Patents by Inventor Takashi Imamura

Takashi Imamura 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: 20250218107
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a position of an exhibit in a virtual space; a comment registration unit that registers a comment on the exhibit in association with a specific position in the virtual space; a comment arrangement unit that disposes the comment in a vicinity of the exhibit on the basis of attribute information of the comment, position information indicating a position of an avatar present in the virtual space, and position information of the exhibit; and an image output unit that outputs an image of the virtual space from a specific viewpoint corresponding to the avatar on the basis of the comment that has been disposed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a device that provides a virtual exhibition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sho OGURA, Nami FURUHASHI, Takashi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250144737
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a projection weld joint according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first energizing step of energizing a steel sheet and a steel member so as to form a plurality of joint portions by projection welding a steel member to a first surface of a steel sheet that is a non-coated steel sheet or a zinc-type-coated steel sheet, in which the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1.5 GPa or more, and the steel sheet has a Ceq of 0.30 mass % or more, and the manufacturing method further includes: a cooling step of quenching each of the plurality of joint portions; and a second energizing step of further energizing the steel sheet and the steel member so as to temper an end region in each of the plurality of joint portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Masanori YASUYAMA, Masafumi AZUMA, Gen MURAYAMA, Takashi IMAMURA, Masatoshi TOKUNAGA, Koichi OI, Yoshinori OYAMA, Osamu KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250128315
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a riveted joint includes: causing a shaft portion of a steel rivet having the shaft portion and a head portion to pass through through-holes of a plurality of overlaid sheet members; sandwiching the rivet between a pair of electrodes in axial direction of the rivet; applying a force to the rivet and energizing the rivet with the electrodes to form a deformed portion at a distal end of the shaft portion; and cooling the rivet. In the rivet after cooling, a Vickers hardness HB of the head portion satisfies 130?HB?330, and a Vickers hardness HA of the deformed portion, a thickness TA of the deformed portion, a Vickers hardness HJ of a portion of the shaft portion at center in axial direction and at center in radial direction, diameter DJ of the shaft portion, a Vickers hardness HB of the head portion, and a thickness TB of the head portion satisfy HJ×DJ?4.7×HB×TB and HA×TA?1.3×HB×TB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Toshiyuki MANABE, Atsushi ONO, Koji AKIOKA, Takashi IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 12223609
    Abstract: A right holder information checking unit (55) (checking unit) of a content checking device (12) (information processing device) checks whether content (45) posted by a poster (40) to a virtual space in which one or more pieces of content can be shared has right holder information indicating that the content is appropriate content permitted to be posted by the right holder of the content (45).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Takashi Imamura, Mihee Kang, Masatoshi Fukuda, Yoshio Konno, Junichi Tanaka, Takuma Domae
  • Publication number: 20250033137
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a projection weld joint according to the present disclosure includes: pressing a projection portion of a steel member having the projection portion on a plane onto a surface of a hot-stamping steel sheet, wherein the hot-stamping steel sheet has an Al-based plating layer on the surface and has a tensile strength of 1.5 GPa or more; applying first energization to the hot-stamping steel sheet, the projection portion, and the steel member to make the projection portion serve as a projection weld; quenching the projection weld; and applying second energization to the quenched projection weld to temper edges of the projection weld while keeping a central part of the projection weld quenched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori YASUYAMA, Yasuaki NAITO, Takashi IMAMURA, Masatoshi TOKUNAGA, Naoaki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20250030924
    Abstract: An HMD (head-mounted display) creates and displays a video of a first room (e.g., a pre-playing lobby) which is a virtual space where a plurality of users who are to view predetermined content gather before the content is played (S11). The HMD creates and displays a video of a second room (e.g., a live concert place) which is a virtual space where the content is played (S14). The HMD creates and displays a video of a third room (e.g., a post-playing lobby) which is a virtual space where the plurality of users gather after the content is played (S16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventor: TAKASHI IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 12071046
    Abstract: In a pair of side walls of an upper rail, a pair of right and left slits extending from lower ends of the side walls to an intermediate position are formed. Right and left side edges of at least one reinforcing plate fit into the pair of left and right slits. The upper rail includes a pair of right and left tongue pieces formed on the side walls as to be positioned higher than the slits, and the reinforcing plate includes a pair of right and left recesses formed at the upper portions of the left and right side edges and with which the pair of right and left tongue pieces are engaged. The tongue-piece enters the recess in a state where an upper end surface abuts an upper tapered surface of the recess and is bent into an S-shape in the recess and engaged with the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Imamura, Takuro Sato
  • Publication number: 20240200587
    Abstract: A joint structure according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first metal sheet on which a cylindrical first rising portion is formed; at least one target material in which a through hole into which the first rising portion is inserted is formed and which is joined to the first metal sheet; and a joint member which is inserted into the first rising portion and joins the first metal sheet and the target material which are superimposed on each other to each other, wherein the joint member has a shaft portion which is inserted inside the first rising portion, and a first surface which is a surface opposite to a surface facing the first metal sheet of both surfaces of the target material and a tip end portion of the first rising portion are at different positions in an axial direction of the first rising portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Koichi HAMADA, Masanobu KAMO, Takashi IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11880631
    Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus for deriving a level of immersion in content includes a state data acquisition part configured to acquire state data including data indicating a user's first reaction and data indicating a user's second reaction during image display of the content, a first analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the first reaction to derive a first immersion evaluation value based on the user's first reaction, a second analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the second reaction to derive a second immersion evaluation value based on the user's second reaction, a weight setting part configured to set a weight value for each of the first and second immersion evaluation values, and an immersion level deriving part configured to derive the level of immersion in the content from the first and second immersion evaluation values and from the respective weight values thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20230177787
    Abstract: A right holder information checking unit (55) (checking unit) of a content checking device (12) (information processing device) checks whether content (45) posted by a poster (40) to a virtual space in which one or more pieces of content can be shared has right holder information indicating that the content is appropriate content permitted to be posted by the right holder of the content (45).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi NAKATA, Takashi IMAMURA, Mihee KANG, Masatoshi FUKUDA, Yoshio KONNO, Junichi TANAKA, Takuma DOMAE
  • Patent number: 11603016
    Abstract: A gearbox includes a first divided body and a second divided body, and a shaft projection is formed on and a through-hole is formed in divided surfaces of the first divided body and the second divided body. A second recess on the second divided body side includes a second arc portion formed concentrically with an axis center of a worm wheel, and an upper linear portion and a lower linear portion which extend linearly toward the first divided body side from both ends of the second arc portion. A first recess on the first divided body side includes a first linear portion which extends linearly in a direction orthogonal to an intersecting direction, and an upper arc portion and a lower arc portion which are formed continuous to both ends of the first linear portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11601639
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus for causing a plurality of virtual screens to display images, the information processing apparatus including a user information acquisition section configured to acquire user information indicating at least one of a user preference and a user attribute, an image determination section configured to determine images to be displayed on the respective virtual screens according to the user information, and a display processing section configured to cause the virtual screens to display the respective images determined by the image determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11551645
    Abstract: A live streaming system 10 identifies, with regard to a plurality of users each wearing an HMD 100 to watch same content, types of emotions that the plurality of users are experiencing based on information associated with the plurality of users, the information being detected by a predetermined apparatus. The live streaming system 10 generates, as an image to be displayed on the HMD 100 of a certain user of the plurality of users, an image including the content and at least one of a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of users. The live streaming system 10 changes display appearances of the plurality of avatars depending on the types of emotions that the plurality of users are experiencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Imamura, Masashi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20220305962
    Abstract: A gearbox includes a first divided body and a second divided body, and a shaft projection is formed on and a through-hole is formed in divided surfaces of the first divided body and the second divided body. A second recess on the second divided body side includes a second arc portion formed concentrically with an axis center of a worm wheel, and an upper linear portion and a lower linear portion which extend linearly toward the first divided body side from both ends of the second arc portion. A first recess on the first divided body side includes a first linear portion which extends linearly in a direction orthogonal to an intersecting direction, and an upper arc portion and a lower arc portion which are formed continuous to both ends of the first linear portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220234477
    Abstract: In a pair of side walls of an upper rail, a pair of right and left slits extending from lower ends of the side walls to an intermediate position are formed. Right and left side edges of at least one reinforcing plate fit into the pair of left and right slits. The upper rail includes a pair of right and left tongue pieces formed on the side walls as to be positioned higher than the slits, and the reinforcing plate includes a pair of right and left recesses formed at the upper portions of the left and right side edges and with which the pair of right and left tongue pieces are engaged. The tongue-piece enters the recess in a state where an upper end surface abuts an upper tapered surface of the recess and is bent into an S-shape in the recess and engaged with the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi IMAMURA, Takuro SATO
  • Patent number: 11287658
    Abstract: A picture processing device includes a picture acquisition section that acquires data on a moving picture indicating a space to be viewed, an image extraction section that extracts an image of a target from a frame of the moving picture, and a magnification control section that causes the extracted image of the target to be displayed at a position corresponding to the target, at a magnification that is different from that of a remaining image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Takashi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220012006
    Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus for deriving a level of immersion in content includes a state data acquisition part configured to acquire state data including data indicating a user's first reaction and data indicating a user's second reaction during image display of the content, a first analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the first reaction to derive a first immersion evaluation value based on the user's first reaction, a second analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the second reaction to derive a second immersion evaluation value based on the user's second reaction, a weight setting part configured to set a weight value for each of the first and second immersion evaluation values, and an immersion level deriving part configured to derive the level of immersion in the content from the first and second immersion evaluation values and from the respective weight values thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220014729
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus for causing a plurality of virtual screens to display images, the information processing apparatus including a user information acquisition section configured to acquire user information indicating at least one of a user preference and a user attribute, an image determination section configured to determine images to be displayed on the respective virtual screens according to the user information, and a display processing section configured to cause the virtual screens to display the respective images determined by the image determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11173809
    Abstract: In an electric seat slide device of the present invention, a rear-side bracket 27 includes a first support member 41 fixed to a lower rail 2, a second support member 42 fixed to the lower rail 2 together with the first support member 41, a female screw member 43 as a first nut member through which a screw shaft 4 passes, and a second nut member 44 through which the screw shaft 4 passes. A pair of side wall portions 47 extending along a lower rail longitudinal direction and a vertical wall portion 62 of the second support member 42 which is formed orthogonal to the straight line along the lower rail longitudinal direction are sandwiched between the female screw member 43 and the second nut member 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20210158781
    Abstract: A live streaming system 10 identifies, with regard to a plurality of users each wearing an HMD 100 to watch same content, types of emotions that the plurality of users are experiencing based on information associated with the plurality of users, the information being detected by a predetermined apparatus. The live streaming system 10 generates, as an image to be displayed on the HMD 100 of a certain user of the plurality of users, an image including the content and at least one of a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of users. The live streaming system 10 changes display appearances of the plurality of avatars depending on the types of emotions that the plurality of users are experiencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi IMAMURA, Masashi NAKATA