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: 20220230501
    Abstract: A coin loading method is a method of loading coins for replenishment of a coin processing apparatus, into a storage area provided in a cassette that is mountable to the coin processing apparatus, the coin loading method being performed before the cassette is mounted to the coin processing apparatus, the coin loading method including: loading, into the storage area, a first coin group including a first plurality of coins for initial replenishment of the coin processing apparatus; and loading, into the storage area, a second coin group including a second plurality of coins for additional replenishment of the coin processing apparatus. At least one of the first plurality of coins and the second plurality of coins includes the plural coins of each denomination of a plurality of denominations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi TAGASHIRA, Osamu ITO, Rikuo MINAGAWA, Kiyoaki KOBAYASHI, Risa HORITA, Rinshiro IWASE
  • Patent number: 11392203
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that makes it possible to apply a tactile stimulus in a more flexible manner in accordance with the position of a tactile-sense applying unit. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires the positional information on at least one of a plurality of tactile-sense applying units that apply a tactile stimulus by using a tactile control signal generated for each of the tactile-sense applying units; and a data processing unit that changes the tactile control signal by using the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20220207950
    Abstract: In order to efficiently perform banknote handling and banknote disinfection, a banknote handling apparatus includes: an inlet that receives a banknote from outside the apparatus; a transport path that transports the banknotes from the inlet into the apparatus; a recognition circuit that performs banknote recognition of the banknote; a disinfector that performs banknote disinfection of the banknote; an outlet that holds the banknotes; and a processing circuitry that controls these components to perform a banknote handling process in which the banknote passes the recognition circuit and the disinfector. The banknote handling process is performed in a mode selected from among a first mode of performing the banknote recognition and the banknote disinfection, a second mode of performing the banknote disinfection without performing the banknote recognition, and a third mode of performing the banknote recognition without performing the banknote disinfection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroya MOURI, Osamu ITO, Kiyoaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220187921
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a retrieval unit that retrieves a piece of tactile sense presentation information for realizing a tactile sense presented to a user from a tactile sense database including the piece of the tactile sense presentation information and one or more pieces of tactile sense meta information associated with the piece of the tactile sense presentation information, based on tactile sense retrieval information used for retrieving the piece of the tactile sense presentation information, and an output unit that outputs information related to the retrieved piece of the tactile sense presentation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Yufeng JIN
  • Patent number: 11350751
    Abstract: There is provided a tactile presentation device capable of realizing easier wearing/removal and contact of a tactile stimulation unit in an appropriate position. The tactile presentation device is provided with an attaching unit to a back plate of a chair, and a wearing belt portion to a body provided so as to be extendable and contractable on the attaching unit, in which one or more first tactile stimulation units are provided on the attaching unit, and one or more second tactile stimulation units are provided on the wearing belt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamoto Tsuda, Yusuke Otani, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma
  • Publication number: 20220171518
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires sensing information regarding a user and first haptic information unique to a haptic presentation object; and a data processing unit that generates second haptic information from the first haptic information on the basis of the sensing information, the second haptic information being used in a case where a haptic presentation device presents a haptic stimulus to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIHARA, Yufeng JIN, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Takeshi OGITA
  • Publication number: 20220152468
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit configured to detect 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 configured to dynamically change and present, 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, TAKESHI OGITA, YOHEI FUKUMA, IKUO YAMANO, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11334160
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and an electronic device that are capable of providing user interface having better operability. The signal processing device includes an input information acquisition unit that acquires input information input through a touch operation by a user, and a feedback control unit that outputs mutually different kinds of feedback control in accordance with a kind of the input information continuously acquired in response to movement of a position touched through the touch operation. In addition, the signal processing device further includes an operation speed calculation unit that calculates an operation speed at which a touched position through the touch operation moves, and the feedback control unit changes the output of feedback control in accordance with the operation speed. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an electronic device including a touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi Kato, Osamu Ito
  • Patent number: 11334226
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable performing intuitive operations in regard to setting the sensory position of tactile stimulation. The information processing device includes a display control unit that displays information related to a tactile presentation device and displays a user-specified sensory position in the tactile presentation device; and a generating unit that, according to the sensory position and according to the positions of a plurality of tactile stimulation units disposed in the tactile presentation device, generates an output control signal to be output to the plurality of tactile stimulation units, so that tactile stimulation is sensed at the sensory position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11314333
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to cause vibration to be generated suitable for a state between an information processing device including a vibrating device and a user, the information processing device including: corrected vibration data configured to generate corrected information for correcting a strength of vibration data for a vibrating device including a vibrator on a basis of information provided from a detecting unit configured to detect a contact state of the vibrating device; and an vibration signal generating unit configured to generate a vibration signal from the corrected vibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Ryo Yokoyama, Shinsaku Hirano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11295582
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reception apparatus and method, a transmission apparatus and method, and a program, capable of obtaining desired communication quality. Under the control of a central control unit, a tactile signal generation unit generates a tactile signal of a necessary number. Under the control of the central control unit, a header generation unit generates header information including the presence or absence of the tactile signal (that is, information indicating whether or not the tactile signal is to be used for each of vibration units as information associated with the vibration unit that uses the tactile signal), the delay amount, and the magnitude. A signal coupling unit adds header information to each of the tactile signals from the tactile signal generation unit, and performs time-division multiplexing on each of the tactile signals to which the header information has been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20220083140
    Abstract: This haptic presentation apparatus includes: a first haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible first pouch into which an object has been inserted and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be exhausted from an interior of the first pouch, hardness of a virtual object in response to an operation of holding the virtual object by a user; and a second haptic presentation element that includes an air-tight and flexible second pouch and is capable of presenting, by using an amount of gas to be supplied to an interior of the second pouch, elasticity of the virtual object in response to the operation of holding the virtual object by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, OSAMU ITO, HIROSHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220057864
    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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takamoto TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11242022
    Abstract: A pedestrian protecting device for vehicle comprises: a protection device which protects a protection target upon colliding with a vehicle; a measurement device which measures an image of the protection target and a distance from the vehicle to the protection target; and a control device which operates the protection device in a different manner depending on a size of the protection target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Umezawa, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Yasuaki Gunji, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20220035454
    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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, OSAMU ITO, RYUICHI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11228855
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided to present a sensation to a user taking a delay occurring before sound is perceived by the user appropriately into consideration. The information processing device includes a generation section that generates, on the basis of a difference between a first timing at which a sound is to be outputted from an acoustic presentation section and a second timing at which the sound is to be perceived by a first user, first data to be used for presentation of a sensation to the first user by a sensation presentation section worn by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20210402952
    Abstract: An airbag device includes a first chamber filled with a gas supplied from a first gas supply part and inflated and deployed in a traveling direction of a vehicle body, a second chamber that is disposed behind the first chamber and able to bring in communication with an inside of the first chamber through a communication section, and a third chamber disposed to cover the communication section and configured to adjust an opening degree of the communication section by being filled with a gas supplied from a second gas supply part and being inflated and deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakamura, Hyejin Bae, Kenyu Okamura, Osamu Ito, Hiroyuki Asanuma, Hiromi Koshiki, Kei Tsujimoto, Shoichi Sawa
  • Publication number: 20210386873
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel amino acid organic compound which can be used as a labeling precursor compound for radioactive halogen-labeled amino acid compounds including [18F]FACBC, and which prevents methanol from remaining in the radioactive halogen-labeled amino acid compounds produced therefrom. The novel amino acid organic compound is a compound represented by the following formula: wherein n is an integer of 0 or of 1 to 4; R1 is an ethyl, 1-propyl or isopropyl substituent; X is a halogen substituent or a group represented by —OR2; R2 is a straight-chain or branched-chain haloalkylsulfonic acid substituent with one to 10 carbon atoms, trialkylstannyl substituent with 3 to 12 carbon atoms, fluorosulfonic acid substituent or aromatic sulfonic acid substituent; and R3 is a protective group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Akio HAYASHI, Fumie KUROSAKI, Masahito TOYAMA, Toshiyuki SHINMURA, Arinori HARANO
  • Publication number: 20210390835
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a signal processor that extracts at least some frequency components as second control information from a plurality of frequency components included in first control information in accordance with a state of communication, in which a haptic presentation section that presents a haptic stimulus is controlled through the communication on the basis of the second control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Osamu ITO
  • Patent number: 11190874
    Abstract: [Object] To prevent appropriately that a user perceives sound emitted by a tactile stimulus (second sound). [Solving Means] To provide an information processing device including a generation section that generates, on the basis of information regarding a first perception characteristic of a user with respect to a first sound emitted from an acoustic presentation section and information regarding a second perception characteristic of the user with respect to a second sound emitted by a tactile stimulus presented from a tactile data presentation section, tactile data to be used for presentation of the tactile stimulus of emitting the second sound that is not perceived by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano