Patents by Inventor Junki OHMURA

Junki OHMURA 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: 20180074785
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, control method, and program that can improve convenience of a speech recognition system by outputting appropriate responses to respective users when the plurality of users are talking, the information processing device including: a response generation unit configured to generate responses to speeches from a plurality of users; a decision unit configured to decide methods of outputting the responses to the respective users on the basis of priorities according to order of the speeches from the plurality of users; and an output control unit configured to perform control such that the generated responses are output by using the decided methods of outputting the responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junki OHMURA
  • Patent number: 9720644
    Abstract: A system that acquires captured voice data corresponding to a spoken command; sequentially analyzes the captured voice data; causes a display to display a visual indication corresponding to the sequentially analyzed captured voice data; and performs a predetermined operation corresponding to the spoken command when it is determined that the sequential analysis of the captured voice data is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Ohmura, Michinari Kohno, Kenichi Okada
  • Publication number: 20170199632
    Abstract: [Object] To provide display control apparatus capable of automatically optimizing and displaying objects having various forms in a system having high layout flexibility. [Solution] Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display form determination unit configured to determine a display form of an additional display item which is to be additionally displayed on a screen according to a display item addition request, on the basis of first information about the additional display item, and second information about an already displayed item which has already been displayed on the screen before the additional display item is displayed; and an issuance unit configured to issue display control information for controlling display of the screen on the basis of the display form of the additional display item determined by the display form determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: JUNKI OHMURA
  • Publication number: 20170047063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, control method, and program capable of notifying a user of a candidate for a response, from the middle of a speech, through a voice U1, the information processing apparatus including: a semantic analysis unit configured to perform semantic analysis on speech text recognized by a speech recognition unit in the middle of a speech; a score calculation unit configured to calculate a score for a response candidate on the basis of a result of the analysis performed by the semantic analysis unit; and a notification control unit configured to perform control to notify of the response candidate, in the middle of the speech, according to the score calculated by the score calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki OHMURA, Reiko KIRIHARA, Yasuyuki SUKI, Koichi OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20150262005
    Abstract: An information processing includes processing circuitry configured to generate data to control a display device to superimpose on a displayed image a control object associated with a voice input, wherein the displayed image is a feedback image of a gesture operation performed by a user, and the displayed image is an image derived from a camera-captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Ohmura, Michinari Kohno, Takuo Ikeda, Kenichi Okada
  • Publication number: 20150253949
    Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to control a movement of a UI object on a display screen from a pre-recognition position toward a post-recognition position in response to recognition of an operation object initiated by a user, wherein the post-recognition position is spatially related to a displayed position of a predetermined displayed feature, and the predetermined displayed feature is an image derived from a camera captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Ohmura, Michinari Kohno, Takuo Ikeda, Kenichi Okada
  • Publication number: 20140337807
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to control combining of a captured image and an operation target image so as to generate a combined image for feeding back gesture recognition to a user. A degree of visualization of the captured image appears to be changed in the combined image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Okumura, Yoshihito Ohki, Takuo Ikeda, Kenichi Okada, Junki Ohmura, Michinari Kohno, Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20140304605
    Abstract: A system that acquires captured voice data corresponding to a spoken command; sequentially analyzes the captured voice data; causes a display to display a visual indication corresponding to the sequentially analyzed captured voice data; and performs a predetermined operation corresponding to the spoken command when it is determined that the sequential analysis of the captured voice data is complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki OHMURA, Michinari Kohno, Kenich Okada
  • Publication number: 20140303975
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a history acquiring unit configured to acquire histories of information obtained by analysis of voice information including utterance content by a speaker, and a display control section configured to identifiably display each acquired history as history information in an order in which the corresponding histories are recorded in association with display information corresponding to voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki OHMURA, Michinari KOHNO, Kenichi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20140304606
    Abstract: An information processing device includes circuitry configured to cause first display information to be displayed in a first format. The circuitry also changes the first display information to be displayed in a second format in response to a voice being recognized. The information processing may also be accomplished with a method and via a non-transient computer readable storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki OHMURA, Michinari Kohno, Kenichi Okada