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).

  • Patent number: 11785183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
  • Patent number: 11715962
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Mori, Daisuke Morizono, Noriaki Takagi, Myungjin Jung, Chikashi Yajima, Hidenori Ishibashi, Takuma Araki
  • Publication number: 20230124921
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
  • Patent number: 11495008
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
  • Publication number: 20210256286
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Chikashi Yajima, Hiroki Tetsukawa
  • Publication number: 20200298399
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: NAOTO MORI, DAISUKE MORIZONO, NORIAKI TAKAGI, MYUNGJIN JUNG, CHIKASHI YAJIMA, HIDENORI ISHIBASHI, TAKUMA ARAKI
  • Patent number: 10638213
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 10142598
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Chikashi Yajima
  • Patent number: 10013949
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Chikashi Yajima
  • Publication number: 20180124496
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 9916004
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 9860625
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 9749846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Chikashi Yajima, Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9479872
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Publication number: 20160249024
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chikashi YAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160205460
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
  • Patent number: 9351090
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Patent number: 9326058
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Publication number: 20150350536
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Chikashi YAJIMA
  • Patent number: 8718930
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka