Patents by Inventor Jun HORIE

Jun HORIE 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: 11792527
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a light source that applies, to an imaging target, light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually degreases, an event-driven type sensor that generates an event signal by detecting a fluctuation of reflection light from the imaging target after the application of the light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually degreases is started, and a gradation calculation unit that calculates a gradation of the imaging target on the basis of an elapsed period of time from the start of the application of the light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually decreases to the generation of the event signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Patent number: 11653120
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor array configured to include a first sensor and a second sensor, the first sensor detecting with a first sensitivity a variation in a quantity of light at a first pixel address, the second sensor detecting with a second sensitivity a variation in a quantity of light at a second pixel address, the second pixel address being adjacent to or coinciding with the first pixel address, the second sensitivity being lower than the first sensitivity, and an event signal processing section configured to output information indicative of a difference between times at which the first sensor and the second sensor each have generated an event signal in response to a luminance variation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Patent number: 11653109
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor array and a gradation determination section. The sensor array includes a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is configured to detect, with a first sensitivity, a variation in a quantity of light at a first pixel address. The second sensor is configured to detect, with a second sensitivity that is lower than the first sensitivity, a variation in a quantity of light at a second pixel address that is adjacent to or coincides with the first pixel address. The gradation determination section is configured to determine, when the first sensor generates a first event signal in response to a luminance variation event, a gradation of an object having caused the luminance variation event to occur, depending on whether or not the second sensor generates a second event signal in response to the luminance variation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Publication number: 20220337732
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a light source that applies, to an imaging target, light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually degreases, an event-driven type sensor that generates an event signal by detecting a fluctuation of reflection light from the imaging target after the application of the light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually degreases is started, and a gradation calculation unit that calculates a gradation of the imaging target on the basis of an elapsed period of time from the start of the application of the light whose light amount gradually increases or gradually decreases to the generation of the event signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Publication number: 20220311957
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor array and a gradation determination section. The sensor array includes a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is configured to detect, with a first sensitivity, a variation in a quantity of light at a first pixel address. The second sensor is configured to detect, with a second sensitivity that is lower than the first sensitivity, a variation in a quantity of light at a second pixel address that is adjacent to or coincides with the first pixel address. The gradation determination section is configured to determine, when the first sensor generates a first event signal in response to a luminance variation event, a gradation of an object having caused the luminance variation event to occur, depending on whether or not the second sensor generates a second event signal in response to the luminance variation event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Publication number: 20220311966
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor array configured to include a first sensor and a second sensor, the first sensor detecting with a first sensitivity a variation in a quantity of light at a first pixel address, the second sensor detecting with a second sensitivity a variation in a quantity of light at a second pixel address, the second pixel address being adjacent to or coinciding with the first pixel address, the second sensitivity being lower than the first sensitivity, and an event signal processing section configured to output information indicative of a difference between times at which the first sensor and the second sensor each have generated an event signal in response to a luminance variation event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Koizumi, Jun Horie
  • Publication number: 20220206143
    Abstract: An underwater information display device, which transmits an ultrasonic wave, receives an echo reflected by an underwater target, and displays the echo, includes: a transmission signal generation part that forms a transmission signal sequence in which at least two temporally adjacent transmission signals are converted so as to be identifiable at the time of reception and have different intervals; a transmission part that emits a transmission signal as an ultrasonic wave into water; a reception part that receives an echo and outputs a reception signal; a storage part that stores multiple reception signals corresponding to temporally continuous transmission signals; an interpolation part to which reception signals stored in the storage part are supplied and which replaces a ghost component included in the reception signals with an echo of another temporally nearby transmission signal; and a display part that draws reception signals including a signal interpolated by the interpolation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: AquaFusion, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoki SASAKURA, Ikuo MATSUO, Jun HORIE