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: 10896293
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to determine, on a basis of a word of a predetermined unit selected in a text string indicated by text string information, another word connected to the selected word and included in the text string and to set a delimitation in the text string with regard to the selected word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Shinichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 10878814
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program that make it possible to appropriately determine the cluster segment of the character string group that is specified on the basis of the speech recognition of the collected speech. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a detection result relating to a variation of a sound attribute of a collected speech; and a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the detection result, a cluster segment relating to a character string group that is specified on the basis of speech recognition of the speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki
  • Publication number: 20200402498
    Abstract: [Problem] There are proposed an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of learning a meaning corresponding to a speech recognition result of a first speech adaptively to a determination result as to whether or not a second speech is a restatement of the first speech. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a learning unit configured to learn, based on a determination result as to whether or not a second speech collected at second timing after first timing is a restatement of a first speech collected at the first timing, a meaning corresponding to a speech recognition result of the first speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Hiro IWASE, Yuhei TAKI
  • Publication number: 20200396438
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that can improve comfortability at the time when a plurality of users share and view a three-dimensional image. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform control for determining a transmission starting point of three-dimensional image information based on positional information and sight line information of a first user, positional information and sight line information of a second user, and display position information of the three-dimensional image information that is shared and viewed by the first user and the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Soichiro INATANI, Hiro IWASE, Ikuo YAMANO
  • Patent number: 10847154
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of performing voice recognition adaptively to the degree of excitement in the sound collection state. The information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating a degree of excitement in a collection state of a voice; and a voice recognizing unit configured to perform first voice recognition based on a phoneme of the voice on the basis of the information indicating the degree of excitement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki
  • Publication number: 20200365139
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are realized by generating and using an utterance collection list in which the plurality of user utterances is collected. A learning processing unit generates an utterance collection list in which a plurality of user utterances corresponding to a plurality of different processing requests is collected. Further, the generated utterance collection list is displayed on a display unit. The learning processing unit generates an utterance collection list and stores the utterance collection list in a storage unit in a case where a user agrees, a case where it is determined that a plurality of processes corresponding to the user utterances has been successfully executed, a case where a combination of the plurality of user utterances is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold number of times, a case where it is estimated that the user is satisfied, or other cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Yuhei TAKI, Hiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20200327893
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method that enable a desired voice recognition result to be easily obtained. The information processing device includes a presentation control unit that controls a separation at a time of presenting a recognition result of voice recognition on the basis of context relating to voice recognition. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an information processing device that independently performs voice recognition, a server that performs voice recognition in response to a call from a client and transmits the recognition result to the client, or the client that requests voice recognition to the server, receives the recognition result from the server, and presents the recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Shinichi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20200320976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable more preferable audio input. On the basis of a feature of the speech and a specific silent period detected from audio information, any of audio recognition processing of a normal mode and audio recognition processing of a special mode is selected, and along with an audio recognition result obtained by recognition in the selected audio recognition processing, audio recognition result information indicating the audio recognition processing with which the audio recognition result has been obtained is output. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an audio recognition system that provides audio recognition processing via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Yuhei TAKI
  • Publication number: 20200302950
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to achieve more flexible correction of a recognized sentence, the information processing device including: a comparison unit configured to compare first sound-related information obtained from collected first utterance information with second sound-related information obtained from collected second utterance information; and a setting unit configured to set a new delimiter position different from a result of speech-to-text conversion associated with the first utterance information on a basis of a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Yuhei TAKI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi KATO
  • Publication number: 20200279559
    Abstract: [Problem] Proposed is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. [Solution] 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 a user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices; and an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, HIRO IWASE, MARI SAITO, YUHEI TAKI
  • Patent number: 10762876
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect lines of sight of a plurality of users with respect to presentation information; and an area determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of the detected lines of sight of the plurality of users, a shared area that is visually recognized by the plurality of users to share information and a confidential area that is not visually recognized by another user to keep information of each user confidential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Taizo Shirai
  • Publication number: 20200272407
    Abstract: [Problem] The problem of the present disclosure relates to proposing an information processing device, an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of controlling the output of a voice so as to be adaptive to an action purpose of a user. [Solution] An information processing device including: an inference unit that infers an action purpose of a user on the basis of a result of sensing by one or more sensors; and an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a result of inference by the inference unit, output of a voice to the user performed by an audio output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mari SAITO, Hiro IWASE, Shinichi KAWANO, Yuhei TAKI
  • Patent number: 10747499
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide technology capable of allowing a user to input information more flexibly. Provided is an information processing system including a mode control portion that switches an information input mode from a character-unit input mode to a phrase-unit input mode in a case where a predetermined first trigger is detected when the character-unit input mode is executed as the information input mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Shinichi Kawano
  • Publication number: 20200243074
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that allow a user to obtain a speech recognition result that the user expects. A search unit retrieves a second word that is a candidate for replacement of a first word with a predetermined attribute. The predetermined attribute is identified by a semantic analysis in a text including character strings obtained by speech recognition. The present technology is applicable to an agent apparatus of a user interaction type, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Shinichi KAWANO, Hiro IWASE
  • Patent number: 10720154
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a collected sound data acquisition portion that acquires collected sound data; and an output controller that causes an output portion to output at least whether or not a state of the collected sound data is suitable for speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki, Takashi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 10714082
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, in which a database in which unknown words are registered is able to be efficiently created, the information processing apparatus including: an identifying portion that identifies a word uttered according to a predetermined utterance method, from within utterance information of a user, as an unknown word; and a processing portion that performs processing to register the unknown word that has been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi Kato, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10657956
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to further improve the operability of user interfaces that use a voice as an input, the information processing device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire context information in a period related to collection of a voice; and a control unit configured to cause a predetermined output unit to output output information related to the collection of the voice in a mode corresponding to the acquired context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Kawano, Yuhei Taki, Ayumi Kato
  • Patent number: 10643636
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of enhancing the possibility of outputting information with granularity desired by a user, the information processing apparatus including: a generation unit configured to generate second text data on a basis of first text data and information regarding a first user's auditory characteristics; and an output unit configured to output output information regarding the second text data. The generation unit controls granularity of the second text data on a basis of the information regarding the first user's auditory characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Yoko Ito, Shinichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 10642575
    Abstract: To provide a technology capable of allowing a user to find whether speech is uttered with a volume at which speech recognition can be performed. Provided is an information processing device including: a determination portion configured to determine a user-uttered speech volume on the basis of input speech; and a display controller configured to control a display portion so that the display portion displays a display object. The display controller causes the display portion to display a first motion object moving toward the display object when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds a speech recognizable volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Taki, Shinichi Kawano, Kunihito Sawai
  • Publication number: 20200122033
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to control a communication partner without losing a sense of immersion and without impairing a VR world view in communication between players in (virtual reality) VR. A range in which another player capable of recognizing a content spoken by a player is present is determined as an utterance range on the basis of context information. In the following, since the spoken information is transmitted only to the player who is confirmed as the utterance range, it is possible to control the partner at the time of utterance by the context information. The present disclosure is able to be applied to an information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Yuhei TAKI