Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Ishikawa

Hirotaka Ishikawa 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: 11972071
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20240127042
    Abstract: An edge device (20) that is an example of an information processing device of an embodiment according to the present disclosure includes a transmitting section that transmits, to a server device (10) that generates a neural network, information related to a processing capability for processing the neural network supplied from the server device (10), wherein the information related to the processing capability includes at least one of capacity information of the neural network, filter size information of a favorite convolutional neural network, hardware architecture type information, chip information, and device model number information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Kota YONEZAWA
  • Patent number: 11885971
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit and a method of using same. The display unit may be a head-mounted display. The display unit is capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space and a virtual object. The detector detects an azimuth of the display unit around at least one axis and display of the virtual object is controlled based in the detected azimuth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Publication number: 20240027774
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit and a method of using same. The display unit may be a head-mounted display. The display unit is capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space and a virtual object. The detector detects an azimuth of the display unit around at least one axis and display of the virtual object is controlled based in the detected azimuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Takeshi IWATSU
  • Patent number: 11861842
    Abstract: A large number of highly accurate learning images are generated without bias at reduced costs. An information processing method for causing a processor to execute: automatically cropping a region including an object from a material image to generate an automatically cropped image; and performing learning related to detection of the object on the basis of the automatically cropped image, wherein the generating of the automatically cropped image further includes generating the automatically cropped image using an automatic cropping machine that is generated by learning on the basis of manually cropped images obtained by manually cropping a region including the object from the material image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Kanji Ogawa, Toshiyuki Yamauchi, Akihiro Muto, Tomoki Oooka
  • Publication number: 20230370570
    Abstract: A data transmission device includes a transmission processing unit that transmits sensing data of a detection target in response to occurrence of an event that satisfies a condition specified as an event related to the detection target, in which the sensing data is data including type information indicating a type of sensing data, in a case where whether or not the type of sensing data is a specific type is determined, and as a result, the type of sensing data is an unspecific type, the transmission processing unit performs processing of storing unspecific type information indicating that the type of sensing data is an unspecific type in the type information, and generating and transmitting the sensing data including text data in which detection result information indicating a detection result of the detection target by text and type information indicating a data type of the detection result information are stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimi OGAWA, Munehiro SHIMOMURA, Hideki ANDO, Yoshifumi MITSUI, Hironori MIYOSHI, Yoshihiro KUMAGAI, Kota YONEZAWA, Satoshi WATANABE, Hirotaka ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230319397
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enables appropriate sharing of processing in accordance with a remaining capacity of a battery. Provided is a mode switching unit that switches a mode depending on at least one of a remaining capacity of a battery or heat, the mode switching unit switching between a first mode in which a first device executes predetermined processing and a second mode in which a second device executes the predetermined processing. The predetermined processing is processing by an AI function. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system including a surveillance camera and a server that distributes data from the surveillance camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Satoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230290137
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable processing with maintained accuracy to be performed using a recognition model according to a noise level. A model switching unit that switches a recognition model according to an amount of noise of an imaged image is provided, and the model switching unit switches between a first recognition model trained with an image without noise and a second recognition model trained with an image with noise. The recognition model is used for processing by an AI function. It is applicable to, for example, a system including a surveillance camera and a server that distributes data from the surveillance camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: HIROTAKA ISHIKAWA, SATOSHI WATANABE, YOSHIMI OGAWA, KOTA YONEZAWA, YOSHIHIRO KUMAGAI, HIDEKI ANDO
  • Publication number: 20230041942
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit and a method of using same. The display unit may be a head-mounted display. The display unit is capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space and a virtual object. The detector detects an azimuth of the display unit around at least one axis and display of the virtual object is controlled based in the detected azimuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Patent number: 11513353
    Abstract: An information processing device including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit. The display unit capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space. The detector detects an azimuth of the display unit around at least one axis. The first control unit includes a region limiter, a storage unit, and a display control unit. The region limiter is capable of limiting a display region of the field of view along a direction of the one axis in three-dimensional coordinates surrounding the display unit. The storage unit stores images including information relating to a predetermined target present in the field of view with the images being made corresponding to the three-dimensional coordinates. The display control unit is configured to display, based on an output of the detector, an image in the three-dimensional coordinates, which corresponds to the azimuth, in the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Patent number: 11223718
    Abstract: [Object] To reduce power consumption even more. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including a communication necessity information acquisition unit configured to acquire communication necessity information indicating necessity to communicate with an external device, and a drive control unit configured to control drive of a first communication unit and a second communication unit on a basis of the acquired communication necessity information, the first communication unit communicating with the external device using a first communication mode, the second communication unit communicating with the external device using a second communication mode capable of transferring data at a rate higher than the first communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Yuichi Suzuki, Yasuki Kanema, Chisako Kajihara, Tohru Kadono, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Publication number: 20210374219
    Abstract: An input device for inputting a user operation includes a data-for-authentication holding unit that holds data for authentication regarding one or more registered users, a fingerprint sensor that accepts fingerprint information of a user, and a fingerprint authentication unit that checks the accepted fingerprint information against the data for authentication regarding the one or more registered users. When the fingerprint authentication unit 84 succeeds in biometric authentication, a communication unit transmits a network account of the user to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a user authentication unit that checks the received network account against network accounts of registered users held in a registered user information holding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Masayuki Ebata, Yasunori Yasuda, Yoshiyuki Imada, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yu Sugita, Takashi Isa
  • Publication number: 20210326097
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that can more exactly indicate a position outside a display region. An outside-display-region-position designation unit designates a position outside a display region of an image display unit, and a drawing/sound control unit controls output of a sound of an AR object from a sound output unit while moving the AR objet toward the designated position. The present technology can be applied to a wearable computer, for example, a glasses-type device having a pair of image display units for a left eye and a right eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Yasuki KANEMA
  • Publication number: 20210264608
    Abstract: A large number of highly accurate learning images are generated without bias at reduced costs. An information processing method for causing a processor to execute: automatically cropping a region including an object from a material image to generate an automatically cropped image; and performing learning related to detection of the object on the basis of the automatically cropped image, wherein the generating of the automatically cropped image further includes generating the automatically cropped image using an automatic cropping machine that is generated by learning on the basis of manually cropped images obtained by manually cropping a region including the object from the material image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Kanji Ogawa, Toshiyuki Yamauchi, Akihiro Muto, Tomoki Oooka
  • Patent number: 11068227
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can more exactly indicate a position outside a display region. An outside-display-region-position designation unit designates a position outside a display region of an image display unit, and a drawing/sound control unit controls output of a sound of an AR object from a sound output unit while moving the AR objet toward the designated position. The present technology can be applied to a wearable computer, for example, a glasses-type device having a pair of image display units for a left eye and a right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema
  • Patent number: 11068154
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus includes a display unit and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to switch and display a plurality of images classified for each layer. The display control unit is configured to selectively execute a first display control mode and a second display control mode. The first display control mode causes the display unit to display, on the basis of an operation event, the second image from a third image not relating to the first image via the first image. The second display control mode enables the display unit to display the second image from the third image without the first image when a control signal for prompting access to the second image is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Chisako Kajihara, Satoshi Akagawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Takeshi Iwatsu, Yasuki Kanema
  • Patent number: 10878629
    Abstract: A display apparatus, an information processing system using the same, and a control method that are capable of providing information on a plurality of objects. A display apparatus includes a control unit and a display unit. The control unit groups a plurality of objects distributed in a reality space or a virtual space around a user and generates a distribution display, the distribution display displaying a region in which the grouped objects are distributed. The display unit presents the distribution display in a field of view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 10834204
    Abstract: Interruption of the distribution of display information is prevented. A message processing section, in a case where a connection has been established with a server which distributes display information to be displayed on a display device in synchronization with reproduction of content, processes a message from the server for controlling the distribution in accordance with a first protocol. A connection confirmation section confirms whether or not the connection has been established in accordance with a second protocol. A connection request section, in a case where the connection has not been established, requests establishment of the connection to the server in accordance with the second protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10796669
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a user to easily recognize correspondence relationship among objects displayed in a plurality of different display modes upon switching of a mode. [Solution] There is provided a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display a first screen in a first display mode and display a second screen in a second display mode. Upon switching of a mode from the first display mode to the second display mode, in the case where a first object included in the first screen corresponds to a second object included in the second screen, the display control unit performs seamless transition from the first object to the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
  • Patent number: 10691194
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a wearable optical device, a state detection unit configured to detect a state relating to the wearable optical device, state determination unit configured to determine that the detected state is at least one of a first state in which the wearable optical device is worn by a user in usable state or a second state in which the wearable optical device is worn or carried by the user in unusable state, and a power supply controller configured to control a power supply state of the electronic apparatus based on a result obtained by the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Tsubasa Tsukahara