Patents by Inventor Takuro Noda

Takuro Noda 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).

  • Information processing apparatus, stereoscopic display method, and program
    Patent number: 9432652
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a position on a surface of the determination unit corresponding to a contact between a portion of a operating tool and the determination unit surface. The apparatus may also include a definition unit configured to define a first display position of a first stereoscopic image, and a generation unit configured to generate a second stereoscopic image in response to the contact. A control unit may be configured to generate a signal to display the first stereoscopic image at the first display position and display the second stereoscopic image at a second display position, the first and second display positioned being within a predetermined distance of the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160231809
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention includes a sightline distance calculating unit (106) configured to calculate a sightline distance between a position of a user and a position of a point specified on an image display surface based on a sightline direction of the user, a character size calculating unit (108) configured to determine a character size in accordance with the sightline distance calculated by the sightline distance calculating unit (106), and a display control unit (110) configured to determine a size of a display image in accordance with the character size calculated by the character size calculating unit (108).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160231810
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to control a state of a selection candidate object, when a predetermined condition concerning a selection of the selection candidate object is determined to be satisfied based on a relation between a display position of the selection candidate object and a position towards which the user gazes or a gazing direction, by bringing the selection candidate object to a selected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki IMOTO, Takuro NODA, Ryouhei YASUDA
  • Information processing device, method, and program for arranging virtual objects on a curved plane for operation in a 3D space
    Patent number: 9411410
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a curved movement of a body of a user as an operation, a display control section configured to display an object in a virtual three-dimensional space, and a process execution section configured to execute a process on the object based on the acquired operation. The object may be arranged on a first curved plane based on a virtual position of the user set in the virtual three-dimensional space, the first curved plane corresponding to the curved movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160224128
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of an operator and a position of a hand or the like of the operator, a calculating unit configured to regard a position of the operator in a screen coordinate system set on a screen as an origin of an operator coordinate system and multiply a position of the hand or the like with respect to the origin of the operator coordinate system by a predetermined function, thereby calculating a position of display information corresponding to the hand or the like in the screen coordinate system, and a control unit configured to cause the display information to be displayed at the position in the screen coordinate system calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • Information processing device, information processing method and computer program
    Patent number: 9405393
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a detection area determination unit configured to determine whether a contact position of an input object is in a contact determination area which is a part of a detection area of a detection unit based on a detection signal from the detection unit that detects contact of the input object with a contact detection surface, a manipulation determination unit configured to determine manipulation content from movement of the input object when the detection area determination unit determines that the input object is in contact with an inside of the contact determination area, and an event issuing unit configured to issue an event according to the manipulation content determined by the manipulation determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160217794
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to initiate a voice recognition upon a determination that a user gaze has been made towards a first region within which a display object is displayed, and initiate an execution of a process based on the voice recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Maki IMOTO, Takuro NODA, Ryouhei YASUDA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20160195926
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of users, a determination unit configured to determine an operator from among the users included in the acquired captured image, and a processing unit configured to conduct a process based on information about user line of sight corresponding to the determined operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Maki IMOTO, Takuro NODA, Ryouhei YASUDA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160162155
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro NODA, Akihiro KOMORI, Nariaki SATOH, Osamu SHIGETA, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Display control apparatus, display control method, and program
    Patent number: 9360929
    Abstract: A display control apparatus controls display of a transparent display which includes a screen configured to transmit light arriving from an object located on a side of a second surface so that the object is viewable from a viewpoint located on a side of a first surface which is an opposite surface to the second surface. The display control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating relative positional relations between the transparent display and the viewpoint and between the transparent display and the object; and a display control unit that controls the display of the transparent display based on the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Display control apparatus, display control method, and display control program
    Patent number: 9342142
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of an operator and a position of a hand or the like of the operator, a calculating unit configured to regard a position of the operator in a screen coordinate system set on a screen as an origin of an operator coordinate system and multiply a position of the hand or the like with respect to the origin of the operator coordinate system by a predetermined function, thereby calculating a position of display information corresponding to the hand or the like in the screen coordinate system, and a control unit configured to cause the display information to be displayed at the position in the screen coordinate system calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program for content reception by short range communication enabled devices
    Patent number: 9277272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoriko Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sato, Takuro Noda
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and program
    Patent number: 9274605
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Akihiro Komori, Nariaki Satoh, Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Display control apparatus, display control method, and program for displaying virtual objects in 3D with varying depth
    Patent number: 9244526
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus controlling display of a transmissive display which includes a screen configured to transmit light arriving from an object located on a side of a first surface so that the object is viewable from a viewpoint position set on a side of a second surface which is an opposite surface to the first surface and which displays a display object to be stereoscopically viewed. The display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a relative positional relation between the transmissive display and the object, and a display control unit that changes, in accordance with a change in the relative positional relation in the position information, a depth of the display object from the screen perceived from the viewpoint position, the display object being displayed to be stereoscopically viewed by the transmissive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160007004
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a position on a surface of the determination unit corresponding to a contact between a portion of a operating tool and the determination unit surface. The apparatus may also include a definition unit configured to define a first display position of a first stereoscopic image, and a generation unit configured to generate a second stereoscopic image in response to the contact. A control unit may be configured to generate a signal to display the first stereoscopic image at the first display position and display the second stereoscopic image at a second display position, the first and second display positioned being within a predetermined distance of the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro NODA
  • Information processing apparatus, method, and program for gesture recognition and control
    Patent number: 9229533
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a gesture made by a user, a recognition unit configured to recognize a type of the gesture detected by the detection unit, a control unit configured to control operation of a first application and a second application, and an output unit configured to output information of the first application or the second application. If the gesture is recognized by the recognition unit while the control unit is controlling the operation of the first application in the foreground, the control unit controls the operation of the second application operating in the background of the first application on the basis of the type of the gesture recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Takuro Noda
  • DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20150358532
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display a live preview image generated based on image data obtained through an image sensor, and one or more processed images generated using respective image processing conditions based on one of the image data which has been obtained at some time point; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a predetermined user operation has been recognized. If it is determined that the predetermined user operation has been recognized, the display control unit updates the one or more processed images to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke KAWANA, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Tomoya NARITA, Maki IMOTO, Takuro NODA
  • Information processing apparatus, stereoscopic display method, and program
    Patent number: 9176624
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a position on a surface of the determination unit corresponding to a contact between a portion of an operating tool and the determination unit surface. The apparatus may also include a definition unit configured to define a first display position of a first stereoscopic image, and a generation unit configured to generate a second stereoscopic image in response to the contact. A control unit may be configured to generate a signal to display the first stereoscopic image at the first display position and display the second stereoscopic image at a second display position, the first and second display positioned being within a predetermined distance of the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • OPERATION PROCESSING DEVICE, OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150277600
    Abstract: There is provided an operation processing device including an input direction acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an input direction according to a direction generated in response to an operation indicating the direction which is performed on an input unit to which the operation is input, an output direction indication unit configured to indicate, to a display unit configured to display an image, an output direction that is a direction in which the image of the display unit is changed in response to the operation on the input unit, and a determination unit configured to determine an orientation of the output direction with respect to the input direction according to a relative position relationship between the input unit and the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Takuro Noda, Ikuo Yamano
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20150253939
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a line-of-sight position acquisition unit configured to acquire a line-of-sight position of a user, a state control unit configured to perform a transition to an active state in response to a first operation performed by the user, the active state being capable of selecting an object by the user through a line of sight of the user, and a processing unit configured to determine an object corresponding to the acquired line-of-sight position as a selected object in response to a second operation performed by the user subsequent to the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA