Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iwanami

Hiroshi Iwanami 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: 11835931
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of enhancing an illegal action prevention effect by restricting an operation leading to an illegal action, an information processing method, and a storage medium. An information processing apparatus including a sensor data acquisition part configured to acquire sensor data output from a sensor, and a control part configured to restrict an operation on an object of interest when detecting a person who is likely to violate a predetermined rule after operating the object of interest on the basis of the sensor data, and to remove the restriction of the operation on the object of interest after giving a warning on the basis of the predetermined rule via a notification part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Publication number: 20230230053
    Abstract: An information processing system, method, and computer-readable medium that generate emotion values based on information related to interactions between one of a plurality of objects and other ones of the plurality of objects, the one of the plurality of objects being associated with a person, acquire at least one emotion value of the generated emotion values based on an identification of the person, and provide personal credit information of the person based on the acquired at least one emotional value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko SUEYOSHI, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Hiroshi IWANAMI, Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11640589
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method and a storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed on the basis of an interaction between the objects. [Solution] An information processing system including: a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Sueyoshi, Atsushi Shionozaki, Hiroshi Iwanami, Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11593772
    Abstract: Provided is a client device that includes a detection unit that detects an act of expressing gratitude by a user, a communication unit that transmits and receives at least a first portion of virtual currency, and a control unit that performs control, with recognition of an act of expressing gratitude by a first user on the basis of data detected, such that a certain amount corresponding to the act in virtual currency held by the first user is subtracted and a first portion of the certain amount of the virtual currency is managed as gratitude currency held by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Patent number: 11449148
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that includes a recognition unit that recognizes whether a user is performing a specific gesture, and a control unit that identifies a client serving as a communication destination, when the specific gesture is recognized. The control unit further identifies an impression represented by the recognized gesture information and performs control such that the impression represented by the gesture information is notified to a user corresponding to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Publication number: 20220222633
    Abstract: Provided is a client device that includes a detection unit that detects an act of expressing gratitude by a user, a communication unit that transmits and receives at least a first portion of virtual currency, and a control unit that performs control, with recognition of an act of expressing gratitude by a first user on the basis of data detected, such that a certain amount corresponding to the act in virtual currency held by the first user is subtracted and a first portion of the certain amount of the virtual currency is managed as gratitude currency held by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20220189479
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication system and a communication control method capable of obtaining reliable feedback from a user further naturally through a conversation with an agent without imposing a burden on the user. [Solution] The communication system includes: a communication unit configured to receive request information for requesting feedback on a specific experience of a user; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the feedback received from a client terminal of the user via the communication unit; and a control unit configured to perform control such that a question for requesting the feedback on the specific experience of the user based on the request information is transmitted to the client terminal of the user at a timing according to context of the user, and feedback input by the user in response to the question output as speech of an agent via the client terminal is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI
  • Patent number: 11341468
    Abstract: To provide a client device, an information processing system, a storage medium, and an information processing method capable of distributing, to both parties, virtual currency that generates value through gratitude act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Patent number: 11295736
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication system and a communication control method capable of obtaining reliable feedback from a user further naturally through a conversation with an agent without imposing a burden on the user. [Solution] The communication system includes: a communication unit configured to receive request information for requesting feedback on a specific experience of a user; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the feedback received from a client terminal of the user via the communication unit; and a control unit configured to perform control such that a question for requesting the feedback on the specific experience of the user based on the request information is transmitted to the client terminal of the user at a timing according to context of the user, and feedback input by the user in response to the question output as speech of an agent via the client terminal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Publication number: 20220032482
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a passive ultrasonic sensor, a notification section that notifies a user, and a control section that, when detecting a feature indicating approach of an object learned in advance from sensor data detected by the ultrasonic sensor, controls the notification section to notify the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20220028429
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a recording medium, which are capable of assisting in a search for a moving image using a graph of data which is not obtained from image analysis associated with a moving image. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system, including: a moving image data acquiring unit configured to acquire moving image data; a communication unit configured to receive sensor data associated with the moving image data and chronological data corresponding to a shooting time of the moving image data; an image signal processing unit configured to perform image analysis on the moving image data and generate image analysis result data; and a control unit configured to generate an interface including the moving image data and graphs of at least two pieces of data among the sensor data, the chronological data, and the image analysis result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI
  • Patent number: 11185998
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a passive ultrasonic sensor, a notification section that notifies a user, and a control section that, when detecting a feature indicating approach of an object learned in advance from sensor data detected by the ultrasonic sensor, controls the notification section to notify the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Patent number: 11158353
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a recording medium, which are capable of assisting in a search for a moving image using a graph of data which is not obtained from image analysis associated with a moving image. Provided is an information processing system, including: a moving image data acquiring unit configured to acquire moving image data; a communication unit configured to receive sensor data associated with the moving image data and chronological data corresponding to a shooting time of the moving image data; an image signal processing unit configured to perform image analysis on the moving image data and generate image analysis result data; and a control unit configured to generate an interface including the moving image data and graphs of at least two pieces of data among the sensor data, the chronological data, and the image analysis result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Iwanami
  • Publication number: 20210312090
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including a setting unit that automatically sets a privacy level depending on a user of a communication destination device, a communication unit that transmits a picture of a user of a communication source device to the communication destination device, and a controller that performs control to mask the picture of the user of the communication source device depending on the automatically set privacy level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWANAMI, MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Publication number: 20210233042
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method and a storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed on the basis of an interaction between the objects. [Solution] An information processing system including: a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko SUEYOSHI, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Hiroshi IWANAMI, Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210228129
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a recording medium that can detect a worry and notify a user of a message. [Solution] An information processing system includes a control unit that performs control to estimate at least one of a worry cause of the user and a degree of worry of the user, and present a message to the user when at least one of the worry cause and the degree of worry satisfies a specific condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI
  • Patent number: 11055441
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system, a storage medium and a control method through which a user privacy level in a telepresence system can be set depending on a counterpart. An information processing system including: a setting unit that automatically sets a privacy level depending on a user of a communication destination device; a communication unit that transmits a picture of a user of a communication source device to the communication destination device; and a controller that performs control to mask the picture of the user of the communication source device depending on the automatically set privacy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwanami, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20210150932
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that acquires normative behavior information serving as an interaction with a specific object by a user and an evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information, associates and registers the normative behavior information and the evaluation value in a behavior database, and performs control such that an evaluation value of specific behavior information acquired through the communication unit is calculated using the evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information in accordance with a comparison result of comparing the specific behavior information with normative behavior information corresponding to the specific behavior information registered in the behavior database, an emotion value of the user is calculated on the basis of the calculated evaluation value, and the calculated emotion value is transmitted to an information processing device corresponding to the user who is a provision source of the specific behavior informati
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: KEIGO IHARA, TAKAHIKO SUEYOSHI, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI, HIROSHI IWANAMI, YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11010726
    Abstract: An information processing system, a control method and a non-transitory storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed based on an interaction between the objects are provided. The information processing system includes a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Sueyoshi, Atsushi Shionozaki, Hiroshi Iwanami, Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20210124426
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that includes a recognition unit that recognizes whether a user is performing a specific gesture, and a control unit that identifies a client serving as a communication destination, when the specific gesture is recognized. The control unit further identifies an impression represented by the recognized gesture information and performs control such that the impression represented by the gesture information is notified to a user corresponding to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: HIROSHI IWANAMI