Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ishihara

Atsushi Ishihara 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).

  • Patent number: 11726320
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 1 acquires motion information regarding a user 700 who is a user, determines the image quality (for example, the resolution) of a virtual object on the basis of the acquired motion information, and controls the display of the virtual object on the basis of the determined image quality. The virtual object is displayed with low resolution, for example, when the user 700 is turning his/her head. On the other hand, the virtual object is displayed with high resolution when the user 700 is put in a stationary state, that is, when a change becomes zero. The information processing apparatus 1 makes it possible to reduce a drawing load, while maintaining a real expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11683423
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a display unit, an operation unit, a processing unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an operation screen on which a processing mode and setting information may be selected. The operation unit is configured to receive an operation instruction from the operation screen displayed on the display unit and to transmit a processing job based on the operation instruction. The processing unit is configured to execute a process based on the processing job received from the operation unit. The storage unit is configured to store use history information indicating the processing jobs. The control unit is configured to customize the operation screen according to the use history information stored by the storage unit and cause the display unit to display the customized operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20230125769
    Abstract: A control device includes control circuits of a plurality of systems. When a transition condition is established, the control circuits of the systems make transition of a driving mode from a first driving mode to a second driving mode, and when a return condition is established in a state in which the driving mode has transitioned to the second driving mode, the control circuits of the systems make transition of the driving mode from the second driving mode to the first driving mode while gradually changing the current command values of the control circuits’ own systems toward the current command values before the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma HASEGAWA, Yuji FUJITA, Takashi KODERA, Isao NAMIKAWA, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Kenji SHIBATA, Yuko GOTO, Hiroki TOMIZAWA, Nobuyori NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230130446
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system includes a controller configured to execute a steering control process and a determining process of determining a converted operation amount by converting an actual wheel steering amount to an operation amount of an operation member based on an inverse of a steering gear ratio. In the determining process, when the steering gear ratio abruptly changes, the controller converts a gap of the converted operation amount generated at a time point of occurrence of the abrupt change to a gap of the wheel steering amount to grasp a converted steering amount offset value. While gradually decreasing the converted steering amount offset value, the controller thereafter re-converts the converted steering amount offset value to the gap of the converted operation amount based on the inverse of the steering gear ratio to determine a converted operation amount correction value and corrects the converted operation amount based on the value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki IIDA, Yuko Otsuka, Atsushi Ishihara, Junya Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230120092
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an output control unit (173) that controls output on a presentation device so as to present content associated with an absolute position in a real space, to a first user, a determination unit (171) that determines a self-position in the real space, a transmission unit (172) that transmits a signal requesting rescue to a device positioned in the real space, when reliability of determination by the determination unit (171) is reduced, an acquisition unit (174) that acquires information about the self-position estimated from an image including the first user captured by the device according to the signal; and a correction unit (175) that corrects the self-position based on the information about the self-position acquired by the acquisition unit (174).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: DAITA KOBAYASHI, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, HIDENORI AOKI, YOSHINORI OGAKI, YU NAKADA, RYOSUKE MURATA, TOMOHIKO GOTOH, SHUNITSU KOHARA, HARUKA FUJISAWA, MAKOTO DANIEL TOKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230032270
    Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a common electrode on a piezoelectric layer at a first side adjacent to a first surface and extends over a plurality of piezoelectric elements. A plurality of first individual electrodes is on the piezoelectric layer at a second side adjacent to a second surface. Each of the plurality of first individual electrodes is at a piezoelectric element of the plurality of piezoelectric elements, and are not electrically connected together. A first insulating layer is on the common electrode at the first side and extends over the plurality of piezoelectric elements. A plurality of second individual electrodes is on the first insulating layer at the first side. Each of the plurality of second individual electrodes is at a piezoelectric element of the plurality of piezoelectric elements, and overlap centers of the plurality of first individual electrodes. The plurality of second individual electrodes are electrically connected together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shuhei TABATA, Makoto HIGASHIBEPPU, Takeshi HIRAYAMA, Yukihiro HASEGAWA, Gen SHIMURA, Takashi MIYAHARA, Atsushi ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230021666
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a flow path member, an actuator, a pump, and a controller. The flow path member includes a flow path configured to direct flow of a pseudoplastic liquid through the flow path member. The actuator is configured to cause droplets to be ejected. The pump is configured to cause the liquid to flow sequentially through a supply reservoir, a plurality of supply manifolds, a plurality of supply flow paths, and a plurality of pressure chambers. The controller is configured to adjust a flow rate of the liquid to a prescribed target flow rate. The flow path has a flow path shape in which an average viscosity of the liquid in the plurality of supply flow paths is less than or equal to half an average viscosity of the liquid in the plurality of supply manifolds when the flow rate is equal to the target flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi MIYAHARA, Daisuke HOZUMI, Atsushi ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230005454
    Abstract: An information processing device (1) according to an embodiment includes a display control unit (34) and a decision unit (31). The display control unit (34) displays a content image on a head-mounted display. During display of the content image by the display control unit (34), the decision unit (31) decides whether or not a surrounding person exists in a front direction of the head-mounted display on the basis of a camera image obtained by capturing an image of a surrounding environment of the head-mounted display. In a case where the decision unit (31) decides that a surrounding person exists, the display control unit (34) moves a display position of the content image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, RYOSUKE MURATA, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220414960
    Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit that displays a virtual object on a three-dimensional coordinate space associated with a real space and causes the virtual object to perform a predetermined movement according to a predetermined sound reproduced from a real sound source disposed in the real space, in which the control unit performs delay amount setting processing of increasing a delay amount of movement start timing at which the virtual object is caused to perform the predetermined movement with respect to reproduction timing at which the real sound source reproduces the predetermined sound, as a position of the real sound source in the real space and a position of the virtual object on the three-dimensional coordinate space are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaomi KIMURA, Yasuko ISHIHARA, Hajime WAKABAYASHI, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Masayuki INOUE, Hirotake ICHIKAWA, Hidenori AOKI, Ryo FUKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220414945
    Abstract: A device and a method for performing AR image display control in which flicker in a boundary region between a virtual object and a real object is not noticeable are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: SHUNITSU KOHARA, HIDENORI AOKI, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, SHINTARO TSUTSUI, HIROSHI MATSUYAMA, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220404901
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that acquires information indicating a spatial relationship between a real object and a virtual object, and initiate generation of a user feedback based on the acquired information, the user feedback being displayed to be augmented to a generated image obtained based on capturing by an imaging device, or augmented to a perceived view of the real world, and wherein a characteristic of the user feedback is changed when the spatial relationship between the real object and the virtual object changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, HIROYUKI AGA, KOICHI KAWASAKI, MITSURU NISHIBE, YUJI KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20220377313
    Abstract: Natural appearance of transition from a predetermined object of two-dimensional content displayed on a two-dimensional display to a three-dimensional display model of an AR display device or vice versa is achieved. Control is performed such that, the transition is performed after switching the two-dimensional content from the motion parallax non-application display to the motion parallax application display. For example, control is performed such that the motion parallax application display is displayed on the two-dimensional display in a case where there is one AR display device, and the motion parallax application display is displayed on the AR display device in a case where there is a plurality of AR display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: YASUKO ISHIHARA, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, TAKAOMI KIMURA, MASAYUKI INOUE, HIDENORI AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220300120
    Abstract: A display delay of a virtual object is to be shortened, to alleviate the user's feeling of strangeness and enhance the sense of immersion in an AR space. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes: a drawing control unit that performs drawing control on a virtual object displayed while being associated with a real object recognized in an object recognition process; and a correction control unit that performs control so that an image obtained in a virtual object drawing process performed on the basis of a recognition result of an object recognition processing performed at a first time point is corrected on the basis of a recognition result of an object recognition process performed at a second time point that is later than the first time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: MITSURU NISHIBE, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, HIROYUKI AGA, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11449133
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that acquires information indicating a spatial relationship between a real object and a virtual object, and initiate generation of a user feedback based on the acquired information, the user feedback being displayed to be augmented to a generated image obtained based on capturing by an imaging device, or augmented to a perceived view of the real world, and wherein a characteristic of the user feedback is changed when the spatial relationship between the real object and the virtual object changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishihara, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Aga, Koichi Kawasaki, Mitsuru Nishibe, Yuji Kusano
  • Patent number: 11443719
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a rendering control unit that switches a rendering frequency of a virtual image between a first rendering frequency and a second rendering frequency higher than the first rendering frequency on the basis of a sensing result relating to a real space, and a display control unit that causes a display device to display the virtual image on the basis of the sensing result and either the first rendering frequency or the second rendering frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11417051
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable to ensure visibility when a virtual object is shielded. An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a display control unit that controls a display so as to display a virtual object by using a first display parameter in a first state where it is determined that the virtual object displayed by the display is hidden by at least one real object as viewed from a first user of the display and display the virtual object by using a second display parameter different from the first display parameter in a second state where it is determined that the virtual object is hidden by real objects more than that in the first state as viewed from the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishihara, Hirotake Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11380332
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of reliably delivering a message to a third party desired by a user. Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a sound message, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a sender of the sound message, a destination of a message included is the sound message, and content of the message from the information acquired by the acquisition unit, in which the recognition unit generates information for inputting the destination of the message is a case where the destination cannot be uniquely specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Kii, Hidehiro Komatsu, Atsushi Ishihara, Yu Shigeta, Junji Itoyama
  • Patent number: 11354874
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a control unit that controls a display device to display a first image in a first display region and a second display region, respectively, which are adjacent to each other and have mutually different display timing, so that the first image is superimposed over a real space as seen by a user of the display device, and that controls the display device to transform the first image in the first display region and the first image in the second display region on the basis of changes in position posture information relating to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aga, Atsushi Ishihara, Koichi Kawasaki, Mitsuru Nishibe
  • Publication number: 20220171518
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires sensing information regarding a user and first haptic information unique to a haptic presentation object; and a data processing unit that generates second haptic information from the first haptic information on the basis of the sensing information, the second haptic information being used in a case where a haptic presentation device presents a haptic stimulus to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIHARA, Yufeng JIN, Osamu ITO, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Ikuo YAMANO, Takeshi OGITA
  • Patent number: 11288869
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display control unit that controls, when recognition information related to recognition based on sensing of a real object includes first recognition information, shielding display representing shielding of a virtual object by the real object such that the shielding display presents a first boundary representation at a boundary between the virtual object and the real object or at a position near the boundary, and controls, when the recognition information includes second recognition information different from the first recognition information, the shielding display such that the shielding display presents a second boundary representation different from the first boundary representation at the boundary or at a position near the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Hirotake Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Aga, Atsushi Ishihara, Shinichi Takemura, Miwa Ichikawa, Shunitsu Kohara, Ryosuke Murata, Kenji Sugihara, Mari Saito