Patents by Inventor Masatomo Kurata

Masatomo Kurata 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: 20190049250
    Abstract: [Object] The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus in which, when a positioning technology through use of sensors is applied to a large moving body, accuracy in detecting a position in the moving body can be improved. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an estimation unit configured to, on a basis of first sensing data provided by a plurality of sensors carried or worn by a user, estimate a type of a moving body on which the user is riding; and a selection unit configured to select information to be used for processing for obtaining a position of the user in the moving body using the type of the moving body estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: TOMOHISA TAKAOKA, MASATOMO KURATA, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10204597
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to be able to be curved in an almost cylindrical shape with a surface being oriented outwards and display information in a region of one of an entire periphery and a part of the surface; a viewing intention detector configured to detect viewing intention of a user for the information displayed on the display unit, the user wearing the display unit on a part of a body; a display region determiner configured to determine, according to the viewing intention of the user, a region of the display unit, which is viewable by the user, as a display region for displaying the information; and a display control unit configured to control display of the information in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Yasuyuki Koga
  • Patent number: 10016165
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a processor to acquire information associated with behavior of a user and information associated with satisfaction degree of the user, and to analyze an association between the information associated with behavior and the information associated with satisfaction degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Hagiwara, Naoki Kamimaeda, Masanori Miyahara, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masatomo Kurata
  • Patent number: 9992451
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display control unit configured to carry out control in a manner that a display unit disposed before eyes of a user displays past data relating to a recognized interlocutor, and a sharing setting control unit configured to carry out control in a manner that sharing of the past data with another person is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ono, Masatomo Kurata
  • Publication number: 20180143025
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that makes it possible to update and report the destination or route to be presented depending on the situation of a user who shares the situation or destination of another user, the information processing device including: a processing unit configured to perform action support for a subsequent schedule to be optimal for each of a plurality of target users on the basis of user situation in indoor environment acquired for each target user that participates in the subsequent schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo KURATA, Tomohisa TAKAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180025283
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, each of which is capable of providing, by using a prediction result regarding a certain user, useful information to another user. [Solution] The information processing apparatus includes an output control unit configured to output, to a first user, prediction information indicating a prediction result of context information of a second user, the prediction information being related to the context information of the first user and being generated on the basis of a history of the context information of the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Masatomo KURATA, Tomohisa TAKAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180012568
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to be able to be curved in an almost cylindrical shape with a surface being oriented outwards and display information in a region of one of an entire periphery and a part of the surface; a viewing intention detector configured to detect viewing intention of a user for the information displayed on the display unit, the user wearing the display unit on a part of a body; a display region determiner configured to determine, according to the viewing intention of the user, a region of the display unit, which is viewable by the user, as a display region for displaying the information; and a display control unit configured to control display of the information in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: MASATOMO KURATA, YASUYUKI KOGA
  • Patent number: 9864040
    Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting a location of a terminal are provided. In various aspects, a processor in a position correction apparatus may associate a reference position with the terminal, and determine a range for the terminal based on the reference position. The processor may also associate a second position with the terminal, and determine if the second position associated with the terminal is outside the determined range for the terminal based on the reference position. Upon a determination that indicates that the second position is outside the determined range, the processor may correct the second position to a corrected position associated with the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Katsu, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Tomoharu Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 9812092
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to be able to be curved in an almost cylindrical shape with a surface being oriented outwards and display information in a region of one of an entire periphery and a part of the surface; a viewing intention detector configured to detect viewing intention of a user for the information displayed on the display unit, the user wearing the display unit on a part of a body; a display region determiner configured to determine, according to the viewing intention of the user, a region of the display unit, which is viewable by the user, as a display region for displaying the information; and a display control unit configured to control display of the information in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Yasuyuki Koga
  • Publication number: 20170307393
    Abstract: [Object] To accurately estimate a user's position on the basis of sensor data by preparing absolute criteria in advance. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a feature extractor configured to extract a feature of first sensor data provided by a sensor carried or worn by a user; a matching unit configured to match the feature of the first sensor data and a feature of second sensor data corresponding to the first sensor data, the feature of the second sensor data being associated with given position information; and a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of the user on the basis of a result of the matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Masatomo KURATA, Tomohisa TAKAOKA
  • Publication number: 20170131103
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing circuit configured to receive an action recognition information which is determined on the basis of sensing information of a user associated with a position information of the user, the action recognition information indicating an action of the user related to structure or equipment of a building has occurred, and associate the structure or equipment of the building with the position information on the basis of the action recognition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo KURATA, Tomohisa TAKAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170116709
    Abstract: To easily understand the contents of a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus. An image conversion block 150 converts a taken image on the basis of conversion information. A transparency conversion block 160 converts the transparency in the converted taken image. A image synthesis block 170 synthesizes the taken image with the transparency converted with a log image and holds a resultant new log image in an image memory 180. An index image extraction block 190 extracts a new index image from among the converted taken images on the basis of the coordinate position and size of an index image in an image taking space. A selection block 270 selects an index image on the basis of the position of a selected representative image when the position of a panorama image displayed on a display block 292 is selected. A display control block 291 displays a panorama image on the display block 292 and displays the selected index image, overlapped on the panorama image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masatomo Kurata, Shingo Tsurumi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170089704
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus which can accurately estimate a current position by using a result of action recognition. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an action recognition unit configured to recognize an action of a user that has a sensor by using first sensing data of the sensor; and an accuracy estimation unit configured to estimate an accuracy of second sensing data of a geomagnetism sensor on the basis of a result of action recognition of the user obtained by the action recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: TOMOHISA TAKAOKA, MASATOMO KURATA, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170074666
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processing circuit configured to obtain activity recognition information which is determined on the basis of sensing information of a plurality of users, the activity recognition information indicating recognized activities of the plurality of users based on location information of the plurality of users, and generate information for displaying representations of the recognized activities of the plurality of users in relation to a map by using specified criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Masatomo KURATA, Tomohisa TAKAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160371044
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20160353062
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, control method, program, and system capable of sharing past data relating to an interlocutor with the interlocutor. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a display control unit configured to carry out control in a manner that a display unit disposed before eyes of a user displays past data relating to a recognized interlocutor; and a sharing setting control unit configured to carry out control in a manner that sharing of the past data with another person is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIDEYUKI ONO, MASATOMO KURATA
  • Publication number: 20160335557
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a behavior recognition mode setting unit configured to set a behavior recognition mode on a basis of wearing position information of a setting target device; a behavior recognition unit configured to recognize user's behavior on a basis of the set behavior recognition mode and a detection value of a sensor corresponding to the setting target device; and a process control unit configured to control execution of a process corresponding to the recognized user's behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: MASATOMO KURATA, MASANORI KATSU, SOTA MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160314401
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a status recognition unit configured to recognize a status of a reference apparatus on the basis of information on a status of an apparatus corresponding to the reference apparatus, the reference apparatus serving as a reference when a behavior recognition mode for deciding a status of behavior is set; and a behavior-recognition-mode setting unit configured to set the behavior recognition mode for a setting target apparatus for which the behavior recognition mode is to be set on the basis of the recognized status of the reference apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: MASATOMO KURATA, MASANORI KATSU, SOTA MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160283579
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20160275403
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a sensor data generator sensing a user behavior and generating sensor data corresponding to the user behavior; a behavior recognizing unit performing a predetermined threshold value process on the sensor data to recognize the behavior exhibited by the user and generating behavior information that is information indicating the behavior exhibited by the user; a behavior manager managing the behavior information generated by the behavior recognizing unit in correspondence with the time point at which the behavior corresponding to the behavior information is exhibited; and a behavior information post-processing unit performing a predetermined post-process on the behavior information managed by the behavior manager, wherein the behavior recognizing unit further includes a plurality of behavior determination units specified to specific behaviors exhibited by the user and generates the behavior information based on the determination results of the plur
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKUMOTO, Makoto MURATA, Masatomo KURATA, Masanori KATSU