Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Naruse
Tetsuya Naruse 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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Patent number: 9438805Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires image data captured by an image capturing device; performs an analysis on the image data prior to cropping the image data for display to detect a specified image from the image data; generates an image for display by cropping the image data; controls a display to display the image for display; and executes predetermined processing when the specified image is detected in the image data as a result of performing the analysis on the image data prior to the cropping.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuji Ide
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Publication number: 20160205460Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 9351090Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9326058Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9257739Abstract: An antenna device includes: a line-shaped antenna conductor with a predetermined length; an actuator member that directly supports the line-shaped antenna or supports the line-shaped antenna via an auxiliary member and is displaceable integrally with the antenna conductor, where the actuator member is displaced to change a position of the antenna conductor in a space; and an attaching member that attaches the actuator member and the antenna member in one longitudinal end of the antenna conductor to a communication apparatus. The actuator member performs displacement control in which one longitudinal end of the antenna conductor serves as a fixed support and the other end thereof serves as a free end to be displaceable depending on the control voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Shin Takanashi, Tetsuya Naruse, Takeshi Sawada
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Publication number: 20140355819Abstract: A host device may include an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a guest device, and a communication unit configured to communicate with the guest device. The host device may include circuitry configured to identify, in the image of the guest device, identification information corresponding to the guest device, the identification information being displayed on a screen included on the guest device. The circuitry may calculate, based on the identification of the identification information in the image, an arrangement position of the guest device. The circuitry may assign, based on the calculated arrangement position, assigned data to the guest device. The circuitry may transmit one or more of the calculated arrangement position and information associated with the assigned data to the guest device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tetsuya NARUSE
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Publication number: 20140320542Abstract: Discussed herein is a method to transfer information from an output side terminal of a first device to an input side terminal of a second device. Information is enclosed in a predetermined region on the display panel of the device and is transmitted by changing the brightness (luminance) or the RGB color of the image with respect to time. A sensor positioned within the predetermined region detects the modulated luminance value of the information and demodulates the detected luminance to acquire the information. After performing the demodulation process, the acquired information is displayed on a display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventor: Tetsuya NARUSE
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Patent number: 8718930Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 8699948Abstract: A host side wireless communication terminal and guest side wireless communication terminals are stacked together, for example. The wireless communication terminals each generate an access point list within a range wherein near field wireless communication can be performed. The host side wireless communication terminal stores the data of the vibratory waveform by the user tapping a finger or the like on the casing, as reference data. The guest side wireless communication terminals detect the vibratory waveforms propagated through the casing or the like of the host side device, set the vibratory waveform data as key data, and transmits this to the host side by near field wireless communication. Upon the key data and reference data matching, the host side wireless communication device performs near field wireless communication pairing between the wireless communication devices that have transmitted the key data thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Tetsuya Naruse
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Publication number: 20140093088Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140086438Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140072154Abstract: An information processing apparatus that reproduces left and right audio signals based on data acquired from a sound source; acquires left and right surrounding sounds collected by left and right microphones included in a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus; combines a sound corresponding to at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds with at least one of the left and right audio signals; and outputs the left and right audio signals combined with the sound corresponding to the at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds to left and right earphones of the headphone unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140062842Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a communication interface configured to be connected to an external posture detecting device to be worn by a user; a display configured to rotatably display a display image; and circuitry configured to control a rotation angle of the image displayed by the display based on posture information received from the external posture detecting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140058662Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20130335587Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires image data captured by an image capturing device; detects whether a hand exists in the image data; and controls a state of an image capturing operation performed by the image capturing device in accordance with a command corresponding to at least one of a shape and a gesture of a hand detected in the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuji Ide
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Publication number: 20130329113Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires image data captured by an image capturing device; performs an analysis on the image data prior to cropping the image data for display to detect a specified image from the image data; generates an image for display by cropping the image data; controls a display to display the image for display; and executes predetermined processing when the specified image is detected in the image data as a result of performing the analysis on the image data prior to the cropping.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuji Ide
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Patent number: 8311595Abstract: A portable wireless communication device includes a case having a waterproof structure and floating on water, an operation portion arranged in a front face of the case; and a wireless communication processing portion arranged inside the case, wherein a position of the center of gravity in the case is shifted to a rear face side opposite to the front face with respect to a center of the case, in a state where all components including the wireless communication processing portion are housed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Shin Takanashi, Tetsuya Naruse
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Publication number: 20120190299Abstract: A host side wireless communication terminal and guest side wireless communication terminals are stacked together, for example. The wireless communication terminals each generate an access point list within a range wherein near field wireless communication can be performed. The host side wireless communication terminal stores the data of the vibratory waveform by the user tapping a finger or the like on the casing, as reference data. The guest side wireless communication terminals detect the vibratory waveforms propagated through the casing or the like of the host side device, set the vibratory waveform data as key data, and transmits this to the host side by near field wireless communication. Upon the key data and reference data matching, the host side wireless communication device performs near field wireless communication pairing between the wireless communication devices that have transmitted the key data thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventors: Susumu TAKATSUKA, Tetsuya Naruse
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Patent number: 8228303Abstract: An information communication apparatus includes: an electrostatic panel unit that is at least provided with an electrostatically chargeable panel surface; a capacitance detection unit that detects a capacitance variation of the panel surface to detect a location at which an object substantially contacts the panel surface; an electric field communication unit that uses the panel surface as an electrostatic field antenna to carry out electrostatic field communication; a connection switching unit that selectively connects any one of the capacitance detection unit and the electric field communication unit to the electrostatic panel unit; and a control unit that controls the connection switching unit to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the capacitance detection unit at the time of detecting a location at which an object contacts the panel surface and to connect the electrostatic panel unit to the electric field communication unit at the time of the electrostatic field communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya Naruse
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Patent number: 8200724Abstract: A communication terminal includes a first storage section configured to store address information for performing connection to a communication terminal of a communication partner and an address book containing information about the communication partner, a second storage section configured to store first data files, a search section configured to search through the second storage section for first data files corresponding to information about the communication partner linked to the communication terminal of the communication partner selected on the basis of the address book, a compiling section configured to compile the retrieved first data files into a predetermined unit to generate a second data file, and a communication section configured to perform communication between the present communication terminal and the communication terminal of the communication partner and transmit the second data file to the communication terminal of the communication partner.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Manabu Kanno, Tetsuya Naruse