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).

  • Publication number: 20250244864
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI, SATOSHI AKAGAWA, AYAKA TAMURA, KEIICHI YOSHIOKA, KUNIHITO SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20250093955
    Abstract: There is provided an input device, a system, and a control method capable of performing an operation input that is more natural, less burdensome, and less bothersome in operations in daily life. The input device includes a ring-shaped main body portion to be mounted on a finger of a user; one or more sensors that are provided in the main body portion and that detect information regarding an operation input by another finger; a communication unit that performs wireless communication with an external device; and a control unit that performs control to transmit the information regarding the operation input detected by the one or more sensors to the external device by the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Kunihito SAWAI, Keijiroh Nagano, Kei TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12198694
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Yasuo Kabe, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20250004636
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 12182475
    Abstract: A detection unit (30) detects an input start timing of a command by a gesture on an operation target with a temporal change. A command processing unit (31) performs processing of a command recognized from the gesture based on the state of the operation target at the input start timing detected by the detection unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12165273
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12147651
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12147808
    Abstract: To automatically determine a more memorable macro name. Provided is an information processing device that comprises an utterance learning adaptation unit that executes clustering pertaining to a plurality of function execution instructions by a user and estimates, as a macro, a cluster that includes the plurality of function execution instructions and a response control unit that controls the presentation of information pertaining to the macro, wherein the utterance learning adaptation unit determines a name for the estimated macro on the basis of a context acquired at the time of issuing the plurality of function execution instructions included in the cluster, the response control unit controls a notification of the macro name to the user, and the plurality of function execution instructions include at least one function execution instruction issued via an utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12131004
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Mari Saito, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12112038
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hazime Matsuda, Shoji Imamura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Motoki Higashide, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12062360
    Abstract: The present invention has an issue of effectively reducing the input load related to a voice trigger. There is provided an information processing device comprising a registration control unit that dynamically controls registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the registration control unit temporarily additionally registers at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice. There is also provided an information processing method comprising dynamically controlling, by a processor, registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the controlling further includes temporarily additionally registering at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12061734
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Jun Kimura, Ai Nakada, Soichiro Inatani, Takuro Noda, Kunihito Sawai, Shingo Utsuki, Kenji Sugihara
  • Patent number: 12045388
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihito Sawai, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 12033624
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit (250) that, in a case where the determination unit (250) has recognized a user's phrase related to execution of a macro including at least one function execution instruction, determines a degree of security risk of the macro based on at least one of a matching rate, at the time of execution of the macro, of a context indicating a status of the user, or frequency of occurrence of the phrase; and a response control unit (270) that changes control of the execution of the macro based on a determination result of the determination unit (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Yuhei Taki, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12033630
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit, an extracting unit, an output unit, and a specifying unit. The input unit receives a voice operation. The extracting unit extracts a processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit. When the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit cannot be specified, the output unit outputs response information for the user to make a selection of at least one processing detail from a plurality of processing details extracted by the extracting unit. The specifying unit specifies the processing detail selected from among the plurality of processing details contained in the response information as the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20240111487
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11948564
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20240069702
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240028195
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo OKUMURA, Hazime MATSUDA, Shoji IMAMURA, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Motoki HIGASHIDE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11872499
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai