Patents by Inventor Akihiro Komori

Akihiro Komori 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: 10150029
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a vibrating apparatus which can provide a favorable vibratory sense to the operator who operates electronic equipment. [Solution] Provided is a vibrating apparatus including: an equipment holding unit configured to hold electronic equipment; at least one gripped portion projecting from the equipment holding unit and gripped by an operator; and at least one vibrating unit configured to vibrate based on a sound signal acquired from the electronic equipment and vibrate the at least one gripped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10088907
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an effect control unit configured to control an echo effect that is to be added to an output, a sound output control unit configured to control a sound output according to occurrence of an event in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to control a haptic output to which the echo effect controlled by the effect control unit is added according to the occurrence of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180267616
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to realize a function in accordance with an intention of a user. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring portion that acquires driving information for controlling a driving device that imparts movement to an object; and an identifying portion that identifies information for determining a dictated position dictated by the object, on the basis of detection information obtained on the basis of movement detection of the object and the driving information acquired by the acquiring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: IKUO YAMANO, AKIHIRO KOMORI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180243647
    Abstract: [Object] Tactile feedback that a user can acquire is limited because a game controller includes only a specific vibrating device and game software supports only the specific vibrating device. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a control section configured to generate a control signal that controls an operation of a tactile feedback apparatus including a tactile feedback section. The control section changes control on the tactile feedback apparatus on the basis of a type of the tactile feedback section which is recognized by the control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KOMORI, IKUO YAMANO, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180203509
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to allow a user to receive haptic feedback with a more sense of presence, the information processing device including: a virtual space data generating unit configured to generate data related to a virtual space including a virtual object having an attribute; a listener placing unit configured to place a listener for detecting a contact with the virtual object; a virtual object in which the listener is placed; and a haptic data generating unit configured to generate haptic data for causing a haptic device to be operated on a basis of at least one of attribute information of the virtual object and attribute information of another virtual object when the virtual object comes into contact with the other virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Akihiro KOMORI, Takashi NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180203514
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vibration signal that indicates a detected vibration of a prescribed real object and a sound signal that indicates a collected sound from the real object, a control unit configured to synchronize the acquired vibration signal with the acquired sound signal, and associate the vibration signal and the sound signal with each other, the vibration signal and the sound signal having been synchronized, and a recoding unit configured to record the vibration signal and the sound signal which have been associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Akihiro KOMORI
  • Patent number: 9946347
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vibration signal that indicates a detected vibration of a prescribed real object and a sound signal that indicates a collected sound from the real object, a control unit configured to synchronize the acquired vibration signal with the acquired sound signal, and associate the vibration signal and the sound signal with each other, the vibration signal and the sound signal having been synchronized, and a recoding unit configured to record the vibration signal and the sound signal which have been associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Akihiro Komori
  • Patent number: 9928357
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating with another information processing apparatus and a determination unit for determining whether or not to authenticate the other information processing apparatus on the basis of an operation pattern reported to a user and an analysis result of the user's operation corresponding to the operation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Qihong Wang, Tomohisa Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180074590
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a delay amount decision unit configured to decide a delay amount of a haptic output from occurrence of an event on the basis of an event occurring position in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to delay the haptic output according to the delay amount decided by the delay amount decision unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KOMORI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO
  • Patent number: 9904367
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a delay amount decision unit configured to decide a delay amount of a haptic output from occurrence of an event on the basis of an event occurring position in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to delay the haptic output according to the delay amount decided by the delay amount decision unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20170228024
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an effect control unit configured to control an echo effect that is to be added to an output, a sound output control unit configured to control a sound output according to occurrence of an event in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to control a haptic output to which the echo effect controlled by the effect control unit is added according to the occurrence of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KOMORI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9675866
    Abstract: A movement supporting method includes the following steps: detecting a movement tempo of a user; determining whether a movement tempo detection value is within a target range; and outputting a warning when the movement tempo detection value is out of the target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Hirofumi Tamori, Susumu Takatsuka, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Motoyuki Takai, Kenichi Makino, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Komori, Akane Sano, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 9672808
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an effect control unit configured to control an echo effect that is to be added to an output, a sound output control unit configured to control a sound output according to occurrence of an event in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to control a haptic output to which the echo effect controlled by the effect control unit is added according to the occurrence of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170136354
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a vibrating apparatus which can provide a favorable vibratory sense to the operator who operates electronic equipment. [Solution] Provided is a vibrating apparatus including: an equipment holding unit configured to hold electronic equipment; at least one gripped portion projecting from the equipment holding unit and gripped by an operator; and at least one vibrating unit configured to vibrate based on a sound signal acquired from the electronic equipment and vibrate the at least one gripped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: IKUO YAMANO, AKIHIRO KOMORI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170123573
    Abstract: There is provided an portable electronic device including a touch sensor which acquires operation information input by an operation subject based on an operation performed by an operator on an operation surface, a control section which generates a picture image on which the operation subject is reflected, based on the operation information, and an image generation section which generates an image in which the picture image is superimposed on an original image. According to such a configuration, a user can perform an input with a natural operation while visually recognizing the picture image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Akihiro KOMORI, Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Nariaki SATO
  • Publication number: 20170087458
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a sensation induction device, a sensation induction system, and a sensation induction method capable of improving a sense of realism by interlocking a sound output and a vibration output. [Solution] A sensation induction device includes a plurality of actuators and a plurality of speakers. The sensation induction device includes a plurality of sets of mutually associated actuator and speaker in which at least one actuator among the plurality of actuators and at least one speaker among the plurality of speakers are mutually associated. An output from the actuator and an output from the speaker are controlled to be interlocked for each set of mutually associated actuator and speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, AKIHIRO KOMORI
  • Patent number: 9507414
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user, a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector, and a process execution section configured to execute a process in accordance with the corrected operation vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160313800
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro NODA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATOH, Osamu SHIGETA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9436289
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit content and a point of interest indicator to a second device. The content and the point of interest indicator are selected by a user of the first device using a single action. The point of interest indicator identifies a portion of the content to be highlighted by the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Tomoaki Takemura, Shinya Masunaga, Nobuhiro Ozu
  • Patent number: 9411410
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto