Patents by Inventor Kaoru Izawa

Kaoru Izawa 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: 12002141
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus that makes it possible to automatically orient a front face of a three-dimensional object represented by a three-dimensional image to a user. There are provided: a display unit that displays the three-dimensional image, by which the three-dimensional object appears to exist in a space partitioned by members configuring an outer surface, to be visually recognizable from a plurality of circumferential directions; a direction estimation section that estimates a direction in which a user exists as seen from the display unit; and a display control section that orients a front face of the three-dimensional object displayed by the display unit in the direction in which the user exists estimated by the direction estimation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Omata, Kaoru Koike, Yuichi Miyagawa, Hisataka Izawa, Itaru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240087205
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus that makes it possible to automatically orient a front face of a three-dimensional object represented by a three-dimensional image to a user. There are provided: a display unit that displays the three-dimensional image, by which the three-dimensional object appears to exist in a space partitioned by members configuring an outer surface, to be visually recognizable from a plurality of circumferential directions; a direction estimation section that estimates a direction in which a user exists as seen from the display unit; and a display control section that orients a front face of the three-dimensional object displayed by the display unit in the direction in which the user exists estimated by the direction estimation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu OMATA, Kaoru KOIKE, Yuichi MIYAGAWA, Hisataka IZAWA, Itaru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11914797
    Abstract: Provided is an image display apparatus that includes a display displaying a three-dimensional image such that a three-dimensional object looks as if in a space defined by a member constituting an external surface and that the three-dimensional object is visible from multiple directions around the display, a motion detector detecting a motion of the display caused by an external force, a motion calculation unit calculating a motion of the three-dimensional object caused by the motion of the display based on the motion detected by the motion detector, a display control unit changing the three-dimensional image displayed on the display based on the calculation by the motion calculation unit, and a force sense control unit causing a force sense presentation unit to present a sense of force based on the calculation by the motion calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu Omata, Kaoru Koike, Yuichi Miyagawa, Hisataka Izawa, Itaru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5444785
    Abstract: An analog signal to be delayed thereby is compressed according to a monotonously increasing, convex compression function and sent to a delay circuit constituted digitally. Data of a digital value stored in a memory is read out after a constant delay time and converted into an analog signal by a D/A converter. The analog signal is expanded according to a reverse function of the compression function to restore it as an echo signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Izawa, Shigeyoshi Hayashi, Jun Hirai
  • Patent number: 5394474
    Abstract: This invention includes a compression circuit for compress one of an audio signal and a mixture of the audio signal and an echo signal, a delay circuit for delaying an output signal of the compression circuit by a predetermined time and an expansion circuit having a conversion rate controlled by a DC voltage generated correspondingly to a regulation of the volume controller, for expanding the output signal of the delay circuit according to a reverse conversion function to the compression conversion function to generate the echo signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hirai, Kaoru Izawa