Patents by Inventor Takashi Seno

Takashi Seno 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: 20250191301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes a control unit (130). The control unit (130) acquires first three-dimensional information related to an occupancy probability of an object in a real space and second three-dimensional information related to an estimation result of a surface shape of the object. The control unit (130) classifies the object based on the first three-dimensional information and floor surface information related to a floor surface in the real space. The control unit (130) highlights the surface of the object classified based on the second three-dimensional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu KAWASHIMA, Daiki YAMANAKA, Takashi SENO
  • Patent number: 12283006
    Abstract: A content display device that functions as an information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires template data defining relative relationships between a first real object, a second real object, and a virtual object. The determination unit determines the relative relationship between the first real object and the second real object from three-dimensional data of a real space detected by the sensor. The display control unit controls the display device to arrange the virtual object on or near the first real object so as to face the second real object, based on the relative relationships and the template data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Ishikawa, Gaku Narita, Tomu Tahara, Takashi Seno
  • Patent number: 12217370
    Abstract: A template AR content can be favorably used in an application scene different from the scene at the time of creation. An environment map of an augmented reality application scene is generated. An abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is generated on the basis of the environment map of the augmented reality scene. The abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is compared with an abstract representation of a template augmented reality generated on the basis of a template augmented reality environment map, and template augmented reality content is mapped to the augmented reality application scene on the basis of a result of the comparison. Thus, augmented reality content for display is generated. For example, the abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene or the abstract representation of the template augmented reality can be edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomu Tahara, Tomoya Ishikawa, Gaku Narita, Takashi Seno
  • Patent number: 12217409
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit that stores first information indicating at least one of a structure or a physical property of a first object obtained by capturing a real physical body into a virtual space; and a specifying unit that specifies an arrangement of a second object indicating a virtual object in the virtual space so that the arrangement is capable of expressing an interaction with the first object, based on an arrangement condition of the second object and on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Ishikawa, Yohsuke Kaji, Gaku Narita, Takashi Seno
  • Publication number: 20240386693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes a control unit (130). A control unit (130) estimates a person region including a user (U) in distance information generated by a distance measuring device provided in a device (200) used by the user (U), the person region being estimated based on a user posture estimated using a sensor (220) provided in the device (200). The control unit (130) updates environment information around the user (U) based on the person region and the distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi SENO, Daiki YAMANAKA, Manabu KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240378807
    Abstract: There is provided a device and the like that reduce the influence of an error set in each voxel in a three-dimensional grid map, during a process of transforming the three-dimensional grid map into a two-dimensional grid map. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a transform unit. The transform unit performs a convolution process on a three-dimensional grid map and a template. The three-dimensional grid map and the template include a plurality of three-dimensional unit cells each having a value set therein. The transform unit performs the convolution process, to transform the three-dimensional grid map into a two-dimensional grid map including a plurality of two-dimensional unit cells each having a value set therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki YAMANAKA, Takashi SENO, Manabu KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240221275
    Abstract: A determination unit determines whether or not a current input image includes an inserted object that is not included in a real space map on the basis of the real space map and the current input image. An update processing unit executes first map update processing of updating the real space map according to current position/pose information and past position/pose information on the basis of a determination result that the current input image does not include the inserted object, and executes second map update processing different from the first map update processing, the second map update processing updating the real space map according to the current position/pose information on the basis of the determination result that the current input image includes the inserted object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: GAKU NARITA, TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Patent number: 12008702
    Abstract: A configuration that causes an agent such as a character in a virtual world or a robot in the real world to perform actions by imitating actions of a human is to be achieved. An environment map including type and layout information about objects in the real world is generated, actions of a person acting in the real world are analyzed, time/action/environment map correspondence data including the environment map and time-series data of action analysis data is generated, a learning process using the time/action/environment map correspondence data is performed, an action model having the environment map as an input value and a result of action estimation as an output value is generated, and action control data for a character in a virtual world or a robot is generated with the use of the action model. For example, an agent is made to perform an action by imitating an action of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Seno, Yohsuke Kaji, Tomoya Ishikawa, Gaku Narita
  • Publication number: 20240184498
    Abstract: It is desired to provide a technology capable of more efficiently supporting a user's action. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a presentation control unit that controls presentation of information regarding an action target to a first user on the basis of satisfaction of a predetermined condition; and an information acquisition unit that acquires a first action of the first user after the information regarding the action target is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, GAKU NARITA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Publication number: 20240157245
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and resources for automatically recognizing an allowed region in order to eliminate time and effort required every time the allowed region is to be designated. The information processing apparatus includes a sorting section, a region identifying section, and an allowed region determining section. The sorting section sorts multiple planes included in space information representing an object existing in a three-dimensional space by use of the multiple planes, into at least a plane corresponding to a base and a plane corresponding to an obstacle. The region identifying section calculates a base region pertaining to the plane corresponding to the base and an obstacle region pertaining to the plane corresponding to the obstacle. The allowed region determining section calculates, on the basis of the base region and the obstacle region, an allowed region in which a target object existing in the three-dimensional space is allowed to be positioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki YAMANAKA, Takashi SENO, Manabu KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230112368
    Abstract: A content display device (20) that functions as an information processing device includes: an acquisition unit (251), a determination unit (252), and a display control unit (253). The acquisition unit (251) acquires template data defining relative relationships between a first real object, a second real object, and a virtual object. The determination unit (252) determines the relative relationship between the first real object and the second real object from three-dimensional data of a real space detected by the sensor. The display control unit (253) controls the display device to arrange the virtual object on or near the first real object so as to face the second real object, based on the relative relationships and the template data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, GAKU NARITA, TOMU TAHARA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Patent number: 11605207
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling display of AR content that has been generated for a predetermined environment and is applied to the real environment. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology generates a template environment map showing the environment of a three-dimensional space that is to be a template and in which a predetermined object exists, and generates template content that is a template to be used in generating display content for displaying an object superimposed on the environment of a real space, the template content including information about the object disposed at a position in the three-dimensional space, the position having a predetermined positional relationship with the predetermined object. The present technology can be applied to a transmissive HMD, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Narita, Takashi Seno, Tomoya Ishikawa, Yohsuke Kaji
  • Publication number: 20220414983
    Abstract: An object detection unit 31 detects, for example, a moving object and a detection target object that coincides with a registered object registered in an object database from an input image. A map processing unit 32 updates information of an area corresponding to the detected object in a 3D map including a signed distance, a weight parameter, and an object ID label according to an object detection result by the object detection unit 31. For example, when the moving object is detected, the map processing unit 32 initializes information of an area corresponding to the moving object in the 3D map. The map processing unit 32 registers an object map of the detected moving object in the object database. When the detection target object is detected, the map processing unit 32 converts an object map of the registered object that coincides with the detection target object according to a posture of the detection target object and integrates the same with the 3D map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: GAKU NARITA, TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, TAKASHI SENO, TOMU TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220392174
    Abstract: A template AR content can be favorably used in an application scene different from the scene at the time of creation. An environment map of an augmented reality application scene is generated. An abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is generated on the basis of the environment map of the augmented reality scene. The abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene is compared with an abstract representation of a template augmented reality generated on the basis of a template augmented reality environment map, and template augmented reality content is mapped to the augmented reality application scene on the basis of a result of the comparison. Thus, augmented reality content for display is generated. For example, the abstract representation of the augmented reality application scene or the abstract representation of the template augmented reality can be edited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: TOMU TAHARA, TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, GAKU NARITA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Publication number: 20220237769
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit that stores first information indicating at least one of a structure or a physical property of a first object obtained by capturing a real physical body into a virtual space; and a specifying unit that specifies an arrangement of a second object indicating a virtual object in the virtual space so that the arrangement is capable of expressing an interaction with the first object, based on an arrangement condition of the second object and on the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, YOHSUKE KAJI, GAKU NARITA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Publication number: 20220215609
    Abstract: A configuration that causes an agent such as a character in a virtual world or a robot in the real world to perform actions by imitating actions of a human is to be achieved. An environment map including type and layout information about objects in the real world is generated, actions of a person acting in the real world are analyzed, time/action/environment map correspondence data including the environment map and time-series data of action analysis data is generated, a learning process using the time/action/environment map correspondence data is performed, an action model having the environment map as an input value and a result of action estimation as an output value is generated, and action control data for a character in a virtual world or a robot is generated with the use of the action model. For example, an agent is made to perform an action by imitating an action of a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SENO, Yohsuke KAJI, Tomoya ISHIKAWA, Gaku NARITA
  • Publication number: 20220215677
    Abstract: An information processing device (30) includes: an estimation unit (325) that estimates an operable part among a plurality of parts of a first object obtained by capturing a real item into a virtual space; and a display control unit (326) that controls a display device (20) to display a motion of the part operated by a second object indicating a virtual item on the basis of operation information of the second object with respect to the first object and a first piece of information indicating a result of the estimation unit (325).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: YOHSUKE KAJI, TOMOYA ISHIKAWA, GAKU NARITA, TAKASHI SENO
  • Publication number: 20220108533
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling display of AR content that has been generated for a predetermined environment and is applied to the real environment. The information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology generates a template environment map showing the environment of a three-dimensional space that is to be a template and in which a predetermined object exists, and generates template content that is a template to be used in generating display content for displaying an object superimposed on the environment of a real space, the template content including information about the object disposed at a position in the three-dimensional space, the position having a predetermined positional relationship with the predetermined object. The present technology can be applied to a transmissive HMD, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku NARITA, Takashi SENO, Tomoya ISHIKAWA, Yohsuke KAJI
  • Patent number: 11072070
    Abstract: A trajectory planning apparatus including a joint axis classification unit for classifying a plurality of joint axes of a robot into axis groups, according to joint axis classification information for classifying into the axis groups including at least a path search axis group, a path search unit for searching for a path of an angle of the joint axis classified into the path search axis group that minimizes an evaluation function for evaluating a planed trajectory, based on trajectory start point information representing a posture of the robot at a start point of the planed trajectory and trajectory endpoint information representing a posture of the robot at an end point of the planned trajectory, and an axis group angle calculation unit for calculating an angle of the joint axis classified into each axis group other than the path search axis group during the search of the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Seno, Daisuke Tsutsumi, Daiki Kajita, Nobuaki Nakasu
  • Publication number: 20190275675
    Abstract: A trajectory planning apparatus including a joint axis classification unit for classifying a plurality of joint axes of a robot into axis groups, according to joint axis classification information for classifying into the axis groups including at least a path search axis group, a path search unit for searching for a path of an angle of the joint axis classified into the path search axis group that minimizes an evaluation function for evaluating a planed trajectory, based on trajectory start point information representing a posture of the robot at a start point of the planed trajectory and trajectory endpoint information representing a posture of the robot at an end point of the planned trajectory, and an axis group angle calculation unit for calculating an angle of the joint axis classified into each axis group other than the path search axis group during the search of the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi SENO, Daisuke TSUTSUMI, Daiki KAJITA, Nobuaki NAKASU