Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Oi
Kenichiro Oi 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: 20230052360Abstract: A user terminal generates a virtual drone camera image, as an estimated captured image where it is assumed that a virtual drone camera mounted on a drone has captured an image of a planned landing position on the basis of a captured image obtained by capturing the planned landing position of the drone with the user terminal, and transmits the generated virtual drone camera image to the drone. The drone collates the virtual drone camera image with the image captured by the drone camera and lands at the planned landing position in the image captured by the drone camera. The user terminal generates a corresponding pixel positional relationship formula indicating a correspondence relationship between a pixel position on the captured image of the user terminal and a pixel position on the captured image of the virtual drone camera, and generates the virtual drone camera image using the generated relationship formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kenichiro OI, Takahide OTANI
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Publication number: 20220415193Abstract: The present disclosure realizes a configuration capable of accurately displaying a flight path of a drone on an actually captured image of the drone. The configuration includes a data processing unit that displays a moving path of a moving device such as a drone on a display unit that displays a camera-capturing image of the moving device. The data processing unit generates a coordinate conversion matrix for performing coordinate conversion processing of converting position information according to a first coordinate system, for example, the NED coordinate system indicating the moving path of the moving device into a second coordinate system, for example, the camera coordinate system capable of specifying a pixel position of a display image on the display unit and outputs, to the display unit, the moving path having position information according to the camera coordinate system generated by coordinate conversion processing to which the generated coordinate conversion matrix is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: KENICHIRO OI, TAKAHIDE OTANI
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Publication number: 20220221872Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of searching for an optimal route for transporting a predetermined object. Provided is a processing unit that generates a mobile object model including an object to be transported and a transport executing object that transports the object, and a three-dimensional shape map of a place to which the object is to be transported, the three-dimensional shape map being based on a captured image of the place, assigns, on the three-dimensional shape map, a label indicating a property of an installed object installed at the place to a position corresponding to the place, and searches for a route on which a target object is to be transported, on the basis of the mobile object model, the three-dimensional shape map, and the label. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing device that performs a route search.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Eisuke NOMURA
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Publication number: 20220157179Abstract: The present disclosure relates to action control device and an action control method and a program that enable more appropriate action control to be achieved. An EKF processing unit selects a self-position estimation unit used to estimate a position of a drone from a plurality of the self-position estimation units which is different in estimation accuracy on the basis of waypoints that are indexes when the drone acts, and obtains a state of the drone. Then, a navigator controls an action of the drone according to an action plan created in advance on the basis of the state of the drone. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a mission flight control device that controls a mission flight of a drone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kenichiro OI, Masaki HANDA, Takuto MOTOYAMA, Shun LEE, Masahiko TOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20220049946Abstract: A controller (100) includes: an acquisition unit (121) that acquires image data captured by an imaging device (10) for photographing disposed in a moving body; and a calculation unit (127) that calculates a relative position of a position of a subject, which is detected by a plurality of distance-measuring imaging devices (20-1, 20-2, 20-3, and 20-4) provided in the moving body, based on the subject included in the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: TAKUTO MOTOYAMA, MASAKI HANDA, SHINICHIRO ABE, MASAHIKO TOYOSHI, SHUN LEE, KENICHIRO OI
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Publication number: 20220024560Abstract: A control apparatus (100) includes an acquisition unit (121) that acquires captured data in which an object around a moving object is captured by an imaging unit, where the moving object is one of a moving object that is irradiated with spontaneous emission light and a mobbing object that moves with a predetermined pattern, and a determination unit (122) that determines that the object is an obstacle if the captured data acquired by the acquisition unit (121) includes a specific pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: MASAKI HANDA, SHINICHIRO ABE, MASAHIKO TOYOSHI, TAKUTO MOTOYAMA, SHUN LEE, KENICHIRO OI
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Publication number: 20220007482Abstract: By making power consumption required for light projection efficient regarding an optical distance measurement system, low power consumption is devised. A floodlight control apparatus according to the present technology includes: a light receiving part which is provided with a plurality of light receiving elements which receives reflected light of light projected by a light projecting part; an object detecting part which performs object detection targeted within a distance measurable range which is a range where the light receiving part is operable to receive the reflected light; and a control part which performs control of differentiating a light projection amount provided by the light projecting part in accordance with detection presence/absence of an object performed by the object detecting part and in a case where the object detecting part detects the object, differentiating a projection mode of the light projecting part between a detection region and a non-detection region of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: YOHEI OGURA, KENSEI JO, KENICHIRO OI, TAKAFUMI FUJITA
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Publication number: 20210319591Abstract: An information processing device (10) includes an acquisition unit (40) that acquires, from a first terminal device, first image data and first terminal information associated with the first terminal device, and a generation unit (50) that generates, on the basis of first image data, second image data corresponding to second terminal information that is different from the first terminal information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventor: KENICHIRO OI
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Patent number: 10908676Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Fukuchi, Kouichi Matsuda, Yasuhiro Suto, Kenichiro Oi, Jingjing Guo
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Patent number: 10909759Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory storing instructions is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit for executing the instructions to send signals to display, for a user, a first virtual image superimposed onto a representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to identify a potential source of interest for the user, the potential source of interest being outside of a user focus area in the representation of real space. The control unit further executes instructions to send signals to notify the user of the potential source of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akihiko Kaino, Yoshiaki Iwai, Kenichiro Oi, Shunichi Homma, Jianing Wu
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Publication number: 20200401611Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local mapType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan WANG, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
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Patent number: 10803098Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
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Publication number: 20200175693Abstract: A threshold map generation unit 412 partitions a captured image into a crowded region and an uncrowded region on a basis of a manipulation signal from an input device 30, acquires a human determination threshold in accordance with a level of crowdedness for each region from the threshold storage unit 411, and generates a threshold map. A human detection unit 421 performs human detection using the human determination threshold corresponding to the region for each of the plurality of regions on the basis of the threshold map. A tracking unit 422 performs tracking of detected humans. A human detection reliability calculation unit 441 calculates human detection reliability for each of the detected humans using a human detection result and a tracking result. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain human detection information with high reliability and high precision.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2016Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: SHINICHI TAKADA, KENICHIRO OI, HIRONAGA SANO
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Patent number: 10599687Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
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Publication number: 20190346914Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki FUKUCHI, Kouichi MATSUDA, Yasuhiro SUTO, Kenichiro OI, Jingjing GUO
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Patent number: 10386917Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Fukuchi, Kouichi Matsuda, Yasuhiro Suto, Kenichiro Oi, Jingjing Guo
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Publication number: 20190005068Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local mapType: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan Wang, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
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Patent number: 10157327Abstract: An image processing device includes a plurality of object feature amount calculation units to calculate an object feature amount related to an object on an image, from a current frame of a moving image based on different standards, a feature amount selection unit to select an object feature amount to be used from the plurality of object feature amounts, which is calculated based on the different standards, using object attribute information related to an object on a previous frame of the moving image, an object information calculation unit to calculate object information related to an object on the current frame using the selected feature amount and object information related to the object on the previous frame, and an object attribute information calculation unit to calculate object attribute information related to the object on the current frame based on the calculated object information related to the object on the current frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Kenichiro Oi, Hironaga Sano, Nana Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10083188Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
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Publication number: 20180018013Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki FUKUCHI, Kouichi MATSUDA, Yasuhiro SUTO, Kenichiro OI, Jingjing GUO