Patents by Inventor Naomasa Takahashi
Naomasa Takahashi 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: 20240137480Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a display device that enable to accurately and easily recognize a shape and a pixel position of a display surface configured by multiple self-luminous display units. The information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to receive metadata regarding attributes and positions of multiple self-luminous display units constituting a display surface configured to display a video image; and a recognition unit configured to recognize a shape and a pixel position of the display surface on the basis of the metadata of each of the display units. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a display controller that controls display of an LED display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, KEN OOTSUKA
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Publication number: 20230413001Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program each enabling reproduction of images and sounds in a synchronized manner. A signal processing apparatus includes a reproduction control unit configured to control, on the basis of image data of an image associated with a sound based on multichannel audio data, reproduction of the image, and a synchronization signal generation unit configured to generate a synchronization signal for reproducing the sound synchronized with the image on the basis of the multichannel audio data, on the basis of audio data for reproducing the sound, the audio data being smaller in number of channels than the multichannel audio data. The present technology is applicable to an omnidirectional contents reproduction system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: TATSUSHI NASHIDA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, TATSUYA YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 11830347Abstract: A system and method of vehicle control for user safety and experience is provided. The system receives sensed information associated with a first vehicle, detects a state of the first vehicle, and determines activities of a person or a second vehicle in proximity of the first vehicle. Such activities are determined based on the sensed information. The system triggers actions based on whether or not the determined activities are unsafe for the first vehicle or for users of the first vehicle in the detected state. The system controls devices associated with the first vehicle based on the triggered actions. The devices include a light-based projector device that is controlled to project a visual alert, included in the triggered actions, directly onto a physical surface. The physical surface is a window portion of the first vehicle or a physical structure which is external to and separate from the first vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tonni Larsen, Ted Yamazaki, Leigh Anderson, Tatsushi Nashida, Naomasa Takahashi
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Patent number: 11790814Abstract: A system includes a first multilayer surface that includes a plurality of layers. The system further includes a plurality of sensors and circuitry. The circuitry receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors and projection data associated with a media content projectable by a projection device. The projection data includes contrast control information associated with the media content. The circuitry determines ambient condition of an enclosed space based on the received plurality of signals. The circuitry selects one or more portions of the plurality of layers of the first multilayer surface based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data. The circuitry controls an opacity level of the selected one or more portions of the first multilayer surface to provide dynamic shade control in the enclosed space or improve contrast of the projected media content based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ted Yamazaki, Tonni Larsen, Leigh Anderson, Tatsushi Nashida, Naomasa Takahashi
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Patent number: 11683471Abstract: An information processing device includes: a displacement information acquisition unit that acquires displacement information corresponding to 3-dimensional displacement of a predetermined portion of an object that a user mounts in accordance with a body motion on the basis of positional information of the predetermined portion and an output control unit that performs control such that an output unit performs a predetermined output on the basis of the acquired displacement information. The object has, for example, a seatback on which a user can sit. The displacement information acquisition unit acquires a change in a position in at least one of front and rear directions, right and left directions, or upward and downward directions of a seatback.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Masanori Mikami, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Naomasa Takahashi, Yosuke Shimizu, Jun Nishikawa, Naoko Edamitsu
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Publication number: 20220165188Abstract: A system includes a first multilayer surface that includes a plurality of layers. The system further includes a plurality of sensors and circuitry. The circuitry receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors and projection data associated with a media content projectable by a projection device. The projection data includes contrast control information associated with the media content. The circuitry determines ambient condition of an enclosed space based on the received plurality of signals. The circuitry selects one or more portions of the plurality of layers of the first multilayer surface based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data. The circuitry controls an opacity level of the selected one or more portions of the first multilayer surface to provide dynamic shade control in the enclosed space or improve contrast of the projected media content based on the determined ambient condition or the projection data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: TED YAMAZAKI, TONNI LARSEN, LEIGH ANDERSON, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220144172Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result on light outside a mobile object; an analyzer configured to determine a position of projection of content in the mobile object based on the detection result on the light outside the mobile object; and a display controller configured to perform control on projection of the content onto the determined position of projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: YOHEI FUKUMA, KEN OOTSUKA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, TORU NAGARA, HIROSHI TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20220114379Abstract: A system and method for object classification and related applications based on frame and event camera processing is provided. The system acquires an output of image sensor circuitry and determines a first object classification result based on feature points associated with first objects in a first frame of the acquired output. The system executes an event-camera signal processing operation on at least two frames of the acquired output to generate an event frame. The generated event frame includes pixel-level movement information associated with second objects. The system determines a second object classification result based on the pixel-level movement information and determines one or more object classification tags based on the determined first and the determined second object classification result. The determined one or more object classification tags correspond to one or more objects, included in at least the first objects and the second objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: TED YAMAZAKI, TONNI LARSEN, LEIGH ANDERSON, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220114879Abstract: A system and method of vehicle control for user safety and experience is provided. The system receives sensed information associated with a first vehicle, detects a state of the first vehicle, and determines activities of a person or a second vehicle in proximity of the first vehicle. Such activities are determined based on the sensed information. The system triggers actions based on whether or not the determined activities are unsafe for the first vehicle or for users of the first vehicle in the detected state. The system controls devices associated with the first vehicle based on the triggered actions. The devices include a light-based projector device that is controlled to project a visual alert, included in the triggered actions, directly onto a physical surface. The physical surface is a window portion of the first vehicle or a physical structure which is external to and separate from the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: TONNI LARSEN, TED YAMAZAKI, LEIGH ANDERSON, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220004002Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including circuitry configured to control a transmissivity of a transparent screen and a brightness of an image projected on the transparent screen, based on a motion of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naomasa TAKAHASHI, Ken OOTSUKA
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Publication number: 20220005436Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including circuitry configured to control a transmissivity of a transparent screen and a brightness an image projected on the transparent screen, based on characteristics of an environment proximate to the transparent screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naomasa TAKAHASHI, Ken OOTSUKA
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Patent number: 11134232Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of reducing a decrease in resolution in overlapping areas of multiple projection in cases where a plurality of projectors is used to perform the multiple projection onto an object. An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology generates, in regard to a plurality of projectors irradiating an object serving as a projection target with projection light rays as superimposing light rays depicting a projection image having pixels, mask information for regulating intensity of the corresponding light ray of each pixel of the projection image. The mask information includes information indicating, in regard to the object having a surface including a predetermined position, that the position is irradiated by a predetermined projector. The present technology can be applied to computers each of which causes a plurality of projectors to project images.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohsuke Kaji, Naomasa Takahashi, Tetsuo Ikeda, Tadayoshi Murakami, Kae Nagano, Eisuke Fujinawa
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Publication number: 20210065659Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system that can prevent a sense of realism and immersion from being impaired even in a case where a planar image generated on the assumption that the planar image is to be displayed on a flat surface is displayed on a curved display surface. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology causes a planar image and an effect image to be displayed on a curved display surface such that an image representing a predetermined space is displayed as the effect image around the planar image, the planar image having been generated on the assumption that the planar image is to be displayed on a flat surface. The present technology can be applied to a computer that causes a plurality of projectors to project a video.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, YOSHIYUKI TAKAO
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Publication number: 20210051303Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of reducing a decrease in resolution in overlapping areas of multiple projection in cases where a plurality of projectors is used to perform the multiple projection onto an object. An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology generates, in regard to a plurality of projectors irradiating an object serving as a projection target with projection light rays as superimposing light rays depicting a projection image having pixels, mask information for regulating intensity of the corresponding light ray of each pixel of the projection image. The mask information includes information indicating, in regard to the object having a surface including a predetermined position, that the position is irradiated by a predetermined projector. The present technology can be applied to computers each of which causes a plurality of projectors to project images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohsuke KAJI, Naomasa TAKAHASHI, Tetsuo IKEDA, Tadayoshi MURAKAMI, Kae NAGANO, Eisuke FUJINAWA
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Patent number: 10523891Abstract: A projection system of the disclosure includes an apparatus unit and a controller. The apparatus unit includes a speaker section, a projector section, and an imaging section. The speaker section includes one or more speakers. The imaging section images a projection screen provided by the projector section. The controller controls a sound output state of the speaker on a basis of information indicating an installation state of the apparatus unit. The information is estimated on a basis of a captured image obtained by the imaging section.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naomasa Takahashi, Tatsuya Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10423059Abstract: To provide a projection-type image display apparatus which projects an image on a dome screen and a dome type screen apparatus for image projection. An image display apparatus 100 includes a dome screen 101, a support body 102 configured to support the dome screen 101 so that the dome screen 101 is rotatable around a horizontal axis, two projectors 103 and 104 and a display control apparatus 105, and a chair 106 on which a viewer sits is provided inside space. By rotating the dome screen 101, it is possible to expand a viewing field in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Naomasa Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190289285Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device controlling an output on the basis of displacement information of an object in accordance with a body motion of a user. [Solution] An information processing device includes: a displacement information acquisition unit configured to acquire displacement information corresponding to 3-dimensional displacement of a predetermined portion of an object that a user mounts in accordance with a body motion on the basis of positional information of the predetermined portion; and an output control unit configured to perform control such that an output unit performs a predetermined output on the basis of the acquired displacement information. The object has, for example, a seatback which a user can sit. The displacement information acquisition unit acquires a change in a position in at least one of front and rear directions, right and left directions, or upward and downward directions of a seatback.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: TATSUSHI NASHIDA, MASANORI MIKAMI, TATSUYA YAMAZAKI, NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, YOSUKE SHIMIZU, JUN NISHIKAWA, NAOKO EDAMITSU
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Patent number: 10185389Abstract: An image display system 100 includes an attachment position error measuring function which measures deviation between reference axes of a head action tracking device 200 (x, y, z) and reference axes of the user (xw, yw, zw), i.e., an attachment position error of the head action tracking device 200, and an attachment position error absorbing function which corrects, based on the attachment position error, posture information about a posture of the head of the user detected by the head action tracking device 200. An image drawing device 300 therefore renders, based on precise posture information, an image accurately following a motion of the head of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Hirota, Naomasa Takahashi, Tetsuya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20180356718Abstract: To provide a projection-type image display apparatus which projects an image on a dome screen and a dome type screen apparatus for image projection. An image display apparatus 100 includes a dome screen 101, a support body 102 configured to support the dome screen 101 so that the dome screen 101 is rotatable around a horizontal axis, two projectors 103 and 104 and a display control apparatus 105, and a chair 106 on which a viewer sits is provided inside space. By rotating the dome screen 101, it is possible to expand a viewing field in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Naomasa Takahashi
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Patent number: 10108018Abstract: A first-person viewpoint image captured by a camera mounted on a radio-controlled model is displayed on a head mount display and is enjoyed. When a whole-sky image captured by a camera unit that is mounted on a model apparatus is reproduced and displayed with a head mount display, a CPU moves the display field so as to offset the motion of the head of a user detected by a posture/location detecting unit. In this manner, an image that follows the motion of the head of the user is displayed. Meanwhile, on the side of the head mount display, a combined image generated by superimposing an AR image as virtual image information on the actual image in the display field is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naomasa Takahashi, Tatsuya Narahara, Yoichiro Sako, Motoyuki Takai