Patents by Inventor Yosuke Hiratsuka

Yosuke Hiratsuka 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: 20240113891
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method capable of more accurately determining authenticity of an image. An image of a subject is acquired by capturing an optical image from the subject, 3D information is acquired from the optical image on the same optical axis as the image, and a signature of the image and the 3D information is generated. Furthermore, by comparing the image with the 3D information acquired on the same optical axis as the image, authenticity of the image is confirmed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 11928189
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an electronic device capable of appropriately perform update of a license provided by an information processing apparatus and used in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a key generation unit that generates a device unique key that is a key unique to every device, and a license management unit that updates a license in a case where an extension code generated by a predetermined method on the basis of the device unique key, first data different for every installation of the license provided by an information processing apparatus, and second data different depending on the number of times of update of the license coincides with an input extension code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 11816191
    Abstract: Provided is a system capable of appropriately performing period management of a license provided by an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a data generation unit that generates first license communication information using first device information, the first device information being information including a first reference date and time and a device unique key, the first reference date and time being a date and time set using a hardware clock of an electronic device and being a date and time used for period management of a license, the device unique key being a key unique to the electronic device, and the first license communication information being information including at least one of an effective term or an expiration time of the license and the first reference date and time and used for installing the license in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 11693929
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience in a case where a floating license is used in an electronic device that does not directly communicate with an information processing apparatus providing the floating license.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20230125218
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing method, a program, an information processing apparatus, and a data structure that enable use of a time-limited maintenance license in an information processing apparatus used offline. The information processing apparatus controls execution of a function of a program subject to a maintenance license on the basis of a result of comparison between a valid period of the maintenance license based on maintenance license data stored in the information processing apparatus and a release time of the program stored in the program. The present technology can be applied to a system that uses a maintenance license for an application program, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20230069648
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing method and a recording medium, each of which allows unauthorized use of a function activated by a license to be inhibited. A first program causes a computer to execute the function activated by the license; and a second program executes license authentication in response to an instruction from the first program, at least one part of the second program obfuscated, executes one part of the function in a case where the license is valid, and causes the computer to execute processing in which an execution result of the one part of the function is outputted to the first program. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an application program activated by the license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220171831
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, an electronic device, and an information processing system that enable use of a time-limited floating license in an electronic device that does not directly communicate with an information processing device that provides a floating license. An information processing device includes a license management unit that sets at least one of a first use start date and time or a first use end date and time of a license to be provided to a first electronic device on the basis of a date and time of a hardware clock, and responds to return of the license from the first electronic device and provision of a second electronic device with the license returned from the first electronic device until the date and time of the hardware clock pass a first valid period with reference to the first use start date and time or pass the first use end date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210081514
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, an electronic device, and an information processing system capable of appropriately performing period management of a license provided by an information processing apparatus in a case where the license is used in an electronic device that does not directly communicate with the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210056179
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an electronic device capable of appropriately perform update of a license provided by an information processing apparatus and used in an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a key generation unit that generates a device unique key that is a key unique to every device; and a license management unit that updates a license in a case where an extension code generated by a predetermined method on the basis of the device unique key, first data different for every installation of the license provided by an information processing apparatus, and second data different depending on the number of times of update of the license coincides with an input extension code. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a camera using a subscription license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200394284
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic device, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience in a case where a floating license is used in an electronic device that does not directly communicate with an information processing apparatus providing the floating license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Patent number: 10433167
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a user terminal, developer identification information, and access control information for controlling whether or not one or more functions possessed by the information processing device are permitted to be executed, the developer identification information and the access control information being related to an application program possessed by the user terminal, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use, and a control unit configured to control execution of at least a portion of the one or more functions based on the access control information, based on the result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 10318715
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire developer identification information associated with an application program possessed by a user terminal, from the user terminal. A determination unit determines whether a developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use. A control unit controls execution of a function possessed by the information processing device, according to an instruction from the user terminal, when the developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use, and a content processing unit acquires a content based on the execution of the function, and associates the acquired content with information of the developer on which the determination has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Hiratsuka, Kazuya Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20160306951
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire developer identification information associated with an application program possessed by a user terminal, from the user terminal. A determination unit determines whether a developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use. A control unit controls execution of a function possessed by the information processing device, according to an instruction from the user terminal, when the developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use, and a content processing unit acquires a content based on the execution of the function, and associates the acquired content with information of the developer on which the determination has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Yosuke Hiratsuka, Kazuya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9176594
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 8947560
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a main image as an image satisfying a main composition condition indicating a condition regarding a predetermined composition. The image processing apparatus includes: a condition determining unit that determines whether a captured image obtained through imaging of an imaging unit satisfies a preliminary composition condition which is based on the main composition condition; a processing unit that executes a process of obtaining a preliminary image as an image satisfying the preliminary composition condition in accordance with the determination result of the condition determining unit; and an image processing unit that generates the main image by processing the preliminary image obtained through the process based on the main composition condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Hiratsuka, Saori Sugita, Naoto Makino
  • Publication number: 20150009134
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke HIRATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20140372612
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a user terminal, developer identification information, and access control information for controlling whether or not one or more functions possessed by the information processing device are permitted to be executed, the developer identification information and the access control information being related to an application program possessed by the user terminal, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a developer of the application program indicated by the developer identification information is a developer who has made an advance request for authorization for use, and a control unit configured to control execution of at least a portion of the one or more functions based on the access control information, based on the result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: YOSUKE HIRATSUKA
  • Patent number: 8848087
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an input device adapted to input user operation information, a touch sensor adapted to detect the state of the input device in terms of whether the input device is touched by a user, a display adapted to display information, and a control unit adapted to receive user operation information from the input device and sensor detection information from the touch sensor, and control displaying of the information on the display in accordance with the received user operation information and the sensor detection information. If the touch information indicating that the input device is touched by the user is received from the touch sensor, the control unit displays first information associated with the input device on the display. If the input device is maintained in the touched state longer than a predetermined period, the control unit switches the displayed information into second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20140059536
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a reception section configured to receive an application downloaded from a server by operation of a browser in an information processing apparatus and transmitted through the information processing apparatus; and a management section configured to install the application received by the reception section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke HIRATSUKA, Mototsugu Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 8334921
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image-effect determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item, the environmental information item being associated with the image data item, a dynamic image effect in which, when the image data item is displayed, a visual change is generated for the displayed image data item; and a display control unit configured to control, for display of the image data item, a display operation so that the dynamic image effect which has been determined by the image-effect determination unit is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Hiratsuka