Patents by Inventor Keigo Tamura
Keigo Tamura 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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Patent number: 11109108Abstract: An imaged image obtaining section obtains an imaged image from a camera. A face recognizing section detects the face images of a plurality of users in the imaged image. A display user determining section has a function of determining a user to be included in a display image. When an instruction receiving section receives a changing instruction, the display user determining section changes a user included in the display image. A face image clipping section clips a region including the face image of the determined user from the imaged image. A display image generating section generates the display image including the clipped region.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Masaki Takase, Yuji Takeuchi, Masahiro Fujihara, Akira Miyashita, Keigo Tamura
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Patent number: 11090556Abstract: There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section (56) receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section (68) arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Tomoki Takaichi, Masaki Higuchi, Toshimasa Aoki, Ikuo Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10596451Abstract: A replay data acquisition section acquires replay data for reproducing a play status of a game. A replay image generation section generates a replay image of a game scene on the basis of the acquired replay data. A user determination section determines a user to be included in a combined image. A user image acquisition section acquires a user image obtained by imaging the determined user. A combination processing section generates the combined image by combining the acquired user image with the replay image.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Toshimasa Aoki, Shoichi Ikenoue
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Patent number: 10434412Abstract: Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium that are configured, if an execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled, to make a user recognize that, if recognition of an accepted speech is successful, the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled. A speech acceptance block accepts a speech. An execution block executes processing according to a result of recognition of the speech. An output control block executes control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted. In accordance with success in the recognition of the speech, one of the execution of the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech and the output control of the information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Fumiaki Hisamatsu
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Patent number: 10362028Abstract: A picked up image displaying unit displays a picked up image on a display unit. A face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in the picked up image using face identification data retained in a registered user information retaining block. A position designation image processing unit displays a position designation image for designating a position of an object for the detected registered user on the display unit. An object authentication unit detects that an object image is included in the region designated by the position designation image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10339928Abstract: Provided are a control device that prevents performance of a process different from a desired process in response to a voice input, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium. A voice acceptance section accepts voice. An output control section performs control such that voice accepted by the voice acceptance section is output to a program capable of performing a process using the voice. The output control section performs control such that if it is recognized that the voice accepted by the voice acceptance section represents given information, voice accepted by the voice acceptance section thereafter is not output to the program capable of performing the process using the voice.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Toru Ogiso, Toshimasa Aoki
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Patent number: 10248846Abstract: An image obtaining section 106 obtains an imaged image from an imaging device. A face authenticating section 132 detects a face image of a registered user present in the imaged image using face identifying data retained in a registered user information retaining section 180. A damage determining section 142 determines whether or not the face identifying data read from the registered user information retaining section 180 by a face data reading section 130 is damaged. If the face identifying data is determined to be damaged, a notifying section 144 notifies that the face identifying data is damaged.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Yoshihiko Suwa, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 10130890Abstract: Provided is a user interface having improved usability when, in a period in which information relating to a state of a game which is being executed by a game device is being distributed to another game device, users exchange messages regarding the game being distributed. The game device executes a game application, distributes the information relating to the state of the game being executed to the another game device, receives from a distribution-destination game device a message input by the user of the distribution-destination game device regarding the distributed information, and controls display means to display a game image representing the state of the game along with the received message.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takenori Oshima, Masahiro Fujihara, Keigo Tamura
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Patent number: 10031999Abstract: A communication section receives a connection request from a game controller to connect the game controller with an information processing apparatus. A registered user information holding section holds biometric information of a user registered in the information processing apparatus. A biometric authentication portion compares biometric information of a user included in a taken image with biometric information held in the registered user information holding section to determine whether the imaged user is a user registered in the information processing apparatus. After the imaged user is found to be a user registered in the information processing apparatus, a login controller executes login processing of the user, or to be more specific, stores information for identifying a device included in the taken image and information for identifying the user into a login user storage portion by relating these items of information with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Tomohiro Ogawa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Toshimasa Aoki
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Patent number: 9922184Abstract: A taken-image display unit displays a taken image on a display. By use of face identification data held in a registered user information holding section, a face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in a taken image. A face frame processing unit displays a face frame on the display for the detected registered user. If, when the face frame is being displayed, the face authentication unit detects by use of the face identification data held in the user information holding section that the face image of the registered user is included in the face frame, a login processing unit lets this user log in.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20170287479Abstract: Provided are a control device that prevents performance of a process different from a desired process in response to a voice input, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium. A voice acceptance section accepts voice. An output control section performs control such that voice accepted by the voice acceptance section is output to a program capable of performing a process using the voice. The output control section performs control such that if it is recognized that the voice accepted by the voice acceptance section represents given information, voice accepted by the voice acceptance section thereafter is not output to the program capable of performing the process using the voice.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Toru Ogiso, Toshimasa Aoki
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Publication number: 20170289633Abstract: An imaged image obtaining section obtains an imaged image from a camera. A face recognizing section detects the face images of a plurality of users in the imaged image. A display user determining section has a function of determining a user to be included in a display image. When an instruction receiving section receives a changing instruction, the display user determining section changes a user included in the display image. A face image clipping section clips a region including the face image of the determined user from the imaged image. A display image generating section generates the display image including the clipped region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Masaki Takase, Yuji Takeuchi, Masahiro Fujihara, Akira Miyashita, Keigo Tamura
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Publication number: 20170239567Abstract: Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium that are configured, if an execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled, to make a user recognize that, if recognition of an accepted speech is successful, the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled. A speech acceptance block accepts a speech. An execution block executes processing according to a result of recognition of the speech. An output control block executes control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted. In accordance with success in the recognition of the speech, one of the execution of the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech and the output control of the information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Fumiaki Hisamatsu
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Publication number: 20170232334Abstract: A replay data acquisition section acquires replay data for reproducing a play status of a game. A replay image generation section generates a replay image of a game scene on the basis of the acquired replay data. A user determination section determines a user to be included in a combined image. A user image acquisition section acquires a user image obtained by imaging the determined user. A combination processing section generates the combined image by combining the acquired user image with the replay image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Toshimasa Aoki, Shoichi Ikenoue
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Publication number: 20170169287Abstract: An image obtaining section 106 obtains an imaged image from an imaging device. A face authenticating section 132 detects a face image of a registered user present in the imaged image using face identifying data retained in a registered user information retaining section 180. A damage determining section 142 determines whether or not the face identifying data read from the registered user information retaining section 180 by a face data reading section 130 is damaged. If the face identifying data is determined to be damaged, a notifying section 144 notifies that the face identifying data is damaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka TOKUNAGA, Keigo TAMURA, Yoshihiko SUWA, Shoichi IKENOUE, Tomohiro OGAWA
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Patent number: 9639683Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input receiving section receiving an input; a display control section changing a display screen to a first screen when the input receiving section has not received any input for a predetermined time; a registered user information retaining section retaining biological information of a plurality of users registered in the information processing device; a biological information obtaining portion obtaining biological information; and a biometric authenticating portion determining whether a user whose biological information is obtained by the biological information obtaining portion is a registered user by comparing the obtained biological information with the biological information of the plurality of users retained in the registered user information retaining section.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yuji Nakamura, Toru Ogiso, Keigo Tamura
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Patent number: 9602803Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processor configured to register user face identification data, the information processor including: a captured image display section adapted to display part of a captured image on a display; a guidance display section adapted to display, on the display, guidance prompting a user to rotate his or her face relative to an imaging device; and a registration processing section adapted to register face identification data based on user's face image included in the captured image after or while the guidance is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Tomohiro Ogawa
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Patent number: 9519412Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a voice message acceptance block configured to accept a voice message; an option identification block configured to identify, from among a plurality of options related with information indicative of voice messages, in accordance with acceptance of a voice message by the voice message acceptance block, an option of attention that is an option related with information indicative of the accepted voice message and an alternative option other than this option of attention identified on the basis of the information indicative of this voice message or this option of attention; and a display control block configured to display information indicative that the option of attention is in a selected state and information indicative of a voice message by which the option identification block identifies the alternative option as the option of attention in accordance with the acceptance by the voice message acceptance block.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Masaki Higuchi, Tomoki Takaichi, Toshimasa Aoki
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Publication number: 20160301692Abstract: A picked up image displaying unit displays a picked up image on a display unit. A face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in the picked up image using face identification data retained in a registered user information retaining block. A position designation image processing unit displays a position designation image for designating a position of an object for the detected registered user on the display unit. An object authentication unit detects that an object image is included in the region designated by the position designation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20160271490Abstract: There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section (56) receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section (68) arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Keigo TAMURA, Tomoki TAKAICHI, Masaki HIGUCHI, Toshimasa AOKI, Ikuo KOBAYASHI