公开(公告)号：US20210014457A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-14

申请号：US17040194

申请日：2019-01-29

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： KENJI SUGIHARA ,  MARI SAITO

IPC: H04N7/15 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06T13/40

Abstract: There is a demand for provision of a technique that enables a user of a notification receiving side or a user of a notification transmitting side to easily understand the situation of his/her counterpart. Provided is an information processing device including: a first action-state acquisition unit configured to acquire first action-state information about an action state of a first user present at a first location; a second action-state acquisition unit configured to acquire a second action-state information about an action state of a second user present at a second location; an avatar control unit configured to gradually change, in accordance with the action state of the first user, a first avatar representing the first user, the first avatar being provided so as to be visible to the second user at the second location; an input determination unit configured to determine input about the first avatar based on the second action-state information; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal to a terminal of the first user present at the first location based on the input about the first avatar.

公开(公告)号：US20200342870A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-29

申请号：US16765378

申请日：2018-11-14

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： MARI SAITO ,  RITSUKO KANO

IPC: G10L15/22

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method for enabling presentation of a more appropriate utterance guide to a user. An information processing device is provided, which includes a first control unit that controls presentation of an utterance guide suitable for a user who makes an utterance on the basis of user information regarding the user. Therefore, a more appropriate utterance guide can be presented to the user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a voice interaction system.

公开(公告)号：US20200183496A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16633227

申请日：2018-07-18

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： KENJI SUGIHARA ,  MARI SAITO

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/01

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for performing processes on a target of interest corresponding to an operation input more accurately. Processing is performed on a target of interest on the basis of the target of interest and one of a first recognizer or a second recognizer, the target of interest being identified on the basis of status information regarding a user including at least either action information or position information regarding the user, the first recognizer being configured to recognize an operation input of the user, the second recognizer being configured to be different from the first recognizer and to recognize the operation input of the user. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to information processing apparatuses, image processing apparatuses, control apparatuses, information processing systems, information processing methods, or information processing programs.

公开(公告)号：US20200057486A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-20

申请号：US16482060

申请日：2017-12-15

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： KENJI SUGIHARA ,  MARI SAITO

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06T11/00

Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of grasping a user intention more accurately. An information processing apparatus includes: an accuracy acquisition unit configured to acquire accuracy information regarding a user intention to a target, the accuracy information being estimated on the basis of an action-recognition result of a user; and a response-induction control unit configured to perform response-induction control of imparting an effect according to the acquired accuracy information, to the target.

公开(公告)号：US20200051546A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-13

申请号：US16492249

申请日：2018-04-03

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： HIRO IWASE ,  MARI SAITO ,  SHINICHI KAWANO

IPC: G10L13/047 ,  G10L25/51

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a voice output device, and a voice output method that allow a user to hear a speech from a home agent unit regardless of where the user is. The voice output device outputs, on the basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in a unit capable of outputting a voice toward a user, information indicating hearing difficulty of a voice from the unit at a position of the user. The present technology can be applied to a household voice assistant device that performs a speech to a user.

公开(公告)号：US20200033942A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16489839

申请日：2018-02-16

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： MARI SAITO ,  KENJI SUGIHARA

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G09G5/08

Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a line-of-sight-information acquisition unit, an input-information acquisition unit, and a position presentation unit. The line-of-sight-information acquisition unit acquires first line-of-sight information that indicates a gaze position of a first user with respect to a specified object. The input-information acquisition unit acquires specified input information regarding an input performed by at least one of the first user or a second user. The position presentation unit controls, on the basis of the specified input information, an information providing device to perform a position presentation control for presenting, to the second user, the gaze position of the first user in an invisible state.

公开(公告)号：US20200005786A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16487456

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： MARI SAITO ,  HIRO IWASE ,  SHINICHI KAWANO

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L25/63

Abstract: Achieving voice utterance that can attract an interest of a target further effectively. There is provided an information processing apparatus including an utterance control unit that controls output of voice utterance, in which the utterance control unit determines a target on the basis of an analyzed context, and controls an output device to output an attracting utterance that attracts an interest of the target. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing method including executing, by a processor, output control of voice utterance, in which the execution of the output control further includes: determining a target on the basis of an analyzed context; and controlling an output device to output an attracting utterance that attracts an interest of the target.

公开(公告)号：US20190189088A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US16323689

申请日：2017-08-15

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： MARI SAITO

IPC: G09G5/38 ,  G06F3/16 ,  H04R1/32

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that, when information is conveyed to a user to whom the information is desired to be conveyed, enable to convey the information to the user while the information is concealed from the other users. The information processing device includes a positional relationship detection unit that detects a positional relationship among a plurality of users, a detection unit that detects a blind spot of a first user among the plurality of users, and a display control unit that performs control for displaying information in the blind spot detected by the detection unit. The information processing device further includes a sight line detection unit that detects a sight line direction of a second user, and the display control unit performs control for displaying information in a blind spot located in the sight line direction of the second user. The present technology can be applied to an information processing device that presents information to a user.