公开(公告)号：US11307662B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16914951

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Akira Ono ,  Ryo Yokoyama ,  Tetsuya Naruse ,  Mikio Takenaka ,  Ryosuke Murakami ,  Hideaki Hayashi ,  Mioko Ambe ,  Ryosuke Takeuchi ,  Kazutoshi Ohno ,  Seiji Muramatsu ,  Tetsuya Takahashi

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G09B21/00 ,  G09B29/00 ,  G09B29/10

Abstract: An object of the present technology is to provide a haptic-feedback presenting apparatus, a haptic-feedback presenting system, and a haptic-feedback presenting method capable of presenting information mapped in space without vision and audition. A haptic-feedback presenting apparatus according to the present technology includes a mapping-information acquisition part, a region detection part, and a haptic-feedback arithmetic part. The mapping-information acquisition part acquires mapping information that is information mapped in space. The region detection part sets a detection-target region, and determines whether or not the mapping information included in the detection-target region satisfies a condition, such as being a threshold or more. The haptic-feedback arithmetic part calculates a haptic feedback to be presented to a user on the basis of a determination result from the region detection part.

公开(公告)号：US11190874B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16628089

申请日：2018-07-03

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Yokoyama ,  Osamu Ito ,  Ikuo Yamano

IPC: H04R3/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04R3/02 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: [Object] To prevent appropriately that a user perceives sound emitted by a tactile stimulus (second sound). [Solving Means] To provide an information processing device including a generation section that generates, on the basis of information regarding a first perception characteristic of a user with respect to a first sound emitted from an acoustic presentation section and information regarding a second perception characteristic of the user with respect to a second sound emitted by a tactile stimulus presented from a tactile data presentation section, tactile data to be used for presentation of the tactile stimulus of emitting the second sound that is not perceived by the user.

公开(公告)号：US11156473B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-26

申请号：US16324469

申请日：2017-06-19

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION ,  SONY MOBILE COMMNUNICATIONS INC.

Inventor： Ryo Yokoyama ,  Akira Ono ,  Tetsuya Naruse ,  Mikio Takenaka ,  Ryosuke Murakami ,  Hideaki Hayashi ,  Mioko Ambe ,  Ryosuke Takeuchi ,  Kazutoshi Ohno ,  Seiji Muramatsu ,  Tetsuya Takahashi

IPC: G01C21/36 ,  G09B29/10 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G08G1/005 ,  G01C21/30

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present technology is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method capable of allowing a user to approach a destination intuitively.
[Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a position-coordinate acquisition part, a direction acquisition part, a direction calculation part, and a haptic-feedback determining part. The position-coordinate acquisition part acquires a position coordinate of the information processing apparatus. The direction acquisition part acquires an apparatus direction that the information processing apparatus faces. The direction calculation part calculates a target direction being a direction of a target with respect to the information processing apparatus from a position coordinate of the target and the position coordinate of the information processing apparatus. The haptic-feedback determining part determines a haptic feedback to be presented to a user on the basis of an angle formed by the apparatus direction and the target direction.

公开(公告)号：US11009956B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16328913

申请日：2017-09-08

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Takeshi Ogita ,  Ryo Yokoyama ,  Ikuo Yamano

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  H04M19/04

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an arithmetic processing unit. The arithmetic processing unit generates a first haptic-feedback presentation signal, which is to be supplied to a first haptic-feedback presentation device of a plurality of haptic-feedback presentation devices, based on the first characteristic information extracted from a first sound signal corresponding to a first channel among sounds of a plurality of channels output from a sound output device capable of outputting the sounds of the plurality of channels, and generates a second haptic-feedback presentation signal, which is to be supplied to a second haptic-feedback presentation device of the plurality of haptic-feedback presentation devices, based on the second characteristic information extracted from a second sound signal corresponding to a second channel among the sounds of the plurality of channels.

公开(公告)号：US10901814B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-26

申请号：US16325427

申请日：2017-08-04

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Takeshi Ogita ,  Ikuo Yamano ,  Ayumi Nakagawa ,  Ryo Yokoyama

IPC: G06F9/54 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: This information processing apparatus includes a vibration device. The information processing apparatus further includes a control unit that detects a tap operation of a user for instructing to perform information notification. The control unit further generates notification information when the tap operation is detected. The control unit further converts the generated notification information into a vibration waveform, and causes the vibration device to vibrate in the vibration waveform.

公开(公告)号：US10741030B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16332968

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Osamu Ito ,  Ryo Yokoyama

IPC: H04B3/36 ,  G08B6/00 ,  A41D1/00 ,  G05D19/02 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G08C15/06 ,  G08C17/02 ,  H04J3/16 ,  A41D13/00 ,  A61H23/00 ,  H04J3/00

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reception apparatus and method, a transmission apparatus and method, and a program, capable of obtaining desired communication quality. Under the control of a central control unit, a tactile signal generation unit generates a tactile signal of a necessary number. Under the control of the central control unit, a header generation unit generates header information including the presence or absence of the tactile signal (that is, information indicating whether or not the tactile signal is to be used for each of vibration units as information associated with the vibration unit that uses the tactile signal), the delay amount, and the magnitude. A signal coupling unit adds header information to each of the tactile signals from the tactile signal generation unit, and performs time-division multiplexing on each of the tactile signals to which the header information has been added. The present disclosure can be applied to a tactile presentation system that vibrates a wearable reception apparatus including the vibration unit, for example.

公开(公告)号：US10741029B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16323647

申请日：2017-08-29

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Osamu Ito ,  Ikuo Yamano ,  Ryo Yokoyama

IPC: G08B6/00 ,  G05D19/02 ,  G08C17/02 ,  G08C23/04 ,  G08C23/02 ,  A41D1/00 ,  A41D13/00 ,  H04N21/43 ,  G08B25/10 ,  H04N21/414 ,  A63J25/00 ,  H04N21/41 ,  A41D1/02 ,  A41D1/04

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a receiving apparatus and method, a transmitting apparatus and method, and a program, which can vibrate a device in a specific area of a receiving area. An example, in which users wearing respective wearable receiving apparatuses are freely moving in the receiving area, is shown. A directional transmitting device unit transmits an area designation signal, and the reachable range of the signal is shown as a beam irradiation area. Only the user in the beam irradiation area receives the area designation signal transmitted by the directional transmitting device unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a video projection system that vibrates a receiving apparatus by transmission and reception of a directional wireless signal in the specific area where the video is projected.

公开(公告)号：US10741028B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16323575

申请日：2017-08-03

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Yokoyama ,  Ikuo Yamano ,  Osamu Ito ,  Yosuke Matsuzaki

IPC: G08B6/00 ,  A63F13/285 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/54

Abstract: There is provided an output control device to realize the control of the output position at the device more efficiently, the output control device including: a controller that, on the basis of a common signal to be employed by a plurality of devices, conducts an output control in regard to a plurality of output units provided in the device. The common signal includes information specifying an output unit serving as a control object. The controller generates a control signal derived by correcting the output unit serving as the control object on the basis of positional information of the device and the common signal which are acquired, and conducts the output control specific to the device on the basis of the control signal.

公开(公告)号：US11676461B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

申请号：US16319690

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Yokoyama ,  Ikuo Yamano ,  Yusuke Nakagawa ,  Takeshi Ogita

IPC: G08B21/00 ,  G08B3/00 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F13/285 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61B5/16 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G06F3/01

CPC classification number: G08B3/00 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/1118 ,  A61B5/165 ,  A61B5/4266 ,  A63F13/212 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/215 ,  A63F13/285 ,  G06F3/016 ,  A61B2560/0242

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.

公开(公告)号：US11550396B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16968736

申请日：2018-11-16

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryo Yokoyama ,  Osamu Ito ,  Ikuo Yamano

IPC: G06F3/01

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that generates, on the basis of control information relating to tactile stimulation to be perceived by a second user as configured by a first user and on the basis of characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the second user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit and which serves to cause the second user to perceive the tactile stimulation indicated by the control information.