Patents by Inventor Yusuke Sakai

Yusuke Sakai 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: 10659728
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a receiving section that receives a captured image of a video communication partner from a communication destination apparatus and a control section that controls a display of the received captured image on a display section. The control section executes image processing to display the captured image such that a line of sight of a communication partner appearing in the captured image appears to point towards a user looking at the display section, on a basis of information indicating that the communication partner appearing in the captured image is looking at the user being displayed on the communication destination apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Daisuke Miki, Atsushi Izumihara
  • Patent number: 10635184
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to perform determination of execution or non-execution of a manipulation based on a pause of a manipulation position specified through a manipulation of pointing to a display plane using a manipulating body at a position apart from the display plane, and a control unit configured to issue a command corresponding to the manipulation when the determination unit determines execution of the manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Takimoto, Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Ishii, Atsushi Izumihara, Osamu Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10638091
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a reception unit that receives data from a communication destination, a generation unit that generates spatial image information placed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space by using captured images of a plurality of the communication destinations, and a display control unit that performs control so as to display the generated spatial image information on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumihara, Yusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 10586674
    Abstract: In order to provide a stable hexaboride single-crystal field emission electron source capable of heat-flashing, this field emission electron source is provided with a metal filament, a metal tube joined thereto, a hexaboride tip that emits electrons, and graphite sheets that are independent of the metal tube and the hexaboride tip. The hexaboride tip is arranged so as not to be in structural contact with the metal tube due to the graphite sheets. The hexaboride tip, the graphite sheets, and the metal tube are configured so as to be mechanically and electrically in contact with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kusunoki, Tomihiro Hashizume, Keigo Kasuya, Takashi Ohshima, Yusuke Sakai, Yoichi Ose, Noriaki Arai
  • Publication number: 20200077048
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of aurally producing distance in a virtual three-dimensional space by using the space for a connection to a communication partner, and realizing more comfortable communication. An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; and a reproduction control unit configured to perform control such that sound data of a space of the communication destination is reproduced from a sound output unit in a space of a communication source with an output value in accordance with separation distance between the communication destination and the communication source disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, the output value being different for each sound source type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Atsushi Izumihara, Daisuke Miki
  • Publication number: 20200029852
    Abstract: In order to stably detect biological information such as the heartbeat, respiration, and pulse waves of a living organism, a biological information detection system that detects biological information comprises: a transmission antenna arranged on one side of the living organism and irradiating radio waves of prescribed polarized waves on to the living organism; a reception antenna arranged on the other side of the living organism and receiving transmitted waves being polarized waves orthogonal to the radio waves of prescribed polarized waves in a step in which same are transmitted through the living organism; and a detection unit that detects biological information on the basis of the transmitted waves received by the reception antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke SAKAI, Takahiko KISHI
  • Publication number: 20200037094
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of voice presentation, to a user, of information transmitted from another user around the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to present, to a user by voice, information that has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user. The control unit performs control to emphasize and present, by voice, specific information among the information which has been transmitted from another user in surroundings of the user, in accordance with a situation of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhide Hosoda, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Utsuki
  • Patent number: 10522319
    Abstract: An electron beam apparatus which can stably achieve high spatial resolution also during low acceleration observation using CeB6 for the CFE electron source is provided. In an electron beam apparatus having a CFE electron source, the emitter of the electron beam of the CFE electron source is Ce hexaboride or a hexaboride of a lanthanoid metal heavier than Ce, the hexaboride emits the electron beam from the {310} plane, and the number of the atoms of the lanthanoid metal on the {310} plane is larger than the number of boron molecules comprising six boron atoms on the {310} plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Kasuya, Noriaki Arai, Toshiaki Kusunoki, Takashi Ohshima, Tomihiro Hashizume, Yusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 10511807
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of aurally producing distance in a virtual three-dimensional space by using the space for a connection to a communication partner, and realizing more comfortable communication. An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; and a reproduction control unit configured to perform control such that sound data of a space of the communication destination is reproduced from a sound output unit in a space of a communication source with an output value in accordance with separation distance between the communication destination and the communication source disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, the output value being different for each sound source type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Atsushi Izumihara, Daisuke Miki
  • Publication number: 20190327446
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of producing the distance to a communication partner by using a three-dimensional expression to connect spaces, and realizing more comfortable communication. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; a generation unit configured to generate space image information in which an image corresponding to a space of the communication destination is disposed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that the generated space image information is displayed on a display unit in a communication source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Atsushi Izumihara, Daisuke Miki
  • Publication number: 20190320143
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can enable more comfortable communication by rendering distances to multiple communication partners by using three-dimensional expression for connection between spaces. [Solution] An information processing device including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; a generation unit configured to generate spatial image information placed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space by using captured images of a plurality of the communication destinations; and a display control unit configured to perform control so as to display the generated spatial image information on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi IZUMIHARA, Yusuke SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20190258319
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to perform determination of execution or non-execution of a manipulation based on a pause of a manipulation position specified through a manipulation of pointing to a display plane using a manipulating body at a position apart from the display plane, and a control unit configured to issue a command corresponding to the manipulation when the determination unit determines execution of the manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji TAKIMOTO, Yusuke SAKAI, Tomohiro ISHII, Atsushi IZUMIHARA, Osamu SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 10380773
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an edit command receiving unit and an editing unit. The edit command receiving unit is configured to receive a command with respect to a first image to edit a comic style page layout including a plurality of images. The editing unit is configured to edit the comic style page layout in accordance with the command and with respect to at least one of the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Koji Sato, Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Ishii, Makoto Murata, Naoki Shibuya
  • Patent number: 10375353
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of producing the distance to a communication partner by using a three-dimensional expression to connect spaces, and realizing more comfortable communication. An information processing apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive data from a communication destination; a generation unit configured to generate space image information in which an image corresponding to a space of the communication destination is disposed at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that the generated space image information is displayed on a display unit in a communication source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Atsushi Izumihara, Daisuke Miki
  • Publication number: 20190237289
    Abstract: An electron beam apparatus which can stably achieve high spatial resolution also during low acceleration observation using CeB6 for the CFE electron source is provided. In an electron beam apparatus having a CFE electron source, the emitter of the electron beam of the CFE electron source is Ce hexaboride or a hexaboride of a lanthanoid metal heavier than Ce, the hexaboride emits the electron beam from the {310} plane, and the number of the atoms of the lanthanoid metal on the {310} plane is larger than the number of boron molecules comprising six boron atoms on the {310} plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Keigo KASUYA, Noriaki ARAI, Toshiaki KUSUNOKI, Takashi OHSHIMA, Tomihiro HASHIZUME, Yusuke SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10310623
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to perform determination of execution or non-execution of a manipulation based on a pause of a manipulation position specified through a manipulation of pointing to a display plane using a manipulating body at a position apart from the display plane, and a control unit configured to issue a command corresponding to the manipulation when the determination unit determines execution of the manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Takimoto, Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Ishii, Atsushi Izumihara, Osamu Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10298525
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a message registering unit and a message reproducing unit. The message registering unit is configured to register a first message with video of a first user, the first message being a notification from the first user to a second user who is not in the same space with the first user at the same time. The message reproducing unit is configured to reproduce a second message with video in which the first user and the second user are present at the same time, the second message being a response to the first message from the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Sakai
  • Patent number: 10299003
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 10290281
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range in an image display direction, a moving body detection unit that detects whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in the image display direction, an image analysis unit that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit to detect whether or not a face is present, and a power control unit that controls power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes that are set by combining whether or not the face detected by the image analysis unit is present and whether or not the moving body detected by the detection unit is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Junji Ooi, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Tsurumi, Tomohiko Gotoh, Yuichi Iida, Shinichi Hayashi, Junichi Tsukamoto, Asako Tadenuma
  • Publication number: 20190121458
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control processing on an operation object, where an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Yusuke Sakai