Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Torii

Kuniaki Torii 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: 11954804
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that enables a virtual object to be displayed at an appropriate position in the real world. The information processing device includes a position estimation unit that estimates a current position in a first coordinate system, a display position setting unit that sets a display position of a virtual object in a third coordinate system on the basis of an environment database, virtual object information including the display position of the virtual object in a second coordinate system, and an observed image captured near the current position, a meta information generation unit that generates observation meta information, and an environment database management unit that compares observation data with environment data of the environment database to determine whether to add the observation data to the environment database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Wakabayashi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11887445
    Abstract: Realized is a configuration that monitors a behavior of a visitor and issues an alert or performs some other action in the case where a suspicious behavior is detected. The configuration includes a data processing section configured to monitor the behavior of the visitor. The data processing section identifies the visitor, acquires profile information of the identified visitor, determines a behavior monitoring mode of the visitor on the basis of the profile information, and monitors the behavior of the visitor according to the determined behavior monitoring mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuniaki Torii
  • Publication number: 20230072586
    Abstract: A behavioral ability obtainment unit 351 obtains behavioral abilities including, for example, at least one of physical behavioral abilities and intellectual behavioral abilities, of a plurality of members, i.e., members of a group to be guided. A guidance control unit 352 performs guidance control for the group on the basis of the behavioral abilities obtained by the behavioral ability obtainment unit 351. For example, the guidance control unit determines a member to be prioritized from the group members, generates a route plan to a destination according to the behavioral abilities of the determined member to be prioritized, and performs guidance control based on the route plan. This makes it possible to perform guidance operations according to the group to be guided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, KUNIAKI TORII, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, KAZUMI SATO
  • Publication number: 20220288791
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an output control unit that controls an output from an interaction device to a user; an action evaluation unit that determines an action of the user performed in correspondence with an output of the interaction device; an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of the user corresponding to the action of the user; and an information accumulation unit that accumulates the output of the interaction device, the action of the user, and the emotion of the user in association with each other as interaction information, in which the output control unit controls the output from the interaction device to the user based on the interaction information accumulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: FUMIHIKO IIDA, RYUICHI SUZUKI, KUNIAKI TORII, EMIKA KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11436348
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that allow authority to be delegated without bothering the user. Provided are an acquisition unit that acquires information for receiving delegation of an authority that is predetermined, a change unit that changes a level of the authority when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and a processing unit that performs a process using the authority that is predetermined. The acquisition unit acquires first information, an inquiry is made to a server using the first information to acquire second information from the server, and the authority that is predetermined is delegated by acquiring the second information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an agent device to which the authority to access predetermined information is delegated from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii, Fujio Arai, Yusuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 11389949
    Abstract: There is provided a control device, a control method, and a control system that implement a robot that flexibly executes a task in cooperation with another robot, the control device including: an ability management unit that determines capability indicating ability that can be executed by a first robot at predetermined timing as of that timing; a help management unit that compares ability required for a task to be executed by the first robot with the capability of the first robot and generates a help list indicating ability required for execution of the task; and a cooperation management unit that instructs a second robot having the capability that satisfies the ability indicated in the help list to execute the task in cooperation with the first robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Naoyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220122345
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable a virtual object to be displayed at an appropriate position in the real world.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, KUNIAKI TORII, RYO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220108245
    Abstract: Implemented is a configuration for deciding a transport machine into which a robot get, by taking efficiency and cooperativeness into consideration. A data processing section that selects a transport machine to be taken by a robot is included. The data processing section acquires robot information that is about the robot and transport-machine information that is about the transport machine, calculates scores corresponding to a plurality of available transport machines on the basis of the acquired information, and selects a transport machine to be used on the basis of the calculated scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: KUNIAKI TORII
  • Publication number: 20220095786
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a moving body and a control method capable of improving affinity of the moving body for a person and a space. A moving body according to one aspect of the present technology includes a top plate that serves as a desk at which a person performs work, a support arm that supports the top plate and that can extend and contract, and a moving unit that holds the support arm and performs movement for causing the work to be performed. Furthermore, the moving body controls a posture state including a state of the support arm and a movement state of the moving unit in accordance with a relationship with an environment state as a state of a surrounding environment and a person state as a state of the person located around, sensed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to a movable robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: KOHEI KOJIMA, MIKIO NAKAI, KUNIAKI TORII, TAICHI YUKI, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, TAKAMORI YAMAGUCHI, CHAO WANG, MASATAKA TOYOURA, YOSHIHITO OHKI
  • Publication number: 20220068096
    Abstract: Realized is a configuration that monitors a behavior of a visitor and issues an alert or performs some other action in the case where a suspicious behavior is detected. The configuration includes a data processing section configured to monitor the behavior of the visitor. The data processing section identifies the visitor, acquires profile information of the identified visitor, determines a behavior monitoring mode of the visitor on the basis of the profile information, and monitors the behavior of the visitor according to the determined behavior monitoring mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: KUNIAKI TORII
  • Patent number: 11257374
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a moving object that enable suitable data sharing between moving objects. An information processing apparatus includes a data selection unit that selects shared data to be shared between a first moving object and a second moving object on the basis of at least one of a distance between moving objects or a situation of the first moving object, the distance between moving objects being a distance between the first and second moving objects, and a data acquisition unit that acquires the shared data from the second moving object. For example, the present technology can be applied to a vehicle that drives automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii
  • Patent number: 11194437
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a user information management unit that sets a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grants at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Kuniaki Torii, Naoyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210258470
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a mobile body and a control method by which multiple mobile bodies that are performing photographing can be inhibited from obstructing each other's photographing. The mobile body receives photographing information including information regarding a photographing range which is photographed by another mobile body. Subsequently, the mobile body controls a photographing action of a camera for performing photographing, according to the photographing information regarding the other mobile body. The present technique is applicable to, for example, a photographing system that performs aerial photographing using multiple drones, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: YUSUKE KUDO, KUNIAKI TORII, MIKIO NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210232150
    Abstract: A control device includes a recognizing unit that recognizes the external environment based on sensing information; an action decision managing unit that, based on the recognized external environment, decides on the actions to be taken; a behavior managing unit that, based on at least either the difficulty level of recognition for the recognizing unit or the difficulty level of action decision for the action decision managing unit, determines about whether or not to exhibit emotional expressions; and a drive control unit that, based on the determination performed by the behavior control unit, controls the execution of the actions corresponding to emotional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, MIKIO NAKAI, YUSUKE KUDO
  • Publication number: 20210216589
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit acquires multimodal information including sound information and non-sound information of a user and determines a topic to be presented to the user on the basis of the multimodal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: MARI IKENAGA, KUNIAKI TORII, KAZUNORI YAMAMOTO, TAICHI YUKI
  • Patent number: 11042743
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, capable of preventing the deterioration of visual recognition in a scene where a plurality of content items associated with a real object are displayed, the information processing device including: a display control unit configured to output display information used to cause content associated with a real object to be displayed. The display control unit, in a case where a first area on which first content is displayed and a second area on which second content is displayed overlap at least partially, adjusts layout of the first content or the second content on a basis of layout information determined for each of the first content and the second content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Takahiro Okayama
  • Publication number: 20210178578
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that is used to develop a control program of an autonomous operation apparatus including a movable portion or that assists the development. An information processing apparatus that processes a control program of an apparatus to be controlled including a movable portion includes: a computation unit that computes an operation of the apparatus to be controlled according to the control program including a command value of each time period regarding the movable portion; and a holding unit that holds an ideal state of the apparatus to be controlled that operates according to the control program obtained as a computation result of the computation unit, in which the control program is output after adding the ideal state to the control program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: MIKIO NAKAI, KUNIAKI TORII, YUSUKE KUDO, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20210165825
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including: a control unit configured to perform, when there are a plurality of pieces of information corresponding to a predetermined term having been associated with a plurality of pieces of attribute information as candidates of a search result, control to notify each piece of information by making an index calculated with respect to each term recognizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Tanaka, Kuniaki Torii
  • Patent number: 11004273
    Abstract: An information processing device that includes a display control unit to perform display control such that a first virtual object corresponding to content is contained in a rendering image of the content when a position of the content defined in a virtual space and a position of a viewpoint defined in the virtual space have a first positional relation, and a second virtual object corresponding to the content is contained in the rendering image when the position of the content and the position of the viewpoint have a second positional relation. A distance between the position of the content and the position of the viewpoint in the second positional relation is shorter than a distance between the position of the content and the position of the viewpoint in the first positional relation, and visibility of the second virtual object is lower than visibility of the first virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Takahiro Okayama, Kazuomi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20210118443
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an input signal about an operation of an apparatus; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information obtained by performing person having authority selection processing to select a person having authority who has permission authority about the operation instructed by the input signal acquired by the input signal acquisition unit, permission input apparatus selection processing to select a permission input apparatus according to a situation of the selected person having authority, and reception processing to receive a signal regarding operation permission from the selected permission input apparatus; and an apparatus control unit configured to perform control according to the operation instructed by the input signal acquired by the input signal acquisition unit on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi YUKI, Mari IKENAGA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Kuniaki TORII, Naoyuki SATO