Patents Assigned to So-Net Entertainment Corporation
  • Patent number: 8976182
    Abstract: A facial sketch creation device, a configuration information generation device, a configuration information generation method, and a storage medium that stores a computer program, which acquires position information for characteristic points that pertain to facial features within a facial image of a user, acquires a classification result in which the facial image has been classified as a facial type, using the position information for the characteristic points and based on relative positions of the facial features, and generates configuration information by taking an initial configuration that is based on the position information for the characteristic points and performing modification of the initial configuration by enhancing characteristics that indicate the classified facial type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: So-Net Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8620658
    Abstract: A voice chat system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses that performs a voice chat while performing speech recognition and a search server connected to the plural information processing apparatuses via a communication network. The search server discloses a search keyword list containing the search keywords searched by the search server to at least one of the plural information processing apparatuses. The at least one information processing apparatus includes a recognition word dictionary generating unit that acquires the search keyword list from the search server to generate a recognition word dictionary containing words for use in the speech recognition, and a speech recognition unit that performs speech recognition on voice data obtained from a dialog of the conversation during the voice chat by referencing a recognition database containing the recognition word dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, So-Net Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Nakade, Hiroaki Ogawa, Hitoshi Honda, Yoshinori Kurata, Daisuke Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20120218270
    Abstract: A facial sketch creation device, a configuration information generation device, a configuration information generation method, and a storage medium that stores a computer program, which acquires position information for characteristic points that pertain to facial features within a facial image of a user, acquires a classification result in which the facial image has been classified as a facial type, using the position information for the characteristic points and based on relative positions of the facial features, and generates configuration information by taking an initial configuration that is based on the position information for the characteristic points and performing modification of the initial configuration by enhancing characteristics that indicate the classified facial type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: So-net Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 7178095
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sending or receiving an E-mail using animated representation as if a pet were going out of or coming into a GUI picture simulating the insides of both a sender's room and a receiver's room for letter delivery and dispatch. Moreover, the pet, represented by animation, is virtually kept. Specifically, agent data updated responsive to experiences acquired by the pet is sent as annexed papers to the E-mail, while the receiver returns only pet data. Thus, animation represented on a GUI picture simulating the insides of both a sender's room and a receiver's room for imparting an impression as if a pet were going out of or coming into a GUI picture simulating the insides of both the sender's room and the receiver's room for letter delivery and dispatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: So-Net Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hachiya, Michio Kitamura, Takashi Koki, Namie Otaki