Patents by Inventor Ryo Yokoyama
Ryo Yokoyama 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).
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Publication number: 20240162641Abstract: An electrical connector 10 disposed on a circuit board 1 covered by an electrically conductive cover 70, the connector comprising an electrically conductive tubular outer conductor 11 mounted on the circuit board 1 and extending axially along the direction of mating Z with a counterpart electrical connector 20, 40, and an electrically conductive supporting portion 14 provided in the outer conductor 11 and having a connection portion at the top in the direction of mating Z, wherein the connection portion of the supporting portion 14 and the cover 70 are brought into direct or indirect contact when the circuit board 1 is covered by the cover 70, thereby electrically connecting the electrical connector 10 and the cover 70.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Naoki NINOMIYA
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Patent number: 11983324Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the tactile control signal corresponds to at least one of a presentation timing, frequency, interval, waveform, presentation time, and intensity of the tactile stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Takuma Domae
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Publication number: 20240138812Abstract: An ultrasonic wave generation device including: an ultrasonic wave generation source; an ultrasonic wave condensation part; and a waveguide. The ultrasonic wave condensation part has a first reflection surface opposed to the ultrasonic wave generation source and a second reflection surface opposed to the first reflection surface. The first reflection surface reflects the ultrasonic wave, generated from the ultrasonic wave generation source, toward the second reflection surface. The second reflection surface reflects the ultrasonic wave, which has been reflected by the first reflection surface, toward the waveguide so as to introduce the ultrasonic wave into the waveguide. The waveguide protrudes from the first reflection surface to a side opposite the second reflection surface. A recessed portion is formed from the first reflection surface to the second reflection surface side along an outer circumferential surface of the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: Niterra Co., Ltd., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Kota YOKOYAMA, Ryo SUZUKI, Shinsuke ITOH, Takashi KASASHIMA, Takeshi MORITA, Shoki IEIRI
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Publication number: 20240145978Abstract: To provide an electrical connector assembly capable of reliably restricting the tilting of an adaptor connected to a connector to a predetermined angle or less, an electrical connector assembly includes a first connector, an adaptor, a tubular portion forming part of the adaptor with a supporting portion made of a rigid material, a plurality of resilient pieces, and engagement portions protruding radially outwardly from the distal end portions of the resilient pieces. The first connector involves a main body portion having an opening the main body portion has a peripheral wall forming a recess portion; and, when the adaptor is tilted a predetermined angle relative to the first connector while the adaptor is engaged in a mated state, the supporting portion restricts further tilting of the adaptor by abutting the peripheral wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Naoki NINOMIYA
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Patent number: 11964462Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical debonding type adhesive sheet capable of producing a joined body in which a voltage can be stably applied to an electrical debonding type adhesive layer. An electrical debonding type adhesive sheet according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes a first adhesive layer, a substrate for voltage application including an electroconductive layer and a base layer, and a second adhesive layer in this order, and has a first protrudent part, in which the first adhesive layer and the substrate for voltage application extend and protrude with respect to the second adhesive layer, and a second protrudent part, in which the substrate for voltage application extends from the first protrudent part and protrudes with respect to the first adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori Akamatsu, Kaori Mizobata, Ryo Awane, Akira Hirao, Junji Yokoyama, Yosuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 11942108Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which can curb occurrence of howling at the time of outputting vibration in response to an input sound. The information processing apparatus of one aspect of the present technology is an apparatus that generates, at the time of outputting vibration in response to an input sound from the outside, a vibration signal representing the vibration having a frequency different from a frequency of the input sound. The present technology can be applied to, for example, smartphones, smart watches, wearable apparatuses, cushions, and music experience apparatuses that vibrate in response to input sounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ogita, Ryo Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11943687Abstract: A data collection system includes a server device and at least one probe vehicle. The server device includes a storage unit configured to store a master map in which a necessity of data collection for each of a plurality of unit ranges included in a plurality of segments is represented by a binary value; and a server control unit configured to extract from the master map a segment corresponding to a position of the probe vehicle, and to transmit the segment to the probe vehicle as a partial map. The probe vehicle includes a data obtaining unit configured to obtain the data; and a vehicle control unit configured to identify a unit range requiring data collection based on the partial map received from the server device, and to transmit the data obtained in the unit range to the server device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Neyama, Akira Yoshioka, Jun Koreishi, Akihisa Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11941177Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command, inputted by a first user, including positional information for designating a presentation position at which to present a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus, a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation position in response to the control command, and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the first distribution unit distributes, according to a predetermined rule, the tactile control signal related to the control command inputted by each of a plurality of the first users to the tactile presentation device.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11887631Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing video and sound in a synchronized state. An information processing device includes a determination unit that determines whether it is content in which sound is delayed with respect to video, and a processing unit that delays the video by a predetermined period and plays the video when the determination unit determines that it is the content in which the sound is delayed with respect to the video. The processing unit delays and plays the video so that the video when a sound source produces the sound is synchronized with the sound. The predetermined period corresponds to a period by which the sound is delayed. The present technology can be applied to an information processing device that processes video.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita
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Publication number: 20240024907Abstract: The objective of this invention is to provide a filter module for coating equipment that can improve the efficiency in removing coating-material mist and preventing the outflow of such coating-material mist to the outside. The filter module of this invention is made of a flammable material and includes an outer box, an eliminator and a baffle plate. Of the outer box, the air A2 containing the coating-material mist flows into the outer box from the outer-box inlet and is discharged from the outer-box outlet. The eliminator is formed by arranging zigzag-shaped eliminator elements in parallel to separate the coating-material mist from the air A2. The baffle plate is formed by arranging baffle-plate elements having an inclined surface for guiding the air A2 in parallel into the inflow-side space S2 of the eliminator, and guides the air A2 that has been introduced from the outer-box inlet to the inflow-side space S2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Ryota SAITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yuki HIGASHINO
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Publication number: 20240028123Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that acquires, according to an input from a first user, a control command including presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control commands, a first haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the first haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of each of a plurality of second users designated by the input by the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
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Publication number: 20240012482Abstract: A signal processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an information acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating a state of a user including a posture of the user, a tactile signal acquisition unit that acquires a reference tactile signal for performing tactile presentation to the user in a reference state, and an adjustment processing unit that generates an adjusted tactile signal by adjusting the reference tactile signal on the basis of the state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: KAZUAKI TOBA, GEN ICHIMURA, OSAMU ITO, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, RYO YOKOYAMA, IKUO YAMANO
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Publication number: 20240009581Abstract: A tactile presentation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a movable member, an elastic portion, and at least one drive unit. The elastic portion supports the movable member. The at least one drive unit is connected to the movable member, moves the movable member so as to elastically deform the elastic portion, and is capable of keeping the elastic portion elastically deformed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, YOHEI FUKUMA, TAHA MORIYAMA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20240012516Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires sensing information regarding a user and first haptic information unique to a haptic presentation object; and a data processing unit that generates second haptic information from the first haptic information on the basis of the sensing information, the second haptic information being used in a case where a haptic presentation device presents a haptic stimulus to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Atsushi ISHIHARA, Yufeng JIN, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Takeshi OGITA
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Publication number: 20240004471Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that is based on an input from a first user and that includes presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control command, a haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user. The haptic control signal corresponds to a predetermined image that is superimposed on an image of a real space distributed to the first user and that is generated on a basis of the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
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Patent number: 11795300Abstract: Provided are: an additive composition which has an excellent extruder feed stability as a result of having an excellent powder flowability, and can impart excellent transparency and mechanical properties to molded articles; a polyolefin resin composition containing the additive composition; a method of producing a polyolefin resin composition; and a molded article of the polyolefin resin composition. The additive composition contains (A) 1-[8-propyl-2,6-bis(4-propylphenyl)tetrahydro[1,3]dioxino[5,4-d]-1,3-dioxin-4-yl]ethane-1,2-diol and (B) an aromatic phosphate metal salt represented by Formula (1) where R1 to R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; n represents a number of 1 or 2; when n is 1, M1 represents an alkali metal; and when n is 2, M1 represents hydroxyaluminum. In this additive composition, the mass ratio of (A) and (B), (A)/(B), is in a range of 10/90 to 90/10.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Yuri Yokota
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Patent number: 11774991Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of controlling vibration in accordance with a situation in a case where the vibration is generated on the basis of an audio signal. The information processing apparatus can include: a vibrator; and a controller configured to detect a state of the information processing apparatus and control a state of the vibrator based on a detection result, in which the controller controls vibration the vibrator in accordance with reproduction of content while the content is being reproduced in the information processing apparatus, and, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, restricts vibration of the vibrator even while the content is being reproduced in the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Miyazaki, Yugo Takeda, Takeshi Matsui, Taku Tomita, Seiji Muramatsu, Ryoko Amano, Risa Takahashi, Ikuo Yamano, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Kato, Ryo Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11755117Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a server device capable of presenting haptic information by using an existing data format. A smartphone includes a data processing unit that supplies a haptic control signal to a haptic presentation device on the basis of haptic control information embedded in image data in a predetermined file format.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11738262Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system (1) that performs generation and reproduction of control data of a haptic presentation device assuming that a control is performed in synchronization with a reproduction content, and there is provided an information processor (10), which makes it possible to achieve reduction in a burden of processing and improvement in convenience, including a control unit (104) that generates a script in which time information on the reproduction content and a control command of the haptic presentation device are associated with each other, in which the control command includes position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in the haptic presentation device, and haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama, Takamoto Tsuda
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Patent number: 11719551Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method capable of allowing a user to approach a destination intuitively. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a position-coordinate acquisition part, a direction acquisition part, a direction calculation part, and a haptic-feedback determining part. The position-coordinate acquisition part acquires a position coordinate of the information processing apparatus. The direction acquisition part acquires an apparatus direction that the information processing apparatus faces. The direction calculation part calculates a target direction being a direction of a target with respect to the information processing apparatus from a position coordinate of the target and the position coordinate of the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Akira Ono, Tetsuya Naruse, Mikio Takenaka, Ryosuke Murakami, Hideaki Hayashi, Mioko Ambe, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Kazutoshi Ohno, Seiji Muramatsu, Tetsuya Takahashi