Patents by Inventor Rei Fukuda

Rei Fukuda 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: 20240080594
    Abstract: A speaker can have a main body with a generally spheroidal shape, which can be supported standing on its end. The speaker can include a subwoofer that faces forward. A plurality of mid-range drivers can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and radially outward. A plurality of tweeters can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and generally outward. The outer housing portion of the speaker can be covered with a fabric material. A user interface ring 162 can be touch sensitive to receive input, and can have a plurality of lights that can be illuminated separately to convey information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy David Williamson, Peter Joseph Hamblin, Maximilian Vincent Wozniak, Robert James Wilson, Wilson E. Taylor, JR., Larry E. Hand, Mark Robert Westcott, Mark Edward Trainer, Ellie Rei Fukuda, Joel Robert Sietsema, Paul Michael Belanger, Matthew Patrick Lyons, Timothy Steven DeYoung, Werner Kirchmann, Ralph Wilhelm Hermann
  • Patent number: 11386584
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processing unit that detects a pointing action for a first user in a real space to specify a first object and an evaluation action on the first object by the first user based on a signal output from a sensor that senses actions in the real space and updates evaluation information of the first object specified by a detection result of the pointing action based on a detection result of the evaluation action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Rei Fukuda, Dickinson Forrest JR. Matthew
  • Patent number: 11112961
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of adaptively controlling a display on a display surface in response to an operation of moving an object in a certain display surface with respect to a transfer object. The information processing system includes a processing unit that performs, on a first display surface, a predetermined display control indicating that one or more pieces of display information in a second display surface corresponding to the first display surface is changed to be operable in the first display surface when a first operation for a first user to move a first object to a detection area having a predetermined positional relationship with one or more predetermined transfer objects positioned in the first display surface, and changes a display state of the second display surface based on a detection result of a second operation by the first user after the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Rei Fukuda, D. Forrest Matthew
  • Publication number: 20210166439
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that can appropriately detect an evaluation action on an object by a user in a real space. [Solution] Disclosed is an information processing system including a processing unit that detects a pointing action for a first user in a real space to specify a first object and an evaluation action on the first object by the first user based on a signal output from a sensor that senses actions in the real space and updates evaluation information of the first object specified by a detection result of the pointing action based on a detection result of the evaluation action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, HARUO OBA, MAKOTO NIIJIMA, REI FUKUDA, DICKINSON FORREST JR. MATTHEW
  • Publication number: 20210081092
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of adaptively controlling a display on a display surface in response to an operation of moving an object in a certain display surface with respect to a transfer object. The information processing system includes a processing unit that performs, on a first display surface, a predetermined display control indicating that one or more pieces of display information in a second display surface corresponding to the first display surface is changed to be operable in the first display surface when a first operation for a first user to move a first object to a detection area having a predetermined positional relationship with one or more predetermined transfer objects positioned in the first display surface, and changes a display state of the second display surface based on a detection result of a second operation by the first user after the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Haruo OBA, Makoto NIIJIMA, Rei FUKUDA, D. Forrest MATTHEW
  • Patent number: D858542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew D. Forrest, Rei Fukuda, Haruo Oba
  • Patent number: D940151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew D. Forrest, Rei Fukuda, Haruo Oba