Patents by Inventor Osamu Ito

Osamu Ito 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: 20250144848
    Abstract: A mold device which includes a first mold and a second mold, and in which a cavity is formed by closing the first and second molds, the mold device including a displacement portion that is provided on a first surface of the first mold and is displaced, along the first surface and in a first direction that is a direction along the first surface, between a press position and a release position, the displacement portion pressing the second mold against the first mold when positioned in the press position and releasing the pressing when positioned in the release position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: INOAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUZUKI, Osamu ITO, Shanchuu YU
  • Patent number: 12278054
    Abstract: A power storage material is made by using a fiber material of cellulose molecules obtained from wood, plant fibers (pulp), and the like, and capable of storing electric power of direct current and alternating current, and an ultra power storage body has the power storage material. A power storage material includes a fiber mainly including a fiber derived from at least any one of wood, plant fibers (pulp), animals, algae, microorganisms, and microbial products, and having a large number of recesses and protrusions on a surface. The fiber is preferably crystallized/amorphous fibers, is preferably an amorphous fiber having an atomic vacancy, and preferably has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or more. Preferably, the large number of recesses and protrusions have a diameter of 1 nm to 500 nm. Preferably, the electric resistance is 100 M? or more, and the electric capacity is 5 mF/cm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Fukuhara, Fumihiko Hasegawa, Tomoyuki Kuroda, Osamu Ito, Toshiyuki Hashida, Takeshi Nakatani, Masahiro Morita
  • Patent number: 12260020
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Nakagawa, Yohei Fukuma, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12194365
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit that detects a skill level difference between a first user and a second user on the basis of sensing data regarding the first user and sensing data regarding the second user having a skill level lower than a skill level of the first user, and a presentation unit that dynamically changes and presents, during performance, skill level difference suppression information that reduces the skill level difference to at least one of the first and second users on the basis of the skill level difference detected. The sensing data is acquired through at least performance and the like performed by moving at least a part of a body of the users and other performance performed in the past with respect to the performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240427422
    Abstract: An information processing system includes the following units. A signal generation unit 303 generates a vibration signal on the basis of vibration measured by a microphone 110 provided at a mat speaker 10 and a result of detection of an object placed on the mat speaker 10. A signal output unit 392 vibrates a vibrator 120 on the basis of the vibration signal generated by the signal generation unit 303.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Minatsu SUGIMOTO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Osamu ITO, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Keijiroh NAGANO, Ikuo YAMANO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI, Yohei FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 12153856
    Abstract: There is provided a transmission signal to enable tactile presentation at more positions than the number of channels of a tactile vibration signal that can be transmitted. The transmission signal includes audio signals of a predetermined number of channels and tactile presentation signals of a predetermined number of channels and to which metadata designating the tactile presentation position targeted by each of the tactile presentation signals of the predetermined number of channels is added is generated. The transmission signal is transmitted to a reception side via a predetermined transmission path. For example, the metadata is dynamically changed to dynamically change the tactile presentation position targeted by each of the tactile presentation signals of the predetermined number of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 12141357
    Abstract: An information processor (10m) includes a control unit (104). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device (2) and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (2), the control unit (104) generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama, Takamoto Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12135838
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control unit that generates, on the basis of control information relating to tactile stimulation to be perceived by a second user as configured by a first user and on the basis of characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the second user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit and which serves to cause the second user to perceive the tactile stimulation indicated by the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 12128882
    Abstract: A vehicle 1 as a host vehicle includes: detection unit that detects a translationally-moving two-wheeled vehicle 9 traveling in front of or alongside the host vehicle; an on-board communication device capable of communicating with a communication device mounted on the vehicle 9; an ECU that determines whether the host vehicle is at either one of blind spots BR and BL of the vehicle 9, based on a detection result of the detection unit, and that transmits a warning notification from the on-board communication device to the communication device mounted on the vehicle 9 when determining that the host vehicle is at the blind spot BR or BL. In this case, it is preferable that the ECU changes an actuation condition so that an automatic operation according to contact avoidance control is started more promptly than when the host vehicle is determined to be outside the blind spots BR, BL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Makoto Katayama, Osamu Ito, Hideo Kadowaki
  • Publication number: 20240357215
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an estimation processing unit that estimates at least some of a video latency time from a reproduction instruction of a video signal to video presentation based on the video signal, an acoustic latency time from a reproduction instruction of an acoustic signal to acoustic presentation based on the acoustic signal, and a haptic sense latency time from a reproduction instruction of a haptic signal to haptic sense presentation based on the haptic signal, and a latency time determination unit that determines an additional latency time related to the haptic sense presentation on the basis of an estimation result of the estimation processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 12109972
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; and a gas supply unit that supplies a gas for expansion selectively to the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenji Komori, Kenyu Okamura, Osamu Ito, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Hyejin Bae
  • Publication number: 20240311824
    Abstract: A commodity sales system for selling a specific commodity for which a purchase qualification needs to be confirmed when the specific commodity is sold to the customer. The commodity sales system includes: a customer detection sensor to detect a customer; a commodity detection sensor to detect a commodity taken out from a commodity shelf; a management apparatus to add the commodity taken out by the customer to an object of transaction with the customer when the commodity is detected by the commodity detection sensor; and a settlement apparatus to perform a settlement process for the commodity added to the object of transaction. If a replacement of a specific commodity is included in the object of transaction, the management apparatus performs a confirmation process for confirming that the customer has the purchase qualification, and a process for handing over an actual article of the specific commodity to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu ITO
  • Publication number: 20240311792
    Abstract: A commodity sales system includes: a customer detection sensor to detect that a customer has entered a store; a commodity detection sensor to detect a commodity that the customer takes from a commodity shelf in the store; a selection device to receive a selection of a specific commodity at purchase; a management apparatus to add, to an object of transaction with the customer, the commodity detected by the commodity detection sensor and the specific commodity that is selected by the selection device; and a settlement apparatus to perform a settlement process for an amount of transaction with the customer, for the commodities that the management apparatus has added to the object of transaction, wherein if the specific commodity is in the object of transaction, the management apparatus confirms whether the customer has a purchase qualification for the specific commodity, and if so, hands over the specific commodity to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kisho YANASE, Osamu ITO, Toru FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20240304068
    Abstract: A control device includes a reproduction unit that causes stereo speakers of an aural-tactile presentation device to output sound on the basis of sound data and causes tactile presentation units provided corresponding to the respective stereo speakers in the aural-tactile presentation device to provide a tactile stimulus on the basis of tactile data, and a switching control unit that switches, on the basis of content information of content data including at least the sound data, the tactile data to be input to the tactile presentation units to either the tactile data generated by a tactile data generation unit on the basis of the sound data or the tactile data included in the content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, IKUO YAMANO, TAKURO NODA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240295925
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that acquires, according to an input from a first user, each of control commands including presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (302) that generates, according to each of the control commands, each of haptic control signals to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit, and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes each of the haptic control signals to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 12017250
    Abstract: A vibration presentation apparatus (100) including: a connection plate (120); and a plurality of cells (110) spaced apart from each other on the connection plate (120), in which the cells (110) each include: a vibration device (112); a first elastic body (113); a vibration presentation plate (111) on which the vibration device (112) and the first elastic body (113) are disposed; and a support member (114) that is interposed between the first elastic body (113) and the connection plate (120), and supports the vibration presentation plate (111) through the first elastic body (113).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma
  • Patent number: 12019804
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including: an information processor; and a plurality of tactile presentation apparatuses, the plurality of tactile presentation apparatuses including a first tactile presentation apparatus that, in a case of receiving tactile presentation information from the information processor, transmits the tactile presentation information to peripheral tactile presentation apparatus, and a second tactile presentation apparatus that, in a case of receiving the tactile presentation information from the peripheral tactile presentation apparatus, presents a tactile stimulus on a basis of the tactile presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ryuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11987201
    Abstract: An airbag system includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right chamber that is expandable on the first right chamber; a recognition portion that recognizes a risk object which is present in a vicinity of the vehicle; a prediction portion that predicts a collision between the risk object and the vehicle; and an expansion control portion that performs an expansion control of the first left chamber, the second left chamber, the first right chamber, and the second right chamber based on a prediction of the prediction portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Kenji Komori, Kenyu Okamura, Osamu Ito, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Hyejin Bae
  • Publication number: 20240161438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus (40) including an information acquisition unit (402) that acquires operation information concerning user operation performed a virtual object superimposed and displayed on a real space or a virtual space and a sense of force control unit (408) that outputs, based on the operation information, via a sense-of-force device attached to a part of a body of a user, a sense of force for causing the user to recognize weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, TAHA MORIYAMA, MASANORI OKAZAKI, OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA, AYUMI NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11983324
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the tactile control signal corresponds to at least one of a presentation timing, frequency, interval, waveform, presentation time, and intensity of the tactile stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Takuma Domae