Patents by Inventor Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA 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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Publication number: 20240143066Abstract: Provided are a head-mounted information processing apparatus capable of improving user's convenience, and its controlling method. Therefore, it includes a main body device 2 used in a state of being worn on a user's head, and a controller used in a state of being worn on a user's wrist or hand and controlling the main body device. For example, a directional detector 91 in the main body device 2 detects a controller's direction by calculation based on a detected result of a position/attitude sensor of the controller. A rotational detector 92 detects controller's rotation, which uses the direction of the controller as a rotational axis, by calculation based on the detected result of the position/attitude sensor of the controller. An operation instruction converter 87 converts detected results of the directional detector 91 and the rotational detector 92 into instructions for the main body device 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
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Patent number: 11972037Abstract: In a head mounted information processing apparatus, a control unit includes a virtual object generation processing unit configured to generate a virtual object to be displayed by the display unit. The virtual object generation processing unit is configured to generate a first virtual object that is arranged so as to be associated with a first real space where a user exists and a second virtual object that is arranged so as to be associated with a second real space different from the first real space. The control unit is configured to cause the display to display the first virtual object and the second virtual object in accordance with virtual object display instruction information for instructing display of the first virtual object and the second virtual object, which is inputted through an operational input interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Naohisa Takamizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Yoshinori Okada
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Patent number: 11967148Abstract: In a display device 100, a photographing unit 12 is configured to photograph the surroundings of the display device 100, and the recognizing unit 16 is configured to recognize a clock 300 (a real object regarding a time or date) from a result of the photographing. When the recognizing unit 16 recognizes the clock 300, the schedule obtaining unit 11 is configured to obtain schedule information, and the display controller 17 is configured to display and output the schedule information in accordance with a position of the clock 300. In this case, since the display device 100 displays the schedule information in accordance with the position of the clock 300, the schedule information can be displayed in association with actual environment, and the schedule information can be outputted in a format that is easier to recognize the schedule information.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Naohisa Takamizawa
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Patent number: 11960635Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Naohisa Takamizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11886629Abstract: Provided are a head-mounted information processing apparatus capable of improving user's convenience, and its controlling method. Therefore, it includes a main body device 2 used in a state of being worn on a user's head, and a controller used in a state of being worn on a user's wrist or hand and controlling the main body device. For example, a directional detector 91 in the main body device 2 detects a controller's direction by calculation based on a detected result of a position/attitude sensor of the controller. A rotational detector 92 detects controller's rotation, which uses the direction of the controller as a rotational axis, by calculation based on the detected result of the position/attitude sensor of the controller. An operation instruction converter 87 converts detected results of the directional detector 91 and the rotational detector 92 into instructions for the main body device 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Naohisa Takamizawa
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Patent number: 11831976Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ikuya Arai, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
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Publication number: 20230332888Abstract: When thumbnails of a wide-angle panorama image are displayed, by scrolling and displaying a thumbnail image in which distortion and tilt deviation are reduced, visibility is improved. An information processing apparatus includes an image correction information generating unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The image correction information generating unit is composed of an image distortion determination processing unit and a horizontal/vertical direction determination processing unit, and generate correction information for correcting a partial image composed of an arbitrary image area of the wide-angle panorama image. The control unit corrects the partial image on a basis of the correction information generated by the image correction information generating unit. The display unit 108 displays an image. Then, the control unit causes the display unit to display the corrected partial image as the thumbnail image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA
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Publication number: 20230328328Abstract: A mobile content viewing device plays and displays content on a display, stores a scene and a time in which the content is played and displayed, acquires a measured value of a light quantity sensor, compares the measured value with a predetermined natural light threshold value if determined the measured value is equal to or greater than the natural light threshold value, suggests re-viewing in which the content is returned to and played from a scene of the content displayed on the display at that time, and plays and displays the content again from the scene of the content displayed on the display at that if an input of an instruction for the re-viewing received.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230297447Abstract: An information processing system in which a plurality of terminals cooperate to execute an application commonly provided in each terminals, comprises a first-information-terminal and a second-information-terminal as the plurality of terminals, the second-information-terminal includes: an acceptance section that accepts an instruction to start the application; and a linkage controller that causes the second-information-terminal to operate in either an independent-operation-mode or a linkage-operation-mode, the first-information-terminal includes an output section that outputs an execution result of the application executed in the linkage-operation-mode, the independent-operation-mode is an operation mode for causing the second-information-terminal to execute the application independently, and the linkage-operation-mode is an operation mode in which the application is executed on the first-information-terminal and the second-information terminal being linked with each other, and a linked state in which the secoType: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yoshinori OKADA
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Patent number: 11733039Abstract: When thumbnails of a wide-angle panorama image are displayed, by scrolling and displaying a thumbnail image in which distortion and tilt deviation are reduced, visibility is improved. An information processing apparatus includes an image correction information generating unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The image correction information generating unit is composed of an image distortion determination processing unit and a horizontal/vertical direction determination processing unit, and generate correction information for correcting a partial image composed of an arbitrary image area of the wide-angle panorama image. The control unit corrects the partial image on a basis of the correction information generated by the image correction information generating unit. The display unit 108 displays an image. Then, the control unit causes the display unit to display the corrected partial image as the thumbnail image.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Naohisa Takamizawa, Sadao Tsuruga, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Yoshinori Okada
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Publication number: 20230236874Abstract: Linkage of application software among a plurality of information processing terminals is easily and conveniently realized. An information processing system for executing application software by a plurality of information processing terminals in linkage with each other, each of the information processing terminals including: a detector that detects a predetermined linkage mark; and an execution section that executes, as linkage application software, application software associated with the linkage mark as detected, in linkage with the other information processing terminal which has detected the same linkage mark.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA
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Publication number: 20230224179Abstract: When a first user makes a video call with a second user of the other side by using the video call function, a first state is set as a state in which the enclosure is flatly placed on a first surface of an object, and in which a face of the first user is included within a range of an angle of view AV1 of the front camera C1. In the first state, the mobile information terminal 1 detects a first region including the face of the first user from a wide angle image that is captured by the front camera C1, trims a first image corresponding to the first region, creates a transmission image to be transmitted to a terminal of the other side on the basis of the first image, and transmits the transmission image to the terminal of the other side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Hiroaki ONO, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA
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Publication number: 20230124173Abstract: An object is to provide an information terminal device that improves convenience of use in operation mode control of an application that performs cooperative operation with a plurality of information terminal devices, and an application operation mode control method of same. Accordingly, an information terminal device that executes applications is configured to activate an application by selecting between a solo operation mode and a cooperative operation mode, depending on a form of activation instruction for the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
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Patent number: 11627007Abstract: When a first user makes a video call with a second user of the other side by using the video call function, a first state is set as a state in which the enclosure is flatly placed on a first surface of an object, and in which a face of the first user is included within a range of an angle of view AV1 of the front camera C1. In the first state, the mobile information terminal 1 detects a first region including the face of the first user from a wide angle image that is captured by the front camera C1, trims a first image corresponding to the first region, creates a transmission image to be transmitted to a terminal of the other side on the basis of the first image, and transmits the transmission image to the terminal of the other side.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiroaki Ono, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa, Nobuo Masuoka
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Publication number: 20230089061Abstract: A technique and the like in which an information terminal can measure space to create and register space data and the information terminal can acquire and use the space data is provided. A space recognition system comprising an information terminal including a function of measuring a space and a function of displaying a virtual image on a display surface and having a terminal coordinate system, and an information processing apparatus which performs processing based on a common coordinate system; the information terminal measures a relationship relating to a position and an orientation between the terminal coordinate system and the common coordinate system, and the information terminal matches the terminal coordinate system and the common coordinate system based on data representing the measured relationship, and the information terminal and the information processing apparatus share a space recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230035962Abstract: The space recognition system includes: an information terminal of a user having a function of displaying an image on a display surface and having a terminal coordinate system WA; and a label which is provided to correspond to a space and in which information for identifying the space is described. When recognizing the space, the information terminal specifies space data in which the space and the label are described in a space coordinate system W1 by using the information read from recognition of the label, measures relations in a position and a direction between the information terminal and the label by using the space data, and adapts the terminal coordinate system WA to the space coordinate system W1, based on data representing the measured relations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230017875Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Ikuya ARAI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Osamu KAWAMAE, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230009449Abstract: A wireless connection system executes wireless connection between an information terminal of a user and a display device installed in environment. In a case where an information terminal existing in the vicinity thereof is detected, the display device displays device ID information related to authentication for wireless connection with the detected information terminal (or an image obtained by coding it) on a display screen. The information terminal confirms whether the device ID information read from the display screen match device ID information of an own device or not, and establishes wireless connection using an authentication ID for wireless connection with the display device after matching is confirmed. The display device establishes wireless connection with the information terminal using an authentication ID.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20220414644Abstract: A technique in which with respect to cashless payment technique, suitable cashless payment can be carried out with less operation by a user who is a purchaser is provided. An information terminal is configured to: photograph, by a camera, a code of payment destination information posted by a store and a payment amount corresponding to a purchase amount of a product or service on a basis of an operation of a user; issue a payment command in a case where both payment destination information and the payment amount are recognized on a basis of a photographed image, the payment command including the payment destination information and the payment amount; and transmit the payment command to a server to cause the server to execute the cashless payment processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20220406057Abstract: In a display device 100, a photographing unit 12 is configured to photograph the surroundings of the display device 100, and the recognizing unit 16 is configured to recognize a clock 300 (a real object regarding a time or date) from a result of the photographing. When the recognizing unit 16 recognizes the clock 300, the schedule obtaining unit 11 is configured to obtain schedule information, and the display controller 17 is configured to display and output the schedule information in accordance with a position of the clock 300. In this case, since the display device 100 displays the schedule information in accordance with the position of the clock 300, the schedule information can be displayed in association with actual environment, and the schedule information can be outputted in a format that is easier to recognize the schedule information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventor: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA