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).

  • Publication number: 20230152891
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takeshi OGITA, Osamu ITO, Yohei FUKUMA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11650665
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a tactile presentation apparatus and a tactile presentation control method with which the types of tactile sensations which can be presented by means of vibration can be increased. The tactile presentation apparatus includes a first member and a second member which can vibrate individually and a first bending portion that bends between the first member and the second member and that changes the relative direction between the first member and the second member. The present technology can be applied to devices that a user operates while holding the device in a hand, for example in a theatrical performance, a movie, or an attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Takeshi Ogita, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230038998
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takeshi OGITA, Osamu ITO, Yohei FUKUMA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Kentaro NAKAMURA, Takuma DOMAE
  • Publication number: 20230033892
    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 accordance with the control command; and a 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 acquisition unit (214) acquires the positional information inputted by an operation of the first user on a position selection screen with which to designate the presentation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Takeshi OGITA, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yohei FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20230009322
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220374083
    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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke TAJIMA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Patent number: 11350751
    Abstract: There is provided a tactile presentation device capable of realizing easier wearing/removal and contact of a tactile stimulation unit in an appropriate position. The tactile presentation device is provided with an attaching unit to a back plate of a chair, and a wearing belt portion to a body provided so as to be extendable and contractable on the attaching unit, in which one or more first tactile stimulation units are provided on the attaching unit, and one or more second tactile stimulation units are provided on the wearing belt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamoto Tsuda, Yusuke Otani, Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma
  • Publication number: 20220152468
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a skill level difference detection unit configured to detect 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 configured to dynamically change and present, 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, TAKESHI OGITA, YOHEI FUKUMA, IKUO YAMANO, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220144172
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result on light outside a mobile object; an analyzer configured to determine a position of projection of content in the mobile object based on the detection result on the light outside the mobile object; and a display controller configured to perform control on projection of the content onto the determined position of projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: YOHEI FUKUMA, KEN OOTSUKA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, TORU NAGARA, HIROSHI TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220057864
    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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takamoto TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210349538
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a tactile presentation apparatus and a tactile presentation control method with which the types of tactile sensations which can be presented by means of vibration can be increased. The tactile presentation apparatus includes a first member and a second member which can vibrate individually and a first bending portion that bends between the first member and the second member and that changes the relative direction between the first member and the second member. The present technology can be applied to devices that a user operates while holding the device in a hand, for example in a theatrical performance, a movie, or an attraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA, TAKESHI OGITA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11169609
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of realizing pseudo sensory presentation with a higher degree of freedom by a combination of a tactile sense and an auditory sense. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform a stimulus output control of controlling output of stimuli from a plurality of tactile stimulators, and a sound output control of controlling output of sound from a sound output unit, wherein the control unit performs the stimulus output control and the sound output control in a linked manner so that perception is made at a perceptual position indicated by predetermined position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Fukuma, Osamu Ito, Ikuo Yamano, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20210339127
    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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ITO, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takamoto TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11146771
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device, display control method, and program capable of executing control such that information can be displayed more appropriately and efficiently according to an environment in which information is displayed or a situation of displayed information, the display control device including: a display control unit configured to decide a display region of a display object to be displayed on a display surface according to information regarding a real object on the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Takayuki Sakamoto, Tomohiro Ishii, Atsushi Izumihara, Masayuki Yamada, Yohei Fukuma, Yuzuru Kimura, Yasushi Okumura, Takashi Shibuya, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20210268645
    Abstract: A control apparatus including: a control unit (110) configured to compare a weight related to a current operating environment calculated based on detected information that is detected at a current position of a control object with a predetermined threshold that is set to determination criteria of a known operating environment and, based on a comparison result, determine an operation of the control object in the current operating environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: KIYOKAZU MIYAZAWA, KAZUO HONGO, MASAYA KINOSHITA, YOHEI FUKUMA, YASUFUMI HAYASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210252553
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, OSAMU ITO, YOHEI FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20210235871
    Abstract: There is provided a tactile presentation device capable of realizing easier wearing/removal and contact of a tactile stimulation unit in an appropriate position. The tactile presentation device is provided with an attaching unit to a back plate of a chair, and a wearing belt portion to a body provided so as to be extendable and contractable on the attaching unit, in which one or more first tactile stimulation units are provided on the attaching unit, and one or more second tactile stimulation units are provided on the wearing belt portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamoto TSUDA, Yusuke OTANI, Ikuo YAMANO, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20210186219
    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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei FUKUMA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210132695
    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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Takeshi OGITA, Yohei FUKUMA, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Patent number: 10993018
    Abstract: Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality is improved. Included are a support fixed to a mount base, a speaker unit including a portion to be fixed, and a base casing holding the speaker unit, and the speaker unit is fixed to the support and the base casing with the portion to be fixed being sandwiched between the support and the base casing. With this configuration, the speaker unit will be held stably, a great oscillation from a diaphragm of the speaker unit is less transmitted to the parts other than the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the member holding the speaker unit, or the like. Generation of a secondary sound source is inhibited, and a sound quality can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Kikuchi, Yohei Fukuma, Nobukazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Matsutani, Yoshio Ohashi, Yasuo Kawabata