Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Tawara

Tetsuo Tawara 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: 11940170
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20200408437
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10788235
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10677596
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20190086214
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo TAWARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10186084
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image that shows a real object including a primary recognition target and a secondary recognition target, and a control unit configured to set an augmented reality space associated with the image on the basis of image recognition of the primary recognition target, and configured to decide an augmented reality object to be arranged in the augmented reality space depending on the secondary recognition target that is recognized on the basis of the image recognition of the primary recognition target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10175050
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10169916
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a setting unit configured to set a filter intensity based on a degree of how exactly an imaging device that produces a captured image containing a marker related to display of a virtual object faces the marker, the degree being detected based on the captured image; and an image processing unit configured to combine the virtual object corresponding to the marker with the captured image by using a filter having the set filter intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Tawara
  • Patent number: 10051598
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technique which is capable of reducing the possibility that information related to the user of a target terminal may be acquired by others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20170297201
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user. [Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Satoshi IKEDA, Tetsuo TAWARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160316448
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technique which is capable of reducing the possibility that information related to the user of a target terminal may be acquired by others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 9454831
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an area decision processing unit configured to set, on the basis of at least three vertices designated to decide a boundary of an area to be defined in a map and on the basis of a drawing locus input to include at least three of the vertices, a boundary region by sequentially adding boundary line segments connecting one of the vertices to be a starting point from among the vertices included inside the drawing locus with points on the drawing locus in accordance with an input order of the drawing locus, configured to sequentially decide the vertices constituting respective area definition line segments for deciding the boundary of the area, and configured to decide, as the area, a region prescribed by connecting the area definition line segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20160123742
    Abstract: To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo TAWARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160093109
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a setting unit configured to set a filter intensity based on a degree of how exactly an imaging device that produces a captured image containing a marker related to display of a virtual object faces the marker, the degree being detected based on the captured image; and an image processing unit configured to combine the virtual object corresponding to the marker with the captured image by using a filter having the set filter intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo TAWARA
  • Publication number: 20140368542
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image that shows a real object including a primary recognition target and a secondary recognition target, and a control unit configured to set an augmented reality space associated with the image on the basis of image recognition of the primary recognition target, and configured to decide an augmented reality object to be arranged in the augmented reality space depending on the secondary recognition target that is recognized on the basis of the image recognition of the primary recognition target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140368510
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an area decision processing unit configured to set, on the basis of at least three vertices designated to decide a boundary of an area to be defined in a map and on the basis of a drawing locus input to include at least three of the vertices, a boundary region by sequentially adding boundary line segments connecting one of the vertices to be a starting point from among the vertices included inside the drawing locus with points on the drawing locus in accordance with an input order of the drawing locus, configured to sequentially decide the vertices constituting respective area definition line segments for deciding the boundary of the area, and configured to decide, as the area, a region prescribed by connecting the area definition line segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: 8561734
    Abstract: A car having a rotatable wheel, the car being able to run by rotating the wheel, the car having a leg used by the car for walking, and an attitude stabilization section for stabilizing an attitude of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Chiba Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
  • Patent number: 8544572
    Abstract: A car having a rotatable wheel, the car being able to run by rotating the wheel, the car having a leg used by the car for walking, and an attitude stabilization section for stabilizing an attitude of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Chiba Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
  • CAR
    Publication number: 20100230186
    Abstract: A car includes a car body having a bottom portion, a wheel that is rotatable, and a supporting member for supporting the wheel, the supporting member being provided to the bottom portion. At least eight pairs of the wheel and the supporting member are provided. The supporting member has a first supporting portion for supporting the wheel rotatably, a second supporting portion for supporting the first supporting portion so that a direction of the wheel supported by the first supporting portion can be changed, and a turning portion that is rotatable about a rotation axis with its axial direction along a direction orthogonal to the bottom portion, the turning portion being provided to the bottom portion. The turning portion supports the second supporting portion so that a distance between the wheel and the bottom portion can be changed, and a position of the wheel can be moved by a rotation of the turning portion in a state that the distance is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicants: LEADING EDGE DESIGN CORP., CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shunji Yamanaka, Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
  • Publication number: 20100198493
    Abstract: A car having a rotatable wheel, the car being able to run by rotating the wheel, the car having a leg used by the car for walking, and an attitude stabilization section for stabilizing an attitude of the car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Chiba Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo