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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Patent number: 9876781Abstract: A login controller has a function of allowing a user to log in to an information processing apparatus. A sign-in controller has a function of allowing the user to sign in to a network service provided by a server. At login time, a login information receiving unit receives a pass code input by the user for login authentication. A login processing unit performs login authentication using the received pass code. If it is determined that the pass code received by the login processing unit is incorrect, a sign-in processing unit causes the user to sign out of the network service. When the user again signs in to the network service, a screen generating unit receives the pass code for login authentication. A registration processing section then registers the received pass code in a registered user information holding section as a new pass code.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 9844722Abstract: A game system includes a game device used by first and second users and a controller. The game device includes: an association section associating the controller with the first user using the controller; a first process executing section executing a process of a general-purpose function in accordance with first operating information acquired from the controller when the general-purpose function, not associated with the users, executes; and a second process executing section executing a process of a first user function in accordance with second operating information acquired from the controller when the first user function, associated with the first user, executes.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Syunsuke Bamba, Yoshihiko Suwa
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
Publication number: 20170225082Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Yoshiyuki Imada, Shigetaka Kudo -
Patent number: 9716712Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user from an imaging device; a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication section configured to execute authentication processing of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; a shooting condition controller configured to adjust a shooting condition to bring a characteristic of the face image close to a characteristic of a face image of an acquisition source of the face identification data and make the imaging device perform shooting in order to improve an authentication result in the face authentication section; and an information processing section configured to execute information processing on the basis of an authentication result of a face image obtained by adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20170169287Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka TOKUNAGA, Keigo TAMURA, Yoshihiko SUWA, Shoichi IKENOUE, Tomohiro OGAWA
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Patent number: 9639683Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input receiving section receiving an input; a display control section changing a display screen to a first screen when the input receiving section has not received any input for a predetermined time; a registered user information retaining section retaining biological information of a plurality of users registered in the information processing device; a biological information obtaining portion obtaining biological information; and a biometric authenticating portion determining whether a user whose biological information is obtained by the biological information obtaining portion is a registered user by comparing the obtained biological information with the biological information of the plurality of users retained in the registered user information retaining section.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yuji Nakamura, Toru Ogiso, Keigo Tamura
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Publication number: 20160332082Abstract: A login processing unit 132 performs a login process of a user. An assignment processing unit 130 assigns an inputting device connected to an information processing apparatus 10 to a user. An assignment processing unit 136 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 136 assigns, when the number of users in a login state is one, the inputting device connected to the information processing apparatus 10 to the one user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Yoshihiko Suwa, Shigeru Enomoto
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Publication number: 20160301692Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Shoichi Ikenoue, Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20160250548Abstract: A game system includes a game device used by first and second users and a controller. The game device includes: an association section associating the controller with the first user using the controller; a first process executing section executing a process of a general-purpose function in accordance with first operating information acquired from the controller when the general-purpose function, not associated with the users, executes; and a second process executing section executing a process of a first user function in accordance with second operating information acquired from the controller when the first user function, associated with the first user, executes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Syunsuke Bamba, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 9363466Abstract: When an accepting section 102 accepts an order to acquire image data, an image data acquirer 104 acquires image data from a memory section 130 and compresses it in the JPEG format. An orientation identifier 122 identifies orientation information of an image processing device 10 by using a detection value of an acceleration sensor. A direction identifier 124 identifies the azimuthal angle of a lens optical axis by using a detection value of a geomagnetic sensor and orientation information identified by the orientation identifier 122. If it is determined by the orientation identifier 122 that the image processing device 10 is in a horizontal orientation, the direction identifier 124 identifies the azimuthal angle of the lens optical axis from a predetermined direction in the image processing device 10 and the detection value of the geomagnetic sensor without using the lens optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Publication number: 20160112399Abstract: A login controller has a function of allowing a user to log in to an information processing apparatus. A sign-in controller has a function of allowing the user to sign in to a network service provided by a server. At login time, a login information receiving unit receives a pass code input by the user for login authentication. A login processing unit performs login authentication using the received pass code. If it is determined that the pass code received by the login processing unit is incorrect, a sign-in processing unit causes the user to sign out of the network service. When the user again signs in to the network service, a screen generating unit receives the pass code for login authentication. A registration processing section then registers the received pass code in a registered user information holding section as a new pass code.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Tomohiro Ogawa, Yoshihiko Suwa, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20160110588Abstract: An information processing device includes: an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user from an imaging device; a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication section configured to execute authentication processing of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; a shooting condition controller configured to adjust a shooting condition to bring a characteristic of the face image close to a characteristic of a face image of an acquisition source of the face identification data and make the imaging device perform shooting in order to improve an authentication result in the face authentication section; and an information processing section configured to execute information processing on the basis of an authentication result of a face image obtained by adjustment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Shoichi IKENOUE, Yoshihiko SUWA
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Publication number: 20150294098Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input receiving section receiving an input; a display control section changing a display screen to a first screen when the input receiving section has not received any input for a predetermined time; a registered user information retaining section retaining biological information of a plurality of users registered in the information processing device; a biological information obtaining portion obtaining biological information; and a biometric authenticating portion determining whether a user whose biological information is obtained by the biological information obtaining portion is a registered user by comparing the obtained biological information with the biological information of the plurality of users retained in the registered user information retaining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Yoshihiko SUWA, Akitsugu TSUCHIYA, Yuji NAKAMURA, Toru OGISO, Keigo TAMURA
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Publication number: 20140092278Abstract: When an accepting section 102 accepts an order to acquire image data, an image data acquirer 104 acquires image data from a memory section 130 and compresses it in the JPEG format. An orientation identifier 122 identifies orientation information of an image processing device 10 by using a detection value of an acceleration sensor. A direction identifier 124 identifies the azimuthal angle of a lens optical axis by using a detection value of a geomagnetic sensor and orientation information identified by the orientation identifier 122. If it is determined by the orientation identifier 122 that the image processing device 10 is in a horizontal orientation, the direction identifier 124 identifies the azimuthal angle of the lens optical axis from a predetermined direction in the image processing device 10 and the detection value of the geomagnetic sensor without using the lens optical axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Yoshihiko Suwa