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).
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Publication number: 20200183638Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Toshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Hirotaka ISHIKAWA, Yasuki KANEMA
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Patent number: 10672309Abstract: To enhance visibility of an image provided by a wearable optical device depending on different situations. Provided is an electronic apparatus including an illuminance information acquisition unit (510) configured to acquire illuminance information indicating illuminance of light incident on a wearable optical device toward a viewer from a real space, a situation information acquisition unit (540) configured to acquire situation information indicating a situation surrounding the wearable optical device, a luminance determination unit (520) configured to determine luminance of light emitted by the wearable optical device to allow the viewer to perceive an image superimposed on the real space, the determination of luminance being performed on a basis of the illuminance information and the situation information, and a controller (530) configured to control the wearable optical device to cause the wearable optical device to emit light having the determined luminance.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Tsubasa Tsukahara
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Patent number: 10638046Abstract: There is provided a wearable device including an attachment unit, a motion sensor and a control unit. The attachment unit has a display and an imaging unit. The attachment unit is attachable to the user. The motion sensor is capable of detecting a spatial movement of the imaging unit. The control unit determines whether or not the imaging unit is in a predetermined resting state, based on an output of the motion sensor, and when the imaging unit is not in the predetermined resting state, limit a photographing operation of the imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Publication number: 20200103658Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Patent number: 10599382Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema
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Patent number: 10534183Abstract: A head-mounted display including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit. The display unit is mountable on a head of a user and 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Publication number: 20190297240Abstract: There is provided a wearable device including an attachment unit, a motion sensor and a control unit. The attachment unit has a display and an imaging unit. The attachment unit is attachable to the user. The motion sensor is capable of detecting a spatial movement of the imaging unit. The control unit determines whether or not the imaging unit is in a predetermined resting state, based on an output of the motion sensor, and when the imaging unit is not in the predetermined resting state, limit a photographing operation of the imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: HIROTAKA ISHIKAWA, TAKESHI IWATSU
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Patent number: 10388256Abstract: A wearable apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display unit, an operation section, a storage unit, and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to display an image. The operation section is configured to receive input of a predetermined operation event for switching an image to be displayed on the display unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of images to be displayed on the display unit. The display control unit is configured to be capable of sequentially switching the images to be displayed on the display unit every time the predetermined operation event is received, and to cause the display unit to display a first middle image during switching between the individual images from a top image to be first displayed on the display unit to a last image to be last displayed and cause the display unit to display a second middle image different from the first middle image during switching between the last image and the top image.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Satoshi Akagawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Chisako Kajihara, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasuki Kanema
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Publication number: 20190250410Abstract: A head-mounted display including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit. The display unit is mountable on a head of a user and 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Publication number: 20190250875Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, HIROTAKA ISHIKAWA, YASUKI KANEMA
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Publication number: 20190238673Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Yuuichi Suzuki, Yasuki Kanema, Chisako Kajihara, Tohru Kadono, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Patent number: 10356322Abstract: There is provided a wearable device including an attachment unit, a motion sensor and a control unit. The attachment unit has a display and an imaging unit. The attachment unit is configured to be attachable to the user. The motion sensor is configured to be capable of detecting a spatial movement of the imaging unit. The control unit is configured to determine whether or not the imaging unit is in a predetermined resting state, based on an output of the motion sensor, and when the imaging unit is not in the predetermined resting state, limit a photographing operation of the imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Patent number: 10317681Abstract: A head-mounted display including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit. The display unit is mountable on a head of a user and 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Display control device and display control method for indicating a position outside a display region
Patent number: 10303421Abstract: 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 object 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Yasuki Kanema -
Patent number: 10306045Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Yuichi Suzuki, Yasuki Kanema, Chisako Kajihara, Tohru Kadono, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Publication number: 20180307378Abstract: A wearable display according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display unit; a detection unit; and a display control unit. The display unit is configured to be attachable to a user, the display unit including a display area that provides a field of view in real space to the user. The detection unit detects orientation of the display unit around at least one axis. The display control unit is configured to be capable of presenting a first image relating to the orientation of the display unit in the display area on the basis of an output of the detection unit. The display control unit is configure to be capable of causing, depending on a change in the orientation, the first image to move in the display area in a direction opposite to a movement direction of the display unit by a first movement amount smaller than a movement amount of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: HIROTAKA ISHIKAWA, TAKAFUMI ASAHARA, TAKESHI IWATSU, KEN SHIBUI, KENJI SUZUKI, TOMOHIDE TANABE
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Publication number: 20180239413Abstract: [Object] To effectively reduce power consumption of a wearable optical device by determining whether the wearable optical device is usable. [Solution] 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, a 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: HIROTAKA ISHIKAWA, TAKESHI IWATSU, TSUBASA TSUKAHARA
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Publication number: 20180144552Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus, an information processing system using the same, and a control method that are capable of providing information with simplicity and high visibility on a plurality of objects. A display apparatus according to one embodiment of the present technology 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara
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Publication number: 20180143439Abstract: A head-mounted display including a display unit, a detector, and a first control unit. The display unit is mountable on a head of a user and 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: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi lwatsu
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Patent number: 9977483Abstract: To effectively reduce power consumption of a wearable optical device by determining whether the wearable optical device is usable. 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: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Tsubasa Tsukahara