Patents by Inventor Katsushi Otsuka

Katsushi Otsuka 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).

  • Publication number: 20220152489
    Abstract: An upscaling unit generates a first to-be-displayed image on the basis of first image data. An alternative image generation unit generates an alternative image by estimating, on the basis of the first image data, a second to-be-displayed image to be generated on the basis of second image data. A display control unit displays, after displaying the image generated on the basis of the first image data, any one of the image generated on the basis of the second image data and the alternative image, depending on whether or not reception of the second image data has succeeded. A transmission control unit controls whether or not to transmit, to a terminal, the second image data on the basis of a possibility of successful estimation of the second to-be-displayed image on the basis of the first image data by the alternative image generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220148133
    Abstract: A substitute image generating section generates a substitute image corresponding to second image data on the basis of first image data. According to success or failure of reception of the second image data, a display control section causes either one of the to-be-displayed image generated on the basis of the second image data and the substitute image generated on the basis of the first image data to be displayed. The substitute image generating section starts the generation of the substitute image corresponding to the second image data based on the first image data before the success or failure of the reception of the second image data is confirmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220076378
    Abstract: An image transmission/reception system, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, an image transmission/reception method, and a program, generate, from image data representing a downscaled image, a higher resolution image than the downscaled image and is more similar to an original image. An encoding process section generates image data representing a downscaled image obtained by downscaling the original image. An additional data generation section generates additional data on the basis of the original image, the additional data being unidentifiable by the image data alone. A data transmission section transmits the image data and the additional data. A data reception section receives the image data and the additional data. An upscaling sectiongenerates an upscaled image on the basis of the image data and the additional data, the upscaled image being higher in resolution than the downscaled image. A display control section causes the upscaled image to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20210397005
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire data of a captured image; a correction unit configured to refer to a displacement vector map, which is stored in a storage unit and represents, on an image plane, displacement vectors each representative of a displacement amount and a displacement direction of a pixel used when the captured image is to be corrected to a display image or calculate the displacement vectors to correct the captured image; and an image display controlling unit configured to cause the corrected image to be displayed on a display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsushi OTSUKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Yuichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210382313
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head-mounted display that includes an image generation device generating a display image to be viewed through an eyepiece disposed in front of a display panel, the image generation device including a source image reception control section that receives a source image, a distorted image generation section that generates data on pixels in a display image obtained by giving the source image a distortion corresponding to the eyepiece, a partially distorted image storage section that stores the data on the pixels in an order of data generation, and an image display control section that, whenever data on a predetermined number of pixels smaller than a total number of pixels in the display image is stored in the partially distorted image storage section, outputs the stored data to the display panel; the display panel that sequentially displays data outputted from the image generation device; and a content processing device that generates the source image and transmits the generated
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11143874
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire data of a captured image; a correction unit configured to refer to a displacement vector map, which is stored in a storage unit and represents, on an image plane, displacement vectors each representative of a displacement amount and a displacement direction of a pixel used when the captured image is to be corrected to a display image or calculate the displacement vectors to correct the captured image; and an image display controlling unit configured to cause the corrected image to be displayed on a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Katsushi Otsuka, Takashi Shimazu, Yuichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11126001
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head-mounted display that includes an image generation device generating a display image to be viewed through an eyepiece disposed in front of a display panel, the image generation device including a source image reception control section that receives a source image, a distorted image generation section that generates data on pixels in a display image obtained by giving the source image a distortion corresponding to the eyepiece, a partially distorted image storage section that stores the data on the pixels in an order of data generation, and an image display control section that, whenever data on a predetermined number of pixels smaller than a total number of pixels in the display image is stored in the partially distorted image storage section, outputs the stored data to the display panel; the display panel that sequentially displays data outputted from the image generation device; and a content processing device that generates the source image and transmits the generated
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11106042
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a signal processing unit configured to acquire data of a captured image; a correction unit configured to correct the captured image to an image suitable for display; a synthesis unit configured to synthesize an image for synthesis transmitted from an apparatus, which is not provided integrally with the image processing apparatus, with the captured image; and an image display controlling unit configured to control a display panel to display the synthesized image. The correction unit carries out, from among processes for correcting the captured image to the image suitable for display, part of the correction processes for the captured image before the synthesis by the synthesis unit and carries out remaining correction processes for the image after the synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Katsushi Otsuka, Takashi Shimazu, Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20200310126
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing method executed by an image processing apparatus. The image processing method includes designating a distribution of pixels whose charge is to be added and read out from among pixels an image sensor has, and acquiring data of a captured image in which an area of a region that is a unit from which charge is to be read out differs depending upon a position by the designation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200314407
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image data transmission method including, by an image generation apparatus, generating an image to be merged with a display image and data of an ? value representative of a transparency of a pixel of the image to be merged, generating data for merging representing the image to be merged and the data of the ? value on one image plane, and transmitting the data for merging to an apparatus that generates the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200310127
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head-mounted display that includes an image generation device generating a display image to be viewed through an eyepiece disposed in front of a display panel, the image generation device including a source image reception control section that receives a source image, a distorted image generation section that generates data on pixels in a display image obtained by giving the source image a distortion corresponding to the eyepiece, a partially distorted image storage section that stores the data on the pixels in an order of data generation, and an image display control section that, whenever data on a predetermined number of pixels smaller than a total number of pixels in the display image is stored in the partially distorted image storage section, outputs the stored data to the display panel; the display panel that sequentially displays data outputted from the image generation device; and a content processing device that generates the source image and transmits the generated
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200310128
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a signal processing unit configured to acquire data of a captured image; a correction unit configured to correct the captured image to an image suitable for display; a synthesis unit configured to synthesize an image for synthesis transmitted from an apparatus, which is not provided integrally with the image processing apparatus, with the captured image; and an image display controlling unit configured to control a display panel to display the synthesized image. The correction unit carries out, from among processes for correcting the captured image to the image suitable for display, part of the correction processes for the captured image before the synthesis by the synthesis unit and carries out remaining correction processes for the image after the synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsushi OTSUKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Yoshinori OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200310125
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a captured image acquisition unit configured to acquire data of a captured image; a correction unit configured to refer to a displacement vector map, which is stored in a storage unit and represents, on an image plane, displacement vectors each representative of a displacement amount and a displacement direction of a pixel used when the captured image is to be corrected to a display image or calculate the displacement vectors to correct the captured image; and an image display controlling unit configured to cause the corrected image to be displayed on a display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsushi OTSUKA, Takashi SHIMAZU, Yuichiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9665332
    Abstract: There is provided a display controller for reading frame data from a frame buffer, and generating a screen output image to be displayed on a display, wherein the display controller is provided with a path for extracting the screen output image as a screen image for transfer to be transferred to another apparatus, and writing the screen image for transfer to a dedicated memory provided separately from the frame buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Coporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20140362096
    Abstract: There is provided a display controller for reading frame data from a frame buffer, and generating a screen output image to be displayed on a display, wherein the display controller is provided with a path for extracting the screen output image as a screen image for transfer to be transferred to another apparatus, and writing the screen image for transfer to a dedicated memory provided separately from the frame buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8533426
    Abstract: A command receiver receives, from an external access requesting entity, a command with which to access data, together with an address to be accessed and IOID to identify the access requesting entity. Based on the IOID, the access decision unit determines whether or not an access is one that is to be permitted for an access requesting entity to access a region of access destination. The access decision unit determines whether access of the access requesting entity is permitted or not, for each page that serves as the basic management unit of logical address in the processor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8346994
    Abstract: A memory access control apparatus receives from a DMA requestor an access request command, which contains an IOID, for a DMA address space that is a memory area used for a DMA transfer, and determines whether the access is permitted or not and executes the access if it is permitted. The operating system on the PU sets in MMU the correspondence relationship between the logical address space of a user process and the DMA address space. When the user process instructs to access the DMA address space by specifying a logical address, the MMU translates the logical address into a physical address of the DMA address space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20100211752
    Abstract: A command receiver receives, from an external access requesting entity, a command with which to access data, together with an address to be accessed and IOID to identify the access requesting entity. Based on the IOID, the access decision unit determines whether or not an access is one that is to be permitted for an access requesting entity to access a region of access destination. The access decision unit determines whether access of the access requesting entity is permitted or not, for each page that serves as the basic management unit of logical address in the processor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20100161850
    Abstract: A memory access control apparatus receives from a DMA requestor an access request command, which contains an IOID, for a DMA address space that is a memory area used for a DMA transfer, and determines whether the access is permitted or not and executes the access if it is permitted. The operating system on the PU sets in MMU the correspondence relationship between the logical address space of a user process and the DMA address space. When the user process instructs to access the DMA address space by specifying a logical address, the MMU translates the logical address into a physical address of the DMA address space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7610464
    Abstract: A command receiver receives, from an external access requesting entity, a command with which to access data, together with an address to be accessed and IOID to identify the access requesting entity. Based on the IOID, the access decision unit determines whether or not an access is one that is to be permitted for an access requesting entity to access a region of access destination. The access decision unit determines whether access of the access requesting entity is permitted or not, for each page that serves as the basic management unit of logical address in the processor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Katsushi Otsuka