Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Horie
Kazuyoshi Horie 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).
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Publication number: 20200211534Abstract: To enable provision of information more appropriate to a user's preference according to situations without complicated operations. An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more keywords extracted on the basis of a voice uttered by one or more users, and an extraction unit configured to compare a feature amount calculated according to a word constituting character information included in content of one or more pieces of content and the acquired one or more keywords to extract at least some content from the one or more pieces of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Kazuyoshi HORIE
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Patent number: 10432569Abstract: A portable electronic device includes: a communication block configured to communicate with another portable electronic device different from said portable electronic device; an information acquisition block configured to acquire relation information that is information about a relation between a user of said portable electronic device and a user of said other portable electronic device from an external server through a network when said communication block communicates with said other electronic device; and a notification block configured to notify the user of said portable electronic device of the relation information acquired by said information acquisition block.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horie, Hideyuki Sasaki, Shinichi Hirata, Nobuyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10430896Abstract: There is provided an information processing server including a specification unit configured to specify an individual registered in a predetermined database on the basis of identification information sent from a near-field communication device and collected voice information.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 10291727Abstract: There is provided a technique to assist operation in a social network system. An information processing device includes a motion data acquirer that acquires motion data of a user, a motion data comparator that compares the motion data acquired by the motion data acquirer with comparative motion data, and an operation executor that executes predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result of the motion data comparator. An information processing method includes acquiring motion data of a user, comparing the acquired motion data with comparative motion data, and executing predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 10197673Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including: a reproducing section adapted to reproduce a first distance measurement signal; a recording section adapted to record the first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal output from other mobile terminal; a time difference measurement section adapted to measure a first difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals; a communication section adapted to receive a second difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals from the other mobile terminal, the second difference being measured by the other mobile terminal; and a distance calculation section adapted to calculate a distance to the other mobile terminal by multiplying the subtraction result between the first and second differences by the speed of sound.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horie, Hideyuki Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180040076Abstract: There is provided an information processing server including a specification unit configured to specify an individual registered in a predetermined database on the basis of identification information sent from a near-field communication device and collected voice information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventor: Kazuyoshi HORIE
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Publication number: 20160291116Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including: a reproducing section adapted to reproduce a first distance measurement signal; a recording section adapted to record the first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal output from other mobile terminal; a time difference measurement section adapted to measure a first difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals; a communication section adapted to receive a second difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals from the other mobile terminal, the second difference being measured by the other mobile terminal; and a distance calculation section adapted to calculate a distance to the other mobile terminal by multiplying the subtraction result between the first and second differences by the speed of sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Kazuyoshi HORIE, Hideyuki SASAKI
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Publication number: 20160182437Abstract: A portable electronic device includes: a communication block configured to communicate with another portable electronic device different from said portable electronic device; an information acquisition block configured to acquire relation information that is information about a relation between a user of said portable electronic device and a user of said other portable electronic device from an external server through a network when said communication block communicates with said other electronic device; and a notification block configured to notify the user of said portable electronic device of the relation information acquired by said information acquisition block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Kazuyoshi HORIE, Hideyuki SASAKI, Shinichi HIRATA, Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20140201284Abstract: There is provided a technique to assist operation in a social network system. An information processing device includes a motion data acquirer that acquires motion data of a user, a motion data comparator that compares the motion data acquired by the motion data acquirer with comparative motion data, and an operation executor that executes predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result of the motion data comparator. An information processing method includes acquiring motion data of a user, comparing the acquired motion data with comparative motion data, and executing predetermined operation to social network service utilized by the user based on a comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 8671152Abstract: A multiprocessor system is provided for emulating remote direct memory access (RDMA) functions. The first sub-processing unit (SPU) generates a message to be transmitted. The second SPU is a processor for emulating the RDMA functions. Upon receiving a notification from the first SPU, the second SPU synthesizes the message into a packet according to a RDMA protocol. The third SPU is a processor for performing a TCP/IP protocol processing. Upon receiving a notification from the second SPU, the third SPU synthesizes the packet generated according to the RDMA protocol into a TCP/IP packet and then sends it out from a network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horie, Kazutaka Tachibana, Taku Tanaka
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Patent number: 8483435Abstract: A situation data obtaining unit obtains situation data describing a situation of an image capturing target of which image is captured by an image capturing device for producing an image to be output. Based on the situation data, a simulation process executing unit carries out a simulation process for simulating a behavior of the image capturing target after the situation of the image capturing target, described by the situation data. A combined screen image output unit outputs a result of the simulation process by the simulation process executing unit. The simulation process executing unit changes the behavior of the image capturing target in the simulation process in response to an operation received from a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 8175116Abstract: A network processing apparatus is provided. A send buffer receives from a protocol stack a long packet with a data length exceeding a maximum transmission unit defined for a network and stores the long packet. A payload dividing unit divides the payload of the long packet into a plurality of divided payloads. A header duplicating unit duplicates the header of the long packet so as to generate a duplicated header for the respective divided payload. A short packet generating unit attaches the duplicated header to the respective divided payload so as to generate a short packet with a data length equal to or less than the maximum transmission unit to be sent to the network. A sending unit sends the short packet to the network via a physical interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kazutaka Tachibana, Taku Tanaka, Kazuyoshi Horie
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Publication number: 20110255742Abstract: A situation data obtaining unit obtains situation data describing a situation of an image capturing target of which image is captured by an image capturing device for producing an image to be output. Based on the situation data, a simulation process executing unit carries out a simulation process for simulating a behavior of the image capturing target after the situation of the image capturing target, described by the situation data. A combined screen image output unit outputs a result of the simulation process by the simulation process executing unit. The simulation process executing unit changes the behavior of the image capturing target in the simulation process in response to an operation received from a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Patent number: 7783810Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. Plural processors respectively execute separate operating systems to process data that has been received from a network. The apparatus includes receiving device that receives the data in predetermined units from the network and analyzing device that analyzes identification data added to the data received by the receiving device. The apparatus also includes maintaining device which maintains a table that relates the identification data to information on identification of an interrupt register in each of the processors that execute the operating systems. The apparatus further includes interrupting device that allows interrupt processing to any of the processors to occur by writing the data received with the receiving device into the interrupt register that is related to the identification data, which is identified on the based of the table maintained by the maintaining device, analyzed by the analyzing device.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kyusojin, Masato Kajimoto, Chiaki Yamana, Kazuyoshi Horie, Taku Tanaka, Kazutaka Tachibana
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Publication number: 20080013448Abstract: A multiprocessor system is provided for emulating remote direct memory access (RDMA) functions. The first sub-processing unit (SPU) generates a message to be transmitted. The second SPU is a processor for emulating the RDMA functions. Upon receiving a notification from the first SPU, the second SPU synthesizes the message into a packet according to a RDMA protocol. The third SPU is a processor for performing a TCP/IP protocol processing. Upon receiving a notification from the second SPU, the third SPU synthesizes the packet generated according to the RDMA protocol into a TCP/IP packet and then sends it out from a network interface card.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Horie, Kazutaka Tachibana, Taku Tanaka
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Publication number: 20070223472Abstract: A network processing apparatus is provided. A send buffer receives from a protocol stack a long packet with a data length exceeding a maximum transmission unit defined for a network and stores the long packet. A payload dividing unit divides the payload of the long packet into a plurality of divided payloads. A header duplicating unit duplicates the header of the long packet so as to generate a duplicated header for the respective divided payload. A short packet generating unit attaches the duplicated header to the respective divided payload so as to generate a short packet with a data length equal to or less than the maximum transmission unit to be sent to the network. A sending unit sends the short packet to the network via a physical interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazutaka TACHIBANA, Taku TANAKA, Kazuyoshi HORIE
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Publication number: 20070204084Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. Plural processors respectively execute separate operating systems to process data that has been received from a network. The apparatus includes receiving device that receives the data in predetermined units from the network and analyzing device that analyzes identification data added to the data received by the receiving device. The apparatus also includes maintaining device which maintains a table that relates the identification data to information on identification of an interrupt register in each of the processors that execute the operating systems. The apparatus further includes interrupting device that allows interrupt processing to any of the processors to occur by writing the data received with the receiving device into the interrupt register that is related to the identification data, which is identified on the based of the table maintained by the maintaining device, analyzed by the analyzing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Kyusojin, Masato Kajimoto, Chiaki Yamana, Kazuyoshi Horie, Taku Tanaka, Kazutaka Tachibana
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Patent number: 7072583Abstract: An optical communication apparatus in which bidirectional communication may be made over a sole optical fiber. A light emitting device (132) radiates light through an optical system (133) to an optical fiber (76). The light transmitted from the optical fiber (76) is received over optical system (133) by a light receiving device (136). In the optical system (133), such a relationship S?2QN?M>S/2Q?N is set, where M is the light volume of the stray light emitted, Q is the value of a Q-value representing the communication quality as required, S is the light volume of a received signal from a communication partner and N is the sum total of the Gaussian noise.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kuninori Shino, Yoshinobu Kure, Kazuyoshi Horie, Youichi Toriumi, Yoshifumi Masuda, Kazuhito Nagura
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Patent number: 6700855Abstract: A light emitted from a light source (11) or a return light from a magneto-optical discs (7a, 7b, 7c or 7d) is transmitted by a polarization maintaining optical fibers (15a, 15b, 15c or 15d). Phase difference generators (16a, 16b, 16c and 16d) are disposed in optical paths, respectively, for these light beams to generate a phase difference which is used to cancel, or multiply by an integer multiple of &pgr;, a phase difference between field vibration components, raised in the light due to the birefringence of the polarization maintaining optical fiber (15a, 15b, 15c or 15d) when the light is propagated through the latter.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kazuyoshi Horie
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Publication number: 20030175028Abstract: Methods, apparatus and techniques for hitlessly accessing an original data signal include provisioning a duplicate of the original signal at a provisioning location. The duplicate signal is sent to a switching location that has been transmitting the original signal, but which hitlessly switches to transmitting the duplicate signal instead. The original signal is accessed at an access location where the original signal is altered. The altered signal is sent to the switching location which again hitlessly switches from transmitting the duplicate signal to transmitting the altered signal. Implementation in an optical network allows wavelengths to be dropped at nodes in the network without network hits being incurred which would disrupt service or otherwise result in system downtime.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventors: Kapil Shrikhande, Yoshiaki Ikoma, Kazuyoshi Horie