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).
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Patent number: 11940170Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
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Publication number: 20200408437Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
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Patent number: 10788235Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
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Patent number: 10677596Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Publication number: 20190086214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo TAWARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
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Patent number: 10186084Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Patent number: 10175050Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Patent number: 10169916Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo Tawara
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Patent number: 10051598Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Publication number: 20170297201Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Satoshi IKEDA, Tetsuo TAWARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20160316448Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
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Patent number: 9454831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Tawara, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Publication number: 20160123742Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo TAWARA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
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Publication number: 20160093109Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo TAWARA
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Publication number: 20140368542Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI
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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Publication number: 20140368510Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: TETSUO TAWARA, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI -
Patent number: 8561734Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
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Patent number: 8544572Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
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Publication number: 20100230186Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicants: LEADING EDGE DESIGN CORP., CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shunji Yamanaka, Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo
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Publication number: 20100198493Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: Chiba Institute of TechnologyInventors: Takayuki Furuta, Masaharu Shimizu, Hideaki Yamato, Yu Okumura, Tetsuo Tawara, Masaki Shimomura, Ken Endo