Patents by Inventor Shoichi Ikenoue

Shoichi Ikenoue 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: 11961450
    Abstract: In a display controller, a standard information acquisition unit acquires at least one of a luminance characteristic and a color gamut of a standard display panel. A luminance information storage unit of an output adjustment unit stores a measurement value of a luminance characteristic of a panel of a displaying destination. A luminance range adjustment unit gradually adjusts a luminance range for an image to be a luminance range same as that of the standard display panel. A color gamut information storage unit stores a measurement value of a color gamut of the panel of the displaying destination. A color adjustment unit adjusts a pixel value of an image on the basis of the color gamut such that the image is displayed in a color same as that on the standard display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ikenoue
  • Publication number: 20240119557
    Abstract: A condition information acquisition section of an image generation device acquires a condition of communication and condition information of a head-mounted display. An image generation section generates a display image including distorted images for a left eye and a right eye. A reduction processing section converts the display image to data in which different regions have different reduction ratios in accordance with the condition of communication, etc., and transmits the data through an output section. An image size restoration section of the head-mounted display restores the transmitted data to the display image in an original size to cause the display image to be displayed by a display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Kenichiro Yokota
  • Publication number: 20240121520
    Abstract: An image generation apparatus increases an adjustment amount of a luminance distribution to a target value B at a time t0 at which an amount of light entering the eyes of a user changes to such a degree that the change has an influence on an action of photoreceptor cells, to thereby cause a head-mounted display to display an image 310b having a luminance increased from that of an original image 310a. The image generation apparatus gradually decreases the adjustment amount of the luminance distribution during a restoration period ?t in such a manner that an image 310c having the original luminance distribution is displayed at a later time t1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Kenichiro Yokota, Yasunari Hatasawa
  • Publication number: 20240091641
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the image of the user guide represents a state of the real space in which the user is physically located, as viewed obliquely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240087101
    Abstract: A state information acquisition section of an image generation apparatus acquires state information of the head of a user. An image generation section generates a display image corresponding to a visual field. A down-sampling section down-samples image data and transmits the down-sampled image data from a transmission section. A distortion correction section of a head-mounted display performs, after an up-sampling section up samples the data, correction according to aberration of the eyepiece, for each primary color and causes the resulting data to be displayed on a display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Kenichiro Yokota
  • Patent number: 11887281
    Abstract: A vibration generation device 112 is provided in a head-mounted display, and as a result of processing by a content processing unit 72, a vibration controlling unit 80 causes the vibration generation device 112 to vibrate so as to correspond to display contents. A drawing unit 86 of a display image generation unit 74 acquires a measurement value of a motion sensor 64 from a measurement value acquisition unit 82 and draws an image in a field of view corresponding to the position and the posture of the user head. During a period during which the vibration generation device 112 vibrates, a vibration correction unit 88 corrects the measurement value in response to the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 11865448
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the generating and outputting data of the image of the user guide includes determining whether to display the user guide in response to certain criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20230293980
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the transmitting includes outputting, to the display device, a confirmation screen prompting the user to confirm that there is an obstacle, prior to outputting the data of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
  • Patent number: 11697062
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to the detection field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
  • Publication number: 20230042926
    Abstract: In a display controller, a standard information acquisition unit 76-acquires at least one of a luminance characteristic and a color gamut of a standard display panel. A luminance information storage unit of an output adjustment unit stores a measurement value of a luminance characteristic of a panel of a displaying destination. A luminance range adjustment unit gradually adjusts a luminance range for an image to be a luminance range same as that of the standard display panel. A color gamut information storage unit stores a measurement value of a color gamut of the panel of the displaying destination. A color adjustment unit adjusts a pixel value of an image on the basis of the color gamut such that the image is displayed in a color same as that on the standard display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi IKENOUE
  • Publication number: 20230014603
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the generating and outputting data of the image of the user guide includes determining whether to display the user guide in response to certain criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11484792
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the generating and outputting data of the image of the user guide includes determining whether to display the user guide in response to one of: (i) a user operation, and (ii) regardless of the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20220277425
    Abstract: A vibration generation device 112 is provided in a head-mounted display, and as a result of processing by a content processing unit 72, a vibration controlling unit 80 causes the vibration generation device 112 to vibrate so as to correspond to display contents. A drawing unit 86 of a display image generation unit 74 acquires a measurement value of a motion sensor 64 from a measurement value acquisition unit 82 and draws an image in a field of view corresponding to the position and the posture of the user head. During a period during which the vibration generation device 112 vibrates, a vibration correction unit 88 corrects the measurement value in response to the vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Shoichi IKENOUE
  • Publication number: 20210154579
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the generating and outputting data of the image of the user guide includes determining whether to display the user guide in response to one of: (i) a user operation, and (ii) regardless of the user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10974148
    Abstract: As a user guide, the state of overlooking a real space including an imaging device and a user is presented by one of two images: an image in reference to the position of the imaging device, or an image in reference to the user's direction. In both images, a rectangle indicative of the imaging device and a circle representative of the user are presented in a manner reflecting the actual positional relations and directions involved. Also presented are an area denoting a play area in the horizontal direction determined by a camera angle of view for example, and an arrow pointing to the direction in which the user is to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20210086069
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a user position; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and determining that the user needs to be warned when the user position indicates that the user moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, and to cause the image generating section to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to the detection field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
  • Patent number: 10888772
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a target object; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that a user needs to be warned when the target object moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, the determining including causing the generating to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to boundary surfaces of the field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa
  • Patent number: 10638120
    Abstract: An information processing device causes an information processing section to perform information processing of a game for example, based on a user's operation received by an input information acquiring section and on images acquired by a stereo camera and obtained through an acquired image obtaining section. The information processing device causes an output data generating section to output the result of the information processing to a display device. At this point, a tracking processing section detects corresponding marker images from stereoscopic images and, based on a parallax therebetween, obtains position information about a target object. In accordance with vertical position misalignment between the detected marker images, a calibration determining section determines whether camera calibration is needed and requests the output data generating section to notify the user of the determined need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okamoto, Shoichi Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 10596451
    Abstract: A replay data acquisition section acquires replay data for reproducing a play status of a game. A replay image generation section generates a replay image of a game scene on the basis of the acquired replay data. A user determination section determines a user to be included in a combined image. A user image acquisition section acquires a user image obtained by imaging the determined user. A combination processing section generates the combined image by combining the acquired user image with the replay image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nodoka Tokunaga, Keigo Tamura, Toshimasa Aoki, Shoichi Ikenoue
  • Publication number: 20200047063
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a target object; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that a user needs to be warned when the target object moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, the determining including causing the generating to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to boundary surfaces of the field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa