Patents by Inventor Ryosuke SAWATA

Ryosuke SAWATA 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: 20250234126
    Abstract: An acoustic control method according to an embodiment includes: acquiring sensor data from two or more sensors mounted on a moving body that moves in a three-dimensional space; acquiring a position of the moving body; specifying a sound source and a position of the sound source outside the moving body on a basis of output of acoustic event information acquisition processing using the sensor data as input; and displaying, on a display, a moving body icon corresponding to the moving body, in which the display further displays metadata of the sound source that has been specified in a visually identifiable manner reflecting a relative positional relationship between the position of the moving body and the position of the sound source that has been specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: KAZUYA TATEISHI, SHUSUKE TAKAHASHI, MASATO HIRANO, ATSUO HIROE, YUICHIRO KOYAMA, YUUJI MAEDA, RYOSUKE SAWATA, KAZUKI SHIMADA, AKIRA TAKAHASHI, TOSHIMITSU UESAKA, ZHI ZHONG
  • Patent number: 12230265
    Abstract: An information processor including: an operation control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on the basis of recognition processing, in a case where a target sound that is a target voice for voice recognition processing is detected, the operation control unit moving the autonomous mobile body to a position, around an approach target, where an input level of a non-target sound that is not the target voice becomes lower, the approach target being determined on the basis of the target sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sawata, Yuichiro Koyama
  • Publication number: 20240282328
    Abstract: For example, the number of operations is reduced without a deterioration in sound source separation performance. A program according to the present disclosure causes a computer to execute an information processing method, the information processing method including generating, by a neural network unit, sound source separation information for separating a predetermined sound source signal from a mixed sound signal containing a plurality of sound source signals, transforming, by an encoder included in the neural network unit, a feature extracted from the mixed sound signal, inputting a process result from the encoder to each of a plurality of sub-neural network units included in the neural network unit, and inputting the process result from the encoder and a process result from each of the plurality of sub-neural network units to a decoder included in the neural network unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi OSAKO, Yuhki MITSUFUJI, Ryosuke SAWATA
  • Patent number: 11823553
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires characteristic information of an obstructer that is at least one of a person or an animal that obstructs an operation of a designated device designated in advance, and a generation unit that generates distraction-related information regarding a distraction device for distracting the obstructer and a distraction content of the distraction device according to the characteristic information, the distraction device being different from the designated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Ryosuke Sawata, Kiyokazu Miyazawa, Takaaki Kato, Yuka Ariki, Yasufumi Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20230005481
    Abstract: An information processor including: an operation control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on the basis of recognition processing, in a case where a target sound that is a target voice for voice recognition processing is detected, the operation control unit moving the autonomous mobile body to a position, around an approach target, where an input level of a non-target sound that is not the target voice becomes lower, the approach target being determined on the basis of the target sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAWATA, Yuichiro KOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11468891
    Abstract: An information processor including: an operation control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on the basis of recognition processing, in a case where a target sound that is a target voice for voice recognition processing is detected, the operation control unit moving the autonomous mobile body to a position, around an approach target, where an input level of a non-target sound that is not the target voice becomes lower, the approach target being determined on the basis of the target sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sawata, Yuichiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 11468884
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a voice acquisition section, a reliability generation section, and a processing execution section. The voice acquisition section acquires an ambient voice. The reliability generation section generates reliability indicating a degree in which the acquired voice is uttered from the particular position on the basis of a predetermined transfer characteristic. As the predetermined transfer characteristic, a phase difference or acoustic characteristic of the voice can be assumed. The processing execution section executes a process according to the generated reliability. As the process according to the reliability, a notification according to the reliability or a predetermined command can be assumed to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sawata, Yuichiro Koyama
  • Publication number: 20220165147
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires characteristic information of an obstructer that is at least one of a person or an animal that obstructs an operation of a designated device designated in advance; and a generation unit that generates distraction-related information regarding a distraction device for distracting the obstructer and a distraction content of the distraction device according to the characteristic information, the distraction device being different from the designated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: OSAMU SHIGETA, RYOSUKE SAWATA, KIYOKAZU MIYAZAWA, TAKAAKI KATO, YUKA ARIKI, YASUFUMI HAYASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210405686
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device that is used by being worn on a user's body and executes a response operation with respect to the user's input operation, and a method of controlling the information processing device. An information processing device includes: a housing which is worn by a user; a detection unit which detects an operation performed on the housing; and a control unit which controls a response operation with respect to a result of the detection. The detection unit detects one or two or more of a deformation operation for the housing, an operation of touching the housing, an operation of grasping at least one of right and left tip portions of the U-shaped housing, an operation of tracing the surface of the housing, an operation of shifting a wearing position of the housing, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Koyama, Toshiyuki Sekiya, Ryosuke Sawata
  • Publication number: 20210050011
    Abstract: An information processor including: an operation control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on the basis of recognition processing, in a case where a target sound that is a target voice for voice recognition processing is detected, the operation control unit moving the autonomous mobile body to a position, around an approach target, where an input level of a non-target sound that is not the target voice becomes lower, the approach target being determined on the basis of the target sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAWATA, Yuichiro KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200074998
    Abstract: A voice uttered from a particular position is detected with a small amount of calculation. An information processing apparatus includes a voice acquisition section, a reliability generation section, and a processing execution section. The voice acquisition section acquires an ambient voice. The reliability generation section generates reliability indicating a degree in which the acquired voice is uttered from the particular position on the basis of a predetermined transfer characteristic. As the predetermined transfer characteristic, a phase difference or acoustic characteristic of the voice can be assumed. The processing execution section executes a process according to the generated reliability. As the process according to the reliability, a notification according to the reliability or a predetermined command can be assumed to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke SAWATA, Yuichiro KOYAMA