Patents by Inventor Yuhei TAKI

Yuhei TAKI 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).

  • Patent number: 12198694
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires inspiration information indicating inspiration of a user, and a prediction unit that predicts whether or not the user utters after the inspiration of the user on the basis of the inspiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Yasuo Kabe, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12182475
    Abstract: A detection unit (30) detects an input start timing of a command by a gesture on an operation target with a temporal change. A command processing unit (31) performs processing of a command recognized from the gesture based on the state of the operation target at the input start timing detected by the detection unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12147651
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12147808
    Abstract: To automatically determine a more memorable macro name. Provided is an information processing device that comprises an utterance learning adaptation unit that executes clustering pertaining to a plurality of function execution instructions by a user and estimates, as a macro, a cluster that includes the plurality of function execution instructions and a response control unit that controls the presentation of information pertaining to the macro, wherein the utterance learning adaptation unit determines a name for the estimated macro on the basis of a context acquired at the time of issuing the plurality of function execution instructions included in the cluster, the response control unit controls a notification of the macro name to the user, and the plurality of function execution instructions include at least one function execution instruction issued via an utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12131004
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a terminal device, input information input to the terminal device by a user; a generation unit that generates content of displaying an input item of each of functions including a corresponding input item that is an input item corresponding to the input information; and a transmission unit that transmits the content generated by the generation unit to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Mari Saito, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20240346826
    Abstract: A medical observation system includes: an imaging unit that acquires an operative field image including an abdominal cavity environment; a display unit that displays the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding gaze of a user on the abdominal cavity environment of the operative field image displayed by the display unit; a target candidate recognition unit that recognizes a tracking target candidate from the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a reliability acquisition unit that acquires recognition reliability of the tracking target candidate recognized by the target candidate recognition unit; and a target determination unit that determines a tracking target in the abdominal cavity environment from the tracking target candidate on the basis of the information regarding the tracking target candidate, the recognition reliability, and the information regarding the gaze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Kohei AMANO, Takeo INAGAKI, Ryouhei YASUDA
  • Patent number: 12062360
    Abstract: The present invention has an issue of effectively reducing the input load related to a voice trigger. There is provided an information processing device comprising a registration control unit that dynamically controls registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the registration control unit temporarily additionally registers at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice. There is also provided an information processing method comprising dynamically controlling, by a processor, registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the controlling further includes temporarily additionally registering at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Patent number: 12033624
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit (250) that, in a case where the determination unit (250) has recognized a user's phrase related to execution of a macro including at least one function execution instruction, determines a degree of security risk of the macro based on at least one of a matching rate, at the time of execution of the macro, of a context indicating a status of the user, or frequency of occurrence of the phrase; and a response control unit (270) that changes control of the execution of the macro based on a determination result of the determination unit (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Yuhei Taki, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 12033630
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit, an extracting unit, an output unit, and a specifying unit. The input unit receives a voice operation. The extracting unit extracts a processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit. When the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit cannot be specified, the output unit outputs response information for the user to make a selection of at least one processing detail from a plurality of processing details extracted by the extracting unit. The specifying unit specifies the processing detail selected from among the plurality of processing details contained in the response information as the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11996093
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. The information processing apparatus is provided with a determination unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, one or more second sensing results used in estimating the user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus is further provided with an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Hiro Iwase, Mari Saito, Yuhei Taki
  • Publication number: 20240111487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus capable of easily changing a cluster for collectively operating a plurality of operations to which a user is habituated. A dialog cluster including a plurality of operations having a habituation score indicating habituation of an operation of a user higher than a predetermined threshold and an operation according to a dialog with the user is registered. The technology of the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11948564
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiro Iwase, Yuhei Taki, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20240069702
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Patent number: 11869499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit (133) that extracts a changing message related to a change in macro data (M), the changing message including at least one piece of first information indicating a function to be executed, and second information linked to the first information, from a user speech; a presuming unit (134) that presumes an element to be changed in the macro data (M) based on the changing message extracted by the extracting unit (133); and a changing unit (135) that changes the element to be changed in the macro data (M) presumed by the presuming unit (134), based on the changing message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase, Kunihito Sawai, Masaki Takase, Akira Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11803352
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method which can adaptively switch a user interface to be used by a user to environmental information. The information processing apparatus includes an interface control unit that switches a user interface to be used by a first user at least between a first user interface using voice and a second user interface different from the first user interface on the basis of environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki, Hiro Iwase
  • Publication number: 20230306957
    Abstract: In a terminal device (10), a communication unit (15) receives a counterpart utterance text in a counterpart language section and a counterpart utterance speech in a counterpart non-language section, and a control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance text after performing language translation, and outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section without performing language translation. For example, the control unit (11) outputs the counterpart utterance speech in the counterpart non-language section before outputting a result of the language translation of the counterpart utterance text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI, Mari SAITO, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Publication number: 20230135606
    Abstract: A terminal device (10) corresponding to an example of an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit (13d) that acquires a feature value related to a display element that is a target of a voice command uttered by a user, and a call determination unit (13e) (corresponding to an example of a “determination unit”) that determines a call of the display element on the basis of the feature value acquired by the acquisition unit (13d) such that the display element is uniquely specified with another display element other than the display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI, Masaki TAKASE, Akira MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230134103
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit (13da) that detects an unknown word that is an unknown phrase from text input in a natural language, a second detection unit (13dc) that detects occurrence of an event related to a known phrase included in the above text, and an association unit (13dd) that associates, with the above unknown word, each of an observation context (Co) indicating a situation at the time of detection of the unknown word as a condition context (Cr) and an observation context (Co) indicating a situation at the time of the occurrence of the above event as a target context (Ct).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: HIRO IWASE, YUHEI TAKI, KUNIHITO SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230072727
    Abstract: To enable a plurality of speeches of a user to be appropriately concatenated. An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (131) that acquires first speech information indicating a first speech by a user, second speech information indicating a second speech by the user after the first speech, and respiration information regarding respiration of the user; and an execution unit (134) that executes processing of concatenating the first speech and the second speech by executing voice interaction control according to a respiratory state of the user based on the respiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiro IWASE, Yasuo KABE, Yuhei TAKI, Kunihito SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230064042
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires inspiration information indicating inspiration of a user, and a prediction unit that predicts whether or not the user utters after the inspiration of the user on the basis of the inspiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yasuo KABE, Hiro IWASE, Kunihito SAWAI