Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Mukai

Hitoshi Mukai 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: 11903647
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gaze detector with which it is possible to detect a gaze (start point and gaze direction) by a simple configuration. The gaze detector detects a person's gaze, wherein the gaze detector is provided with a camera unit 10 for imaging the face of the person, a projector unit 20 for projecting a prescribed pattern light to the face of the person, a control unit 30 for controlling the presence of projection of the pattern light by the camera unit 10 and the projector unit 20, and a gaze detection processing unit 40 for detecting a gaze from the image of the face of the person imaged by the camera unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mukai, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masaki Suwa, Koichi Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20210052156
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gaze detector with which it is possible to detect a gaze (start point and gaze direction) by a simple configuration. The gaze detector detects a person's gaze, wherein the gaze detector is provided with a camera unit 10 for imaging the face of the person, a projector unit 20 for projecting a prescribed pattern light to the face of the person, a control unit 30 for controlling the presence of projection of the pattern light by the camera unit 10 and the projector unit 20, and a gaze detection processing unit 40 for detecting a gaze from the image of the face of the person imaged by the camera unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi MUKAI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Masaki SUWA, Koichi KINOSHITA
  • Patent number: 10684695
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating vestibulo-ocular reflex movement based on the pupil movement and the head movement of the person; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data relating to the pupil movement and the head movement of the person calculated by the calculator; and a reflex movement calculator configured to calculate the vestibulo-ocular reflex movement of the person based on the data in consideration of the suitability degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yamato Takeuchi, Koichi Kinoshita, Hitoshi Mukai, Shigenori Nagae, Ayumi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10653350
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating the VOR; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data calculated by the calculator; a selector configured to select a first technique of calculating the sleepiness based on the VOR of the person or a second technique different from the first technique based on the suitability degree provided to the data; a first sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the first technique when the selector selects the first technique; and a second sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the second technique when the selector selects the second technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumi Takemoto, Koichi Kinoshita, Hitoshi Mukai, Shigenori Nagae, Yamato Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20190339786
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating vestibulo-ocular reflex movement based on the pupil movement and the head movement of the person; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data relating to the pupil movement and the head movement of the person calculated by the calculator; and a reflex movement calculator configured to calculate the vestibulo-ocular reflex movement of the person based on the data in consideration of the suitability degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yamato TAKEUCHI, Koichi KINOSHITA, Hitoshi MUKAI, Shigenori NAGAE, Ayumi TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190336059
    Abstract: A data processing device that performs data processing of monitoring a person, the data processing device includes: a calculator configured to calculate pupil movement and head movement of the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a suitability degree of a situation in calculating the VOR; a provision unit configured to provide the suitability degree evaluated by the evaluator to data calculated by the calculator; a selector configured to select a first technique of calculating the sleepiness based on the VOR of the person or a second technique different from the first technique based on the suitability degree provided to the data; a first sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the first technique when the selector selects the first technique; and a second sleepiness calculator configured to calculate the sleepiness based on the second technique when the selector selects the second technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumi TAKEMOTO, Koichi KINOSHITA, Hitoshi MUKAI, Shigenori NAGAE, Yamato TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 10114492
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a pressure sensor configured to be capable of detecting a pressure position which is a position of a pressure portion subjected to a pressure manipulation by a user and a pressure force which is a pressure at a time of the pressure manipulation, and to have a cylindrical shape, and a position specifying unit configured to specify a position in a three-dimensional space according to the pressure position and the pressure force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Seiko Maehara, Naoyuki Hirota, Hitoshi Mukai, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kunio Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Ichiro Ogata
  • Patent number: 9886761
    Abstract: In a system that displays the existing position of an object caught by a camera on a map, the load on a user are reduced, and user-friendliness is increased. The position of an object in a camera image is converted into a position on a map with the use of conversion equations. The existing position of the object based on a result of the conversion is displayed on the map based on results of the conversion. The existence allowed region of the object on the map is set through a designation by the user. The parameters of the conversion equations are determined based on results of the conversion at respective times within a predetermined period of time and the set existence allowed region of the object so that trajectories of the object on the map fall within the existence allowed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Mukai
  • Publication number: 20150170354
    Abstract: In a system that displays the existing position of an object caught by a camera on a map, the load on a user are reduced, and user-friendliness is increased. The position of an object in a camera image is converted into a position on a map with the use of conversion equations. The existing position of the object based on a result of the conversion is displayed on the map based on results of the conversion. The existence allowed region of the object on the map is set through a designation by the user. The parameters of the conversion equations are determined based on results of the conversion at respective times within a predetermined period of time and the set existence allowed region of the object so that trajectories of the object on the map fall within the existence allowed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Mukai
  • Publication number: 20150130808
    Abstract: There is provided a display device, including a color display section which displays a color plane expressed by first and second attribute values from among three attribute values constituting a color system, a base section to which the color display section is connected in a rotatable state, and a display control section which changes the color plane in accordance with a rotation angle of the color display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Kunio Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Ichiro Ogata, Hitoshi Mukai, Seiko Maehara, Kazumasa Tanaka, Naoyuki Hirota
  • Publication number: 20150130748
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a pressure sensor configured to be capable of detecting a pressure position which is a position of a pressure portion subjected to a pressure manipulation by a user and a pressure force which is a pressure at a time of the pressure manipulation, and to have a cylindrical shape, and a position specifying unit configured to specify a position in a three-dimensional space according to the pressure position and the pressure force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Seiko Maehara, Naoyuki Hirota, Hitoshi Mukai, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kunio Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Ichiro Ogata
  • Patent number: 8542245
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an amount-of-feature detection section configured to determine an amount of features of a first image and an amount of features of a second image, the first image and the second image containing the same subject; an elimination-area detection section configured to eliminate, from the second image, an area in which the amount of features extracted by the amount-of-feature detection section is larger than a predetermined threshold and to provide the second image in which the eliminated area is transparent; and an image combination section configured to superimpose the second image in which the eliminated area is transparent on the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Kenji Tanaka, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Takuro Ema, Hiroyuki Morisaki
  • Patent number: 8446422
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a detection section, an image forming section, and a display process section. The detection section detects a user's watching state. The image forming section that forms a display image which is displayed on a screen based on a plurality of images and changes the display image based on a detected result of the detection section. The display process section which performs a process of displaying the display image formed by the image forming section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Tetsujiro Kondo, Yasushi Tatehira, Tetsushi Kokubo, Kenji Tanaka, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Hiroyuki Morisaki
  • Patent number: 8441435
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit to which an image of an object picked up by an image pickup device is input, a display device on which the image is presented, an image presenting unit configured to present the image on the display device; a viewpoint detecting unit configured to detect a viewpoint position of a user, and a control unit configured to supply, to the image presenting unit, the image in an area extracted corresponding to an image frame of a display surface of the display device when the image is viewed through the display surface from the viewpoint position of the user detected by the viewpoint detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Kenji Tanaka, Hitoshi Mukai, Kazumasa Tanaka, Hiroyuki Morisaki, Hirofumi Hibi
  • Patent number: 8360582
    Abstract: A rear projection type image display apparatus. The apparatus includes a projector that projects an image having a relatively high luminance, and a transmission type screen installed at an image formation plane of a projection light from the projector. The apparatus also includes a first polarizing plate having a first polarization direction disposed in front of an exit pupil of the projector, and a second polarizing plate having a second polarizing direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first polarizing direction disposed near a rear surface side opposite to an irradiation surface of the transmission type screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Hiroyuki Morisaki
  • Patent number: 8337022
    Abstract: A rear projection image display apparatus that includes one or more projectors that project an image having a high luminance, a first screen having a fibrous texture and that diffracts light incident from the one or more projectors in accordance with a fiber roughness of the fibrous texture, and a second screen attached to the first screen on a side of the first screen opposite the one or more projectors and that diffuses light incident from the first screen and outputs the diffused light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Hiroyuki Morisaki
  • Patent number: 8284834
    Abstract: A video-signal processing apparatus includes a video-signal input unit to which a video signal including multiple images arranged in a time sequential manner is input; a time-division output unit configured to output, in a time-division manner, the video signal constituting n images corresponding to the multiple images; signal processing units configured to individually perform image quality adjustments on the n images output from the time-division output unit; operation input units through which adjustment values of the image quality adjustments performed by the signal processing units are input; and image output units configured to output images that have been subjected to the image quality adjustments using the signal processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Inoue, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8267523
    Abstract: A plurality of projector apparatuses project images based on inputted image signals onto a screen so that the images are displaced relative to one another by a predetermined amount and superimposed. The luminances of an image region composed of a plurality of projected images that have been projected onto the screen are observed. Luminance values of pixels that construct an image to be projected by each projector apparatus are adjusted based on an observation result and are supplied to the plurality of projector apparatuses. The image region composed of the plurality of projected images is presented by superimposing a first projected image and a second projected image that has a higher resolution than the first projected image. Predetermined pixels in the image region are presented by superimposing corresponding pixels in the projected images from n adjacent projector apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Hitoshi Mukai, Masanori Iwasaki, Kenji Tanaka, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Hiroyuki Morisaki
  • Patent number: 8265374
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires and transforms first plane image data representing a space having a depth. The apparatus includes a vanishing point estimating unit for estimating a vanishing point of the first plane image data, an angle-of-view estimating unit for estimating an angle of view of the first plane image data, and an image generating unit for generating, on the basis of the vanishing point estimated by the vanishing point estimating unit and the angle of view estimated by the angle-of-view estimating unit, second plane image data corresponding to a case in which the first plane image data is projected onto a portion corresponding to the angle of view on a curved surface of a cylinder having a predetermined radius by using, as a reference point, a position being the center of the cylinder and being equal in height to the vanishing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8249305
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a feature value detecting section, an image processing section, and an audio processing section. The feature value detecting section determines, when a first image and a second image that are captured at different positions include a specific subject, a feature value of the subject included in the supplied first and second images. The image processing section detects motion of the subject on the basis of the feature value determined by the feature value detecting section. The audio processing section localizes a sound image of the subject in accordance with the motion of the subject detected by the image processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tetsushi Kokubo, Kenji Tanaka, Hitoshi Mukai, Hirofumi Hibi, Kazumasa Tanaka, Takuro Ema, Hiroyuki Morisaki