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).

  • Patent number: 9837125
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170294095
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Yasuharu Asano
  • Patent number: 9773394
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuharu Asano
  • Publication number: 20170228778
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YASUHARU ASANO, SEIICHI TAKAMURA, MASASHI SEKINO, NORIYUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170178491
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu Asano
  • Patent number: 9619998
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
  • Publication number: 20160255164
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
  • Patent number: 9369535
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
  • Patent number: 9342576
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Yasuharu Asano, Tatsuki Kashitani
  • Publication number: 20160125324
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yutaka KASAMI, Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO, Masashi SEKINO
  • Publication number: 20160055418
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Yasuharu ASANO
  • Patent number: 9230352
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
  • Publication number: 20150221344
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu ASANO, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150154856
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi TAKAMURA, Yasuharu ASANO
  • Patent number: 9049418
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8981941
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Yasuharu Asano
  • Publication number: 20140304289
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mari SAITO, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Yasuharu ASANO, Tatsuki KASHITANI
  • Patent number: 8781291
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Asano, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Noriyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140146052
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi Takamura, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Shinya Ohtani, Yasuharu Asano
  • Patent number: 8694495
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Saito, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Yasuharu Asano, Tatsuki Kashitani