Patents by Inventor Miwa ICHIKAWA

Miwa ICHIKAWA 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: 20230154128
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an operation angle that is an angle formed by a first direction in a predetermined space pointed by a user and a second direction in the predetermined space pointed by the user. The setting unit sets, as a reference angle, the operation angle acquired at a time point when an instruction to start moving a virtual object on a line extending in the first direction is detected. The determination unit determines whether or not the operation angle acquired in response to a change in the second direction is equal to or more than the reference angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, KUNIHITO SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230135993
    Abstract: Aiming to allow a user to accurately grasp information regarding a virtual object. An information processing apparatus (10) according to an embodiment includes: a presentation control unit (1123) that determines a timing of transition of a virtual object, which is a virtually presented object, based on a distance according to a display field angle and a display range of the virtual object; and a presentation creating unit (1124) that controls the transition of the virtual object to be output based on the timing determined by the presentation control unit (1123).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa ICHIKAWA, Daisuke TAJIMA, Hiromu YUMIBA, Tomohiro ISHII, Masatoshi FUNABASHI
  • Patent number: 11641448
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of reducing a sense of delay given to a user. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section; an encoding section; a context recognition section; a priority data extraction section; and a communication section. The acquisition section acquires data relating to a transmission point. The encoding section encodes the data relating to the transmission point. The context recognition section sets data to be preferentially transmitted from the data relating to the transmission point on the basis of a situation of the transmission point recognized using the data relating to the transmission point. The priority data extraction section extracts the preferentially transmitted data as priority data on the basis of a setting in the context recognition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Uchida, Yusuke Sakai, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20230123786
    Abstract: Aiming to facilitate further improvement of usability. An information processing apparatus (10) according to an embodiment includes: a calculation unit (1122) that calculates a score indicating a characteristic of a target object; and a presentation control unit (1123) that performs processing for displaying visualized information for the target object based on height information corresponding to the score calculated by the calculation unit (1122).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke TAJIMA, Miwa ICHIKAWA, Hiromu YUMIBA, Tomohiro ISHII, Masatoshi FUNABASHI
  • Patent number: 11494470
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a fingerprint information acquisition unit that acquires fingerprint information, a determination unit that determines an action of a finger on the basis of the fingerprint information, and a processing unit that performs specified processing predetermined depending on the action on the basis of the determined action. This configuration makes it possible to perform a desired operation depending on the operation even with a compact apparatus, thereby enhancing user convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Yuhei Taki, Kota Aizawa, Koichi Sakumoto, Naoto Tsuboi, Naoya Sazuka
  • Patent number: 11403806
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a virtual object useful for a user while suppressing a reduction in visibility of a real object. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a user and position information of a destination; and a display control unit that adds a first virtual object in association with a position of the destination within a visual field of the user on the basis of the position information of the user and the position information of the destination, in which the display control unit controls transparency of a predetermined virtual object within the visual field on the basis of the position information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Takuro Noda, Maki Imoto
  • Publication number: 20220236788
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, JUN KIMURA, AI NAKADA, SOICHIRO INATANI, TAKURO NODA, KUNIHITO SAWAI, SHINGO UTSUKI, KENJI SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 11393079
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an input device configured to receive a stroke input, and a display controller configured to control a displaying of a modified stroke, wherein the modified stroke is synthesized based on characteristic parameters of the received stroke input and characteristic parameters of a reference stroke that has been matched to the received stroke input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Ohki, Yasuyuki Koga, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Ikuo Yamano, Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11288869
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display control unit that controls, when recognition information related to recognition based on sensing of a real object includes first recognition information, shielding display representing shielding of a virtual object by the real object such that the shielding display presents a first boundary representation at a boundary between the virtual object and the real object or at a position near the boundary, and controls, when the recognition information includes second recognition information different from the first recognition information, the shielding display such that the shielding display presents a second boundary representation different from the first boundary representation at the boundary or at a position near the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Hirotake Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Aga, Atsushi Ishihara, Shinichi Takemura, Miwa Ichikawa, Shunitsu Kohara, Ryosuke Murata, Kenji Sugihara, Mari Saito
  • Publication number: 20210399913
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of reducing a sense of delay given to a user. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section; an encoding section; a context recognition section; a priority data extraction section; and a communication section. The acquisition section acquires data relating to a transmission point. The encoding section encodes the data relating to the transmission point. The context recognition section sets data to be preferentially transmitted from the data relating to the transmission point on the basis of a situation of the transmission point recognized using the data relating to the transmission point. The priority data extraction section extracts the preferentially transmitted data as priority data on the basis of a setting in the context recognition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro UCHIDA, Yusuke SAKAI, Miwa ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11188288
    Abstract: Provided is a control device including a control unit that executes a process of causing a speaker to stop speaking on a device toward which the speaker speaks on a basis of a result obtained by analyzing speech content based on a result of the speaker speaking toward the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11182950
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a new and improved information processing device and information processing method capable of reducing user's uncomfortable feeling upon changing an image displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including a control unit that performs control to display, with a user's first-person viewpoint, a three-dimensional virtual space where a viewed target image is arranged to change the viewed target image while fixing a peripheral image of the viewed target image. The viewed target image is a target to be viewed by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rie Kamikubo, Ryuichi Suzuki, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11170180
    Abstract: [Object]To provide a control device which is capable of continuing the translation process smoothly. There is provided a control device including a control unit that performs, in a case in which speech content of a speaker reaches a level at which determination as to whether or not a translation process for the speech content is continued is performed, continuation determination for the translation process based on the speech content and a speech state of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11120063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to perform a summarization process of summarizing content of speech indicated by voice information based on speech of a user on a basis of acquired information indicating a weight related to a summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Keisuke Touyama, Nobuki Furue, Keisuke Saito, Daisuke Sato, Mitani Ryosuke, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20210158605
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a new and improved information processing device, information processing method, and program capable of reducing user's uncomfortable feeling upon changing an image displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including a control unit that performs control to display, with a user's first-person viewpoint, a three-dimensional virtual space where a viewed target image is arranged to change the viewed target image while fixing a peripheral image of the viewed target image. The viewed target image is a target to be viewed by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: RIE KAMIKUBO, RYUICHI SUZUKI, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210027523
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a virtual object useful for a user while suppressing a reduction in visibility of a real object. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a user and position information of a destination; and a display control unit that adds a first virtual object in association with a position of the destination within a visual field of the user on the basis of the position information of the user and the position information of the destination, in which the display control unit controls transparency of a predetermined virtual object within the visual field on the basis of the position information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa ICHIKAWA, Takuro NODA, Maki IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200341284
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to guide the line of sight of a user in a more preferable manner. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding guidance of a line of sight of a user; and a control unit that controls second information to be presented to the user so as to guide the line of sight of the user, wherein the control unit controls, based on the first information, the second information so as to be localized in a route having a lower following load on the user with regard to the second information out of a first route and a second route connecting a start position and an end position regarding the guidance of the line of sight in accordance with a second coordinate that is independent of a first coordinate associated with an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, TAKESHI OGITA, AKANE KONDO, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU, TAKURO NODA, RIE KAMIKUBO, RYO FUKAZAWA, TOMOYA NARITA
  • Publication number: 20200242842
    Abstract: [Problem] An information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are to be provided. [Solution] An information processing device including a display control unit that controls, when recognition information related to recognition based on sensing of a real object includes first recognition information, shielding display representing shielding of a virtual object by the real object such that the shielding display presents a first boundary representation at a boundary between the virtual object and the real object or at a position near the boundary, and controls, when the recognition information includes second recognition information different from the first recognition information, the shielding display such that the shielding display presents a second boundary representation different from the first boundary representation at the boundary or at a position near the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: RYO FUKAZAWA, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, HIROYUKI AGA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, SHINICHI TAKEMURA, MIWA ICHIKAWA, SHUNITSU KOHARA, RYOSUKE MURATA, KENJI SUGIHARA, MARI SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200233630
    Abstract: To provide a control device which is capable of causing the speaker or the listener to understand a situation of the listener while the speaker is speaking. [Solution] There is provided a control device including: a control unit configured to execute a process of causing a speaker to stop speaking on a device toward which the speaker speaks on a basis of a result obtained by analyzing speech content based on a result of the speaker speaking toward the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10649715
    Abstract: There is provided a control device that includes a control unit that executes a process of causing a speaker to stop speaking on a device toward which the speaker speaks on a basis of a result obtained by analyzing speech content based on a result of the speaker speaking toward the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Miwa Ichikawa