Patents by Inventor Keiichi Seko

Keiichi Seko 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: 10460165
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes a lens disposed at a position facing a user's cornea; a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user's cornea; a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light; a camera that captures an image projected into the hot mirror; an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and a housing, wherein when the periphery of the lens is divided into four regions: a first corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye, a second corresponding to the inner corner side, a third corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in any of the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FOVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
  • Patent number: 10191285
    Abstract: A head mounted display that is mounted on the head of a user and used includes an irradiation unit that irradiates the eyes of the user with invisible light, a monitor that displays an image for the user to view wearing a glass for display that transmits visible light and reflects invisible light, an imaging device capable of capturing an image formed by the invisible light, and an output unit that outputs an image captured by the imaging device as an image for gaze detection, and the imaging device images the eyes of the user using the invisible light radiated from the irradiation unit, reflected by the eyes of the user, and reflected by the glass for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: FOVE, INC.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
  • Publication number: 20190012528
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system including a head mounted display including a first camera that images eyes of a user, a second camera that images a mouth of the user, and an output unit that outputs a first image captured by the first camera and a second image captured by the second camera; and a facial expression recognition device including a reception unit that receives the first image and the second image output by the output unit, and an expression recognition unit that recognizes a facial expression of the user on the basis of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: FOVE, INC.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180247458
    Abstract: Appropriate reduction of transferred data volume is used to deliver interruption-free video to a user, minimizing viewing discomfort. A head-mounted display secured to the head of a user and a video generating device that generates a video for presentation to the user by the head-mounted display are combined in a video system. In the head-mounted display, a presentation unit presents the video to the user, an imaging unit captures an image of the user's eye, the first communication unit sends the captured image to the video generating device, and receives the video from the video generating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko, Genki Sano
  • Patent number: 9978183
    Abstract: Appropriate reduction of transferred data volume is used to deliver interruption-free video to a user, minimizing viewing discomfort. A head-mounted display secured to the head of a user and a video generating device that generates a video for presentation to the user by the head-mounted display are combined in a video system. In the head-mounted display, a presentation unit presents the video to the user, an imaging unit captures an image of the user's eye, the first communication unit sends the captured image to the video generating device, and receives the video from the video generating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FOVE, INC.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko, Genki Sano
  • Publication number: 20180106999
    Abstract: A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display including a gaze detection device detecting a gaze of a user; and a tracking unit that determines a gaze point of the user in the three-dimensional image on the basis of the gaze directions of the right and left eyes, in which the first detection unit calculates a right eye gaze vector indicating the gaze direction of the right eye, and the second detection unit calculates a left eye gaze vector indicating the gaze direction of the left eye, wherein a display unit displays a three-dimensional image consisting of a plurality of layers in a depth direction, and a tracking unit identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having a shortest distance between intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180067306
    Abstract: A head mounted display is used in a state of being mounted on a user's head and includes a convex lens disposed at a position facing the user's cornea when the head mounted display is mounted. An infrared light source emits infrared light toward the convex lens. A camera captures an image including the user's cornea in a subject. A housing houses the convex lens, the infrared light source, and the camera. The convex lens is provided with a plurality of reflection regions that reflects infrared light in an inside of the convex lens. The infrared light source causes a pattern of infrared light to appear on the user's cornea by emitting infrared light to each of the plurality of reflection regions provided in the convex lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Bakui Chou, Keiichi Seko
  • Patent number: 9880384
    Abstract: A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display and a gaze detection device detecting the gaze of the user. The head mounted display illuminate users eyes with infrared light, displays three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of layers in the depth direction and captures an image of user's eye illuminated by the infrared light. The gaze detection device detects the user's right eye's gaze direction (vector) and left eye's gaze direction (vector) with use of the captured images. The gaze detection device identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having the shortest distance between the intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer as a gaze point in the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FOVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180007258
    Abstract: An external imaging system for performing imaging by easily operating an external imaging camera is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Keiichi Seko
  • Publication number: 20180003980
    Abstract: A head mounted display that is mounted on the head of a user and used includes an irradiation unit that irradiates the eyes of the user with invisible light, a monitor that displays an image for the user to view wearing a glass for display that transmits visible light and reflects invisible light, an imaging device capable of capturing an image formed by the invisible light, and an output unit that outputs an image captured by the imaging device as an image for gaze detection, and the imaging device images the eyes of the user using the invisible light radiated from the irradiation unit, reflected by the eyes of the user, and reflected by the glass for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
  • Publication number: 20170344112
    Abstract: A gaze detection system capable of confirming whether or not a user is viewing a marker at the time of calibration is provided. The gaze detection system comprises a head mounted display that is worn and used by a user, and a gaze detection device that detects gaze of the user, wherein the head mounted display includes a display unit that displays an image, an imaging unit that images eyes of the user, and an image output unit that outputs an image including the eyes of the user captured by the imaging unit to the gaze detection device, and the gaze detection device includes a marker image output unit that outputs a marker image to be displayed on the display unit, and a combined image creation unit that creates a combined image obtained by superimposing the marker image output by the marker image output unit and an image including the eyes of the user gazing at the marker image captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Lochlainn Vaughn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yamato Kaneko, Remco Kuijer, Harper Benjamin Scott
  • Publication number: 20170285337
    Abstract: A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display and a gaze detection device detecting the gaze of the user. The head mounted display illuminate users eyes with infrared light, displays three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of layers in the depth direction and captures an image of user's eye illuminated by the infrared light. The gaze detection device detects the user's right eye's gaze direction (vector) and left eye's gaze direction (vector) with use of the captured images. The gaze detection device identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having the shortest distance between the intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer as a gaze point in the depth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: FOVE, inc.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20170262703
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes a lens disposed at a position facing a user's cornea; a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user's cornea; a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light; a camera that captures an image projected into the hot mirror; an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and a housing, wherein when the periphery of the lens is divided into four regions: a first corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye, a second corresponding to the inner corner side, a third corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in any of the first region and the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
  • Patent number: 9625989
    Abstract: A head mounted display is used in a state of being mounted on a user's head and includes a convex lens disposed at a position facing the user's cornea when the head mounted display is mounted. An infrared light source emits infrared light toward the convex lens. A camera captures an image including the user's cornea in a subject. A housing houses the convex lens, the infrared light source, and the camera. The convex lens is provided with a plurality of reflection regions that reflects infrared light in an inside of the convex lens. The infrared light source causes a pattern of infrared light to appear on the user's cornea by emitting infrared light to each of the plurality of reflection regions provided in the convex lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FOVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Bakui Chou, Keiichi Seko
  • Publication number: 20170084083
    Abstract: Appropriate reduction of transferred data volume is used to deliver interruption-free video to a user, minimizing viewing discomfort. A head-mounted display secured to the head of a user and a video generating device that generates a video for presentation to the user by the head-mounted display are combined in a video system. In the head-mounted display, a presentation unit presents the video to the user, an imaging unit captures an image of the user's eye, the first communication unit sends the captured image to the video generating device, and receives the video from the video generating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko, Genki Sano
  • Publication number: 20170038834
    Abstract: A head mounted display is used in a state of being mounted on a user's head and includes a convex lens disposed at a position facing the user's cornea when the head mounted display is mounted. An infrared light source emits infrared light toward the convex lens. A camera captures an image including the user's cornea in a subject. A housing houses the convex lens, the infrared light source, and the camera. The convex lens is provided with a plurality of reflection regions that reflects infrared light in an inside of the convex lens. The infrared light source causes a pattern of infrared light to appear on the user's cornea by emitting infrared light to each of the plurality of reflection regions provided in the convex lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Bakui Chou, Keiichi Seko
  • Publication number: 20160370591
    Abstract: In a head mounted display to be mounted on a head of a user when being used, a light source can radiate invisible light. A camera images invisible light radiated from the light source and reflected by an eye of the user. An image output unit outputs an image imaged by the camera to a line-of-sight detecting unit configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of the user. A housing accommodates the light source, the camera, and the image output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Bakui Chou, Keiichi Seko