Patents by Inventor Mari Yasuda
Mari Yasuda 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: 20250037463Abstract: The present disclosure proposes an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of controlling a disclosure level of information regarding vision, sound, and operation from the standpoint of a listener and a speaker. While a first user and a second user are having a conversation online, a telepresence device 50 acquires first sensing information of a first user acquired using a sensing device and second sensing information of a second user acquired using a sensing device. The telepresence device 50 specifies a disclosure level of information to be transmitted and received between the first user and the second user based on the situation of the first user and the situation of the second user corresponding to the first sensing information and the second sensing information, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: YOUSUKE KAWANA, HONOKA OZAKI, MARI YASUDA, MAKI IMOTO
-
Publication number: 20240051147Abstract: An entertainment system includes a user terminal, a robot, and a control device. The user terminal causes a display unit to display contents which allow a user to select any one character from a plurality of characters for which personalities different from one another are defined. The control device determines an operation mode of the robot on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a personality of the character selected on the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Fumihiko IIDA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Yukari KONISHI, Kotaro IMAMURA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Naoki OGISHITA, Bhat Ramanath UDUPI, Mari YASUDA
-
Publication number: 20240017418Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that controls a motion of a robot having a torso and a head. The information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires an image of a face of a user that is captured by a camera of a mobile terminal device, a motion detection section that detects an orientation of the face of the user from the acquired image, a control signal generation section that generates a control signal for rotating the first or the second rotating device of the robot according to the detected orientation of the face of the user, and a transmission section that transmits the generated control signal to the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Group Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Kotaro IMAMURA, Udupi Ramanath BHAT, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Naoki OGISHITA, Tsuyoshi FUKUYAMA, Ryuichi SUZUKI, Karen MURATA, Mari YASUDA
-
Patent number: 11102456Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Jun Ikeda, Tetsuo Tanaka, Mari Yasuda, Manabu Higuchi
-
Publication number: 20190191129Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi NAKANO, Jun IKEDA, Tetsuo TANAKA, Mari YASUDA, Manabu HIGUCHI
-
Patent number: 10091521Abstract: To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Mari Yasuda, Tetsuo Tanaka, Jun Ikeda
-
Patent number: 9560363Abstract: An image encoding device includes a degree of importance calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance on each of a plurality of input images which are consecutively input, a degree of importance period calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance period which is a period of the degree of importance, an average degree of importance calculating unit that calculates an average degree of importance which is an average of degrees of importance of times corresponding to a current in each of a plurality of previous degree of importance periods, an image quality control parameter calculating unit that calculates an image quality control parameter based on the average degree of importance, and an image encoding unit that encodes the input image using the image quality control parameter and generates video data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Manabu Nakamura, Jun Ikeda, Mari Yasuda, Tetsuo Tanaka
-
Publication number: 20150229941Abstract: To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Mari Yasuda, Tetsuo Tanaka, Jun Ikeda
-
Publication number: 20140270719Abstract: An image encoding device includes a degree of importance calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance on each of a plurality of input images which are consecutively input, a degree of importance period calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance period which is a period of the degree of importance, an average degree of importance calculating unit that calculates an average degree of importance which is an average of degrees of importance of times corresponding to a current in each of a plurality of previous degree of importance periods, an image quality control parameter calculating unit that calculates an image quality control parameter based on the average degree of importance, and an image encoding unit that encodes the input image using the image quality control parameter and generates video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi NAKANO, Manabu NAKAMURA, Jun IKEDA, Mari YASUDA, Tetsuo TANAKA
-
Patent number: 5841001Abstract: The present invention provides an industrially advantageous process for the preparation of an optically active 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol useful as medicines, agricultural chemicals or as intermediates thereof; and a simple process for the preparation of an optically active substituted styrene oxide or 2-amino-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol useful as medicines, agricultural chemicals or intermediates thereof. A 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol represented by the following general formula (I) is allowed to contact, in the presence of a carboxylic anhydride, with an enzyme stereoselectively catalyzing ester interchange to produce an optically active 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol: ##STR1## (wherein X represents a chlorine atom or a bromine atom, and R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1-5 alkyl group, a C.sub.1-5 haloalkyl group, a C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Ken Tanaka, Mari Yasuda, Makoto Ueda
-
Patent number: 5700670Abstract: Microbial cells and/or a preparation therefrom of a microorganism is allowed to act on an ester of .gamma.-substituted-acetoacetic acid, and a carbonyl group at its .beta.-position is stereospecifically reduced, wherein the microorganism is selected from the group consisting of those belonging to the genera Yarrowia, Filobasidium, Metschnikowia, Galactomyces, Ambrosiozyma, Trichosporonoides, Aureobasidium, Phaeococcomyces, Rosulomyces, Dothichiza, Emericellopsis, Calonectria, Colletotrichum, and Ceratocystis, preferably, the microorganism is microorganism belonging to the genus Aureobasidium. Thus an optically active ester of .gamma.-substituted-.beta.-hydroxybutyric acid having a high optical purity is produced in a short period of time at a high accumulated concentration and a high yield.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Masahiro Yamagishi, Makoto Ueda, Yukie Takai, Mari Yasuda, Takashi Mikawa
-
Patent number: 5436145Abstract: 6-Hydroxy nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring compounds of the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents carboxy group, carbamoyl group, cyano group, formyl group, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 hydroxyalkyl group, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkoxycarbonyl group, carboxyvinyl group, carboxymethyl group or oxime group, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen atom or carboxy group, and A represents carbon atom or nitrogen atom, can be prepared by reacting a nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring compounds of the following general formula (I): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and A are as defined in the general formula (II) above, with a microorganism or physico-chemically treated microorganism in an aqueous medium. Efficiency of the above reaction can be raised by conducting the reaction in the presence of phenazine methosulfate.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1994Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Kasei CorporationInventors: Mari Yasuda, Haruyuki Ohkishi, Katsutoshi Sato, Yuuki Morimoto, Toru Nagasawa