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).

  • Publication number: 20240011662
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi Baba, Masaaki Sato, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Yukio Kiguchi, Kohei Maruko, Shohei Arita
  • Publication number: 20240011689
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kohei Maruko, Shohei Arita, Masaaki Sato, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Atsushi Baba, Yukio Kiguchi
  • Patent number: 11474595
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210241425
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Hikaru Uchidate, Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10901213
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200241633
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10726814
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Hikaru Uchidate
  • Publication number: 20190310475
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10236971
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Ui, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10198868
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180218714
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Hikaru Uchidate
  • Patent number: 9805691
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 9542777
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160358381
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yutaka UI, Hiroichi YAMAGUCHI, Kazuki TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160350976
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160027401
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20150371444
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Hara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8885027
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Naoyuki Okata, Tomohiko Takayama
  • Publication number: 20140146083
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8699797
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Yamakawa, Hiroichi Yamaguchi