Patents by Inventor Yasushi Miyajima

Yasushi Miyajima 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).

  • Publication number: 20240233574
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that acquires normative behavior information serving as an interaction with a specific object by a user and an evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information, associates and registers the normative behavior information and the evaluation value in a behavior database, and performs control such that an evaluation value of specific behavior information acquired through the communication unit is calculated using the evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information in accordance with a comparison result of comparing the specific behavior information with normative behavior information corresponding to the specific behavior information registered in the behavior database, an emotion value of the user is calculated on the basis of the calculated evaluation value, and the calculated emotion value is transmitted to an information processing device corresponding to the user who is a provision source of the specific behavior informati
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: KEIGO IHARA, TAKAHIKO SUEYOSHI, ATSUSHI SHIONOZAKI, HIROSHI IWANAMI, YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240191905
    Abstract: [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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Satoshi IKEDA, Tetsuo TAWARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11940170
    Abstract: [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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Satoshi Ikeda, Tetsuo Tawara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20230334693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 20 including: a storage section 210 storing relationship information in which a spatial relationship among feature points included in a plurality of target objects is associated with meaning information among the plurality of target objects; and a meaning estimation section 238 estimating, based on a spatial relationship among feature points extracted from a plurality of image objects included in an image and the relationship information, a meaning relationship among the plurality of image objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yasushi MIYAJIMA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Kazuhiro IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 11778060
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system that includes a communication unit that acquires act information indicating occurrence of a first act from a first user to a second user, an accumulation unit that accumulates at least a user who has performed the act, a user influenced by the act, and a type of the act in units of acts in order of occurrence of the acts, and a control unit that performs control, when a second act determined to have influenced the first act is found from among acts that are accumulated in the accumulation unit and from which the first user has received influence in past, to record the first act and the second act in association with each other in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11740459
    Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted display that enables viewing of a stereoscopic image without visual fatigue caused by vergence-accommodation conflict. A head-mounted display includes a display device to display images for the left eye and the right eye on a screen, virtual image forming optical systems for the left eye and the right eye, respectively disposed with respect to images for the left eye and the right eye on the screen, and wide-focus lenses for the left eye and the right eye having a negative focal length with a range, and respectively disposed with respect to the virtual image forming optical systems for the left eye and the right eye so as to overlap optical axis directions of the virtual image forming optical systems for the left eye and the right eye. By respectively displaying virtual images of images, a permissible range of vergence and accommodation is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, ITOH OPTICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Takaki, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11727468
    Abstract: Provided is an agent robot control system comprising an acquisition unit which acquires a purchasing master list which shows a user's purchase merchandise candidates, and a control unit which generates a purchasing execution list for recommending, from the purchasing master list, purchases for select merchandise to be performed at real storefronts and for recommending purchases for other merchandise to be performed at online storefronts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20230230053
    Abstract: An information processing system, method, and computer-readable medium that generate emotion values based on information related to interactions between one of a plurality of objects and other ones of the plurality of objects, the one of the plurality of objects being associated with a person, acquire at least one emotion value of the generated emotion values based on an identification of the person, and provide personal credit information of the person based on the acquired at least one emotional value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko SUEYOSHI, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Hiroshi IWANAMI, Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230168554
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first surface, a plurality of pixel units on the first surface, and a first side wiring pad located in a first outermost array adjacent to a first side on the first surface and located between adjacent pixel units of the plurality of pixel units in a direction along the first side. A plurality of pixel units in the first outermost array can be arranged in a portion adjacent to an edge on the first surface of the substrate. A joint pixel pitch can thus be easily equalized to a non-joint pixel pitch, although the non-joint pixel pitch is smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITO, Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11640589
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a control method and a storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed on the basis of an interaction between the objects. [Solution] An information processing system including: a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Sueyoshi, Atsushi Shionozaki, Hiroshi Iwanami, Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11610092
    Abstract: An information processing system including: a storage section that stores information about a plurality of agents capable of dialogue with a user, each agent having different attributes; a communication section that receives a message from the user from a client terminal, and also replies to the client terminal with a response message; and a control section that executes control to select a specific agent from the plurality of agents, according to an instruction from the user, record attributes of the specific agent updated according to dialogue between the specific agent and the user as the attributes of a user agent, specify a partner user who most resembles the attributes of the user agent by comparing the attributes of the user agent and attributes of a plurality of actually existing partner users, and notify the user of the existence of the partner user at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11594158
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of appropriately presenting necessary information while maintaining scenery. [Solution] An information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive sensor data detected by a sensor for grasping a surrounding situation; and a control unit configured to perform control to generate a control signal for displaying an image including appropriate information on a display unit installed around the sensor, in accordance with at least one of an attribute of a user, a situation of the user, or an environment detected from the sensor data, generate a control signal for displaying a blending image that blends into surroundings of the display unit on the display unit in a case where information presentation is determined to be unnecessary, and transmit the control signal to the display unit via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20230032859
    Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted display capable of expanding the range in which a user can clearly view images. A head-mounted display 1 includes a display device 3 to display images 3a and 3b for the left eye and the right eye on a screen 3c, and virtual image forming optical systems 4a and 4b for the left eye and the right eye respectively disposed with respect to the images 3a and 3b for the left eye and the right eye on the screen 3c, wherein the virtual image forming optical systems 4a and 4b have positive power set in respective regions that visual lines of a user pass through, and include, at outer sides of optical centers in directions orthogonal to optical axes, power adjusting regions 55 having power set closer to the negative side than power at the optical centers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicants: National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Itoh Optical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyajima, Yasuhiro Takaki
  • Publication number: 20220301002
    Abstract: An information processing system including a communication unit configured to receive information related to a positive interaction presented to a second object by a first object and information related to a positive interaction presented to the first object by the second object, and a controller configured to generate an emotion value of the first object based on at least a part of the received information related to the positive interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11392979
    Abstract: An information processing system including a communication unit configured to receive information related to a positive interaction presented to a second object by a first object and information related to a positive interaction presented to the first object by the second object, and a controller configured to generate an emotion value of the first object based on at least a part of the received information related to the positive interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11336594
    Abstract: An information processing system and an information processing method to enable a conversation to be animated with a response of a virtual agent having proper personality corresponding to a communication situation between users. The information processing system includes: a virtual agent profile database that accumulates profiles of a plurality of virtual agents capable of communication on a network; and a controller that selects one virtual agent from the plurality of virtual agents in accordance with an analysis result of communication between real users, generates a message in accordance with the analysis result and the profile of the one virtual agent, and posts the generated message to a communication session between the real users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11300805
    Abstract: Provided are stereoscopic eyeglasses capable of reducing visual fatigue in binocular stereoscopic display by a simple configuration. In stereoscopic eyeglasses, in order to expand a tolerance of match between vergence and accommodation enabling comfortable stereovision in eyeglasses-using stereoscopic display, wide-focus lenses ranging in focal length are incorporated so as to overlap optical filters in light transmission directions, and accordingly, visual fatigue to be caused by vergence-accommodation conflict during stereoscopic image observation is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Itoh Optical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Takaki, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 11195414
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device and an information processing method, each of which is capable of setting a spot position of service provision so as to further improve convenience for users. An information processing device including: a communication unit that receives a position request from a user, the position request requesting a position of a spot at which a specific service is provided; and a control unit that dynamically sets a position of the spot by analyzing position requests from a plurality of users received through the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20210327313
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of appropriately presenting necessary information while maintaining scenery. [Solution] An information processing device including: a communication unit configured to receive sensor data detected by a sensor for grasping a surrounding situation; and a control unit configured to perform control to generate a control signal for displaying an image including appropriate information on a display unit installed around the sensor, in accordance with at least one of an attribute of a user, a situation of the user, or an environment detected from the sensor data, generate a control signal for displaying a blending image that blends into surroundings of the display unit on the display unit in a case where information presentation is determined to be unnecessary, and transmit the control signal to the display unit via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210319361
    Abstract: An information processing system (1) that provide an agent service to users includes: a database that stores a plurality of agents optimized for respective users when the agent service is used; and a control unit (100) that selects a base agent candidate from the plurality of agents stored in the database according to an attribute or feature of a new user who newly uses the agent service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA