Patents by Inventor Keita KATAGIRI
Keita KATAGIRI 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).
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Patent number: 11752940Abstract: A display controller controls a display device provided for a mobile object to display a display image including at least one item of contents of data. The display controller includes an image data acquisition unit configured to obtain image data from an imaging device configured to capture an image around the mobile object, and a display-image generation unit configured to generate the display image. The display-image generation unit changes a display mode of the at least one item of contents of data included in the display image to increase visual recognizability of a desired item of contents of data included in the at least one item of contents of data to a level at least higher than visual recognizability of an area in the image data not including the desired item of contents of data.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Keita Katagiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11668579Abstract: The moving route guidance device includes: display control means configured to execute display control to change at least one of a content and a display position of the route guidance image based on position information of the moving body. The route guidance image includes: a plurality of route identification images respectively corresponding to the plurality of the movable routes that are close to each other and displayed in a manner to correspond to a visually recognized position relationship between the plurality of the movable routes by the driver or a predetermined reference position; and an route instructing image displayed in association with the route identification image that corresponds to the moving route guided by the route guidance image of the plurality of the movable routes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Keita Katagiri, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11354897Abstract: An output control apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire image data of a plurality of target objects captured at a site by an image capture device as captured image data; detect the plurality of target objects included in the captured image data; estimate a recognition level of an observing person on the detected plurality of target objects; identify a specific target object having lower recognition level among the detected plurality of target objects based on the estimated recognition level; and output screen-display image data including additional information set for the identified specific target object having lower recognition level, the screen-display image data generated for the acquired captured image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Keita Katagiri
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Patent number: 11320652Abstract: (Object) It is possible to make a display area less perceivable to a user. (Means of Achieving the Object) An HUD device (i.e., the HUD device of the practical example 1) is a display device for displaying in a display area a virtual image of at least a part of a sign that moves. The display device includes a displaying system configured to form an image of the sign that moves with light in a region including an image region (i.e., a predetermined region), and to irradiate a front windshield (i.e., transparent/reflective member) with light that forms at least a part of the image, the part of which is in the image region, such that the virtual image of the at least a part of the image is displayed in the display area. The displaying system includes an FPGA 600 (i.e., control device) that is capable of controlling a characteristic of the image in accordance with position of the virtual image relative to the display area.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Masato Kusanagi, Kenichiroh Saisho, Keita Katagiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20210394677Abstract: A display controller controls a display device provided for a mobile object to display a display image including at least one item of contents of data. The display controller includes an image data acquisition unit configured to obtain image data from an imaging device configured to capture an image around the mobile object, and a display-image generation unit configured to generate the display image. The display-image generation unit changes a display mode of the at least one item of contents of data included in the display image to increase visual recognizability of a desired item of contents of data included in the at least one item of contents of data to a level at least higher than visual recognizability of an area in the image data not including the desired item of contents of data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keita KATAGIRI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210323403Abstract: (Object) To provide an image control technology that enables an occupant of a moving body to recognize the difference between the present traveling speed and other speed related information, with good visibility. (Means of Achieving the object) An image control apparatus installed in a movable body, includes a controller configured to generate data of a display image in which a present moving speed of the movable body is indicated together with other speed related information, and change a display mode related to a difference between the present moving speed and a speed indicated by the other speed related information, upon detecting that a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Keita KATAGIRI
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Publication number: 20210123760Abstract: The moving route guidance device includes: display control means configured to execute display control to change at least one of a content and a display position of the route guidance image based on position information of the moving body. The route guidance image includes: a plurality of route identification images respectively corresponding to the plurality of the movable routes that are close to each other and displayed in a manner to correspond to a visually recognized position relationship between the plurality of the movable routes by the driver or a predetermined reference position; and an route instructing image displayed in association with the route identification image that corresponds to the moving route guided by the route guidance image of the plurality of the movable routes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Keita KATAGIRI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Yuuki SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10992879Abstract: An imaging system includes a plurality of imaging bodies, a moving part, and an imaging control unit. Each of the imaging bodies includes a first optical element that images a range containing a hemisphere that is centered at an optical axis and oriented in a first direction of the optical axis, and a second optical element that images a range containing a hemisphere that is centered at the optical axis and oriented in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The imaging bodies is arranged in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. The moving part moves the imaging bodies on a straight line. The imaging control unit is configured to cause the imaging bodies to perform imaging in synchronization with each other, and acquire a taken image from each of the imaging bodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Soichiro Yokota, Hirokazu Takenaka, Tamon Sadasue, Keita Katagiri
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Publication number: 20210064876Abstract: An output control apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire image data of a plurality of target objects captured at a site by an image capture device as captured image data; detect the plurality of target objects included in the captured image data; estimate a recognition level of an observing person on the detected plurality of target objects; identify a specific target object having lower recognition level among the detected plurality of target objects based on the estimated recognition level; and output screen-display image data including additional information set for the identified specific target object having lower recognition level, the screen-display image data generated for the acquired captured image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Keita KATAGIRI
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Publication number: 20210049985Abstract: An image control apparatus includes an image generator that generates image data for displaying information indicating a direction or a position in a display region on a mobile body. The image generator generates the image data such that, from a viewpoint of an occupant of the mobile body, information indicating a left-hand direction or a left-side position is displayed to the left of information indicating a right-hand direction or a right-side position, and a position where the information indicating the left-hand direction or the left-side position is displayed and a position where the information indicating the right-hand direction or the right-side position is displayed are arranged along the lateral direction of the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Masato KUSANAGI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Keita KATAGIRI, Yuuki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210016793Abstract: (Object) To provide information to the occupant of the movable body by which the occupant can feel a higher sense of security, when there is a change in the travel path. (Means of Achieving the object) A control apparatus includes an image data generator configured to generate image data of an image displayed so as to appear to be superimposed on a surrounding environment as viewed from an occupant of a movable body that autonomously travels based on a planned path that is defined in advance, wherein a display mode of the image is changed based on information indicating a change in at least one of a travelling direction of the movable body and external information of the movable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Keita KATAGIRI
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Patent number: 10890762Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an optical system to display an image; a first camera to take a picture of an object at the same position as or near a position of the image; a second camera to take a picture of a head of a viewer; and at least one processor to analyze the picture of the head of the viewer taken by the second camera to detect a position of a visual point of the viewer, wherein the at least one processor controls the image in response to determining overlap of the object with the image when viewed from the position of the visual point of the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Masato Kusanagi, Kenichiroh Saisho, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri
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Publication number: 20210003414Abstract: An image control apparatus installed in a movable body, includes a controller to generate data of an image to be displayed so as to appear to be superimposed on a predetermined position including at least a road surface in a direction along which the movable body moves, as viewed from an occupant of the movable body. The controller generates a pattern to be displayed at the predetermined position, upon detecting that a change in a route is included in a planned path that is generated in advance, and that a change position of the route is further away than the predetermined position as viewed from the occupant, and the pattern is displayed in such a manner that an actual position of the change position of the route appears to be positioned on an extended line of at least part of information forming the pattern, as viewed from the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Keita KATAGIRI
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Patent number: 10884243Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Takuro Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Keita Katagiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10852537Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Takuro Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Keita Katagiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10845592Abstract: A head-up display (HUD) mountable on a vehicle includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain a detection result indicating a position of an object relative to the vehicle, as the vehicle travels; and control a display system to display, based on a detection result, an indicator indicating the position of the object as a virtual image within a display area, while changing an orientation of the indicator according to the position of the object.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Keita Katagiri, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200333608Abstract: Disclosed is a display device for displaying a virtual image so as to be visually perceived by an occupant of a moving body through a transparent member. The display device includes an image generator configured to generate an image to be displayed as a virtual image; an orientation information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an orientation of the moving body; and a display change processor configured to change the display of the virtual image in accordance with the information on the orientation acquired by the orientation information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Keita KATAGIRI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Kazuhiro TAKAZAWA, Tomoyuki TSUKUDA
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Patent number: 10696159Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processors, cause the processors to acquire, by a display unit, information on a predetermined position outside a moving body to display an information providing image for providing information associated with the predetermined position as a virtual image; and control the display unit to change a display position of the information providing image according to movement of the moving body. The display position of the information providing image is changed such that a deviation amount between the predetermined position and a position at which a straight line passing through a reference point within the moving body and the display position of the information providing image reaches a surface on which the moving body is moving decreases as a distance between the moving body and the predetermined position decreases.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiroh Saisho, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri
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Publication number: 20200183157Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Yuuki SUZUKI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Takuro YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Keita KATAGIRI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10679496Abstract: An information providing apparatus installed in a moving body includes one or more processors, and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to display, by a display unit, an information providing image as a virtual image, and control the display unit to change a display position of the information providing image. The information providing image includes a first information providing image and a second information providing image, and the display unit is controlled such that a changing rate of a display position of the first information providing image differs from that of a display position of the second information providing image, and the changing rates of the display positions of the first and the second information providing images both increase as a moving velocity of the moving body increases.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri