Patents by Inventor Ryo Mukaiyama

Ryo Mukaiyama 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: 10463944
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor device capable of operating and reducing electric power consumption effectively, in response to sensing data of a state of the hitting tool used by the user, the sensor device including: a sensor unit configured to directly or indirectly detect sensing data indicating a motion and an orientation of a hitting tool, a communication unit configured to transmit the sensing data detected by the sensor unit to an external device, and a control unit configured to control operation of the sensor unit and the communication unit. The control unit or the sensor unit changes at least one of the sensor unit and the control unit to an electric power saving mode, upon detecting that the hitting tool has a specific orientation for a certain amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Fukasawa, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Takaomi Kimura, Ryo Mukaiyama, Kosei Yamashita, Renji Tamura
  • Publication number: 20190324984
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Patent number: 10380178
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Patent number: 10289209
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 10190869
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a processor configured to achieve a function of collecting information indicating visual target positions from a plurality of viewpoints existing in a space, and a function of evaluating positions in the space in accordance with density of the visual target positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Aoki, Sho Murakoshi, Ryo Mukaiyama, Yoshihiro Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20180314341
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Kosei YAMASHITA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Takaomi KIMURA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 10042431
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20180188819
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Kosei YAMASHITA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Takaomi KIMURA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 9946352
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20180027090
    Abstract: [Object] To propose an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, each of which is capable of extracting appropriate content in accordance with a state of a user. [Solution] There is provided an information processing device including: a context information acquisition unit configured to acquire context information on a state of a user obtained by analyzing information including at least one piece of sensing data regarding the user; and a content extraction unit configured to extract one or more pieces of content from a content group on the basis of the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20170322017
    Abstract: [Object] To appropriately decide an image generation target position in a space. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including a processor configured to achieve a function of collecting information indicating visual target positions from a plurality of viewpoints existing in a space, and a function of evaluating positions in the space in accordance with density of the visual target positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: SUGURU AOKI, SHO MURAKOSHI, RYO MUKAIYAMA, YOSHIHIRO NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 9805117
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Publication number: 20170229045
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, a control method, and a program capable of providing navigation suited to a user for experiencing multiple events having time and location conditions. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device, including: a decision unit that decides, in accordance with location information and a user profile, navigation for experiencing a plurality of events having a time condition and a location condition; and a notification control unit that controls a notification of the decided navigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Kenichi YAMAURA, Suguru AOKI, Sho MURAKOSHI, Renji TAMURA
  • Patent number: 9633308
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation giving unit that gives an evaluation based on a second user to an item in a list created on a basis of a first user, and a display control unit that controls display of the list, on a basis of the evaluation based on the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Tateno, Mari Saito, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Ryo Mukaiyama, Hideyuki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20160271480
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor device capable of operating and reducing electric power consumption effectively, in response to sensing data of a state of the hitting tool used by the user, the sensor device including: a sensor unit configured to directly or indirectly detect sensing data indicating a motion and an orientation of a hitting tool, a communication unit configured to transmit the sensing data detected by the sensor unit to an external device, and a control unit configured to control operation of the sensor unit and the communication unit. The control unit or the sensor unit changes at least one of the sensor unit and the control unit to an electric power saving mode, upon detecting that the hitting tool has a specific orientation for a certain amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi FUKASAWA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Takaomi KIMURA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Kosei YAMASHITA, Renji TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160147877
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takuo Ikeda, Ko Kusanagi
  • Patent number: 9208205
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a theme setting unit that sets a theme to generate an item list including one or more items, an item list editing unit that adds an item designated for the theme by at least a user irrelevant to a setting of the theme to the item list in which the theme is set, and an output control unit that controls an output of the item list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Kei Tateno, Ryo Mukaiyama, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hideyuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9170711
    Abstract: An audio processing device includes: a display control unit, configured to control display of a plurality of audio gears, which are gears movable within a screen, each audio gear corresponding to predetermined audio data; and a playback control unit configured to control synchronized playback of a plurality of audio data; wherein, in the event that a plurality of the audio gears are directly or indirectly meshed, the display control unit rotates the plurality of audio gears, and the playback control unit performs synchronized playback of the plurality of audio data corresponding to the plurality of audio gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyajima, Atsushi Hashizume, Ryo Mukaiyama
  • Publication number: 20150241979
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 8994813
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an allocation device configured to allocate each of a plurality of picture display areas to each of a plurality of picture groups each made up of a plurality of pictures, the picture display areas being arrayed in a first direction on a screen for displaying pictures; and a display control device configured to display each of the pictures constituting each of the picture groups in screen locations which correspond to the picture display areas allocated to the picture groups and which are arrayed in a second direction different from the first direction and are determined by times associated with the pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka Eura, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takanori Nishimura, Tamaki Kojima, Noriaki Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi