Patents by Inventor Hiroichi Yamaguchi
Hiroichi Yamaguchi 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).
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Publication number: 20240011662Abstract: According to one embodiment, the air conditioner comprises an outdoor unit, an indoor unit, a refrigerant cutoff unit, an airtight state detection unit, a notification unit, and a control unit. The control unit determines a refrigerant cutoff condition for whether or not to urge a flow of the refrigerant flowing into and from the indoor unit to be cut off and, if the refrigerant cutoff condition is satisfied, urges the refrigerant cutoff unit to cut off the flow, and urges the notification unit to notify a detection result of an airtight state of a pipe detected by the airtight state detection unit, in the indoor unit in which the flow of the refrigerant is cut off.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Atsushi Baba, Masaaki Sato, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Yukio Kiguchi, Kohei Maruko, Shohei Arita
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Publication number: 20240011689Abstract: According to one embodiment, a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a main flow channel of a refrigerant, a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, a branch channel, an expansion valve, a supercooling heat exchanger, an injection flow channel, and a control unit. The control unit determines, based on whether the determination condition is satisfied or not, a determination condition for adjusting an opening degree of the expansion valve and adjusts the opening degree of the expansion valve according to a first target value for a discharge temperature of the refrigerant from the compressor, or a second target value for a superheat degree of the refrigerant flowing through the injection flow channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Kohei Maruko, Shohei Arita, Masaaki Sato, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Atsushi Baba, Yukio Kiguchi
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Patent number: 11474595Abstract: Movement information indicating movement of the display device is obtained, and a warning is notified when the movement information is information indicating a sickness-inducing movement set in advance as movement likely to induce motion sickness.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20210241425Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires, frame by frame, a video to be displayed in a display unit that is obtained by performing rendering processing on each frame of a captured video. An estimation unit estimates an ID of a frame to be acquired by the acquisition unit. A determination unit determines a drop in the frame rate of the video acquired by the acquisition unit, based on a comparison between an ID of a frame acquired by the acquisition unit and the ID estimated by the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Hikaru Uchidate, Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10901213Abstract: Whether a similarity between a frame image and an immediately preceding frame image that is a frame image one frame before the frame image is not less than a predetermined value is determined. A corrected frame image in which the frame image is corrected in accordance with the determination result is generated. One of the frame image and the corrected frame image is displayed, according to the determination result, as a display image on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200241633Abstract: Movement information indicating movement of the display device is obtained, and a warning is notified when the movement information is information indicating a sickness-inducing movement set in advance as movement likely to induce motion sickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10726814Abstract: The present disclosure changes a position of a combined image relative to a display unit in at least one of a horizontal and a vertical direction of the display unit based on information about a position and an orientation at the time of combined image display on the display unit and information about a position and an orientation of an image display apparatus at the time of image capturing by an imaging unit. In this case, the present disclosure changes the position of the combined image such that a moving amount of the combined image falls within a predetermined range in at least one of the horizontal and the vertical directions of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Hikaru Uchidate
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Publication number: 20190310475Abstract: Whether a similarity between a frame image and an immediately preceding frame image that is a frame image one frame before the frame image is not less than a predetermined value is determined. A corrected frame image in which the frame image is corrected in accordance with the determination result is generated. One of the frame image and the corrected frame image is displayed, according to the determination result, as a display image on a display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10236971Abstract: To provide a technique capable of reducing the transmission delay of an image, a communication apparatus wirelessly communicable with another communication apparatus, receives a compressed captured image from the other communication apparatus; decompresses the compressed captured image to obtain a decompressed captured image; generates, based on the decompressed captured image, a CG image to be superimposed and displayed on the captured image; and compresses the CG image to generate a compressed CG image; transmits the compressed CG image to the other communication apparatus. Then, the communication apparatus derives a delay time based on a transmission time of the compressed captured image in the other communication apparatus and a generation completion time of the CG image; and changes a compression ratio of the CG image based on whether the delay time is longer than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yutaka Ui, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
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Patent number: 10198868Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a luminance value obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second luminance values of first and second captured images of a physical space, wherein the first and second captured images are respectively captured by first and second image capturing units; a parameter obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second tracking parameters of automatic exposure control corresponding to a change in brightness of the physical space for the first and second image capturing units; and a setting unit for setting a first image capturing parameter for the first image capturing unit based on the first luminance value and the obtained first tracking parameter and a second image capturing parameter for the second image capturing unit based on the second luminance value and the obtained second tracking parameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180218714Abstract: The present disclosure changes a position of a combined image relative to a display unit in at least one of a horizontal and a vertical direction of the display unit based on information about a position and an orientation at the time of combined image display on the display unit and information about a position and an orientation of an image display apparatus at the time of image capturing by an imaging unit. In this case, the present disclosure changes the position of the combined image such that a moving amount of the combined image falls within a predetermined range in at least one of the horizontal and the vertical directions of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Hikaru Uchidate
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Patent number: 9805691Abstract: A display obtains a first image by image capturing, receives, from an external apparatus, a second image generated based on the first image, determines a communication quality with the external apparatus in reception of the second image, and controls to display the second image on a display unit until a value indicating a degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds a first threshold as a result of determination, and display the first image on the display unit when the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds the first threshold. The display controls to display the first image until the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality becomes smaller than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold after exceeding the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
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Patent number: 9542777Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which determines, for a combined image obtained by combining pixels of a given first image and pixels of an unknown second image either translucently or non-translucently using an unknown coefficient indicating a transparency, whether each of pixels included in the combined image is a translucently combined pixel, is provided. The image processing apparatus calculates, from pixel values of the combined image and the first image of respective pixels in a predetermined area including one pixel, pixel values of an image corresponding to the second image, calculates a total of differences between the calculated pixel values, identifies a coefficient used to obtain the combined image from the total of the difference, and determines that the one pixel is a translucently combined pixel when a value of the identified coefficient is larger than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20160358381Abstract: To provide a technique capable of reducing the transmission delay of an image, a communication apparatus wirelessly communicable with another communication apparatus, receives a compressed captured image from the other communication apparatus; decompresses the compressed captured image to obtain a decompressed captured image; generates, based on the decompressed captured image, a CG image to be superimposed and displayed on the captured image; and compresses the CG image to generate a compressed CG image; transmits the compressed CG image to the other communication apparatus. Then, the communication apparatus derives a delay time based on a transmission time of the compressed captured image in the other communication apparatus and a generation completion time of the CG image; and changes a compression ratio of the CG image based on whether the delay time is longer than a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yutaka UI, Hiroichi YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki TAKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20160350976Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a luminance value obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second luminance values of first and second captured images of a physical space, wherein the first and second captured images are respectively captured by first and second image capturing units; a parameter obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second tracking parameters of automatic exposure control corresponding to a change in brightness of the physical space for the first and second image capturing units; and a setting unit for setting a first image capturing parameter for the first image capturing unit based on the first luminance value and the obtained first tracking parameter and a second image capturing parameter for the second image capturing unit based on the second luminance value and the obtained second tracking parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20160027401Abstract: A display obtains a first image by image capturing, receives, from an external apparatus, a second image generated based on the first image, determines a communication quality with the external apparatus in reception of the second image, and controls to display the second image on a display unit until a value indicating a degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds a first threshold as a result of determination, and display the first image on the display unit when the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds the first threshold. The display controls to display the first image until the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality becomes smaller than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold after exceeding the first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
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Publication number: 20150371444Abstract: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus that is wearable by a user and is configured to capture real space and display real space video. The system generates mixed reality video obtained by superimposing virtual object video on the real space video; identifies a display area of a real object that is included in the real space video; measures a distance between the image processing apparatus and the real object. In addition, the system performs notification for causing a user who is wearing the image processing apparatus to recognize existence of the real object, if the display area of the real object is hidden by the virtual object video, and the distance between the image processing apparatus and the real object is less than a predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Kazutoshi Hara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
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Patent number: 8885027Abstract: For example, display image input units 131R, 131L detect additional information indicating left and right directionality from images for display. Then, in a stereoscopic display device having a display device for the right eye and a display device for the left eye, a switcher 132 capable of switching the connections between input and output input-output is controlled so that the correct image for display is provided to the correct display device. With such a configuration, even when the cables are connected incorrectly, it is still possible to input stereoscopic images to the stereoscopic display device so that such images are always displayed in the correct left-right relation.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Naoyuki Okata, Tomohiko Takayama
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Publication number: 20140146083Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which determines, for a combined image obtained by combining pixels of a given first image and pixels of an unknown second image either translucently or non-translucently using an unknown coefficient indicating a transparency, whether each of pixels included in the combined image is a translucently combined pixel, is provided. The image processing apparatus calculates, from pixel values of the combined image and the first image of respective pixels in a predetermined area including one pixel, pixel values of an image corresponding to the second image, calculates a total of differences between the calculated pixel values, identifies a coefficient used to obtain the combined image from the total of the difference, and determines that the one pixel is a translucently combined pixel when a value of the identified coefficient is larger than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8699797Abstract: An image processing apparatus sequentially detects a feature in an image, sequentially acquires information of the detected feature, compares information of a previous feature detected in a previous frame of the image with information of a current feature detected in a current frame of the image to sequentially determine whether to estimate that the previous feature matches the current feature, and stops the determination to record the information of the feature detected in the previous frame as information of the feature detected in the current frame in a case where the number of previous features estimated to match the current feature is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Yamakawa, Hiroichi Yamaguchi