Patents by Inventor Hidekuni Annaka

Hidekuni Annaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20250150565
    Abstract: A display terminal includes: circuitry that receives an instruction to play back a wide-view image having a wide angle of view, the wide-view image being a moving image and having been recorded for distribution to a communication terminal; and in response to the instruction to play back the wide-view image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area of the wide-view image, based on point-of-view information for specifying the predetermined area of the wide-view image being having been distributed and displayed at the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoya SAWADA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Daisuke SAITOH, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Patent number: 12273627
    Abstract: A system and a method, each of which: transmits video including a wide-view image having a wide angle of view to a communication terminal; and stores, in a predetermined storage destination, the wide-view image received from an image capturing apparatus that captures the wide-view image in response to an image capturing request, in association with point-of-view information for specifying a predetermined area of the wide-view image to be displayed, the predetermined area being designated at the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori Ueda, Hidekuni Annaka, Daisuke Saitoh, Takeshi Homma
  • Patent number: 12256148
    Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that: transmits video including a first wide-view image captured by an image capturing apparatus to each of a plurality of communication terminals; transmits an image capturing request to the image capturing apparatus in response to receiving a request for capturing the second wide-view image from a first communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, the second wide-view image being captured by the image capturing apparatus in response to the image capturing request; and associates the second wide-view image received from the image capturing apparatus with point-of-view information indicating a predetermined area of the first wide-view image to be displayed, the predetermined area being designated at the first communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Hidekuni Annaka, Daisuke Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12238257
    Abstract: A display terminal includes: circuitry that receives an instruction to play back a wide-view image having a wide angle of view, the wide-view image being a moving image and having been recorded for distribution to a communication terminal; and in response to the instruction to play back the wide-view image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area of the wide-view image, based on point-of-view information for specifying the predetermined area of the wide-view image being having been distributed and displayed at the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoya Sawada, Hidekuni Annaka, Daisuke Saitoh, Takeshi Homma
  • Publication number: 20240232300
    Abstract: A management system for managing an event executed between a communication terminal used by a user and one or more devices is provided. The management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a device of the one or more devices from the communication terminal. The circuitry generates operation information associated with operation identification information and access information. The operation identification information identifies a device operation corresponding to the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the device according to the device operation to the external storage using the access information associated with the generated operation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Hidekuni Annaka, Takeshi Homma
  • Publication number: 20240236267
    Abstract: A communication management device includes circuitry that: receives captured image data of a captured image obtained by an image capturing device and time-series information representing a date and time associated with predetermined area information, the predetermined area information representing a predetermined area and is transmitted by a communication terminal that displays a predetermined area image of the predetermined area; and transmits, to the communication terminal, converted predetermined area image data obtained through perspective projection conversion based on the received captured image data and the received time-series information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro MORITA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Tomonori AIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240223904
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude information of the image capturing device, and cuts out a viewable area from the image. The viewable area includes the converted point of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki SHIRO, Kenichiro MORITA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Takeshi HOMMA, Takuya SONEDA, Tomonori AIKAWA, Takafumi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240179267
    Abstract: A display terminal comprising circuitry that displays a first predetermined-area image on a display screen, the first predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area in a first wide-view image having been captured at a given location on a first date and time; and displays a second predetermined-area image on the display screen, the second predetermined-area image being related to the predetermined area in a second wide-view image, the second wide-view image having captured at the given location on a second date and time different from the first date and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi HORIUCHI, Takashi HASEGAWA, Kyoya SAWADA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20240137463
    Abstract: A communication management device includes circuitry that: receives captured image data of a captured image obtained by an image capturing device and time-series information representing a date and time associated with predetermined area information, the predetermined area information representing a predetermined area and is transmitted by a communication terminal that displays a predetermined area image of the predetermined area; and transmits, to the communication terminal, converted predetermined area image data obtained through perspective projection conversion based on the received captured image data and the received time-series information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro MORITA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Tomonori AIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11966456
    Abstract: A management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a specific device of one or more devices from a communication terminal used by a user for who user authentication has been successfully performed by a management system. The one or more devices and the communication terminal are communicating with each other to execute an event managed by the management system. The circuitry stores, in a memory, operation identification information and access information in association with each other. The operation identification information identifies a device operation associated with the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the specific device according to the device operation corresponding to the operation identification information to the external storage using the access information associated with the operation identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Hidekuni Annaka, Takeshi Homma
  • Patent number: 11956547
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude information of the image capturing device, and cuts out a viewable area from the image. The viewable area includes the converted point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Shiro, Kenichiro Morita, Hidekuni Annaka, Takeshi Homma, Takuya Soneda, Tomonori Aikawa, Takafumi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20240089603
    Abstract: A communication terminal including circuitry to: receive video data including a captured image, from a communication management server that manages the captured image of video data distributed from another communication terminal different from the communication terminal; determine whether any predetermined-area information indicating a predetermined area of the captured image to be displayed during a reproduction time of the video data is stored in a memory; and control a display to display an image representing the predetermined area indicated by the predetermined-area information, based on a determination that the predetermined-area information is stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekuni ANNAKA, Kenichiro MORITA
  • Patent number: 11877092
    Abstract: A communication management device includes circuitry that: receives captured image data of a captured image obtained by an image capturing device and time-series information representing a date and time associated with predetermined area information, the predetermined area information representing a predetermined area and is transmitted by a communication terminal that displays a predetermined area image of the predetermined area; and transmits, to the communication terminal, converted predetermined area image data obtained through perspective projection conversion based on the received captured image data and the received time-series information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Morita, Hidekuni Annaka, Tomonori Aikawa
  • Patent number: 11863871
    Abstract: A communication terminal including circuitry to: receive video data including a captured image, from a communication management server that manages the captured image of video data distributed from another communication terminal different from the communication terminal; determine whether any predetermined-area information indicating a predetermined area of the captured image to be displayed during a reproduction time of the video data is stored in a memory; and control a display to display an image representing the predetermined area indicated by the predetermined-area information, based on a determination that the predetermined-area information is stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekuni Annaka, Kenichiro Morita
  • Patent number: 11818492
    Abstract: A communication management apparatus for communicating with a communication terminal, including circuitry that receives from the communication terminal pieces of designated-position information transmitted, each indicating a corresponding one of a plurality of designated positions in an area where the plurality of image capturing devices are provided, and transmits to the communication terminal identification information of a shareable image capturing device and pieces of predetermined-area information of the shareable image capturing device, the shareable image capturing device being an image capturing device for which distances from any two designated positions among the plurality of designated positions indicated by the pieces of designated-position information are shortest and which is capable of sharing images of the two designated positions, each of the pieces of predetermined-area information of the shareable image capturing device indicating a predetermined area in which a corresponding one of the two
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekuni Annaka, Kenichiro Morita, Kyohsuke Kaminushi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Tomonori Aikawa, Yuya Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20230308622
    Abstract: A display terminal includes: circuitry that receives an instruction to play back a wide-view image having a wide angle of view, the wide-view image being a moving image and having been recorded for distribution to a communication terminal; and in response to the instruction to play back the wide-view image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area of the wide-view image, based on point-of-view information for specifying the predetermined area of the wide-view image being having been distributed and displayed at the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kyoya SAWADA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Daisuke SAITOH, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20230308762
    Abstract: A display terminal includes circuitry that: receives an instruction to play back a moving image associated with a predetermined-area still image, the predetermined-area still image representing a predetermined area of a wide-view still image displayed on a display and having a wide angle of view; and in response to the instruction to play back the moving image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area moving image, based on point-of-view information indicating the predetermined area represented by the predetermined-area still image, the predetermined-area moving image representing a predetermined area of a wide-view moving image including the wide-view still image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kohji UE, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Daisuke SAITOH, Takeshi HOMMA, Kyoya SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20230308764
    Abstract: A display terminal includes circuitry that: displays, on a display, a predetermined-area moving image, the predetermined-area moving image representing a predetermined area of a wide-view moving image having a wide angle of view; receives designation of a specific object visible in the predetermined-area moving image displayed on the display; and displays, on the display, the predetermined-area moving image such that movement of the specific object that is designated is tracked to make the specific object continuously visible in the predetermined-area moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi HINOHARA, Kohji UE, Kyoya SAWADA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Takeshi HOMMA, Daisuke SAITOH
  • Patent number: 11743590
    Abstract: A communication terminal including circuitry to: receive images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices in a distribution site; accept designation of a point of interest in the distribution site by a user; acquire predetermined-area information indicating a predetermined area including the designated point of interest, the predetermined area being included in an image captured by a specific image capturing device selected based on a position of the point of interest and positions of the image capturing devices; and display a predetermined-area image based on the acquired predetermined-area information, the predetermined-area image being an image of the predetermined area in the image captured by the specific image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Morita, Hidekuni Annaka, Tomonori Aikawa, Yuya Akimoto, Hiroyuki Kanda, Kyohsuke Kaminushi
  • Publication number: 20230269482
    Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that: transmits video including a first wide-view image captured by an image capturing apparatus to each of a plurality of communication terminals; transmits an image capturing request to the image capturing apparatus in response to receiving a request for capturing the second wide-view image from a first communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, the second wide-view image being captured by the image capturing apparatus in response to the image capturing request; and associates the second wide-view image received from the image capturing apparatus with point-of-view information indicating a predetermined area of the first wide-view image to be displayed, the predetermined area being designated at the first communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi HOMMA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Daisuke SAITOH