Patents by Inventor Ryouhei YASUDA

Ryouhei YASUDA 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: 20210314557
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus that can suppress a user's uncomfortable feeling of a change in a video depending on a user's motion, an information processing method, and a program. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a display control unit. The display control unit controls a display apparatus to display an object having a movement parallax depending on a change in a position of a user's head in a display space in which a position of a viewpoint is substantially independently controlled with respect to the change in the position of the user's head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, JUNICHI SHIMIZU, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU, KEI TAKAHASHI, RYOUHEI YASUDA
  • Patent number: 11023038
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device and a control method that can eliminate the need for an operation merely for line-of-sight detection calibration and can perform line-of-sight detection calibration in a normal user operation. An information processing device including a recognition unit to recognize a position of a target of gaze following a user operation, a line-of-sight detection unit to detect a line-of-sight position of a user during the user operation, and a line-of-sight detection adjustment unit to perform an adjustment to line-of-sight detection performed by the line-of-sight detection unit on the basis of the recognized position of the target of gaze and the line-of-sight position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20210064129
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided that enable displaying predetermined contents at the user-intended timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA
  • Patent number: 10928896
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Imoto, Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20210037063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enable to switch communication between virtual space and real space smoothly. The information processing device includes a communication control unit that controls communication performed in virtual space in which a virtual image corresponding to a real image of a user present in real space is created, interactively between users through the virtual image of the user; a user-information acquiring unit that acquires position information regarding a position of the user in the real space and attribute information including at least information regarding intimacy between the users at predetermined timing; and a switching control unit that controls switching between communication performed in the real space and communication performed in the virtual space according to at least either one of the position information and the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei TAKAHASHI, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Ryouhei YASUDA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210014468
    Abstract: [Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To provide an information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium that each allow a user to recognize a border of a virtual space without breaking the world view of the virtual space. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including a control unit that tracks a motion of a user to present an image of a virtual space to the user, and performs distance control to increase a distance between a viewpoint of the user and a border region in the virtual space while an operation of the user coming closer toward the border region is being inputted. The border region is fixed at a specific position in the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: KEI TAKAHASHI, TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, RYOUHEI YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10771707
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire attention information regarding an attention target of a user; and a zoom control unit configured to perform zoom control of a camera on the basis of non-zoom control of the camera and the attention information when the non-zoom control is performed on the basis of the attention information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10712998
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to improve communication between a user and a person speaking to the user by specifying speaking motion information indicating a motion of a surrounding person speaking to the user for whom information from the surroundings is auditorily or visually restricted, the information processing device including: a detecting unit configured to detect a speaking motion of a surrounding person speaking to a user using a device that auditorily or visually restricts information from surroundings; and a specifying unit configured to specify speaking motion information indicating the speaking motion on a basis of monitored surrounding information in a case in which the speaking motion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10684682
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to acquire gaze-related information corresponding to a user on a basis of a detection result of a head of the user and a detection result of a line of sight of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10496186
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program related to the information processing apparatus, which are capable of suppressing an uncomfortable feeling of the user for a position at which processing related to the user operation is performed, the information processing apparatus including: an input unit configured to obtain line-of-sight information related to a line of sight of a user and a detection result of a user operation; and a position deciding unit configured to decide an operation position at which a process related to the user operation is performed, on the basis of the line-of-sight information obtained at a second point of time specified on the basis of a first point of time prior to a detection start of the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10379610
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention includes a sightline distance calculating unit (106) configured to calculate a sightline distance between a position of a user and a position of a point specified on an image display surface based on a sightline direction of the user, a character size calculating unit (108) configured to determine a character size in accordance with the sightline distance calculated by the sightline distance calculating unit (106), and a display control unit (110) configured to determine a size of a display image in accordance with the character size calculated by the character size calculating unit (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20190230290
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire attention information regarding an attention target of a user; and a zoom control unit configured to perform zoom control of a camera on the basis of non-zoom control of the camera and the attention information when the non-zoom control is performed on the basis of the attention information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: RYOUHEI YASUDA, TAKURO NODA
  • Publication number: 20190172271
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA, Seiji WADA, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190041985
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: MAKI IMOTO, TAKURO NODA, RYOUHEI YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10180718
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to control a state of a selection candidate object, when a predetermined condition concerning a selection of the selection candidate object is determined to be satisfied based on a relation between a display position of the selection candidate object and a position towards which the user gazes or a gazing direction, by bringing the selection candidate object to a selected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Imoto, Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20190011983
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to acquire gaze-related information corresponding to a user on a basis of a detection result of a head of the user and a detection result of a line of sight of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: RYOUHEI YASUDA, TAKURO NODA
  • Patent number: 10120441
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Imoto, Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20180260187
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to improve communication between a user and a person speaking to the user by specifying speaking motion information indicating a motion of a surrounding person speaking to the user for whom information from the surroundings is auditorily or visually restricted, the information processing device including: a detecting unit configured to detect a speaking motion of a surrounding person speaking to a user using a device that auditorily or visually restricts information from surroundings; and a specifying unit configured to specify speaking motion information indicating the speaking motion on a basis of monitored surrounding information in a case in which the speaking motion is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryouhei YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10061384
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an eyeball position estimation unit that estimates an eyeball position of a user in a pupil-corneal reflection method on the basis of a captured image including an eye of the user captured when the eye of the user looking at a display surface is irradiated with light; a discrepancy estimation unit that estimates an amount of discrepancy between an eyeball position on the display surface and a visual field center of the display surface, the eyeball position being identified on the basis of the eyeball position; and an operation instruction unit that issues an operation instruction to adjust a position of a device including the display surface on the basis of the estimated amount of discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20180196513
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to control a state of a selection candidate object, when a predetermined condition concerning a selection of the selection candidate object is determined to be satisfied based on a relation between a display position of the selection candidate object and a position towards which the user gazes or a gazing direction, by bringing the selection candidate object to a selected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: MAKI IMOTO, TAKURO NODA, RYOUHEI YASUDA