Patents by Inventor Masahhiro Shioi

Masahhiro Shioi 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).

  • Three-dimensionally viewed image providing method, and three-dimensional image display apparatus
    Publication number: 20060209183
    Abstract: A transmission-side device, when transmitting as data a plurality of two-dimensional images of different viewpoints, used as stereoscopic vision-use images, transmits the data of the two-dimensional images, and in addition, viewpoint-number information allotted to each data of the two-dimensional images and viewpoint-number information as information for selecting one or more two-dimensional images, together with the data of the two-dimensional images as attached information. A transmission-side device receives the plurality of image data and the attached information, and when performing a thumb-nail display, etc., by one image out of the plurality of the image data for example, performs a process for selecting the image data from the viewpoint-number information as information for selecting the two-dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Ken Mashitani, Haruhiko Murata, Toshio Nomura, Masahhiro Shioi, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Seiji Satoh