Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Ikeda

Tetsuo Ikeda 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: 10609279
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an action recognition unit that recognizes an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user, an image processing unit that performs a process regarding an amount of information on an image photographed by a photographing unit based on an action state of the user recognized by the action recognition unit during photographing by the photographing unit carried by the user, and a transmission control unit that causes the image processed by the image processing unit to be transmitted to an image processing device used to perform image recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumihara, Takuo Ikeda, Tetsuo Ikeda, Kentaro Kimura, Yasuyuki Koga, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20200097749
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system capable of appropriately assisting in creation of a marker, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing system includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a recognition result of a marker that a user is making, and a display control part configured to cause a display face to display assistance information for assisting in creation of the marker depending on the recognition result in association with the marker in process of creation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Toru NAGARA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Tomohiro ISHII
  • Publication number: 20200089312
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device capable of identifying an object, individually sensing a state of the object, and providing information in accordance with a result of the sensing. The information processing device includes: a detection unit that senses an object that is present in a sensing-possible region; and a processing unit that causes the detection unit to sense the object corresponding to an identifier that is transmitted from an external device via a network and that is associated with the object in response to reception of a request that designates the identifier and transmits a response to the request to the external device on the basis of a result of the sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200089376
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, KUNIAKI TORII, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 10585531
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to initiate display of a virtual object, based on a gesture operation, starting from a point of origin and moving towards a target point; and continue to display the virtual object in display motion after the gesture operation, wherein a path of travel of the virtual object or a display characteristic of the virtual object is determined based on a positional relationship between the virtual object and another object that is a real object located in proximity to the path of travel of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Ryuji Nakayama, Kazuto Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20200073525
    Abstract: A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke MIYAZAWA, Tetsuo IKEDA, Fuminori HOMMA, Reiko MIYAZAKI, Ken MIYASHITA, Shoichiro MORIYA
  • Patent number: 10572073
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of inputting information input by a plurality of users to targets manipulated by the users even in a situation in which the plurality of users perform manipulations at the same time, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to identify and acquire input information from each of a plurality of target regions serving as acquisition sources of the input information, for each of the target regions; and a control unit configured to associate each of at least one or more applications with any of the plurality of target regions, and allocate the input information acquired from the target region to the application associated with the target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Tetsuo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10564712
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to set a condition indicating a relation of a plurality of users and control an operation according to a manipulation performed by each user on the basis of the condition, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a detection result of information related to a manipulator for each of a plurality of manipulators placed in a predetermined region; and a generating unit configured to generate attribute information for controlling an operation based on a manipulation performed by each of the plurality of manipulators on a basis of the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Yu Hayashi, Maya Kamachi, Tomohiro Ishii
  • Publication number: 20200050336
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that enables interaction among a plurality of users, display objects, and actual objects. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a processing policy information control unit that controls processing policy information that includes identification information of a user associated with an actual object on a body surface on which a display object is displayed and that indicates a processing policy for the actual object in accordance with a user operation performed on the actual object; and a display control unit that controls display of the display object on a basis of the processing policy information for the actual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: TETSUO IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10545716
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to make it possible to share various kinds of information in a more appropriate form between remote sites, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first control information for causing display information to be displayed, the display information indicating a real object placed in a first region in which a screen shared by a plurality of devices is displayed; and a generating unit configured to generate second control information for causing a display image in which the display information indicating the real object is superimposed on the screen to be displayed in a second region different from the first region, on a basis of the acquired first control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigefumi Tamura, Ryosuke Nomura, Tetsuo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10528213
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Kuniaki Torii, Naoyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10514840
    Abstract: A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyazawa, Tetsuo Ikeda, Fuminori Homma, Reiko Miyazaki, Ken Miyashita, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Publication number: 20190369808
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to control output of a first content according to first content information, determine information related to a real object which is different from a manipulation body used for content selection or object manipulation by a user, and control output of a second content, which is different from the first content, according to second content information, wherein the second content information is based on the first content information and the determined information related to the real object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Hiroshi SAITO, Maya KAMACHI, Yu HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190346967
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device capable of appropriately performing processing even in a state in which bodies are piled, the information processing device including: a detection unit that detects a feature amount of an object and an operation object in a sensing-possible region; and an attribute processing unit that decides, on the basis of the detection unit having detected a change in the feature amount of the object in a depth direction of sensing using the operation object, an attribute to be associated with the object after the change in the future amount using an attribute associated with the object before the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Tomohiro ISHII, Takuo IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10423283
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to control output of a first content according to first content information, determine information related to a real object which is different from a manipulation body used for content selection or object manipulation by a user, and control output of a second content, which is different from the first content, according to second content information, wherein the second content information is based on the first content information and the determined information related to the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Hiroshi Saito, Maya Kamachi, Yu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190286245
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device capable of executing an operation corresponding to a gesture in consideration of a user's utilization state and intention, the display control device including: a determination unit that determines content of a gesture from an operation that has been performed on a display surface; and an effect decision unit that decides an effect with a defined direction in relation to display of an object displayed on the display surface and the object which is a target of the effect, that correspond to the gesture determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo IKEDA, Tomohiro ISHII, Kosuke YOSHITOMI
  • Publication number: 20190216524
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a power feed system that supplies electric power via electromagnetic waves to an implant embedded in a deep part of a living body, using a sandwiching method in which a potential difference is generated using a pair of electrodes, by disposing an implant electronic device between a power transmission side electrode and a power reception side electrode. [Solution] It is provided with: a pair of electrodes (a first surface electrode 3 and a second surface electrode 4) stuck onto a surface of a living body 6; an implant electronic device 2 that includes a first body internal electrode 30 and a second body internal electrode 40 and in which the first body internal electrode 30 and the second body internal electrode 40 are fixed to respective positions having different potential differences in the living body 6; and a high frequency AC power source 5 that applies a high frequency alternating voltage to the first surface electrode 3 and the second surface electrode 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruichi Kanaya, Ryosuke Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 10336190
    Abstract: In a sign information display system or method, if a road sign is recognized by a sign recognition device, a display control device determines whether or not it will cause a sign information display device to display first sign information, which is information concerning the road sign, on the basis of a driving state of a front vehicle driving in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yokochi, Shinnosuke Saito, Izumi Tokatsudo, Tetsuo Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20190163342
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of changing a process to be executed in response to a recognition result of an inclination of a hand with respect to an object. The information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a recognition result of an inclination of a hand with respect to an object when it is recognized that the hand is touching the object; and a change unit configured to change a value of a parameter related to a process to be executed on the basis of the recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kae NAGANO, Tetsuo IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190099169
    Abstract: A cooling device may be configured to cool a shape-memory alloy member. The cooling device may include: a cooling unit configured to cool the shape-memory alloy member or a part that is to make contact with the shape-memory alloy member; a refrigerant supply pipe including one end connected to a refrigerant supply source and other end connected to the cooling unit, the refrigerant supply pipe configured to supply a refrigerant supplied from the refrigerant supply source to the cooling unit; and a refrigerant discharge pipe including one end connected to the cooling unit, the refrigerant discharge pipe configured to discharge the refrigerant discharged from the cooling unit from other end of the refrigerant discharge pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicants: YOSHIMI INC., AKIYAMA MEDICAL CO., LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiharu YOSHIMI, Hirohisa KAWAI, Tetsuo IKEDA