Patents by Inventor Yuta NAKAO

Yuta NAKAO 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: 11991450
    Abstract: Operability is improved for an operation related to composition adjustment. Composition designation operation information is acquired that is operation information designating a composition of an imaging device and includes information of a designated position on a screen that displays a captured image of the imaging device, and an imaging range of the imaging device is controlled to adjust the composition of the imaging device on the basis of subject information corresponding to the designated position of the composition designation operation information. Thus, the adjustment to the target composition is performed on the basis of the subject information corresponding to the designated position on the screen displaying the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Nakao
  • Publication number: 20230353795
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage management unit that stores negative content determined as negative scene contents among material content constituting a story of content to be automatically produced in a state of being distinguishable from other material content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Satoru Ishii, Seijiro Inaba, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Wakatsuki
  • Patent number: 11749309
    Abstract: To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230270532
    Abstract: Provided is an instrument holder that allows an instrument to be smoothly, safely, and hygienically handled by holding the instrument in a standing posture when in use and by holding the instrument in a posture not allowing the instrument to easily contact a practitioner when not in use. A holder portion 15 of an instrument holder 12 has a pair of supporting body portions 16, a rotational body portion 23 that is supported by the supporting body portions 16 and that is rotatable, and a holder body portion 31 that is attached to the rotational body portion 23. The holder portion 15 alternately changes between a rearwardly tilting holding state and a forwardly tilting waiting state due to rotation of the rotational body portion 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: TAKARA BELMONT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Hiroyuki TERAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230260549
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a story generation unit that, based on a plurality of material content recorded in an accessible state, selects material content constituting a story set in story setting processing, and performs automatic content production by editing processing using the selected material content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: YUTA NAKAO, SATORU ISHII, SEIJIRO INABA, TADASHI YAMAGUCHI, MASASHI WAKATSUKI
  • Patent number: 11727642
    Abstract: Reduction of a work burden relating to generation of a virtual viewpoint image is implemented. An image processing apparatus includes a virtual viewpoint image generation section that generates, on the basis of three-dimensional information that represents an imaged imaging object in a three-dimensional space, an observation image from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional space as a virtual viewpoint image, and the virtual viewpoint image generation section sets the viewpoint that follows movement of the imaging object. This makes it possible to reduce an operation burden relating to setting of a viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11721026
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that tracks a target on the basis of a captured image that has been captured by an imaging device and sensor information obtained by communication from a sensor that senses the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Yuta Nakao, Hideyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220311941
    Abstract: Operability is improved for an operation related to composition adjustment. Composition designation operation information is acquired that is operation information designating a composition of an imaging device and includes information of a designated position on a screen that displays a captured image of the imaging device, and an imaging range of the imaging device is controlled to adjust the composition of the imaging device on the basis of subject information corresponding to the designated position of the composition designation operation information. Thus, the adjustment to the target composition is performed on the basis of the subject information corresponding to the designated position on the screen displaying the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta NAKAO
  • Patent number: 11425298
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Kenzaburo Seki, Tetsuya Shimoda, Yasuyoshi Kuwazoe, Yuta Nakao, Takashi Kohashi
  • Patent number: 11417062
    Abstract: In an image including a continuous visual field of 360 degrees, such as a celestial sphere image, in a case where a partial region is displayed as an output target region, transition from a certain output target region to the other output target region is realized smoothly and with natural feeling, without having visually uncomfortable feeling. For this reason, a transition source output target region and a transition destination output target region are specified, in an output target region which is a partial region of the entire image, which is an image having a continuous visual field of 360 degrees in at least one direction. Then, a visual field transition path from the specified transition source output target region to the specified transition destination output target region is automatically determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Yuki Ono, Daisuke Tahara
  • Publication number: 20210110849
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. [Solution] There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210049816
    Abstract: In an image including a continuous visual field of 360 degrees, such as a celestial sphere image, in a case where a partial region is displayed as an output target region, transition from a certain output target region to the other output target region is realized smoothly and with natural feeling, without having visually uncomfortable feeling. For this reason, a transition source output target region and a transition destination output target region are specified, in an output target region which is a partial region of the entire image, which is an image having a continuous visual field of 360 degrees in at least one direction. Then, a visual field transition path from the specified transition source output target region to the specified transition destination output target region is automatically determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Yuki Ono, Daisuke Tahara
  • Patent number: 10839601
    Abstract: In an image including a continuous visual field of 360 degrees, such as a celestial sphere image, in a case where a partial region is displayed as an output target region, transition from a certain output target region to the other output target region is realized smoothly and with natural feeling, without having visually uncomfortable feeling. For this reason, a transition source output target region and a transition destination output target region are specified, in an output target region which is a partial region of the entire image, which is an image having a continuous visual field of 360 degrees in at least one direction. Then, a visual field transition path from the specified transition source output target region to the specified transition destination output target region is automatically determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Yuki Ono, Daisuke Tahara
  • Publication number: 20200336652
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI, Kenzaburo SEKI, Tetsuya SHIMODA, Yasuyoshi KUWAZOE, Yuta NAKAO, Takashi KOHASHI
  • Patent number: 10742872
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Kenzaburo Seki, Tetsuya Shimoda, Yasuyoshi Kuwazoe, Yuta Nakao, Takashi Kohashi
  • Publication number: 20200234495
    Abstract: Reduction of a work burden relating to generation of a virtual viewpoint image is implemented. An image processing apparatus includes a virtual viewpoint image generation section that generates, on the basis of three-dimensional information that represents an imaged imaging object in a three-dimensional space, an observation image from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional space as a virtual viewpoint image, and the virtual viewpoint image generation section sets the viewpoint that follows movement of the imaging object. This makes it possible to reduce an operation burden relating to setting of a viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190387179
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit for issuing a notification regarding a relationship between an area to be captured by a capturing apparatus and the capturing apparatus, on the basis of area information specifying the area and information regarding the capturing apparatus that is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA, Hideyuki SATO, Yuta NAKAO, Seijiro INABA
  • Publication number: 20190340769
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that tracks a target on the basis of a captured image that has been captured by an imaging device and sensor information obtained by communication from a sensor that senses the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Seijiro INABA, Nobuho IKEDA, Yuta NAKAO, Hideyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20190158732
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program which are capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region. The control unit sets a resolution of the subject to be high in a case in which the distance to the subject is longer than a predetermined reference, and sets the resolution of the subject to be low in a case in which the distance to the subject is smaller than the predetermined reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI, Kenzaburo SEKI, Tetsuya SHIMODA, Yasuyoshi KUWAZOE, Yuta NAKAO, Takashi KOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190102940
    Abstract: In an image including a continuous visual field of 360 degrees, such as a celestial sphere image, in a case where a partial region is displayed as an output target region, transition from a certain output target region to the other output target region is realized smoothly and with natural feeling, without having visually uncomfortable feeling. For this reason, a transition source output target region and a transition destination output target region are specified, in an output target region which is a partial region of the entire image, which is an image having a continuous visual field of 360 degrees in at least one direction. Then, a visual field transition path from the specified transition source output target region to the specified transition destination output target region is automatically determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Yuki Ono, Daisuke Tahara