Patents by Inventor Reiko KIRIHARA

Reiko KIRIHARA 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: 11915334
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Reiko Kirihara, Norihiro Takahashi, Saki Yokoyama, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20220050580
    Abstract: To achieve an object of effectively attracting a user's attention to an item selected on the basis of behavior of a user. An information processing apparatus as one embodiment of solving means includes a controller that outputs content information and an indicator representing an agent onto a display screen, discriminates an object of interest of the content information on the basis of behavior of a user, and moves the indicator in a direction of the object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: YUUJI TAKIMOTO, SHINGO UTSUKI, REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Patent number: 11237794
    Abstract: An information processing device and information processing method capable of outputting an action based on an intention of the user. The information processing device including an action deciding unit that determines an action for a user on a basis of a distance from the user and an output control unit that outputs the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Kirihara
  • Publication number: 20220027985
    Abstract: A configuration of observing a user act in a monitoring region, performing detection of a violative act, and further generating credit information of each user is realized. A monitoring device that acquires detection information of a sensor provided in a monitoring region, and transmits the detection information to a management server, the management server that analyzes a user act in the monitoring region on the basis of the sensor detection information, and a user terminal held by a user are included. The management server determines whether or not a user act falls under a violative act, and in a case where it is determined that a user act is a violative act, notifies the user terminal or the monitoring device. Moreover, the management server executes user identification, and generates and updates credit information of each user on the basis of an observation result of the user act of the identified user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210398520
    Abstract: A program according to one embodiment of the present disclosure causes an information processing device configured to perform voice recognition to execute a step of setting a voice recognition mode to a minimum utterance rejection mode if a predetermined condition is satisfied during the voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210280181
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of acquiring user preference information in a more natural conversation according to an utterance content of a user, an information processing method, and a program. An information processing apparatus includes an evaluation extraction unit that extracts an evaluation by a user for content on the basis of an utterance content of the user related to the content, and a generation unit that generates inquiry sound data for further acquiring preference information of the user for the content on the basis of the extracted evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: MARI SAITO, MITSUHIRO MIYAZAKI, REIKO KIRIHARA, JURI YAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210056491
    Abstract: [Object] To provide highly convenient information processing apparatus and information processing method and a program therefor. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit and a notification information generating unit. The analysis unit is configured to analyze, on the basis of information about a plurality of performers capable of performing a habitual action in habitual information including descriptions of habitual actions of a plurality of users, whether at least one performer of the plurality of performers exists in a range in which the at least one performer is capable of performing the habitual action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: MARI SAITO, JURI YAEDA, MITSUHIRO MIYAZAKI, REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200193338
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to create more appropriate action plan of a plurality of users on the basis of a relationship among the plurality of users. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a relationship estimation unit configured to estimate a relationship among a plurality of users on the basis of sensing data, and an action plan creation unit configured to create an action plan of the plurality of users on the basis of a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Saki YOKOYAMA, Satoshi HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200193546
    Abstract: [Problem] To enable more accurate notification of presence/absence information about a user at a visit destination to be given to a visitor. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Saki YOKOYAMA, Satoshi HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 10657959
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can allow a user to intuitively recognize other information corresponding to a speech output, the information processing device including: a control unit configured to control an output of other information different from a speech output related to a predetermined function on the basis of timing information on timing at which the speech output of an expression related to the function among a set of expressions is made, the set of expressions including the expression related to the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Kirihara
  • Publication number: 20200151796
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to present recommendatory information for a plurality of users when a decider exists, and to raise a decision rate. [Solution] An information processing device including a control unit that performs control to present recommendatory information of a recommendation item whose decider exists in a surrounding area among recommendation items of information to be recommended to a group to which one or more identified users who exist in the surrounding area belong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Mari SAITO, Juri YAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190325401
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of issuing a notice for prompting schedule registration at a timing suitable for the user. The information processing apparatus includes an event recommendation control unit configured to predict, on the basis of a behavior history of the user, occurrence of an event in future, the event recommendation control unit being configured to determine a notice timing for prompting schedule registration of the predicted event, in consideration of a preparation period of time of the user for the predicted event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Juri YAEDA, Mari SAITO, Reiko KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190042188
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, information processing method, and program capable of outputting an action according to an intention of the user. [Solution] An information processing device including: an action deciding unit configured to decide an action for a user on a basis of a distance from the user; and an output control unit configured to output the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190035420
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] The information processing device includes: a scoring unit configured to perform scoring on a basis of ambiguous voice evaluation made by a user with regard to a piece of content included in a content list including a plurality of pieces of the content; and a content selection unit configured to select a piece of the content from the content list, on a basis of a result of the scoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190019513
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: a state detecting unit configured to detect a state of another device which can be a source of noise; and a state control unit configured to control the state of the other device on a basis of a detection result for the state of the other device and speech prediction of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170047063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, control method, and program capable of notifying a user of a candidate for a response, from the middle of a speech, through a voice U1, the information processing apparatus including: a semantic analysis unit configured to perform semantic analysis on speech text recognized by a speech recognition unit in the middle of a speech; a score calculation unit configured to calculate a score for a response candidate on the basis of a result of the analysis performed by the semantic analysis unit; and a notification control unit configured to perform control to notify of the response candidate, in the middle of the speech, according to the score calculated by the score calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki OHMURA, Reiko KIRIHARA, Yasuyuki SUKI, Koichi OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20170047064
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can allow a user to intuitively recognize other information corresponding to a speech output, the information processing device including: a control unit configured to control an output of other information different from a speech output related to a predetermined function on the basis of timing information on timing at which the speech output of an expression related to the function among a set of expressions is made, the set of expressions including the expression related to the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko KIRIHARA