Patents by Inventor Atsushi Okamori

Atsushi Okamori 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: 11906970
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires an arrangement of a landmark and surrounding terrain data, a first estimation unit that estimates a range in which a self-position is located on a basis of a landmark map that is a map indicating the arrangement of the landmark, and a second estimation unit that estimates the self-position from the range in which the self-position is located on a basis of a terrain data map that is a map indicating the surrounding terrain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kento Suzuki, Atsushi Okamori
  • Publication number: 20230350422
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes a self-position estimation unit (13) that estimates a self-position of a mobile body based on information concerning a position of a moving object at a predetermined time retained by the mobile body and information concerning a position of the moving object at the predetermined time retained by another mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kento SUZUKI, Norifumi KIKKAWA, Atsushi OKAMORI, Daisuke FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230273621
    Abstract: A route/track planning unit (37) of a server (30) performs processing of determining a passing point having the highest moving efficiency within a non-interference range with other moving apparatuses in a moving direction from a track starting point of a moving apparatus toward a destination, processing of setting a track from the track starting point to the passing point having the highest moving efficiency, and processing of updating the track starting point to the passing point having the highest moving efficiency. Furthermore, the route/track planning unit (37) repeats these processes until the passing point having the highest moving efficiency becomes the destination, thereby generating a track plan indicating a track for moving efficiently to the destination. The track plan generated by the route/track planning unit (37) is transmitted to the moving apparatus via the communication unit. The server (30) can efficiently operate the moving apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi OKAMORI, Kento SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11514600
    Abstract: An information processing device including an acquiring unit that acquires information related to a feature quantity specifying a predetermined target transmitted from a terminal device held by the target, a specifying unit that specifies the target on the basis of the information related to the feature quantity from among images captured by at least some of a plurality of imaging devices installed at different positions, and a control unit that presents information related to the target to a predetermined output destination in accordance with a specifying result of the target from the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakita, Atsushi Okamori
  • Publication number: 20220327941
    Abstract: There is provided a technology that a user can select an alternative destination useful for the user. An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit sets an alternative destination of a moving route of a moving body based on profile information of the user in a case where the moving route of the moving body intersects a moving route of other moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi OKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20220309699
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit calculates a relative position of a second moving body with respect to a first moving body based on a captured image of the second moving body captured by the first moving body and position information of the first moving body, and calculates a movable area of the second moving body based on the relative position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi OKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20220205791
    Abstract: [Object] To propose an information processing apparatus, a moving body, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of capable of ensuring that another moving body does not appear in an imaging range of a moving body. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes: an acquisition unit; and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires state information of an imaging unit of a moving body (10). The control unit calculates an imageable region (D) of the imaging unit on the basis of the state information. The information processing apparatus transmits information regarding the imageable region to a moving body (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi OKAMORI, Kento SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220197296
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires an arrangement of a landmark and surrounding terrain data, a first estimation unit that estimates a range in which a self-position is located on a basis of a landmark map that is a map indicating the arrangement of the landmark, and a second estimation unit that estimates the self-position from the range in which the self-position is located on a basis of a terrain data map that is a map indicating the surrounding terrain data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: KENTO SUZUKI, ATSUSHI OKAMORI
  • Patent number: 11173931
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of the degree of comfort in another area to be learned by a user, the information processing apparatus including: a comfort degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of comfort of a particular user on the basis of sensor data of another user; and an output control unit that controls such that information regarding the degree of comfort is output to a terminal of the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Okamori, Nobuhiro Ogawa, Shigeru Sugaya, Yuuji Ogihara
  • Patent number: 11163419
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Takimoto, Atsushi Okamori, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210295550
    Abstract: It is possible to enable information related to a predetermined target imaged in images captured by a plurality of imaging devices to be usable in a more appropriate form using the images. Provided is an information processing device including an acquiring unit that acquires information related to a feature quantity specifying a predetermined target transmitted from a terminal device held by the target, a specifying unit that specifies the target on the basis of the information related to the feature quantity from among images captured by at least some of a plurality of imaging devices installed at different positions, and a control unit that presents information related to the target to a predetermined output destination in accordance with a specifying result of the target from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO WAKITA, ATSUSHI OKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20200017132
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of the degree of comfort in another area to be learned by a user, the information processing apparatus including: a comfort degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of comfort of a particular user on the basis of sensor data of another user; and an output control unit that controls such that information regarding the degree of comfort is output to a terminal of the particular user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi OKAMORI, Nobuhiro OGAWA, Shigeru SUGAYA, Yuuji OGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190042072
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: YUUJI TAKIMOTO, ATSUSHI OKAMORI, HIROSHI YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10139986
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Takimoto, Atsushi Okamori, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9594552
    Abstract: The terminal device includes a processing section which performs a predetermined process; a connecting section which is configured for connection with an external apparatus capable of performing the predetermined process through a communication network; and a selecting section which selects the processing section or the external apparatus connected through the connecting section as a request target which is requested to perform the predetermined process, on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Okamori
  • Patent number: 9591226
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire a captured image including at least a part of a pattern projected by a projector on a projection plane, a projectable area determination part configured to determine a projectable area on the projection plane on the basis of the captured image, and a projector controller configured to control the projector in a manner that an image is projected in the projectable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Okamori, Yuuji Takimoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150074570
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: YUUJI TAKIMOTO, ATSUSHI OKAMORI, HIROSHI YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150070558
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire a captured image including at least a part of a pattern projected by a projector on a projection plane, a projectable area determination part configured to determine a projectable area on the projection plane on the basis of the captured image, and a projector controller configured to control the projector in a manner that an image is projected in the projectable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: ATSUSHI OKAMORI, YUUJI TAKIMOTO, HIROSHI YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140282800
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a video processing device including an image generation unit configured to generate a second moving image configured to have the same content as a first moving image having first image quality, to have second image quality configured to be higher quality than the first image quality, and to have a size corresponding to a partial region of the first moving image, and a reproduction information generation unit configured to generate reproduction information configured to be used to simultaneously reproduce the first moving image and the second moving image after a portion of the first moving image is replaced with the second moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Morita, Tatsuya Igarashi, Atsushi Okamori
  • Publication number: 20140250431
    Abstract: The terminal device includes a processing section which performs a predetermined process; a connecting section which is configured for connection with an external apparatus capable of performing the predetermined process through a communication network; and a selecting section which selects the processing section or the external apparatus connected through the connecting section as a request target which is requested to perform the predetermined process, on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Okamori