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: 20160249852
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a stable section detection unit configured to detect a stable section of a posture of a sensor device that a user wears, based on first sensor data provided from the sensor device, a specific action section detection unit configured to detect a specific action section in which a specific action of the user occurs, based on second sensor data, and asleep section detection unit configured to detect a sleep section in which the user is in a sleep state, based on a relationship between the stable section and the specific action section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori KATSU, Masatomo KURATA, Sota MATSUZAWA
  • Patent number: 9378457
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Fukumoto, Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu
  • Publication number: 20160170572
    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: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20160134714
    Abstract: An information processing system that generates commentary, the commentary including first commentary generated based on behavior information corresponding to a behavior of a user and second commentary associated with the first commentary; and outputs the commentary to be available to other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki ONO, Masanori KATSU, Masatomo KURATA, Takashi OGATA, Sota MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160042474
    Abstract: [Object] To effectively award incentives to the users to allow users to share their behavior information through a user object displayed in a virtual space. [Solution] There is provided an information processing device including a processor. The processor realizes a behavior information acquisition function of acquiring first behavior information indicating a behavior of a first user, a display control function of causing a display unit to display a first user object which is generated based on the first behavior information and indicates the first user, and a reward registration function of registering a reward object in association with a second user who is different from the first user based on the first behavior information for a first time for which the second user observes the first user object via the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki ONO, Masatomo KURATA, Sota MATSUZAWA, Takashi OGATA, Masanori KATSU
  • Publication number: 20160026349
    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: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20150365449
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information indicating behavior of at least one user; a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire second information on the at least one user, the second information being different from the first information; and a display control unit configured to display, in a display unit, a user object which is configured based on the first information and represents the corresponding at least one user and a virtual space which is configured based on the second information and in which the user object are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SO-NET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo KURATA, Hideyuki ONO, Sota MATSUZAWA, Akikazu TAKEUCHI, Takayoshi MURAMATSU
  • Patent number: 9189136
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit that records predetermined information about a first user and a second user registered by the first user; a data control unit that generates a video signal that displays objects corresponding to the first user and the second user in a two-dimensional display screen at a distance calculated based on the predetermined information; and a display control unit that displays the video signal in the two-dimensional display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Masanori Katsu, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Publication number: 20150264799
    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: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: MASATOMO KURATA, YASUYUKI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20150198693
    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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Katsu, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Tomoharu Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 9083933
    Abstract: An image processing device, and associated method and computer program product, includes a user interface control unit that causes respective appearance materials in an image portfolio to be displayed on a display. Respective appearance materials are displayed in a spatial relationship. The user interface display control unit changes respective relationship values between the respective appearance materials in response to a change in the spatial relationship received as input to the user interface display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Masatomo Kurata, Makoto Murata, Naoki Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9013353
    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 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Katsu, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Tomoharu Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 8831356
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a specified region detection unit for detecting a specified region specified by a user within a screen during reproduction of a video, a region metadata setting unit for setting region metadata indicating a position and a range of the specified region for each video frame, and a section metadata setting unit for setting section metadata indicating a section corresponding to a video frame for which the region metadata has been set, for each video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Murata, Naoki Shibuya, Masatomo Kurata, Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 8768097
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong Wang, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masatomo Kurata, Shingo Tsurumi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Patent number: 8761462
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yun Sun, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh, Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata
  • Publication number: 20140112641
    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: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, Yasutaka FUKUMOTO, Masatomo KURATA, Shingo TSURUMI, Mitsuo OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20140101169
    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, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20140032476
    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: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKUMOTO, Makoto MURATA, Masatomo KURATA, Masanori KATSU
  • Publication number: 20130304685
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal including a movement sensor that detects a movement of a user and outputs movement information, acquires information on a building existing at a current location or information on buildings existing in a vicinity of the current location, analyses the movement information output from the movement sensor, and detects a first behaviour pattern corresponding to the movement information from multiple first behaviour patterns obtained by classifying behaviours performed by the user over a relatively short period of time, and analyses the information on a building or buildings and the first behaviour pattern, and detects a second behaviour pattern corresponding to the information on a building or buildings and the first behaviour pattern from multiple second behaviour patterns obtained by classifying behaviours performed by the user over a relatively long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Makoto Murata, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masanori Katsu
  • Publication number: 20130305168
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit that records predetermined information about a first user and a second user registered by the first user; a data control unit that generates a video signal that displays objects corresponding to the first user and the second user in a two-dimensional display screen at a distance calculated based on the predetermined information; and a display control unit that displays the video signal in the two-dimensional display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Masanori Katsu, Mitsuo Okumura