Patents by Inventor Takeshi OGITA

Takeshi OGITA 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: 11556179
    Abstract: This haptic presentation apparatus includes a first haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible first pouch into which an object has been inserted and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be exhausted from an interior of the first pouch, hardness of a virtual object in response to an operation of holding the virtual object by a user, and a second haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible second pouch and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be supplied to an interior of the second pouch, elasticity of the virtual object in response to the operation of holding the virtual object by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230009322
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220392496
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, TAKESHI OGITA
  • Publication number: 20220383710
    Abstract: A control device (30) includes a detection unit (303), a specifying unit (304), and a phase offset control unit (307). The detection unit (303) detects a contact position on a display (10) provided with a plurality of drive units that performs tactile presentation. The specifying unit (304) specifies, based on the contact position detected by the detection unit (303), a target phase offset, which is a phase offset being an acquisition target of a plurality of drive signals each of which drives each of the plurality of drive units (21 and 22). The phase offset control unit (307) adjusts the phase offset of the plurality of drive signals so as to obtain the target phase offset specified by the specifying unit (304).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, TAKESHI OGITA
  • Publication number: 20220353457
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to assist deaf and hard-of-hearing people in viewing a video when the video is being played back. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller generates at least one of an oscillation signal corresponding to sound-effect caption data or an oscillation signal corresponding to vocalization caption data on the basis of a waveform of sound data using a result of analyzing caption information and sound information that are included in a video file, the sound-effect caption data being used to represent a sound effect in the form of text information, the vocalization caption data being used to represent a vocalization of a person in the form of text information, the sound-effect caption data and the vocalization caption data being included in caption data that is included in the caption information, the sound data being included in the sound information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OGITA, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20220293126
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11350751
    Abstract: There is provided a tactile presentation device capable of realizing easier wearing/removal and contact of a tactile stimulation unit in an appropriate position. The tactile presentation device is provided with an attaching unit to a back plate of a chair, and a wearing belt portion to a body provided so as to be extendable and contractable on the attaching unit, in which one or more first tactile stimulation units are provided on the attaching unit, and one or more second tactile stimulation units are provided on the wearing belt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamoto Tsuda, Yusuke Otani, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma
  • Publication number: 20220171518
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIHARA, Yufeng JIN, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Takeshi OGITA
  • Publication number: 20220152468
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit configured to detect a skill level difference between a first user and a second user on the basis of sensing data regarding the first user and sensing data regarding the second user having a skill level lower than a skill level of the first user, and a presentation unit configured to dynamically change and present, during performance, skill level difference suppression information that reduces the skill level difference to at least one of the first and second users on the basis of the skill level difference detected. The sensing data is acquired through at least performance and the like performed by moving at least a part of a body of the users and other performance performed in the past with respect to the performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, TAKESHI OGITA, YOHEI FUKUMA, IKUO YAMANO, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11320936
    Abstract: An input device is provided to improve manipulation performance of a manipulation panel of an electronic apparatus. The input device includes a manipulation panel and a pressing-amount determination unit. The pressing-amount determination unit determines a pressing amount due to an input manipulation performed on the manipulation panel, using a plurality of different determination thresholds corresponding to respective regions of the manipulation panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20220083140
    Abstract: This haptic presentation apparatus includes: a first haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible first pouch into which an object has been inserted and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be exhausted from an interior of the first pouch, hardness of a virtual object in response to an operation of holding the virtual object by a user; and a second haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible second pouch and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be supplied to an interior of the second pouch, elasticity of the virtual object in response to the operation of holding the virtual object by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, OSAMU ITO, HIROSHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220057864
    Abstract: An information processor (10m) includes a control unit (104). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device (2) and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (2), the control unit (104) generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takamoto TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11194416
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal that includes a display panel; a first touch panel provided on a surface of the display panel; a second touch panel provided on at least one surface of the mobile communication terminal other than the surface of the display panel; and a controller that controls the display panel based on at least one of a size and number of contacts corresponding to a touch input detected at the second touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Ogita
  • Publication number: 20210349538
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a tactile presentation apparatus and a tactile presentation control method with which the types of tactile sensations which can be presented by means of vibration can be increased. The tactile presentation apparatus includes a first member and a second member which can vibrate individually and a first bending portion that bends between the first member and the second member and that changes the relative direction between the first member and the second member. The present technology can be applied to devices that a user operates while holding the device in a hand, for example in a theatrical performance, a movie, or an attraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA, TAKESHI OGITA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210339127
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takamoto TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11138984
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a file generation unit that generates a file including speech waveform data and vibration waveform data. The file generation unit cuts out waveform data in a to-be-synthesized band from first speech data, synthesizes waveform data extracted from a synthesizing band of vibration data with the to-be-synthesized band to generate second speech data, and encodes the second speech data to generate the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20210287497
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce the difference in way of feeling a tactile sense in accordance with a state or situation, the information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire context information concerning a state or a situation user of an external environment or context information concerning a user; and a modulation unit configured to modulate a control signal for controlling a haptics unit for presenting haptics to a predetermined part of the user on the basis of the context information having been acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Takeshi OGITA
  • Publication number: 20210252553
    Abstract: A vibration presentation apparatus (100) including: a connection plate (120); and a plurality of cells (110) spaced apart from each other on the connection plate (120), in which the cells (110) each include: a vibration device (112); a first elastic body (113); a vibration presentation plate (111) on which the vibration device (112) and the first elastic body (113) are disposed; and a support member (114) that is interposed between the first elastic body (113) and the connection plate (120), and supports the vibration presentation plate (111) through the first elastic body (113).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20210235871
    Abstract: There is provided a tactile presentation device capable of realizing easier wearing/removal and contact of a tactile stimulation unit in an appropriate position. The tactile presentation device is provided with an attaching unit to a back plate of a chair, and a wearing belt portion to a body provided so as to be extendable and contractable on the attaching unit, in which one or more first tactile stimulation units are provided on the attaching unit, and one or more second tactile stimulation units are provided on the wearing belt portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamoto TSUDA, Yusuke OTANI, Ikuo YAMANO, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20210219050
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) including a control unit that causes, on a basis of vibration output characteristics of a vibration device (200), the vibration device (200) to output a vibration corresponding to sound data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi OGITA