Patents by Inventor Jun Yokono

Jun Yokono 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: 20240086509
    Abstract: An information processing device (1) includes a registration information storage unit (112), an acquisition unit (122), a presentation unit (123), and a registration unit (124). The registration information storage unit (112) stores registration information related to an object to be a recognition target. The acquisition unit (122) acquires attribute information indicating a property of a new object to be a recognition target in accordance with a message of advice received from a user. The presentation unit (123) presents the attribute information acquired by the acquisition unit (122) to the user. In accordance with a registration instruction received from the user, the registration unit (124) associates attribute information with name information designated by the user, and registers the associated information in the registration information storage unit (112) as registration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: YOSHIAKI IWAI, JIANING WU, NATSUKO OZAKI, SAYAKA WATANABE, JUN YOKONO
  • Patent number: 11921509
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit (107) that controls a motion of an autonomous moving body (10), in which, when transmitting/receiving internal data related to the autonomous moving body, the motion control unit causes the autonomous moving body to express execution of the transmission/reception of the internal data by an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayaka Watanabe, Jianing Wu, Jingjing Guo, Natsuko Ozaki, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20230418389
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amolmts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAOKA, Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 11789545
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 11780097
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reality determiner that determines whether an object detected on the basis of sensing data is a real object or an unreal object, and a controller that performs predetermined control on the basis of a result of the determination made by the reality determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jingjing Guo, Sayaka Watanabe, Jun Yokono, Natsuko Ozaki, Jianing Wu
  • Publication number: 20230073513
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of presenting a learning status of object recognition learning to the user in an understandable manner. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a learning unit, an assessment unit, and a signal generation unit. The learning unit performs recognition learning of an object in an image captured by a camera. The assessment unit assesses a progress status of the recognition learning of a target region of the object. The signal generation unit generates a presentation signal for presenting the target region and the progress status to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: JIANING WU, JUN YOKONO, SAYAKA WATANABE, NATSUKO OZAKI, YOSHIAKI IWAI
  • Publication number: 20220314133
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a joint detection unit that detects a joint of a person striking a pose to imitate a pose of a robot device including a joint; a human body joint angle estimation unit that estimates an angle of the joint of the person; and a mapping learning unit that learns mapping between the angle of the joint of the person and an angle of the joint of the robot device in the pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: JUN YOKONO, MIDORI KAWANO, NATSUKO OZAKI, JINGJING GUO, JIANING WU, SAYAKA WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220261087
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amolmts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAOKA, Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 11360571
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20220016783
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reality determiner that determines whether an object detected on the basis of sensing data is a real object or an unreal object, and a controller that performs predetermined control on the basis of a result of the determination made by the reality determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: JINGJING GUO, SAYAKA WATANABE, JUN YOKONO, NATSUKO OZAKI, JIANING WU
  • Publication number: 20210387355
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an information obtaining unit that obtains environmental information from sensor information obtained by a sensor with which an autonomous moving body is provided; an extraction unit that extracts, from the environmental information, specific environmental information to be saved; and an action control unit that controls an action of the autonomous moving body so as to output the specific environmental information to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: JUN YOKONO, NATSUKO OZAKI, SAYAKA WATANABE, JIANING WU, TATSUHITO SATO, MIDORI KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20210389767
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit (107) that controls a motion of an autonomous moving body (10), in which, when transmitting/receiving internal data related to the autonomous moving body, the motion control unit causes the autonomous moving body to express execution of the transmission/reception of the internal data by an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayaka WATANABE, Jianing WU, Jingjing GUO, Natsuko OZAKI, Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20210316452
    Abstract: More natural communication and interaction are enabled. The autonomous system (100) includes an action decision unit (140) that decides, based on an attention level map (40) in which an attention level indicating the degree of attention for each position in a predetermined space is set, the action which a drive mechanism is caused to perform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsuko OZAKI, Jun YOKONO, Jianing WU, Tatsuhito SATO, Sayaka WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210216808
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method that are capable of performing natural interaction between a user and a robot. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes: a state-change detection unit. The state-change detection unit compares reference image information regarding an autonomously acting robot acquired at a certain time point with comparison image information regarding the autonomously acting robot acquired at another time point, and detects a state change of the autonomously acting robot on the basis of a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: SAYAKA WATANABE, JUN YOKONO, NATSUKO OZAKI, JIANING WU, TATSUHITO SATO
  • Publication number: 20210191524
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAOKA, Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 11010375
    Abstract: An information processing unit includes: a diagnostic image input section that inputs the diagnostic image; an operation information obtaining section that obtains display operation history information representing an operation history of a user who controls displaying of the diagnostic image; a query image generation section that extracts a predetermined region of the input diagnostic image to generate a query image; a diagnosed image obtaining section that supplies the generated query image and the display operation history information to a diagnosed image search unit and obtains the diagnosed image obtained as a search result by the diagnosed image search unit; and a display control section that displays the diagnostic image and the obtained diagnosed image for comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohashi, Jun Yokono, Takuya Narihira
  • Patent number: 10990191
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points: an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20210116934
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an autonomous behavior robot control system that enable an autonomous behavior robot to perform a behavior more suitable for the surrounding environment. The information processing apparatus includes a map generating unit and a behavior control signal generating unit. The map generating unit generates a spatio-temporal map on the basis of data obtained by a data obtaining unit of an autonomous behavior robot, the autonomous behavior robot including the data obtaining unit that obtains data related to surrounding environment information. The behavior control signal generating unit generates a behavior control signal for the autonomous behavior robot to move and obtain data from the data obtaining unit in order to obtain information to be added to the spatio-temporal map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianing WU, Sayaka WATANABE, Tatsuhito SATO, Natsuko OZAKI, Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 10803398
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sorting unit configured to sort a second data set as evaluation data with a classifier generated by learning through supervised learning that uses a first data set as a supervision signal, an input unit configured to receive label correction for the second data set in accordance with a sorting result from the sorting unit, and an update unit configured to update the second data set to reflect the correction received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Yokono, Yoshiaki Iwai, Ryuichi Nawa
  • Patent number: 10755168
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage unit that stores learning information acquired by machine learning, an input unit that acquires identification information, and a processing unit that performs recognition processing using the learning information that is specified by the storage unit on a basis of the identification information. An information processing method is executed by a processor, the information processing method includes storing learning information acquired by machine learning, acquiring identification information, and performing recognition processing using the learning information that is specified from storage on a basis of the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Yokono