Patents by Inventor Keisuke Yamaoka

Keisuke Yamaoka 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: 20160282953
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points; an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAOKA, Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20160253309
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for resolving zero anaphora in Chinese language and a training method. The apparatus includes: a feature vector extracting unit, configured to extract, from an input text, feature vectors which are respectively based on candidate positions of zero pronouns, and a word pair of candidate zero pronoun category and candidate noun for each position of the candidate zero pronouns; and a classifier, configured to input the feature vectors into a joint model, so as to determine the zero pronouns in the text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiwei ZHAO, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI, Youzheng WU, Keisuke YAMAOKA, Yu ZHANG, Qingyu YIN, Weinan ZHANG, Ting LIU
  • Publication number: 20160246434
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, each of which is new and improved and is capable of improving the operability for selecting an object image, there is provided an information processing device, including: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an input operation amount input to an input operation unit has exceeded an operation amount threshold; a control unit configured to set one of a plurality of object images displayed on a display unit as a selection target object image and change the selection target object image in a case where the input operation amount has exceeded the operation amount threshold; and a setting unit configured to set the operation amount threshold to a first value before a first change in the selection target object image is performed and set the operation amount threshold to a second value larger than the first value after the first change in the selection target object image is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Kunihito SAWAI, Yuhei TAKI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Keisuke YAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 9377861
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points; an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20150199563
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a storing section that stores a database in which specific pose data representing each of specific poses of a human, and effect manipulation data specifying each of manipulations applied to an image are registered in association with each other, a human region detecting section that detects a human region that is a region where a human appears in an image on which to perform image processing, a human pose recognizing section that recognizes a pose of the human in the human region detected by the human region detecting section, a matching section that finds the specific pose data matching the pose recognized by the human pose recognizing section, by referencing the database, and a manipulating section that applies a manipulation to the image on the basis of the effect manipulation data associated with the specific pose data found by the matching section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichi Hasegawa, Jun Yokono, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 9020210
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a storing section that stores a database in which specific pose data representing each of specific poses of a human, and effect manipulation data specifying each of manipulations applied to an image are registered in association with each other, a human region detecting section that detects a human region that is a region where a human appears in an image on which to perform image processing, a human pose recognizing section that recognizes a pose of the human in the human region detected by the human region detecting section, a matching section that finds the specific pose data matching the pose recognized by the human pose recognizing section, by referencing the database, and a manipulating section that applies a manipulation to the image on the basis of the effect manipulation data associated with the specific pose data found by the matching section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Hasegawa, Jun Yokono, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20150062012
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to move an object displayed on a display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator. The display control unit changes a movement amount of the object corresponding to the change amount on the basis of a rotational angle with the indicated direction used as an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: IKUO YAMANO, KUNIHITO SAWAI, YUHEI TAKI, HIROYUKI MIZUNUMA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, KEISUKE YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150054820
    Abstract: A natural user interface system and method of operation thereof including: providing a display screen having a range camera connected to the display screen in a known location relative to the display screen; determining a user's pointing vector as pointing towards the display screen; determining the user's pointing vector as motionless; and initializing a cursor in the center of the display screen and simultaneously calibrating the user's pointing vector as an initial pointing vector pointing at the center of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Wei Ji, Alexander Berestov, Daniel Usikov, Golnaz Abdollahian, Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20150054741
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire contact information of contact of an operation body on an operation surface, a display control unit that has a first function of moving a cursor displayed on a display device in accordance with a change amount of a contact position indicated by the contact information acquired by the acquisition unit and a second function of displaying the cursor at a position, on a given display area of the display device, corresponding to the contact position, and a switch unit configured to switch a function to be exerted by the display control unit between the first function and the second function. The switch unit exerts the second function when the acquisition unit has acquired first contact information of contact of the operation body on a given operation area of the operation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Kunihito SAWAI, Yuhei TAKI, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Keisuke YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150035749
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a controller configured to move a pointer within a display screen based on operation information, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the pointer is to be moved into a virtual screen set around the display screen, based on a state of the pointer when the pointer is moved to an edge of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, HIROYUKI MIZUNUMA, KUNIHITO SAWAI, YUHEI TAKI, IKUO YAMANO, KEISUKE YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150036003
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging control device including a result receiving unit configured to receive an example image selected by an image processing device used for image processing using image information, the image information being information regarding an image captured by an imaging unit used for image capturing, a selection result transmitting unit configured to transmit information regarding the example image received by the result receiving unit to the image processing device, a setting receiving unit configured to receive setting information generated by the image processing device based on the example image transmitted from the selection result transmitting unit, the setting information indicating a setting condition when image capturing is performed like the example image, and a setting change unit configured to change an imaging setting of the imaging unit using the setting information received by the setting receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hironari Sakurai, Jun Kimura, Yuji Ando, Keisuke Yamaoka, Takefumi Nagumo, Masashi Eshima
  • Publication number: 20150035827
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry (similarity calculation section) configured to calculate a similarity between a posture model and posture data, wherein the posture model being indicative of a posture in a time series gesture, and the posture data being indicative of a posture in a time series of a subject in moving image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Toshinori Ihara, Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20150033181
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an input operating unit configured to receive an input operation from a user, the input operation allowing content to be scrolled, and a setting control unit configured to change a setting of a scrolling direction for the content on the basis of a situation in which the input operation has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Ikuo Yamano, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai, Yusuke Nakagawa, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20150033180
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to move a cursor position displayed on a display unit or to scroll a screen displayed on the display unit in accordance with a change amount of an indicated direction of a direction indicator, and a switching control unit configured to switch the display control unit moving the cursor position and the display control unit scrolling the screen. After the switching control unit switches the display control unit scrolling the screen to the display control unit moving the cursor position, the display control unit reduces a movement amount of the cursor position with respect to the change amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Kunihito SAWAI, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Yuhei TAKI, Ikuo YAMANO, Keisuke YAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 8855426
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an inputting section adapted to input an image; a detection section adapted to detect a portion of an image pickup object from within the inputted image; a noticed region setting block adapted to set a noticed region from the detected portion; a restriction region setting block adapted to set a restriction region from the detected portion; and an extraction section adapted to extract feature values of the noticed region restricted by the restriction region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Hideki Oyaizu
  • Patent number: 8823834
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a clothing extractor extracting a face or head portion from an input image, the face or head portion being a region estimated to be a face or head image, and extracting a clothing region from a region immediately below the face or head portion, the clothing region being a region estimated to be a clothing image, and a clothing converter changing clothing in the input image by performing predetermined image processing on an image in the clothing region in the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8726196
    Abstract: A gesture input device includes an input unit to which image information representing an action is input. The gesture input device also includes a detection unit that detects the action based on a shape of the input image information. The gesture input device further includes a prediction unit that predicts one or more gestures based on a detection result of the action. In addition, the gesture input device includes a notification unit that notifies an action to be performed next to input the predicted one or more gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono, Yuichi Hasegawa, Ning Zhou, Hirotaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140043335
    Abstract: This technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of realizing motion parallax closely related to that of the real world. An image processing unit corrects a depth image formed of a depth value indicating a position in a depth direction of each pixel of a color image of a predetermined viewpoint externally input as an input image based on positional information indicating a position of a viewer and the like. This technology is applicable to an image processing device, which performs a process to correct the depth image based on the positional information as an image process, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai, Toshinori Ihara, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20130142392
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points; an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 8437507
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a learning image input unit configured to input a learning image, in which a tracked object is captured on different shooting conditions, together with the shooting conditions, a feature response calculation unit configured to calculate a response of one or more integrated features, with respect to the learning image while changing a parameter in accordance with the shooting conditions, a feature learning unit configured to recognize spatial distribution of the one or more integrated features in the learning image based on a calculation result of the response and evaluate a relationship between the shooting conditions and the parameter and a spatial relationship among the integrated features so as to learn a feature of the tracked object, and a feature storage unit configured to store a learning result of the feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Zhou, Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono, Yuichi Hasegawa