Patents by Inventor Takuro Noda

Takuro Noda 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: 20210064129
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided that enable displaying predetermined contents at the user-intended timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA
  • Publication number: 20210055812
    Abstract: There is provided an operation processing device including an input direction acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an input direction according to a direction generated in response to an operation indicating the direction which is performed on an input unit to which the operation is input, an output direction indication unit configured to indicate, to a display unit configured to display an image, an output direction that is a direction in which the image of the display unit is changed in response to the operation on the input unit, and a determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the output direction with respect to the input direction according to a relative position relationship between the input unit and the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: HIROYUKI MIZUNUMA, TAKURO NODA, IKUO YAMANO
  • Patent number: 10928896
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Imoto, Takuro Noda, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20210027523
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that presents a virtual object useful for a user while suppressing a reduction in visibility of a real object. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a user and position information of a destination; and a display control unit that adds a first virtual object in association with a position of the destination within a visual field of the user on the basis of the position information of the user and the position information of the destination, in which the display control unit controls transparency of a predetermined virtual object within the visual field on the basis of the position information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miwa ICHIKAWA, Takuro NODA, Maki IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210019493
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section and a processor. The acquisition section acquires eye information regarding an eye of a user. The processor determines a first line-of-sight direction on the basis of the eye information using a first method, determines a second line-of-sight direction on the basis of the eye information using a second method that is different from the first method, calculates reliability information regarding at least one of reliability of the first line-of-sight direction or reliability of the second line-of-sight direction, and determines a line-of-sight direction of the user on the calculated reliability information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: MASAYUKI YOKOYAMA, TAKURO NODA
  • Patent number: 10893802
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to make it possible to dynamically change the blinking pattern of the light source according to the imaging result, the information processing apparatus including: a light source control unit configured to control each of light sources constituting a plurality of light sources that irradiate an eye with light; and an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of the eye including a bright spot that is a reflection point of the light. The light source control unit controls blinking of each of the light sources on a basis of the captured image of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Eisuke Nomura, Yoshiaki Iwai, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10860121
    Abstract: An information processing device including a detection unit, a first touch display panel, a second touch display panel and circuitry. The detection unit detects whether the information processing apparatus is folded. A second touch panel display is configured to be folded in a state such that a portion of the second touch panel display faces a same direction as the first touch panel display. The second touch panel display is on a back side of the first touch panel display. The circuitry receives operation information of the second touch panel display, and controls a display of the second touch panel display based on the operation information and the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Takuro Noda, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20200341284
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to guide the line of sight of a user in a more preferable manner. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding guidance of a line of sight of a user; and a control unit that controls second information to be presented to the user so as to guide the line of sight of the user, wherein the control unit controls, based on the first information, the second information so as to be localized in a route having a lower following load on the user with regard to the second information out of a first route and a second route connecting a start position and an end position regarding the guidance of the line of sight in accordance with a second coordinate that is independent of a first coordinate associated with an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, TAKESHI OGITA, AKANE KONDO, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU, TAKURO NODA, RIE KAMIKUBO, RYO FUKAZAWA, TOMOYA NARITA
  • Patent number: 10802620
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquiring unit that acquires information indicating user operation, and a display control unit that determines whether or not to control a display position of an indicator using gaze input in accordance with whether or not a difference between a position of the indicator indicating an operation position operated by a user indicated by the information acquired by the acquiring unit and a position of a gazing point of the user exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10771707
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program. [Solution] An information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire attention information regarding an attention target of a user; and a zoom control unit configured to perform zoom control of a camera on the basis of non-zoom control of the camera and the attention information when the non-zoom control is performed on the basis of the attention information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10757337
    Abstract: An information processing device including a light source control unit that controls a light source that irradiates an eye with light; and an exposure control unit that controls exposure for imaging the eye. The light source control unit sets a state of the light source to an on state or an off state at a time when the exposure is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Nomura, Yoshiaki Iwai, Yuki Yamamoto, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20200202161
    Abstract: [Problem] An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program are provided. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display a first virtual object having a visual salience corresponding to color information of a real space, and having substantially a same shape as a real object existing in the real space, in the real space so as to be viewed at substantially a same position as the real object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: AKANE KONDO, RYO FUKAZAWA, KEI NITTA, TAKURO NODA, KENJI SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 10684682
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to acquire gaze-related information corresponding to a user on a basis of a detection result of a head of the user and a detection result of a line of sight of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10673933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoriko Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sato, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20200154997
    Abstract: [Problem] To perform sight line detection at higher accuracy by removing influence of one of both eyes that could cause decrease in accuracy. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including an arithmetic processing unit configured to execute arithmetic processing related to calibration of detection of a sight line toward a display unit. The arithmetic processing unit determines calibration executability for each of both eyes based on acquired sight line data and uses only the sight line data of an eye for which calibration is determined to be executable when executing calibration for the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: TAKURO NODA
  • Patent number: 10652515
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a first spatial position of a portion of an operating tool disposed within a threshold distance of a surface of the determination unit. The first spatial position may be determined relative to the determination unit surface in a depth direction. The apparatus may also include a control unit configured to generate a first signal to display a stereoscopic image to a user at a first display position. The first display position may be disposed within a predetermined distance of the first spatial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10606380
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of an operator and a position of a hand or the like of the operator, a calculating unit configured to regard a position of the operator in a screen coordinate system set on a screen as an origin of an operator coordinate system and multiply a position of the hand or the like with respect to the origin of the operator coordinate system by a predetermined function, thereby calculating a position of display information corresponding to the hand or the like in the screen coordinate system, and a control unit configured to cause the display information to be displayed at the position in the screen coordinate system calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10496186
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program related to the information processing apparatus, which are capable of suppressing an uncomfortable feeling of the user for a position at which processing related to the user operation is performed, the information processing apparatus including: an input unit configured to obtain line-of-sight information related to a line of sight of a user and a detection result of a user operation; and a position deciding unit configured to decide an operation position at which a process related to the user operation is performed, on the basis of the line-of-sight information obtained at a second point of time specified on the basis of a first point of time prior to a detection start of the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20190346920
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing calibration for improving accuracy of gaze detection without causing a user to feel stress. The information processing apparatus, includes a marker control unit that changes, during calibration of an eyewear terminal, a display position of a point-of-regard marker displayed on a display unit of the eyewear terminal; a computational processing unit that computes an optical axis vector expressing a gaze direction of a user by a pupil-corneal reflection method, on a basis of a captured image that includes a user's eye imaged when the eye of the user wearing the eyewear terminal is irradiated with light from a light source, and the point-of-regard marker is displayed at a calibration point; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a variation of the optical axis vector computed for a plurality of the calibration points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: TAKURO NODA, KAZUYUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10452137
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing calibration for improving accuracy of gaze detection without causing a user to feel stress. An information processing apparatus that includes a marker control unit that changes, during calibration of an eyewear terminal, a display position of a point-of-regard marker displayed on a display unit of the eyewear terminal, a computational processing unit that computes an optical axis vector expressing a gaze direction of a user by a pupil-corneal reflection method, on a basis of a captured image that includes a user's eye imaged when the eye of the user wearing the eyewear terminal is irradiated with light from a light source, and the point-of-regard marker is displayed at a calibration point, and an evaluation unit that evaluates a variation of the optical axis vector computed for a plurality of the calibration points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Kazuyuki Yamamoto