Patents by Inventor Sadao Tsuruga

Sadao Tsuruga 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: 11985291
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11947757
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a display control unit that causes an object as a target of the touch operation to be displayed in the image display unit, an image input unit that acquires a video of an operation instruction object that performs the touch operation on the touch screen, and a shaking detection unit that analyzes the video of the operation instruction object, which is acquired by the image input unit, and calculates a relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object to a position of the personal digital assistant as a reference. The display control unit causes the object to be displayed in the image display unit to be displayed, based on the relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object, which is calculated by the shaking detection unit, such that the object is shifted in accordance with the relative shaking amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Sadao Tsuruga, Susumu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240048794
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20240029738
    Abstract: A speech recognition device includes a sound input section, a sound output section, a communication control section that performs data transmission and reception with at least one of other recognition devices, a conversation-mode executing section that transmits sound data input to each of the other recognition devices and outputs sound data received from each of the other recognition devices, a speech recognition section that converts the sound input into text data, a hot word detecting section that detects a conversation activation hot word from the text data to activate the conversation-mode executing section, and a command transmitting section that transmits a control command to each of the other recognition devices. If the hot word detecting section detects the conversation activation hot word, the command transmitting section transmits the control command to activate a conversation-mode executing section provided in each of the other recognition devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Ikuya ARAI, Satoru TAKASHIMIZU, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Sadao TSURUGA, Osamu KAWAMAE
  • Patent number: 11831945
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11810567
    Abstract: A speech recognition device includes a sound input section, a sound output section, a communication control section that performs data transmission and reception with at least one of other recognition devices, a conversation-mode executing section that transmits sound data input to each of the other recognition devices and outputs sound data received from each of the other recognition devices, a speech recognition section that converts the sound input into text data, a hot word detecting section that detects a conversation activation hot word from the text data to activate the conversation-mode executing section, and a command transmitting section that transmits a control command to each of the other recognition devices. If the hot word detecting section detects the conversation activation hot word, the command transmitting section transmits the control command to activate a conversation-mode executing section provided in each of the other recognition devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Ikuya Arai, Satoru Takashimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Sadao Tsuruga, Osamu Kawamae
  • Publication number: 20230332888
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230283754
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11733039
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohisa Takamizawa, Sadao Tsuruga, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Yoshinori Okada
  • Patent number: 11659152
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20220368880
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 11438567
    Abstract: Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information for distinguishing whether the program content is 2D program content or 3D program content; and a display control unit which controls the display so as to display whether the aforementioned program content is 2D program content or 3D program content in response to the received aforementioned identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Otsuka, Sadao Tsuruga
  • Publication number: 20220272404
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20220236854
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a display control unit that causes an object as a target of the touch operation to be displayed in the image display unit, an image input unit that acquires a video of an operation instruction object that performs the touch operation on the touch screen, and a shaking detection unit that analyzes the video of the operation instruction object, which is acquired by the image input unit, and calculates a relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object to a position of the personal digital assistant as a reference. The display control unit causes the object to be displayed in the image display unit to be displayed, based on the relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object, which is calculated by the shaking detection unit, such that the object is shifted in accordance with the relative shaking amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Sadao TSURUGA, Susumu YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220230560
    Abstract: In a road guidance using a Braille block, it has not been possible to determine a walking direction of a user only by a single Braille block. To solve the above problem, in a road guidance system including a mobile information terminal and a Braille block, the mobile information terminal includes a photographing processing unit, a QR code analysis processing unit that analyzes a QR code, a voice output processing unit, and a control unit, a QR code is affixed to the Braille block, and the control unit analyzes the QR code affixed to the Braille block photographed by the photographing processing unit using the QR code analysis processing unit to obtain QR code information, generates road guidance information generated based on a walking direction of a user holding the mobile information terminal from the QR code information, and outputs the road guidance information from the voice output processing unit as a voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Sadao TSURUGA, Tamotsu ITO, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220208199
    Abstract: A digital assistant function is provided to individual users even when a primary device having the digital assistant function is at a location away from a hand of a user. An information processing device that relays sound data to a primary device that executes a digital assistant process includes: a sound acquiring unit that acquires surrounding sounds as sound data; a destination device determination unit that determines a destination primary device which is the primary device that is a destination of the sound data; a transmitting and receiving unit that transmits the sound data to the destination primary device and receives, from the destination primary device, a result of a digital assistant process executed depending on the sound data as a reply; and a reply presentation unit that presents the reply received at the transmitting and receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Sadao TSURUGA
  • Patent number: 11363326
    Abstract: In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Tsuruga, Satoshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11301087
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a display control unit that causes an object as a target of the touch operation to be displayed in the image display unit, an image input unit that acquires a video of an operation instruction object that performs the touch operation on the touch screen, and a shaking detection unit that analyzes the video of the operation instruction object, which is acquired by the image input unit, and calculates a relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object to a position of the personal digital assistant as a reference. The display control unit causes the object to be displayed in the image display unit to be displayed, based on the relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object, which is calculated by the shaking detection unit, such that the object is shifted in accordance with the relative shaking amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Sadao Tsuruga, Susumu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220066733
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a head-mountable information processing apparatus allowing a user to hear a desired sound even if ambient sound unnecessary for the user is present. An audio input interface includes sound microphones worn in the vicinity of the user's ear, collects the ambient sound that occurs outside the head-mountable information processing apparatus, and converts the ambient sound into an input audio signal. An audio output interface, including headphones, converts a generated output audio signal for output, and emits the audio output toward the user. Based on a volume level of the input audio signal and a volume level of the output audio signal, a controller determines whether or not a state in which the ambient sound is preventing the audio for output from being heard is occurring, and based on a determination result, the controller controls a sound emission operation of the audio output interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220057636
    Abstract: Provide is a display terminal having a small display space, in which high operability is realized while convenience is maintained. A display terminal including a photographing device comprises: an image analysis unit configured to analyze an image captured by the photographing device, use region information that is information of a region on the image which corresponds to a real object existing in the external field, and refer to an icon DB so as to specify an icon related to the real object; and an app start unit configured to obtain an application associated with the specified icon from an app DB and start the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Ikuya ARAI, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Sadao TSURUGA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Osamu KAWAMAE