Patents by Inventor Fusashi Kimura

Fusashi Kimura 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: 11573634
    Abstract: A display method for displaying an image by an HMD mounted on a head of a user includes: an identifying step for identifying a direction in which the user gazes; and an adjusting step for adjusting a display aspect of a display image so that a gaze region that the user gazes at in the display image displayed by the HMD approaches a predetermined position corresponding to a front of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11449296
    Abstract: The display system includes an HMD and a control device. The display system includes a plurality of display modes including a first display mode in which display on an image display unit and display on a touch panel are common and a second display mode in which display on the image display unit and display on the touch panel are different from each other. A first state, a second state, and a third state are capable of being executed, the first state being a state in which at least any one of display on the image display unit and display on the touch panel is stopped, the second state being a state of requesting a specific operation, and the third state being a state in which an application is executable. During specific transition from the first state, the second state, or the third state to another state, the first display mode is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Torii, Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11422379
    Abstract: When an image is displayed on two display units provided corresponding to both eyes of a user, an interpupillary distance of the user is acquired, an original image is modified according to a difference between the interval of the two display units and the acquired interpupillary distance, and the two display units are caused to display a modified image that was modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220236798
    Abstract: A display method for displaying an image by an HMD mounted on a head of a user includes: an identifying step for identifying a direction in which the user gazes; and an adjusting step for adjusting a display aspect of a display image so that a gaze region that the user gazes at in the display image displayed by the HMD approaches a predetermined position corresponding to a front of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210200497
    Abstract: The display system includes an HMD and a control device. The display system includes a plurality of display modes including a first display mode in which display on an image display unit and display on a touch panel are common and a second display mode in which display on the image display unit and display on the touch panel are different from each other. A first state, a second state, and a third state are capable of being executed, the first state being a state in which at least any one of display on the image display unit and display on the touch panel is stopped, the second state being a state of requesting a specific operation, and the third state being a state in which an application is executable. During specific transition from the first state, the second state, or the third state to another state, the first display mode is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TORII, Fusashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210132386
    Abstract: When an image is displayed on two display units provided corresponding to both eyes of a user, an interpupillary distance of the user is acquired, an original image is modified according to a difference between the interval of the two display units and the acquired interpupillary distance, and the two display units are caused to display a modified image that was modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10902819
    Abstract: A connection device to which a PC and a head-mounted image display unit that includes a right display unit and a left display unit configured to display an image are connected, the connection device including a control unit configured to control the right display unit and the left display unit to enable execution of functions including a display function of displaying an image input from the PC and a display stop function of stopping display, wherein the control unit activates the image display unit in a display mode based on a display condition when power supply to the connection device is started, and the display mode includes at least a first display mode in which the image is displayed on the right display unit and the left display unit and the display stop function is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fusashi Kimura, Kazuma Sakata, Kazuma Kitadani, Yuichi Kunitomo
  • Patent number: 10823962
    Abstract: A processing device as a personal digital assistant includes a display unit configured to display an image, a connection detector configured to detect that an external display device has been connected, an image output unit configured to output an image displayed on the display unit to the display device in response to the connection of the display device, and a user interface output unit configured to switch an image displayed on the display unit to display of a user interface for instructing execution of processing related to the image output to the display device at a predetermined brightness value in response to the connection of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10567730
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display section for left eye, an image display section for right eye, and a control section configured to expand the image data for the eyes, and cause the image display section for the eyes to display the expanded image data for the eyes. The control section acquires compressed UI image data, draws the compressed UI image data in a predetermined position of one of the image data for left eye before the expansion and the image data for right eye before the expansion, draws the compressed UI image data in a position corresponding to the predetermined position of the other of the image data for left eye before the expansion and the image data for right eye before the expansion, and performs the expansion using the image data for left eye and for right eye after the drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190340999
    Abstract: A connection device to which a PC and a head-mounted image display unit that includes a right display unit and a left display unit configured to display an image are connected, the connection device including a control unit configured to control the right display unit and the left display unit to enable execution of functions including a display function of displaying an image input from the PC and a display stop function of stopping display, wherein the control unit activates the image display unit in a display mode based on a display condition when power supply to the connection device is started, and the display mode includes at least a first display mode in which the image is displayed on the right display unit and the left display unit and the display stop function is disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fusashi KIMURA, Kazuma SAKATA, Kazuma KITADANI, Yuichi KUNITOMO
  • Patent number: 10451874
    Abstract: An image display device includes a generating unit configured to generate an integrated image including first display regions where at least a part of a plurality of identification images for distinguishing a plurality of external devices connected to the image display device from one another are displayed as a list and a second display region where a display image, which is an image displayed by one external device selected out of the plurality of external devices, is displayed and an image display unit configured to cause a user of the image display device to visually recognize the integrated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10445579
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes an image display unit that allows a user to visually recognize image light based on image data as a virtual image and allows the user to visually recognize an outside scenery when worn on a head of the user, an imaging unit that images the outside scenery, and a control unit that, when an imaged image contains a mark image as an image of a specific mark, allows the user to visually recognize the specific virtual image associated with a combination of a type of the mark image and a shape of the mark image using the image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190196185
    Abstract: A processing device as a personal digital assistant includes a display unit configured to display an image, a connection detector configured to detect that an external display device has been connected, an image output unit configured to output an image displayed on the display unit to the display device in response to the connection of the display device, and a user interface output unit configured to switch an image displayed on the display unit to display of a user interface for instructing execution of processing related to the image output to the display device at a predetermined brightness value in response to the connection of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190197989
    Abstract: A processing device including a camera, a sensor, a calculation unit that executes an application, and a communication unit that communicates with an external device, includes an image source switching unit that, when a display device including a camera and a sensor is coupled, switches between an image from the camera included in the processing device and an image from the camera included in the display device received via the communication unit and provides the images to the application program in response to input of a switching instruction, and a sensor switching unit that switches between sensor data from the sensor included in the processing device and sensor data from the sensor included in the display device received via the communication unit and provides the sensor data to the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10296104
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display unit that makes a user visually perceive an image, and an control device, capable of being moved independently of the image display unit, which includes a six-axis sensor detecting a movement and a track pad receiving an operation. The HMD controls the display of the image display unit in accordance with the movement detected by the six-axis sensor in a state where the track pad receives an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Kazuo Nishizawa, Fusashi Kimura, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 10198367
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device that enables program development in program development for an information processing devices, in which a developer does not have to be aware of the types of input/output devices to be used. An information processing device includes a plurality of input/output devices used by a computer program for executing any processing and a main control section configured to operate, according to a request received from the computer program, the request designating functions required by the computer program, at least a part of the input/output devices associated with the functions among the plurality of input/output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Mori, Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10114604
    Abstract: A transmission type head-mounted display device includes a sound acquiring unit configured to acquire sound on the outside, a sound identifying unit configured to identify specific sound in the acquired sound, an image display unit capable of displaying an image and capable of transmitting an outside scene, an image storing unit configured to store an execution function image representing a function executable by the head-mounted display device and a specific sound image associated with the specific sound, a display-image setting unit configured to cause the image display unit to display a combined image obtained by combining the execution function image and the specific sound image, and a function executing unit configured to execute a function corresponding to the execution function image combined with the specific sound image associated with the acquired specific sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Akira Suzuki, Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10101586
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section worn on the head of a user and configured to output image light and an illuminance sensor configured to detect light. The HMD includes a sub-control section. The sub-control section adjusts, on the basis of a detection value of the illuminance sensor, the image light output by the image display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Fujimaki, Masayuki Takagi, Fusashi Kimura, Kenro Yajima
  • Patent number: 10083639
    Abstract: A control device that controls an image display device that forms an image on the basis of an image signal includes: an acquiring unit that acquires, from the image display device, individual information for specifying a control form of the image display device connected to the control device; and a control unit that controls the image display device on the basis of the acquired individual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180241983
    Abstract: A display device includes an image display section for left eye, an image display section for right eye, and a control section configured to expand the image data for the eyes, and cause the image display section for the eyes to display the expanded image data for the eyes. The control section acquires compressed UI image data, draws the compressed UI image data in a predetermined position of one of the image data for left eye before the expansion and the image data for right eye before the expansion, draws the compressed UI image data in a position corresponding to the predetermined position of the other of the image data for left eye before the expansion and the image data for right eye before the expansion, and performs the expansion using the image data for left eye and for right eye after the drawing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fusashi KIMURA