Patents by Inventor Mari Saito
Mari Saito 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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Patent number: 11960078Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that has control so that, when detected a status transition of a user including a rising motion or a moving motion of the user during reproduction of a wide-angle image covering the entire field of view of the user, a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera provided on a display device that is worn on the head of the user and has a display unit covering the entire field of view is displayed on the display unit in real-time and a 2D image corresponding to a portion of the wide-angle image is displayed on the real-space image.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Kenji Sugihara, Soichiro Inatani
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Publication number: 20240104850Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a reproduction control unit. The acquisition unit acquires avoidance region information about an avoidance region where at least one of entrance of a target person who is a target to whom virtual content is reproduced or entrance of a virtual object for the target person that is displayed to the target person is a target to be avoided, the avoidance region information being generated on the basis of at least one of a position of another object different from the target person or a position of a virtual object for the other object displayed to the other object. The reproduction control unit controls reproduction of the virtual content to the target person on the basis of the acquired avoidance region information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Keijiroh NAGANO, Shingo UTSUKI, Mari SAITO
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Patent number: 11942081Abstract: Provided is an information processing device comprising an estimation unit that estimates a phase regarding the user's decision making, and a response generation unit that generates a response to the user's utterance according to the estimated phase. The present technology can be applied to, for example, smart speakers and smart displays.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Hiro Iwase
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Patent number: 11935449Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. Further, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, the output control unit dynamically controls, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including, by a processor, controlling an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. The controlling further including, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, dynamically controlling, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Ayumi Nakagawa, Shingo Utsuki
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Patent number: 11908055Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information, visual line detection information, and voice information of a first user, and position information of a second user, a determination unit that determines a positional relationship between the first user and the second user on a basis of the position information of the first user and the position information of the second user, a specification unit that specifies a voice dialogue area in which a voice dialogue is possible to be performed between the first user and the second user on a basis of the determined positional relationship, and an avatar control unit that sets a position of an avatar outside the specified voice dialogue area, in which in a case where the voice information of the first user is acquired when the first user is looking outside the voice dialogue area, the avatar control unit causes the avatar to execute a predetermined action, and in a case where the voice information of the first user is acqType: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Kenji Sugihara
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Patent number: 11880552Abstract: An information processing device includes a processing control unit that executes predetermined control in accordance with processing that would have been executed by a second application in response to a user operation on a first application in a case where processing to be executed by the first application in response to the user operation is not identified, the second application having a correspondence relationship with the first application.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11875776Abstract: A response generating apparatus (10) includes an acquiring unit (40) that acquires input information that is a trigger for generating a response with respect to a user and context information that is information indicating a situation of the user and a response generating unit (50) that generates, based on the context information acquired from the user, a response associated with the input information.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiro Iwase, Mari Saito
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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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Patent number: 11688268Abstract: To present task information to a user, which is more easily recalled by the user. Provided is an information processing apparatus including a task management unit that registers a task to be executed by a user on the basis of a detected utterance, in which the task management unit registers the task and a context acquired along with the utterance and reminding the user of content of the task in association with each other. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including registering, by a processor, a task to be executed by a user on the basis of a detected utterance, the registering further including registering the task and a context acquired along with the utterance and reminding the user of content of the task in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Ayumi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11609428Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a line-of-sight information acquisition unit which acquires line-of-sight information related to a line-of-sight direction of a user, a movement information acquisition unit which acquires a center-of-gravity movement information related to a center-of-gravity movement direction of a body of the user, and a display control unit which performs a first display control for controlling a display device by moving a viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction while substantially maintaining the imaging posture of the imaging unit when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are substantially parallel and performs a second display control for controlling the display device by rotating the imaging posture of the imaging unit and moving the viewpoint of the imaging unit in the center-of-gravity movement direction when the line-of-sight direction and the center-of-gravity movement direction are nType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro Inatani, Kenji Sugihara, Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11586410Abstract: [Problem] The problem of the present disclosure relates to proposing an information processing device, an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of controlling the output of a voice so as to be adaptive to an action purpose of a user. [Solution] An information processing device including: an inference unit that infers an action purpose of a user on the basis of a result of sensing by one or more sensors; and an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a result of inference by the inference unit, output of a voice to the user performed by an audio output unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Hiro Iwase, Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki
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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: 11495209Abstract: There is provided an information presentation device that is configured to present information, to a plurality of users that differ in level, in such a manner that each of the users can easily understand the information, and an information presentation method. The information presentation device includes: an identification unit that identifies respective levels of one or more users; an obtaining unit that obtains presentation information to be presented to the users; a conversion unit that appropriately converts the obtained presentation information according to the level of each user; and a presentation unit that presents the appropriately converted presentation information to each user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a robot, a signage device, a car navigation device, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11462213Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to realize more natural dialog between users and a system, the information processing apparatus including: a control unit that selects a feedback mode in response to a speech style of a user from among a plurality of modes in accordance with information related to recognition of speech of the user. The plurality of modes include a first mode in which implicit feedback is performed and a second mode in which explicit feedback is performed. Provided is an information processing method including: selecting, by a processor, a feedback mode in response to a speech style of a user from among a plurality of modes in accordance with information related to recognition of speech of the user. The plurality of modes include a first mode in which implicit feedback is performed and a second mode in which explicit feedback is performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11430429Abstract: To more smoothly communicate with a user, provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls information presentation to a user, in which, in a case where a specific expression in a group including the user is applicable regarding content of information to be presented, the output control unit causes the information presentation including the specific expression to be executed using at least one of a sound or an image. Furthermore, provided is an information processing apparatus including a learning unit that learns a recognition target and a linguistic expression regarding the recognition target in association with each other, in which the linguistic expression includes a specific expression in a group including a user, and the learning unit learns the specific expression on the basis of at least one of a collected sound or a collected image.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Mari Saito
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Patent number: 11417296Abstract: [Problem] An information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that enable change in display of real space without being noticed by a communicatee are to be proposed. [Solution] An information processing device, including: a determining unit that determines a gazing state or a non-gazing state of a first user present in first real space, for a display object displayed by a display device of the first user, the display object being associated with second real space different from the first real space; and a display control unit that changes appearance of the display object when the gazing state has been changed to the non-gazing state.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Ryo Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20220229526Abstract: An information processing device includes a processing control unit (21) configured to execute predetermined control in accordance with processing that would have been executed by a second application in response to a user operation on a first application in a case where processing to be executed by the first application in response to the user operation is not identified, the second application having a correspondence relationship with the first application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventor: MARI SAITO
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Publication number: 20220228879Abstract: An information processing device includes: a recognition unit (21) that recognizes a surrounding environment of a current position of a user; a guide control unit (22) that generates guide information corresponding to a characteristic of the user by using a recognition result of the recognition unit and that causes an output device to perform an output thereof; and a change detection unit (23) that detects a changed portion in the surrounding environment of the current position in a case where it is determined that the user has visited the current position in the past, wherein in a case where the change detection unit detects the changed portion, the guide control unit generates the guide information including information causing the user to recognize the changed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventor: MARI SAITO
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Patent number: 11392646Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing terminal, and an information processing method which are capable of presenting a choice which is easily recognized by voice. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology acquires a plurality of pieces of presentation information to be presented as choices and causes a part which is not similar to the other presentation information among the respective pieces of presentation information to be presented in a form different from a similar part. The present technology can be applied to devices having a voice assistant function of assisting a behavior of a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Mari Saito
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Publication number: 20220199096Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an authentication dialogue control unit that controls a dialogue with a user and performs a voice authentication process based on a speech that is made by the user in the dialogue. The authentication dialogue control unit generates a challenge speech string including a hash seed word, outputs the challenge speech string as a challenge speech, and performs the voice authentication process on the basis of determination on whether a response speech string that is recognized based on a response speech that is given from the user in response to the output challenge speech includes a hash value word. The hash value word has a predetermined relationship with the hash seed word, where the predetermined relationship is defined by a word relation rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: HIRO IWASE, YUHEI TAKI, KUNIHITO SAWAI, MARI SAITO, SHINICHI KAWANO