公开(公告)号：US11759959B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US16605835

申请日：2018-04-25

Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Shinichi Honda ,  Akio Ohba ,  Hiroyuki Segawa

IPC: B25J11/00 ,  G10L25/63

CPC classification number: B25J11/001 ,  B25J11/0015 ,  G10L25/63

Abstract: A feeling deduction unit 100 deduces a user's feeling. An internal state management unit 110 manages an internal state of an object and an internal state of a user on the basis of the deduced user's feeling. An action management unit 120 determines an action of the object on the basis of the internal state of the object. An output processing unit 140 causes the object to perform the action determined by the action management unit 120.

公开(公告)号：US11276197B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US17050879

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Takayuki Ishida ,  Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Shinya Wada

IPC: G06T7/73 ,  G06K9/46

Abstract: A captured image acquisition section of an information processing apparatus acquires polarization image data including polarization information in a plurality of azimuths. An imaging apparatus information acquisition section acquires information regarding a position and posture of an imaging apparatus. A viewpoint control section of a subject information acquisition section controls a plurality of viewpoints from which polarization images are captured. A point-of-interest information acquisition section sets a pixel of interest having a degree of polarization equal to or higher than a threshold in a polarization image of a first viewpoint, identifies a pixel representing the same point of interest in a polarization image of a second viewpoint, and then obtains a line of intersection between incident planes acquired for the respective viewpoints as a normal vector. An output data generation section generates output data based on results thereof and outputs the data.

公开(公告)号：US11010901B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16328746

申请日：2017-08-31

Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Akio Ohba ,  Hidehiko Ogasawara ,  Hiroyuki Segawa

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/73

Abstract: A captured image acquisition section 50 acquires, from an imaging apparatus 12, data of a polarized image obtained by capturing a target object and stores the data into an image data storage section 52. A normal line distribution acquisition section 362 of a region segmentation section 310 acquires a distribution of normal line vectors of a subject surface using the polarized image. A region decision section 312 evaluates the distribution of normal line vectors with a predetermined criterion indicating stability such as a dispersion and determines a region in which the stability is high as a region of a figure of a subject to segment the image. An output data generation section 56 carries out various processes using a result of the segmentation to generate output data.

公开(公告)号：US10515999B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-24

申请号：US15743348

申请日：2016-08-05

Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Hidehiko Ogasawara

IPC: H01L27/30 ,  H04N9/04 ,  H04N5/367 ,  H04N5/357 ,  G01J4/04 ,  H01L27/28 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H01L27/14 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H01L31/10 ,  H01L51/44 ,  H04N5/374

Abstract: In an imaging element 28, a first light detecting layer 12 includes organic photoelectric conversion films 38a and 38b oriented in a prescribed axial direction so that it detects a polarized component of incident light which is directed parallel to the orientation axis. The first light detecting layer 12 also has an organic photoelectric conversion film oriented in another axial direction which is arranged in a prescribed pattern on a two-dimensional plane. A second light detecting layer 16 disposed under the first light detecting layer 12 includes photoelectric conversion elements 54a and 54b and detects a polarized component which has passed through the first light detecting layer 12 and which is directed perpendicularly to the orientation axis of the organic photoelectric conversion films 38a and 38b.

公开(公告)号：US10477175B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-12

申请号：US15547707

申请日：2016-01-29

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Hidehiko Ogasawara ,  Norio Nagatsuka ,  Naoki Numaguchi ,  Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Akio Ohba

IPC: H04N9/77 ,  H04N5/235 ,  A63F13/25 ,  A63F13/32 ,  A63F13/42 ,  A63F13/65 ,  H04N9/07 ,  H04N9/69 ,  H04N9/73 ,  H04N17/00 ,  H04N17/02 ,  A63F13/213 ,  G03B15/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N9/04 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/60 ,  H04N1/407 ,  A63H33/04

Abstract: An image of a block or the like entering a space above a play mat is picked up by an image pickup apparatus, and an information processing apparatus detects and recognizes the block on the basis of a picture of the block in a picked up image and performs information processing. The play mat includes a play field that defines a detection space for the block, and a calibration chart including at least a plurality of regions of colors of different luminances. The image pickup apparatus adjusts an exposure time period, a gain value for each color component and a correction rule upon gamma correction on the basis of the picture of the calibration chart in the picked up image.

公开(公告)号：US20190230281A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16337025

申请日：2017-09-27

Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Akio Ohba ,  Hidehiko Ogasawara ,  Akihiko Sugawara ,  Hiroyuki Segawa

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  G06T7/70 ,  H04N7/04

Abstract: An image data generating block 72 of an image capturing apparatus 12 generates polarized images having two or more resolutions from luminance of polarization in two or more directions acquired by a luminance data acquiring block 70. A pixel value converting block 74 generates new image data with a predetermined parameter being a pixel value on the basis of the polarized luminance in two or more directions. A transmission image generating block 76 connects image data of two or more types on a predetermined pixel line basis and then crops the requested data, thereby stream-transferring the cropped data from a communication block 78. A target object recognizing block 80 of an information processing apparatus 10 recognizes the state of a target object by use of the transmitted data and an output data generating block 82 generates output data by use of the recognized state. A communication block 86 requests the image capturing apparatus 12 for the data including type, resolution, and region corresponding to the state of the target object.

公开(公告)号：US10210629B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US15115521

申请日：2014-12-01

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Akio Ohba ,  Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Tetsugo Inada ,  Hidehiko Ogasawara ,  Hirofumi Okamoto

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06K9/32 ,  G06K9/62

Abstract: A detection area is set in a three-dimensional space in which a subject exists. When an actual hand enters the detection area, coordinate points (white and black dots) represented by pixels making up a silhouette of the hand in a depth image enter the detection area. In the detection area, a reference vector is set that shows the direction which the hand should face relative to the shoulder as a reference point. Then, an inner product between two vectors, a vector from the reference point to each of coordinate points and the reference vector, is calculated, followed by comparison between the inner products. Positions of coordinate points whose inner products are ranked high are acquired as the position of tips of the hand.

公开(公告)号：US20180322651A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US15772935

申请日：2016-09-29

Applicant: Sony Corporation ,  Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Atsushi Kimura ,  Daisuke Tahara ,  Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Tetsugo Inada ,  Akio Ohba ,  Hirofumi Okamoto

IPC: G06T7/70 ,  G06K9/00

CPC classification number: G06T7/70 ,  G06K9/00369 ,  G06T1/00 ,  G06T7/60 ,  G06T2207/30196

Abstract: [Object] To perform more stable and highly accurate attitude estimation.[Solution] The attitude optimization unit optimizes the articulation position, the angle, the number of articulations, and the like which are attitude parameters of a human body model (tree structure) by a plurality of optimization techniques so as to match a region in which a human body can exist, and switches among a plurality of optimization techniques and uses an optimum technique. Note that optimization techniques include 1. initial value, 2. algorithm, and 3, restriction, and optimization is performed by switching among these three. For example, it is possible to apply the present disclosure to an image processing device that performs image processing of optimizing the articulation position and angle of a human body model.

公开(公告)号：US12211255B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-28

申请号：US18001804

申请日：2020-07-03

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Shogo Sato ,  Hiroyuki Segawa

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/774

Abstract: A sample image obtaining section repetitively obtains a sample image generated by photographing a given sample by a photographing unit. A feature quantity extracting section generates feature quantity data corresponding to the sample image, in reference to the sample image. The feature quantity extracting section classifies each of a plurality of pieces of feature quantity data into either training data or evaluation data. An evaluation learning section performs learning of an evaluation discriminator by using a plurality of pieces of the training data. A photographing necessity/unnecessity determining section determines necessity/unnecessity of additional photographing of the sample by using the evaluation discriminator in which the learning using the plurality of pieces of the training data has already been performed and a plurality of pieces of the evaluation data. A notifying section gives a notification regarding a result of the determination of the necessity/unnecessity of additional photographing of the sample.

公开(公告)号：US20210243374A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17050872

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Takayuki Ishida ,  Hiroyuki Segawa ,  Shinya Wada

IPC: H04N5/232

Abstract: A point-of-interest information acquisition section of an information processing apparatus acquires, by using a polarization image captured from a viewpoint of an imaging apparatus, an incident plane relative to the viewpoint at a point of interest ‘a’ on a subject. A viewpoint control section determines a direction of movement of the imaging apparatus in such a manner as to suitably acquire an angle formed with the incident plane and presents the direction to a user. When the post-movement viewpoint of an imaging apparatus is determined to be appropriate, an incident plane at the point of interest ‘a’ is acquired by using the captured polarization image, and a line of intersection with the incident plane is assumed to be a normal vector n of the point of interest ‘a.’