angle and distance in accordance with emotion of a communication target. Provided is a mobile body control system that includes a moving unit that moves; a measuring unit that measures an angle and a distance with a target (2) which is a communication target; an emotion estimating unit that estimates an emotion of the target; and a control unit that controls the moving unit to move a mobile body (1) to an initial position with an appropriate angle and distance with respect to the target in accordance with the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10540805
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a depth acquisition unit configured to acquire depth information of an object included in a captured image, an image combining unit configured to combine the object with an image object having depth information according to each piece of the depth information, and an effect processing unit configured to execute effect processing according to the depth information of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Junichi Rekimoto, Hiroshi Goto
  • Patent number: 10460587
    Abstract: Radio wave information is observed in a predetermined environment. Information related to the radio wave is compared to new radio wave information. In a case where a result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition, a user is provided with a predetermined function. In an embodiment, positional information showing a position where the radio wave information is acquired and a time stamp is recorded for comparison, and in a case where the newly acquired radio wave information is radio wave information corresponding to a suspicious-person, a warning is issued to a user. In an embodiment, in a case where predetermined pieces of home radio wave information are not detected within a predetermined period, a system is operated to manage a house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20190314720
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method capable of controlling content that is to be provided in association with a location in consideration of feelings of persons who are present at the location. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including: a communication unit that receives at least information related to a feeling of a user who is present in a predetermined region; and a control unit that controls content that is associated with the predetermined region and is to be provided to the user, on the basis of the feeling of the user who is present in the predetermined region, which is specified on the basis of the information received by the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190287390
    Abstract: A mobile unit control unit causes a communication unit to transmit user setting information supplied from an input unit and control data for controlling a mobile unit. A display control unit generates display data corresponding to the human flow data in a human flow data DB, and outputs the generated display data to a display unit. The communication unit transmits control data, measurement area information, and landing area information to the mobile unit, and receives human flow data from the mobile unit and supplies the human flow data to a control unit. The input unit sets setting information relating to human flow data measurement, in response to a user operation. The display unit performs display corresponding to the display data generated by the display control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a human flow measurement system including a mobile unit and a terminal, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Masamichi ASUKAI
  • Publication number: 20190272771
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device and an information processing method capable of accumulating indirect resource saving acts, and preferentially providing resources to a user in accordance with accumulation of the acts. [Solution] An information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive information obtained by sensing an action of a user; and a control unit configured to accumulate, in units of users, action information of indirectly saving resources in a predetermined storage unit on a basis of the information, and perform control, when the user is estimated to desire resources, to generate a control signal for preferentially providing the resources to the user, and transmit the control signal via the communication unit, in accordance with the accumulated action information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190086214
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo TAWARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190033957
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system, a client terminal, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of selecting an appropriate agent from among multiple agents according to a user emotion, and providing more comfortable dialogue. [Solution] An information processing system including: a storage section that holds a plurality of agent programs with different attributes; a communication section that provides an agent service by the agent programs to a client terminal of a user; and a control section that selects, from among the plurality of agent programs, one agent program suited to an emotion of a user who can use the agent service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10186084
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image that shows a real object including a primary recognition target and a secondary recognition target, and a control unit configured to set an augmented reality space associated with the image on the basis of image recognition of the primary recognition target, and configured to decide an augmented reality object to be arranged in the augmented reality space depending on the secondary recognition target that is recognized on the basis of the image recognition of the primary recognition target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10175050
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10133966
    Abstract: To provide a technology capable of having another object related to one object easily recognized after detection of the one object, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a predetermined detection object, a data obtaining unit configured to obtain instruction information ordering that a predetermined imaging object according to the detection object fall within an imaging range of an imaging unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Hiroshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20180248819
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system and an information processing method to enable an automatic response to be performed with higher affinity in accordance with a mental condition of a user. An information processing system including: a database that accumulates a relationship between a user for which a virtual agent is substituted and a partner user as a communication partner on a network; and a control unit that generates a message in accordance with a mental condition of the partner user and the relationship between the user and the partner user, and sends the message from the virtual agent to the partner user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10064153
    Abstract: There is provided a position estimation apparatus including: an identification information provision unit which provides temporarily issued prescribed identification information to a target terminal; a data acquisition unit which acquires transmission data transmitted from a communication terminal receiving a wireless signal; and a position estimation unit which estimates a position of the target terminal, in the case where identification information included in the transmission data is the prescribed identification information notified to the communication terminal from the target terminal by the wireless signal, based on position information of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Yumura, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10051598
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technique which is capable of reducing the possibility that information related to the user of a target terminal may be acquired by others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20180211507
    Abstract: [Object] To utilize radio waves existing in the surroundings to further improve user convenience. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit configured to control processing of recording radio wave information concerning a radio wave observed in a predetermined environment and related information related to the radio wave information in association with each other, comparing the newly acquired radio wave information and the recorded radio wave information, and in a case where a result of comparison satisfies a predetermined condition, providing a user with a predetermined function on a basis of related information related to the newly acquired radio wave information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180182231
    Abstract: [Object] To automatically distinguish whether an occupant is at home or not and to control an operating state of a management system of a house more simply. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a radio wave information learning section configured to record a plurality of pieces of radio wave information detected in a house and learn radio wave information of a plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house on a basis of the recorded radio wave information; and a control section configured to compare newly detected radio wave information and the radio wave information of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house based on a result of the learning, and perform processing for changing an operating state of a system that manages the house in a case where none of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house were detected for a prescribed time or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi MIYAJIMA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180173704
    Abstract: [Object] To easily search a plurality of captured images for a captured image in which a subject to be imaged that has once appeared in a captured image appears again is desired. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a reading unit configured to read, from a recording unit configured to record radio wave information concerning a radio wave, a captured image, and a time at which the captured image is taken in correlation with one another, the radio wave information; and a searching unit configured to search a plurality of the captured images recorded in the recording unit for a captured image that satisfies a search condition on a basis of at least one of a number of radio waves included in the read radio wave information and an intensity of the radio waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo IHARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180160960
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method that are capable of evaluating a specific space in association with feelings of users. [Solution] The information processing system includes: an accumulation unit configured to accumulate variation in feelings of a user caused by going in and out of a specific space; and a control unit configured to calculate an evaluation value of the specific space on a basis of the variation in the feelings of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180081365
    Abstract: To provide a mobile body control system, a control method, and a storage medium in which a mobile body can move to an appropriate angle and distance in accordance with emotion of a communication target. Provided is a mobile body control system including: a moving unit configured to move; a measuring unit configured to measure an angle and a distance with a target (2) which is a communication target; an emotion estimating unit configured to estimate an emotion of the target; and a control unit configured to control the moving unit to move a mobile body (1) to an initial position with an appropriate angle and distance with respect to the target in accordance with the estimated emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: MASAMICHI ASUKAI, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI