Patents by Inventor Kazuo Ura

Kazuo Ura 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: 10747311
    Abstract: A sound collecting device including: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information of user's eyes; a microphone; a processor configured to control the microphone so as to achieve sensitivity in the line-of-sight direction of the eyes higher than in other directions on the basis of the line-of-sight information detected by the line-of-sight detector; and an attachment portion for attaching the line-of-sight detector and the microphone on a head portion or an ear portion, wherein the microphone is provided on each of the two positions of the attachment portion, and the processor controls a plurality of the microphones on the basis of the line-of-sight information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ura, Futoshi Yamamoto, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10630892
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a peripheral image around a predetermined object captured by image capture units. The predetermined object is different from the image capture units. The processor is also configured to determine whether or not a moving situation of an image of a moving subject included in the acquired peripheral image corresponds to a predetermined specific situation. The moving situation is a moving situation of the image of the moving subject with respect to the predetermined object. The processor is further configured to execute control to produce an output so as to display distinguishably on a display an image of a partial region among the peripheral image, the partial region including the image of the moving subject, when the moving situation of the image of the moving subject corresponds to the predetermined moving situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Ura
  • Publication number: 20190191077
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a peripheral image around a predetermined object captured by image capture units. The predetermined object is different from the image capture units. The processor is also configured to determine whether or not a moving situation of an image of a moving subject included in the acquired peripheral image corresponds to a predetermined specific situation. The moving situation is a moving situation of the image of the moving subject with respect to the predetermined object. The processor is further configured to execute control to produce an output so as to display distinguishably on a display an image of a partial region among the peripheral image, the partial region including the image of the moving subject, when the moving situation of the image of the moving subject corresponds to the predetermined moving situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo URA
  • Patent number: 10257413
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a plurality of image capture units, an output unit, a behavior detection unit, a situation detection unit, a display image generation unit, and a display control unit. The image capture units capture images in different directions. The output unit can be recognized visually by a person wearing the display control apparatus. The behavior detection unit or the situation detection unit detects behavior of the person or a moving situation of an image of a subject in a plurality of captured images captured by the image capture units. The display image generation unit and the display control unit execute control to produce an output so as to make a switch to any of the captured images captured by the image capture units, and display the switched captured image on the output unit in response to the behavior of the person or the moving situation of the image of the subject detected by the behavior detection unit or the situation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Ura
  • Publication number: 20190079580
    Abstract: A sound collecting device including: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information of user's eyes; a microphone; a processor configured to control the microphone so as to achieve sensitivity in the line-of-sight direction of the eyes higher than in other directions on the basis of the line-of-sight information detected by the line-of-sight detector; and an attachment portion for attaching the line-of-sight detector and the microphone on a head portion or an ear portion, wherein the microphone is provided on each of the two positions of the attachment portion, and the processor controls a plurality of the microphones on the basis of the line-of-sight information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo URA, Futoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10085692
    Abstract: An exercise support device includes: a display section which has a display area where a first object as a virtual mobile object and a second object corresponding to a user are displayed; and a control section which controls display positions of the first object and the second object in the display area. The control section, while the user is moving from a first point to a second point, controls such that the display position of the first object is set to a position corresponding to a first movement distance based on a set target pace and an elapsed time after the user starts movement; and that the display position of the second object is set to a position corresponding to a second movement distance that the user moves from the first point in the elapsed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Ura
  • Publication number: 20170265142
    Abstract: A sensor data extraction system including at least one computation circuit; and at least one memory storing instructions. When executed by the at least one computation circuit, the at least one memory storing circuit cause the at least one computation circuit to perform operations including obtaining exercise data including position data of a human body during exercise; specifying an extraction condition for acquiring exercise data for analysis from the obtained exercise data, the extraction condition relating to a meteorological change; obtaining environmental information including meteorological information from environmental information stored in a storage, the environmental information being associated with time data; extracting environmental information from the obtained environmental information, based on the specified extraction condition relating to the meteorological change; and acquiring the exercise data for analysis based on the associated time data of the extracted environmental information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo URA
  • Patent number: 9656119
    Abstract: An exercise information display system of the present invention includes a sensor device which obtains data associated with a motion status of a human body during an exercise, a data processing device which generates plural types of exercise information based on the data obtained by the sensor device, and a viewing device which displays, from among the plural types of exercise information, at least first information indicating a posture of the human body during the exercise and second information associated with the first information in a display format where the first information and the second information are displayed in conjunction with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ura, Masao Sambongi
  • Publication number: 20170064196
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a plurality of image capture units, an output unit, a behavior detection unit, a situation detection unit, a display image generation unit, and a display control unit. The image capture units capture images in different directions. The output unit can be recognized visually by a person wearing the display control apparatus. The behavior detection unit or the situation detection unit detects behavior of the person or a moving situation of an image of a subject in a plurality of captured images captured by the image capture units. The display image generation unit and the display control unit execute control to produce an output so as to make a switch to any of the captured images captured by the image capture units, and display the switched captured image on the output unit in response to the behavior of the person or the moving situation of the image of the subject detected by the behavior detection unit or the situation detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo URA
  • Publication number: 20140188257
    Abstract: An exercise information display system of the present invention includes a sensor device which obtains data associated with a motion status of a human body during an exercise, a data processing device which generates plural types of exercise information based on the data obtained by the sensor device, and a viewing device which displays, from among the plural types of exercise information, at least first information indicating a posture of the human body during the exercise and second information associated with the first information in a display format where the first information and the second information are displayed in conjunction with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo URA, Masao SAMBONGI
  • Publication number: 20140172132
    Abstract: A sensor data extraction system of the present invention includes an exercise data obtaining section which obtains exercise data related to an exercise status of a human body, an extraction condition specifying section which specifies an extraction condition for extracting a portion required for analysis processing using the exercise data, from among the exercise data obtained by the exercise data obtaining section, a data extracting section which extracts exercise data matching the extraction condition from among the exercise data obtained by the exercise data obtaining section, a data transfer section which transfers the extracted exercise data from the exercise data obtaining section, and a data analyzing section which performs the analysis processing by using the exercise data transferred by the data transfer section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo URA
  • Publication number: 20140172136
    Abstract: An exercise support device includes: a display section which has a display area where a first object as a virtual mobile object and a second object corresponding to a user are displayed; and a control section which controls display positions of the first object and the second object in the display area. The control section, while the user is moving from a first point to a second point, controls such that the display position of the first object is set to a position corresponding to a first movement distance based on a set target pace and an elapsed time after the user starts movement; and that the display position of the second object is set to a position corresponding to a second movement distance that the user moves from the first point in the elapsed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo URA
  • Publication number: 20130246021
    Abstract: A required time calculating system including a required time calculating section, in which the required time calculating section extracts the topographic data of one section of a measured route similar to or matching the topographic data of one section of a calculated route determined from the positional and altitude information of each point in the above-described section of the calculated route divided into a plurality of sections from among the topographic data of the measured route determined from the positional and altitude information of each point of the measured route detected by a first sensor that travels with a human when the human travels a predetermined section of the measured route, and calculates the amount of time required for the human to travel the above-described section of the calculated route based on the amount of time taken for the human to travel the above-described section of the measured route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo URA, Yuichi ONUMATA
  • Publication number: 20110157187
    Abstract: In a map display device 1, a character string is drawn in a rightward direction from a drawing start point based on ordinary character string data in which the drawing start point is set on the left side of the character string, and a character string is drawn in a leftward direction from a drawing start point based on inverted character string data in which the drawing start point is set on the right side of the character string. As a result, a character string whose right side should be on a predetermined position is set as ordinary character string data and drawn by ordinary character string drawing, and a character string whose left side should be on a predetermined position is set as inverted character string data and drawn by inverted character string drawing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ura, Masao Sambongi
  • Patent number: 7505671
    Abstract: Program data included in a digital television broadcast received from a broadcast station is recorded. A program keyword list that has stored keywords on program sections of the program data corresponding to broadcast time zones is received from a service company's server. Videos and voices on a program section involving a keyword that meets predetermined conditions selected from the keywords stored in the received program keyword list are reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda, Kazuo Ura
  • Publication number: 20070061858
    Abstract: A television receiver having an Internet connecting information function transmits information of a television program that a user is watching to a server on the Internet, and transmits a URL of a Web site accessed by the user while the user is watching the television program, to the server. The server receives the information that is transmitted to the server from the television receiver and the URL that is transmitted to the server from the television receiver, and collects the URL received in correspondence with program information. The collection result of URLs collected is output to a television broadcast station from the server and distributed to the television receiver via a television signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventor: Kazuo Ura
  • Publication number: 20050185924
    Abstract: Program data included in a digital television broadcast received from a broadcast station is recorded. A program keyword list that has stored keywords on program sections of the program data corresponding to broadcast time zones is received from a service company's server. Videos and voices on a program section involving a keyword that meets predetermined conditions selected from the keywords stored in the received program keyword list are reproduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda, Kazuo Ura