Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Nakagawa

Kenichiro Nakagawa 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: 11962820
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240071086
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma OAMI, Kenichiro IDA, Mika SAITO, Shohzoh NAGAHAMA, Akinari FURUKAWA, Yasumasa OHTSUKA, Junichi FUKUDA, Fumi IKEDA, Manabu MORIYAMA, Fumie EINAGA, Tatsunori YAMAGAMI, Keisuke ` HIRAYAMA, Yoshitsugu KUMANO, Hiroki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20240071087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma Oami, Kenichiro IDA, Mika Saito, Shohzoh Nagahama, Akinari Furukawa, Yasumasa Ohtsuka, Junichi Fukuda, Fumi Ikeda, Manabu Moriyama, Fumie Einaga, Tatsunori Yamagami, Keisuke Hirayama, Yoshitsugu Kumano, Hiroki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11062015
    Abstract: An authentication management method executed in a plurality of apparatuses cooperating each other communicably connecting, to allow reception of instruction by a user, a first information processing apparatus which performs authentication that the user is a predetermined person and a second information processing apparatus which is worn by the user, in a case where the user wearing the second information processing apparatus has been identified, by the second information processing apparatus, to be the predetermined person, identifying, by the second information processing apparatus, whether or not the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus are associated with each other as a plurality of apparatuses which perform cooperative processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11042239
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, which is configured to inhibit an unintended operation of a user from being erroneously detected when a flick operation is performed on a curved touch panel. An operation content including a direction of a flick performed with a finger on a curved front surface of a touch panel is detected, and a curvature ratio of the front surface corresponding to the detected direction is acquired. Further, a flick threshold value using a curvature ratio as a parameter is determined, and characteristics of the detected operation content are quantified as a flick score. Then, through comparison between the flick threshold value and the flick score, it is judged whether or not a touch operation is the flick operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20190357048
    Abstract: An authentication management method executed in a plurality of apparatuses cooperating each other communicably connecting, to allow reception of instruction by a user, a first information processing apparatus which performs authentication that the user is a predetermined person and a second information processing apparatus which is worn by the user, in a case where the user wearing the second information processing apparatus has been identified, by the second information processing apparatus, to be the predetermined person, identifying, by the second information processing apparatus, whether or not the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus are associated with each other as a plurality of apparatuses which perform cooperative processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10425813
    Abstract: An authentication management method executed in a plurality of apparatuses cooperating each other communicably connecting, to allow reception of instruction by a user, a first information processing apparatus which performs authentication that the user is a predetermined person and a second information processing apparatus which is worn by the user, in a case where the user wearing the second information processing apparatus has been identified, by the second information processing apparatus, to be the predetermined person, identifying, by the second information processing apparatus, whether or not the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus are associated with each other as a plurality of apparatuses which perform cooperative processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10277544
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Makoto Hirota, Yasuo Okutani, Kenichiro Nakagawa, Hiromi Omi, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20170295492
    Abstract: An authentication management method executed in a plurality of apparatuses cooperating each other communicably connecting, to allow reception of instruction by a user, a first information processing apparatus which performs authentication that the user is a predetermined person and a second information processing apparatus which is worn by the user, in a case where the user wearing the second information processing apparatus has been identified, by the second information processing apparatus, to be the predetermined person, identifying, by the second information processing apparatus, whether or not the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus are associated with each other as a plurality of apparatuses which perform cooperative processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kenichiro NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170123577
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, which is configured to inhibit an unintended operation of a user from being erroneously detected when a flick operation is performed on a curved touch panel. An operation content including a direction of a flick performed with a finger on a curved front surface of a touch panel is detected, and a curvature ratio of the front surface corresponding to the detected direction is acquired. Further, a flick threshold value using a curvature ratio as a parameter is determined, and characteristics of the detected operation content are quantified as a flick score. Then, through comparison between the flick threshold value and the flick score, it is judged whether or not a touch operation is the flick operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Kenichiro NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9460537
    Abstract: An apparatus designs an animation expressing a transition of display forms of an object. A reception unit receives an operation for setting key frames in the animation at one or more time points on a time axis displayed on a screen, the time axis corresponding to the animation, and instructs a display form of the object at each of the set key frames. The reception unit receives, in a state when one or more key frames are set on the time axis and a display form of the object is instructed at each of the set key frames, an instruction for reflecting a display form of the object instructed to a first key frame of an already set one or more key frames as a display form of the object at a second key frame set on the time axis. A display control unit displays indicators representing the key frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiro Nakagawa, Makoto Hirota, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20160050173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Makoto Hirota, Yasuo Okutani, Kenichiro Nakagawa, Hiromi Omi, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 9203990
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information representing a plurality of screens in each of a plurality of groups to which priorities are previously set, a determination unit configured to determine a group which is assigned the highest priority, and a control unit configured to display on a display unit a representative screen of the group assigned the highest priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Hirota, Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20140104654
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information representing a plurality of screens in each of a plurality of groups to which priorities are previously set, a determination unit configured to determine a group which is assigned the highest priority, and a control unit configured to display on a display unit a representative screen of the group assigned the highest priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Hirota, Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8638335
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information representing a plurality of screens in each of a plurality of groups to which priorities are previously set, a determination unit configured to determine a group which is assigned the highest priority, and a control unit configured to display on a display unit a representative screen of the group assigned the highest priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Hirota, Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8154075
    Abstract: A split gate type nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a FinFET structure includes a semiconductor substrate, parallel trenches on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and select and memory gate electrodes perpendicular to the trenches. While either the select or the memory gate electrodes are formed prior to the other gate electrodes, each remaining gate electrode is formed adjacent to a side wall of each of the gate electrodes. The semiconductor memory device includes source/drain regions each formed between each pair of the select gate electrodes and between each pair of the memory gate electrodes in protruding portions between each pair of the trenches. A difference between heights of the select gate electrodes and the memory gate electrodes is equal to or greater than a difference between heights of insulation layers formed on the bottom of each of the trenches and the source/drain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8126720
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus of this invention includes an audio acquisition unit which acquires audio data, an speech processing unit which analyzes the acquired audio data and detects predetermined audio data, an image capturing unit which captures image data by activating a shutter when the speech processing unit detects the predetermined audio data, and a storage unit which stores the audio data acquired by the audio acquisition unit before the shutter is activated in association with image data captured upon activating the shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichiro Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Toshiaki Fukada
  • Patent number: 8101988
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a trench, a charge storage layer that is formed inside of the trench, a first gate that is formed above a side surface and a bottom surface of the trench, a second gate that is formed beside the first gate, and that is formed above the charge storage layer, a first diffusion region that is formed on the semiconductor substrate inside of the trench, and a second diffusion region that is formed on the semiconductor substrate outside of the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110157188
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a storage unit adapted to store information that associates information representing the key frame with information representing the display form of the object of the key frame; an assignment unit adapted to assign, to the time-points corresponding to the key frames, indicators with which a difference between the display forms of the objects is identifiable; and a control unit adapted to, when a new key frame is set at a time-point of interest on the time axis where no key frame is preset, and the same indicator as one of the indicators is assigned to the time-point of interest, cause the storage unit to store information representing the newly set key frame in association with information representing the display form of the object of each preset key frame, which is information representing the display form of the object at the time-point to which the same indicator is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KENICHIRO NAKAGAWA, Makoto Hirota, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 7970617
    Abstract: When registering speech onto an object, an information processing apparatus selects identification information from an identification information database and stores information including the object, speech for registration, and the selected identification information in a registration database. When a user performs a speech call, the information processing apparatus outputs identification information that is included in the information called by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichiro Nakagawa