Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shionozaki

Atsushi Shionozaki 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: 11940170
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20240070205
    Abstract: Provided is an information processor, an information processing method, and a recording medium to automatically estimate a sense of values of a community. The information processor includes a control unit that performs a control. The control unit acquires sensor data obtained by sensing a member who belongs to a specific community, and automatically estimate a sense of values of the member who belongs to the specific community, on the basis of the acquired sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 11916385
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device and an information processing method capable of accumulating indirect resource saving acts, and preferentially providing resources to a user in accordance with accumulation of the acts. The information processing device includes a communication unit that receives information obtained by sensing an action of the user; and a control unit that accumulates, in units of users, action information of indirectly saving resources in a predetermined storage unit on a basis of the information, and performs control, when the user is estimated to desire the resources, to generate a control signal for preferentially providing the resources to the user, and transmits the control signal via the communication unit, in accordance with the accumulated action information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 11868405
    Abstract: There is provided an information processor, an information processing method, and a recording medium to automatically estimate a sense of values of a community. The information processor includes a control unit that performs a control. The control unit acquires sensor data obtained by sensing a member who belongs to a specific community, and automatically estimate a sense of values of the member who belongs to the specific community, on the basis of the acquired sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 11837064
    Abstract: A robot in a robot system including a plurality of robots each having a function of identifying a monitoring target and transmitting information related to the monitoring target to a remote site. The robot includes an acquiring unit that acquires sensing data related to the monitoring target, a communication unit that communicates with another nearby robot, and a control unit that controls the communication unit such that an alert mode transition request signal is transmitted to the other nearby robot if it is determined that a first monitoring target is in an abnormal state on a basis of the sensing data. The robot transitions to an alert mode in which a process according to the received alert mode transition request signal is performed if the alert mode transition request signal related to a second monitoring target is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20230230053
    Abstract: An information processing system, method, and computer-readable medium that generate emotion values based on information related to interactions between one of a plurality of objects and other ones of the plurality of objects, the one of the plurality of objects being associated with a person, acquire at least one emotion value of the generated emotion values based on an identification of the person, and provide personal credit information of the person based on the acquired at least one emotional value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko SUEYOSHI, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Hiroshi IWANAMI, Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11640589
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method and a storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed on the basis of an interaction between the objects. [Solution] An information processing system including: a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Sueyoshi, Atsushi Shionozaki, Hiroshi Iwanami, Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11615177
    Abstract: An information processing system including a communication unit that acquires information related to an interaction between objects from a sensing device that detects the interaction between the objects, an emotion information database constructed by accumulating an evaluation value used when an emotion value of each object generated based on the information related to the interaction between the objects is calculated, a certification unit that certifies the sensing device and issues certification information to the sensing device, and an authentication unit that authenticates the information related to the interaction transmitted from the sensing device based on the certification information issued to the sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20220346683
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system and an information processing method that are capable of evaluating a specific space in association with feelings of users. The information processing system includes: an accumulation unit configured to accumulate variation in feelings of a user caused by going in and out of a specific space; and a control unit configured to calculate an evaluation value of the specific space on a basis of the variation in the feelings of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220323854
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method capable of controlling content that is to be provided in association with a location in consideration of feelings of persons who are present at the location. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including: a communication unit that receives at least information related to a feeling of a user who is present in a predetermined region; and a control unit that controls content that is associated with the predetermined region and is to be provided to the user, on the basis of the feeling of the user who is present in the predetermined region, which is specified on the basis of the information received by the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 11413519
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method capable of controlling content that is to be provided in association with a location in consideration of feelings of persons who are present at the location. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including: a communication unit that receives at least information related to a feeling of a user who is present in a predetermined region; and a control unit that controls content that is associated with the predetermined region and is to be provided to the user, on the basis of the feeling of the user who is present in the predetermined region, which is specified on the basis of the information received by the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 11385647
    Abstract: To provide a mobile body control system, a control method, and a storage medium in which a mobile body can move to an appropriate angle and distance in accordance with emotion of a communication target. Provided is a mobile body control system including a moving unit to move; a measuring unit to measure an angle and a distance with a target which is a communication target; an emotion estimating unit to estimate an emotion of the target; and a control unit to control the moving unit to move a mobile body to an initial position with an appropriate angle and distance with respect to the target in accordance with the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 11327556
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including a storage section that holds a plurality of agent programs with different attributes, a communication section that provides an agent service by the agent programs to a client terminal of a user, and a control section that selects, from among the plurality of agent programs, one agent program suited to an emotion of a user who can use the agent service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20220076553
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism which is capable of implementing both provision of a service to a robot's own user and assistance with provision of services to other users by other robots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 11246008
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control section calculating, on the basis of a present location of a user, moving time to be spent on immediate movement and generating proposal information based on the movement in accordance with whether or not the calculated moving time satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20210390849
    Abstract: A mobile unit control unit causes a communication unit to transmit user setting information supplied from an input unit and control data for controlling a mobile unit. A display control unit generates display data corresponding to the human flow data in a human flow data DB, and outputs the generated display data to a display unit. The communication unit transmits control data, measurement area information, and landing area information to the mobile unit, and receives human flow data from the mobile unit and supplies the human flow data to a control unit. The input unit sets setting information relating to human flow data measurement, in response to a user operation. The display unit performs display corresponding to the display data generated by the display control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a human flow measurement system including a mobile unit and a terminal, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Masamichi ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11200787
    Abstract: A robot in a robot system including a plurality of robots each having a function of identifying a monitoring target and transmitting information related to the monitoring target to a remote site. The robot includes an acquiring unit that acquires sensing data related to the monitoring target, a communication unit that communicates with another nearby robot, and a control unit that controls the communication unit such that an alert mode transition request signal is transmitted to the other nearby robot if it is determined that a first monitoring target is in an abnormal state on a basis of the sensing data. The robot transitions to an alert mode in which a process according to the received alert mode transition request signal is performed if the alert mode transition request signal related to a second monitoring target is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 11127286
    Abstract: A mobile unit control unit causes a communication unit to transmit user setting information supplied from an input unit and control data for controlling a mobile unit. A display control unit generates display data corresponding to the human flow data in a human flow data DB, and outputs the generated display data to a display unit. The communication unit transmits control data, measurement area information, and landing area information to the mobile unit, and receives human flow data from the mobile unit and supplies the human flow data to a control unit. The input unit sets setting information relating to human flow data measurement, in response to a user operation. The display unit performs display corresponding to the display data generated by the display control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a human flow measurement system including a mobile unit and a terminal, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20210233042
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method and a storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed on the basis of an interaction between the objects. [Solution] An information processing system including: a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko SUEYOSHI, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Hiroshi IWANAMI, Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210220726
    Abstract: An information processing method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a game space of a positional information game is controlled, a plurality of user terminals executing the positional information game to access the game space based on locations of the user terminals in a real space. Information of human activities regarding regions in the real space is obtained, the regions including at least a first region and a second region neighboring the first region. Whether the first region is unsafe is determined based on the obtained information of human activities. Responsive to the first region being determined as unsafe, a game content accessible at a virtual location in the game space that is associated with the second region is recognized, and the game users are notified of presence of the game content in the virtual location in the game space that is associated with the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Shionozaki