Patents by Inventor Hideo Tomita

Hideo Tomita 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: 9894330
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a setting unit, and a correction unit. The obtaining unit obtains a first image including a first overlap area having a first end side portion and a second image including a second overlap area having a second end side portion. The setting unit sets a first reference line that forms a first division area in the first overlap area and a second reference line that forms a second division area in the second overlap area. The correction unit executes corrections for the first overlap area, the first division area, and the second division area with the first reference line, the first end side portion, and the second end side portion respectively, the corrections being based on shapes of the first and second overlap areas and based on projection of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20170201728
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a setting unit, and a correction unit. The obtaining unit obtains a first image including a first overlap area having a first end side portion and a second image including a second overlap area having a second end side portion, the second overlap area being overlapped with the first overlap area. The setting unit sets a first reference line that forms a first division area in the first overlap area with the first division area sandwiched between the first reference line and the first end side portion, and sets a second reference line that forms a second division area in the second overlap area with the second division area sandwiched between the second reference line and the second end side portion, the second reference line being superimposed on the first reference line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Hideo TOMITA
  • Patent number: 9651272
    Abstract: A base terminal receives the air-conditioning control information from the server, and on the basis of the received air-conditioning control information, when a power consumption value in a site is greater than the target power value for demand control, the base terminal transmits, to air-conditioning control equipment, a control instruction that sets an air conditioner to OFF, and when the temperature measured in an area is greater than the upper limit temperature when the air conditioner is performing a cooling operation, or when the temperature measured in the area is less than the lower limit temperature when the air conditioner is performing a heating operation, the base terminal transmits a control instruction that sets the air conditioner to ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Mori, Hideo Tomita, Norikazu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9316702
    Abstract: A magnetic-field detection microcomputer includes: a magnetic-field detection device; a differential amplifier; a variable voltage circuit which generates a reference voltage that is variable; a comparator which compares an output from the differential amplifier with the reference voltage; a register which outputs a voltage control value to the variable voltage circuit; a ROM which previously store a first table in which a magnetic-field intensity and the voltage control value are associated with each other; and a CPU which sets, to the register, the voltage control value, and determines presence or absence of the magnetic-field intensity associated with the voltage control value based on a result of the comparison by the comparator and the first table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Komatsu, Hideo Tomita
  • Patent number: 9140445
    Abstract: A superheated steam generator, capable of generating superheated steam which exceeds about 400° C. even if a litz wire is adopted as an induction heating coil, is generally described. The generator may include induction heating elements that can generate heat by electromagnetic induction and that are housed in a heat-resistant container. The generator may also include a hose that allows cooling water to pass therethrough and which is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the heat-resistant container. A water supply unit for the cooling water is connected to one end of the hose, and the other end of the hose is connected to a steam inlet of the heat-resistant container. An induction heating coil is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the hose, and a high-frequency power supply unit is connected to the induction heating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hideo Tomita, Takeshi Maruyama, Shinzo Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20150039135
    Abstract: A base terminal receives the air-conditioning control information from the server, and on the basis of the received air-conditioning control information, when a power consumption value in a site is greater than the target power value for demand control, the base terminal transmits, to air-conditioning control equipment, a control instruction that sets an air conditioner to OFF, and when the temperature measured in an area is greater than the upper limit temperature when the air conditioner is performing a cooling operation, or when the temperature measured in the area is less than the lower limit temperature when the air conditioner is performing a heating operation, the base terminal transmits a control instruction that sets the air conditioner to ON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Mori, Hideo Tomita, Norikazu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8803946
    Abstract: An image projecting device includes an image display unit that simultaneously displays left and right eye images in a line on a display panel and a projection optical system that projects the left and right eye images displayed on the display panel onto a screen in a superposed state. The display unit performs a transforming process for rotating the left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image and for rotating the right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image. The transformed left eye image signal and the transformed right eye image signal are synthesized to obtain an image signal for display use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20130307755
    Abstract: An apparatus for image adjustment includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a correction unit. The acquisition unit obtains a reference image obtainable by a reference pattern image being captured by an imaging apparatus. The reference pattern image is projected by any single projector out of a plurality of projectors, as a synthesized image of pattern images which can be projected by the projectors and have different colors with each other. The reference pattern image has a combination color of the different colors. The detection unit detects, on the basis of data of the reference image, a chromatic aberration-derived positional deviation which is a positional deviation in the pattern images corresponding to a chromatic aberration that occurs due to the imaging apparatus. The correction unit corrects, the positional deviation of the pattern images each being projected by the corresponding projector, using data of the chromatic aberration-derived positional deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Patent number: 8482604
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image forming unit, a projecting unit, first and second correcting units, and a driving unit. The image forming unit forms images for left and right eyes. The projecting unit emits light for the left-eye image via an optical filter for the left eye and emits light for the right-eye image via an optical filter for the right eye having properties different from those of the left-eye optical filter, to display the images in a superimposed manner. The first and second correcting units each correct image signals for the corresponding eye using correction data for use in correcting non-uniformity in the image being displayed by the light emitted via the corresponding optical filter. The driving unit drives the image forming unit on the basis of the corrected image signals to cause the image forming unit to form the left-eye image and the right-eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Patent number: 8411134
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus including a first conversion processing unit performing conversion processing for a left-eye image signal used to display a left-eye image so as to adjust a horizontal and/or vertical size of the left-eye image and correct a vertical bow-like distortion of the left-eye image, a second conversion processing unit performing conversion processing for a right-eye image signal used to display a right-eye image so as to adjust a horizontal and/or vertical size of the right-eye image and correct a vertical bow-like distortion of the right-eye image, and a merging unit obtaining an output image signal by merging a left-eye image signal obtained by performing the conversion processing through the first conversion processing unit and a right-eye image signal obtained by performing the conversion processing through the second conversion processing unit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20120255140
    Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner includes electric blower for generating a suction force; dust separating unit, installed on an upstream side of the electric blower, for separating dust from air containing the dust suctioned by electric blower; dust collecting chamber for accumulating the dust separated by dust separating unit opened to dust collecting chamber; and humidifying unit, communicating to humidifying port, for generating air of high humidity; wherein humidifying unit supplies the air of high humidity from humidifying port to the dust accumulated in dust collecting chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Tomita, Katsuyuki Ohta, Keijirou Kunimoto, Makoto Shibuya, Izumi Yamaura
  • Patent number: 8274557
    Abstract: An image display device including: an image formation unit which forms images for the left and right eyes; a projecting section which emits light beams representing the images for the left and right eyes via optical filters having different properties to display an image in a superimposed manner; first and second converting sections respectively convert signals representing images for the left eye and for the right eye into image signals of different color spaces by using first and second color conversion coefficients determined so that the images for the left and right eyes displayed on the basis of the light beams passing through the optical filters may have desired properties; and a driving section which drives the image formation unit on the basis of the converted signals representing the images of the left and right eyes to form the images for the left and right eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Patent number: 8217967
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including, a digital signal processing circuit that processes pixel data, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit that converts pixel data that has been subjected to signal processing into an analog signal for driving a display device, and an error data addition circuit that is provided at a previous stage of the digital-to-analog conversion circuit and adds error data to all pixel data of a corresponding screen in sync with a vertical synchronization signal, the error data having one value per one screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Patent number: 8111339
    Abstract: A liquid crystal projector which projects a three-dimensional imaged based on image signals for the left and right eyes including: a liquid crystal panel into which an image for the left or right eye is written in a one-field time period based on the image signal; an optical shutter has a plurality of divisional regions arranged in a vertical direction and controllable independently in regard to whether or not light should be blocked; a polarizing element has a plurality of divisional regions arranged in vertical direction and controllable independently in regard to whether the polarization direction should be set to that for the left eye or the right eye; and a control circuit controls the optical shutter and the polarizing element in synchronism with a writing position in the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Tomita, Junichi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8035595
    Abstract: Herein disclosed a liquid crystal panel, including: a plurality of liquid crystal cells each serving as a pixel and disposed in a matrix of N horizontal lines and M vertical lines, each of N and M being an integral value equal to or greater than 1; a switching element provided for each of said pixels and configured to provide a driving voltage to the pixel; the M switching elements which are included in one vertical line having a common source line; and a vertical activation section configured to render gate lines of ? ones of the M switching elements included in one vertical line active simultaneously, ? being an integral value equal to or greater than 1 but equal to or smaller than M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20100128106
    Abstract: An image projecting device includes an image display unit simultaneously displaying left and right eye images in a line on a display panel and a projection optical system projecting the left and right eye images displayed on the display panel onto a screen in a superposed state, wherein the image display unit has a first transforming process unit performing a transforming process for rotating the left eye image on a left eye image signal used to display the left eye image, a second transforming process unit performing a transforming process for rotating the right eye image on a right eye image signal used to display the right eye image and a synthesizing unit synthesizing the transformed left eye image signal and the transformed right eye image signal to obtain an image signal for display use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Hideo TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20100128107
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus including a first conversion processing unit performing conversion processing for a left-eye image signal used to display a left-eye image so as to adjust a horizontal and/or vertical size of the left-eye image and correct a vertical bow-like distortion of the left-eye image, a second conversion processing unit performing conversion processing for a right-eye image signal used to display a right-eye image so as to adjust a horizontal and/or vertical size of the right-eye image and correct a vertical bow-like distortion of the right-eye image, and a merging unit obtaining an output image signal by merging a left-eye image signal obtained by performing the conversion processing through the first conversion processing unit and a right-eye image signal obtained by performing the conversion processing through the second conversion processing unit is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Hideo TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20100123774
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image forming unit, a projecting unit, first and second correcting units, and a driving unit. The image forming unit forms images for left and right eyes. The projecting unit emits light for the left-eye image via an optical filter for the left eye and emits light for the right-eye image via an optical filter for the right eye having properties different from those of the left-eye optical filter, to display the images in a superimposed manner. The first and second correcting units each correct image signals for the corresponding eye using correction data for use in correcting non-uniformity in the image being displayed by the light emitted via the corresponding optical filter. The driving unit drives the image forming unit on the basis of the corrected image signals to cause the image forming unit to form the left-eye image and the right-eye image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventor: Hideo TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20100123773
    Abstract: An image display device including: an image formation unit which forms images for the left and right eyes; a projecting section which emits light beams representing the images for the left and right eyes via optical filters having different properties to display an image in a superimposed manner; first and second converting sections respectively convert signals representing images for the left eye and for the right eye into image signals of different color spaces by using first and second color conversion coefficients determined so that the images for the left and right eyes displayed on the basis of the light beams passing through the optical filters may have desired properties; and a driving section which drives the image formation unit on the basis of the converted signals representing the images of the left and right eyes to form the images for the left and right eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventor: Hideo TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20090159591
    Abstract: A superheated steam generator, capable of generating superheated steam which exceeds 400° C. even if a litz wire is adopted as an induction heating coil, and capable of being used as a middle-sized or small-sized home-available apparatus, is provided. The invention provided a superheated steam generator in which induction heating elements 22 which generates heat by electromagnetic induction are housed in a heat-resistant container 21, a hose 24 which allows cooling water to pass therethrough is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the heat-resistant container, a water supply unit 4 for the cooling water is connected to one end of the hose, the other end of the hose is connected to a steam inlet 21A of the heat-resistant container, an induction heating coil 25 is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the hose, a high-frequency power supply unit 3 is connected to the induction heating coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Hideo Tomita, Takeshi Maruyama, Shinzo Yoshimura