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).

  • Patent number: 10579786
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system capable of making it difficult to be easily recognized as being a key at a glance by others. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including a state acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a state of an object, and an authentication information acquisition unit configured to acquire authentication information corresponding to the information on the state of the object acquired by the state acquisition unit. According to such an information processing system, it is made difficult to be easily recognized as being a key at a glance by others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Kunihito Sawai, Yuhei Taki, Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Taizo Shirai, Koichi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 10460291
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a presentation section which presents an action log that is an action result of a third party, and a schedule adjustment section which incorporates the action log selected from the presented action log by a user as a schedule of schedule information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunayuki Ohwa, Miruka Ishii, Miwa Ichikawa, Ritsuko Kano
  • Publication number: 20190278896
    Abstract: [Object] To perform a desired operation in response to an operation even with a compact apparatus. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a fingerprint information acquisition unit configured to acquire fingerprint information; a determination unit configured to determine an action of a finger on the basis of the fingerprint information; and a processing unit configured to perform 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: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, YUHEI TAKI, KOTA AIZAWA, KOICHI SAKUMOTO, NAOTO TSUBOI, NAOYA SAZUKA
  • Patent number: 10402085
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a content of a handwritten input on a touch panel; and a display control unit configured to control display of a shaped figure which is obtained by shaping a figure recognized from the handwritten input, according to the content of the handwritten input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Ikuo Yamano, Miwa Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Yoshihito Ohki, Yasuyuki Koga
  • Publication number: 20190129944
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which is capable of continuing the translation process smoothly. [Solution] There is provided a control device including: a control unit configured to perform, 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 on a basis of the speech content and a speech state of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190121600
    Abstract: [Object] 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: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190019511
    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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, KEISUKE TOUYAMA, NOBUKI FURUE, KEISUKE SAITO, DAISUKE SATO, MITANI RYOSUKE, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10075293
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sensor data obtaining unit configured to obtain predetermined information from a sensor, the sensor obtaining the predetermined information by sensing, and a key generation unit configured to generate key information for use in an authentication process, based on the information which is obtained by the sensor data obtaining unit during a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Sakumoto, Miwa Ichikawa, Taizo Shirai, Toyohide Isshi, Yuji Ide
  • Publication number: 20180144450
    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: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito OHKI, Yasuyuki KOGA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Ikuo YAMANO, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Miwa ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9922406
    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: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Ohki, Yasuyuki Koga, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Ikuo Yamano, Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20170147805
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system capable of making it difficult to be easily recognized as being a key at a glance by others. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including a state acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a state of an object, and an authentication information acquisition unit configured to acquire authentication information corresponding to the information on the state of the object acquired by the state acquisition unit. According to such an information processing system, it is made difficult to be easily recognized as being a key at a glance by others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, KUNIHITO SAWAI, YUHEI TAKI, HIROYUKI MIZUNUMA, TAIZO SHIRAI, KOICHI SAKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160125578
    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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito OHKI, Yasuyuki KOGA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Ikuo YAMANO, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Miwa ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150355835
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a content of a handwritten input on a touch panel; and a display control unit configured to control display of a shaped figure which is obtained by shaping a figure recognized from the handwritten input, according to the content of the handwritten input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Ikuo YAMANO, Miwa ICHIKAWA, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Yoshihito OHKI, Yasuyuki KOGA
  • Publication number: 20150281214
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information obtaining unit configured to obtain authentication validation information input to another apparatus from the another apparatus, and an authentication unit configured to, if the authentication validation information obtained by the information obtaining unit from the another apparatus matches authentication validation information managed by the information processing apparatus, perform an authentication process between the information processing apparatus and the another apparatus using the authentication information managed by the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taizo SHIRAI, Koichi SAKUMOTO, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI, Miwa ICHIKAWA, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA
  • Publication number: 20150263854
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sensor data obtaining unit configured to obtain predetermined information from a sensor, the sensor obtaining the predetermined information by sensing, and a key generation unit configured to generate key information for use in an authentication process, based on the information which is obtained by the sensor data obtaining unit during a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: KOICHI SAKUMOTO, MIWA ICHIKAWA, TAIZO SHIRAI, TOYOHIDE ISSHI, YUJI IDE
  • Publication number: 20150154000
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a user interface unit which receives a user's operation, a playback control unit which performs an editing process on content playback control information, depending on the user's operation received by the user interface unit, and controls an operation of playing back content based on the content playback control information, and a display unit which displays a played-back image of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Ritsuko Kano, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Koji Ihara, Tomoki Uehara, Koichi Kawasaki, Takuya Namae, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20130097547
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a presentation section which presents an action log that is an action result of a third party, and a schedule adjustment section which incorporates the action log selected from the presented action log by a user as a schedule of schedule information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsunayuki OHWA, Miruka ISHII, Miwa ICHIKAWA, Ritsuko KANO