Patents by Inventor KENJI HISANAGA

KENJI HISANAGA 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).

  • Patent number: 11545032
    Abstract: This system includes a roadside apparatus and a vehicle-side apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes a roadside sensor that detects a road situation, a recognizer that recognizes a traffic object from the road situation detected by the roadside sensor and converts a result of the recognition into stereotype information of the traffic object, and a transmitter that transmits and receives the stereotype information. The vehicle-side apparatus includes a data storage unit that stores data regarding a traffic object corresponding to the stereotype information, a receiver that receives the stereotype information transmitted by the roadside apparatus, and a presentation unit that presents the data stored in the data storage unit on the basis of the received stereotype information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hisanaga, Kenji Ogawa, Kazufumi Cho, Akihiko Izumi, Taichi Shimoyashiki
  • Patent number: 11533537
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: a reaction determiner that determines, on a basis of reaction information of a viewer who views a program, an attitude of the viewer toward the program; and an environment provider that provides the viewer with a viewing environment that is identical to a viewing environment provided to a viewer group having an attitude that is identical to the attitude of the viewer towards the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hisanaga, Kenji Ogawa, Yoichi Kobori, Taichi Shimoyashiki, Nobuyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220223152
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an external device controller, an external-device-state recognizer, and a model obtaining section. The external device controller transmits a plurality of commands to one or a plurality of external devices to be controlled. The external-device-state recognizer recognizes states of the one or plurality of external devices of before and after transmission of the plurality of commands performed by the external device controller. The model obtaining section generates a state transition model in which the plurality of commands transmitted from the external device controller is associated with the states of the one or plurality of external devices of before and after the transmission of the plurality of commands performed by the external device controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI OGAWA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI, TOMOYA FUJITA, KENJI HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20220188858
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (200) includes a storage unit (240) that stores therein provision information (D1) including a provision condition for advertising for a product in a content, and a control unit (250) that estimates purchase intent on the product on the basis of a reaction of a user to the advertising for the product using the content if the provision condition indicated by the provision information (D1) is met. The control unit (250) associates intent information (D2), which indicates that it is estimated that the user has the purchase intent on the product, with the provision information (D1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, MASAHIRO OTSUKA, KENICHI SETA, AKIKO HORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20220159339
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: a reaction determiner that determines, on a basis of reaction information of a viewer who views a program, an attitude of the viewer toward the program; and an environment provider that provides the viewer with a viewing environment that is identical to a viewing environment provided to a viewer group having an attitude that is identical to the attitude of the viewer towards the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji HISANAGA, Kenji OGAWA, Yoichi KOBORI, Taichi SHIMOYASHIKI, Nobuyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220148486
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided by which plural scenes are displayed simultaneously with low load. The information processing apparatus that processes two or more image signals includes a division unit that decomposes the image signals for each color element, a selection unit that selects, from among the color elements of the two or more image signals, a color element of any one of the image signals for each color element, and an outputting unit that outputs the color elements of the image signals for each of predetermined regions. The predetermined regions are plural sub-frames into which one frame is divided in a time direction. The selection unit alternatively selects a color element from among the color elements of the two or more image signals in each of the sub-frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAKUYA NAMAE, HIROSHI MATSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11226712
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a processing unit that controls a display device to simultaneously display a plurality of objects on an output region of the display device, determines occurrence of competition of an output region on a basis of a user operation, and allows a notification of the occurrence of the competition depending on a determining result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Akihiko Izumi, Takuya Namae, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Publication number: 20210280187
    Abstract: In a mashup agent 23 that is an information processing apparatus, a controller is configured to perform control to detect an intent of a user, operate an agent capable of providing a service corresponding to the detected intent of the user, and present, to the user, a result supplied to the agent from the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, KENJI OGAWA, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI, YOICHI KOBORI, NOBUYUKI TANAKA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KAZUFUMI CHO
  • Publication number: 20210209949
    Abstract: This system includes a roadside apparatus and a vehicle-side apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes a roadside sensor that detects a road situation, a recognizer that recognizes a traffic object from the road situation detected by the roadside sensor and converts a result of the recognition into stereotype information of the traffic object, and a transmitter that transmits and receives the stereotype information. The vehicle-side apparatus includes a data storage unit that stores data regarding a traffic object corresponding to the stereotype information, a receiver that receives the stereotype information transmitted by the roadside apparatus, and a presentation unit that presents the data stored in the data storage unit on the basis of the received stereotype information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI HISANAGA, KENJI OGAWA, KAZUFUMI CHO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAICHI SHIMOYASHIKI
  • Patent number: 11054941
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system that is capable of adaptively correcting an operation direction on the basis of a rotation angle of a display object with respect to a reference angle on a display surface, and an information processing method and a program. The information processing system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains operation information regarding user's operation of a display object displayed on a display surface; and a processing unit that corrects an operation direction indicated by the operation information on the basis of a rotation angle of the display object with respect to a reference angle on the display surface, and outputs information indicating the corrected operation direction to an application corresponding to the display object, in which a rotation angle of the display object differs from a rotation angle of the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Takuya Namae, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Patent number: 10803236
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an information acquiring unit that acquires editing information for electronic book content, and position information indicating an area linked to the editing information in the electronic book content; and a screen generating unit that generates a screen in which the area indicated by the position information has been edited using the editing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Takuya Namae, Daisuke Matsumoto, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Publication number: 20190339864
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system that is capable of adaptively correcting an operation direction on the basis of a rotation angle of a display object with respect to a reference angle on a display surface, and an information processing method and a program. The information processing system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains operation information regarding user's operation of a display object displayed on a display surface; and a processing unit that corrects an operation direction indicated by the operation information on the basis of a rotation angle of the display object with respect to a reference angle on the display surface, and outputs information indicating the corrected operation direction to an application corresponding to the display object, in which a rotation angle of the display object differs from a rotation angle of the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko IZUMI, Takuya NAMAE, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20190095071
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a processing unit that determines occurrence of competition of an output region on a basis of a user operation, and allows a notification of the occurrence of the competition depending on a determining result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, AKIHIKO IZUMI, TAKUYA NAMAE, KENJI HISANAGA
  • Patent number: 10075543
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an information acquisition unit configured to, on the basis of a condition previously associated with at least a piece of identification information in book data in which the identification information is associated with at least a part of first information among pieces of information, acquire second information consistent with the condition from a social networking service, and an editing unit configured to replace the first information associated with the piece of identification information with the acquired second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Takuya Namae, Daisuke Matsumoto, Kenji Hisanaga
  • Publication number: 20180240213
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire direction information indicating a rotational angle of a display object displayed on a display screen, the rotational angle being with respect to a reference angle on the display screen, or a direction in which a user is positioned with respect to the display screen; and a decision unit configured to decide, on a basis of the direction information, a direction of the display object with respect to the display screen when a display mode of the display object is switched to an enlarged display mode, in which the rotational angle of the display object is different from a rotational angle of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko IZUMI, Takuya NAMAE, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20160188558
    Abstract: [Object] To generate display of electronic book content in which a content has been changed flexibly. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: an information acquiring unit that acquires editing information for electronic book content, and position information indicating an area linked to the editing information in the electronic book content; and a screen generating unit that generates a screen in which the area indicated by the position information has been edited using the editing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SHIKAWA, Takuya NAMAE, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Publication number: 20160179349
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to initiate a displaying of a content upon a display, and initiate an insertion of an acquired image into a region of the displayed content, the acquired image being selected on a basis of at least one image of a plurality of successive images that has been acquired and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA, Takuya NAMAE, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Kenji HISANAGA
  • Patent number: 8972852
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis unit that analyses display control data including multiple structural units, in each of which information relating to display control is written, and extracts the structural units included in the display control data, a first structuring unit that generates first structured data for display control by linking, except for a structural unit in which information involving script processing is written, the structural units including at least a structural unit in which information relating to a layout of a display screen is written, among the extracted structural units, a second structuring unit that generates second structured data for display control by linking all of the extracted structural units, and a display control unit that displays a display screen using the first structured data, and, at a stage the second structured data is generated, redisplays the display screen using the second structured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Iwade, Kenji Hisanaga, Yoshinori Atake, Tomohiro Katsube, Yohei Hashimoto, Takuma Oiwa
  • Publication number: 20150039720
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an information acquisition unit configured to, on the basis of a condition previously associated with at least a piece of identification information in book data in which the identification information is associated with at least a part of first information among pieces of information, acquire second information consistent with the condition from a social networking service, and an editing unit configured to replace the first information associated with the piece of identification information with the acquired second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, TAKUYA NAMAE, DAISUKE MATSUMOTO, KENJI HISANAGA
  • Patent number: 8847978
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a display screen including a touch-sensitive panel generating position signals representing a set of positions of a single continuous touch activation between a first time and a second time; and a processor coupled to the panel. The processor configured to: process the signals to detect first and second characteristics of the set; and generate output signals causing a display screen to initiate first and second operations corresponding to the first and second characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Nishibe, Kenji Hisanaga