Patents by Inventor Shigefumi Tamura
Shigefumi Tamura 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: 11080310Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Patent number: 10572073Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of inputting information input by a plurality of users to targets manipulated by the users even in a situation in which the plurality of users perform manipulations at the same time, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to identify and acquire input information from each of a plurality of target regions serving as acquisition sources of the input information, for each of the target regions; and a control unit configured to associate each of at least one or more applications with any of the plurality of target regions, and allocate the input information acquired from the target region to the application associated with the target region.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Tetsuo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10554829Abstract: An information processing device capable of sharing photographed images while protecting the subject's privacy is provided. The information processing device includes: a photographing-related information acquisition unit configured to acquire image data obtained by photographing a subject or photographing information associated with the image data; a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data serving as information related to an operation of a predetermined moving object; and a processing unit configured to evaluate a relevance between the subject and the moving object based on the image data or the photographing information and based on the log data.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Itaru Shimizu
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Patent number: 10545623Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive display position designation information indicating a display position of a window from another information processing device; and a control unit configured to perform control of displaying a window at the display position indicated by the display position designation information in a display area of a display unit. According to the present disclosure, an information processing device can receive display position designation information from another information processing device and display a window at a display position indicated by the display position designation information. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, a user can designate a display position of a window to be displayed on an information processing device using another information processing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Yusuke Shimizu, Masaki Kasahara, Kenji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 10545716Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to make it possible to share various kinds of information in a more appropriate form between remote sites, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first control information for causing display information to be displayed, the display information indicating a real object placed in a first region in which a screen shared by a plurality of devices is displayed; and a generating unit configured to generate second control information for causing a display image in which the display information indicating the real object is superimposed on the screen to be displayed in a second region different from the first region, on a basis of the acquired first control information.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Tetsuo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10541006Abstract: There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Itaru Shimizu, Ryosuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20190130944Abstract: There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi TAMURA, Itaru SHIMIZU, Ryosuke NOMURA
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Patent number: 10181337Abstract: There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Itaru Shimizu, Ryosuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20180322145Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi KIKUCHI, Toshihiko KAWAI, Atsushi KURIBAYASHI, Akira TANGE, Shigefumi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20180279004Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a data processing unit configured to decide recommended content on a basis of a user profile of a content-viewing user, and position information of a content-providing apparatus operated by at least one content-providing user different from the content-viewing user. The data processing unit transmits the decided recommended content to a content-outputting apparatus of the content-viewing user, and transmits product information about a product associated with displayed content on the content-outputting apparatus to the content-outputting apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kei TAKAHASHI, Masashi TAKEDA, Shigefumi TAMURA
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Patent number: 10037342Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20180203661Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to make it possible to share various kinds of information in a more appropriate form between remote sites, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first control information for causing display information to be displayed, the display information indicating a real object placed in a first region in which a screen shared by a plurality of devices is displayed; and a generating unit configured to generate second control information for causing a display image in which the display information indicating the real object is superimposed on the screen to be displayed in a second region different from the first region, on a basis of the acquired first control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi TAMURA, Ryosuke NOMURA, Tetsuo IKEDA
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Publication number: 20180188840Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of inputting information input by a plurality of users to targets manipulated by the users even in a situation in which the plurality of users perform manipulations at the same time, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to identify and acquire input information from each of a plurality of target regions serving as acquisition sources of the input information, for each of the target regions; and a control unit configured to associate each of at least one or more applications with any of the plurality of target regions, and allocate the input information acquired from the target region to the application associated with the target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi TAMURA, Ryosuke NOMURA, Tetsuo IKEDA
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Publication number: 20170126907Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device capable of sharing photographed images while protecting the subject's privacy. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a photographing-related information acquisition unit configured to acquire image data obtained by photographing a subject or photographing information associated with the image data; a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data serving as information related to an operation of a predetermined moving object; and a processing unit configured to evaluate a relevance between the subject and the moving object based on the image data or the photographing information and based on the log data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: SHIGEFUMI TAMURA, RYOSUKE NOMURA, ITARU SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9600931Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a control unit that controls generation of image information of three-dimensional space based on position information indicating a position of a terminal device and orientation information indicating an orientation of the terminal device, and an obtaining unit that obtains a request for a change related to the generation of the image information. The control unit controls the generation in a manner that first image information of the three-dimensional space corresponding to the position and the orientation is generated, and when obtaining the request, the control unit controls the generation in a manner that second image information of the three-dimensional space corresponding to the position, the orientation, and the change is generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Tange, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Megumi Kikiuchi, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20170047095Abstract: There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Itaru Shimizu, Ryosuke Nomura
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Publication number: 20160231872Abstract: [Object] A technology of designating a display position of a window to be displayed on an information processing device using another information processing device has been demanded. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive display position designation information indicating a display position of a window from another information processing device; and a control unit configured to perform control of displaying a window at the display position indicated by the display position designation information in a display area of a display unit. According to the present disclosure, an information processing device can receive display position designation information from another information processing device and display a window at a display position indicated by the display position designation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Shigefumi TAMURA, Ryosuke NOMURA, Yusuke SHIMIZU, Masaki KASAHARA, Kenji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 9407952Abstract: Provided is a control device including a detector configured to detect use of an application on a communication terminal, and a controller configured to control recording processing related to content that is being output from a content output device associated with the communication terminal in accordance with a detection result obtained by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Megumi Kikuchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Akira Tange, Akira Ishizuka, Shogo Kawata, Akinori Kamoda
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Publication number: 20150254275Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an action history acquiring unit configured to acquire action history information on a user, the action history information being accumulated in a predetermined time frame, an attribute score calculating unit configured to calculate an attribute score of the user for one or more attributes in an attribute group, the attribute score being based on the action history information, and an object generating unit configured to generate an object on the basis of the attribute score, the object representing the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Megumi Kikuchi, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Akira Tange, Shigefumi Tamura
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Publication number: 20150213642Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a control unit that controls generation of image information of three-dimensional space based on position information indicating a position of a terminal device and orientation information indicating an orientation of the terminal device, and an obtaining unit that obtains a request for a change related to the generation of the image information. The control unit controls the generation in a manner that first image information of the three-dimensional space corresponding to the position and the orientation is generated, and when obtaining the request, the control unit controls the generation in a manner that second image information of the three-dimensional space corresponding to the position, the orientation, and the change is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Akira Tange, Toshihiko Kawai, Atsushi Kuribayashi, Megumi Kikiuchi, Shigefumi Tamura