Patents by Inventor Takashi Ogata

Takashi Ogata 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: 10469416
    Abstract: An information processing device including a receiving unit that receives predetermined information from a first information terminal possessed by a first user and a second information terminal possessed by a second user, an action recognition unit that recognizes an action of the first user on the basis of the predetermined information received from the first information terminal, and an information transmitting unit that transmits, on the basis of the recognized action of the first user, information for determining whether or not the second information terminal possessed by the second user is to acquire the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ogata, Hideyuki Ono, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masanori Katsu
  • Publication number: 20190045751
    Abstract: [Object] To further improve the efficiency of livestock management. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a display control unit that controls display of condition information indicating conditions of livestock; an acquisition unit that acquires task information indicating a task related to the livestock, which is input on a basis of the condition information; and an output unit that outputs command information for providing a command for the task indicated by the task information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASANORI MIYAHARA, TAKASHI OGATA, MASATAKA SHINODA, NOBUHIRO KIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180357668
    Abstract: Provided is an information distribution apparatus which effectively distributes information such as advertisements. An advertisement distribution system predicts seat conditions such as a change in seat occupancy rate with time and distributes advertising information to prospective customers who can visit around the time when the seats are available. By offering more advantageous discount rates, coupons and the like to prospective customers with a short traveling time to a store in a case where seats are already available, it is possible to quickly occupy the seats and recover the seat occupancy rate in a short period of time. On the other hand, a disadvantageous offer is made to prospective customers who arrive after the time when empty seats are predicted since they do not contribute much to the recovery of the seat occupancy rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: KATSUYOSHI KANEMOTO, NAOKI IDE, NOBUHIRO OGAWA, TAKASHI OGATA, SHO TANAKA, KENTA KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180329414
    Abstract: Provided is a drive assistance device for assisting driving of a vehicle by using an automatic driving function. Assuming various conditions of the driver, a plurality of notification timings to notify of switching from an automatic driving mode to a manual driving mode is set. Notifying a driver who is drowsing at a notification timing of long premature time allows the driver to have sufficient time margin to be ready for manual driving and to shift to driving action more safely. A driver who is reading a book or operating a smartphone is expected to be able to shift to driving action immediately after a notification, and thus it is sufficient to notify at a notification timing of short premature time, which can reduce inconvenience for the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: SHINJI IGARASHI, NAOKI IDE, KENTA KAWAMOTO, TAKUYA FUJITA, TAKASHI OGATA
  • Publication number: 20180108347
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that appropriately presents a topic in consideration of a behavior of a user presenting the topic. The information processing device includes: a topic generation unit configured to generate topics with a conversation partner on the basis of a comparison result between a certain behavior of a user and comparison information regarding the behavior; and a topic suggestion unit configured to decide a topic candidate to be suggested to the user from the generated topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi OGATA, Masanori KATSU
  • Patent number: 9906113
    Abstract: Provided is a linear actuator whose entire length can be shortened while thrust thereof can be made large. The linear actuator of the present invention is provided with the following: a hollow drive magnet (11); a coil (4) disposed at either the outside or the inside of the drive magnet (11); and a return magnet (8) that is disposed at the other of the outside or the inside of the drive magnet (11), is connected to the coil (4), and returns the drive magnet (11) to the starting point. By conducting electricity to the coil (4), the drive magnet (11) or the coil (4) and the return magnet (8) move in the axial direction of the drive magnet 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro Iwaki, Takashi Ogata
  • Patent number: 9864040
    Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting a location of a terminal are provided. In various aspects, a processor in a position correction apparatus may associate a reference position with the terminal, and determine a range for the terminal based on the reference position. The processor may also associate a second position with the terminal, and determine if the second position associated with the terminal is outside the determined range for the terminal based on the reference position. Upon a determination that indicates that the second position is outside the determined range, the processor may correct the second position to a corrected position associated with the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Katsu, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Tomoharu Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 9855590
    Abstract: A steel-sheet snaking preventing device for a vertical looper includes a jack mechanism provided at each of at least two corners of a looper carriage and coupled via a metal fitting to a chain or a wire rope that pulls the looper carriage; a tilt meter configured to detect the amount of tilt of the looper carriage; a level meter configured to detect a height of the looper carriage; and a means for receiving detection signals from the tilt meter and the level meter, determining the amount of tilt of the looper carriage at which the amount of snaking of a steel sheet becomes zero, sending the determined amount of tilt of the looper carriage as a command to the jack mechanism, and controlling the amount of tilt of the looper carriage by the jack mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Ogata, Kyosuke Kasahara, Yosuke Harai, Seishi Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20170352226
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire action information indicating a detected action of a user; and a content providing unit configured to provide content that develops in accordance with a temporal or spatial sequence of the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sota MATSUZAWA, Takashi OGATA, Masashi OOKUBO
  • Publication number: 20170328726
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire action information of a user, and space information and time information that are associated with the action information; and a map representation processing unit configured to consider the time information when executing map representation of the action information on a basis of the space information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sota MATSUZAWA, Takashi OGATA, Masashi OOKUBO
  • Publication number: 20170312574
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a sensor data acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor data provided by a sensor worn by a user or mounted on a piece of equipment used by the user; an action detection unit configured to detect an action of the user on a basis of the sensor data, the action including a turn; and an information generation unit configured to generate information regarding the turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sota MATSUZAWA, Takashi OGATA, Masashi OOKUBO
  • Patent number: 9756600
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a wireless station information acquisition unit which acquires information showing wireless stations with which a terminal apparatus is capable of communicating; a clustering unit which generates a wireless station cluster by clustering the wireless stations based on a time at which the wireless stations are capable of communicating with the terminal apparatus; and a stay detection unit which detects a state in which the terminal apparatus is capable of communicating with wireless stations included in the wireless station cluster as a state in which the terminal apparatus is staying at a location corresponding to the wireless station cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ogata, Masanori Katsu
  • Publication number: 20160371044
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20160323712
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a position sensor for detecting position information, and a detection times control unit for acquiring detection accuracy information regarding detection accuracy of the position sensor based on a detection result of the position sensor, and controlling the number of detection times of the position sensor based on the acquired detection accuracy information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKUMOTO, Takashi OGATA, Masanori KATSU
  • Publication number: 20160283579
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 9398537
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a position sensor for detecting position information, and a detection times control unit for acquiring detection accuracy information regarding detection accuracy of the position sensor based on a detection result of the position sensor, and controlling the number of detection times of the position sensor based on the acquired detection accuracy information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Fukumoto, Takashi Ogata, Masanori Katsu
  • Publication number: 20160170572
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20160134714
    Abstract: An information processing system that generates commentary, the commentary including first commentary generated based on behavior information corresponding to a behavior of a user and second commentary associated with the first commentary; and outputs the commentary to be available to other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki ONO, Masanori KATSU, Masatomo KURATA, Takashi OGATA, Sota MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160126821
    Abstract: Provided is a linear actuator whose entire length can be shortened while thrust thereof can be made large. The linear actuator of the present invention is provided with the following: a hollow drive magnet (11); a coil (4) disposed at either the outside or the inside of the drive magnet (11); and a return magnet (8) that is disposed at the other of the outside or the inside of the drive magnet (11), is connected to the coil (4), and returns the drive magnet (11) to the starting point. By conducting electricity to the coil (4), the drive magnet (11) or the coil (4) and the return magnet (8) move in the axial direction of the drive magnet 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro IWAKI, Takashi OGATA
  • Publication number: 20160042474
    Abstract: [Object] To effectively award incentives to the users to allow users to share their behavior information through a user object displayed in a virtual space. [Solution] There is provided an information processing device including a processor. The processor realizes a behavior information acquisition function of acquiring first behavior information indicating a behavior of a first user, a display control function of causing a display unit to display a first user object which is generated based on the first behavior information and indicates the first user, and a reward registration function of registering a reward object in association with a second user who is different from the first user based on the first behavior information for a first time for which the second user observes the first user object via the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki ONO, Masatomo KURATA, Sota MATSUZAWA, Takashi OGATA, Masanori KATSU