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: 20200108320
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to provide interaction with characters not only in a game but also outside the game. [Solution] An information processor that performs control to notify a user of a message from a game character involved with the user in a game, through a community service on the basis of registered community service access information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200076908
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method capable of grasping propagation of acts in a society. [Solution] An information processing system including: a communication unit configured to acquire act information indicating occurrence of a first act from a first user to a second user; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate 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 configured to, 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, perform control to record the first act and the second act in association with each other in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190340910
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including a control unit that acquires current situation information of a first user based on an attribute of the first user and a current situation of the first user, and a communication unit that, in accordance with control by the control unit, transmits the current situation information of the first user to a surrounding communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10460587
    Abstract: Radio wave information is observed in a predetermined environment. Information related to the radio wave is compared to new radio wave information. In a case where a result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition, a user is provided with a predetermined function. In an embodiment, positional information showing a position where the radio wave information is acquired and a time stamp is recorded for comparison, and in a case where the newly acquired radio wave information is radio wave information corresponding to a suspicious-person, a warning is issued to a user. In an embodiment, in a case where predetermined pieces of home radio wave information are not detected within a predetermined period, a system is operated to manage a house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Ihara, Yasushi Miyajima, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Patent number: 10403112
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device, an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method capable of acquiring a user's situation and notifying surroundings, and thereby encourage unobtrusive acts of kindness. [Solution] Provided is a communication device including: a control unit that acquires current situation information of a first user based on an attribute of the first user and a current situation of the first user; and a communication unit that, in accordance with control by the control unit, transmits the current situation information of the first user to a surrounding communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10318028
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a control device including a detection unit configured to detect, as a manipulation region, at least a part of a substantial object present at a position at which a user is estimated to be able to perform a manipulation, a function setting unit configured to perform setting in a manner that a predetermined function matches the manipulation region detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to perform the function matched with the manipulation region based on a positional relation between the manipulation region and a manipulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Seiji Wada, Hiroaki Ogawa, Hiroshi Mukawa, Tatsuya Narahara, Motoyuki Takai, Yasushi Miyajima, Ikuo Tsukagoshi, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Masashi Takeda, Akira Tange, Kazuhide Kemmochi, Ichigo Hayakawa, Takao Tanikame
  • Publication number: 20190164218
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an agent robot control system, an agent robot system, an agent robot control method, and a storage medium that can support optimum shopping in a physical shop and an online shop. [Solution] An agent robot control system including: an acquisition section configured to acquire a purchase master list indicating a candidate of a purchase commercial product of a user; and a control section configured to generate a purchase execution list for recommending purchase in a physical shop for a partial commercial product of the purchase master list, and recommending purchase in an online shop for another commercial product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10302444
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system and a control method which are capable of generating more optimal guidance information in view of a relationship of a plurality of users. The information processing system includes a user specifying unit configured to specify a plurality of users who are performing an action together; an estimating unit configured to estimate a relationship of the plurality of specified users; and a generating unit configured to generate guidance information for the plurality of users in accordance with the estimated relationship of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10298876
    Abstract: An information processing system, a control method and a non-transitory storage medium through which reproduction that matches characteristics of devices of a playback side can be performed by generating abstracted presence reproduction information are provided. The information processing system includes: a generation unit that generates abstracted presence reproduction information depending on features extracted from content data; and a storage controller that controls the presence reproduction information generated by the generation unit to be stored in association with the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10291848
    Abstract: When a user viewing an image of a conversation partner displayed on a display moves, a displayed image is more easily switched to an image reflecting a position of the user after the movement. When an image of a first user is displayed on a display of a second user, the image of the first user taken by an imaging device and an image of a background taken by the imaging device are acquired, and the acquired images are composited with each other, thereby displaying on the display a composite image in which the first user is positioned in front of the background. Moreover, when a movement of the face of the second user with respect to the display is detected, transition processing of causing the composite image displayed on the display to transition from a state before the detection of the movement of the face is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignees: Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Tsukasa Nakano, Takashi Orime, Yuichiro Takeuchi, Junichi Rekimoto, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10228895
    Abstract: An image display device which is used by being mounted on the head or face of a user includes a display unit which displays an image; an information maintaining unit which maintains user information of the user; a region specifying unit which specifies an attention region from a field of vision of the user based on the user information; an image processing unit which performs image processing with respect to the attention region; and a display control unit which displays the attention region after being subjected to the image processing on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyajima, Yoichiro Sako, Motoyuki Takai, Hiroshi Mukawa, Tatsuya Narahara, Masashi Takeda, Hiroaki Ogawa, Seiji Wada, Ichigo Hayakawa, Akira Tange, Takao Tanikame, Kazuhide Kemmochi
  • Publication number: 20190050708
    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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10182206
    Abstract: In an image display system for viewing, by a user in a first space, an image of a second space remote from the first space, image data indicating an image acquired by an imaging device placed in the second space is received from the imaging device. A partial image of the image indicated by the received image data is displayed on a display screen in the first space, the partial image having a display size corresponding to the size of the display screen. At least one of the position, the facial direction, the visual line, or the facial position of the user in the first space is detected by a detector. When a detection result of the detector changes while the partial image is being displayed, it is determined which partial image of the image indicated by the image data is to be displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignees: Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Hiroki Matsumoto, Tsukasa Nakano, Takashi Orime, Yuichiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20180241701
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180211507
    Abstract: [Object] To utilize radio waves existing in the surroundings to further improve user convenience. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit configured to control processing of recording radio wave information concerning a radio wave observed in a predetermined environment and related information related to the radio wave information in association with each other, comparing the newly acquired radio wave information and the recorded radio wave information, and in a case where a result of comparison satisfies a predetermined condition, providing a user with a predetermined function on a basis of related information related to the newly acquired radio wave information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo IHARA, Yasushi MIYAJIMA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20180204436
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device, an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method capable of acquiring a user's situation and notifying surroundings, and thereby encourage unobtrusive acts of kindness. [Solution] Provided is a communication device including: a control unit that acquires current situation information of a first user based on an attribute of the first user and a current situation of the first user; and a communication unit that, in accordance with control by the control unit, transmits the current situation information of the first user to a surrounding communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: YASUSHI MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180205912
    Abstract: In an image display system for viewing, by a user in a first space, an image of a second space remote from the first space, image data indicating an image acquired by an imaging device placed in the second space is received from the imaging device. A partial image of the image indicated by the received image data is displayed on a display screen in the first space, the partial image having a display size corresponding to the size of the display screen. At least one of the position, the facial direction, the visual line, or the facial position of the user in the first space is detected by a detector. When a detection result of the detector changes while the partial image is being displayed, it is determined which partial image of the image indicated by the image data is to be displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Hiroki Matsumoto, Tsukasa Nakano, Takashi Orime, Yuichiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20180182231
    Abstract: [Object] To automatically distinguish whether an occupant is at home or not and to control an operating state of a management system of a house more simply. [Solution] An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a radio wave information learning section configured to record a plurality of pieces of radio wave information detected in a house and learn radio wave information of a plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house on a basis of the recorded radio wave information; and a control section configured to compare newly detected radio wave information and the radio wave information of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house based on a result of the learning, and perform processing for changing an operating state of a system that manages the house in a case where none of the plurality of terminals supposed to be in the house were detected for a prescribed time or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi MIYAJIMA, Atsushi SHIONOZAKI
  • Patent number: RE47298
    Abstract: A time-shift image distribution system includes an image server and a time-shift image requesting apparatus. The image server includes a first communication unit configured to carry out communications with the time-shift image requesting apparatus, an image database configured to store image data of captured images in association with meta information for image data of a captured image matching search-condition information, and an image providing unit configured to provide the image data of the captured image detected by the searching unit to the time-shift image requesting apparatus. The time-shift image requesting apparatus includes a second communication unit configured to carry out communications with the image server, and a unit configured to send a search request including information representing an imaging time and information for identifying a subject image as search-condition information to the image server via the second communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyajima, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Masamichi Asukai, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: RE47948
    Abstract: By allowing the movement of a user to affect the playback of content, the entertainment characteristic or uplifting spirits derived from content playback itself can be enhanced. The timing at which the user places his/her foot on the ground while walking or the timing at which the user shakes or changes from swinging in one direction to swinging to another direction is detected. Then, content, such as a music piece or moving pictures, is played back by allowing the timing of beats or bars of the music piece or the timing of scene changes or cut changes of the moving pictures to be synchronized with the timing of the movement of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki Takai, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako, Yasushi Miyajima, Kosei Yamashita, Makoto Inoue, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Kenichi Makino