Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Asano
Yasuharu Asano 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: 9837125Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a text acquisition mechanism acquiring texts to be used as keywords which will be subject to audio retrieval, the texts being related to contents corresponding to contents data including image data and audio data; a keyword acquisition mechanism acquiring the keywords from the texts; an audio retrieval mechanism retrieving utterance of the keywords from the audio data of the contents data and acquiring timing information representing the timing of the utterance of the keywords of which the utterance is retrieved; and a playback control mechanism generating, from image data around the time represented by the timing information, representation image data of a representation image which will be displayed together with the keywords and performing playback control of displaying the representation image corresponding to the representation image data together with the keywords which are uttered at the time represented by the timing information.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170294095Abstract: There is provided a content reproduction apparatus including a content reproduction unit for reproducing content, a habit detection unit for detecting a reproduction habit regarding content that uses the content reproduction unit, and an abnormality determination unit for determining there is an abnormality, in a case a reproduction action estimated from the reproduction habit detected by the habit detection unit is not carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventor: Yasuharu Asano
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Patent number: 9773394Abstract: There is provided a content reproduction apparatus including a content reproduction unit for reproducing content, a habit detection unit for detecting a reproduction habit regarding content that uses the content reproduction unit, and an abnormality determination unit for determining there is an abnormality, in a case a reproduction action estimated from the reproduction habit detected by the habit detection unit is not carried out.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20170228778Abstract: To make it possible to further improve the convenience of a user. There is provided an information processing device including: a user characteristic identification unit configured to identify a characteristic of a user about content by relating user-sent information sent by the user for the content to the content; and a presentation information distribution unit configured to distribute presentation information to be presented to the user in relation to the content on the basis of characteristic information indicating the identified characteristic of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: YASUHARU ASANO, SEIICHI TAKAMURA, MASASHI SEKINO, NORIYUKI YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170178491Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu Asano
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Patent number: 9619998Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20160255164Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9369535Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Patent number: 9342576Abstract: An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mari Saito, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Yasuharu Asano, Tatsuki Kashitani
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Publication number: 20160125324Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that improve a user's degree of satisfaction in a seat or area for viewing an event. In step S102, matching between a feature of each seat assigned to a user in a target event and a feature of a user is performed. Then, a target user who is a target for recommending each seat of the target event is selected. In step S104, a recommended seat and the target event are recommended to a selected target user. The present technology can be applied to a system that performs recommendation of an event, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yutaka KASAMI, Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO, Masashi SEKINO
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Publication number: 20160055418Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a program that enable information related to an event to be presented to each user at an appropriate timing. A server includes: a rule setting unit which sets a rule for setting a presentation timing for presenting event information related to each event for each user; a presentation timing setting unit which sets the presentation timing of the event information for each user based on the set rule; and a presentation control unit which performs a control in a manner that the event information is presented to each user at the set presentation timing. The present technology can be applied to a server that presents event information, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9230352Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide graphical trends of posts regarding a posting subject and additional information. The apparatus includes a collector that collects posts regarding a posting subject that proceeds over time. A counting unit is included that counts a number of collected posts for each of different classes of posts. A display controller causes graphs to be displayed along a time-axis illustrating time-wise trends in the posts for each class together with additional information. The additional information is information that includes at least one of posts at respective times and information regarding the posting subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20150221344Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a text acquisition mechanism acquiring texts to be used as keywords which will be subject to audio retrieval, the texts being related to contents corresponding to contents data including image data and audio data; a keyword acquisition mechanism acquiring the keywords from the texts; an audio retrieval mechanism retrieving utterance of the keywords from the audio data of the contents data and acquiring timing information representing the timing of the utterance of the keywords of which the utterance is retrieved; and a playback control mechanism generating, from image data around the time represented by the timing information, representation image data of a representation image which will be displayed together with the keywords and performing playback control of displaying the representation image corresponding to the representation image data together with the keywords which are uttered at the time represented by the timing information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuharu ASANO, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20150154856Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
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Patent number: 9049418Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a text acquisition mechanism acquiring texts to be used as keywords which will be subject to audio retrieval, the texts being related to contents corresponding to contents data including image data and audio data; a keyword acquisition mechanism acquiring the keywords from the texts; an audio retrieval mechanism retrieving utterance of the keywords from the audio data of the contents data and acquiring timing information representing the timing of the utterance of the keywords of which the utterance is retrieved; and a playback control mechanism generating, from image data around the time represented by the timing information, representation image data of a representation image which will be displayed together with the keywords and performing playback control of displaying the representation image corresponding to the representation image data together with the keywords which are uttered at the time represented by the timing information.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8981941Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a matter extracting unit extracting a predetermined matter from text information, an action pattern specifying unit specifying one or multiple action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, an action extracting unit extracting each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter, from sensor information, and a state analyzing unit generating state information indicating a state related to the matter, based on each of the action patterns extracted from the sensor information, using a contribution level indicating a degree of contribution of each of the action patterns to the predetermined matter, for a combination of the predetermined matter and each of the action patterns associated with the predetermined matter.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
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Publication number: 20140304289Abstract: An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mari SAITO, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Yasuharu ASANO, Tatsuki KASHITANI
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Patent number: 8781291Abstract: A data processing device including an output control unit configured to extract a character string targeted for a search from subtitle data of content data including image data, voice data, and the subtitle data, search the voice data for data of a voice uttering the character string, acquire timing information indicating time when the character string is uttered, which is included in the image data, generate subtitle timing information including identification information provided to identify the subtitle data including the character string and the timing information, where the identification information and the timing information are associated with each other, so that the subtitle timing information is acquired, and synchronize the subtitle data and image data of time indicated by timing information associated with identification information of the subtitle data, and output the subtitle data and the image data based on the subtitle timing information is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Noriyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140146052Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide graphical trends of posts regarding a posting subject and additional information. The apparatus includes a collector that collects posts regarding a posting subject that proceeds over time. A counting unit is included that counts a number of collected posts for each of different classes of posts. A display controller causes graphs to be displayed along a time-axis illustrating time-wise trends in the posts for each class together with additional information. The additional information is information that includes at least one of posts at respective times and information regarding the posting subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
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Patent number: 8694495Abstract: An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mari Saito, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Yasuharu Asano, Tatsuki Kashitani