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).

  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, VIBRATION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190332174
    Abstract: In an information processing system including a controller device including at least one vibration body, and an information processing apparatus outputting a control signal for the vibration body to the controller device, in vibration of the vibration body, sounds of the periphery are collected, and it is decided whether or not an allophone is generated in the controller device by using a signal of the collected sounds. When it is decided that the allophone is generated in the controller device, the information processing apparatus executes correction processing for the control signal for the vibration body, and outputs the control signal corrected by the correction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Sensation induction device, sensation induction system, and sensation induction method
    Patent number: 10449446
    Abstract: A sensation induction device includes a plurality of actuators and a plurality of speakers. The sensation induction device includes a plurality of sets of mutually associated actuator and speaker in which at least one actuator among the plurality of actuators and at least one speaker among the plurality of speakers are mutually associated. An output from the actuator and an output from the speaker are controlled to be interlocked for each set of mutually associated actuator and speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Akihiro Komori
  • OPERATING DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190308097
    Abstract: A control system includes a console device having an operating button to be operated by a user and a vibrating mechanism for vibrating the operating button, and a control device for controlling vibrations produced by the vibrating mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • VEHICLE BRAKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190299786
    Abstract: A vehicle braking system is provided with: a driving motor that can apply a regenerative braking force to a wheel; a friction braking device that is operated so as to apply a friction braking force to the wheel; and a braking control device. The braking control device controls the friction braking device on the basis of the detected value of a wheel speed when the detected value of the wheel speed of the wheel based on an output signal from each of wheel speed sensors SE5-SE8 can be acquired, and, when the detected value of the wheel speed cannot be acquired, acquires the estimated value of the wheel speed of the wheel on the basis of the rotational speed of the driving motor and controls the friction braking device on the basis of the estimated value of the wheel speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • OPTICAL COMPONENT HOLDING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190294030
    Abstract: An holding device can hold an optical component and a masking component with high precision in a simple configuration and a limited space. A first holding member includes a first receiving face that is in contact with a first optical component in an optical axis direction to fix a position of the first optical component in the optical axis direction and a second receiving face that is in contact with a second optical component in the optical axis direction to fix a position of the second optical component in the optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Capacitive transducer and acoustic sensor
    Patent number: 10425743
    Abstract: A capacitive transducer includes a substrate having an opening in a surface thereof, a back plate facing the opening in the substrate, a vibration electrode film facing the back plate across a space, the vibration electrode film being deformable to have a deformation converted into a change in capacitance between the vibration electrode film and the back plate, the vibration electrode film having a through-hole as a pressure relief hole, and a protrusion integral with and formed from the same member as the back plate, the protrusion being placeable in the pressure relief hole before the vibration electrode film deforms. The pressure relief hole and the protrusion have a gap therebetween defining an airflow channel as a pressure relief channel. The protrusion has a through-hole extending from a distal portion of the protrusion to a portion of the back plate opposite to the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kasai, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190287544
    Abstract: [Object] To implement unified communication of vibration information while reducing data communication traffic. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a file generation unit configured to generate a file including speech waveform data and vibration waveform data. The file generation unit cuts out waveform data in a to-be-synthesized band from first speech data, synthesizes waveform data extracted from a synthesizing band of vibration data with the to-be-synthesized band to generate second speech data, and encodes the second speech data to generate the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: TAKESHI OGITA, AYUMI NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROLLER DEVICE, CONTROLLER DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190278372
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a controller device to be fastened to a user's hand and an information processing apparatus that is connected to the controller device to exchange information with the controller device. The controller device includes a vibrating element causing a housing of the controller device to vibrate, receives information indicating a vibration intensity of the vibrating element, and acquires information related to a contact area between the controller device and the user's hand so as to cause the vibrating element to vibrate. Also, the controller device or the information processing apparatus corrects information indicating the vibration intensity on a basis of information acquired by acquisition means of the controller device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • VIBRATION DEVICE AND CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190278371
    Abstract: Provided is a control system that includes a vibration mechanism that generates a vibration and presents the vibration to a user and a control apparatus that controls the vibration mechanism. The control apparatus acquires vibration data representative of a waveform of a vibration that is to be generated by the vibration mechanism and causes the vibration mechanism to generate a vibration in accordance with corrected vibration data obtained by executing processing for reducing part of frequency components, included in the waveform represented by the acquired vibration data, other than a resonant frequency of the vibration mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER
    Publication number: 20190272038
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to cause vibration to be generated suitable for a state between an information processing device including a vibrating device and a user, the information processing device including: corrected vibration data configured to generate corrected information for correcting a strength of vibration data for a vibrating device including a vibrator on a basis of information provided from a detecting unit configured to detect a contact state of the vibrating device; and an vibration signal generating unit configured to generate a vibration signal from the corrected vibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Osamu ITO, Yosuke MATSUZAKI, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Shinsaku HIRANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • Resin-coated metal sheet for can lids
    Patent number: 10399303
    Abstract: A resin-coated metal sheet for can lids includes a metal sheet coated with thermoplastic resin films on both surfaces and formed into a can lid. A thermoplastic resin film A based on polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is heat-fused on a surface of the metal sheet serving as an exterior surface of the can lid, and a thermoplastic resin film B based on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is heat-fused on a surface of the metal sheet serving as an interior surface of the can lid. A composition ratio (wt %) of PBT/PET in the thermoplastic resin film A on the exterior surface is (PBT/PET)=(40/60) to (80/20), and the thermoplastic resin film B on the interior surface includes 95 mol % or more of PET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Nakamura, Yoichiro Yamanaka, Junichi Kitagawa, Hiroki Nakamura, Hiroshi Kubo, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190267028
    Abstract: This technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method to improve the convenience in inputting information. The information processing apparatus includes a feedback information generation section that generates feedback information including at least either an input level or modified information, the input level indicating the level of input information and being set on a basis of a first speech that meets a predetermined input condition, the modified information being obtained by modifying the input information on a basis of the first speech. This technology may be applied, for example, to servers, clients, and application programs for performing speech recognition and for executing processes based on the result of speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, YUHEI TAKI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190255439
    Abstract: The present technology relates an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires a recognition result indicating at least one of a user movement or state recognized by a recognition unit utilizing a detection result from one or a plurality of sensors, and a control unit that, in a case of determining that the recognition result indicates a specific user movement or state, controls a degree of reflection in which information related to the specific user movement or state is reflected in notification information that transmits the information related to the specific user movement or state to a target different from the user, in accordance with the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, TOMOHISA TAKAOKA, SHINICHI KAWANO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190260860
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology capable of causing, by controlling the direction in which a housing is to be vibrated, a user to easily recognize that the housing is vibrating. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a housing; a sensor; a vibration unit; and a control unit. The housing has a first direction, and a second direction different from the first direction. The sensor is provided in the housing. The vibration unit is capable of vibrating the housing in the first direction and the second direction. The control unit determines a current situation of the housing on a basis of output from the sensor, and controls, on a basis of the current situation of the housing, the vibration unit to vibrate the housing in one of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO, AYUMI KATO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190251990
    Abstract: This technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for easily obtaining sentences that express emotions appropriately. The information processing apparatus includes an emotion recognition section that recognizes an emotion input by a user performing an operation, and a modification section that modifies a sentence on the basis of the recognized emotion. This technology applies, for example, to apparatuses, servers, clients, and applications for performing speech recognition; and to apparatuses, servers, clients, and applications for performing diverse processes based on the result of the speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, SHINICHI KAWANO, YUHEI TAKI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPERATION DEVICE, AND OPERATION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20190224565
    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: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • Information processing device, method, and computer
    Patent number: 10353470
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to cause vibration to be generated suitable for a state between an information processing device including a vibrating device and a user, the information processing device including: corrected vibration data configured to generate corrected information for correcting a strength of vibration data for a vibrating device including a vibrator on a basis of information provided from a detecting unit configured to detect a contact state of the vibrating device; and an vibration signal generating unit configured to generate a vibration signal from the corrected vibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Osamu Ito, Yosuke Matsuzaki, Ryo Yokoyama, Shinsaku Hirano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • OPERATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20190209919
    Abstract: An operating device includes a movable part capable of moving between a first position and a second position, with the movable part being capable of operation by the finger of the user gripping the operating device. The operating device includes a regulating part that regulates a range in which the movable part can move, and a control part that determines the amount of regulation in which the movable part can move and provides the regulating part with an instruction to regulate the range in which the movable part can move according to the amount of regulation which has been determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190196596
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of changing an output of a tactile stimulus adaptively to positional information, the information processing device including: an output control unit configured to control output of a tactile stimulus to at least two tactile stimulus units. The output control unit changes the output of the tactile stimulus unit corresponding to predetermined positional information in accordance with the predetermined positional information and information regarding tactile output related to the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • Information processing device, method, and computer program
    Patent number: 10331214
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to allow a user to receive haptic feedback with a more sense of presence, the information processing device including: a virtual space data generating unit configured to generate data related to a virtual space including a virtual object having an attribute; a listener placing unit configured to place a listener for detecting a contact with the virtual object; a virtual object in which the listener is placed; and a haptic data generating unit configured to generate haptic data for causing a haptic device to be operated on a basis of at least one of attribute information of the virtual object and attribute information of another virtual object when the virtual object comes into contact with the other virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Ryo Yokoyama, Akihiro Komori, Takashi Nozaki