Patents by Inventor Yuya Hanai

Yuya Hanai 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: 20240096039
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya HANAI, Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 11462028
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can give a user a stronger impression that a real world is enhanced by using an AR technique. The information processing device includes a recognition unit that recognizes an object included in a real space so as to distinguish the object from a background on the basis of three-dimensional data of the real space in order to generate a virtual object image obtained by changing a state of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Publication number: 20220222905
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya HANAI, Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 11321921
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 10636185
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianing Wu, Masaki Fukuchi, Akihiko Kaino, Tatsuki Kashitani, Shunichi Homma, Shinichiro Abe, Yuya Hanai, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20200019755
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can give a user a stronger impression that a real world is enhanced by using an AR technique. The information processing device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an object included in a real space so as to distinguish the object from a background on the basis of three-dimensional data of the real space in order to generate a virtual object image obtained by changing a state of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: YUYA HANAI
  • Patent number: 10452892
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can give a user a stronger impression that a real world is enhanced by using an AR technique. The information processing device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an object included in a real space so as to distinguish the object from a background on the basis of three-dimensional data of the real space in order to generate a virtual object image obtained by changing a state of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Publication number: 20190088028
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya HANAI, Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 10181221
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9837121
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a data processing section configured to perform processing of playing back content according to a feature image, based on detection of the feature image from a captured image acquired by a capturing of an imaging section, and a specifying section configured to specify a resume point, which is a position of playing back the content, according to a timing at which the detection of the feature image is impossible. The data processing section performs the playback of the content from a position corresponding to the resume point, according to re-detection of the feature image after the detection of the feature image becomes impossible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Patent number: 9773333
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire space position information of a terminal including a display section that displays an image in which a virtual image is superimposed on a captured image acquired by an imaging section, and a specifying section configured to specify display information for displaying the virtual image on the display section according to the space position information of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Publication number: 20170193679
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jianing WU, Masaki FUKUCHI, Akihiko KAINO, Tatsuki KASHITANI, Shunichi HOMMA, Shinichiro ABE, Yuya HANAI, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20170186239
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya HANAI, Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9613461
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20170017830
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can give a user a stronger impression that a real world is enhanced by using an AR technique. [Solution] The information processing device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize an object included in a real space so as to distinguish the object from a background on the basis of three-dimensional data of the real space in order to generate a virtual object image obtained by changing a state of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: YUYA HANAI
  • Publication number: 20150279105
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20150145889
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire space position information of a terminal including a display section that displays an image in which a virtual image is superimposed on a captured image acquired by an imaging section, and a specifying section configured to specify display information for displaying the virtual image on the display section according to the space position information of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Publication number: 20150145888
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a captured image captured by an imaging section, and a data processing section configured to superimposedly display a virtual image generated by changing an input image on the captured image in a display section. The data processing section displays, on the display section, the virtual image generated by changing one of a relative position and a relative angle of the imaging section and the input image, which are virtually set, in a time series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Publication number: 20150117831
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a data processing section configured to perform processing of playing back content according to a feature image, based on detection of the feature image from a captured image acquired by a capturing of an imaging section, and a specifying section configured to specify a resume point, which is a position of playing back the content, according to a timing at which the detection of the feature image is impossible. The data processing section performs the playback of the content from a position corresponding to the resume point, according to re-detection of the feature image after the detection of the feature image becomes impossible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai
  • Patent number: 8595210
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing a search based on a search query comprising at least one or more subjective elements and one or more objective elements. A first search for content may be performed based on the one or more objective elements of the search query. A distribution of a numerical characteristic of results returned from the first search may be determined, where the numerical characteristic corresponds to one of the subjective elements of the search query. One or more proportional threshold for the subjective element may be determined, and a range of the numerical characteristic may be selected by applying the one or more proportional thresholds to the distribution. A second search for content may be performed based on the selected range of the numerical characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuya Hanai