Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Suwa
Yoshihiko Suwa 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).
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Publication number: 20230293980Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the transmitting includes outputting, to the display device, a confirmation screen prompting the user to confirm that there is an obstacle, prior to outputting the data of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 11697062Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to the detection field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20220288496Abstract: A management section 122 allows a user A to sign in to a server. A user data acquiring section 136 acquires, from the server, data regarding a user B who is associated with the user A in the server but who is not yet registered in an information processing device 10. A user data holding section 138 holds data regarding the user A and the data regarding the user B that has been acquired. A login screen generation section 124 uses data held by the user data holding section 138 and displays a login screen including information regarding the user A and information regarding the user B.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Yoshihiko SUWA, Takuya SATO
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Publication number: 20220237307Abstract: A request acceptance section 160 accepts a use restriction removal request from a user restricted from using a processing target. A screen generation section 164 generates an approval screen for approving the removal request. The screen generation section 164 generates the approval screen including either information regarding an approval of the removal request or information for verifying content of the processing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Yoshihiko SUWA, Kosuke SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210374219Abstract: An input device for inputting a user operation includes a data-for-authentication holding unit that holds data for authentication regarding one or more registered users, a fingerprint sensor that accepts fingerprint information of a user, and a fingerprint authentication unit that checks the accepted fingerprint information against the data for authentication regarding the one or more registered users. When the fingerprint authentication unit 84 succeeds in biometric authentication, a communication unit transmits a network account of the user to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a user authentication unit that checks the received network account against network accounts of registered users held in a registered user information holding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Masayuki Ebata, Yasunori Yasuda, Yoshiyuki Imada, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yu Sugita, Takashi Isa
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Patent number: 11123641Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a holding unit configured to hold setting information regarding parental control for each user in association with user identification information, and a limit processing unit configured to limit usage of a predetermined function or device by the user on a basis of the setting information held by the holding unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Itsuki Asanuma, Makoto Oshita, Seiichi Adachi, Marc Horne, Hidekazu Ii, Yoshihiko Suwa, Shigeru Enomoto, Syunsuke Bamba, Kei Sato, Kenjiro Komaki, Fumikazu Hatanaka
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Patent number: 10967268Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided in which, if a plurality of users alternately use manipulation devices, who is to execute a manipulation input through which manipulation device can be guided in an easy-to-understand manner. An information processing apparatus connected with a plurality of manipulation devices to receive manipulation inputs from a plurality of users is configured to hold allocation information for allocating each of the plurality of manipulation devices to each of the plurality of users and display, on a screen of a display apparatus, a guide image including information for identifying a user before change and information for identifying a user after change if, in the allocation information, a user to whom any one of the plurality of manipulation devices is allocated is changed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Suwa, Tomohiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20210086069Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to the detection field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 10888772Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a target object; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that a user needs to be warned when the target object moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, the determining including causing the generating to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to boundary surfaces of the field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20200047063Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a target object; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that a user needs to be warned when the target object moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, the determining including causing the generating to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to boundary surfaces of the field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 10486062Abstract: In a real space that includes a user, predetermined rules are used to set boundary surfaces of a play area in reference to boundary surfaces of the field of view of an imaging device. If the user gets out of the play area, a warning state determining section determines that there is a need for a warning and superposes a warning image on a display image. A direction in the real space or the state therein, for example, is used to determine whether or not margin areas are to be set between the boundary surfaces of the play area and the boundary surfaces of the field of view, or how wide the margin areas are to be.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 10447996Abstract: When a device is started up in the first time, for example, an initial image and various kinds of information are displayed and setting inputs are received. In parallel with the above, a photographed image is acquired and calibration is performed. At this time, first, if there is no need for measures by a user such as a direction of a camera is corrected, the calibration is performed. If the measures by the user are needed or the calibration is ended unsuccessfully, the stage number n is advanced by one, and the calibration is repeated while presenting information on the measures in the order of a low burden on the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 10434419Abstract: A login processing unit performs a login process of a user. An assignment processing unit assigns an inputting device connected to an information processing apparatus to a user. An assignment processing unit controls an assignment process of the inputting device in response to the number of users who are in a login state and executes an assignment process which is different between a case in which the number of users in a login state is one and another case in which the number of users in a login state is two or more. The assignment processing unit assigns, when the number of users in a login state is one, the inputting device connected to the information processing apparatus to the one user.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Suwa, Shigeru Enomoto
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Information processing apparatus, control data transmission method and information processing system
Patent number: 10369479Abstract: A content execution unit executes a game program, and a sharing processing unit manages the control right of a content. A distribution processing unit transmits content image data to a different information processing apparatus. The sharing processing unit includes an information acquisition unit acquiring operation information of a controller from the different information processing apparatus, an operation data provision unit providing the acquired operation information to the game program, a control data acquisition unit acquiring control data for a control target unit of the controller from the game program, and a control data provision unit providing the control data to a controller of the different information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Yoshiyuki Imada, Shigetaka Kudo -
Patent number: 10362028Abstract: A picked up image displaying unit displays a picked up image on a display unit. A face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in the picked up image using face identification data retained in a registered user information retaining block. A position designation image processing unit displays a position designation image for designating a position of an object for the detected registered user on the display unit. An object authentication unit detects that an object image is included in the region designated by the position designation image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10248846Abstract: An image obtaining section 106 obtains an imaged image from an imaging device. A face authenticating section 132 detects a face image of a registered user present in the imaged image using face identifying data retained in a registered user information retaining section 180. A damage determining section 142 determines whether or not the face identifying data read from the registered user information retaining section 180 by a face data reading section 130 is damaged. If the face identifying data is determined to be damaged, a notifying section 144 notifies that the face identifying data is damaged.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Yoshihiko Suwa, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa
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Publication number: 20190022533Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a holding unit configured to hold setting information regarding parental control for each user in association with user identification information, and a limit processing unit configured to limit usage of a predetermined function or device by the user on a basis of the setting information held by the holding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicants: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Itsuki ASANUMA, Makoto OSHITA, Seiichi ADACHI, Marc HORNE, Hidekazu Ii, Yoshihiko SUWA, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Syunsuke BAMBA, Kei SATO, Kenjiro KOMAKI, Fumikazu HATANAKA
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Publication number: 20180318704Abstract: In a real space that includes a user, predetermined rules are used to set boundary surfaces of a play area in reference to boundary surfaces of the field of view of an imaging device. If the user gets out of the play area 181, a warning state determining section determines that there is a need for a warning and superposes a warning image on a display image. A direction in the real space or the state therein, for example, is used to determine whether or not margin areas are to be set between the boundary surfaces of the play area and the boundary surfaces of the field of view, or how wide the margin areas are to be.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20180288400Abstract: When a device is started up in the first time, for example, an initial image and various kinds of information are displayed and setting inputs are received. In parallel with the above, a photographed image is acquired and calibration is performed. At this time, first, if there is no need for measures by a user such as a direction of a camera is corrected, the calibration is performed. If the measures by the user are needed or the calibration is ended unsuccessfully, the stage number n is advanced by one, and the calibration is repeated while presenting information on the measures in the order of a low burden on the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20180085671Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided in which, if a plurality of users alternately use manipulation devices, who is to execute a manipulation input through which manipulation device can be guided in an easy-to-understand manner. An information processing apparatus connected with a plurality of manipulation devices to receive manipulation inputs from a plurality of users is configured to hold allocation information for allocating each of the plurality of manipulation devices to each of the plurality of users and display, on a screen of a display apparatus, a guide image including information for identifying a user before change and information for identifying a user after change if, in the allocation information, a user to whom any one of the plurality of manipulation devices is allocated is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Suwa, Tomohiro Ogawa