Patents by Inventor Yasuhide Hosoda

Yasuhide Hosoda 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: 20240022660
    Abstract: To propose a server, a client terminal, a control method, and a storage medium that are capable of presenting information that a user does not notice. The server includes a communication unit configured to receive information related to an image acquired by an imaging unit of a client terminal, and a control unit configured to be capable of extracting information corresponding to an object on the basis of the information related to the image, and transmit information related to the object to the client terminal, the object being positioned outside of a gaze area of a user and being related to user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: YASUHIDE HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11825012
    Abstract: There is proposed a server, a client terminal, a control method, and a storage medium that are capable of presenting information that a user does not notice. The server includes a communication unit that receives information related to an image acquired by an imaging unit of a client terminal, and a control unit that extracts information corresponding to an object on the basis of the information related to the image, and transmits information related to the object to the client terminal, the object being positioned outside of a gaze area of a user and being related to user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20230276156
    Abstract: The present technology is to improve usability. Provided is an attachment portion which includes a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion to be pressed against both surfaces of an auricle respectively and is attached to an ear in a state of sandwiching the auricle. A pair of the attachment portions is provided, and the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other. With this structure, the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other when not in use and the like, entanglement between cords or between the cords and the attachment portions can be prevented, and usability can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: ambie Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota MIHARA, Yasuhide HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11734720
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method which are capable of transmitting information to persons who are considered to be worthy of the transmission. An information processing system according to an aspect of the present technology stores position information indicating a position of a device of a user and date information at which position measurement is performed in correlation with each other, forms a community including users who leave a movement trajectory satisfying a predetermined condition at the periphery of a specific location on the basis of a user's movement history indicated by the stored information, and distributes a message input through a specific interface to users who pertain to the community. The present technology is applicable to a device such as an electronic signboard that is installed at a specific location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20230245172
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method which are capable of transmitting information to persons who are considered to be worthy of the transmission. An information processing system according to an aspect of the present technology stores position information indicating a position of a device of a user and date information at which position measurement is performed in correlation with each other, forms a community including users who leave a movement trajectory satisfying a predetermined condition at the periphery of a specific location on the basis of a user's movement history indicated by the stored information, and distributes a message input through a specific interface to users who pertain to the community. The present technology is applicable to a device such as an electronic signboard that is installed at a specific location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: YASUHIDE HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11683626
    Abstract: The present technology is to improve usability. Provided is an attachment portion which includes a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion to be pressed against both surfaces of an auricle respectively and is attached to an ear in a state of sandwiching the auricle. A pair of the attachment portions is provided, and the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other. With this structure, the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other when not in use and the like, entanglement between cords or between the cords and the attachment portions can be prevented, and usability can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AMBIE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Mihara, Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20230188635
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that make it possible to keep other people at an appropriate distance. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology generates an event, which is a fictitious event, to change a distance between a user and another party the user has encountered in accordance with context of the user, and presents the event to the user. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a server on the Internet, the server providing a service for generating events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: YASUHIDE HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11445287
    Abstract: A sound output device includes a speaker that outputs sound, a housing that includes a sound introduction hook, the sound introduction hook having an internal space that is formed as a sound introduction space for introducing sound output from the speaker, the speaker being arranged in the housing, and an ear pad portion that is provided to be continuous to the housing, the sound introduction hook including an opening through which sound is emitted toward an ear, the sound introduction hook being to be mounted on a root portion of an auricle from a helix side, the ear pad portion being to be mounted on the root portion of the auricle from an earlobe side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Mihara, Yasuhide Hosoda, Ken Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11385641
    Abstract: Provided an information processing device that is capable of switching between a state in which a device is carried and a state in which the device is not carried in a more suitable form in accordance with a state or situation in which the device is used. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information on a user and a controller that executes a control process for moving a device that can be carried by the user so that the device changes between a carry state in which the device is carried by the user and a non-carry state in which the device is not carried by the user on the basis of the information on the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takeoka, Manabu Kii, Yasuhide Hosoda, Toshiyuki Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20220159117
    Abstract: To propose a server, a client terminal, a control method, and a storage medium that are capable of presenting information that a user does not notice. The server includes: a communication unit configured to receive information related to an image acquired by an imaging unit of a client terminal; and a control unit configured to be capable of extracting information corresponding to an object on the basis of the information related to the image, and transmit information related to the object to the client terminal, the object being positioned outside of a gaze area of a user and being related to user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: YASUHIDE HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11308787
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that acquires context information representing at least one of a surrounding environment of a user having a device, a feeling of the user, a situation of the user, feelings of other people around the user, or situations of the other people, recognizes a context of the user on the basis of the context information, determines an action corresponding to the context, and determines a transmission method for the action to the user, the transmission method being suitable for the context and the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhide Hosoda, Manabu Kii, Yoshiki Takeoka
  • Patent number: 11283915
    Abstract: The server includes a communication unit that receives information related to an image acquired by an imaging unit of a client terminal and a control unit that is capable of extracting information corresponding to an object on the basis of the information related to the image, and transmit information related to the object to the client terminal, the object being positioned outside of a gaze area of a user and being related to user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Patent number: 11270682
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method that are able to audibly present, to a user, word-of-mouth information in accordance with the user's latent demand. The information processing device that includes a controller that performs control to estimate a latent demand on the basis of a current user condition, search for word-of-mouth information corresponding to the demand, and present the searched word-of-mouth information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Yasuhide Hosoda, Shingo Utsuki
  • Publication number: 20210375052
    Abstract: [Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To make it possible to raise an interest in contents provided outside of home. [Solution] There is provided an information processor including: an acquisition unit that acquires content information including image information of a virtual object and position information of the virtual object in real space, the content information to be added to map information representing the real space; and a first control unit that displays, on a basis of the content information, the image information on a first client terminal at a position in virtual space corresponding to the position information to superimpose the image information on an image in the virtual space that is visible in a first-person view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ABIKO, YASUHIDE HOSODA
  • Publication number: 20210289068
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a server, a client terminal, a control method, and a storage medium that are capable of presenting information that a user does not notice. [Solution] The server includes: a communication unit configured to receive information related to an image acquired by an imaging unit of a client terminal; and a control unit configured to be capable of extracting information corresponding to an object on the basis of the information related to the image, and transmit information related to the object to the client terminal, the object being positioned outside of a gaze area of a user and being related to user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Yasuhide HOSODA
  • Patent number: 11057728
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhide Hosoda, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Utsuki
  • Publication number: 20210082392
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are able to audibly present, to a user, word-of-mouth information in accordance with the user's latent demand. [Solving mean] Proposed is an information processing device including a controller that performs control to estimate a latent demand on the basis of a current user condition, search for word-of-mouth information corresponding to the demand, and present the searched word-of-mouth information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: YUSUKE SAKAI, YASUHIDE HOSODA, SHINGO UTSUKI
  • Patent number: D923607
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Wilx, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Patent number: D930648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Patent number: D954969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda