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: 10963063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a recognition accuracy related to a recognition based on sensing data; and a control unit configured to make a first user operation recognizable when the recognition accuracy is included in a first range, and make a second user operation recognizable when the recognition accuracy is included in a second range different from the first range, the second user operation being different from the first user operation and related to the first user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Takahiro Okayama
  • Publication number: 20200401139
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible for a person on the ground to communicate with an arbitrary flying vehicle flying in the air. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, there is provided a flying vehicle including: an image presentation section that presents an image for requesting an action from a person; and a situation recognition section that recognizes a situation, in which the image presentation section presents the image on the basis of the situation recognized by the situation recognition section. This configuration makes it possible for the person on the ground to communicate with an arbitrary flying vehicle flying in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: MIKIO NAKAI, YUSUKE KUDO, KUNIAKI TORII
  • Patent number: 10861181
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processing unit that selects a display object from among a plurality of candidate objects corresponding to a specific position in a visual field of a user and performs display control processing of causing the selected display object to be displayed on a display screen in association with the specific position on a basis of line-of-sight information showing a line of sight of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Okayama, Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Kazuomi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10853681
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: a notification control unit configured to cause a user to be notified of occurrence of cutting-off in a display region of a transmissive display unit on a basis of detection of the occurrence of the cutting-off in which a whole of a display object in which at least a partial region is displayed is not contained in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Takahiro Okayama, Kazuomi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20200357283
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, 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: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, KUNIAKI TORII
  • Patent number: 10817243
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction part configured to extract, when an output destination is changed to a recipient candidate device, a change in a screen layout determined in accordance with an output environment of the recipient candidate device, and a notification controller configured to perform control to execute notification of the change in the screen layout extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Kosuke Yoshitomi, Hikotatsu Chin, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10789476
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20200282549
    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: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki TORII, Naoyuki SATO
  • Patent number: 10732808
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of presenting information in a suitable mode according to a positional relationship between a display region and a user, the display control device including: a calculation unit configured to specify a first region in which a user is a reference point; and a display control unit configured to control display of a display object on a display unit according to the specified first region and a second region occupied by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Koichi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200242847
    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 to be displayed in a case in which a position of the content defined in a virtual space and a position of a viewpoint defined in the virtual space to generate the rendering image are determined to have a first positional relation, and a second virtual object corresponding to the content is contained in the rendering image to be displayed in a case in which the position of the content and the position of the viewpoint are determined to 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: RYO FUKAZAWA, KUNIAKI TORII, TAKAHIRO OKAYAMA, KAZUOMI KONDO
  • Publication number: 20200234187
    Abstract: To cause a user to more naturally and intuitively perceive learning progress regarding information presentation. Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit configured to control an output of response information to a user, in which the output control unit controls output expression of the response information on the basis of learning progress of learning regarding generation of the response information. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including, by a processor, controlling an output of response information to a user, the controlling further including controlling output expression of the response information on the basis of learning progress of learning regarding generation of the response information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, NORIFUMI KIKKAWA, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 10684707
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device to provide a technique that enables a user to easily specify an application as an operation target, the display control device including: an output control unit configured to control an output unit so as to display a display object associated with one application or each of multiple applications; an action detection unit configured to detect a finger pointing direction of a user; and an application selection unit configured to select an application as an operation target based on the display object associated with the one application or each of the multiple applications and the finger pointing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Naoyuki Sato, Koichi Kawasaki, Akihiko Izumi
  • Patent number: 10650601
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit that performs 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: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Takahiro Okayama, Kazuomi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20200089376
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, KUNIAKI TORII, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 10528213
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant 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: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Kuniaki Torii, Naoyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190392157
    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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki SATO, Kuniaki TORII, Fujio ARAI, Yusuke KUDO
  • Publication number: 20190387061
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program to enable transmission of information that is from a different device. An acquisition unit that acquires information from a different device, a detection unit that detects whether or not a user pays attention to the different device, and a transmission control unit that transmits the information to the user when it is detected by the detection unit that the user pays attention to the different device are included. The transmission control unit does not perform transmission of the information until the detection unit detects that the user pays attention to the different device. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an agent device that controls a device installed in a house or that presents appropriate information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, YUSUKE KUDO, FUJIO ARAI, KUNIAKI TORII
  • Patent number: 10489981
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program, the information processing device including: a display mode selection unit configured to select one display mode from a plurality of display modes in accordance with a first visual field range of a user, a second visual field range included in the first visual field range, and a positional relationship of a real object; and a display control unit configured to control a display of a virtual object on a display unit in accordance with the selected display mode, the virtual object being associated with the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Kuniaki Torii, Takahiro Okayama
  • Publication number: 20190303675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KUNIAKI TORII, RYO FUKAZAWA, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Patent number: 10360453
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method according to the present disclosure link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Katsuya Hyodo