Patents by Inventor Takayasu Kon

Takayasu Kon 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: 20140315161
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine whether a user is consuming food and drink or whether food and drink is present in a periphery of the user, and a control unit configured to carry out control to output a control signal to an adding unit that adds a lighting effect to one of the food and drink present in a real space and picked-up images of the food and drink in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Tomoya ONUMA, Yuki KOGA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA, Takayasu KON, Kohei ASADA, Akira TANGE, Takatoshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140315160
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of pieces of food which are eating targets from an image obtained by imaging eating of a user, and a recommendation unit configured to recommend at least the food to be subsequently ingested in real time among the plurality of pieces of food so that the user ingests the plurality of pieces of food detected by the detection unit in an order satisfying a predetermined purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori HAYASHI, Yoichiro SAKO, Takayasu KON, Yasunori KAMADA, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE
  • Publication number: 20140303885
    Abstract: There is provided a navigation apparatus including an estimation section which estimates first environmental information in a movement route candidate of an object based on observation information observed in real time in the movement route candidate, an acquisition section which acquires second environmental information of a surrounding of the movement route candidate, and a guidance section which guides a movement direction for the object based on the first environmental information estimated by the estimation section and the second environmental information acquired by the acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori KAMADA, Yoichiro SAKO, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Takayasu KON, Akira TANGE, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Tomoya ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20140300633
    Abstract: There is provided an image processor including a recognition part configured to recognize a captured target on the basis of a captured image, and an image generation part configured to generate an additive image for decorating the target depending on a user circumstance of a user seeing the target and a recognition result by the recognition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE, Takayasu KON
  • Patent number: 8847789
    Abstract: An information provision system includes a terminal device, and an information provision device that can communicate with the terminal device. The information provision device includes a communicating section configured to communicate with the terminal device, a head count information managing section configured to manage current head count information for each position, and a crowd information generating section configured to determine a position for making a notification display based on the managed head count information, and generate crowd information containing information of the determined position, and a transmission control section configured to transmit the generated crowd information from the communicating section to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada, Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20140240336
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a setting unit configured to set a perceptual property parameter for changing perceptual data to desired perceptual data, and a conversion unit configured to convert currently acquired perceptual data to the desired perceptual data in real time in accordance with the perceptual property parameter that has been set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, KATSUHISA ARATANI, KOHEI ASADA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, TAKAYASU KON, TOMOYA ONUMA, AKIRA TANGE, YUKI KOGA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, HIROYUKI HANAYA
  • Publication number: 20140232639
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a gaze point of a user in a display image displayed on a display unit, an estimation unit configured to estimate an intention of the user based on the gaze point detected by the detection unit, an image generation unit configured to generates a varying image that subtly varies from the display image to a final display image according to the intention estimated by the estimation unit, and a display control unit configured to control the display unit in a manner that the varying image generated by the image generation unit is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KAZUNORI HAYASHI, YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKAYASU KON, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140225925
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a classification unit configured to classify content data into any of a plurality of classification items based on a first attribute, a priority level determination unit configured to determine a priority level to the content data classified by the classification unit for each of the classification items based on a second attribute, a selection unit configured to select one of the content data for each of the classification items according to the priority level determined by the priority level determination unit based on a third attribute, and a generation unit configured to generate a display image having a symbol image arranged therein, the symbol image being corresponded to the content data selected by the selection unit and being arranged in the display image for each of the classification items in a layout according to the first attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KAZUNORI HAYASHI, TAKAYASU KON, YASUNORI KAMADA, YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140214860
    Abstract: There is provided a data generation device including a content specifying unit configured to specify content, a period estimation unit configured to estimate a period in which the content specified by the content specifying unit attracts interest, and a metadata generation unit configured to associate as metadata the period estimated by the period estimation unit with the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, ITARU KAWAKAMI, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, TAKAYASU KON, YASUNORI KAMADA, KOHEI ASADA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, YUKI KOGA, TOMOYA ONUMA, AKIRA TANGE
  • Publication number: 20140191974
    Abstract: There is provided an input apparatus including an estimation unit configured to automatically estimate an attribute of a user, a setting unit configured to set an input mode based on the attribute of the user estimated by the estimation unit, and a control unit configured to control input based on the set input mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, MITSURU TAKEHARA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, KOHEI ASADA, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKAYASU KON, AKIRA TANGE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, TOMOYA ONUMA, YUKI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20140186002
    Abstract: There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma
  • Publication number: 20140181989
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage controller configured to perform control in a manner that a log of a user is stored in a storage, a determination part configured to determine whether a position of the user is within a set area, and an erasure controller configured to substantially erase, when the determination part determines that the position of the user is not within the set area, at least data capable of identifying the user individually among the log of the user stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKAYASU KON, KOHEI ASADA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, TOMOYA ONUMA, YUKI KOGA, AKIRA TANGE
  • Publication number: 20140176599
    Abstract: There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Akira Tange, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma
  • Publication number: 20140176764
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes a face area from a captured image, a storage controller that causes a storage unit to store face recognition information indicating a face area recognized by the recognition unit, and a display controller that superimposes onto a display unit a display indicating, as a face area candidate in a current captured image captured by an image capture unit according to an external instruction, an area that is among areas corresponding to a first face area indicated by face recognition information from another captured image stored in the storage unit, but is not included in a second face area recognized by the recognition unit from the current captured image, distinguishably from a display indicating the second face area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, YOICHIRO SAKO, AKIRA TANGE, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KOHEI ASADA, YUKI KOGA, TOMOYA ONUMA, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKAYASU KON, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, HIROYUKI HANAYA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140160129
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to include a first display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a first image from a user viewpoint, which is captured by a first imaging unit, is displayed on a display unit or control is performed in a manner that the display unit is transmissive, and a second display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a second image captured by a second imaging unit including a user within an angle of view is displayed on the display unit, and a switching control unit configured to perform control in response to an instruction from the user in a manner that a display control mode of the display control unit is switched from the first display control mode to the second display control mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma, Yuki Koga, Kohei Asada
  • Publication number: 20140125451
    Abstract: There is provided an audio illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, an audio output unit, a setting unit configured to set a parameter of at least one of illumination of the illumination unit and audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with a recognized user who is in a neighborhood, a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter set by the setting unit to an audio illumination apparatus in the neighborhood, and a control unit configured to control the at least one of the illumination of the illumination unit and the audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with the set parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORTION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, HIROSHI OKADA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KOHEI ASADA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKAYASU KON, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, AKIRA TANGE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, YUKI KOGA, TOMOYA ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20140123015
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including a database in which at least one of a name, position information, and an image identifying a predetermined location is associated with specific content, a position identification part configured to identify a current position, a determination part configured to determine whether content corresponding to the current position is present in the database, a notification part configured to, when the determination part determines that the content corresponding to the current position is present, send to a user a notification that the content corresponding to the current position is present, and a controller configured to start playback of the content in accordance with an action of the user with respect to the notification by the notification part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Yuki KOGA, Kohei ASADA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Yasunori KAMADA, Takayasu KON, Kazunori HAYASHI, Akira TANGE, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Tomoya ONUMA
  • Publication number: 20140111668
    Abstract: There is provided a content acquisition apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire content, a recognition unit configured to recognize at least two types of bookmark instructions when the acquisition unit acquires the content, and a control unit configured to, when the recognition unit recognizes a first bookmark instruction, provide a bookmark to the content acquired by the acquisition unit at corresponding time as a bookmarker at time of reproducing the content, and when the recognition unit recognizes a second bookmark instruction, provide the bookmark to the content acquired by the acquisition unit at corresponding time and switch an operation mode of the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayasu KON, Yoichiro SAKO, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140112534
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit that detects a face image region in an image, a determination unit that determines a human attribute of at least one face image in the face image region detected by the detection unit, and a face image replacement unit that replaces the at least one face image with a natural face image of another person according to the human attribute determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Akira TANGE, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Kohei ASADA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Takayasu KON, Yuki KOGA, Tomoya ONUMA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140106815
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal apparatus including a search unit configured to search for an apparatus group including an input apparatus or an output apparatus, the input apparatus and the output apparatus being wirelessly connectable to the terminal apparatus, a recommendation unit configured to recommend, to a user, a predetermined input apparatus or a predetermined output apparatus from the apparatus group that has been searched for by the search unit, in accordance with current time, a place in which the user is currently present, or an attribute of the user, and a setting unit configured to set the predetermined input apparatus or the predetermined output apparatus as an input unit or an output unit of the terminal apparatus, respectively, the predetermined input apparatus and the predetermined output apparatus having been recommended by the recommendation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Akira TANGE, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA, Takayasu KON, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Yuki KOGA, Kohei ASADA, Tomoya ONUMA