Patents by Inventor Yohei Fukuma

Yohei Fukuma 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: 12260020
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Ayumi Nakagawa, Yohei Fukuma, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12194365
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit that detects a skill level difference between a first user and a second user on the basis of sensing data regarding the first user and sensing data regarding the second user having a skill level lower than a skill level of the first user, and a presentation unit that dynamically changes and presents, during performance, skill level difference suppression information that reduces the skill level difference to at least one of the first and second users on the basis of the skill level difference detected. The sensing data is acquired through at least performance and the like performed by moving at least a part of a body of the users and other performance performed in the past with respect to the performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240427422
    Abstract: An information processing system includes the following units. A signal generation unit 303 generates a vibration signal on the basis of vibration measured by a microphone 110 provided at a mat speaker 10 and a result of detection of an object placed on the mat speaker 10. A signal output unit 392 vibrates a vibrator 120 on the basis of the vibration signal generated by the signal generation unit 303.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Minatsu SUGIMOTO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Osamu ITO, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Keijiroh NAGANO, Ikuo YAMANO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI, Yohei FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 12141357
    Abstract: An information processor (10m) includes a control unit (104). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device (2) and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (2), the control unit (104) generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama, Takamoto Tsuda
  • Patent number: 12118150
    Abstract: There is provided a control device according to the present technology to improve an accuracy of force sense presentation while preventing hindrance to a free motion of a target part when a user does not touch a virtual object. The control device includes a control unit that controls a force sense presentation apparatus, which includes a first member that is displaced mechanically in conjunction with a motion of a target part of a user, a second member that is displaceable in a direction of coming into contact with or separating from the first member, and a drive part that drives the second member and performs force sense presentation with respect to the target part, such that a driving state of the second member is changed according to a positional relationship between a virtual object and the target part in a virtual space in which the virtual object is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Tajima, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20240295925
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that acquires, according to an input from a first user, each of control commands including presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (302) that generates, according to each of the control commands, each of haptic control signals to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit, and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes each of the haptic control signals to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 12053101
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that can appropriately give the user the effect of vibration presented in association with the content. The information processing device includes a vibration control unit that individually controls vibration presented to a user in association with a content by each of a plurality of vibration presenting units on the basis of a characteristic of the user and positions of the vibration presenting units. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that presents vibration by a device that supports the users body, a device that the user wears, or a device that the user operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12017250
    Abstract: A vibration presentation apparatus (100) including: a connection plate (120); and a plurality of cells (110) spaced apart from each other on the connection plate (120), in which the cells (110) each include: a vibration device (112); a first elastic body (113); a vibration presentation plate (111) on which the vibration device (112) and the first elastic body (113) are disposed; and a support member (114) that is interposed between the first elastic body (113) and the connection plate (120), and supports the vibration presentation plate (111) through the first elastic body (113).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma
  • Publication number: 20240161438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus (40) including an information acquisition unit (402) that acquires operation information concerning user operation performed a virtual object superimposed and displayed on a real space or a virtual space and a sense of force control unit (408) that outputs, based on the operation information, via a sense-of-force device attached to a part of a body of a user, a sense of force for causing the user to recognize weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, TAHA MORIYAMA, MASANORI OKAZAKI, OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA, AYUMI NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11983324
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the tactile control signal corresponds to at least one of a presentation timing, frequency, interval, waveform, presentation time, and intensity of the tactile stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Takuma Domae
  • Patent number: 11977681
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first detection unit that detects contact of fingertips on the basis of an output waveform of an acceleration sensor; a second detection unit that detects the contact of the fingertips on the basis of a change in electrostatic capacitance; and an operation control unit that causes the first detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips come into contact with each other, and causes the second detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Daisuke Tajima, Yohei Fukuma
  • Patent number: 11947715
    Abstract: A control device according to an embodiment includes: a winding unit (30, 3001) that unwinds a wire having one end movably held by a user in a direction of the one end and winds the wire by an elastic force in a direction away from the one end, a wire lock unit (30, 3002) that locks unwinding of the wire from the winding unit, and a control unit (100) that controls an operation by the wire lock unit of locking the unwinding according to a relationship between a position of a virtual object disposed in a virtual space and a position, in the virtual space, corresponding to a position of the one end in a real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Taha Moriyama, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11941177
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command, inputted by a first user, including positional information for designating a presentation position at which to present a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus, a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation position in response to the control command, and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the first distribution unit distributes, according to a predetermined rule, the tactile control signal related to the control command inputted by each of a plurality of the first users to the tactile presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240028123
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that acquires, according to an input from a first user, a control command including presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control commands, a first haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the first haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of each of a plurality of second users designated by the input by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240009581
    Abstract: A tactile presentation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a movable member, an elastic portion, and at least one drive unit. The elastic portion supports the movable member. The at least one drive unit is connected to the movable member, moves the movable member so as to elastically deform the elastic portion, and is capable of keeping the elastic portion elastically deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, YOHEI FUKUMA, TAHA MORIYAMA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240004471
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that is based on an input from a first user and that includes presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control command, a haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user. The haptic control signal corresponds to a predetermined image that is superimposed on an image of a real space distributed to the first user and that is generated on a basis of the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230350491
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first detection unit that detects contact of fingertips on the basis of an output waveform of an acceleration sensor; a second detection unit that detects the contact of the fingertips on the basis of a change in electrostatic capacitance; and an operation control unit that causes the first detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips come into contact with each other, and causes the second detection unit to operate in a case of detecting timing at which the fingertips are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: IKUO YAMANO, DAISUKE TAJIMA, YOHEI FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 11738262
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system (1) that performs generation and reproduction of control data of a haptic presentation device assuming that a control is performed in synchronization with a reproduction content, and there is provided an information processor (10), which makes it possible to achieve reduction in a burden of processing and improvement in convenience, including a control unit (104) that generates a script in which time information on the reproduction content and a control command of the haptic presentation device are associated with each other, in which the control command includes position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in the haptic presentation device, and haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama, Takamoto Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11709550
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, a method for processing information, and a program capable of adjusting a perceptual position of a tactile stimulus even with one tactile stimulus unit. The information processing apparatus (20) includes an output control unit (120) that performs output control of a vibration on at least one tactile stimulus unit (130), in which the output control unit changes a frequency of the vibration to be output from the tactile stimulus unit depending on a position of the tactile stimulus unit and predetermined positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano
  • Publication number: 20230168733
    Abstract: A control device according to an embodiment includes: a winding unit (30, 3001) that unwinds a wire having one end movably held by a user in a direction of the one end and winds the wire by an elastic force in a direction away from the one end, a wire lock unit (30, 3002) that locks unwinding of the wire from the winding unit, and a control unit (100) that controls an operation by the wire lock unit of locking the unwinding according to a relationship between a position of a virtual object disposed in a virtual space and a position, in the virtual space, corresponding to a position of the one end in a real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, TAKESHI OGITA, YOHEI FUKUMA, TAHA MORIYAMA, IKUO YAMANO