Patents by Inventor Yousuke Kawana

Yousuke Kawana 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: 20220404783
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an appliance control unit. The acquisition unit acquires recipe information which is information regarding cooking performed by the user. Based on the recipe information acquired by the acquisition unit, the determination unit determines a non-cooking appliance that is an appliance used by the user and is not used for cooking to be an appliance being a control target. The appliance control unit controls the non-cooking appliance determined by the determination unit at a timing before a predetermined process based on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: YOUSUKE KAWANA, FUMIHIKO IIDA, KENTARO IDA, TAKUMA SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11460994
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that sets setting information including notification information from a first user to a second user, an output location of the notification information in a physical space, and a notification condition that is a condition for outputting the notification information, and an output control unit that controls an output device to output the notification information to the output location when the notification condition is satisfied, based on the setting information set by the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke Kawana, Kentaro Ida, Maki Imoto
  • Publication number: 20220301035
    Abstract: To enable control of a user's action in a manner more suitable for the personality of the user. A method for controlling an action of a user is set on the basis of the power of the user. For example, the magnitude of the power of the user is determined on the basis of at least one of the status or assets of the user, and the method is set on the basis of the determined magnitude of the power. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, or a program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke KAWANA, Akane KONDO, Itaru SHIMIZU, Tetsuo SAKAMOTO, Keitaro MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220001065
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit and a control unit. Sensing information sensed in a predetermined space is input into the input unit. The control unit controls, in accordance with a result obtained by analyzing states or attributes of a plurality of users existing in the space on a basis of the sensing information, output of a scent from the scent output apparatus to each of the users for each user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: FUMIHIKO IIDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, YU AOKI, KENTARO IDA, SATOSHI NAKAMARU, ITIRO SIIO, MOMOKO IWAMI
  • Publication number: 20210294482
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to select an operation target more easily. [Solution] An information processing device according to the present technology includes: a first selecting unit configured to control selection of a selection target including an operation target on the basis of information related to a first operation on the selection target by an operating entity; a setting unit configured to set an operation region corresponding to the selected selection target in a first object; and a second selecting unit configured to control selection of the operation target on the basis of information related to a second operation on the first object in which the operation region is set by the operating entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: TAKUYA IKEDA, KENTARO IDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, MAKI IMOTO, RYUICHI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10976828
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that controls display of selection objects related to devices to be operated, which have been selected through first device selection based on information from which a form of a body of an operation subject directed to the devices to be operated is estimated and a device control unit that controls the devices to be operated, which have been selected through second device selection based on information related to a selecting operation performed by the operation subject to the selection objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki, Kentaro Ida, Yousuke Kawana, Takuya Ikeda, Maki Imoto
  • Patent number: 10976812
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including an image processing unit that performs geometric correction on a target image instructed to be displayed in a display region that displays an image. The geometric correction is performed on a basis of direction information indicating a direction of a user viewing the display region with respect to the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Ikeda, Kentaro Ida, Yousuke Kawana, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210089674
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a presentation control unit (113) that controls presentation of content on the basis of position information of a first user, in which the presentation control unit controls a presentation position of the content in space on the basis of use authority information of the first user regarding the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke KAWANA, Kentaro IDA, Fumihiko IIDA
  • Patent number: 10921963
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that provide a mechanism with which the display location of the operation object is able to be operated with a sensation of displacing an actual object. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of an operation object for a device to be operated; and a reference control unit that controls a reference of a location at which the operation object is displayed such that the operation object is able to be visually recognized, on the basis of a predetermined operation performed to the operation object by an operation subject of the device to be operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Kentaro Ida, Yousuke Kawana, Osamu Shigeta, Maki Imoto, Takuya Ikeda, Naoyuki Sato, Hirotake Ichikawa, Masato Shimakawa
  • Publication number: 20200356244
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a framework of user interaction with a higher degree of freedom in a physical space. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that sets setting information including notification information from a first user to a second user, an output location of the notification information in a physical space, and a notification condition that is a condition for outputting the notification information, and an output control unit that controls an output device to output the notification information to the output location when the notification condition is satisfied, based on the setting information set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: YOUSUKE KAWANA, KENTARO IDA, MAKI IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200319834
    Abstract: To provide a structure capable of suppressing deterioration in manipulability in a case in which a display region and a manipulation region are different. An information processing device, an information processing method for the information processing device, and a program, the information processing device including: an input unit configured to obtain distance information changed in accordance with a distance between a manipulator recognized in a different manipulation region from a display region in which a virtual object is viewed and an input recognition region in which an input by the manipulator in the manipulation region is recognized; and an output control unit configured to control an output related to the virtual object on a basis of the distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: MAKI IMOTO, TAKUYA IKEDA, KENTARO IDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, RYUICHI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10747370
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an output control unit that outputs a display information item about an operation object on the basis of a result of detection of a pointing operation with respect to the operation object by a user. The output control unit outputs the display information item about the operation object such that the operation object is displayed in at least either one of a first display mode and a second display mode different from the first display mode in accordance with an operating condition of the pointing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Kunihito Sawai, Masayuki Yamada, Kentaro Ida, Takuya Ikeda, Yousuke Kawana, Maki Imoto, Akane Yano
  • Patent number: 10706243
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus that can easily find a target object on the basis of information detected in searching. Provided is an information processing apparatus including a provision unit that provides marker information obtained when a marker on a route to a destination has been read, and information regarding an image captured when the marker has been read and an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a marker to be read next, the information being generated on the basis of the provided marker information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Kawana, Ryuichi Suzuki, Kentaro Ida, Mana Sasagawa, Kaori Ikematsu, Itiro Shiio
  • Patent number: 10545644
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to perform switching processing on a basis of a determination result as to whether or not a determination region determined on a basis of a display region which becomes a target of operation of one operation system includes a pointed position pointed in response to the operation, the switching processing being processing of switching between a display control mode for changing a position or a shape of the display region on a basis of the operation and an execution mode for executing processing corresponding to a display object within the display region on a basis of the operation, in which the display region indicates a unit when the position or the shape of the display region is changed in the display control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Ikeda, Kentaro Ida, Yousuke Kawana, Osamu Shigeta, Seiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190369713
    Abstract: [Object] To easily acquire the operation feeling of the object corresponding to an operating body. [Solution] A display control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a first display control unit configured to control display of a first object corresponding to an operating body in a display region on the basis of a position of the operating body and a viewpoint position of a user; and a second display control unit configured to control display of a second object arranged toward a display position of the first object in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: RYUICHI SUZUKI, TAKUYA IKEDA, KENTARO IDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, MAKI IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190324526
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of suppressing variation in a user's satisfaction in relation to the operation object in accordance with a user's situation. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains information related to a body form of an operation subject; and a display control unit that controls complication of an operation object for a device to be operated, which is visually recognized as if the operation object was present in a real space, on a basis of information related to the body form. An information processing method includes, using a processor: obtaining information related to a body form of an operation subject; and controlling complication of an operation object for a device to be operated, which is visually recognized as if the operation object was present in a real space, on a basis of information related to the body form. A program achieves the operations of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: SEIJI SUZUKI, OSAMU SHIGETA, KENTARO IDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, TAKUYA IKEDA, MAKI IMOTO
  • Patent number: 10440260
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display a live preview image generated based on image data obtained through an image sensor, and one or more processed images generated using respective image processing conditions based on one of the image data which has been obtained at some time point; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a predetermined user operation has been recognized. If it is determined that the predetermined user operation has been recognized, the display control unit updates the one or more processed images to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke Kawana, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Tomoya Narita, Maki Imoto, Takuro Noda
  • Publication number: 20190294263
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a structure capable of reducing stress which a user feels in a manipulation of a device. [Solution] An information processing device including: a decision unit configured to decide a first reference direction of a manipulation by a manipulator on a basis of information regarding an aspect of a part of a body of a user; and a control unit configured to control an output related to the manipulation in accordance with information regarding a motion of the manipulator with respect to the decided first reference direction. An information processing method including, by a processor: deciding a first reference direction of a manipulation by a manipulator on a basis of information regarding an aspect of a part of a body of a user; and controlling an output related to the manipulation in accordance with information regarding a motion of the manipulator with respect to the decided first reference direction. A program causing the information processing device to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: YOUSUKE KAWANA, TAKUYA IKEDA, RYUICHI SUZUKI, MAKI IMOTO, KENTARO IDA
  • Publication number: 20190258369
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that provide a mechanism with which the display location of the operation object is able to be operated with a sensation of displacing an actual object. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of an operation object for a device to be operated; and a reference control unit that controls a reference of a location at which the operation object is displayed such that the operation object is able to be visually recognized, on the basis of a predetermined operation performed to the operation object by an operation subject of the device to be operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Kentaro IDA, Yousuke KAWANA, Osamu SHIGETA, Maki IMOTO, Takuya IKEDA, Naoyuki SATO, Hirotake ICHIKAWA, Masato SHIMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190243460
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of reducing a burden on the user for selecting a device to be operated that the user desires to operate. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of selection objects related to devices to be operated, which have been selected through first device selection based on information from which a form of a body of an operation subject directed to the devices to be operated is estimated; and a device control unit that controls the devices to be operated, which have been selected through second device selection based on information related to a selecting operation performed by the operation subject to the selection objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: OSAMU SHIGETA, SEIJI SUZUKI, KENTARO IDA, YOUSUKE KAWANA, TAKUYA IKEDA, MAKI IMOTO