Patents by Inventor Koji Kageyama
Koji Kageyama 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: 9662583Abstract: Provided are a portable game device and a method of controlling the portable game device capable of making improved use of an image generated by image pickup unit. A pickup object image generating unit (52) picks up an image of a pickup object and generates a pickup object image. A pickup object distance measuring unit (54) measures a distance to the pickup object. An information processing execution unit (56) executes information processing based on the pickup object image and the distance measured by the pickup object distance measuring unit (54).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Akihiko Sugawara, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 8935372Abstract: A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. A mediation server includes: a project information acquiring unit which acquires information on a project from a project server and stores the acquired information in a project database, the project server managing the project in which a computational processing is divided into a plurality of tasks so as to have the plurality of tasks processed by a plurality of terminals; a project information transmitter which presents the information on the project to a terminal and which transmits, to the terminal, information necessary for the terminal to access a project server of a project that the terminal desires to participate in; and an execution status management unit which receives a notification indicating that the terminal having accessed the project server using the information has executed a task assigned from the project server and which stores an execution status in a terminal database.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hidehiko Morisada, Hirotoshi Maegawa, Koji Kageyama, Takayuki Sakamoto, Michinari Kohno, Kenji Yamane
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Patent number: 8793092Abstract: An information processing device acquires an output value in accordance with a state in which an operating device is held, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined first holding state of the operating device as a first reference value, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined second holding state of the operating device, different from the first holding state, as a second reference value, and calculates a state value indicative of the state in which the operating device is held, which is in accordance with the acquired output value, based on the first reference value and the second reference value.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Fukushima, Shinichi Hirata, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 8495192Abstract: A distributed processing management server receives resource operating status information from a terminal apparatus and generates based upon the information a whole resource operating status information which indicates operating statuses of other terminal apparatuses and feeds the information back to the terminal apparatuses. Users of terminal apparatuses can grasp how other terminal apparatuses are involved in a distributed processing project and motivation can be enhanced for participating in the distributed processing project.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hirotoshi Maegawa, Koji Kageyama, Masayuki Chatani, Yoichi Numata
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Publication number: 20120095714Abstract: An information processing device acquires an output value in accordance with a state in which an operating device is held, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined first holding state of the operating device as a first reference value, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined second holding state of the operating device, different from the first holding state, as a second reference value, and calculates a state value indicative of the state in which the operating device is held, which is in accordance with the acquired output value, based on the first reference value and the second reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Noriyuki FUKUSHIMA, Shinichi HIRATA, Koji KAGEYAMA
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Patent number: 8082121Abstract: An information processing device acquires an output value in accordance with a state in which an operating device is held, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined first holding state of the operating device as a first reference value, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined second holding state of the operating device, different from the first holding state, as a second reference value, and calculates a state value indicative of the state in which the operating device is held, which is in accordance with the acquired output value, based on the first reference value and the second reference value.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Fukushima, Shinichi Hirata, Koji Kageyama
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Publication number: 20110159957Abstract: Provided are a portable game device and a method of controlling the portable game device capable of making improved use of an image generated by image pickup unit. A pickup object image generating unit (52) picks up an image of a pickup object and generates a pickup object image. A pickup object distance measuring unit (54) measures a distance to the pickup object. An information processing execution unit (56) executes information processing based on the pickup object image and the distance measured by the pickup object distance measuring unit (54).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Akihiko Sugawara, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 7933729Abstract: To provide an operating device control device for obtaining information about a rotational angle of an operating device, while reducing the influence due to an individual difference and/or variation of a reference sensor signal in accordance with a sensor signal output from the gyro sensor mounted in the operating device. A control device of an operating device having a gyro sensor for detecting an angular velocity and outputting a sensor signal in accordance with the detected angular velocity, the control device obtains an output signal from signal output means for outputting an output signal in accordance with a difference between the sensor signal output from the gyro sensor and a predetermined reference signal, then estimates a reference sensor signal to be output by the gyro sensor when no angular velocity is detected, based on the output signal, and changes the predetermined reference signal according to the estimated reference sensor signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Fukushima, Shinichi Hirata, Koji Kageyama
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Publication number: 20100138769Abstract: A distributed processing management server receives resource operating status information from a terminal apparatus and generates based upon the information a whole resource operating status information which indicates operating statuses of other terminal apparatuses and feeds the information back to the terminal apparatuses. Users of terminal apparatuses can grasp how other terminal apparatuses are involved in a distributed processing project and motivation can be enhanced for participating in the distributed processing project.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: Sony Computr Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hirotoshi Maegawa, Koji Kageyama, Masayuki Chatani, Yoichi Numata
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Publication number: 20100115521Abstract: A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. A mediation server includes: a project information acquiring unit which acquires information on a project from a project server and stores the acquired information in a project database, the project server managing the project in which a computational processing is divided into a plurality of tasks so as to have the plurality of tasks processed by a plurality of terminals; a project information transmitter which presents the information on the project to a terminal and which transmits, to the terminal, information necessary for the terminal to access a project server of a project that the terminal desires to participate in; and an execution status management unit which receives a notification indicating that the terminal having accessed the project server using the information has executed a task assigned from the project server and which stores an execution status in a terminal database.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2007Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Hidehiko Morisada, Hirotoshi Maegawa, Koji Kageyama, Takayuki Sakamoto, Michinari Kohno, Kenji Yamane
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Publication number: 20090183567Abstract: To provide an operating device control device for obtaining information about a rotational angle of an operating device, while reducing the influence due to an individual difference and/or variation of a reference sensor signal in accordance with a sensor signal output from the gyro sensor mounted in the operating device. A control device of an operating device having a gyro sensor for detecting an angular velocity and outputting a sensor signal in accordance with the detected angular velocity, the control device obtains an output signal from signal output means for outputting an output signal in accordance with a difference between the sensor signal output from the gyro sensor and a predetermined reference signal, then estimates a reference sensor signal to be output by the gyro sensor when no angular velocity is detected, based on the output signal, and changes the predetermined reference signal according to the estimated reference sensor signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Noriyuki Fukushima, Shinichi Hirata, Koji Kageyama
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Publication number: 20080120057Abstract: An information processing device acquires an output value in accordance with a state in which an operating device is held, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined first holding state of the operating device as a first reference value, acquires the output value in accordance with a predetermined second holding state of the operating device, different from the first holding state, as a second reference value, and calculates a state value indicative of the state in which the operating device is held, which is in accordance with the acquired output value, based on the first reference value and the second reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Fukushima, Shinichi Hirata, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 6014167Abstract: The invention provides a tracking apparatus and a tracking method by which an imaging object can be set without any special manual operation by a user. An imaged image is supplied to an imaging object setting section via an imaging object processing section. In the imaging object setting section, a motion detection section calculates a difference value between images of successive two frames and detects a motion of an image based on the difference value. Then, a portion of the image from which the motion is detected is set as an imaging object to be tracked.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Tadafusa Tomitaka, Takayuki Sakamoto, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 5966690Abstract: The language is composed using phonemes which is easy to separate in an environment of noise and disturbing sound.An acoustic signal comprising phonemes which is easy to separate in an environment of noise and disturbing sound fed to the acoustic signal analyzer is analyzed therein, and from the result of the analysis, the tone name is recognized in the tone name identifier, and after the tone name is recognized as a prescribed sentence, the sentence is fed to the utterance generator. Corresponding to these operations, the utterance generator generates a prescribed time series composed of tone names comprising phonemes which is easy to separate in an environment of noise and disturbing sound, and inputs it to the acoustic signal generator. The acoustic signal generator synthesizes an acoustic signal which corresponds to the time series and outputs the acoustic signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1996Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiro Fujita, Makoto Inoe, Koji Kageyama, Makoto Akabane
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Patent number: 5963712Abstract: A robot apparatus composed of a plurality of component units comprises a first storage unit for storing shape information for determining shapes of the component units, a second storage unit for storing motion information required to describe motions of the component units, a third storage unit for storing characteristic information on electric parts contained in the component parts, and a detector for detecting coupling states of the respective component units. A controller can automatically recognize the entire structure and motion characteristics of the respective component units based on the detection results of the detector. Thus, it is possible to realize a robot apparatus which can be applied to a configuration including two or more separate groups of arbitrary component units combined into a complete assembly, and thus facilitate the architecture of a new form.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiro Fujita, Koji Kageyama, Takayuki Sakamoto, Naohiro Fukumura
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Patent number: 5574498Abstract: In a target tracking system being capable of tracking a target object certainly, color change by illumination is absorbed through color judgment from R-Y and B-Y with forecast coefficients, not hue, and is forcibly switched the forecast coefficient of the luminance signal, so that a black and white target can be tracked certainly. Further, the evaluation is performed without the effect from small object in the image, and the center of gravity of the alteration amount is evaluated, so that the position can be detected even when the television camera is moving, and improving the tracking efficiency of target object.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayuki Sakamoto, Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: 5552823Abstract: In a picture processing apparatus such as a camera, monitor camera, television and the like, an imaging device is controlled to follow a desired target object and image it in the best state. A distribution of motion vectors within a tracking vector detection area is detected, and then the most characteristic motion vector is detected. In a second embodiment a power of components in a high frequency band is detected per unit of predetermined blocks, difference data between picture data of motion pictures of the present frame and the previous frame is obtained, the power of the difference data is detected per unit of predetermined blocks, and an edge having movement is detected on the basis of the detection result.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1995Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Kageyama
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Patent number: D413365Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Kageyama, Masahiro Fujita, Hideki Noma
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Patent number: D418551Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Kageyama, Masahiro Fujita, Hideki Noma
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Patent number: D421634Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Kageyama, Masahiro Fujita, Hideki Noma