Patents by Inventor Taizo Shirai

Taizo Shirai 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: 20180159835
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, an information processing system, and a communication apparatus that are capable of enhancing authentication safety, the information processing apparatus including: a communication section configured to receive authentication information and a processing request from a first communication apparatus; an authentication information generation section configured to generate authentication information on the basis of first key information associated with a second communication apparatus; and a processing control section configured to control execution of a process corresponding to the processing request on the basis of the authentication information received by the communication section and the authentication information generated by the authentication information generation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro IIDA, Koichi SAKUMOTO, Taizo SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20180047232
    Abstract: There is provided a lock control device attachable to a locking mechanism, the lock control device including circuitry configured to receive key information and a process request from a first communication device, the key information including authorization information of the first communication device related to a plurality of types of functions of the lock control device, and determine whether the process request is permitted based on the key information, wherein the key information further includes identification information of the first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SAKUMOTO, Tatsuhiro IIDA, Taizo SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170372540
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system, which are capable of enhancing safety of authentication when unlocking. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a communication unit configured to receive an unlocking request and first information generated on the basis of a first secret key, from a first communication terminal; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to cause a locking unit to unlock, on the basis of a first public key corresponding to the first secret key and the generated first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo SHIRAI, Akichika TANAKA, Tatsuhiro IIDA, Koichi SAKUMOTO, Takeo INAGAKI, Shinpei HIRANO, Tetsuro TSUJI
  • Patent number: 9807071
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display a first user interface including a first input field configured to receive identification information and a second input field configured to receive a public key; and controls transmitting identification information received at the first input field and a public key received at the second input field to another information processing apparatus for registration at the another information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Sakumoto, Taizo Shirai
  • Patent number: 9769135
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a public key setter that sets a public key corresponding to a public-key authentication scheme in an access area defined as a given area of an object of access, and a device authentication processor that authenticates access to the access area against a secret key paired with the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo Shirai, Yu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170243424
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a locking control unit configured to execute a first process of processes for causing a locking unit to unlock, on the basis of detection of access of a first communication terminal; and a detection unit configured to detect an unlocking request by a user of the first communication terminal. The locking control unit executes a second process of the processes for causing the locking unit to unlock, when the unlocking request is detected and the first process is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo SHIRAI, Akichika TANAKA, Tatsuhiro IIDA, Koichi SAKUMOTO, Takeo INAGAKI, Shinpei HIRANO, Tetsuro TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20170236492
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus and a control method that can differentiate between an area that can be visually recognized only by a specified user and an area that can be visually recognized by all users on an information presentation surface that is simultaneously viewed by a plurality of people. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect lines of sight of a plurality of users with respect to presentation information; and an area determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of the detected lines of sight of the plurality of users, a shared area that is visually recognized by the plurality of users to share information and a confidential area that is not visually recognized by another user to keep information of each user confidential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: YUHEI TAKI, TAIZO SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 9705858
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an information storage unit configured to store information about a state in which a first secret key used during authentication is held in devices, and information about connection between the devices, and a communication unit configured to send the first secret key so that the first secret key is delivered to the devices based on the information stored in the information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kawamoto, Taizo Shirai, Koichi Sakumoto, Yu Tanaka
  • 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: 20170140140
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system, a storage medium, and an information processing method which can provide customized services according to a user's context. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including a recognition unit configured to recognize a user, a provision unit configured to provide specific information specific to the user recognized by the recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the provision unit so that the provision unit provides provision information to the user according to approval from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI KUNITO, TAIZO SHIRAI, KAZUYUKI SAKODA
  • Patent number: 9607173
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first computation protocol generation unit configured to generate a first computation protocol that does not include a confidentiality securing protocol that is executed in order to maintain confidentiality of a plurality of input values on the basis of a secure computation protocol in which a plurality of operation processing apparatuses compute an output value on the basis of the input values, and a second computation protocol generation unit configured to generate a second computation protocol by arranging the confidentiality securing protocol to a position at which the confidentiality is secured in the first computation protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kawamoto, Taizo Shirai, Yu Tanaka, Koichi Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 9602285
    Abstract: An authentication device includes circuitry that holds L (L?2) secret keys si (i=1 to L) and L public keys yi that satisfy yi=F(si) with respect to a set F of multivariate polynomials of n-th order (n?2). The circuitry also performs with a verifier, an interactive protocol for proving knowledge of (L?1) secret keys si that satisfy yi=F(si). The circuitry receives L challenges from the verifier, arbitrarily selects (L?1) challenges from the L challenges received. The circuitry also generates, by using the secret keys si, (L?1) responses respectively for the (L?1) challenges selected, and transmits the (L?1) responses generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Sakumoto, Taizo Shirai, Harunaga Hiwatari
  • Patent number: 9516007
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to transmit commitment information, including identification information of a verification processing apparatus, to the verification processing apparatus, receive first challenge information from the verification processing apparatus, generate second challenge information including the identification information based on the received first challenge information, generate response information, used for the verification processing apparatus to execute a process related to verification of the information processing apparatus, based on the generated second challenge information, and transmit the response information to the verification processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harunaga Hiwatari, Koichi Sakumoto, Taizo Shirai
  • Patent number: 9418245
    Abstract: Included is an encryption processing unit configured to divide and input configuration bits of data to be data processed into a plurality of lines, and to repeatedly execute data conversion processing of data for each line. The encryption processing unit includes an F function execution unit to input data from one line configuring the plurality of lines and generate converted data, an XOR calculation unit to execute an XOR calculation with other lines of data corresponding to the output from the F function, an intermediate data storage register to store intermediate data during the process of generating converted data in the F function execution unit, and an inverse calculation executing unit to calculate input data regarding the F function execution unit on the basis of the data stored in the intermediate storage register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji Shibutani, Toru Akishita, Takanori Isobe, Taizo Shirai, Harunaga Hiwatari, Atsushi Mitsuda
  • Publication number: 20160226856
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus through which a safe and convenient user authentication mechanism is implemented according to a public key authentication scheme. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a memory configured to retain a first secret key corresponding to a first public key, and a processor configured to request a change of a usage state of a second public key registered by a second apparatus in a first apparatus configured to retain a public key corresponding to a secret key from the first apparatus according to authentication using the first public key associated with the second public key and the first secret key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Yu TANAKA, Taizo SHIRAI, Yohei KAWAMOTO, Koichi SAKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160182476
    Abstract: To be capable of guaranteeing security without dependency on a distance of wireless communication while maintaining convenience of a key apparatus, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a key storage unit configured to retain one or more secret keys corresponding to one or more respective public keys; and a key use permission state storage unit configured to store presence or absence of use permission of each of the one or more secret keys. For at least any of the one or more secret keys, a switch between the presence and absence of the use permission stored by the key use permission state storage unit is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SAKUMOTO, Taizo SHIRAI, Yohei KAWAMOTO, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9363074
    Abstract: A common-key blockcipher processing configuration with enhanced immunity against attacks such as saturation attacks and algebraic attacks (XSL attacks) is realized. In an encryption processing apparatus that performs common-key blockcipher processing, S-boxes serving as non-linear transformation processing parts set in round-function executing parts are configured using at least two different types of S-boxes. With this configuration, the immunity against saturation attacks can be enhanced. Also, types of S-boxes present a mixture of different types. With this configuration, the immunity against algebraic attacks (XSL attacks) can be enhanced, thereby realizing a highly secure encryption processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo Shirai, Kyoji Shibutani, Toru Akishita, Shiho Moriai
  • Patent number: 9276735
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a random number generation unit configured to generate a pair of random numbers from a seed, a message generation unit configured to generate a message based on a pair of multi-order multivariate polynomials F=(f1, . . . , fm) defined in a ring K, the pair of random numbers, and a vector s that is an element of a set Kn, a message supply unit configured to supply the message to a verifier storing the pair of multi-order multivariate polynomials F and vectors y=(y1, . . . , ym)=(f1(s), . . . , fm(s)), and a response supply unit configured to supply the verifier with response information corresponding to a verification pattern selected by the verifier from among k (where k?3) verification patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Harunaga Hiwatari, Koichi Sakumoto, Taizo Shirai
  • Patent number: 9270458
    Abstract: An encryption processing device including an encryption processing part configured to divide configuration bits of data to be data processed into plural lines, and to input, and to repeatedly execute data conversion processing applying a round function to each line of data as a round calculation; and a key scheduling part configured to output round keys to a round calculation executing unit in the encryption processing part. The key scheduling part is a replacement type key scheduling part configured to generate plural round keys or round key configuration data by dividing a secret key stored beforehand into plural parts. The plural round keys are output to a round calculation executing unit sequentially executing in the encryption processing part such that a constant sequence is not repeated. The encryption processing configuration has a high level of security and a high level of resistance to repeated key attacks or other attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoji Shibutani, Atsushi Mitsuda, Toru Akishita, Takanori Isobe, Taizo Shirai, Harunaga Hiwatari
  • Patent number: 9240885
    Abstract: A processing unit transforms first input information into first nonlinear transformed information that is transformed into first linear transformed information, and transforms second input information into second nonlinear transformed information that is transformed into second linear transformed information. An exclusive-or section performs an exclusive-or operation based on the first and second linear transformed information. When the first nonlinear and linear transformed information are expressed as a first and second sequence vector, respectively, and the second nonlinear and linear transformed information are expressed as a third and fourth sequence vector, respectively, then a first row vector chosen from a first inverse matrix of a first matrix that transforms the first sequence vector to the second sequence vector, and a second row vector chosen from a second inverse matrix of a second matrix that transforms the third sequence vector to the fourth sequence vector, are linearly independent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taizo Shirai, Bart Preneel