Patents by Inventor Junichi Rekimoto

Junichi Rekimoto 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: 20160055676
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including: a display control unit configured to control a display unit of a terminal device. The display control unit performs control to decide a display position of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the display unit based on positional information associated with the virtual object in the real space and display the virtual object in the real space based on the display position, and control to display a notification indicating presence of the virtual object in the real space when a part or all of the virtual object is outside of a visible range of the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160054793
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including: an image processing unit configured to generate an output image using a first image obtained by imaging a real space from a first viewpoint as an input image. Based on a position and a posture of the first viewpoint in the real space, the image processing unit generates, as the output image, a second image obtained by virtually imaging the real space from a second viewpoint having a position and a posture different from the position and the posture of the first viewpoint in the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160055675
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including: a display control unit configured to control a first display unit included in a first terminal device. The display control unit selects a criterion for disposition of a virtual object displayed in a real space via the first display unit from positional information of the real space and a real object in the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160049011
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including: a display control unit configured to control a display unit of a terminal device to display an image of a real space in which the terminal device is present. The display control unit selects an image to be displayed by the display unit from a first image which has continuity with the image of the real space viewed in a region other than the display unit and a second image which is generated based on a captured image of the real space and is independent from the image of the real space viewed in the region other than the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9262040
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a pressure detecting unit for detecting a magnitude of a contacting pressure of a contacted object with respect to an input device operated when physically contacted by the contacted object; and a changing unit for changing a display region displayed on a display device of predetermined information to be displayed on the display device according to an output signal output from the input device at a speed corresponding to the magnitude of the contacting pressure detected by the pressure detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Publication number: 20160026869
    Abstract: The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9220445
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an imaging section which emits light to a part of a biologic body at predetermined time intervals and images a vein in the biologic body so as to generate imaged data about the vein, a vein pattern extracting section which extracts vein patterns from the imaged data about the vein, a time change detecting section which detects a time change in the vein patterns, a blood flow volume calculating section which calculates a blood flow volume in the vein based on the time change in the vein patterns, and a processing section which executes a predetermined process based on the time change in the vein patterns and a time change in the blood flow volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9215557
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a transmission portion, an information acquisition portion, a storage portion, a selection portion, and a transmission control portion. The transmission portion transmits information. The information acquisition portion acquires location information for the wireless communication device that includes a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity. The storage portion stores, in association with specific location information, regulating information that regulates the transmission from the transmission portion of the information that corresponds to the location of the wireless communication device. The selection portion selects from the storage portion the regulating information associated with the location information acquired by the information acquisition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Publication number: 20150347009
    Abstract: A user input apparatus is provided with user input means for the user to input data or a command by using the user's human body, and use-form detection means for detecting a form in which the user uses the user input means by the user's human body. A computer connected to the user input apparatus changes the operation of the application being executed by application execution means, according to a detection result obtained by the use-form detection means. Therefore, input operations can be performed without inconvenience even if the user cannot use one hand due to another work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9152228
    Abstract: The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the received signal to a sub-notebook PC. A CCD video camera takes in a visual ID from an object, and supplies the inputted visual ID to the sub-notebook PC. A user inputs, through a microphone, a voice to be attached to situations in the real world. The sub-notebook PC transmits position data, object data and voice data, which have been supplied to it, to a server through a communication unit. The transmitted data is received by the server via a wireless LAN. The server stores the received voice data in a database in correspondence to the position data and the object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9134840
    Abstract: A user input apparatus is provided with user input means for the user to input data or a command by using the user's human body, and use-form detection means for detecting a form in which the user uses the user input means by the user's human body. A computer connected to the user input apparatus changes the operation of the application being executed by application execution means, according to a detection result obtained by the use-form detection means. Therefore, input operations can be performed without inconvenience even if the user cannot use one hand due to another work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9122385
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a circuitry configured to initiate an operation command in response to a first moving operation of a first operator on a first operation surface provided on a first surface of a housing body, wherein the first surface is provided on a substantially opposite side of the housing body from a second surface on which a display is provided, and wherein the display is configured to display a result of the initiated operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 9069867
    Abstract: Resource management system, method and program for selecting candidate tag are provided. The tag can be readily attached to a resource by presenting a candidate tag also to a resource newly registered in a database. The degree of similarity of a new registration resource to each of a plurality of already-registered resources that have been already registered in the database is calculated. A tag attached to an already-registered resource of which the degree of similarity is large is selected as a candidate for a tag to be attached to the new registration resource. Thereby, a candidate tag can be also presented to a resource newly registered in the database. A user can further readily attach a tag compared to a conventional system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Publication number: 20150160528
    Abstract: Provided is a light shielding device including a light shielding wall configured to include a plurality of panels, the light shielding wall being used as a partition of a first space and a second space, the plurality of panels being controllable in either a light transmission state in which light is transmitted or a light shielding state in which light is shielded, an optical path specifying unit configured to specify a predetermined optical path to be passed through the light shielding wall, a panel specifying unit configured to specify a panel on the light shielding wall, the panel being corresponded to a position at which the predetermined optical path specified by the optical path specifying unit passes through the light shielding wall, and a controller configured to control a light transmission state or a light shielding state for the plurality of panels on the light shielding wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Publication number: 20150130839
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a matching section configured to match a first image or sensor data output from a first imaging device or a sensor worn on a head of a first user, to a second image output from a second imaging device worn on a part other than the head of the first user, a sight estimation section configured to estimate a region corresponding to a sight of the first user in the second image, on the basis of a result of the matching, and a display control section configured to generate an image expressing the sight of the first user using the second image on the basis of a result of the estimation of the sight, and display the image expressing the sight of the first user toward a second user that is different from the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: SHUNICHI KASAHARA, JUNICHI REKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150130838
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including an image acquiring section configured to acquire a moving image shot from a viewpoint changing from moment to moment, a spatial position specifying section configured to specify a spatial position in a first frame of the moving image, and a display control section configured to display the moving image, in such a manner to maintain the spatial position in a predetermined state in a second frame after the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Shunichi KASAHARA, Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9007325
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a controller configured to initiate an operation command based on a combination of a first moving operation on a first operation surface and a second moving operation on a second operation surface, wherein the first operation surface and the second operation surface are separately provided on a housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 8977322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program in which information can be reliably exchanged when performing wireless communication by allowing a user to know a communication distance at which devices can be connected. A communication unit 28 performs Bluetooth communication with a communication unit, which serves as a Bluetooth module, provided for a cellular telephone. A CPU 21 displays an image corresponding to the cellular telephone based on the input level of Bluetooth radio waves transmitted from the cellular telephone. For example, when the input level of the radio waves transmitted from the cellular telephone is equal to the maximum input, the CPU 21 sets the level of transparency to be 0, and displays the image corresponding to the cellular telephone on an LCD 32 so that a background image is not transmitted at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Oba, Taku Sugawara, Takeo Inagaki, Junichi Rekimoto, Nobuyuki Matsushita, Yuji Ayatsuka
  • Publication number: 20150057032
    Abstract: A wireless terminal, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The wireless terminal includes circuitry configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted from a base station; perform signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal; receive, via a graphical user interface, section information that identifies a section of a building structure for which the signal intensity measurement is to be performed; and transmit measurement information acquired by the signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal, base station identification information that indicates a base station of a transmission source of the wireless signal, and the section information. The measurement information is associated with the base station identification information and the section information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi REKIMOTO
  • Patent number: RE45705
    Abstract: In general, those who are right in front of each other can share actual world events that are generated in the same working space. For example, when an audio or a light of a wave form pattern is generated, by recognizing such an actual world event, both communication apparatuses share the actual world event. Also, a shock wave generated when one communication apparatus is hit with the other is shared by both. One of the communication partners searches a network for a communication partner who is right in front with the actual world event as a clue. Thus, it is possible to perform data communications with a communication partner whose location in the actual world is clear, such as being right in front, but whose identification information in the communication medium is unknown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mario Tokoro, Junichi Rekimoto, Yuji Ayatsuka, Shigeru Tajima