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: 10359867
    Abstract: Information processing apparatus and method to provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. The disclosed information processing apparatus includes a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin
  • Publication number: 20190114502
    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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, RYO FUKAZAWA, TAKAHIRO OKAYAMA, KAZUOMI KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190088020
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: a display control unit configured 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: RYO FUKAZAWA, KUNIAKI TORII, TAKAHIRO OKAYAMA, KAZUOMI KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190064528
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to perform display so that visibility of a second virtual object which corresponds to content and is displayed with a second display size larger than a first display size is lower than visibility of a first virtual object which corresponds to the content and is displayed with the first display size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: RYO FUKAZAWA, KUNIAKI TORII, TAKAHIRO OKAYAMA, KAZUOMI KONDO
  • Publication number: 20190066325
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to select a display object from among a plurality of candidate objects corresponding to a specific position in a visual field of a user and to perform 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO OKAYAMA, RYO FUKAZAWA, KUNIAKI TORII, KAZUOMI KONDO
  • Publication number: 20180314889
    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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo FUKAZAWA, Kuniaki TORII, Takahiro OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180315246
    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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo FUKAZAWA, Kuniaki TORII, Takahiro OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180299963
    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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo FUKAZAWA, Kuniaki TORII, Takahiro OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180173544
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquiring unit that acquires situation information that is a combination of situation items in a plurality of situation categories; and a specifying unit that perform specification of an input method or an output method of a user interface on a basis of the situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN, AKIHIKO IZUMI, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20180060661
    Abstract: [Object] To link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. [Solution] An 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: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KUNIAKI TORII, RYO FUKAZAWA, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Publication number: 20170329417
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: AKIHIKO IZUMI, NAOYUKI SATO, KUNIAKI TORII, KATSUYA HYODO, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20170205899
    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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya HYODO, Kuniaki TORII, Ryo FUKAZAWA, Naoyuki SATO, Koichi KAWASAKI, Akihiko IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20170199627
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to further improve convenience for users. [Solution] 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: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, KUNIAKI TORII, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20170075548
    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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo FUKAZAWA, Kuniaki TORII, Katsuya HYODO, Naoyuki SATO, Akihiko IZUMI, Koichi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150237598
    Abstract: An information notification device includes an equipment management unit that manages a plurality of pieces of equipment which are in a vicinity of a user, and a function execution unit that executes transmission of notification information to any one of the plurality of pieces of equipment by determining a notification strategy that will perform notification of notification information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, KATSUYA HYODO, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Publication number: 20150128065
    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: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KUNIAKI TORII, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, HIKOTATSU CHIN, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Publication number: 20150128291
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user analysis unit configured to analyze a result of detection by a user detection apparatus that detects users neighboring a device and to acquire user attribute information indicating a characteristic of each detected user, and an interface control unit configured to control a mode of presenting information to be provided for the users, the mode being determined based on the user attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: KATSUYA HYODO, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, KUNIAKI TORII, HIKOTATSU CHIN
  • Patent number: 8774604
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 8749569
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit for storing a transition frequency database storing transition frequency information representing a frequency of a state transition of a display content displayed on a display screen from a display state displaying the display content to another display state, and a cache control unit for predicting the another display state to which a transition may occur based on the transition frequency database and the display content displayed on the display screen, and preparing a resource needed by the another predicted display state before the transition occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kuniaki Torii
  • Publication number: 20110305438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a video acquisition section which acquires videos related to a predetermined theme shot by a plurality of imaging devices, a display control section which controls a display of a moving image editing screen including a video selection screen in which the videos acquired by the video acquisition section are arranged on a time axis based on a shooting time of each of the videos, and a moving image generation section which generates a moving image from the videos based on operation performed by a user to the moving image editing screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Kuniaki TORII, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin, Shinichi Kawano, Yusuke Kudo