Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Uchida
Kazuhiro Uchida 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: 11323679Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka, Shinnosuke Usami
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Patent number: 11322058Abstract: A device management apparatus 31 communicates with a plurality of devices to be managed. When an imaging apparatus in which abnormality occurs is detected, or in a case where any imaging apparatus is specified by a user from the imaging apparatuses in which the abnormality occurs, the device management apparatus 31 communicates with the imaging apparatus located within a specific range based on a position of the detected imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs or the imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs specified by the user, and performs the device specification display using a display unit of the imaging apparatus located within the specific range. By referring to the device specification display, the user may easily specify a desired device, for example, the device in which the abnormality occurs from a plurality of devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo Nakatsuka, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Tetsuo Kaneko, Shinnosuke Usami
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Publication number: 20220080632Abstract: A resin molded article contains a thermoplastic resin, a filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and protein short fibers each having a fiber length of 24 mm or less and dispersed in the thermoplastic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Spiber Inc.Inventors: Masami Takemoto, Hideo Hirata, Susumu Kiyosue, Kazuhiro Uchida, Masahiro Asakawa
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Publication number: 20210250566Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo KANEKO, Yasuhiro IIZUKA, Kazuhiro UCHIDA, Shigeo NAKATSUKA, Shinnosuke USAMI
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Patent number: 11025877Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka, Shinnosuke Usami
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Patent number: 10834315Abstract: An imaging apparatus having no synchronization support function by a time code and to cut down a system cost, in synchronizing respective moving images in the case of outputting and displaying moving images input from a plurality of imaging apparatuses through network transmission. A vertical synchronization signal input from a particular imaging apparatus among a plurality of imaging apparatuses is used as a reference to select frame image data items from moving image data input from the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and the selected frame image data items are integrated into a single stream and sent. Even in a case where the plurality of imaging apparatuses captures videos asynchronously, it becomes possible to select, from the respective moving images, frame images with a small imaging timing difference on the basis of the vertical synchronization signal of the particular imaging apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka, Masashi Wakatsuki, Shinnosuke Usami
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Patent number: 10708500Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including circuitry configured to transmit a start instruction to a first camera apparatus and a second camera apparatus. The start instruction causes the first camera apparatus to start incrementing a first counter and the second camera apparatus to start incrementing a second counter for a video recording time period. The circuitry receives, from the first camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that indicates a value of the first counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that indicates the value of the second counter. The circuitry receives, from the second camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that identifies a value of the second counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that identifies the value of the second counter.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Shinnosuke Usami, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka
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Patent number: 10694141Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, and second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, and processing circuitry that receives a predetermined request from a user while the first camera apparatus captures a first video and the second camera apparatus captures a second video. The processing circuitry, in response to the predetermined request, transmits a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that causes the first camera apparatus to generate a first thumbnail of a frame of the first video, and transmits a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that causes the second camera apparatus to generate a second thumbnail of a frame of the second video. The processing circuitry receives the first thumbnail from the first camera apparatus and the second thumbnail from the second camera apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yasuhiro Iizuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka, Shinnosuke Usami
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Patent number: 10644667Abstract: A sound processing device includes an amplifier, a current detector, and a controller. The amplifier amplifies a sound signal to drive a loudspeaker. The current detector detects a value of an electric current flowing into the amplifier. The controller controls whether to supply power to the amplifier based on a predicted current value and the current detected by the current detector. The predicted current value is predicted in accordance with a volume setting and a level of the sound signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuhiro Uchida, Seigo Ozaki
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Patent number: 10645258Abstract: Focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of a joint when a plurality of captured images are stitched and synthesized. A plurality of cameras are provided. Each camera includes an image sensor that outputs a signal by a raster scan scheme. Phases of a vertical synchronization signal supplied to the image sensors of the plurality of cameras are respectively shifted according to information of gap amounts of captured images of the respective cameras from a reference position in a vertical direction. Even if there are gaps in the vertical direction between the installed cameras, positional gaps between the installed image sensors due to variations in individual camera main bodies, and the like, there are no lines with largely different capture times in the vicinity of a joint of a synthesized image, and focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of this joint.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Kazuhiro Uchida, Shigeo Nakatsuka, Shinnosuke Usami, Yasuhiro Iizuka
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Publication number: 20200130335Abstract: A composite material 100 is obtained by laminating and tightly adhering a fabric 60 containing fibers made of spider silk fibroin and a synthetic resin film 50 having a tensile elongation equal to or greater than that of the fabric 60.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: Spiber Inc., Kojima Industries CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Uchida, Masahiro Asakawa, Hiroyuki Mori, Wataru Ishida, Shinya Ueda
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Publication number: 20190260929Abstract: An object of the present technology is to make it possible to use an inexpensive imaging apparatus having no synchronization support function by a time code or the like, and to cut down a system cost, in synchronizing respective moving images in the case of outputting and displaying moving images input from a plurality of imaging apparatuses through network transmission. A vertical synchronization signal input from a particular imaging apparatus among a plurality of imaging apparatuses that capture moving images is used as a reference to select frame image data items from moving image data input from the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and the selected frame image data items are integrated into a single stream and sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: TETSUO KANEKO, YASUHIRO IIZUKA, KAZUHIRO UCHIDA, SHIGEO NAKATSUKA, MASASHI WAKATSUKI, SHINNOSUKE USAMI
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Publication number: 20190215420Abstract: Focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of a joint when a plurality of captured images are stitched and synthesized. A plurality of cameras are provided. Each camera includes an image sensor that outputs a signal by a raster scan scheme. Phases of a vertical synchronization signal supplied to the image sensors of the plurality of cameras are respectively shifted according to information of gap amounts of captured images of the respective cameras from a reference position in a vertical direction. Even if there are gaps in the vertical direction between the installed cameras, positional gaps between the installed image sensors due to variations in individual camera main bodies, and the like, there are no lines with largely different capture times in the vicinity of a joint of a synthesized image, and focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of this joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: TETSUO KANEKO, KAZUHIRO UCHIDA, SHIGEO NAKATSUKA, SHINNOSUKE USAMI, YASUHIRO IIZUKA
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Publication number: 20190191139Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo KANEKO, Yasuhiro IIZUKA, Kazuhiro UCHIDA, Shigeo NAKATSUKA, Shinnosuke USAMI
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Publication number: 20190043398Abstract: A device management apparatus 31 communicates with a plurality of devices to be managed. When an imaging apparatus in which abnormality occurs is detected, or in a case where any imaging apparatus is specified by a user from the imaging apparatuses in which the abnormality occurs, the device management apparatus 31 communicates with the imaging apparatus located within a specific range based on a position of the detected imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs or the imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs specified by the user, and performs the device specification display using a display unit of the imaging apparatus located within the specific range. By referring to the device specification display, the user may easily specify a desired device, for example, the device in which the abnormality occurs from a plurality of devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeo NAKATSUKA, Yasuhiro IIZUKA, Kazuhiro UCHIDA, Tetsuo KANEKO, Shinnosuke USAMI
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Publication number: 20190028077Abstract: A sound processing device includes an amplifier, a current detector, and a controller. The amplifier amplifies a sound signal to drive a loudspeaker. The current detector detects a value of an electric current flowing into the amplifier. The controller controls whether to supply power to the amplifier based on a predicted current value and the current detected by the current detector. The predicted current value is predicted in accordance with a volume setting and a level of the sound signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: KAZUHIRO WATANABE, KAZUHIRO UCHIDA, SEIGO OZAKI
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Publication number: 20190020820Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including circuitry configured to transmit a start instruction to a first camera apparatus and a second camera apparatus. The start instruction causes the first camera apparatus to start incrementing a first counter and the second camera apparatus to start incrementing a second counter for a video recording time period. The circuitry receives, from the first camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that indicates a value of the first counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that indicates the value of the second counter. The circuitry receives, from the second camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that identifies a value of the second counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that identifies the value of the second counter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo KANEKO, Yasuhiro IIZUKA, Shinnosuke USAMI, Kazuhiro UCHIDA, Shigeo NAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20180324475Abstract: A usage amount of a network bandwidth is kept small such that the network bandwidth is utilized. Data items of images captured by imaging with a plurality of cameras in a manner that adjacent ones of the captured images overlap with each other are stored into a storage unit. Cutting-out-target-region information items for a predetermined number of cameras selected from the plurality of cameras are received from an external device via a network. On the basis of the cutting-out-target-region information items for the predetermined number of cameras, data items of images of cutting-out-target regions are cut out from corresponding ones of the data items of the images captured by the plurality of cameras, the data items of the captured images being stored in the storage unit, and are transmitted to the external device via the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: SHINNOSUKE USAMI, TETSUO KANEKO, YASUHIRO IIZUKA, KAZUHIRO UCHIDA, SHIGEO NAKATSUKA
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Publication number: 20180324383Abstract: A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, and second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, and processing circuitry that receives a predetermined request from a user while the first camera apparatus captures a first video and the second camera apparatus captures a second video. The processing circuitry, in response to the predetermined request, transmits a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that causes the first camera apparatus to generate a first thumbnail of a frame of the first video, and transmits a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that causes the second camera apparatus to generate a second thumbnail of a frame of the second video. The processing circuitry receives the first thumbnail from the first camera apparatus and the second thumbnail from the second camera apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo KANEKO, Yasuhiro IIZUKA, Kazuhiro UCHIDA, Shigeo NAKATSUKA, Shinnosuke USAMI
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Patent number: 9938602Abstract: A method of producing a metal pipe which can suppress quenching defects is provided. In the method, a bend of the metal pipe is straightened by a straightening machine 10. Next, both pipe end portions of the metal pipe whose bend has been straightened are cut off by a pipe cutting apparatus 20. Next, a plurality of the metal pipes whose both pipe end portions have been cut off are aligned in the axial direction thereof to be conveyed to a quenching apparatus 30, and the metal pipes are quenched by being cooled after being heated by induction heating.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichi Otsuka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Takuya Hanada, Masami Sakiyama, Tsutomu Shima