Patents by Inventor Naofumi Fukasawa
Naofumi Fukasawa 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: 11966101Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mounting tool that makes it possible to sense the position or the orientation of the head in a natural state without impairing the wearing feeling or the appearance. The nose pad of the glasses comes into contact with and fixes the nose, which is the frontal region of the user, an ear hook including an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted and fixed comes into contact with and fixes an ear, the occipital region fixing unit configured integrally with the ear hook comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region while holding the sensor device that detects the position and the orientation of the head of the user, the occipital region upper portion fixing unit comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region, an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted is provided, and the occipital region upper portion is fixed. The present disclosure can be applied to motion capture.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Amano, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Patent number: 11514604Abstract: An information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided. The information processing device includes a virtual object control unit that generates a control parameter that controls display of a first virtual object corresponding to a first real object and a second virtual object corresponding to a second real object on the basis of first posture information indicating a posture of the first real object and second posture information indicating a posture of the second real object, and a determination unit that makes a determination related to contact between the first virtual object and the second virtual object. The virtual object control unit generates the control parameter on the further basis of a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi Fukasawa, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Yoshitaka Suga, Takahiro Tsujii, Noriyuki Suzuki, Yu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20210263333Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mounting tool that makes it possible to sense the position or the orientation of the head in a natural state without impairing the wearing feeling or the appearance. The nose pad of the glasses comes into contact with and fixes the nose, which is the frontal region of the user, an ear hook including an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted and fixed comes into contact with and fixes an ear, the occipital region fixing unit configured integrally with the ear hook comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region while holding the sensor device that detects the position and the orientation of the head of the user, the occipital region upper portion fixing unit comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region, an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted is provided, and the occipital region upper portion is fixed. The present disclosure can be applied to motion capture.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toru AMANO, Yasutaka FUKUMOTO, Naofumi FUKASAWA
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Publication number: 20210182781Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program that make it possible to further reduce a load relating to delivery. The information processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates, on a basis of delivery object information related to a delivery object that is to be delivered to a user and user information related to the user, receiving method information related to a receiving method of the delivery object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Haruto TAKEDA, Masashi OOKUBO, Tomohisa TAKAOKA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
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Publication number: 20200388052Abstract: An information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided. The information processing device includes a virtual object control unit that generates a control parameter that controls display of a first virtual object corresponding to a first real object and a second virtual object corresponding to a second real object on the basis of first posture information indicating a posture of the first real object and second posture information indicating a posture of the second real object, and a determination unit that makes a determination related to contact between the first virtual object and the second virtual object. The virtual object control unit generates the control parameter on the further basis of a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: NAOFUMI FUKASAWA, YASUTAKA FUKUMOTO, YOSHITAKA SUGA, TAKAHIRO TSUJII, NORIYUKI SUZUKI, YU TANAKA
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Patent number: 10463944Abstract: There is provided a sensor device capable of operating and reducing electric power consumption effectively, in response to sensing data of a state of the hitting tool used by the user, the sensor device including: a sensor unit configured to directly or indirectly detect sensing data indicating a motion and an orientation of a hitting tool, a communication unit configured to transmit the sensing data detected by the sensor unit to an external device, and a control unit configured to control operation of the sensor unit and the communication unit. The control unit or the sensor unit changes at least one of the sensor unit and the control unit to an electric power saving mode, upon detecting that the hitting tool has a specific orientation for a certain amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi Fukasawa, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Takaomi Kimura, Ryo Mukaiyama, Kosei Yamashita, Renji Tamura
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Patent number: 10289209Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20180314341Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Kosei YAMASHITA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Takaomi KIMURA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
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Patent number: 10070046Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage device includes a storage medium having a downloaded application stored therein. The downloaded application has instructions that when executed by processing circuitry configure the processing circuitry to receive sensor data from a sensor. The sensor is attached to a person or attached to an item used by the person. The processing circuitry also analyzes a motion pattern in the sensor data to identify a predetermined event in the motion pattern, the predetermined event captured in an image or series of images by an image capture device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Kosei Yamashita, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Patent number: 10042431Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20180188819Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro NAKANISHI, Kosei YAMASHITA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Takaomi KIMURA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
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Patent number: 9946352Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20160271480Abstract: There is provided a sensor device capable of operating and reducing electric power consumption effectively, in response to sensing data of a state of the hitting tool used by the user, the sensor device including: a sensor unit configured to directly or indirectly detect sensing data indicating a motion and an orientation of a hitting tool, a communication unit configured to transmit the sensing data detected by the sensor unit to an external device, and a control unit configured to control operation of the sensor unit and the communication unit. The control unit or the sensor unit changes at least one of the sensor unit and the control unit to an electric power saving mode, upon detecting that the hitting tool has a specific orientation for a certain amount of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi FUKASAWA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Takaomi KIMURA, Ryo MUKAIYAMA, Kosei YAMASHITA, Renji TAMURA
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Publication number: 20160205317Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage device includes a storage medium having a downloaded application stored therein. The downloaded application has instructions that when executed by processing circuitry configure the processing circuitry to receive sensor data from a sensor. The sensor is attached to a person or attached to an item used by the person. The processing circuitry also analyzes a motion pattern in the sensor data to identify a predetermined event in the motion pattern, the predetermined event captured in an image or series of images by an image capture device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaomi KIMURA, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Kosei YAMASHITA, Naofumi FUKASAWA
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Publication number: 20150241979Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquiring unit configured to acquire content to which metadata is attached and the metadata attached to the content, the metadata being generated from data obtained from a sensor mounted on a subject, and a display control unit configured to reflect contents of the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit in display of the content to which the metadata acquired by the data acquiring unit is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Kosei Yamashita, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takaomi Kimura, Hideyuki Matsunaga, Naofumi Fukasawa