Patents by Inventor Akihiko Sugawara
Akihiko Sugawara 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).
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Patent number: 11976673Abstract: A blower with a silencer has the blower including an axial fan including a casing, a motor attached to the casing, and a rotor having a shaft portion attached to the motor and rotated and a blade formed to protrude to an outer side of the shaft portion in a radial direction, and a silencer attached to the casing, in which the silencer includes a resonator that selectively silences a dominant sound generated by the axial fan, the silencer is disposed at a position in which at least a part of the silencer overlaps with the shaft portion, as viewed from a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and in a case in which, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor, a circle around the rotation axis, which has a radius of a line connecting the rotation axis and a point of a most distal end of the blade, is defined as a rotation region, an area of the silencer in the cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis is smaller than an area of the rotation region.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Sugawara, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu, Shogo Yamazoe
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Publication number: 20240101448Abstract: An ion exchanger unit that adsorbs impurities in a liquid to be tested, and a controller that switches between causing the flow of the liquid to be tested into the ion exchanger unit and the flow of eluent to elute the impurities adsorbed in the ion exchanger unit into the ion exchanger unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei TSUTANO, Akihiko TSUDA, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240029396Abstract: A frame storage section stores captured images of a predetermined number of frames depicting a region including the skin of a user. A pixel value acquisition section divides the captured images into a plurality of blocks and acquires the pixel values in each block. A pixel exclusion section narrows down target pixels in each block by excluding pixels that have a green value equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold in a case where pixel colors of each block are represented by RGB. A brightness change compensation section compensates for brightness changes by dividing the average of green values by the average of red or blue values in a case where the colors of the target pixels in each block are represented by RGB. A pulse detection section detects a pulse from temporal changes in target pixel values in each block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Akihiko Sugawara
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Patent number: 11769469Abstract: Content data of a display target is acquired in accordance with a user's operations and is used to determine a configuration of a display image. Of the regions to be rendered using fonts in the display image, the region in which a character is to be displaced by a very small amount is determined. The characters targeted for displacement are rendered while being displaced over time in accordance with predetermined displacement rules. The characters not targeted for displacement are rendered in a reference position. With all characters rendered, the display image is completed and output. The processes of S12 to S24 are repeated until display is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Sugawara, Akio Ohba
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Publication number: 20230073265Abstract: A feature acquiring section 100 obtains feature data of a target person. A matching degree deriving section 110 derives a matching degree between the feature data and feature data of a registered user stored in a feature amount database 120. An identifying section 130 determines that the target person is the registered user in a case where the matching degree is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and determines that the target person is not the registered user in a case where the matching degree is less than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold. An action management section 140 sets an action mode of an acting subject according to the matching degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Shinichi HONDA, Akio OHBA, Hiroyuki SEGAWA, Masanori FUKUMOTO, Akihiko SUGAWARA
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Patent number: 11450036Abstract: An input information acquiring section accepts a user's operation. A texture region acquiring section acquires a region of a display image to be presented by use of a texture. A velocity acquiring section acquires for each pixel a movement velocity vector of the texture on a plane of the display image. A texture referencing section adjusts a reference range in an axial direction of the velocity vector in keeping with a magnitude of the movement velocity, before sampling texel values. A pixel value determining section determines a pixel value on the basis of the texel values. An output section outputs the display image.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Ohba, Takayuki Shinohara, Shinya Wada, Akihiko Sugawara, Takayuki Ishida, Hiroyuki Segawa
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Patent number: 11270410Abstract: A video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Akihiko Sugawara
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Patent number: 10957104Abstract: In an information processing device, a photographed image acquiring unit acquires an image which has been photographed by a camera attached to a head mount display. A region determining unit predicts a region which a user gazes at in a display image. An image analyzing unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former analyzing a region corresponding to the gaze region in the photographed image with a higher fineness than the latter. An information processing unit performs information processing by using the result of analysis. An image generating unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former generating a display image on the gaze region with a higher fineness than the latter. An output unit sends data of the display image to the head mount display.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Ishida, Akio Ohba, Akihiko Sugawara, Yasuhiro Watari, Akira Suzuki
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Publication number: 20210035530Abstract: Content data of a display target is acquired in accordance with a user's operations and is used to determine a configuration of a display image. Of the regions to be rendered using fonts in the display image, the region in which a character is to be displaced by a very small amount is determined. The characters targeted for displacement are rendered while being displaced over time in accordance with predetermined displacement rules. The characters not targeted for displacement are rendered in a reference position. With all characters rendered, the display image is completed and output. The processes of S12 to S24 are repeated until display is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2018Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Sugawara, Akio Ohba
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Publication number: 20200372607Abstract: A video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Akihiko Sugawara
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Publication number: 20200342636Abstract: An input information acquiring section accepts a user's operation. A texture region acquiring section acquires a region of a display image to be presented by use of a texture. A velocity acquiring section acquires for each pixel a movement velocity vector of the texture on a plane of the display image. A texture referencing section adjusts a reference range in an axial direction of the velocity vector in keeping with a magnitude of the movement velocity, before sampling texel values. A pixel value determining section determines a pixel value on the basis of the texel values. An output section outputs the display image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akio Ohba, Takayuki Shinohara, Shinya Wada, Akihiko Sugawara, Takayuki Ishida, Hiroyuki Segawa
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Patent number: 10810701Abstract: Provided is a video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Akihiko Sugawara
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Patent number: 10805528Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Akio Ohba, Hidehiko Ogasawara, Akihiko Sugawara, Hiroyuki Segawa
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Patent number: 10776900Abstract: Provided is a video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Akihiko Sugawara
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Publication number: 20200090403Abstract: In an information processing device, a photographed image acquiring unit acquires an image which has been photographed by a camera attached to a head mount display. A region determining unit predicts a region which a user gazes at in a display image. An image analyzing unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former analyzing a region corresponding to the gaze region in the photographed image with a higher fineness than the latter. An information processing unit performs information processing by using the result of analysis. An image generating unit has a first fineness processing unit and a second fineness processing unit, with the former generating a display image on the gaze region with a higher fineness than the latter. An output unit sends data of the display image to the head mount display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Ishida, Akio Ohba, Akihiko Sugawara, Yasuhiro Watari, Akira Suzuki
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Patent number: 10438365Abstract: An imaging device includes a filter, imaging elements, and an image processing section. The filter has a plurality of regions transmitting different light components. The imaging elements detect a luminance distribution of polarization components in a plurality of directions of light transmitted by the filter. The image processing section analyzes the detected luminance distribution based on correlation between the components, thereby generating a plurality of items of information about a subject.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Myokan, Akio Ohba, Hidehiko Ogasawara, Shinya Wada, Akihiko Sugawara, Hiroyuki Segawa
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Publication number: 20190230281Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Akio Ohba, Hidehiko Ogasawara, Akihiko Sugawara, Hiroyuki Segawa
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Publication number: 20180365800Abstract: Provided is a video display system that includes a display device and an image processing device. The display device is mounted on the head of a user for use. The image processing device generates a plurality of unsynthesized images having different resolutions that are to be used for display by the display device, and transmits the generated unsynthesized images to the display device. The display device receives the unsynthesized images transmitted from the image processing device, and displays a display image that is obtained by synthesizing the unsynthesized images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akira Suzuki, Akihiko Sugawara
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Publication number: 20180075615Abstract: An imaging device includes a filter, imaging elements, and an image processing section. The filter has a plurality of regions transmitting different light components. The imaging elements detect a luminance distribution of polarization components in a plurality of directions of light transmitted by the filter. The image processing section analyzes the detected luminance distribution based on correlation between the components, thereby generating a plurality of items of information about a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshihiro MYOKAN, Akio OHBA, Hidehiko OGASAWARA, Shinya WADA, Akihiko SUGAWARA, Hiroyuki SEGAWA
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Patent number: 9717987Abstract: A frame storage stores an image obtained by imaging a region of at least part of the body of a user. A vital sign signal detector detects a signal sequence of a vital sign that cyclically varies from plural imaged regions of the body of the user by using captured images of a predetermined number of frames stored in the frame storage. A correlation calculator obtains the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body. An identity determining section determines whether or not the respective imaged regions of the body belong to the same user based on the correlation between the signal sequences of the vital sign detected from the respective imaged regions of the body.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Sugawara, Akio Ohba, Toshiyuki Hiroi