Patents by Inventor Akihiko Izumi

Akihiko Izumi 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: 11545032
    Abstract: This system includes a roadside apparatus and a vehicle-side apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes a roadside sensor that detects a road situation, a recognizer that recognizes a traffic object from the road situation detected by the roadside sensor and converts a result of the recognition into stereotype information of the traffic object, and a transmitter that transmits and receives the stereotype information. The vehicle-side apparatus includes a data storage unit that stores data regarding a traffic object corresponding to the stereotype information, a receiver that receives the stereotype information transmitted by the roadside apparatus, and a presentation unit that presents the data stored in the data storage unit on the basis of the received stereotype information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hisanaga, Kenji Ogawa, Kazufumi Cho, Akihiko Izumi, Taichi Shimoyashiki
  • Publication number: 20220223152
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an external device controller, an external-device-state recognizer, and a model obtaining section. The external device controller transmits a plurality of commands to one or a plurality of external devices to be controlled. The external-device-state recognizer recognizes states of the one or plurality of external devices of before and after transmission of the plurality of commands performed by the external device controller. The model obtaining section generates a state transition model in which the plurality of commands transmitted from the external device controller is associated with the states of the one or plurality of external devices of before and after the transmission of the plurality of commands performed by the external device controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI OGAWA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI, TOMOYA FUJITA, KENJI HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20220148486
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided by which plural scenes are displayed simultaneously with low load. The information processing apparatus that processes two or more image signals includes a division unit that decomposes the image signals for each color element, a selection unit that selects, from among the color elements of the two or more image signals, a color element of any one of the image signals for each color element, and an outputting unit that outputs the color elements of the image signals for each of predetermined regions. The predetermined regions are plural sub-frames into which one frame is divided in a time direction. The selection unit alternatively selects a color element from among the color elements of the two or more image signals in each of the sub-frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAKUYA NAMAE, HIROSHI MATSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11226712
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a processing unit that controls a display device to simultaneously display a plurality of objects on an output region of the display device, determines occurrence of competition of an output region on a basis of a user operation, and allows a notification of the occurrence of the competition depending on a determining result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Akihiko Izumi, Takuya Namae, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Publication number: 20210280187
    Abstract: In a mashup agent 23 that is an information processing apparatus, a controller is configured to perform control to detect an intent of a user, operate an agent capable of providing a service corresponding to the detected intent of the user, and present, to the user, a result supplied to the agent from the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, KENJI OGAWA, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI, YOICHI KOBORI, NOBUYUKI TANAKA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KAZUFUMI CHO
  • Publication number: 20210209949
    Abstract: This system includes a roadside apparatus and a vehicle-side apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes a roadside sensor that detects a road situation, a recognizer that recognizes a traffic object from the road situation detected by the roadside sensor and converts a result of the recognition into stereotype information of the traffic object, and a transmitter that transmits and receives the stereotype information. The vehicle-side apparatus includes a data storage unit that stores data regarding a traffic object corresponding to the stereotype information, a receiver that receives the stereotype information transmitted by the roadside apparatus, and a presentation unit that presents the data stored in the data storage unit on the basis of the received stereotype information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, KENJI OGAWA, KAZUFUMI CHO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI
  • Patent number: 11054941
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system that is capable of adaptively correcting an operation direction on the basis of a rotation angle of a display object with respect to a reference angle on a display surface, and an information processing method and a program. The information processing system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains operation information regarding user's operation of a display object displayed on a display surface; and a processing unit that corrects an operation direction indicated by the operation information on the basis of a rotation angle of the display object with respect to a reference angle on the display surface, and outputs information indicating the corrected operation direction to an application corresponding to the display object, in which a rotation angle of the display object differs from a rotation angle of the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Takuya Namae, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Publication number: 20200401683
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section, a setting section, and a processing execution section. The acquisition section acquires reliability of modal authentication executed on a user. The setting section sets a reliability threshold on the basis of a request requested by the user. The processing execution section suspends execution of processing in response to the request of the user until the reliability of the acquired modal authentication becomes larger than the set reliability threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko IZUMI, Masahiro HARA
  • Patent number: 10789476
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10732808
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of presenting information in a suitable mode according to a positional relationship between a display region and a user, the display control device including: a calculation unit configured to specify a first region in which a user is a reference point; and a display control unit configured to control display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Koichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10684707
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device to provide a technique that enables a user to easily specify an application as an operation target, the display control device including: an output control unit configured to control an output unit so as to display a display object associated with one application or each of multiple applications; an action detection unit configured to detect a finger pointing direction of a user; and an application selection unit configured to select an application as an operation target based on the display object associated with the one application or each of the multiple applications and the finger pointing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Naoyuki Sato, Koichi Kawasaki, Akihiko Izumi
  • Publication number: 20190339922
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including an information acquisition section which acquires display information, and a first display section which displays the display information. A display of the display information is controlled for the first display section, in accordance with a relative positional relationship between the first display section and a second display section provided in an external apparatus, based on at least one of a control of a display destination of the display information between the first display section and the second display section, and a control of a layout of the display information displayed on the first display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: KOICHI KAWASAKI, NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20190339864
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system that is capable of adaptively correcting an operation direction on the basis of a rotation angle of a display object with respect to a reference angle on a display surface, and an information processing method and a program. The information processing system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains operation information regarding user's operation of a display object displayed on a display surface; and a processing unit that corrects an operation direction indicated by the operation information on the basis of a rotation angle of the display object with respect to a reference angle on the display surface, and outputs information indicating the corrected operation direction to an application corresponding to the display object, in which a rotation angle of the display object differs from a rotation angle of the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko IZUMI, Takuya NAMAE, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20190303675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KUNIAKI TORII, RYO FUKAZAWA, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Patent number: 10360453
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method according to the present disclosure link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10359867
    Abstract: Information processing apparatus and method to provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. The disclosed information processing apparatus includes a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin
  • Publication number: 20190095071
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a processing unit that determines occurrence of competition of an output region on a basis of a user operation, and allows a notification of the occurrence of the competition depending on a determining result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAKUYA NAMAE, KENJI HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20180240213
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire direction information indicating a rotational angle of a display object displayed on a display screen, the rotational angle being with respect to a reference angle on the display screen, or a direction in which a user is positioned with respect to the display screen; and a decision unit configured to decide, on a basis of the direction information, a direction of the display object with respect to the display screen when a display mode of the display object is switched to an enlarged display mode, in which the rotational angle of the display object is different from a rotational angle of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko IZUMI, Takuya NAMAE, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20180173544
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquiring unit that acquires situation information that is a combination of situation items in a plurality of situation categories; and a specifying unit that perform specification of an input method or an output method of a user interface on a basis of the situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN, AKIHIKO IZUMI, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 9912627
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission control unit, a reception control unit, and a display request generation unit. The transmission control unit is configured to transmit a third condition to an apparatus configured to provide a notification. The reception control unit is configured to receive a score from the apparatus, in an event it is determined that the third condition is satisfied, wherein the score is indicative of a degree of satisfaction of the third condition. The display request generation unit is configured to generate an event notification content, wherein the transmission control unit is further configured to transmit the event notification content to the apparatus based on the received score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Naoyuki Sato, Koichi Kawasaki