Patents by Inventor Kotaro IMAMURA

Kotaro IMAMURA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240051147
    Abstract: An entertainment system includes a user terminal, a robot, and a control device. The user terminal causes a display unit to display contents which allow a user to select any one character from a plurality of characters for which personalities different from one another are defined. The control device determines an operation mode of the robot on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a personality of the character selected on the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Fumihiko IIDA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Yukari KONISHI, Kotaro IMAMURA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Naoki OGISHITA, Bhat Ramanath UDUPI, Mari YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20240053604
    Abstract: A control device generates a first image in which, together with an object in the real world appearing in an image captured by a camera of a robot, a virtual object appears and which presents an exterior appearance of the virtual object while the position of the camera of the robot is set as a view-point. An HMD displays the first image generated by the control device. In a case in which the position of the HMD in the height direction changes, the control device generates a second image from which the object in the real world is deleted and which presents the exterior appearance of the virtual object viewed from a new view-point according to the change in the position of the HMD in the height direction. The HMD displays the second image in place of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Yukari KONISHI, Fumihiko IIDA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Kotaro IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240017418
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that controls a motion of a robot having a torso and a head. The information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires an image of a face of a user that is captured by a camera of a mobile terminal device, a motion detection section that detects an orientation of the face of the user from the acquired image, a control signal generation section that generates a control signal for rotating the first or the second rotating device of the robot according to the detected orientation of the face of the user, and a transmission section that transmits the generated control signal to the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Kotaro IMAMURA, Udupi Ramanath BHAT, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Naoki OGISHITA, Tsuyoshi FUKUYAMA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Karen MURATA, Mari YASUDA
  • Patent number: 9870772
    Abstract: A guiding device, a guiding method, a program, and an information storage medium are provided which can perform output control of a guidance related to a volume at which to input voice using the recognition ranking of a received voice. A voice receiving section (46) receives a voice. When given information is identified as a result of recognition of the voice, an output control section (58) performs control so as to output a guidance related to a volume at which to input voice in a mode corresponding to the recognition ranking of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Kotaro Imamura
  • Publication number: 20170032782
    Abstract: A guiding device, a guiding method, a program, and an information storage medium are provided which can perform output control of a guidance related to a volume at which to input voice using the recognition ranking of a received voice. A voice receiving section (46) receives a voice. When given information is identified as a result of recognition of the voice, an output control section (58) performs control so as to output a guidance related to a volume at which to input voice in a mode corresponding to the recognition ranking of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Kotaro IMAMURA