Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Fukumoto

Tetsuro Fukumoto 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: 11947119
    Abstract: A display control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires right hand position information indicating a position of a right hand of a user and left hand position information indicating a position of a left hand of the user of a head mounted display; and a display control unit that: controls the head mounted display to arrange a virtual object having a certain size at the position of the right hand and the position of the left hand based on of the right hand position information and the left hand position information; and controls the head mounted display to change a position of the virtual object independently of a change in a distance between a right hand and a left hand while maintaining a display state of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Sato, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20240077938
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing method to deal with the generation of inexact posture information. The information processing method includes acquiring posture information that indicates a posture of a moving body, extracting a feature amount from the posture information acquired at one time point or at multiple time points, determining whether or not the extracted feature amount is included within a definition range in a feature amount space, and acquiring, as a use feature amount, a feature amount that is included within the definition range, when the extracted feature amount is determined not to be included within the definition range, and generating data that indicates a posture or a motion, by using the use feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu ISHII, Tetsuro SATO, Yasutaka FUKUMOTO
  • Patent number: 7653292
    Abstract: A photographing apparatus that performs photographing with a camera main body accommodated in a waterproof housing includes a touch panel disposed in overlapping relationship with a display unit of the camera main body. The camera main body is operated by the touch panel, and, when photographing is performed with the camera main body accommodated in the waterproof housing, the operation of operation buttons of the waterproof housing operate corresponding operation buttons of the camera main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Yamaguchi, Tetsuro Fukumoto, Kazunori Kusayanagi, Kazunori Takagi, Ryoko Amano
  • Publication number: 20070110416
    Abstract: A photographing apparatus that performs photographing with a camera main body accommodated in a waterproof housing includes a touch panel disposed in overlapping relationship with a display unit of the camera main body. The camera main body is operated by the touch panel, and, when photographing is performed with the camera main body accommodated in the waterproof housing, the operation of operation buttons of the waterproof housing operate corresponding operation buttons of the camera main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Yamaguchi, Tetsuro Fukumoto, Kazunori Kusayanagi, Kazunori Takagi, Ryoko Amano
  • Patent number: 5305030
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera case which permits underwater video shooting and which is also useful in video shooting on the ground when a hand grip assembly is detached therefrom.In the event of underwater video shooting, a video camera 14 is placed in a main case body 10, and grips 41 and 42 are attached to the case through a link plate 43. The grip 41 has the function of a remote commander, transmitting infrared control signals from an LED to a signal receiver 35 within a transparent window 38 on the camera case 10 to operate the camera 14 accordingly. At the time of using the camera case as a drip-proof case in video shooting on the ground, the link plate 43 is detached from the camera case 10, and the camera 14 in the case is operated by way of operating buttons 24 to 26 on the camera case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokoyama, Tetsuro Fukumoto