Patents by Inventor Daisuke Kawamura

Daisuke Kawamura 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: 20260030929
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system for control based on input from a user, the computer system including at least one memory for storing a program code and at least one processor for executing an operation in accordance with the program code. The operation includes acquiring information associated with an imaged field including the user, extracting feature points of a body of the user on the basis of the information, receiving input from the user on the basis of the feature points, recognizing a gesture performed by the body of the user in a real space, by a first method on the basis of the information, and recognizing the gesture in response to recognition of a specific gesture determined beforehand, by a second method that refers to a feature point different from the feature point referred to by the first method at a time of reception of input from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yoshimi Nakada, Daisuke Kawamura, Takahisa Kurose, Hideki Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20260029853
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system for control based on input from a user, the computer system including at least one memory for storing a program code and at least one processor for executing an operation in accordance with in which the operation includes acquiring information associated with an imaged field including the user, recognizing a pose formed by a body of the user in a real space and relevant information associated with a feature of the pose, on the basis of the information, and executing a command linked with a combination of the pose and the relevant information beforehand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yoshimi Nakada, Daisuke Kawamura, Takahisa Kurose, Hideki Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20260030854
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus that controls display on a display unit, including a memory for storing a program code, and a processor for executing operation in accordance with the program code, the operation including causing the display unit to display a three-dimensional space, causing a first object movable in the three-dimensional space to be displayed, and causing at least one line visually indicating a position of the first object in the three-dimensional space to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yoshimi Nakada, Daisuke Kawamura, Takahisa Kurose, Hideki Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20250393209
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conductive layers are stacked apart from each other, and first and second staircase regions in which the plurality of conductive layers are processed in a staircase shape are disposed at both end portions in a first direction intersecting a stacking direction of the plurality of conductive layers with a memory region interposed therebetween; a first plate-like portion that extends in the stacked body in the first direction and the stacking direction and divides the memory region into first and second sub-memory regions adjacent in a second direction intersecting both the stacking direction and the first direction; and a second plate-like portion that extends in the stacked body in the second direction and the stacking direction and divides the first sub-memory region and the first staircase region, in which the second plate-like portion is coupled to a side surface of the first plate-like portion in the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 12472638
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that controls a motion of a robot having a torso and a head. The information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires an image of a face of a user that is captured by a camera of a mobile terminal device, a motion detection section that detects an orientation of the face of the user from the acquired image, a control signal generation section that generates a control signal for rotating the first or the second rotating device of the robot according to the detected orientation of the face of the user, and a transmission section that transmits the generated control signal to the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yasushi Okumura, Kotaro Imamura, Udupi Ramanath Bhat, Daisuke Kawamura, Naoki Ogishita, Tsuyoshi Fukuyama, Ryuichi Suzuki, Karen Murata, Mari Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12414298
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first staircase portion that is arranged in a staircase region at a position that overlaps a plate-like portion in a stacking direction, in which a plurality of conductive layers is terraced in a first direction; and a second staircase portion and a third staircase portion arranged in the staircase region on both sides in a second direction of the plate-like portion, and having structures in each of which the plurality of conductive layers is terraced, and that are mutually inverted in the second direction with respect to the plate-like portion. A plurality of first plugs is individually arranged at different positions in the second direction relative to the plate-like portion, depending on positions in the first direction, and a plurality of second plugs is individually arranged at positions inverted in the second direction from the respective positions of the plurality of first plugs, with respect to the plate-like portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Gin Suzuki, Daisuke Kawamura, Tomonori Sakaguchi, Ikuya Saiki
  • Publication number: 20250218065
    Abstract: The content of driving assistance is presented in an understandable manner. An information processing apparatus includes a display control section that controls display of a driving assistance image obtained by adding, to an image indicating a state of a periphery of a vehicle, assistance information that is added to an object within the image and assists driving, and controls a color and a shape of the assistance information based on a state of the object with respect to the vehicle. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SONY HONDA MOBILTY INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nakayama, Daisuke Kawamura, Hisashi Murayama
  • Patent number: 12327307
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus determines a target state of a display element after transition, which is displayed on a screen of a display apparatus, according to an operation of a user, and displays a transition moving image that indicates a procedure of change of the display element from the initial state to the determined target state. The transition moving image includes a procedure of change of the display element from the initial state to a first intermediate state and a procedure of change of the display element from a second intermediate state to the target state and does not include a procedure of change of the display element from the first intermediate state to the second intermediate state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Erika Ohno
  • Publication number: 20240404948
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment includes: a stacked body including conductive layers stacked apart from each other and having a step portion where the conductive layers are processed in a step-like shape; contacts arranged in the step portion at least on one line in a first direction intersecting with a stacking direction of the stacked body and respectively connected with the conductive layers. A plurality of columnar portions includes first columnar portions having a layer structure different from that of a pillar, and second columnar portions having a same layer structure as that of the pillar. The first columnar portions are arranged on an array at least partially overlapping an array position of the contacts in the first direction. The second columnar portions are arranged on an array away from the array position of the contacts in a second direction intersecting with the stacking direction and the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 12159843
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a lower layer wiring and a dummy wiring arranged in a first hierarchy, a contact arranged in a second hierarchy above the first hierarchy and connected to the lower layer wiring, and first and second plate-like portions arranged in the second hierarchy, extending in a stacking direction of each layer belonging to the second hierarchy and in a first direction intersecting with the stacking direction, and sandwiching the contact in a second direction intersecting with the stacking direction and the first direction at a position away from the contact, and the dummy wiring has at least three edges arranged at respective positions overlapping with one of the first and second plate-like portions in the stacking direction, and an orientation in which at least one of the three edges intersects with the first or second plate-like portion differs as viewed from the stacking direction from orientations in which the other edges intersect with the first or second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12128305
    Abstract: A game image generation unit 112 generates a moving image of content. A receiving unit 104 receives a displayed image changing request. Upon reception of the changing request by the receiving unit 104, a display control unit 106 acquires information regarding a frame image of the content from the frame buffer 108. A system image generation unit 120 uses the information regarding the frame image to generate an image that differs from the frame image. The display control unit 106 acquires information regarding an end frame image of the content or an image preceding the end frame image by a predetermined number of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: 12090411
    Abstract: Candidates of pieces of notification information determined in advance are acquired, and a list of the acquired candidates of the pieces of notification information is presented to a user at a predetermined timing. Another information processing device is notified of information based on a piece of notification information selected by the user from the list. Here, the predetermined timing described above includes a timing that is prior to execution of a predetermined application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Erika Ohno, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240299853
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to methods for making user activity recommendations. In some aspects, a process of the technology can include operations for receiving a free-to-play indication, the free-to-play indication specifying availability of a user associated with a media system, retrieving, via the network interface, peer information indicating an availability of one or more online peers of the user, and retrieving, via the network interface, activity information indicating one or more activities available to the user, and at least one of the online peers. In some aspects method can further include operations for providing an activity recommendation to the user based on the peer information and the activity information, wherein the activity recommendation includes a suggestion of at least one activity that can be conducted by the user with the media system. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Shunsuke Kunieda, Yumiko Tanaka, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240249507
    Abstract: A method of dataset generation is described. The method comprises steps including receiving user image data and generating personalised training data based on the received user image data. Generating personalised training data comprises generating a computational model based at least in part on the received user data and generating the personalised training data based on the computational model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Lloyd Preston STEMPLE, Aron Giuseppe VISCIGLIA, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Ramanath BHAT, Pedro Federico Quijada LEYTON, David Erwan Damien UBERTI
  • Patent number: D1103177
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Steven Silvas, Daniel Morales, Robert Eldon Brown, Daisuke Kawamura, Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Yuichi Ando
  • Patent number: D1103199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Wivat Kruawongwanich, Scott R. Smiggen, Carlos Andres Conde Saavedra, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: D1103201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Robert Eldon Brown, Daniel Morales, Daisuke Kawamura, Carlos Andres Conde Saavedra, Satoshi Kobayashi, Keisuke Saito, Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: D1123992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Suki, Scott R. Smiggen, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: D1124021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Robert Eldon Brown, Daniel Morales, Daisuke Kawamura, Carlos Andres Conde Saavedra, Satoshi Kobayashi, Keisuke Saito, Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: D1125220
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Steven Silvas, Daniel Morales, Robert Eldon Brown, Daisuke Kawamura, Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Yuichi Ando