Patents by Inventor Naoki Ide

Naoki Ide 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: 20200098136
    Abstract: To enable a more accurate estimation of the center of a pupil even in a situation in which it is difficult to capture an image of the entire pupil. An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding an iris in an eyeball; and an estimation unit that estimates a center position of a pupil in the eyeball on the basis of the information regarding the iris.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: MASAYUKI YOKOYAMA, NAOKI IDE
  • Publication number: 20200045496
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: SHINICHIRO TSUDA, TAKASHI USUI, NAOKI IDE
  • Publication number: 20200034977
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to reduce the burden of label assignment and achieve learning that is more flexible, the information processing apparatus including: a learning unit configured to perform machine learning using training data to which a constraint label is assigned. The constraint label is a label in which a type of constraint that a normal label is to follow is defined. In addition, there is provided an information processing method including: performing, by a processor, machine learning using training data to which a constraint label is assigned. The constraint label is a label in which a type of constraint that a normal label is to follow is defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki IDE
  • Publication number: 20200005399
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that facilitate comparisons between insurances. The information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an output from one sensor or outputs from a plurality of sensors different from each other as behavior-monitoring data items of a user; and a diagnosis-result prediction unit that predicts a diagnosis result about one insurance or diagnosis results about a plurality of insurances for the user on the basis of a prediction model calculated in advance by learning for the one insurance or each of the plurality of insurances, and on the basis of the behavior-monitoring data items. The present technology is applicable to comparison systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: SHINGO TAKAMATSU, NAOKI IDE, AKIRA FUKUI, YASUFUMI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190362433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and an information processing system that make it possible to effectively narrow down suspicious cases of fraud. A checkpoint generation section generates, as a checkpoint list, locations highly likely to be determined as dangerous driving even for driving as usual by using traveling information of a vehicle from a policyholder. A fraudulent user detection section generates a list of policyholders suspected of fraud in a declaration of the vehicle traveling information with reference to the generated checkpoint list by using the vehicle traveling information from the policyholder. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a fraud check support system that includes a terminal and a cloud system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Ide, Akira Fukui, Yasufumi Tanaka, Shingo Takamatsu
  • Patent number: 10477341
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Takashi Usui, Naoki Ide
  • Publication number: 20190333380
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of efficiently using information regarding a user evaluation of a target vehicle. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a recognition section configured to automatically recognize information of a target vehicle from environment information of a user; an acquisition section configured to acquire a user evaluation of the recognized target vehicle; and a generation section configured to generate information for issuing a notification of the acquired user evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kenta KAWAMOTO, Naoki IDE, Shingo TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190317514
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and information processing method that enables a user to easily teach an action with regard to action learning. A touchscreen outputs unknown state element information that indicates an unknown state element, and teaching request information that requests teaching of an action corresponding to an ambient state, in a case where the ambient state includes the unknown state element. For example, it is possible to apply the present disclosure to a cleaner robot or the like that controls actions on the basis of an action model for finding a probability P (a|s) that the cleaner robot performs an action a in a state s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo NAKAHASHI, Naoki IDE, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA, Akira FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20190272477
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method each enabling a reward to be properly imparted for an action. The information processing apparatus includes a reward estimating part executing estimation of a reward for an action on a basis of a user input for the action and a presentation control part executing control for presentation of an estimated reward. The present technique is applicable to an agent such as a robot, an electronic device, software, or the like that can, for example, assist a user, communicate with the user, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki IDE, Akira FUKUI, Ryo NAKAHASHI, Hideyuki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20190268713
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHIRO TSUDA, TAKASHI USUI, NAOKI IDE
  • Patent number: 10380888
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of efficiently using information regarding a user evaluation of a target vehicle. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a recognition section configured to automatically recognize information of a target vehicle from environment information of a user; an acquisition section configured to acquire a user evaluation of the recognized target vehicle; and a generation section configured to generate information for issuing a notification of the acquired user evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kenta Kawamoto, Naoki Ide, Shingo Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20190244132
    Abstract: [Object] To previously predict learning performance in accordance with the labeling status of learning data. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a data distribution presentation unit configured to perform dimensionality reduction on input learning data to generate a data distribution diagram related to the learning data; a learning performance prediction unit configured to predict learning performance on the basis of the data distribution diagram and a labeling status related to the learning data; and a display control unit configured to control a display related to the data distribution diagram and the learning performance. The data distribution diagram includes overlap information about clusters including the learning data and information about the number of pieces of the learning data belonging to each of the clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: NAOKI IDE
  • Publication number: 20190137383
    Abstract: [Object] To increase the accuracy of a reference spectrum. [Solution] An information processing device includes: a statistical processing unit configured to perform statistical processing for a group of spectra obtained by applying light to a group of microparticles that exhibit one response property with respect to light, and on a basis of a result of the statistical processing, exclude a spectrum indicating an outlier from the group of spectra; and a reference spectrum calculation unit configured to calculate a reference spectrum using the group of spectra from which the spectrum indicating the outlier has been excluded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI UMETSU, YASUNOBU KATO, NOBUHIRO HAYASHI, NAOKI IDE
  • Patent number: 10257641
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method whereby the communication traffic between a wireless communication apparatus such as a smartphone and another device such as a map information providing server and/or server managed by mobile virtual network operator MVNO. According to a first aspect, the communication traffic can be reduced by dividing items of geographical information that are sent to the smartphone are divided into static information and dynamic information and the two types of information are separately processed in that the map data is updated less often than information such as traffic congestion, weather information or the congestion level of a base station. According to a second aspect, congestion information is derived by averaging over time the number of vehicles which pass through a certain point. According to a third aspect, the updating interval, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Takashi Usui, Naoki Ide
  • Publication number: 20190087734
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of characterizing data appropriately. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires first feature information, to which meaning is assigned, and second feature information, to which meaning is not assigned; and a generation section that generates time-series data having features indicated by the first feature information and the second feature information acquired by the acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: NAOKI IDE, TAKUYA FUJITA, AKIRA NAKAMURA, TAKUYA NARIHIRA, RYO NAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190057309
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus which is capable of more efficiently designing a neural network which is fit for processing by a plurality of hardware devices, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire restrictions relating to a plurality of hardware devices; and a determining unit configured to perform determination as to whether or not a neural network satisfies the restrictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio OOBUCHI, Shingo TAKAMATSU, Akira FUKUI, Naoki IDE, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190050730
    Abstract: There is provide an information processing device capable of reducing the time taken for selection of the learning setting, the information processing device including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a learning setting corresponding to information related to previous learning processing in which a degree of similarity with information related to learning processing specified by a user is higher than a predetermined degree of similarity as a learning setting to be recommended to the user; and a display control unit configured to control display corresponding to the learning setting to be recommended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TAKAMATSU, Akira FUKUI, Naoki IDE, Yukio OOBUCHI, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190043135
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a system capable of providing a more appropriate vehicle insurance by selecting a vehicle insurance in accordance with a current situation. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a selection section configured to select an insurance to be applied to a vehicle from one or more insurances calculated on a basis of a set vehicle insurance condition, attribute information of the vehicle and a user, and real-time characteristic information of the vehicle which includes movement route information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta KAWAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shingo TAKAMATSU, Naoki IDE
  • Publication number: 20190035122
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing method. [Solution] The information processing apparatus including: a display size decision unit configured to decide a display size of data that is based on learning of a label corresponding to a class, on the basis of a distance between a position of the data arranged on the basis of a likelihood vector obtained by recognition of the data, and a position of a class to which the data belongs; and a communication control unit configured to cause the display size to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio OOBUCHI, Naoki IDE, Akira FUKUI, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shingo TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190026630
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to provide a mechanism capable of providing information indicating the appropriateness of a computational result by a model constructed by machine learning, the information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition section that acquires a first data set including a combination of input data and output data obtained by inputting the input data into a neural network; a second acquisition section that acquires one or more second data sets including an item identical to the first data set; and a generation section that generates information indicating a positioning of the first data set in a relationship with the one or more second data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki IDE, Yukio OOBUCHI, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Akira FUKUI, Shingo TAKAMATSU