Patents by Inventor Takayasu Kon

Takayasu Kon 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: 9256284
    Abstract: There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma
  • Patent number: 9245389
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to include a first display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a first image from a user viewpoint, which is captured by a first imaging unit, is displayed on a display unit or control is performed in a manner that the display unit is transmissive, and a second display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a second image captured by a second imaging unit including a user within an angle of view is displayed on the display unit, and a switching control unit configured to perform control in response to an instruction from the user in a manner that a display control mode of the display control unit is switched from the first display control mode to the second display control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma, Yuki Koga, Kohei Asada
  • Publication number: 20160005329
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: an estimation unit configured to estimate a used quantity of at least one of an ingredient to be cooked and a seasoning used in cooking, on the basis of a signal detected by a sensor; an index computation unit configured to compute a prescribed cooking index according to the estimated result by the estimation unit; and a notification control unit configured to perform control to issue a notification of the cooking index computed by the index computation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Yasunori KAMADA, Yuki KOGA, Tomoya ONUMA, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Takayasu KON, Akira TANGE
  • Publication number: 20150379892
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to obtain a captured image of food, transmit the captured image of food, receive, from a data providing device, at least one indication of at least one ingredient included within the food of the captured image, and initiate a displaying of the at least one indication to a user, in association with the food of the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Yuki KOGA, Yasunori KAMADA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Takayasu KON, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE, Hiroyuki HANAYA
  • Publication number: 20150356980
    Abstract: There is provided a storage control device including: a filter detecting unit configured to detect a voice signal estimation filter for estimating a first voice signal heard by a specific user himself/herself; an estimation unit configured to estimate the first voice signal heard by the specific user himself/herself, on the basis of a voice signal including a second voice signal of the specific user collected by an air conduction sound collecting unit in accordance with the voice signal estimation filter detected by the filter detecting unit; and a storage control unit configured to cause a storage unit to store the first voice signal estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Kohei ASADA, Katsuhisa ARATANI, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Takayasu KON, Yuki KOGA, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Yasunori KAMADA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150332620
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a detection unit that detects whether or not an input image contains an image of food or drink, an image creation unit that creates an image of food or drink whose exterior appearance is changed, when the detection unit detects an image of the food or drink, and a display control unit that performs control to display the image created by the image creation unit on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Yasunori KAMADA, Yuki KOGA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Tomoya ONUMA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Mitsuru TAKEHARA, Takayasu KON, Kazunori HAYASHI, Kohei ASADA, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Akira TANGE
  • Patent number: 9179031
    Abstract: There is provided a content acquisition apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire content, a recognition unit configured to recognize at least two types of bookmark instructions when the acquisition unit acquires the content, and a control unit configured to, when the recognition unit recognizes a first bookmark instruction, provide a bookmark to the content acquired by the acquisition unit at corresponding time as a bookmarker at time of reproducing the content, and when the recognition unit recognizes a second bookmark instruction, provide the bookmark to the content acquired by the acquisition unit at corresponding time and switch an operation mode of the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada
  • Publication number: 20150281568
    Abstract: There is provided a content acquisition device including a content acquisition unit configured to acquire content, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to an outside, the content acquired by the content acquisition unit and identification information unique to the content acquisition device. The content and the identification information that have been transmitted by the transmission unit are associated with time information indicating time when the content acquisition unit acquires the content, are stored in a storage unit included in a server, and are, in a case where the server receives the identification information and the time information from an information processing device, referred to when content associated with the received identification information and the received time information is searched for from among the content stored in the storage unit and is transmitted to the information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Kamada, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon
  • Publication number: 20150248168
    Abstract: A communication system includes processing circuitry that responds to a recognition result by initiating an electronic communication session with a user-designated destination. The recognition result corresponds with a recognized gesture made by the user as detected by a sensor, and the user-designated destination corresponds with the recognized gesture. A method and non-transitory computer program product also respond to the recognition result in a similar manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yasunori Kamada, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Mitsuru Takehara, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150207976
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus including a detector configured to detect current position information, a setting part configured to set information-for-recognition that varies depending on position information, a recognition part configured to recognize a given target shown by the information-for-recognition set by the setting part in accordance with the current position information detected by the detector, and a controller configured to control at least one of an imaging part and a sound pick-up part in accordance with a recognition result obtained by the recognition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Yasunori Kamada, Yuki Koga, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takayasu Kon, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazunori Hayashi, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma, Hiroyuki Hanaya
  • Publication number: 20150189477
    Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Publication number: 20150181376
    Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Publication number: 20150178558
    Abstract: A control system, method and computer program product use control circuitry to respond to an optical detection of a wearable object worn by a user by initiating a service provided to the user, the service being associated with the wearable object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yuki Koga, Maiko Saitou
  • Patent number: 8994852
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing unit configured to capture image data of a subject and to store the captured image data in an image-capturing operation; a speed detector configured to detect speed information; and a controller configured to control the image-capturing unit so that, in an automatic image-capturing process that is not based on a shutter operation of a user, a distance moved by the image-capturing apparatus is computed on the basis of information from the speed detector, and the image-capturing operation is performed in response to the fact that a computation result indicating that the image-capturing apparatus has moved a predetermined distance is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Itaru Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8942731
    Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Publication number: 20150022681
    Abstract: An automatic image-capturing apparatus including an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject so as to obtain captured image data; an automatic captured-image obtaining unit configured to automatically obtain the captured image data obtained by the image-capturing unit without being based on an operation of a user; an inclination detection unit configured to detect an inclination in at least one of a pan direction and a tilt direction; and a control unit configured to control the obtaining operation performed by the automatic captured-image obtaining unit on the basis of information on the inclination in the pan direction or in the tilt direction, the inclination being detected by the inclination detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Itaru Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20140368695
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including a focus control unit configured to perform control so as to sequentially bring multiple subjects within a captured image into focus, and a recording control unit configured to perform control in response to a trigger from a user so as to record, onto a storage medium, captured images of the multiple subjects sequentially brought into focus by the focus control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Takayasu KON, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE
  • Publication number: 20140365552
    Abstract: An information provision system includes a terminal device, and an information provision device that can communicate with the terminal device. The information provision device includes a communicating section configured to communicate with the terminal device, a head count information managing section configured to manage current head count information for each position, and a crowd information generating section configured to determine a position for making a notification display based on the managed head count information, and generate crowd information containing information of the determined position, and a transmission control section configured to transmit the generated crowd information from the communicating section to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada, Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20140351191
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a calculation section which calculates a proficiency level of a user for operations performed by the user for achieving a prescribed objective based on history information related to the operations and attribute information related to physical features of the user, and a generation section which generates advice for achieving the objective based on the proficiency level calculated by the calculation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayasu KON, Yoichiro SAKO, Kazunori HAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA, Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki HANAYA, Tomoya ONUMA, Akira TANGE
  • Patent number: 8890966
    Abstract: An automatic image-capturing apparatus including an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject so as to obtain captured image data; an automatic captured-image obtaining unit configured to automatically obtain the captured image data obtained by the image-capturing unit without being based on an operation of a user; an inclination detection unit configured to detect an inclination in at least one of a pan direction and a tilt direction; and a control unit configured to control the obtaining operation performed by the automatic captured-image obtaining unit on the basis of information on the inclination in the pan direction or in the tilt direction, the inclination being detected by the inclination detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Yoichiro Sako, Kazunori Hayashi, Itaru Kawakami