Patents by Inventor Masamichi Asukai
Masamichi Asukai 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: 9665167Abstract: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai
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Publication number: 20170109919Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
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Publication number: 20170097675Abstract: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Masaaki TSURUTA, Taiji ITO, Masamichi ASUKAI
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Patent number: 9596581Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Patent number: 9568998Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
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Publication number: 20170034679Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20160366549Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
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Patent number: 9519339Abstract: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai
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Publication number: 20160330410Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Keiji KIMURA, Masaaki TSURUTA, Masamichi ASUKAI, Taiji ITO, Kan EBISAWA, Nozomu OZAKI, Akinobu SUGINO, Hidehiko SEKIZAWA, Yonetaro TOTSUKA
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Patent number: 9465971Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an imaging unit configured to capture a current image including an information code, the information code being arranged at an arrangement position corresponding to a location within the captured current image, and a control unit configured to determine a difference between a predetermined position and the arrangement position, wherein, when the determined difference is greater than a predetermined threshold, a notification is output to a user, based on the determined difference, to notify of the difference as a guide for adjusting a capturing position of the current image to thereby move the information code to a new arrangement position corresponding to a location of the predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masamichi Asukai, Koshiro Mitsuya, Atsushi Shionozaki
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Publication number: 20160282938Abstract: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Masaaki TSURUTA, Taiji ITO, Masamichi ASUKAI
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Patent number: 9413983Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki Tsuruta, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Kan Ebisawa, Nozomu Ozaki, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yonetaro Totsuka
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Publication number: 20160227389Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Patent number: 9386420Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
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Patent number: 9338607Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
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Patent number: 9338644Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20160124503Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus and a display method for realizing control for display operations by a user precisely reflecting the user's status, i.e., the user's intentions, visual state and physical conditions. Worn as an eyeglass-like or head-mount wearable unit for example, the display apparatus of the present invention enables the user to recognize visibly various images on the display unit positioned in front of the user's eyes thereby providing the picked up images, reproduced images, and received images. As control for various display operations such as switching between the display state and the see-through state, display operation mode and selecting sources, the display apparatus of the present invention acquires information about either behavior or physical status of the user, and determines either intention or status of the user in accordance with the acquired information, thereby controlling the display operation appropriately on the basis of the determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Masaaki TSURUTA, Taiji ITO, Masamichi ASUKAI
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Patent number: 9326130Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Patent number: 9262663Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including an image composition unit that generates a composite image by compositing a plurality of color images having differing color components and acquired by image capture, and a code recognition unit that, from the composite image, recognizes an information code formed by a plurality of cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masamichi Asukai
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Patent number: 9261956Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus and a display method for realizing control for display operations by a user precisely reflecting the user's status, i.e., the user's intentions, visual state and physical conditions. Worn as an eyeglass-like or head-mount wearable unit for example, the display apparatus of the present invention enables the user to recognize visibly various images on the display unit positioned in front of the user's eyes thereby providing the picked up images, reproduced images, and received images. As control for various display operations such as switching between the display state and the see-through state, display operation mode and selecting sources, the display apparatus of the present invention acquires information about either behavior or physical status of the user, and determines either intention or status of the user in accordance with the acquired information, thereby controlling the display operation appropriately on the basis of the determination result.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai