Patents by Inventor Tamotsu Ishii
Tamotsu Ishii 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).
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Publication number: 20240077938Abstract: There is provided an information processing method to deal with the generation of inexact posture information. The information processing method includes acquiring posture information that indicates a posture of a moving body, extracting a feature amount from the posture information acquired at one time point or at multiple time points, determining whether or not the extracted feature amount is included within a definition range in a feature amount space, and acquiring, as a use feature amount, a feature amount that is included within the definition range, when the extracted feature amount is determined not to be included within the definition range, and generating data that indicates a posture or a motion, by using the use feature amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Tamotsu ISHII, Tetsuro SATO, Yasutaka FUKUMOTO
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Patent number: 11779807Abstract: Provided is a computer to function as an acquirer that acquires information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller that allows the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller that allows provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Koshida, Tamotsu Ishii, Yasuyuki Suki
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Publication number: 20230045739Abstract: A sensing device of an embodiment includes: a first sensor that acquires three-dimensional shape information on a surface of an object to be sensed; and a second sensor that acquires texture information on the surface or a vicinity of the surface of the object to be sensed at a position having a predetermined positional relation with an information acquisition position in the object to be sensed of the first sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: YASUNORI KAMADA, HIROYUKI SHIGEI, ATSUSHI NEGISHI, TAMOTSU ISHII, KENJI SUZUKI, TAKASHI OGATA
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Patent number: 11330408Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that effectively utilizes contexts and has the highly convenient messaging function, a method thereof and a terminal device used for message communication. The information processing apparatus includes a communication section and a control section. The communication section communicates a message between respective terminal devices used by a plurality of users. The control section acquires is a context of one or more users among the plurality of users, and controls at least one of creation or communication of message-related information including content or a format of the message on the basis of the acquired context.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Negishi, Takashi Ogata, Tamotsu Ishii, Masatomo Kurata, Sota Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20220121817Abstract: An information processing device includes an end portion candidate determination unit configured to determine a plurality of candidates for an end portion that is added to an end of a body and forms a message along with the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: SOTA MATSUZAWA, TAMOTSU ISHII, ATSUSHI NEGISHI
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Publication number: 20220062703Abstract: Provided is a program causing a computer to function as an acquirer that acquires information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller that allows the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller that allows provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: OSAMU KOSHIDA, TAMOTSU ISHII, YASUYUKI SUKI
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Patent number: 11198036Abstract: Provided is a program causing a computer to function as an acquirer that acquires information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller that allows the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller that allows provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Koshida, Tamotsu Ishii, Yasuyuki Suki
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Publication number: 20200396572Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus that effectively utilizes contexts and has the highly convenient messaging function, a method thereof, a program thereof, and a terminal device used for message communication. [Solving Means] The information processing apparatus includes a communication section and a control section. The communication section is configured to communicate a message between respective terminal devices used by a plurality of users. The control section is configured to acquire a context of one or more users among the plurality of users, and control at least one of creation or communication of message-related information including content or a format of the message on the basis of the acquired context.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: ATSUSHI NEGISHI, TAKASHI OGATA, TAMOTSU ISHII, MASATOMO KURATA, SOTA MATSUZAWA
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Patent number: 10812195Abstract: An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Nakao, Kyohei Iwamoto, Taiji Ito, Tamotsu Ishii, Mitsuhiro Ueno, Shinji Ohta, Takeshi Sano, Keiichi Shibata, Yasuyuki Takeshita, Hiromitsu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20200324166Abstract: Provided is a program causing a computer to function as an acquirer that acquires information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller that allows the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller that allows provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: OSAMU KOSHIDA, TAMOTSU ISHII, YASUYUKI SUKI
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Patent number: 10716968Abstract: [Object] To propose a novel and improved program and information processing system that can perform feedback in accordance with a history of exercise of the user. [Solution] Provided is a program causing a computer to function as an acquirer configured to acquire information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller configured to allow the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller configured to allow provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Koshida, Tamotsu Ishii, Yasuyuki Suki
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Publication number: 20200127738Abstract: An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: TAKASHI NAKAO, KYOHEI IWAMOTO, TAIJI ITO, TAMOTSU ISHII, MITSUHIRO UENO, SHINJI OHTA, TAKESHI SANO, KEIICHI SHIBATA, YASUYUKI TAKESHITA, HIROMITSU KOMATSU
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Publication number: 20170266492Abstract: [Object] To propose a novel and improved program and information processing system that can perform feedback in accordance with a history of exercise of the user. [Solution] Provided is a program causing a computer to function as an acquirer configured to acquire information indicating an exercise state of a user, a storage controller configured to allow the information indicating the exercise state acquired by the acquirer to be stored, and an output controller configured to allow provision information that is to be provided to the user to be output, the provision information being generated on the basis of a history of the information indicating the exercise state stored by the storage controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: OSAMU KOSHIDA, TAMOTSU ISHII, YASUYUKI SUKI
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Patent number: 9213360Abstract: The present invention provides a time setting system and method thereof that are capable of correctly setting time if a delay occurs in the transmission of time information. In the system for setting a master time outputted from a master apparatus to a slave time of a slave apparatus that counts time independently of the master apparatus, the slave apparatus has transmission section for transmitting master time request information to the master apparatus via a network and the master apparatus has an allowable range information acquisition section for acquiring allowable range information indicative of an allowable time in which the master time may be set to the slave time of the slave apparatus and transmission section for transmitting the master time and allowable range information to the slave apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tamotsu Ishii, Hiroshi Kuno, Shunichi Soma, Takamichi Hayashi
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Patent number: 8411548Abstract: An optical pickup includes a light source emitting a light beam, a diffraction element diffracting the light beam to separate it into a main beam and a sub beam, an objective lens focusing the main and sub beams onto a desired recording layer of an optical disc, a lens moving section moving the objective lens in focusing and tracking directions, a light-separating element separating a reflected light beam, formed by reflecting each of the main and sub beams at the recording layer, into multiple beam components and allowing the reflected light beam to travel without rotating an image thereof, and a light-receiving element having multiple light-receiving regions that optically receive the reflected light beam and generating a light reception signal based on the amount of received light to allow a signal processing section to generate a focus error signal and a tracking error signal based on the light reception signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Nemoto, Katsuhiro Seo, Tamotsu Ishii
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Patent number: 8289826Abstract: Provided is an optical pickup including: a light-source emitting a light-beam; an objective lens collecting the light-beam on a desired recording layer among one or two recording layers or more installed in an optical disc and where spirally- or concentrically-shaped tracks are formed; a lens-moving unit moving the objective lens in a tracking direction toward at least an inner-circumference or outer-circumference side; a light splitting device splitting a reflected light-beam into reflected light-beams and propagating the light-beams; a light-detecting device generating central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting signals according to received light amounts thereof by central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting areas, receiving central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side portions of an image of the reflected light-beam in the radial direction and allowing a signal processing unit to generate a tracking error signal byType: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Nemoto, Midori Kanaya, Katsuhiro Seo, Tamotsu Ishii
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Publication number: 20110164488Abstract: Provided is an optical pickup including: a light-source emitting a light-beam; an objective lens collecting the light-beam on a desired recording layer among one or two recording layers or more installed in an optical disc and where spirally- or concentrically-shaped tracks are formed; a lens-moving unit moving the objective lens in a tracking direction toward at least an inner-circumference or outer-circumference side; a light splitting device splitting a reflected light-beam into reflected light-beams and propagating the light-beams; a light-detecting device generating central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting signals according to received light amounts thereof by central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting areas, receiving central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side portions of an image of the reflected light-beam in the radial direction and allowing a signal processing unit to generate a tracking error signal byType: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Nemoto, Midori Kanaya, Katsuhiro Seo, Tamotsu Ishii
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Publication number: 20110044152Abstract: An optical pickup includes a light source emitting a light beam, a diffraction element diffracting the light beam to separate it into a main beam and a sub beam, an objective lens focusing the main and sub beams onto a desired recording layer of an optical disc, a lens moving section moving the objective lens in focusing and tracking directions, a light-separating element separating a reflected light beam, formed by reflecting each of the main and sub beams at the recording layer, into multiple beam components and allowing the reflected light beam to travel without rotating an image thereof, and a light-receiving element having multiple light-receiving regions that optically receive the reflected light beam and generating a light reception signal based on the amount of received light to allow a signal processing section to generate a focus error signal and a tracking error signal based on the light reception signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Nemoto, Katsuhiro Seo, Tamotsu Ishii
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Patent number: 7110328Abstract: An information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information to and from a magneto-optical storage medium that includes a first magnetic layer for recording at least information, a second magnetic layer for regulating a switched connective force, and a third magnetic layer for shifting a magnetic wall of recorded markings for information reproduction. The three layers being stacked on a transparent substrate to make up the storage medium. The information recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical head and a magnetic head. The optical head has a light source and an objective lens, the light source is configured to emit at least a laser beam with a wavelength of about 780 nm, the objective lens having a numerical aperture of about 0.45 and is configured to focus the laser beam from the light source into a beam spot for emission onto the magneto-optical storage medium. The magnetic head is for applying a recording magnetic field to the magneto-optical storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Minoru Tobita, Yoshiyuki Teraoka, Tomiji Tanaka, Masato Hattori, Tamotsu Ishii
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Patent number: 7065023Abstract: A device and a method for judging the radial moving direction of light spots formed on the signal recording surface of an optical disc having grooves of two types, which are different from each other in terms of depth and which are arranged along a recording track that is a land of the optical disc. The judging section of the device judges the moving direction of the main spot on the basis of binarized data of a difference signal of the main spot and binarized data of a difference signal of one of spots on the side. With this arrangement, the moving direction of the light spots relative to a radial direction of the optical disc can be determined only by using difference signals without using any sum signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomiji Tanaka, Shinichi Nakao, Sohmei Endoh, Tamotsu Ishii