Patents by Inventor Yuki Yamamoto

Yuki Yamamoto 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: 20220012552
    Abstract: An information processing device on a server side includes: a predetermined number of recognition units, for which a model updated by performing image recognition in a predetermined number of vehicles and executing unsupervised learning is each set, configured to perform image recognition on an image, on which image recognition has been performed in a predetermined number of the vehicles; and an evaluation value calculation unit configured to evaluate recognition results obtained in a predetermined number of the recognition units and calculate an evaluation value for each of the recognition units. The information processing device on the vehicle side includes an execution unit that executes unsupervised learning, and a determination unit that determines whether learning has been performed correctly or not for a model updated in the execution unit on the basis of an evaluation value found on the server side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki YAMAMOTO, Ryuta SATOH
  • Publication number: 20210409892
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus and method and a program that make it possible to obtain sound of higher quality. An acquisition unit acquires an audio signal and metadata of an object. A vector calculation unit calculates, based on a horizontal direction angle and a vertical direction angle included in the metadata of the object and indicative of an extent of a sound image, a spread vector indicative of a position in a region indicative of the extent of the sound image. A gain calculation unit calculates, based on the spread vector, a VBAP gain of the audio signal in regard to each speaker by VBAP. The present technology can be applied to an audio processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11212417
    Abstract: A controller of an image processing apparatus performs one or both of an enlargement process and a conversion process when a coded image in which information is coded is included in the image data. The enlargement process is a process of pasting an enlarged coded image instead of the coded image on the image data. The conversion process is a process of pasting decoded information instead of the coded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210398546
    Abstract: There is provided a decoding device including at least one circuit configured to acquire one or more encoded audio signals including a plurality of channels and/or a plurality of objects and priority information for each of the plurality of channels and/or the plurality of objects, and to decode the one or more encoded audio signals according to the priority information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Chinen, Masayuki Nishiguchi, Runyu Shi, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11184579
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for video-audio processing, and a program each of which enables a desired object sound to be more simply and accurately separated. A video-audio processing apparatus includes a display control portion configured to cause a video object based on a video signal to be displayed; an object selecting portion configured to select the predetermined video object from the one video object or among a plurality of the video objects; and an extraction portion configured to extract an audio signal of the video object selected by the object selecting portion as an audio object signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Honma, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11170796
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method, and a program for obtaining sound of higher quality. An audio signal decoding section decodes encoded audio data to acquire an audio signal of each object. A metadata decoding section decodes encoded metadata to acquire a plurality of metadata about each object in each frame of the audio signal. A gain calculating section calculates VBAP gains of each object in the audio signal for each speaker based on the metadata. An audio signal generating section generates an audio signal to be fed to each speaker by having the audio signal of each object multiplied by the corresponding VBAP gain and by adding up the multiplied audio signals. The present technology may be applied to decoding apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210329397
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable more efficient edit. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that selects and groups a plurality of objects existing in a predetermined space, and changes the positions of the plurality of the objects while maintaining the relative positional relationship of the plurality of the grouped objects in the space. The present technology can be applied to information processing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tsuji, Toru Chinen, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210326378
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable easy reproduction of audio data of a predetermined kind, of audio data of a plurality of kinds. A file generation device generates an audio file in which audio streams of a plurality of groups is divided into tracks for each one or more of the groups and arranged, and information related to the plurality of groups is arranged. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing system configured from the file generation device that generates a file, a web server that records the file generated by the file generation device, and a moving image reproduction terminal that reproduces the file, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: MITSUHIRO HIRABAYASHI, YUKI YAMAMOTO, TORU CHINEN, RUNYU SHI
  • Patent number: 11146904
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Runyu Shi, Mitsuyuki Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20210312231
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a neural network device capable of improving recognition performance. The neural network device includes a non-linear transformation layer processing unit that performs a transformation with a non-linear function having a learnable parameter. The present technology can be applied to a neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji TOKOZUME, Toru CHINEN, Yuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11136743
    Abstract: An electric construction machine that can travel from a work site to charging equipment and prevent the lowering of the work efficiency is provided. An electric hydraulic excavator includes a motor (28) that is driven by power of a battery device (19) and drives a hydraulic pump (29), a controller (37), and a display device (24). The controller (37) computes and stores the amount of consumed power of the motor (28) consumed during the period from the departure of the hydraulic excavator from the charging equipment to arrival at the work site, based on movement information of the hydraulic excavator acquired by a movement information acquiring device. The controller (37) subtracts the amount of consumed power from the amount of stored power of the battery device (19) to compute the amount of power consumable at the work site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takuya Nomura, Masayuki Yunoue, Wataru Takagi, Hiromu Yukawa, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11140505
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus and method and a program that make it possible to obtain sound of higher quality. An acquisition unit acquires an audio signal and metadata of an object. A vector calculation unit calculates, based on a horizontal direction angle and a vertical direction angle included in the metadata of the object and indicative of an extent of a sound image, a spread vector indicative of a position in a region indicative of the extent of the sound image. A gain calculation unit calculates, based on the spread vector, a VBAP gain of the audio signal in regard to each speaker by VBAP. The present technology can be applied to an audio processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210294414
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to properly determine whether a user is gazing a mobile object even if an intermediate object exists between the user and a mobile object. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a mobile object control unit. When an intermediate object is determined to be situated between a user and a mobile object, the mobile object control unit controls the mobile object so that a relative positional relationship between the mobile object and the intermediate object as viewed from the user is changed, the mobile object having a movement mechanism, the user and the mobile object being in real space, the mobile object control unit controlling the mobile object on the basis of information regarding a visual line of the user that is acquired after the relative positional relationship is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: EISUKE NOMURA, YUSUKE NAKAMURA, YUKI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210297633
    Abstract: An information processing device (10) includes: an acquisition unit (181) that acquires an image captured by an imaging unit (13); a recognition unit (182) that recognizes attributes of an object shown in the image captured by the imaging unit (13); and a generation unit (183) that generates a bird's-eye view map showing the attributes of the object on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit (13) and information on the attributes of the object recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: TAKUTO MOTOYAMA, YUKI YAMAMOTO, MASAHIKO TOYOSHI, SUGURU AOKI
  • Publication number: 20210295563
    Abstract: A recognition processing section performs subject recognition in a processing area of an image obtained by an imaging section. The recognition processing section determines an image characteristic of the processing area on the basis of a characteristic map indicating an image characteristic of the image obtained by the imaging section and uses a recognizer corresponding to the image characteristic of the processing area. The characteristic map includes a map based on an optical characteristic of an imaging lens used in the imaging section and is stored in a characteristic information storage section. An imaging lens has a winder angle of view in all directions or in a predetermined direction than a standard lens, and the optical characteristic thereof differs depending on a position on the lens. The recognition processing section performs the subject recognition using a recognizer corresponding to resolution or skewness of the processing area, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru AOKI, Takuto MOTOYAMA, Masahiko TOYOSHI, Yuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210293346
    Abstract: A fluid path opening/closing device includes a spool in a through-hole provided in an inside of the spool, a coil wound around the through-hole with respect to the spool, a movable iron piece accommodated in the through-hole in a state of being rotatable around a rotation axis, a yoke including a first member and a second member extending from one end portion in an extending direction of the first member toward the movable iron piece, the second member having an attraction portion that is capable of attracting and rotating the movable iron piece according to an energized state of the coil, and a fluid path unit including an opening portion provided to be closer to the attraction portion that to the rotation axis and provided near the attraction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Toshifumi SUMINO, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Takehiro HAMAGUCHI, Yoshihiko SANO, Minoru TANIGUCHI, Chisato TAWARA
  • Publication number: 20210272576
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, and a program capable of reducing a code amount. The information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires space information regarding a position and a size of a child space within a parent space and position information in the child space indicating a position of an object within the child space, the child space being included in the parent space, and the object being included in the child space; and a calculation unit that calculates position information in the parent space indicating a position of the object within the parent space on the basis of the space information and the position information in the child space. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji, Hiroyuki Honma, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11099071
    Abstract: An imaging condition evaluation device according to the present disclosure includes: a spectrometer configured to capture a spectral image under an arbitrarily set imaging condition; and an evaluation unit configured to set a first region and a second region different from each other in the spectral image, and calculate an evaluation value of the imaging condition based on an optical spectrum of the first region and an optical spectrum of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Ryohei Kuri
  • Patent number: 11074921
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable reduction of an amount of data to be transmitted in transmission of data of a plurality of audio objects. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology combines audio objects with sounds that are undistinguishable at a predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of audio objects for the predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of supposed listening positions and transmits data of a combined audio object obtained by the combination, along with data of other audio objects with sounds that are distinguishable at the predetermined supposed listening position. The present technology can be applied to a device that can process object-based audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210222399
    Abstract: An electric construction machine that can travel from a work site to charging equipment and prevent the lowering of the work efficiency is provided. An electric hydraulic excavator includes a motor (28) that is driven by power of a battery device (19) and drives a hydraulic pump (29), a controller (37), and a display device (24). The controller (37) computes and stores the amount of consumed power of the motor (28) consumed during the period from the departure of the hydraulic excavator from the charging equipment to arrival at the work site, based on movement information of the hydraulic excavator acquired by a movement information acquiring device. The controller (37) subtracts the amount of consumed power from the amount of stored power of the battery device (19) to compute the amount of power consumable at the work site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Takuya NOMURA, Masayuki YUNOUE, Wataru TAKAGI, Hiromu YUKAWA, Yuki YAMAMOTO