Patents by Inventor Chikashi YAJIMA
Chikashi YAJIMA 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: 11785183Abstract: A sensor device includes an array sensor having a plurality of detection elements arrayed in one or two dimensional manner, a signal processing unit configured to acquire a detection signal by the array sensor and perform signal processing, and a calculation unit. The calculation unit detects an object from the detection signal by the array sensor, and gives an instruction, to the signal processing unit, on region information generated on the basis of the detection of the object as region information regarding the acquisition of the detection signal from the array sensor or the signal processing for the detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
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Patent number: 11715962Abstract: To reliably connect a device to be charged such as a robot and a charging device. There is provided a charging device including a charging stand having a charging terminal to be connected to a device to be charged and an engaging portion that performs positioning with the device to be charged, and a support member that supports the charging stand movably in the horizontal direction. With this configuration, the charging stand can be moved in the horizontal direction. Therefore, it is possible to reliably connect the device to be charged such as a robot and the charging device.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto Mori, Daisuke Morizono, Noriaki Takagi, Myungjin Jung, Chikashi Yajima, Hidenori Ishibashi, Takuma Araki
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Publication number: 20230124921Abstract: A sensor device includes an array sensor having a plurality of detection elements arrayed in one or two dimensional manner, a signal processing unit configured to acquire a detection signal by the array sensor and perform signal processing, and a calculation unit. The calculation unit detects an object from the detection signal by the array sensor, and gives an instruction, to the signal processing unit, on region information generated on the basis of the detection of the object as region information regarding the acquisition of the detection signal from the array sensor or the signal processing for the detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
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Patent number: 11495008Abstract: A sensor device includes an array sensor having a plurality of detection elements arrayed in one or two dimensional manner, a signal processing unit configured to acquire a detection signal by the array sensor and perform signal processing, and a calculation unit. The calculation unit detects an object from the detection signal by the array sensor, and gives an instruction, to the signal processing unit, on region information generated on the basis of the detection of the object as region information regarding the acquisition of the detection signal from the array sensor or the signal processing for the detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
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Publication number: 20210256286Abstract: A sensor device includes an array sensor having a plurality of detection elements arrayed in one or two dimensional manner, a signal processing unit configured to acquire a detection signal by the array sensor and perform signal processing, and a calculation unit. The calculation unit detects an object from the detection signal by the array sensor, and gives an instruction, to the signal processing unit, on region information generated on the basis of the detection of the object as region information regarding the acquisition of the detection signal from the array sensor or the signal processing for the detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony CorporationInventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
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Publication number: 20200298399Abstract: To reliably connect a device to be charged such as a robot and a charging device. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a charging device including a charging stand having a charging terminal to be connected to a device to be charged and an engaging portion that performs positioning with the device to be charged; and a support member that supports the charging stand movably in the horizontal direction. With this configuration, the charging stand can be moved in the horizontal direction. Therefore, it is possible to reliably connect the device to be charged such as a robot and the charging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: NAOTO MORI, DAISUKE MORIZONO, NORIAKI TAKAGI, MYUNGJIN JUNG, CHIKASHI YAJIMA, HIDENORI ISHIBASHI, TAKUMA ARAKI
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Patent number: 10638213Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 10142598Abstract: A wearable terminal device includes circuitry configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors, wherein the sensor data corresponds to a behavior of a user in possession of the wearable terminal device. The circuitry is configured to determine, based on the sensor data, the behavior of the user. The circuitry is configured to control, based on the determined behavior of the user, a photographing interval of a camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventor: Chikashi Yajima
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Patent number: 10013949Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display captured image at a first portion of the display; detects whether an image of a specific pattern exists in the captured image; controls the display to display an image corresponding to data in a second portion of the display; detects that a user input was received at a first position corresponding to the first portion of the display and a second position corresponding to the second portion of the display; and transmits data corresponding to an image displayed at the first position to another information processing apparatus corresponding to the captured image displayed at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventor: Chikashi Yajima
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Publication number: 20180124496Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9916004Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a communication interface configured to be connected to an external posture detecting device to be worn by a user; a display configured to rotatably display a display image; and circuitry configured to control a rotation angle of the image displayed by the display based on posture information received from the external posture detecting device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9860625Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9749846Abstract: An information processing apparatus that stores a table associating first identification information corresponding to the information processing apparatus, second identification information corresponding to another information processing apparatus, and an image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; captures image data; determines whether the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; and controls a wireless interface to transmit, to the another information processing apparatus, a request for pairing with the another information processing apparatus when the determining determines that the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Chikashi Yajima, Takashi Kawakami
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Patent number: 9479872Abstract: An information processing apparatus that reproduces left and right audio signals based on data acquired from a sound source; acquires left and right surrounding sounds collected by left and right microphones included in a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus; combines a sound corresponding to at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds with at least one of the left and right audio signals; and outputs the left and right audio signals combined with the sound corresponding to the at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds to left and right earphones of the headphone unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20160249024Abstract: A wearable terminal device includes circuitry configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors, wherein the sensor data corresponds to a behavior of a user in possession of the wearable terminal device. The circuitry is configured to determine, based on the sensor data, the behavior of the user. The circuitry is configured to control, based on the determined behavior of the user, a photographing interval of a camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Chikashi YAJIMA
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Publication number: 20160205460Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 9351090Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9326058Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20150350536Abstract: A wearable terminal device includes circuitry configured to receive sensor data from one or more sensors, wherein the sensor data corresponds to a behavior of a user in possession of the wearable terminal device. The circuitry is configured to determine, based on the sensor data, the behavior of the user. The circuitry is configured to control, based on the determined behavior of the user, a photographing interval of a camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Chikashi YAJIMA
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Patent number: 8718930Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka