Patents by Inventor Yusuke Nakagawa

Yusuke Nakagawa 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: 20240004471
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that is based on an input from a first user and that includes presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control command, a haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user. The haptic control signal corresponds to a predetermined image that is superimposed on an image of a real space distributed to the first user and that is generated on a basis of the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11812141
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle-mounted camera system equipped with a vehicle-mounted camera which captures an image of surroundings of a vehicle includes a margin-of-communication obtainer and a restriction determiner. The margin-of-communication obtainer works to determine a value of the margin of differential signaling between the vehicle-mounted camera and the control apparatus. When the value of the margin of differential signaling is lower than a restriction threshold value, the restriction determiner restricts at least one of a communication characteristic of the differential signaling, an application using the captured image, a frame rate in the vehicle-mounted camera, and an image-capturing area. This achieves the control apparatus for the vehicle-mounted camera system which is high in robustness in the differential signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Katsuhiko Hibino
  • Publication number: 20230349742
    Abstract: The packaged flow sensor is a packaged flow sensor for use by being fixed to an external substrate and includes a flow sensor chip including a sensor unit configured to detect a flow rate of a fluid, a case member including an opening toward the external substrate and configured to house the sensor unit in a state in which the sensor unit faces the opening, and a fixing member protruding from the case member toward the external substrate and configured to fix the packaged flow sensor to the external substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi KASAI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Takuma YOSHIDA, Daisuke MORIHARA
  • Patent number: 11779836
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration control apparatus that acquires content information about content including at least either one of video and audio to be presented to a user, and vibrates a vibration mechanism in such a manner that the user feels a pseudo force sensation defined based on the content information while the content is being presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11738261
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration control apparatus that acquires pseudo force sensory vibration data descriptive of a pseudo force sensory vibration causing a user to feel a pseudo force sensation, acquires tactile sensory vibration data descriptive of a tactile sensory vibration causing the user to feel a tactile sensation, and causes a vibration mechanism to generate a vibration based on the pseudo force sensory vibration data and the tactile sensory vibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11701581
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control section to generate a control signal that controls an operation of a tactile feedback apparatus including a tactile feedback section. The control section changes control on the tactile feedback apparatus on the basis of a type of the tactile feedback section which is recognized by the control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20230186738
    Abstract: A haptic signal can be generated using an intermediate state of a plurality of generation algorithms. A plurality of haptic signal generation units that generates haptic signals using generation algorithms different from each other on the basis of a sound signal by the plurality of haptic signal generation units is included. A mixing unit mixes haptic signals generated by at least two of the plurality of haptic signal generation units to obtain an output haptic signal. For example, a control unit that controls mixing ratios of the mixing unit is further included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO
  • Patent number: 11676461
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce the difference in way of feeling a tactile sense in accordance with a state or situation, the information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire context information concerning a state or a situation user of an external environment or context information concerning a user; and a modulation unit configured to modulate a control signal for controlling a haptics unit for presenting haptics to a predetermined part of the user on the basis of the context information having been acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Ogita
  • Publication number: 20230099023
    Abstract: A controller includes a sensor that uses an elastically deformable elastic member, detects user's contact with or deforming action of the elastic member, and outputs an electric signal based on the detected contact or deforming action in question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Hitoshi Nakamura, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20230083685
    Abstract: An optical module for endoscope includes a light emitting element, an optical fiber, a ferrule to which the light emitting element is bonded, a wiring board to which the ferrule is bonded, and a resin disposed between the ferrule and the wiring board, wherein the ferrule has a first principal surface made of a transparent material, a second principal surface, and a side surface, the second principal surface has an opening of an insertion hole, the second principal surface has an opening of a groove communicating with the insertion hole, the side surface has an opening of the groove, and a first distance between the opening of the groove on the side surface and the first principal surface is greater than a second distance between the bottom surface of the insertion hole and the first principal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yohei SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11596858
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a control unit; and an operating device including: (i) operation button to be activated by touch of a user, (ii) a first vibration mechanism for vibrating the operation button, and (iii) a second vibration mechanism for vibrating a main body of the operating device, where the control unit controls the first vibration mechanism and the second vibration mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • Patent number: 11565172
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing apparatus-readable recording medium that are capable of adjusting sound caused by vibration of a vibration output unit that vibrates an input device in accordance with the surrounding situation of a game user. The information processing apparatus includes a vibration control unit. The vibration control unit controls vibration of a vibration output unit to change a sound caused by the vibration of the vibration output unit on a basis of surrounding environment information of an input device including a vibration output unit, the input device being held by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20230023104
    Abstract: A totally aerated combustion burner has a combustion plate part through which an air-fuel mixture is ejected. The combustion plate part includes: an air-fuel mixture permeable body made from metallic fibers to allow the air-fuel mixture to pass therethrough; and a distribution plate having formed therein a multiplicity of distribution holes and being stacked on a back surface of the air-fuel mixture permeable body. An air-fuel mixture permeable body is constructed by laminating a plurality of metallic-fiber woven bodies which are woven by metallic-fiber threads obtained by bundling a plurality of metallic fibers relatively large in diameter. These metallic-fiber woven bodies are laminated such that a part of meshes in one metallic-fiber woven body overlaps a portion other than meshes in another metallic-fiber woven body, said one metallic-fiber woven body and said another metallic-fiber woven body that lies adjacent to each other in the laminating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: RINNAI CORPORATION, BEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11524226
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the fin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • Patent number: 11511185
    Abstract: An operation device includes a movable member that is movable within a predetermined range, and a restriction member that is disposed in a state of being movable in a movable direction of the movable member, that restricts the movable range of the movable member by coming into contact with a contact surface of the movable member in the movable direction, and that can be switched between a state of being in contact with a first range of the contact surface and restricting the movable range of the movable member and a state of being in contact with a second range, the second range being different from the first range, of the contact surface and restricting the movable range of the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11513429
    Abstract: A camera accessory attachable to and detachable from a bottom surface of a camera includes an accessory body, a fastening member configured to attach the accessory body to the bottom surface, an opening that allows a battery to be inserted into and ejected from the camera while the accessory body is attached to the bottom surface, and an accessory lid member attached to the accessory body and movable between an open position for opening the opening and a closed position for closing the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Yutaka Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220321762
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle-mounted camera system equipped with a vehicle-mounted camera which captures an image of surroundings of a vehicle includes a margin-of-communication obtainer and a restriction determiner. The margin-of-communication obtainer works to determine a value of the margin of differential signaling between the vehicle-mounted camera and the control apparatus. When the value of the margin of differential signaling is lower than a restriction threshold value, the restriction determiner restricts at least one of a communication characteristic of the differential signaling, an application using the captured image, a frame rate in the vehicle-mounted camera, and an image-capturing area. This achieves the control apparatus for the vehicle-mounted camera system which is high in robustness in the differential signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Katsuhiko HIBINO
  • Patent number: 11458389
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vibration control apparatus that receives a vibration instruction and vibrates a vibration device in accordance with content obtained by correcting the content of the received vibration instruction, wherein the vibration control apparatus determines the correction content for vibration in accordance with a user using the vibration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11445898
    Abstract: An optical module for endoscope includes an optical fiber, an optical element, a first substrate including, on a first principal plane, an insertion hole into which the optical fiber is inserted, the optical element being mounted on a second principal plane of the first substrate, a second substrate, on a third principal plane of which a recessed section in which the optical element is housed is present, and a solder ring that bonds a seal ring of the second principal plane of the first substrate and a guard ring of the third principal plane of the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate have the same external dimension in an optical axis orthogonal direction, and side surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate are present in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20220241684
    Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki