Patents by Inventor AKIKO YOSHIMOTO

AKIKO YOSHIMOTO 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: 20240163552
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to properly provide information related to an image-capturing apparatus through a tactile sense. [Solving Means] Solution to Problem An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a controller. The controller controls oscillation of an oscillation device that provides oscillation to a camera operator, on the basis of at least one of image-capturing-environment information regarding an environment of image-capturing performed by an image-capturing apparatus, image-capturing-setting information that is set by the camera operator, or state information regarding a state of the image-capturing apparatus, the image-capturing apparatus including a camera body that includes the oscillation device and an imaging device that captures an image of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: AYUMI NAKAGAWA, KEIICHIRO TANIGUCHI, TAKESHI OGITA, DAISUKE YAMAMOTO, ATSUTAKA ITO, AKIKO YOSHIMOTO, MAYUMI UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240064402
    Abstract: The technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging control method, and a program for resuming tracking from an appropriate position at an end of tracking. The imaging apparatus includes a focus control section configured to control a tracking function of tracking a tracking target and keeping the tracking target in focus, and a setting section configured to move a tracking start position during tracking on the basis of a predetermined condition. The technology may be applied, for example, to the imaging apparatus having the tracking function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Yu Kimishima, Yohei Takada, Takayuki Hosokawa, Akira Fukuda, Eiji Nakamura, Terutoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kurahashi, Akiko Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11283990
    Abstract: A display control device includes a controller configured to perform control displaying, on a display, whether or not shooting is performed at a shooting rate slower than a predetermined shooting rate, after the shooting starts at the predetermined shooting rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Miura, Akiko Yoshimoto, Hyongmyong Kang
  • Publication number: 20200120264
    Abstract: A display control device includes a controller configured to perform control displaying, on a display, whether or not shooting is performed at a shooting rate slower than a predetermined shooting rate, after the shooting starts at the predetermined shooting rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: SHUNSUKE MIURA, AKIKO YOSHIMOTO, HYONGMYONG KANG
  • Publication number: 20190356834
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of making a user feel that imaging is performed. An imaging device includes an imaging element, a mechanical shutter that exposes the imaging element by controlling a light shielding state of light entering the imaging element, an electronic shutter that exposes the imaging element by controlling a reading timing of the imaging element, an electronic shutter driving unit that makes the electronic shutter travel, and a mechanical shutter driving unit that makes the mechanical shutter travel after the exposure of the imaging element by the electronic shutter ends. A control unit that issues a drive instruction to the mechanical shutter driving unit is further included, and the control unit issues the drive instruction at the time when the exposure of the imaging element by the electronic shutter ends. The present technology is available for an imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kanako YANA, Haruka KAWATA, Ayako IWASE, Hiroshi URUSHIDO, Yu TAKAE, Akiko YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180324351
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device, control method, and program, capable of improving the operability of a touch operation while eliminating or reducing the erroneous detection of the touch operation. [Solution] A control device including: a determination unit configured to determine whether a touch-and-movement operation is valid across a valid area in which a touch operation on a display unit is treated as valid and an invalid area in which the touch operation is treated as invalid on a basis of whether a start point of the touch-and-movement operation is located within the valid area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: AKIKO YOSHIMOTO