Patents by Inventor Yasushi Okumura

Yasushi Okumura 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: 20230252710
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Takurou NODA, Yasushi OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 11670034
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Takurou Noda, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11654353
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the us
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
  • Publication number: 20230079835
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an obtaining section configured to obtain position information of a plurality of parts of a photographing target, a deriving section configured to derive a length between two parts, and a production control section configured to perform production on the basis of the derived length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi OKUMURA, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Udupi Ramanath BHAT, Naoki OGISHITA, Goro TAKAKI, Shusuke ESHITA, Matthew FORREST
  • Publication number: 20230030442
    Abstract: A robot has a generally cubic body portion on propulsion elements. The robot turns its head in accordance with a remote person turning his head, and also presents, on a display representing the face of the robot, a full-face image representing the person even when the person is being imaged in profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: NAOKI OGISHITA, TSUBASA TSUKAHARA, FUMIHIKO IIDA, RYUICHI SUZUKI, KAREN MURATA, JUN MOMOSE, KOTARA IMAMURA, Yasushi Okumura, Ramanath Bhat, Daisuke Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11501552
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus that receives information regarding a motion of user's fingers and information regarding a shape of user's hands, generates first pose information indicative of a pose of user's hands in accordance with the received information regarding the motion of user's fingers, generates second pose information indicative of a pose of user's hands in accordance with the received information regarding the shape of user's hands, combines the generated first pose information with the generated second pose information in accordance with criteria based on a predetermined condition, and generates and outputs information indicative of the pose of user's hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Mori, Yasushi Okumura
  • Publication number: 20220335734
    Abstract: A head-mounted display, a display control method, and a program that facilitate a user to understand proximity between the user and an object around the user are provided. A display block (36) is arranged in front of the eyes of the user wearing a HMD (12). In accordance with proximity between the user and an object around the user, the HMD (12) controls the display block (36) so as to have the user visually recognize a forward direction of the display block (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichiro NAKAMURA, Yasushi OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20220283632
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a virtual space to be displayed on a head-mounted display, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire plural kinds of information relating to the virtual space, an image generation unit configured to generate a displaying image in which the plural components for displaying the plural kinds of information and a controller object corresponding to a controller grasped by a user are disposed in the virtual space, and an output unit configured to cause the head-mounted display to display the displaying image. The image generation unit generates a displaying image in which a component selected by the controller object from the plural components is placed in a selected state, and generates a displaying image in which the display substance in the component in the selected state are updated based on an operation inputted to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yurika MULASE, Yasushi OKUMURA, Kyosuke UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220277438
    Abstract: A platform to accurately detect user pose/verify against a reference ground truth and provide feedback using an accuracy score that represents the deviation of the user pose from the reference ground truth, typically established by an expert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Udupi Ramanath Bhat, Yasushi Okumura, Fabio Cappello
  • Patent number: 11417126
    Abstract: A head-mounted display, a display control method, and a program that facilitate a user to understand proximity between the user and an object around the user are provided. A display block (36) is arranged in front of the eyes of the user wearing a HMD (12). In accordance with proximity between the user and an object around the user, the HMD (12) controls the display block (36) so as to have the user visually recognize a forward direction of the display block (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11385759
    Abstract: A virtual object is arranged in a virtual space, and an image in the virtual space is generated to be presented to a user. In addition, information indicating an operation from the user is received, a virtual manipulator for operating the virtual object is displayed in the virtual space in accordance with the received information indicating the operation, the magnitude of a virtual force applied to the virtual object by the virtual manipulator is determined, and information indicating the determined magnitude of the force is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hiroshi Matsuike, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11340714
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a movement information acquisition part acquiring information which is based on movement of an operation device, and a control information generation part generating, based on the information, control information for changing a display status continuously in a non-linear manner according to the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Atsushi Izumihara, Yoshihito Ohki, Yasushi Okumura, Fuminori Homma, Akemi Tazaki, Shoichiro Moriya
  • Patent number: 11334978
    Abstract: A platform to accurately detect user pose/verify against a reference ground truth and provide feedback using an accuracy score that represents the deviation of the user pose from the reference ground truth, typically established by an expert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Udupi Ramanath Bhat, Yasushi Okumura, Fabio Cappello
  • Patent number: 11281292
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a first device fixed to a left hand of a user and a second device fixed to a right hand of the user: detects positions of the first device and the second device; and calculates information associated with sizes of the hands of the user on the basis of the difference between the detected positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11275273
    Abstract: An optical device (10) includes a first substrate (11) and a second substrate (12) facing each other, a liquid crystal component (13) between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (12), a first electrode (18) and a second electrode (19) located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side, and a first alignment layer (14) that is located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side and controls the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal component (13), wherein an interface between the liquid crystal component (13) and the first alignment layer (14) forms a non-glide weak anchoring interface (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Yamamoto, Koki Takamoto, Takeaki Araki, Waki Sakatsuji, Hirotsugu Kikuchi, Yasushi Okumura, Koji Fujikawa, Yu Fukunaga, Kiyoshi Minoura, Koji Murata, Isa Nishiyama, Koichi Endo
  • Publication number: 20220062757
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the us
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
  • Patent number: 11231587
    Abstract: A line-of-sight direction detection section 32 detects a direction of a line of sight of a user wearing a head-mounted display. A main image generation section 42 generates a first image regarding main content selected by the user as an item to be displayed on the head-mounted display. A display control section 50 causes the head-mounted display to display a second image regarding content different from the main content for promoting recognition of a given thing or service together with the first image. The display control section 50 controls a manner in which the second image is displayed on the head-mounted display in accordance with the direction of the user's line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Yasushi Okumura, Yurika Mulase
  • Publication number: 20220005251
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takurou NODA, Yasushi OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 11198060
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
  • Patent number: D943615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shinohara, Yasushi Okumura, Shinpei Yamaguchi