Patents by Inventor Seiji Suzuki

Seiji Suzuki 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: 20170123758
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki Mori, Shunichi Kasahara, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 9569895
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit for judging an anteroposterior relationship between a shot actual object and a virtual object for each part by use of depth information, and a display control unit for displaying a virtual image in which the virtual object is projected to be overlapped on a shot image in which the actual object is shot based on the anteroposterior relationship judged by the judgment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170039629
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a display control part configured to display a human-figure virtual object image in a pose from which to extract information necessary for motion capture, the human-figure virtual object image being the object to be handled corresponding to a person targeted to be recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Shunichi KASAHARA
  • Patent number: 9557962
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki Mori, Shunichi Kasahara, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Publication number: 20160378857
    Abstract: An object classification device includes a keyword determining unit, a keyword ordering unit and a classifying unit. The keyword determining unit determines keywords for one or plural objects. The keyword ordering unit orders the plural determined keywords based on a conceptual hierarchical structure which is a structure that hierarchically represents concept of words. The classifying unit classifies the objects so as to be associated with the ordered keywords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Motoyuki TAKAAI, Hiroshi OKAMOTO, Nami TOKUNAGA, Hiroshi UMEMOTO, Takeshi NAGAMINE
  • Patent number: 9513788
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including a display control part configured to display a human-figure virtual object image in a pose from which to extract information necessary for motion capture, the human-figure virtual object image being the object to be handled corresponding to a person targeted to be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20160335230
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a detail level estimation unit that estimates a detail level of each of at least two documents, the detail level indicating degree to which a content of the document is detailed, a similarity degree estimation unit that estimates a similarity degree between two of the at least two documents, and a document relationship output unit that outputs a document relationship for the two of the at least two documents the similarity degree of which satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein in the document relationship, one of the two of the at least two documents is determined as a summarized document that shows a summary of other document of the two of the at least two documents, and the detail level of the one of the two of the at least two documents is lower than the detail level of the other of the two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Motoyuki TAKAAI, Hiroshi OKAMOTO, Takeshi NAGAMINE, Seiji SUZUKI, Hiroshi UMEMOTO
  • Patent number: 9490338
    Abstract: A silicon carbide vertical MOSFET having low ON-resistance and high blocking voltage is provided. For this, a first deposition film (2) of low concentration silicon carbide of a first conductivity type is formed on the surface of a high concentration silicon carbide substrate (1) of a first conductivity type. Formed on the first deposition film (2) is a second deposition film (31) that comprises a high concentration gate region of a second conductivity type, with a first region removed selectively. A third deposition film (32) formed on the second deposition film, which comprises a second region that is wider than the selectively removed first region, a high concentration source region (5) of a first conductivity type and a low concentration gate region (11) of a second conductivity type. A low concentration base region (4) of a first conductivity type is formed in contact with the first deposition film (2) in the first and second regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Harada, Tsutomu Yatsuo, Kenji Fukuda, Mitsuo Okamoto, Kazuhiro Adachi, Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9469129
    Abstract: Both highly reliable detection of a mark and suppression of a sheet consumption amount can be achieved when a continuous sheet is cut on an image basis after a plurality of images has been printed on the continuous sheet. For this purpose, at the time of a first surface printing operation, by accumulating correction factors obtained for a plurality of pages, a more highly reliable correction factor is obtained. Further, at the time of a second surface printing operation, by controlling a conveyance operation with the highly reliable correction factor, a cut mark is surely detected by the detecting operation of the cut mark sensor within a limited range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9400927
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an arrangement unit that arranges documents within a multidimensional space in accordance with features of the documents; a clipping unit that clips a region in which the documents are distributed, from the multidimensional space in which the documents are arranged by the arrangement unit; an extraction unit that extracts a vector indicating a closed curved surface which is the region clipped by the clipping unit; and a retrieval unit that retrieves information corresponding to the vector extracted by the extraction unit, from a storage unit that stores the vector in the multidimensional space in association with information indicating meaning of the vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Motoyuki Takaai
  • Publication number: 20160210118
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki Mori, Shunichi Kasahara, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Publication number: 20160210096
    Abstract: A method is provided for enabling sharing of data. The method comprises defining a sharing region corresponding to a portion of a surface of an apparatus. The method further comprises enabling sharing of data with an external device in response to user input associating the data with the sharing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Shunichi Kasahara, Yasuyuki Koga, Seiji Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160182854
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a control device to control switching between a first display state and a second display state according to a trigger operation that is a specific operation of a user, wherein the trigger operation is based on operation information indicating an operation performed by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160162732
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an arrangement unit that arranges documents within a multidimensional space in accordance with features of the documents; a clipping unit that clips a region in which the documents are distributed, from the multidimensional space in which the documents are arranged by the arrangement unit; an extraction unit that extracts a vector indicating a closed curved surface which is the region clipped by the clipping unit; and a retrieval unit that retrieves information corresponding to the vector extracted by the extraction unit, from a storage unit that stores the vector in the multidimensional space in association with information indicating meaning of the vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Motoyuki TAKAAI
  • Publication number: 20160134938
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a display control device that can allow users who are concurrently watching and listening to content to know the scale of the users with ease and allow the users to smoothly communicate with the other users with ease. [Solution] There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Reiko MIYAZAKI, Takayuki KANEKO, Yukihito ONO, Naoki SAITO, Seiji SUZUKI, Osamu SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20160132592
    Abstract: There is provided information processing apparatus. An extraction unit extracts features of a selected document from an inverted index in which documents and features of the documents are associated. A retrieval unit retrieves a document having any one of the features extracted by the extraction unit by the inverted index. A selection unit selects a feature of the features corresponding to a plurality of retrieval results by the retrieval unit, the feature having a high effect of narrowing down the retrieval results. A presentation unit presents a combination of the features selected by the selection unit, as a retrieval condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Motoyuki TAKAAI, Seiji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9323351
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a display, a touch acquisition unit, a rotation acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The touch acquisition unit may be configured to receive a proximity signal indicative of a user input to a touch panel of the information processing apparatus. The rotation acquisition unit may be configured to receive a rotation signal indicative of a rotation of the information processing apparatus. The display control unit may be configured to generate a first signal to cause the display to display an image. Additionally, the display control unit may be configured to, when the rotation signal indicates a rotation while the proximity signal indicates a user input, generate a second signal to cause the display to change the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyazawa, Yasushi Okumura, Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9299349
    Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki Mori, Shunichi Kasahara, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 9286722
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a comparing unit comparing a size of at least one of virtual clothing or accessories based on dimensions set in advance and a size of a subject that has been captured; and a display control unit reshaping at least one of the virtual clothing or accessories in accordance with a comparison result produced by the comparing unit and displaying at least one of the reshaped virtual clothing or accessories overlaid on the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Suzuki
  • Patent number: D785669
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Nishizawa, Seiji Suzuki, Masao Kondo