Patents by Inventor Jun Kimura

Jun Kimura 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: 20160080643
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a client terminal, display control method, program, and system capable of supporting the user's actual image capture using a reference image based on preliminary image capture. [Solution] The client terminal includes a candidate display control unit configured to control a candidate for a reference captured image to be displayed on a display unit, the reference captured image being retrieved based on a preliminary captured image obtained by preliminary image capture in an imaging unit and being referred to during actual image capture, and a detailed information output control unit configured to control detailed information to be output, the detailed information being attached to a reference captured image selected from among the displayed candidates for the reference captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Jun KIMURA, Tomohisa TANAKA, Osamu OOBA, Ken MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 9287013
    Abstract: A moderator temperature coefficient measurement apparatus includes: an input section receiving plant data including a coolant temperature signal being time series data on a temperature of a coolant of a light water reactor, and a reactivity signal indicating time series data on a reactivity calculated based on a detection value of a neutron flux in the light water reactor; a singular value decomposition section decomposing the coolant temperature signal into N components T?1 (t) to T?N (t), and the reactivity signal into M components ??1 (t) to ??M (t) by a singular value decomposition method; a combination section generating a selected combination being a combination of T?i (t) selected from the N components T?1 (t) to T?N (t) and ??j (t) selected from the M components ??1 (t) to ??M (t); and a temperature coefficient calculation section calculating a moderator temperature coefficient based on auto and cross power spectral density functions obtained by applying a Fourier transformation to the selected combin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sato, Makoto Nakano, Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160048489
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus to further improve convenience for a user, the information processing apparatus including: an update detection unit configured to detect update of presented information presented to a user during execution of an application; an interest data extraction unit configured to extract interest data that includes at least information accompanying the presented information whose update has been detected and is information on a target in which the user is interested during execution of the application; an input context detection unit configured to detect input context indicating a processing status of input information using the application, the input information being attempted to be inputted during execution of the application; and an input information candidate presentation unit configured to perform, on the basis of the input context, control to present input information candidates that are candidates of the input information among the interest data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken MIYASHITA, Tomohisa TANAKA, Jun KIMURA, Osamu OOBA
  • Publication number: 20160033277
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a movement data acquiring unit configured to acquire pieces of movement data including positional information for movement and time at which the positional information is acquired, a movement data analyzing unit configured to analyze a velocity for movement on a specific route on the basis of the pieces of movement data, and a route dividing unit configured to divide the specific route on the basis of a result obtained by analyzing the velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohisa TANAKA, Ken MIYASHITA, Jun KIMURA, Osamu OOBA
  • Patent number: 9219845
    Abstract: An information storage system including information processing devices; an information storage device connected to the information processing devices; an access information generating unit configured to generate, based on a request from a first information processing device, access information for accessing a storage area in the information storage device to which access is restricted from the information processing devices other than the first information processing device; a display unit configured to cause the first information processing device to display the access information; a sending unit configured to cause a second information processing device to acquire the access information displayed on the first information processing device and to send the access information to the information storage device; and an access unit configured to cause the information storage device to allow the second information processing device to access the storage area based on the access information that has been sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Watanabe, Jun Kimura
  • Patent number: 9202285
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that can extract an object from an input image more easily and more accurately. A face detecting unit (31) detects a face from an input image, a mask area setting unit (33) sets a mask area which masks a person in the input image based on a position of the face detected by the face detecting unit (31), a background model updating unit (51) updates a background image by learning areas other than the mask area in the input image as the background image, and a separating unit (54) separates the input image into the background image and a foreground image which is an area of the person in the input image based on the background image updated by the background model updating unit (51) and the input image. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that extracts a person from an input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150254508
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to, when an authentication image including an iris of an eye of a user is obtained, cause a display unit to display an authentication UI for obtaining an authentication image with which it is easy to perform iris authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun KIMURA, Takeo TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150207986
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit, an extracting unit, an estimating unit, a categorizing unit, and a recording control unit. The image pickup unit captures an image of a subject. The extracting unit extracts a human figure from the captured image of the subject captured by the image pickup unit. The estimating unit estimates a posture of the human figure extracted by the extracting unit. The categorizing unit categorizes the posture of the human figure estimated by the estimating unit into a previously prepared pose. The recording control unit controls recording of the captured image on the basis of the pose that the posture of the human figure is categorized into by the categorizing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Jun KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150195378
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, a server, an information processing method, and an information processing system that can control electronic mail reception in accordance with an emotion or a state of a receiver. A communication control unit receives main information transmitted from a sender, and sender information related to the emotion or the state of the sender at the time of the transmission of the main information. A data acquiring unit acquires receiver information related to the emotion or the state of a receiver. An analyzing unit analyzes the main information, the sender information, and the receiver information. A determining unit determines whether the main information is to be presented based on a result of the analysis carried out by the analyzing unit. The present technique can be applied to an information processing apparatus that is operated by a user and exchanges information with another apparatus being operated by another user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuki Kano, Hideki Oyaizu, Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150148226
    Abstract: Aimed at readily and exactly separate 8-hydroxy-2?-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) contained in a sample, a column packing material used for separating 8-OHdG, which contains a packing material composed of a material having a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 6 or more and 30 or less carbon atoms as a functional group, and having a carbon content over the surface of carrier of 18% or less by element ratio, wherein the packing material contains 1 cumulative percent or more and 20 cumulative percent or less, on the particle-count basis, of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter, measured using a flow-type particle image analyzer, of 0.5 ?m or larger and 10 ?m or smaller, is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Narushi Ito, Jun Kimura, Masayuki Mizushina, Yohei Inaba, Kenji Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9036038
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit, an extracting unit, an estimating unit, a categorizing unit, and a recording control unit. The image pickup unit captures an image of a subject. The extracting unit extracts a human figure from the captured image of the subject captured by the image pickup unit. The estimating unit estimates a posture of the human figure extracted by the extracting unit. The categorizing unit categorizes the posture of the human figure estimated by the estimating unit into a previously prepared pose. The recording control unit controls recording of the captured image on the basis of the pose that the posture of the human figure is categorized into by the categorizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150130702
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit provided in the information processing apparatus to be worn on a head of a user, the information acquiring unit being configured to acquire facial expression information of the user, and a control unit configured to perform certain control depending on whether or not the facial expression information of the user acquired by the information acquiring unit agrees with facial expression information of a partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: AYUMI KATO, JUN KIMURA, TSUBASA TSUKAHARA
  • Patent number: 9031488
    Abstract: A fixing member includes a base member having a substantially cylindrical surface; an elastic layer provided around the substantially cylindrical surface and having, at each axial end thereof, a sloping surface that slopes such that an outside diameter of the elastic layer is gradually reduced toward an outer side in an axial direction; and a surface layer joined to an outer circumferential surface of the elastic layer and a portion of the sloping surface and having a higher modulus of elasticity than the elastic layer, each axial end of the surface layer being free of restraint by the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150124069
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a line of sight detection unit configured to detect a direction of a line of sight based on an image of an eyeball captured by an imaging unit, and a user identification unit configured to identify a user based on the image of the eyeball captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Takeo TSUKAMOTO, Jun KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150124281
    Abstract: An information storage system including information processing devices; an information storage device connected to the information processing devices; an access information generating unit configured to generate, based on a request from a first information processing device, access information for accessing a storage area in the information storage device to which access is restricted from the information processing devices other than the first information processing device; a display unit configured to cause the first information processing device to display the access information; a sending unit configured to cause a second information processing device to acquire the access information displayed on the first information processing device and to send the access information to the information storage device; and an access unit configured to cause the information storage device to allow the second information processing device to access the storage area based on the access information that has been sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi WATANABE, Jun KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150125043
    Abstract: An information processing system that acquires image data corresponding to a target object that is a target for gesture recognition captured by an imaging device; determines whether a distance between the target object and the imaging device is inadequate for recognition of a gesture made by the target object; and outputs a notification when the determining determines that the distance between the target object and the imaging device is inadequate for recognition of a gesture made by the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150070277
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a hand shape recognition unit that performs hand shape recognition on an input image to detect a position and a size of a hand with a specific shape in the input image, a determination region setting unit that sets a region in a vicinity of the hand on the input image as a determination region used to recognize a gesture performed using the hand, based on the position and the size of the hand, and a gesture recognition unit that recognizes the gesture by monitoring movement of the hand to the determination region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun KIMURA, Akio OHBA
  • Patent number: 8968567
    Abstract: Aimed at readily and exactly separate 8-hydroxy-2?-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) contained in a sample, a column packing material used for separating 8-OHdG, which contains a packing material composed of a material having a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 6 or more and 30 or less carbon atoms as a functional group, and having a carbon content over the surface of carrier of 18% or less by element ratio, wherein the packing material contains 1 cumulative percent or more and 20 cumulative percent or less, on the particle-count basis, of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter, measured using a flow-type particle image analyzer, of 0.5 ?m or larger and 10 ?m or smaller, is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Tanita Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Narushi Ito, Jun Kimura, Masayuki Mizushina, Yohei Inaba, Kenji Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150036003
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging control device including a result receiving unit configured to receive an example image selected by an image processing device used for image processing using image information, the image information being information regarding an image captured by an imaging unit used for image capturing, a selection result transmitting unit configured to transmit information regarding the example image received by the result receiving unit to the image processing device, a setting receiving unit configured to receive setting information generated by the image processing device based on the example image transmitted from the selection result transmitting unit, the setting information indicating a setting condition when image capturing is performed like the example image, and a setting change unit configured to change an imaging setting of the imaging unit using the setting information received by the setting receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hironari Sakurai, Jun Kimura, Yuji Ando, Keisuke Yamaoka, Takefumi Nagumo, Masashi Eshima
  • Patent number: D745185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kimura, Kosuke Shimizu