Patents by Inventor Makoto Niijima

Makoto Niijima 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: 11948544
    Abstract: The musical instrument tuner includes: a sensor device that is attached to a musical instrument; and an operation device that is able to perform wireless communication mutually with the sensor device, in which the sensor device includes an acceleration sensor that has at least two detection axes, frequency detection means for detecting, as a detected frequency, a frequency of a vibration of musical sound generated through an operation of the musical instrument based on an output from the acceleration sensor, and sensor-side communication means for transmitting transmission information including information regarding the detected frequency to the operation device, and the operation device includes operation-side communication means for receiving the transmission information transmitted from the sensor device, display means, and control means for generating tuning information of the musical instrument and causing the display means to display the tuning information based on the transmission information received
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: GOTOH GUT CO., LTD., GUNMA PREFECTURE
    Inventors: Atsushi Kajihara, Masaki Gotoh, Hiroshi Miyajima, Osamu Niijima, Yuta Uchiumi, Makoto Matsumoto, Kento Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11703941
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, method, and program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place, the system including an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated based on a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified based on the first transmission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Yusuke Sakai, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 11386584
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processing unit that detects a pointing action for a first user in a real space to specify a first object and an evaluation action on the first object by the first user based on a signal output from a sensor that senses actions in the real space and updates evaluation information of the first object specified by a detection result of the pointing action based on a detection result of the evaluation action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Rei Fukuda, Dickinson Forrest JR. Matthew
  • Publication number: 20210318749
    Abstract: Proposed are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place. The information processing system includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated on the basis of a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified on the basis of the first transmission information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Yusuke SAKAI, Haruo OBA, Makoto NIIJIMA, Tomohiro ISHII
  • Patent number: 11112961
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of adaptively controlling a display on a display surface in response to an operation of moving an object in a certain display surface with respect to a transfer object. The information processing system includes a processing unit that performs, on a first display surface, a predetermined display control indicating that one or more pieces of display information in a second display surface corresponding to the first display surface is changed to be operable in the first display surface when a first operation for a first user to move a first object to a detection area having a predetermined positional relationship with one or more predetermined transfer objects positioned in the first display surface, and changes a display state of the second display surface based on a detection result of a second operation by the first user after the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Rei Fukuda, D. Forrest Matthew
  • Patent number: 11048326
    Abstract: Proposed are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place. The information processing system includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated on the basis of a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified on the basis of the first transmission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Yusuke Sakai, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Publication number: 20210166439
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that can appropriately detect an evaluation action on an object by a user in a real space. [Solution] Disclosed is an information processing system including a processing unit that detects a pointing action for a first user in a real space to specify a first object and an evaluation action on the first object by the first user based on a signal output from a sensor that senses actions in the real space and updates evaluation information of the first object specified by a detection result of the pointing action based on a detection result of the evaluation action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, HARUO OBA, MAKOTO NIIJIMA, REI FUKUDA, DICKINSON FORREST JR. MATTHEW
  • Publication number: 20210081092
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of adaptively controlling a display on a display surface in response to an operation of moving an object in a certain display surface with respect to a transfer object. The information processing system includes a processing unit that performs, on a first display surface, a predetermined display control indicating that one or more pieces of display information in a second display surface corresponding to the first display surface is changed to be operable in the first display surface when a first operation for a first user to move a first object to a detection area having a predetermined positional relationship with one or more predetermined transfer objects positioned in the first display surface, and changes a display state of the second display surface based on a detection result of a second operation by the first user after the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Haruo OBA, Makoto NIIJIMA, Rei FUKUDA, D. Forrest MATTHEW
  • Publication number: 20200209951
    Abstract: Proposed are an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place. The information processing system includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated on the basis of a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified on the basis of the first transmission information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Yusuke SAKAI, Haruo OBA, Makoto NIIJIMA, Tomohiro ISHII
  • Patent number: D712433
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Tomohiro Ishii, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Kenichi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D721728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Niijima
  • Patent number: D736254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D736815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Niijima, Satoshi Asai, Yunha Cho, Atsushi Sakamoto, Masato Koyama
  • Patent number: D786930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Kurokawa, Yuki Shoji, Osamu Sakurai, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Sanae Hirai
  • Patent number: D789381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D794649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Niijima, Takayuki Wada, Ryota Yokozeki
  • Patent number: D896820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Niijima, Haruo Oba, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Patent number: D897357
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Niijima, Takayuki Wada, Ryota Yokozeki
  • Patent number: D921695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Kurokawa, Yuki Shoji, Osamu Sakurai, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Sanae Hirai
  • Patent number: D951966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Niijima, Haruo Oba, Tomohiro Ishii