Patents by Inventor Akio Yamazaki

Akio Yamazaki 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: 11682331
    Abstract: A wearable display device that is a display device, an information processing device configured to connect to a wearable display device, a first sensor including a first geomagnetic sensor, a second sensor including a second geomagnetic sensor, and a display control part configured to change a display mode of the wearable display device in accordance with a relative positional relationship between the wearable display device and the information processing device on the basis of a detection result are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11131855
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD and a PC. The HMD displays an image on a scene in a real space in an overlapped manner. The PC includes a first control unit. The first control unit causes the HMD to display a guide image indicating a direction set based on a robot to correspond to a robot arranged in the real space. On a tool of the robot, a tool coordinate system is set based on the tool. The first control unit displays the guide image indicating the tool coordinate system in accordance with a direction of the tool. The guide image includes an X-axis image, a Y-axis image, and a Z-axis image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20210097915
    Abstract: A wearable display device that is a display device, an information processing device configured to connect to a wearable display device, a first sensor including a first geomagnetic sensor, a second sensor including a second geomagnetic sensor, and a display control part configured to change a display mode of the wearable display device in accordance with a relative positional relationship between the wearable display device and the information processing device on the basis of a detection result are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10842349
    Abstract: An endoscope operation support system includes: an image display unit which, transmits external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the external scenery, and also displays a virtual image as superimposed on the external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the virtual image; a control unit which controls the image display unit; an endoscope unit having an image pickup unit at a distal end part inserted in an image pickup target part of an object, the image pickup unit picking up an image inside the image pickup target part; and a position detection unit which detects a position of the distal end part. The control unit causes the image display unit to display a position display image including a pointer image indicating the position of the distal end part detected by the position detection unit, as the virtual image superimposed on the object in the external scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 10643400
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an image display unit configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, an augmented-reality processing unit configured to cause the image display unit to form the virtual image including a virtual object, at least a part of which is superimposed and displayed on a real object present in the real world, a color detecting unit configured to detect a real object color, which is a color of the real object, and a color adjusting unit configured to bring a visual observation color, which is a color obtained by superimposing a color of the virtual object on the real object color, close to a target color using the detected real object color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10642564
    Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basis of the guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Akio Yamazaki, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200133002
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD and a PC. The HMD displays an image on a scene in a real space in an overlapped manner. The PC includes a first control unit. The first control unit causes the HMD to display a guide image indicating a direction set based on a robot to correspond to a robot arranged in the real space. On a tool of the robot, a tool coordinate system is set based on the tool. The first control unit displays the guide image indicating the tool coordinate system in accordance with a direction of the tool. The guide image includes an X-axis image, a Y-axis image, and a Z-axis image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio YAMAZAKI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20190180517
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an image display unit configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, an augmented-reality processing unit configured to cause the image display unit to form the virtual image including a virtual object, at least a part of which is superimposed and displayed on a real object present in the real world, a color detecting unit configured to detect a real object color, which is a color of the real object, and a color adjusting unit configured to bring a visual observation color, which is a color obtained by superimposing a color of the virtual object on the real object color, close to a target color using the detected real object color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10210670
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an image display unit configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, an augmented-reality processing unit configured to cause the image display unit to form the virtual image including a virtual object, at least a part of which is superimposed and displayed on a real object present in the real world, a color detecting unit configured to detect a real object color, which is a color of the real object, and a color adjusting unit configured to bring a visual observation color, which is a color obtained by superimposing a color of the virtual object on the real object color, close to a target color using the detected real object color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20190050191
    Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basis of the guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide TAKANO, Akio YAMAZAKI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10133532
    Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basis of the guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Akio Yamazaki, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180214007
    Abstract: An endoscope operation support system includes: an image display unit which, transmits external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the external scenery, and also displays a virtual image as superimposed on the external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the virtual image; a control unit which controls the image display unit; an endoscope unit having an image pickup unit at a distal end part inserted in an image pickup target part of an object, the image pickup unit picking up an image inside the image pickup target part; and a position detection unit which detects a position of the distal end part. The control unit causes the image display unit to display a position display image including a pointer image indicating the position of the distal end part detected by the position detection unit, as the virtual image superimposed on the object in the external scenery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio YAMAZAKI, Yuichi MORI
  • Patent number: 9870048
    Abstract: In a head-mounted display device equipped with a display section, through which an external world can visually be recognized, the head-mounted display device includes a superimposition image display control section adapted to make the display section display a predetermined image so as to be superimposed on the external world to visually be recognized in a see-through manner, an imaging section adapted to capture an image of at least a predetermined range out of the external world visually recognized in a see-through manner, a partial image determination section adapted to determine a partial image of a predetermined range, which corresponds in position to the predetermined image, out of the captured image obtained by the imaging section, and a visibility correction section adapted to correct visibility of the predetermined image displayed by the superimposition image display control section in accordance with color information related to the partial image determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20170243406
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes an image display unit configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, an augmented-reality processing unit configured to cause the image display unit to form the virtual image including a virtual object, at least a part of which is superimposed and displayed on a real object present in the real world, a color detecting unit configured to detect a real object color, which is a color of the real object, and a color adjusting unit configured to bring a visual observation color, which is a color obtained by superimposing a color of the virtual object on the real object color, close to a target color using the detected real object color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170090851
    Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basi of the guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide TAKANO, Akio YAMAZAKI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9487037
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a transport unit that has a transport roller which transports a medium; a detection unit that has an image acquiring section which acquires an image of the medium and that detects a transport amount of the medium based on the image acquired by the image acquiring section; and a control unit that controls the transport unit based on a detection amount which is the transport amount detected by the detection unit. The control unit calculates a correction amount with which the transport amount of the medium is corrected, based on the detection amount. When the detection amount is an abnormal value, the transport unit is controlled based on the correction amount obtained before the detection amount becomes the abnormal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiode, Akio Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160225190
    Abstract: In a head-mounted display device equipped with a display section, through which an external world can visually be recognized, the head-mounted display device includes a superimposition image display control section adapted to make the display section display a predetermined image so as to be superimposed on the external world to visually be recognized in a see-through manner, an imaging section adapted to capture an image of at least a predetermined range out of the external world visually recognized in a see-through manner, a partial image determination section adapted to determine a partial image of a predetermined range, which corresponds in position to the predetermined image, out of the captured image obtained by the imaging section, and a visibility correction section adapted to correct visibility of the predetermined image displayed by the superimposition image display control section in accordance with color information related to the partial image determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150266321
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a transport unit that has a transport roller which transports a medium; a detection unit that has an image acquiring section which acquires an image of the medium and that detects a transport amount of the medium based on the image acquired by the image acquiring section; and a control unit that controls the transport unit based on a detection amount which is the transport amount detected by the detection unit. The control unit calculates a correction amount with which the transport amount of the medium is corrected, based on the detection amount. When the detection amount is an abnormal value, the transport unit is controlled based on the correction amount obtained before the detection amount becomes the abnormal value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIODE, Akio YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150244799
    Abstract: A display apparatus, upon an operation for changing a page of a displayed document being performed, transmits a synchronization instruction including a document filename of the displayed document and a page number after the change to a server apparatus 20. The server apparatus transfers the synchronization instruction transmitted from the display apparatus to other display apparatuses. The other display apparatuses open a document file having the document filename included in the transmitted synchronization instruction, and display an image of the page having the page number included in the synchronization instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Akio YAMAZAKI, Ikuo HAYAISHI
  • Publication number: 20140294321
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, includes: a transforming area setter, operable to set at least a part of an area of a target image as a transforming area; a transforming area divider, operable to arrange a plurality of dividing points in the transforming area and to divide the transforming area into a plurality of small areas by using a line connecting the dividing points; and a transforming processor, operable to move a position of at least one of the dividing points to transform at least one of the small areas, thereby transforming an image in the transforming area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ikuo HAYAISHI, Akio YAMAZAKI