Patents by Inventor Shingo Utsuki

Shingo Utsuki 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).

  • Patent number: 12061734
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Jun Kimura, Ai Nakada, Soichiro Inatani, Takuro Noda, Kunihito Sawai, Shingo Utsuki, Kenji Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20240104850
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a reproduction control unit. The acquisition unit acquires avoidance region information about an avoidance region where at least one of entrance of a target person who is a target to whom virtual content is reproduced or entrance of a virtual object for the target person that is displayed to the target person is a target to be avoided, the avoidance region information being generated on the basis of at least one of a position of another object different from the target person or a position of a virtual object for the other object displayed to the other object. The reproduction control unit controls reproduction of the virtual content to the target person on the basis of the acquired avoidance region information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keijiroh NAGANO, Shingo UTSUKI, Mari SAITO
  • Patent number: 11935449
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. Further, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, the output control unit dynamically controls, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including, by a processor, controlling an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input. The controlling further including, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, dynamically controlling, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Ayumi Nakagawa, Shingo Utsuki
  • Publication number: 20240085250
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that enables a more effective reduction in a load imposed on a user, with the use of force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to estimate, on the basis of a state of a user, a first amount that is predicted by the user with regard to force applied to the user in relation to a tangible object, and control presentation of information to the user on the basis of the first amount and a second amount that is preliminarily registered with regard to the force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo UTSUKI, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA, Junki INOUE, Takayuki KURIHARA, Takanobu OMATA, Shin SHIROMA, Kaoru KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20220236788
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, JUN KIMURA, AI NAKADA, SOICHIRO INATANI, TAKURO NODA, KUNIHITO SAWAI, SHINGO UTSUKI, KENJI SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 11270682
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method that are able to audibly present, to a user, word-of-mouth information in accordance with the user's latent demand. The information processing device that includes a controller that performs control to estimate a latent demand on the basis of a current user condition, search for word-of-mouth information corresponding to the demand, and present the searched word-of-mouth information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Yasuhide Hosoda, Shingo Utsuki
  • Publication number: 20220050580
    Abstract: To achieve an object of effectively attracting a user's attention to an item selected on the basis of behavior of a user. An information processing apparatus as one embodiment of solving means includes a controller that outputs content information and an indicator representing an agent onto a display screen, discriminates an object of interest of the content information on the basis of behavior of a user, and moves the indicator in a direction of the object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: YUUJI TAKIMOTO, SHINGO UTSUKI, REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Patent number: 11057728
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhide Hosoda, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Utsuki
  • Publication number: 20210082392
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are able to audibly present, to a user, word-of-mouth information in accordance with the user's latent demand. [Solving mean] Proposed is an information processing device including a controller that performs control to estimate a latent demand on the basis of a current user condition, search for word-of-mouth information corresponding to the demand, and present the searched word-of-mouth information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: YUSUKE SAKAI, YASUHIDE HOSODA, SHINGO UTSUKI
  • Publication number: 20200357321
    Abstract: To make each of a plurality of users clearly perceive input acceptability. Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit configured to control an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input, in which, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, the output control unit dynamically controls, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including, by a processor, controlling an output based on a result of recognition processing for a user input, the controlling further including, in a situation where a plurality of users is present, dynamically controlling, for each of the users, an output of an executability state of the recognition processing for the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: MARI SAITO, AYUMI NAKAGAWA, SHINGO UTSUKI
  • Patent number: 10674216
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20200037094
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhide Hosoda, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Utsuki
  • Patent number: 10423381
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Manabu Fujiki, Hiroshi Sato, Junichi Nagahara
  • Patent number: 10296560
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a page feed unit configured to continuously feed pages in contents including a plurality of pages, and a display control unit configured to change the number of the pages to be displayed on a display screen according to an operation by a user when the pages are fed by the page feed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LIFINY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Fukayama, Shingo Utsuki, Fumiaki Tamehiro
  • Publication number: 20180288487
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether or not plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Patent number: 9918133
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is disclosed which achieves an easy search for a desired item. When an operation inputting section accepts a selective operation input for selection of one of plural processing functions, plural representation images individually representing plural processing object items of the processing function are displayed in an array along one direction of a display screen such that one of the representation images can be selected as a noticed representation image by an inputting operation through the operation inputting section. A decision section decides whether plural processing object items of the selected processing function are divided in a plurality of groups. If the processing object items are divided in groups, then the group name of the group to which the processing object item of the noticed representation image belongs is displayed in the proximity of the noticed representation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuto Nishizawa, Daisuke Inaishi, Ko Kusanagi, Hiroshi Sato, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Moriwaki, Satoshi Kanda, Yuji Ishimura, Shimon Sakai, Masahiro Urano
  • Publication number: 20170083278
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Manabu Fujiki, Hiroshi Sato, Junichi Nagahara
  • Patent number: 9569165
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Manabu Fujiki, Hiroshi Sato, Junichi Nagahara
  • Publication number: 20170003840
    Abstract: This application discloses systems and methods for receiving information associated with a first set of processing instructions and presenting a second icon indicating a change in status of data associated with the first set of processing instructions. A user selection of one of a first icon or the second icon may then be received. The selection of the first icon may cause execution of the first set of processing instructions, whereas selection of the second icon may cause execution of a second set of processing instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo UTSUKI, Kazuhiro HARA
  • Patent number: 9477379
    Abstract: This application discloses systems and methods for receiving information associated with a first set of processing instructions and presenting a second icon indicating a change in status of data associated with the first set of processing instructions. A user selection of one of a first icon or the second icon may then be received. The selection of the first icon may cause execution of the first set of processing instructions, whereas selection of the second icon may cause execution of a second set of processing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuhiro Hara