Patents by Inventor Wataru Onogi

Wataru Onogi 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: 9946761
    Abstract: The content recommendation system that acquires attribute information of a given user, acquires at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user, acquires user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, extracts some content from content included in the list acquired on the basis of the user preference information, and presents the content to the given user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsu Saito, Masaaki Isozaki, Wataru Onogi, Kazuo Ishii, Nozomu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170076005
    Abstract: A content recommendation system includes: a client terminal operated by a user; and a content recommendation server that recommends content to the terminal through a network and includes a preference discrimination information storage section accumulating and storing preference discrimination information in which information related to evaluation of content input to the terminal by a user and identification information of the user are associated with each other, a content feature information storage section storing content feature information in which data indicating features of content are associated with identification information of content, a preference information creation section creating preference information of each user by integrating evaluation for content with the feature of the content for each user based on the preference discrimination information and the content feature information, and a recommended content list providing section transmitting a list of recommended content, extracted by evalua
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: KATSU SAITO, WATARU ONOGI, MASAAKI KOYANAGI, TAKAYUKI SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9536246
    Abstract: A content recommendation system includes: a client terminal operated by a user; and a content recommendation server that recommends content to the terminal through a network and includes a preference discrimination information storage section accumulating and storing preference discrimination information in which information related to evaluation of content input to the terminal by a user and identification information of the user are associated with each other, a content feature information storage section storing content feature information in which data indicating features of content are associated with identification information of content, a preference information creation section creating preference information of each user by integrating evaluation for content with the feature of the content for each user based on the preference discrimination information and the content feature information, and a recommended content list providing section transmitting a list of recommended content, extracted by evalua
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORTION
    Inventors: Katsu Saito, Wataru Onogi, Masaaki Koyanagi, Takayuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140351207
    Abstract: The content recommendation system includes a user attribute information acquisition means for acquiring attribute information of a given user, a list acquisition means for acquiring at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user acquired by the user attribute information acquisition means, a user preference information acquisition means for acquiring user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, a content extraction means for extracting some content from content included in the list acquired by the list acquisition means on the basis of the user preference information acquired by the user preference information acquisition means, and a content presentation means for presenting the content extracted by the content extraction means to the given user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Katsu Saito, Masaaki Isozaki, Wataru Onogi, Kazuo Ishii, Nozomu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8838641
    Abstract: The content recommendation system includes a user attribute information acquisition means for acquiring attribute information of a given user, a list acquisition means for acquiring at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user acquired by the user attribute information acquisition means, a user preference information acquisition means for acquiring user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, a content extraction means for extracting some content from content included in the list acquired by the list acquisition means on the basis of the user preference information acquired by the user preference information acquisition means, and a content presentation means for presenting the content extracted by the content extraction means to the given user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsu Saito, Masaaki Isozaki, Wataru Onogi, Kazuo Ishii, Nozomu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8719367
    Abstract: A terminal includes a task information acquiring unit which acquires information on a task of data processing, and a communication task generator which generates a send task to allow a source apparatus of data required by the task to transmit the data required by the task to an apparatus executing the task and which transmits the send task to the source apparatus, when the source apparatus is another apparatus, which is different from the apparatus executing the task and which is connected to the apparatus executing the task via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Koji Kobayashi, Noritaka Hayama, Kazufumi Oyama, Wataru Onogi
  • Publication number: 20130024547
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit acquiring information showing at least one of an indicated party, who is a person or group indicated by a user, and indicated content, which is content indicated by the user, and a recommendation unit recommending, to the user, content that is similar to at least one of content related to the indicated party, the indicated content, and content liked by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Katsu SAITO, Masaaki Isozaki, Kazuo Ishii, Wataru Onogi, Yoshikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120096026
    Abstract: The content recommendation system includes a user attribute information acquisition means for acquiring attribute information of a given user, a list acquisition means for acquiring at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user acquired by the user attribute information acquisition means, a user preference information acquisition means for acquiring user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, a content extraction means for extracting some content from content included in the list acquired by the list acquisition means on the basis of the user preference information acquired by the user preference information acquisition means, and a content presentation means for presenting the content extracted by the content extraction means to the given user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Katsu Saito, Masaaki Isozaki, Wataru Onogi, Kazuo Ishii, Nozomu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110302032
    Abstract: A content recommendation device includes: a use information storage section storing types of information related to use as information related to use of content by a user; a recommended content deciding section deciding content to be recommended to the user in accordance with each of the types of information related to use as a recommended content, and deciding types of recommended content items corresponding to the types of information related to use; a switching rule storage section storing a switching rule setting a period for switching the type of the recommended content as a rule set by a regional manager who is in charge of selling content in a specific region; a selection section selecting one type of the recommended content among the types of recommended content items when a recommended content suggestion request is generated from a terminal of the user residing in the specific region, and sequentially selecting different types of content after the period set by the switching rule; and a recommended i
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuo ISHII, Nozomu IKEDA, Yoshikazu TAKAHASHI, Masaaki ISOZAKI, Shoji SHIOMOTO, Wataru ONOGI, Katsu SAITO, Masaaki KOYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20110302240
    Abstract: A content recommendation system includes: a client terminal operated by a user; and a content recommendation server that recommends content to the terminal through a network and includes a preference discrimination information storage section accumulating and storing preference discrimination information in which information related to evaluation of content input to the terminal by a user and identification information of the user are associated with each other, a content feature information storage section storing content feature information in which data indicating features of content are associated with identification information of content, a preference information creation section creating preference information of each user by integrating evaluation for content with the feature of the content for each user based on the preference discrimination information and the content feature information, and a recommended content list providing section transmitting a list of recommended content, extracted by evalua
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Katsu SAITO, Wataru Onogi, Masaaki Koyanagi, Takayuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20100095302
    Abstract: A terminal includes a task information acquiring unit which acquires information on a task of data processing, and a communication task generator which generates a send task to allow a source apparatus of data required by the task to transmit the data required by the task to an apparatus executing the task and which transmits the send task to the source apparatus, when the source apparatus is another apparatus, which is different from the apparatus executing the task and which is connected to the apparatus executing the task via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Koji Kobayashi, Noritaka Hayama, Kazufumi Oyama, Wataru Onogi
  • Patent number: 7203642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphone 15 is subjected to speech recognition by a speech recognizer 50A. Based on the speech recognition result, an action determining unit 52 determines subsequent actions to be taken by a robot. At the same time, an echo back unit 56 analyzes prosodic information of the user's speech input to the microphone 15 and, based on the prosodic information, generates echo back speech which is prosody-controlled speech. The echo back speech is supplied to a loudspeaker 18 through an output controller 57 and is output from the loudspeaker 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Ishii, Jun Hiroi, Wataru Onogi, Takashi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20030055653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphone 15 is subjected to speech recognition by a speech recognizer 50A. Based on the speech recognition result, an action determining unit 52 determines subsequent actions to be taken by a robot. At the same time, an echo back unit 56 analyzes prosodic information of the user's speech input to the microphone 15 and, based on the prosodic information, generates echo back speech which is prosody-controlled speech. The echo back speech is supplied to a loudspeaker 18 through an output controller 57 and is output from the loudspeaker 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuo Ishii, Jun Hiroi, Wataru Onogi, Takashi Toyoda