Patents by Inventor Hikotatsu Chin

Hikotatsu Chin 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: 10862997
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing method that effectively executes a plurality of mutually relating functions in a plurality of devices. An information processing device which uses the method includes a functional information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a first device that executes a first function and a second function that relate to each other, functional information related to the second function; and a function transmission unit that transmits the functional information acquired from the first device to a second device in a manner that the second function among the first function and the second function that have been executed in the first device is executed in the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hikotatsu Chin, Ken Miyashita, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10817243
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Kosuke Yoshitomi, Hikotatsu Chin, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10359867
    Abstract: Information processing apparatus and method to provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. The disclosed information processing apparatus includes a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin
  • Patent number: 10321008
    Abstract: There is provided a presentation control device including a determination section configured to determine whether a condition corresponding to a recognition target to be recognized on the basis of a photographed image is satisfied, and a presentation control section configured to allow presentation associated with the recognition target to be performed in a case where it is determined that the condition corresponding to the recognition target is satisfied. The condition corresponding to the recognition target includes a condition related to a state of a target user to whom a content of the presentation is to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hikotatsu Chin, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180173544
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquiring unit that acquires situation information that is a combination of situation items in a plurality of situation categories; and a specifying unit that perform specification of an input method or an output method of a user interface on a basis of the situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN, AKIHIKO IZUMI, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20170329417
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: AKIHIKO IZUMI, NAOYUKI SATO, KUNIAKI TORII, KATSUYA HYODO, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20160309312
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of utilizing a plurality of mutually relating functions in a plurality of devices effectively. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a functional information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a first device that executes a first function and a second function that relate to each other, functional information related to the second function; and a function transmission unit configured to transmit the functional information acquired from the first device to a second device in a manner that the second function among the first function and the second function that have been executed in the first device is executed in the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hikotatsu CHIN, Ken MIYASHITA, Katsuya HYODO
  • Publication number: 20150237598
    Abstract: An information notification device includes an equipment management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of equipment which are in a vicinity of a user, and a function execution unit that executes transmission of notification information to any one of the plurality of pieces of equipment by determining a notification strategy that will perform notification of notification information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, KATSUYA HYODO, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20150229908
    Abstract: There is provided a presentation control device including a determination section configured to determine whether a condition corresponding to a recognition target to be recognized on the basis of a photographed image is satisfied, and a presentation control section configured to allow presentation associated with the recognition target to be performed in a case where it is determined that the condition corresponding to the recognition target is satisfied. The condition corresponding to the recognition target includes a condition related to a state of a target user to whom a content of the presentation is to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: YUHEI TAKI, HIKOTATSU CHIN, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150128065
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, HIKOTATSU CHIN, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Publication number: 20150128291
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user analysis unit configured to analyze a result of detection by a user detection apparatus that detects users neighboring a device and to acquire user attribute information indicating a characteristic of each detected user, and an interface control unit configured to control a mode of presenting information to be provided for the users, the mode being determined based on the user attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20140380161
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a communication apparatus through a communication network, and a control unit configured to perform control to place, in a virtual space, a communication-apparatus image that represents the communication apparatus and content being executed by the communication apparatus, and to display the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: HIKOTATSU CHIN, TAKASHI KITAO, KOJI IHARA, KATSUYA HYODO, RYO FUKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 8774604
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo
  • Publication number: 20130139076
    Abstract: A setting screen display unit in a user interface (UI) screen setting file generator displays a setting screen on which a user makes input for the setting of a UI screen. A setting information managing unit stores results of the arrangement of component images on the setting screen in an internal memory when a content creator has completed arranging the locations of the component images in a virtual screen region on the setting screen. A mode switching processing unit switches the setting screen according to a screen mode representing a mode to be set out of the mode variations that can be adopted by a display of a device executing content. A setting file generator generates a UI screen setting file, of a predetermined format, which contains setting information shared among a plurality of screen modes and setting information set individually for each display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Hikotatsu Chin
  • Publication number: 20110305438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Kuniaki TORII, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo