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).

  • Patent number: 10942573
    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: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Ryo Yokoyama, Shinsaku Hirano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20210016164
    Abstract: There is provided a content presentation system, a content presentation device, and a wind presenting device which are suitable for content presentation by air blast. The content presentation system includes a control unit and a wind presenting device. The control unit generates a wind presentation drive signal on the basis of a predetermined trigger included in content. The wind presenting device includes a housing including an opening formed therein, a diaphragm supported by the housing, and a diaphragm drive mechanism that drives the diaphragm on the basis of the wind presentation drive signal, reduces a volume of a space formed by the housing and the diaphragm, and causes air in the space to blast from the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Osamu ITO, Naohide MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10889179
    Abstract: A shutter grill is provided for an air-intake opening formed on an outer surface of a vehicle and includes: a frame that has an opening portion and is fixed to a member forming the outer surface; and a fin capable of opening and closing the opening portion inside the frame. The frame includes an upper-lower displacement portion that allows the frame to be displaced in an upper-lower direction at the time of a vehicle collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Momii, Yasutomo Ueda, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20210004088
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Osamu ITO, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20210004086
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a mechanism enabling absorption of a difference in the characteristics of each tactile presentation device when tactile stimulation is presented to a user. [Solution] 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: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, OSAMU ITO, IKUO YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20210004132
    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: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Osamu ITO, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20200409462
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of realizing pseudo sensory presentation with a higher degree of freedom by a combination of a tactile sense and an auditory sense. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform a stimulus output control of controlling output of stimuli from a plurality of tactile stimulators, and a sound output control of controlling output of sound from a sound output unit, wherein the control unit performs the stimulus output control and the sound output control in a linked manner so that perception is made at a perceptual position indicated by predetermined position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10875492
    Abstract: A hinge base member (5) and a hinge upper member (15) of a hinge (1) for an engine hood (3) are provided with main bodies (5, 17) each having a laterally facing major plane, and link members (9, 10) are connected between the main bodies of the hinge base member and the hinge upper member and overlies the main bodies of the hinge base member and the hinge upper member from a first lateral side. The hinge upper member is provided with an extension (17) fixedly attached to the side part of the hood and extending forward from the main body of the hinge upper member with an offset to a second lateral side opposite to the first lateral side with respect to the main body of the hinge base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Maeda, Osamu Ito
  • Publication number: 20200377047
    Abstract: The present invention is a vehicle control device including a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat, a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize information of a traveling environment of a vehicle, a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the traveling environment recognized by the vehicle information recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hiroshi Akaba, Hidetoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200349817
    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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200334963
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for performing more appropriate haptic presentations. The information processing apparatus includes a signal processing section configured such that in a case where the presentation timing of a first presentation with haptic sensation based on first data overlaps with the presentation timing of a second presentation with either haptic sensation or a sound based on second data, the signal processing section generates a haptic signal for controlling a haptic presentation device performing at least the first presentation based on sensory characteristic data regarding the haptic sensation and on the first data in such a manner that a combined sensory effect on a user receiving both the first presentation and the second presentation becomes an effect merging a first sensory effect of the first presentation with a second sensory effect of the second presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Osamu ITO, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20200282082
    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: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Akio HAYASHI, Fumie KUROSAKI, Masahito TOYAMA, Toshiyuki SHINMURA, Arinori HARANO
  • Patent number: 10741030
    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: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10739856
    Abstract: To provide a structure capable of causing a user to perceive a desired tactile stimulus more reliably. A control device including: an information acquisition unit configured to obtain first information regarding a tactile stimulus transferred from a first tactile stimulus generation source and second information regarding a tactile stimulus which a user is caused to perceive; and a control unit configured to control output of a tactile stimulus of a second tactile stimulus generation source different from the first tactile stimulus generation source on a basis of the first information and the second information. Further, a control method using a processor and a computer system program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Kato
  • Patent number: 10741029
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a receiving apparatus and method, a transmitting apparatus and method, and a program, which can vibrate a device in a specific area of a receiving area. An example, in which users wearing respective wearable receiving apparatuses are freely moving in the receiving area, is shown. A directional transmitting device unit transmits an area designation signal, and the reachable range of the signal is shown as a beam irradiation area. Only the user in the beam irradiation area receives the area designation signal transmitted by the directional transmitting device unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a video projection system that vibrates a receiving apparatus by transmission and reception of a directional wireless signal in the specific area where the video is projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10741028
    Abstract: There is provided an output control device to realize the control of the output position at the device more efficiently, the output control device including: a controller that, on the basis of a common signal to be employed by a plurality of devices, conducts an output control in regard to a plurality of output units provided in the device. The common signal includes information specifying an output unit serving as a control object. The controller generates a control signal derived by correcting the output unit serving as the control object on the basis of positional information of the device and the common signal which are acquired, and conducts the output control specific to the device on the basis of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 10713908
    Abstract: To provide a content providing system preferably providing a plurality of users with content. A content providing system according to the present technology includes a transmission apparatus, a control apparatus, and a plurality of reception apparatuses. The transmission apparatus transmits a trigger signal by broadcasting the trigger signal. The control apparatus controls the transmission apparatus. Each of the plurality of reception apparatuses includes a signal-reception part that receives the trigger signal, a storage part that stores content, a content presenting part that presents the content to a user, and a control part that controls the content presenting part on the basis of the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20200213461
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet processing apparatus which enables processing of a sheet without a decrease in processing efficiency even when the phenomenon that the information cannot be read from the header card arises. The sheet processing apparatus is a sheet processing apparatus that successively processes a plurality of processing-target sheets forming a sheet group, the sheet group including at least one sheet set, the at least one sheet set including a first sheet that is given first recognition information and a second sheet, the sheet processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that reads the first recognition information from one of the plurality of processing-target sheets and a controller that generates second recognition information associated with the one of the plurality of processing-target sheets when the recognition unit fails to read the first recognition information from the one of the plurality of processing-target sheets and a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu MATSUOKA, Osamu ITO
  • Patent number: 10683014
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving control part that performs automated driving in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a vehicle is automatically controlled; a driving operation element that receives an operation of an occupant with respect to acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle; an operation element state change part that makes the driving operation element disabled when the automated driving by the automated driving control part is performed; and an alternative operation reception part that receives an operation which is different from the operation with respect to the driving operation element by the occupant when the driving operation element is disabled by the operation element state change part, wherein the automated driving control part controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle based on the operation by the alternative operation reception part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Akaba, Osamu Ito, Masakuni Murakami
  • Patent number: 10668372
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pointer information on the basis of one or more sensor data; a determination unit configured to determine an input device corresponding to each pointer on the basis of features of the plurality of pointer information; and a generation unit configured to generate, in a case where a position of a pointer satisfies a predetermined condition, a predetermined tactile stimulation signal to be output to an input device corresponding to the pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Ikuo Yamano