Patents by Inventor Emika Kaneko

Emika Kaneko 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: 20250201027
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a moving object, a control apparatus, and a control method capable of performing intuitive face registration. A gesture control section controls a gesture driving that expresses a movement of a face of a user by a gesture at the time of a streaming capture in subsequent processing of a tutorial of face registration processing that registers the face of the user in advance, and a guidance sound control section controls an output of a gesture guidance sound in accordance with a gesture of the gesture driving. The present technology is applicable to an agent-type robot apparatus capable of performing autonomous traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: EMIKA KANEKO, YOSHIHIDE FUJIMOTO, SEIICHI YAMAZAKI, TAKAFUMI HOSOI, TAKATOSHI KARINO, MIKA NAGAE, YUTO TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 12236152
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emika Kaneko, Hirotsugu Sato
  • Patent number: 12220805
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an output control unit that controls an output from an interaction device to a user; an action evaluation unit that determines an action of the user performed in correspondence with an output of the interaction device; an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of the user corresponding to the action of the user; and an information accumulation unit that accumulates the output of the interaction device, the action of the user, and the emotion of the user in association with each other as interaction information, in which the output control unit controls the output from the interaction device to the user based on the interaction information accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko Iida, Ryuichi Suzuki, Kuniaki Torii, Emika Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230195401
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Emika KANEKO, Hirotsugu SATO
  • Patent number: 11620097
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Emika Kaneko, Hirotsugu Sato
  • Publication number: 20220288791
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an output control unit that controls an output from an interaction device to a user; an action evaluation unit that determines an action of the user performed in correspondence with an output of the interaction device; an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of the user corresponding to the action of the user; and an information accumulation unit that accumulates the output of the interaction device, the action of the user, and the emotion of the user in association with each other as interaction information, in which the output control unit controls the output from the interaction device to the user based on the interaction information accumulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: FUMIHIKO IIDA, RYUICHI SUZUKI, KUNIAKI TORII, EMIKA KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20220088788
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a moving body and a moving method that make it possible to move the moving body while causing the moving body to exert interactivity. The moving body of one aspect of the present technology moves while controlling a movement speed and a movement direction, depending on a state of the moving body, a state of a person located around the moving body, and a parameter indicating character or emotion of the moving body. The present technology can be applied to movable robots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: SEIJI SUZUKI, YOSHIHITO OHKI, EMIKA KANEKO, FUMIHIKO IIDA, YURI KUSAKABE, TAKUYA IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220083302
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emika KANEKO, Hirotsugu SATO
  • Patent number: D945470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Motoki Kobayashi, Yohei Nakajima, Masanori Matsushima, Emika Kaneko
  • Patent number: D958837
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Hama, Emika Kaneko, Masanori Matsushima