Patents by Inventor Kakuya Yamamoto
Kakuya Yamamoto 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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Patent number: 8246170Abstract: A display apparatus that displays an image on a retina of a user, the display apparatus comprising: an image output unit (100) which includes a light source (101, 110), a wavefront shape change unit (102, 109), and a scan unit (103, 108) and is configured to output display light for displaying the image; and a deflection unit (104, 107) configured to deflect, toward an eye of the user, the display light outputted by the image output unit (100). The deflection unit (104, 107) has a deflection characteristic of suppressing image distortion caused by a change in relative position of the deflection unit (104, 107) with respect to a pupil of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Kenichi Kasazumi, Tatsuo Itoh, Akira Kurozuka, Keiji Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8228608Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source which emits a beam including visible light forming an image and infrared rays, and a transmissive deflection unit including a first surface facing the eyes of a user and a second surface which is a rear surface of the first surface. The transmissive deflection unit has transmissive characteristics for transmitting the visible light from the second surface side to the first surface side, deflection characteristics for deflecting, toward the eyes of the user, the visible light projected from the light source to the first surface side, and infrared absorption characteristics for absorbing the infrared rays projected from the light source to the first surface side.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110211260Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source which emits a beam including visible light forming an image and infrared rays, and a transmissive deflection unit including a first surface facing the eyes of a user and a second surface which is a rear surface of the first surface. The transmissive deflection unit has transmissive characteristics for transmitting the visible light from the second surface side to the first surface side, deflection characteristics for deflecting, toward the eyes of the user, the visible light projected from the light source to the first surface side, and infrared absorption characteristics for absorbing the infrared rays projected from the light source to the first surface side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventor: Kakuya YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20110102874Abstract: A scanning type image display apparatus includes a light source unit for emitting a laser beam, a scanning mirror for scanning the laser beam two-dimensionally in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a control unit for controlling driving of the scanning mirror. The control unit drives the scanning mirror such that a scanning frequency in the first direction is higher than a scanning frequency in the second direction, and varies a scanning amplitude in the first direction by varying the scanning frequency in the first direction in synchronization with a period of the scanning frequency in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Kakuya Yamamoto, Tatsuo Itoh, Kenichi Kasazumi, Akira Kurozuka
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Patent number: 7928926Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus which enables high-accuracy, hands-free operation, while adopting a low-cost configuration. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtainment unit that obtains a display element which is information to be displayed to the user; a determining unit that determines a display position of the obtained display element, at which a portion of the obtained display element can not be seen by the user; a display unit that displays the display element at the determined display position; a detection unit that detects a direction of change when an orientation of the user's head is changed; a selection unit that selects the display element to be displayed in the detected direction of change; and an execution unit that executes a predetermined process related to the selected display element.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Hideaki Nakaoka
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Publication number: 20100289664Abstract: A light projection device, includes a movable projector section which illuminates or display information by projecting light while moving a projection position; a position detecting section which detects a position of a lost article instructed by a user; a view field detecting section which detects a view field of the user, and a controller section which controls said movable projection section based on the lost article detected by the position detecting section and the view field of the user detected by the view field detecting section, and either directly illuminates the lost article or projects guide information for guiding the user to the lost article within a view field of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Mizushima, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Akira Kurozuka, Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Kenji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20100220293Abstract: A multipurpose projector 100 is provided with a fiber bundle 6 including a plurality of cores fixedly arranged on an input plane and an output plane, laser beam sources 1r, 1g and 1b for emitting laser beams having directivities, an optical guide unit 2 to 5 for modulating the laser beams emitted from the laser beam sources 1r, 1g and 1b and guiding the modulated laser beams to the input plane of the fiber bundle 6, a projection lens 8 for enlarging and projecting the laser beams emerging from the output plane of the fiber bundle 6 to a display space 12, and a projection angle adjusting mechanism 7 disposed on the side of the output plane of the fiber bundle 6 for adjusting projection angles of the laser beams projected from the projection lens 8. Thus, the projector can have its projection space freely operated and enlarged to extend its application not only to image display, but also to illumination and decoration with colored light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Tetsuro Mizushima, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Akira Kurozuka, Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20100103077Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a left-eye light source (101) that outputs a left-eye image constituting an original image in whole or in part; a left-eye deflection unit (104) that deflects, toward a left eye of the user, the left-eye image outputted by the left-eye light source (101); a right-eye light source (110) that outputs a right-eye image constituting the original image in whole or in part; a right-eye deflection unit (107) that deflects, toward a right eye of the user, the right-eye image outputted by the right-eye light source (110); and a control unit (105, 111) that controls the left-eye light source (101) and the right-eye light source (110) such that the left-eye image and the right-eye image are outputted which are different from each other in at least one of pixel position, image shape, image size, image resolution, and display frame rate so that the user can recognize the original image from the left-eye image and the right-eye image by an image fusion effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Kakuya Yamamoto, Akira Kurozuka
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Publication number: 20100097580Abstract: A display apparatus that displays an image on a retina of a user, the display apparatus comprising: an image output unit (100) which includes a light source (101, 110), a wavefront shape change unit (102, 109), and a scan unit (103, 108) and is configured to output display light for displaying the image; and a deflection unit (104, 107) configured to deflect, toward an eye of the user, the display light outputted by the image output unit (100). The deflection unit (104, 107) has a deflection characteristic of suppressing image distortion caused by a change in relative position of the deflection unit (104, 107) with respect to a pupil of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Kenichi Kasazumi, Tatsuo Itoh, Akira Kurozuka, Keiji Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20100060551Abstract: A beam scanning-type display device used as a head-mounted display (HMD) or a head-up display (HUD) includes a light source (101) which emits a beam, a scanning unit (103) which performs scanning using the beam emitted from the light source (101), a deflecting unit (104) which deflects the beam used for the scanning by the scanning unit (103) in the direction toward an eye of a user, and a wavefront shape changing unit (102) which changes the wavefront shape of the beam from the light source (101) so that the beam spot size falls within the predetermined allowable range, and emits the beam to the wavefront shape changing unit (102).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Kakuya Yamamoto, Kenichi Kasazumi, Tatsuo Itoh, Akira Kurozuka
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Publication number: 20100045571Abstract: A beam-scan display apparatus (10) that displays an image by scanning a beam on a retina of a user, the beam-scan display apparatus (10) comprising: a case (11) for housing (i) a light source (101) which emits a beam for drawing each of pixels constituting the image, and (ii) a scan unit (103) configured to two-dimensionally scan the beam emitted from the light source (101); and a contact lens (12) having a deflection unit (104) configured to deflect, toward the retina of an eye of the user wearing the case (11), the beam scanned by the scan unit (103), the contact lens (12) being separate from the case (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7664598Abstract: The present invention provides a guiding device that can induce a user to move according to a guiding route. The guiding device according to the present invention is a guiding device which guides a user, including an acquisition unit (101) which acquires a guiding route for the user, a recognition unit (102) which recognizes an object which exists in the user's vicinity, a management unit (104) which manages an object and an adjustment method for adjusting an influence that the object has on the movement of the user, by associating the object and the adjustment method in advance, a judgment unit (103) which judges whether or not the object recognized by the recognition unit (102) exists within the guiding route acquired by the acquisition unit (101), and an adjustment unit (110) which executes a specified adjustment process based on the judgment made by the judgment unit (102), and on the adjustment method managed in association with the object recognized by the recognition unit (102).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai
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Publication number: 20090273542Abstract: To provide a content presentation apparatus which can reduce the cases where presentation information causes users to have a feeling of suddenness or presentation information is ignored even when information that is not adapted to the states of the users is presented. The content presentation apparatus according to the present invention includes: a purpose information storage unit (103) which stores purpose information; a representative information storage unit (109) which stores representative information included in the purpose information; an adapted information obtaining unit (106) which obtains adapted information adapted to the states of a user; a representative information concatenating unit (111) which concatenates the adapted information and the representative information; and an information presentation unit (120) which presents a content after presenting the concatenated adapted information and representative information for the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7600218Abstract: An service association system including, an “association template” in which service association details are described is prepared in advance; an actual service adaptable to a template instructed by a user is extracted; a specific association operation description is generated by adapting the actual service instructed by the user to the template; and the service is operated in association. As the result, it becomes possible to construct a service association system in which different services can be automatically adapted to the template in addition to the service which simply adapted to the template.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Satoru Matsunaga, Akira Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20090231687Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source which emits a beam including visible light forming an image and infrared rays, and a transmissive deflection unit including a first surface facing the eyes of a user and a second surface which is a rear surface of the first surface. The transmissive deflection unit has transmissive characteristics for transmitting the visible light from the second surface side to the first surface side, deflection characteristics for deflecting, toward the eyes of the user, the visible light projected from the light source to the first surface side, and infrared absorption characteristics for absorbing the infrared rays projected from the light source to the first surface side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7565209Abstract: A device control apparatus (100) according to the present invention includes: a specification-conforming device identification unit (105) which identifies a device which conforms to a specification-related condition that should be satisfied by a device with an abstract name described in the application; a use situation-conforming device identification unit (106) which identifies a device which conforms to a use situation-related condition that should be satisfied by a device with an abstract name described in the application; and a device control unit (109) which controls, based on the application, the device identified by both the specification-conforming device identification unit (105) and the use situation-conforming device identification unit (106).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090040233Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wearable type information presentation device that allows a user to perform both an activity and information viewing/hearing while taking into consideration the safety of the user. The wearable type information presentation device according to the present invention includes: a situation acquisition unit (101), which acquires a situation of the user; a viewing/hearing adaptability storage unit (106), which stores a viewing/hearing adaptability; a viewing/hearing adaptability determination unit (105), which determines the viewing/hearing adaptability that corresponds to the situation of the user; a presentation method determination unit (103), which determines a method in which to present the information to the user, based on the viewing/hearing adaptability; and a presentation unit (104), which presents the information to the user in the determined presentation method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventor: Kakuya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080243385Abstract: The present invention provides a guiding device that can induce a user to move according to a guiding route. The guiding device according to the present invention is a guiding device which guides a user, including an acquisition unit (101) which acquires a guiding route for the user, a recognition unit (102) which recognizes an object which exists in the user's vicinity, a management unit (104) which manages an object and an adjustment method for adjusting an influence that the object has on the movement of the user, by associating the object and the adjustment method in advance, a judgment unit (103) which judges whether or not the object recognized by the recognition unit (102) exists within the guiding route acquired by the acquisition unit (101), and an adjustment unit (110) which executes a specified adjustment process based on the judgment made by the judgment unit (102), and on the adjustment method managed in association with the object recognized by the recognition unit (102).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai
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Publication number: 20080141127Abstract: The present invention provides an information presentation device which allows the user to recognize presented information while the safety of the user is further ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2005Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Hideaki Nakaoka
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Publication number: 20080091284Abstract: Appropriate operation control over appliances is provided depending on the status of the user and the appliances. An appliance status acquisition unit 101 acquires the operating status of appliances used by a user and a user status acquisition unit 102 acquires user information related to the user. An appliance status management unit 103 makes an assessment as to the need for operation control over the appliances based on the operating status and user status. An activity concern level assessment unit 104 makes an assessment as to the user's level of concern with the activities of the appliances based on the operating status and user status and an activity importance level assessment unit 105 makes an assessment as to the importance level of the activities of the appliances based on the operating status and user status.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2005Publication date: April 17, 2008Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Kakuya Yamamoto