Patents by Inventor Seiichi Takamura
Seiichi Takamura 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).
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Patent number: 9507840Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Kei Tateno
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Publication number: 20160287993Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a game server carrying out actions, including: generating a selection screen that presents a plurality of reproduction data items, each for reproducing a state of a respective point in time during execution of a game and allowing a user of a game device to select one of the reproduction data items, each reproduction data item representing a respective state of the game achieved by the user while engaged in game play on the game device, the selection screen presenting a first reproduction data item, which is one of the plurality of reproduction data items, in association with a second reproduction data item, wherein the selection screen provides an indication to the user of whether the second reproduction data item reproduces a state of a point in time at which the game has progressed with reference to the state reproduced by the first reproduction data item; and transmitting the generated selection screen to the game device over a network such that the game device may displayType: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Kazuki Ohara, Hideaki Watanabe
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Publication number: 20160255164Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9393489Abstract: Provided is a game device capable of displaying, when presenting a plurality of reproduction data items to a user, a selection screen that allows the user to easily recognize a relationship among the reproduction data items. The game device displays, on a display device, a selection screen that presents a plurality of reproduction data items for reproducing a state of a point in time during execution of a game and allows a user to select one of the reproduction data items, the selection screen presenting a first reproduction data item, which is one of the plurality of reproduction data items, in association with a second reproduction data item, which reproduces a state of a point in time at which the game has progressed from the state reproduced by the first reproduction data item.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Kazuki Ohara, Hideaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 9369535Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20160125324Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that improve a user's degree of satisfaction in a seat or area for viewing an event. In step S102, matching between a feature of each seat assigned to a user in a target event and a feature of a user is performed. Then, a target user who is a target for recommending each seat of the target event is selected. In step S104, a recommended seat and the target event are recommended to a selected target user. The present technology can be applied to a system that performs recommendation of an event, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yutaka KASAMI, Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO, Masashi SEKINO
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Publication number: 20160055418Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a program that enable information related to an event to be presented to each user at an appropriate timing. A server includes: a rule setting unit which sets a rule for setting a presentation timing for presenting event information related to each event for each user; a presentation timing setting unit which sets the presentation timing of the event information for each user based on the set rule; and a presentation control unit which performs a control in a manner that the event information is presented to each user at the set presentation timing. The present technology can be applied to a server that presents event information, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9230352Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide graphical trends of posts regarding a posting subject and additional information. The apparatus includes a collector that collects posts regarding a posting subject that proceeds over time. A counting unit is included that counts a number of collected posts for each of different classes of posts. A display controller causes graphs to be displayed along a time-axis illustrating time-wise trends in the posts for each class together with additional information. The additional information is information that includes at least one of posts at respective times and information regarding the posting subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20150331922Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Kei TATENO
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Patent number: 9135368Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Kei Tateno
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Patent number: 9088811Abstract: An information providing system for accurately providing a user with information that matches the user at a small calculating cost. The system includes a feature vector generating unit for generating a feature vector of each of a plurality of persons, and a user cluster generating unit for classifying the plurality of persons into a plurality of clusters based on the feature vector of each of the plurality of persons. The system selects at least one of the plurality of clusters based on a feature vector of a specified person, and outputs information related to the selected cluster.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Hideaki Watanabe, Hirotoshi Maegawa
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Publication number: 20150154856Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9032044Abstract: A search management unit or a data acquisition unit acquires information according to experience contents of a provision destination user to which information is provided. A transition data identifying unit identifies information according to experience contents of a provision source user being a user whose experience contents are brought into correspondence with the experience contents of the provision destination user. An information providing unit provides the provision destination user with the information according to the experience contents of the provision source user. With the above-mentioned configuration, it is possible to promote sharing of experiences among a plurality of users.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Takayuki Ishida
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Patent number: 9015633Abstract: A data management apparatus includes a storage device operative to store positional information on objects in a data element space, that is created by organizing a plurality of data elements into a plurality of categories, assigning a subspace to each of the plurality of categories, placing a plurality of subspaces in a multidimensional space, and distributing, in each of the subspaces respectively assigned to the plurality of categories, the objects representing data elements belonging to the associated category; a display unit operative to establish a viewing position and a viewing direction in the data element space, and to generate and display an image of the data element space by referring to the storage device and by rendering the objects located in the data element space; and a control unit operative to acknowledge an instruction for updating the viewing position or viewing direction so as to update them.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Takayuki Ishida
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Patent number: 8981941Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20140146052Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide graphical trends of posts regarding a posting subject and additional information. The apparatus includes a collector that collects posts regarding a posting subject that proceeds over time. A counting unit is included that counts a number of collected posts for each of different classes of posts. A display controller causes graphs to be displayed along a time-axis illustrating time-wise trends in the posts for each class together with additional information. The additional information is information that includes at least one of posts at respective times and information regarding the posting subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20130339376Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Kei TATENO
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Publication number: 20130332410Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a DB updating unit updating an action pattern database used to detect an action pattern of a user based on a sensor detection result, a text information acquiring unit acquiring text information which the user inputs in a device, and a text information analyzing unit acquiring information related to an action pattern from the text information. In a case where the information related to the action pattern is acquired from the text information, the DB updating unit updates the action pattern database using the acquired information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuharu ASANO, Seiichi Takamura
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Publication number: 20130321157Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20130325959Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano