Patents by Inventor Hirosi Saitou

Hirosi Saitou 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: 5621457
    Abstract: A sighting direction detecting device including a TV camera which is disposed to face a human being and picks up an image of light invisible to human beings, a first illuminator which is disposed in a coaxial system with the TV camera and illuminates a human's eye-ball portion with light which is invisible to human beings, a second illuminator which is disposed at a different place from the first illuminator and illuminates the human's eye-ball portion with light which is invisible to human beings, a first calculator for calculating an equation of a line passing the pupil center position of the eye-ball, an equation of a line passing the reflected-light position of the first illuminator and an equation of a line passing the reflected-light position of the second illuminator on the basis of the image which is picked up by the camera, a second calculator for calculating the center position of a cornea ball on the basis of the equation of the line passing the reflected-light position of the first illuminator and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuo Ishiwaka, Hirosi Saitou