Patents by Inventor HIRO IWASE

HIRO IWASE 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: 20250130633
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first acquisition section, a second acquisition section, a display controller, and an estimator. The first acquisition section acquires text information obtained by converting speech of a speaker into a text using sound recognition. The second acquisition section acquires line-of-sight information that indicates a line of sight of a receiver who receives the speech of the speaker. The display controller displays the text information on at least a display apparatus that is used by the receiver. The estimator estimates, on the basis of the line-of-sight information, a viewing state of the receiver with respect to the text information displayed on the display apparatus used by the receiver. Further, the display controller controls display related to the text information on the basis of the viewing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, NAOKI INOUE, YUKI KAWANO, HIRO IWASE, TAKAYOSHI YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 12198694
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires inspiration information indicating inspiration of a user, and a prediction unit that predicts whether or not the user utters after the inspiration of the user on the basis of the inspiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Yasuo Kabe, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12182475
    Abstract: A detection unit (30) detects an input start timing of a command by a gesture on an operation target with a temporal change. A command processing unit (31) performs processing of a command recognized from the gesture based on the state of the operation target at the input start timing detected by the detection unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20240386891
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section, a determination section and a control section. The acquisition section acquires character information obtained by converting utterance of a speaker into characters by speech recognition. The determination section determines presence or absence of a conveyance intention that the speaker tries to convey speaker's own utterance content to a receiver using the character information based on a state of the speaker. The control section executes a process of displaying the character information on display devices used by respective of the speaker and the receiver, and a process of presenting a determination result regarding the conveyance intention to at least one of the speaker and the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Naoki INOUE, Yuki KAWANO, Hiro IWASE, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 12147651
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12147808
    Abstract: To automatically determine a more memorable macro name. Provided is an information processing device that comprises an utterance learning adaptation unit that executes clustering pertaining to a plurality of function execution instructions by a user and estimates, as a macro, a cluster that includes the plurality of function execution instructions and a response control unit that controls the presentation of information pertaining to the macro, wherein the utterance learning adaptation unit determines a name for the estimated macro on the basis of a context acquired at the time of issuing the plurality of function execution instructions included in the cluster, the response control unit controls a notification of the macro name to the user, and the plurality of function execution instructions include at least one function execution instruction issued via an utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12131004
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a terminal device, input information input to the terminal device by a user; a generation unit that generates content of displaying an input item of each of functions including a corresponding input item that is an input item corresponding to the input information; and a transmission unit that transmits the content generated by the generation unit to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Mari Saito, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12062360
    Abstract: The present invention has an issue of effectively reducing the input load related to a voice trigger. There is provided an information processing device comprising a registration control unit that dynamically controls registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the registration control unit temporarily additionally registers at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice. There is also provided an information processing method comprising dynamically controlling, by a processor, registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the controlling further includes temporarily additionally registering at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12033624
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit (250) that, in a case where the determination unit (250) has recognized a user's phrase related to execution of a macro including at least one function execution instruction, determines a degree of security risk of the macro based on at least one of a matching rate, at the time of execution of the macro, of a context indicating a status of the user, or frequency of occurrence of the phrase; and a response control unit (270) that changes control of the execution of the macro based on a determination result of the determination unit (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Yuhei Taki, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12033630
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit, an extracting unit, an output unit, and a specifying unit. The input unit receives a voice operation. The extracting unit extracts a processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit. When the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit cannot be specified, the output unit outputs response information for the user to make a selection of at least one processing detail from a plurality of processing details extracted by the extracting unit. The specifying unit specifies the processing detail selected from among the plurality of processing details contained in the response information as the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11996093
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. The information processing apparatus is provided with a determination unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, one or more second sensing results used in estimating the user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus is further provided with an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Hiro Iwase, Mari Saito, Yuhei Taki
  • Publication number: 20240111487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus capable of easily changing a cluster for collectively operating a plurality of operations to which a user is habituated. A dialog cluster including a plurality of operations having a habituation score indicating habituation of an operation of a user higher than a predetermined threshold and an operation according to a dialog with the user is registered. The technology of the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11948564
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 11942081
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device comprising an estimation unit that estimates a phase regarding the user's decision making, and a response generation unit that generates a response to the user's utterance according to the estimated phase. The present technology can be applied to, for example, smart speakers and smart displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Hiro Iwase
  • Publication number: 20240069702
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11875776
    Abstract: A response generating apparatus (10) includes an acquiring unit (40) that acquires input information that is a trigger for generating a response with respect to a user and context information that is information indicating a situation of the user and a response generating unit (50) that generates, based on the context information acquired from the user, a response associated with the input information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Mari Saito
  • Patent number: 11869499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit (133) that extracts a changing message related to a change in macro data (M), the changing message including at least one piece of first information indicating a function to be executed, and second information linked to the first information, from a user speech; a presuming unit (134) that presumes an element to be changed in the macro data (M) based on the changing message extracted by the extracting unit (133); and a changing unit (135) that changes the element to be changed in the macro data (M) presumed by the presuming unit (134), based on the changing message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11803352
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method which can adaptively switch a user interface to be used by a user to environmental information. The information processing apparatus includes an interface control unit that switches a user interface to be used by a first user at least between a first user interface using voice and a second user interface different from the first user interface on the basis of environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase
  • Publication number: 20230306957
    Abstract: In a terminal device (10), a communication unit (15) receives a counterpart utterance text in a counterpart language section and a counterpart utterance speech in a counterpart non-language section, and a control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance text after performing language translation, and outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section without performing language translation. For example, the control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section before outputting a result of the language translation of the counterpart utterance text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI, Mari SAITO, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20230223025
    Abstract: Smooth text communication is realized between users. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a control unit configured to: determine speech generated by a first user on the basis of sensing information of at least one sensor apparatus sensing at least one of the first user and a second user communicating with the first user on the basis of the speech generation of the first user; and control information output to the first user on the basis of a result of the determination of the speech generation of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, KENJI SUGIHARA, HIRO IWASE