Patents by Inventor Kunihito Sawai
Kunihito Sawai 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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Publication number: 20240111487Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus capable of easily changing a cluster for collectively operating a plurality of operations to which a user is habituated. A dialog cluster including a plurality of operations having a habituation score indicating habituation of an operation of a user higher than a predetermined threshold and an operation according to a dialog with the user is registered. The technology of the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
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Patent number: 11948564Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
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Publication number: 20240069702Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
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Publication number: 20240028195Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
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Patent number: 11872499Abstract: A wearing member (2) includes a support member (31) extending in a first direction, a belt (34) extending from a site in the first direction of the support member (31), a sliding member (33) which is connected to one end of the belt (34) and which slides in the first direction along the support member (31), and a locking section which is provided in a direction opposite to the first direction in relation to the support member (31) and which locks a site on the other end side of the belt (34). In a state in which the belt (34) is locked by the locking section, a space (SP) surrounded by the support member (31) and the belt (34) is formed, and a part of the sliding member (33) is disposed inside the space (SP).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yuuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai
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Patent number: 11869499Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit (133) that extracts a changing message related to a change in macro data (M), the changing message including at least one piece of first information indicating a function to be executed, and second information linked to the first information, from a user speech; a presuming unit (134) that presumes an element to be changed in the macro data (M) based on the changing message extracted by the extracting unit (133); and a changing unit (135) that changes the element to be changed in the macro data (M) presumed by the presuming unit (134), based on the changing message.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
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Patent number: 11816330Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai
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Publication number: 20230306957Abstract: In a terminal device (10), a communication unit (15) receives a counterpart utterance text in a counterpart language section and a counterpart utterance speech in a counterpart non-language section, and a control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance text after performing language translation, and outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section without performing language translation. For example, the control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section before outputting a result of the language translation of the counterpart utterance text.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI, Mari SAITO, Ikuo YAMANO
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Publication number: 20230244312Abstract: Provided are a detection device and a detection method that more reliably detect attitudes of fingers of a user. The detection device of the present disclosure includes: a first sensor that is disposed in a space between a thumb and an index finger and detects first information obtained by sensing a first finger that is a finger included in a first detection area; and a second sensor that is disposed on a palm and detects second information obtained by sensing a second finger that is a finger included in a second detection area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kunihito SAWAI, Ikuo YAMANO
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Patent number: 11654353Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the usType: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20230154128Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an operation angle that is an angle formed by a first direction in a predetermined space pointed by a user and a second direction in the predetermined space pointed by the user. The setting unit sets, as a reference angle, the operation angle acquired at a time point when an instruction to start moving a virtual object on a line extending in the first direction is detected. The determination unit determines whether or not the operation angle acquired in response to a change in the second direction is equal to or more than the reference angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, KUNIHITO SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230135606Abstract: A terminal device (10) corresponding to an example of an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit (13d) that acquires a feature value related to a display element that is a target of a voice command uttered by a user, and a call determination unit (13e) (corresponding to an example of a “determination unit”) that determines a call of the display element on the basis of the feature value acquired by the acquisition unit (13d) such that the display element is uniquely specified with another display element other than the display element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI, Masaki TAKASE, Akira MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20230134103Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit (13da) that detects an unknown word that is an unknown phrase from text input in a natural language, a second detection unit (13dc) that detects occurrence of an event related to a known phrase included in the above text, and an association unit (13dd) that associates, with the above unknown word, each of an observation context (Co) indicating a situation at the time of detection of the unknown word as a condition context (Cr) and an observation context (Co) indicating a situation at the time of the occurrence of the above event as a target context (Ct).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: HIRO IWASE, YUHEI TAKI, KUNIHITO SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230096630Abstract: A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230102776Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed. The electronic apparatus comprising, a processor and a memory having program code stored thereon, the program code being such that, when it is executed by the processor, it causes the processor to: control display of a plurality of parameter-setting display layers, each having arranged therein at least one parameter-setting-widget selected from a collection of parameter-setting-widgets that relate to values of imaging parameters, where at least one of the plurality of parameter-setting display layers has more than one of the parameter-setting-widgets arranged therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI, SATOSHI AKAGAWA, AYAKA TAMURA, KEIICHI YOSHIOKA, KUNIHITO SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230072727Abstract: To enable a plurality of speeches of a user to be appropriately concatenated. An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (131) that acquires first speech information indicating a first speech by a user, second speech information indicating a second speech by the user after the first speech, and respiration information regarding respiration of the user; and an execution unit (134) that executes processing of concatenating the first speech and the second speech by executing voice interaction control according to a respiratory state of the user based on the respiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiro IWASE, Yasuo KABE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230064042Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires inspiration information indicating inspiration of a user, and a prediction unit that predicts whether or not the user utters after the inspiration of the user on the basis of the inspiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yasuo KABE, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230045458Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires respiration information indicating respiration of a user, and a determination unit that determines an operation amount regarding an operation by the user on the basis of the respiration of the user indicated by the respiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
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Publication number: 20220413662Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a terminal device, input information input to the terminal device by a user; a generation unit that generates content of displaying an input item of each of functions including a corresponding input item that is an input item corresponding to the input information; and a transmission unit that transmits the content generated by the generation unit to the terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI, Mari SAITO, Masaki TAKASE, Akira MIYASHITA
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Patent number: D977524Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yujin Morisawa, Kunihito Sawai, Kenichi Okada