Patents by Inventor Toshiya Hamada

Toshiya Hamada 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: 12604024
    Abstract: A display device includes circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, display-capability information representing performance characteristics of the display device. The circuitry receives video data from the reproduction device that includes brightness-characteristic information and information of a master video when the display-capability information represents a display performance of the video data. The circuitry displays an image of the received video data in accordance with brightness designated by the received information, and adjusts the image brightness based on the display device's performance. When the master video is high-dynamic-range (HDR) video data, the circuitry recognizes the HDR content and displays the image in accordance with brightness characteristics of the master video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 12581030
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20250383716
    Abstract: A present information processing apparatus includes a starting predictive behavior determination unit, an ending predictive behavior determination unit, and a resource setting unit. The starting predictive behavior determination unit determines, with respect to another user object that is a virtual object corresponding to another user within a three-dimensional space, presence or absence of a starting predictive behavior that becomes a sign to start an interaction with a user. The ending predictive behavior determination unit determines, with respect to an interaction target object that is the another user object that has been determined as having taken the starting predictive behavior, presence or absence of an ending predictive behavior that becomes a sign to end the interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: TAKUMI TSURU, TOSHIYA HAMADA, RYOHEI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20250363733
    Abstract: A generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a generation section. The generation section generates three-dimensional spatial data used in rendering processing executed to represent a three-dimensional space and including sensory representation metadata for representing at least one of a temperature or surface roughness with respect to a component of a scene configured by the three-dimensional space. This makes it possible to greatly simplify the representation of the temperature and the surface roughness in the three-dimensional virtual space, thereby reducing a processing load. As a result, it becomes possible to realize a high-quality virtual video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiya HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250267322
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and method that allow robustness of content reproduction to be improved. Metadata regarding content is generated, the content expressing a three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional space and enabling a line-of-sight direction and a view-point position to be freely set at a time of reproduction, and the metadata including information enabling a bit rate to be selected at a time of distribution of the content. Metadata that includes, for example, as the above-described information, access information for a control file controlling reproduction of the content, is generated. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, or an image decoding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru KATSUMATA, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI, Kazuhiko TAKABAYASHI, Yoshiharu DEWA, Toshiya HAMADA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Takumi TSURU
  • Publication number: 20250133229
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, identification data that includes display information representing a performance of the display device. The circuitry is further configured to receive video data from the reproduction device including information that includes brightness characteristic information when the display information includes information representing a display performance of the video data and includes information of a master video, and display an image of the received the video in accordance with brightness designated by the information. The brightness of the image of the received video data is adjusted in accordance with the performance of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 12217366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a media distribution device, a media distribution method, and a program enabling to generate a guide voice more appropriately. A media distribution device includes a guide voice generation unit that generates a guide voice describing a rendered image viewed from a viewpoint in a virtual space by using a scene description as information describing a scene in the virtual space and a user viewpoint information indicating a position and a direction of the viewpoint of a user; and an audio encoding unit that mixes the guide voice with original audio, and encodes the guide voice. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a media distribution system that distributes 6DoF media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Hamada, Takumi Tsuru
  • Patent number: 12200256
    Abstract: Provided is a delivery apparatus including a viewpoint information acquisition unit to acquire viewpoint information of a user in real-time, a rendering unit to perform rendering processing on three-dimensional spatial data in real-time on the basis of the viewpoint information to generate two-dimensional video data corresponding to a field of view of the user, a parameter generation unit to generate an encoding parameter on the basis of a parameter regarding the rendering processing, an encoding unit to perform encoding processing on the two-dimensional video data in real-time on a basis of the encoding parameter to generate delivering data, and a delivery unit to deliver the delivering data to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiya Hamada
  • Patent number: 12170787
    Abstract: A display device is provided that comprising circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, an extended display identification data (EDID) that includes the display information representing a performance of the display device. The circuitry further receives HDR video data from the reproduction device including HDR information that includes brightness characteristic information in frame data when the display information includes information representing a display performance of the HDR video, contains the EDID containing information of a 4k resolution or higher, displays an image of the received HDR video data in accordance with brightness designated by the HDR information, and adjusts a brightness of the image of the received HDR video data to a brightness capability for the display of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 12073841
    Abstract: An audio reproduction with a realistic feeling is achieved while suppressing incongruity and discomfort given to a user. The information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires content data including a plurality of objects, an execution timing decision section that decides an execution timing for each of the objects, a rendering processing section that renders each of the objects on the basis of line-of-sight information of a user that has been input immediately before the execution timing of rendering each of the objects, and an output synthesis section that synthesizes output data for every object that has been generated by the rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiya Hamada, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20240267559
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a rendering section and an encoding section. The rendering section performs rendering processing on three-dimensional space data on the basis of field-of-view information regarding a field of view of a user to generate two-dimensional video data depending on the field of view of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventor: TOSHIYA HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240196065
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a rendering section. The rendering section performs rendering processing on three-dimensional space data on the basis of field-of-view information regarding a field of view of a user to generate two-dimensional video data depending on the field of view of the user. Further, the rendering section sets a region of interest and a region of non-interest in a display region in which the two-dimensional video data is displayed, the region of interest being to be rendered at a high resolution, the region of non-interest being to be rendered at a low resolution; extracts a gaze object at which the user gazes, on the basis of a parameter related to the rendering processing and the field-of-view information; renders the gaze object in the region of interest at a high resolution; and reduces a data amount of a non-gaze object that is an object other than the gaze object in the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: TOSHIYA HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240185511
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a rendering unit and a generation unit. The rendering unit performs rendering processing on three-dimensional space data on the basis of field-of-view information regarding a field of view of a user, to generate two-dimensional video data corresponding to the field of view of the user. The generation unit generates a saliency map representing a saliency of the two-dimensional video data on the basis of a parameter regarding the rendering processing. This makes it possible to achieve distribution of a high-quality virtual video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: TAKUMI TSURU, TOSHIYA HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11983914
    Abstract: Provided is a generation unit that generates an identification region map indicating whether or not each divided object data is visible from each position in a three-dimensional space by using information regarding orientation of a normal vector dividing an object in the three-dimensional space and information regarding an outline of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Tsuru, Toshiya Hamada, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11936962
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device includes a receiving unit that receives a segment file having a plurality of segments and a setting file in which a group to which the segment file belongs is set, and an extraction unit that extracts one or more MP4 samples included in a segment of the segment file and adds attribute information including a reproduction start time of the MP4 sample to the MP4 sample. The information processing device further includes a determination unit that determines a switching position at which the segment file belonging to the group after switching is output in units of the MP4 samples on the basis of an accepted switching operation of the group and the attribute information, and an output unit that outputs an output signal generated from the segment file belonging to the group after the switching from the switching position to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiya Hamada
  • Publication number: 20240089482
    Abstract: A display device is provided that comprising circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, an extended display identification data (EDID) that includes the display information representing a performance of the display device. The circuitry further receives HDR video data from the reproduction device including HDR information that includes brightness characteristic information in frame data when the display information includes information representing a display performance of the HDR video, contains the EDID containing information of a 4k resolution or higher, displays an image of the received HDR video data in accordance with brightness designated by the HDR information, and adjusts a brightness of the image of the received HDR video data to a brightness capability for the display of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 11812046
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device that enables content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness from a reproduction device. The display comprises circuitry configured to store display information related to high dynamic range (HDR) video and to transmit to the reproduction device an extended display identification data that includes display information representing a performance of the display device. The display device includes a monitor configured to display an image of the HDR video in accordance with brightness designated by HDR information if the monitor is capable of displaying the designated brightness and to adjust a brightness of the image of the HDR video to a brightness capability of the monitor if the monitor is not capable of displaying the designated brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 11743520
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a management file which stores information regarding object selection information for selecting object audio data in accordance with a display state of an image, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the management file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Katsumata, Toshiya Hamada, Naotaka Ojiro
  • Patent number: 11710274
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and a file generation apparatus that make it possible to appropriately reproduce a BV content. An image processing apparatus includes: a file acquisition unit that acquires a file having a management region where information for management of a 3D object content is stored and a data region where a track in which streams included in the 3D object content are stored is stored, group information for selection, from a plurality of the streams included in the 3D object content, of the stream appropriate for reproduction of the 3D object content being stored in the management region; and a file processor that selects a plurality of the streams to be used for reproduction of the 3D object content on the basis of the group information. The present technology is applicable to a client apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Mitsuru Katsumata, Toshiya Hamada
  • Publication number: 20230215102
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a media distribution device, a media distribution method, and a program enabling to generate a guide voice more appropriately. A media distribution device includes a guide voice generation unit that generates a guide voice describing a rendered image viewed from a viewpoint in a virtual space by using a scene description as information describing a scene in the virtual space and a user viewpoint information indicating a position and a direction of the viewpoint of a user; and an audio encoding unit that mixes the guide voice with original audio, and encodes the guide voice. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a media distribution system that distributes 6DoF media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: TOSHIYA HAMADA, TAKUMI TSURU