Patents by Inventor Masakazu Yajima

Masakazu Yajima 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: 10375928
    Abstract: [Object] A livestock management system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a stay determination unit. The stay determination unit determines, on the basis of data regarding a plurality of individual identification signals transmitted from a transmission apparatus that is attached to a livestock animal and transmits the individual identification signal made corresponding to the livestock animal, whether or not the livestock animal is staying within a target region corresponding to the individual identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura, Hidenori Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 10340740
    Abstract: A power receiving unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power from a power transmission unit; and an electromagnet configured to be magnetized based on the electric power received from the power transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Masakazu Yajima, Kazuo Kikuchi, Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20190183436
    Abstract: [Solution] An information processing device, an information processing system, and an information processing method which can determine an estrus period of individual livestock while viewing a transition of the state quantity showing a characteristic change in the estrus period of livestock, and execute contact with a veterinarian and accumulation of information of the estrus period by an operation of causing the estrus period of livestock to be notified to a veterinarian when the estrus period has arrived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Chisako Kajihara, Hiromitsu Komatsu, Junya Matsui, Hideo Niikura
  • Patent number: 10314293
    Abstract: To provide a livestock management system, a sensor apparatus, and an estimation method for a state of a livestock animal with which states of livestock animals can be easily and accurately estimated. A livestock management system according to the present technology includes a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives power generation information from a sensor apparatus attachable to a livestock animal. The sensor apparatus includes a power generation unit, a transmission unit, and a control unit. The power generation unit generates electric power in a manner that depends on a surrounding environment. The transmission unit transmits the power generation information of the power generation unit with the electric power generated by the power generation unit. The control unit estimates a state of the livestock animal on the basis of the power generation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura, Yasushi Ihara
  • Publication number: 20190163941
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a signal transmission system capable of ascertaining positions or the like of mounting targets with more versatile and simpler configurations. [Solution] A signal transmission device including: a power generation unit configured to generate power in accordance with a surrounding environment; a first communication unit configured to send a signal using the power generated by the power generation unit; a storage unit configured to store communication control information for controlling the first communication unit; a communication control unit configured to control the first communication unit on a basis of the communication control information; and a contactless communication unit configured to receive rewrite information for rewriting the communication control information stored in the storage unit by contactless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Niikura, Junya Matsui, Masakazu Yajima
  • Publication number: 20190133087
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a management apparatus capable of capturing a position of a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition. [Solving Means] A management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of first information that is generated by a sensor device worn by an individual and is related to a living body of the individual, a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition, and generates, on the basis of position information related to a position of the specific individual, search information for causing a mobile object to move to the position of the specific individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura
  • Patent number: 10282619
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to detect an object from which an individual is identifiable from captured image data, store information from which the object is restorable in memory and transmit image data generated by omitting the information regarding the object to a server. The information processing apparatus also detects the existence of a wireless terminal and controls deletion of the information regarding the object based on a privacy level associated with the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Masakazu Yajima, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10277281
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20190116764
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing server, an information processing system, and an information processing method capable of more appropriately managing domestic animals. [Solution] An information processing server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Komatsu, Masakazu Yajima
  • Publication number: 20190089418
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 10225525
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, a storage medium, and a control method which are capable of assisting more comfortable and safer living by providing information based on real-time images collected from a plurality of imaging devices. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device, including: a search unit configured to search for an imaging device around a specific information processing device; a providing unit configured to provide information related to the searched imaging device and an angle of view of the imaging device to a user; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image imaged by an imaging device selected by the user. The providing unit provides the image acquired by the acquiring unit to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange
  • Publication number: 20190067972
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10212922
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a management apparatus capable of capturing a position of a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition. [Solving Means] A management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of first information that is generated by a sensor device worn by an individual and is related to a living body of the individual, a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition, and generates, on the basis of position information related to a position of the specific individual, search information for causing a mobile object to move to the position of the specific individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura
  • Publication number: 20190008124
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a group extraction unit; and a display control unit. The group extraction unit extracts a plurality of group constituent individuals belonging to a group from a plurality of individuals on the basis of individual information items of each of the plurality of individuals. The display control unit causes a display unit to display a shape of a region occupied by the group as a group indication in a map image on the basis of a distribution of position information items of a plurality of peripheral constituent individuals that form a periphery of the group among the plurality of group constituent individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: HIROMITSU KOMATSU, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, YASUSHI IHARA
  • Publication number: 20180295809
    Abstract: [Object] A livestock management system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a stay determination unit. The stay determination unit determines, on the basis of data regarding a plurality of individual identification signals transmitted from a transmission apparatus that is attached to a livestock animal and transmits the individual identification signal made corresponding to the livestock animal, whether or not the livestock animal is staying within a target region corresponding to the individual identification signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura, Hidenori Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 10097025
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20180279583
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a management apparatus capable of capturing a position of a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition. [Solving Means] A management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of first information that is generated by a sensor device worn by an individual and is related to a living body of the individual, a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition, and generates, on the basis of position information related to a position of the specific individual, search information for causing a mobile object to move to the position of the specific individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura
  • Publication number: 20180279582
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a livestock management system, a sensor apparatus, and an estimation method for a state of a livestock animal with which states of livestock animals can be easily and accurately estimated. [Solving Means] A livestock management system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives power generation information from a sensor apparatus configured to be attachable to a livestock animal and including a power generation unit that generates electric power in a manner that depends on a surrounding environment and a transmission unit that transmits the power generation information of the power generation unit with electric power obtained by the power generation unit, and a control unit that estimates a state of the livestock animal on the basis of the power generation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: MASAKAZU YAJIMA, HIDEO NIIKURA, YASUSHI IHARA
  • Patent number: 10070034
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: a display section attached to a head or a face of a user, and configured to display an image; a communication section configured to communicate with an external device; an image capturing section; a positional information acquisition section configured to acquire current positional information of the user; and a control section configured to capture an image of a dangerous place by the image capturing section in accordance with determination of a dangerous state, and transmit a captured image from the communication section to the external device together with the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako, Masakazu Yajima, Kouichiro Ono, Masashi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180242515
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a farm field management system, a farm field management method, and a farm equipment system for improving the efficiency of farm work. A sensor position calculating section calculates a sensor position at which a sensor is deployed on a farm field on the basis of farm field information. A sensor deployment controlling section controls a sensor deploying mechanism that deploys the sensor on the farm field to deploy the sensor in accordance with the sensor position. The present technology may be applied to a farm field management system that manages the farm field or to a farm equipment system that performs farm work on the farm field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu YAJIMA, Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Shinji KOMIYAMA, Yasushi IHARA, Hideo NIIKURA