Patents by Inventor Megumi KIKUCHI
Megumi KIKUCHI 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: 11266912Abstract: Disruptive behavior events are identified within an online gaming system. Players responsible for the identified disruptive behavior events are verified. A behavioral designation is applied to players in the online gaming system. The behavioral designation indicates whether or not a player is verified as responsible for one or more of the identified disruptive behavior events. Current real-time player behavior demographic data is generated for a specified game space using the behavioral designations applied to players associated with the specified game space. The generated current real-time player behavior demographic data for the specified game space is displayed to players associated with the specified game space. Using current real-time player behavior demographic data generated and displayed for different game spaces, a player is enabled to make a behavior-informed selection of a game space in which to enter for game play.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Victoria Dorn, Megumi Kikuchi, Jing Li, Tomoyo Kimura, Yinghui Xia
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Patent number: 11222549Abstract: A collision avoidance system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) receives physical space data for a flight area and creates a virtual world model to represent the flight area by mapping the physical space data with a physics engine. The automatic collision avoidance system creates a virtual UAV model to represent the UAV in the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system receives flight data for the UAV and determines a current position of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system determines a predicted trajectory of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model, and determines whether the predicted trajectory will result in a collision of the virtual UAV model with the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system performs evasive actions by the UAV, in response to determining that the predicted trajectory will result in a collision.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Michael Taylor, Dennis Dale Castleman, Andrew Stephen Young
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Publication number: 20210370183Abstract: Disruptive behavior events are identified within an online gaming system. Players responsible for the identified disruptive behavior events are verified. A behavioral designation is applied to players in the online gaming system. The behavioral designation indicates whether or not a player is verified as responsible for one or more of the identified disruptive behavior events. Current real-time player behavior demographic data is generated for a specified game space using the behavioral designations applied to players associated with the specified game space. The generated current real-time player behavior demographic data for the specified game space is displayed to players associated with the specified game space. Using current real-time player behavior demographic data generated and displayed for different game spaces, a player is enabled to make a behavior-informed selection of a game space in which to enter for game play.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Victoria Dorn, Megumi Kikuchi, Jing Li, Tomoyo Kimura, Yinghui Xia
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Patent number: 11080310Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20200372815Abstract: A collision avoidance system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) receives physical space data for a flight area and creates a virtual world model to represent the flight area by mapping the physical space data with a physics engine. The automatic collision avoidance system creates a virtual UAV model to represent the UAV in the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system receives flight data for the UAV and determines a current position of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system determines a predicted trajectory of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model, and determines whether the predicted trajectory will result in a collision of the virtual UAV model with the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system performs evasive actions by the UAV, in response to determining that the predicted trajectory will result in a collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Micheal Taylor, Dennis Dale Castleman, Andrew Stephen Young
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Patent number: 10839800Abstract: An information processing apparatus by which smooth communication with a user by voice can be implemented is provided. The information processing apparatus presents a plurality of choices to the user, recognizes utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices, and specifies the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Honda, Megumi Kikuchi, Takashi Satake
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Patent number: 10743074Abstract: A method for applying a shortcut to a streaming multimedia channel is described. The method includes receiving a request from an application of a portable device to generate an auto access identifier (ID) to a media channel that is currently being rendered on a main display. The request is associated with a user account and used by a streaming interface to facilitate rendering of the media channel. The method further includes identifying the media channel currently being rendered and user login data used to access the user account. The method includes generating control data for the auto access ID. The auto access ID is usable to instruct the streaming interface to return to the media channel at a later point in time. The method includes sending the auto access ID, by the streaming interface, to the application of the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Megumi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10679511Abstract: A collision avoidance system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) receives physical space data for a flight area and creates a virtual world model to represent the flight area by mapping the physical space data with a physics engine. The automatic collision avoidance system creates a virtual UAV model to represent the UAV in the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system receives flight data for the UAV and determines a current position of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system determines a predicted trajectory of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model, and determines whether the predicted trajectory will result in a collision of the virtual UAV model with the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system performs evasive actions by the UAV, in response to determining that the predicted trajectory will result in a collision.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Michael Taylor, Dennis Dale Castleman, Andrew Stephen Young
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Publication number: 20190096401Abstract: An information processing apparatus by which smooth communication with a user by voice can be implemented is provided. The information processing apparatus presents a plurality of choices to the user, recognizes utterance contents of the user for selecting one of the plurality of choices, and specifies the choice selected by the user based on whether or not a phrase included in the recognized utterance contents of the user corresponds to a phrase included in a dictionary corresponding to each of the plurality of choices prepared in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Honda, Megumi Kikuchi, Takashi Satake
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Publication number: 20180322145Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi KIKUCHI, Toshihiko KAWAI, Atsushi KURIBAYASHI, Akira TANGE, Shigefumi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20180288488Abstract: A method for applying a shortcut to a streaming multimedia channel is described. The method includes receiving a request from an application of a portable device to generate an auto access identifier (ID) to a media channel that is currently being rendered on a main display. The request is associated with a user account and used by a streaming interface to facilitate rendering of the media channel. The method further includes identifying the media channel currently being rendered and user login data used to access the user account. The method includes generating control data for the auto access ID. The auto access ID is usable to instruct the streaming interface to return to the media channel at a later point in time. The method includes sending the auto access ID, by the streaming interface, to the application of the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventor: Megumi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10037342Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20180096611Abstract: A collision avoidance system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) receives physical space data for a flight area and creates a virtual world model to represent the flight area by mapping the physical space data with a physics engine. The automatic collision avoidance system creates a virtual UAV model to represent the UAV in the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system receives flight data for the UAV and determines a current position of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system determines a predicted trajectory of the virtual UAV model within the virtual world model, and determines whether the predicted trajectory will result in a collision of the virtual UAV model with the virtual world model. The automatic collision avoidance system performs evasive actions by the UAV, in response to determining that the predicted trajectory will result in a collision.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Michael Taylor, Dennis Dale Castleman, Andrew Stephen Young
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Patent number: 9407952Abstract: Provided is a control device including a detector configured to detect use of an application on a communication terminal, and a controller configured to control recording processing related to content that is being output from a content output device associated with the communication terminal in accordance with a detection result obtained by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Megumi Kikuchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Akira Tange, Akira Ishizuka, Shogo Kawata, Akinori Kamoda
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Publication number: 20150254275Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20150040166Abstract: Provided is a control device including a detector configured to detect use of an application on a communication terminal, and a controller configured to control recording processing related to content that is being output from a content output device associated with the communication terminal in accordance with a detection result obtained by the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Megumi Kikuchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Akira Tange, Akira Ishizuka, Shogo Kawata, Akinori Kamoda
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Publication number: 20140073362Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information from a plurality of terminal nodes, an analysis unit configured to analyze the acquired information and generate route information for each individual one of the plurality of terminal nodes, and a grouping unit configured to group the plurality of terminal nodes based on the route information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shogo Kawata, Shigefumi Tamura, Megumi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 8540336Abstract: This invention discloses an apparatus for controlling ink supply amount/registration adjustment in a printing press. The apparatus includes a base, sensor head, sensor head moving unit, first detector, second detector, and control unit. The sensor head moving unit includes a upward/downward position adjusting unit which adjusts the upward/downward position of the sensor head. The second detector detects the upward/downward position of a color bar when color matching data of a color patch of each color in the color bar is measured by the first detector. The upward/downward position adjusting unit adjusts the upward/downward position of the sensor head based on the upward/downward position of the color bar, which is detected by the second detector. A method of controlling ink supply amount/registration adjustment in a printing press is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Komori CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kurata, Koji Okasaka, Tomoyuki Morono, Megumi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20120194593Abstract: This invention discloses an apparatus for controlling ink supply amount/registration adjustment in a printing press. The apparatus includes a base, sensor head, sensor head moving unit, first detector, second detector, and control unit. The sensor head moving unit includes a upward/downward position adjusting unit which adjusts the upward/downward position of the sensor head. The second detector detects the upward/downward position of a color bar when color matching data of a color patch of each color in the color bar is measured by the first detector. The upward/downward position adjusting unit adjusts the upward/downward position of the sensor head based on the upward/downward position of the color bar, which is detected by the second detector. A method of controlling ink supply amount/registration adjustment in a printing press is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Yoshiaki Kurata, Koji Okasaka, Tomoyuki Morono, Megumi Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20110126729Abstract: In a printing press including a printing section to print patterns, a register apparatus captures an image of register marks printed in the printing section, and causes positions of the patterns, which are to be printed in the printing section, to be in register on the basis of positions of the register marks in the image. The register apparatus comprises: a front surface camera or a back surface camera for capturing an image of an edge of a print sheet together with the register marks, the print sheet already subjected to printing in the printing section; and a first-color register adjustment mechanism, a second-color register adjustment mechanism, a third-color register adjustment mechanism and a fourth-color register adjustment mechanism for adjusting the positions of the patterns to be printed in the printing section, on the basis of the positions of the register marks in the image and a position of the edge of the print sheet in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: KOMORI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki MORONO, Tadahiko IINO, Megumi KIKUCHI