Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Watanabe

Kazuhiro Watanabe 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: 20150329122
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange
  • Patent number: 9183888
    Abstract: An object three-dimensionally represented by frames contained in a moving image and a time axis indicative of a playback time of the moving image is displayed on a display unit, and, while the three dimensional image being displayed, and an object representative of a moving image of a part between two points detected on the time axis is displayed in response to an instruction by a thing approaching to the display unit and is moved in accordance with a moving operation on the thing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Daijirou Nagasaki, Nobuo Oshimoto, Susumu Oya, Yusuke Hokari, Eri Kanai
  • Publication number: 20150319055
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for operating a first apparatus in a communication system. The method comprises receiving content from a second apparatus, and determining whether to store the received content on at least one storage apparatus associated with the first apparatus based, at least in part, on priority information associated with the received content, the priority information indicating an evaIuation of a service provided by the received content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI SAKODA, YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, MICHIHIRO KOBAYASHI, KAZUHIRO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150312748
    Abstract: An information processing device include circuitry configured to acquire-service-information for a service from a first information processing apparatus, change a priority of the service based on a status of the information processing apparatus or a status of the service, and provide the service information to a second information processing apparatus based on the priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI SAKODA, YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, MICHIHIRO KOBAYASHI, KAZUHIRO WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9170722
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including an operation display unit for detecting operation positions, on a display screen, in accordance with a user operation on the display screen, a state determination unit for determining, based on a detection result of the operation positions, a first operation state where two operation positions are detected, a process determination unit for determining, based on a change in the operation positions in the first operation state, a process related to display that is to be performed, and a display control unit for performing, based on a determination result of a process, a process which has been determined to be performed, and causing the display screen to perform display corresponding to the process. The display control unit continues the display corresponding to the process which has been determined to be performed, according to a duration of determination for the process which has been determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150301790
    Abstract: There is provided a server including a reception section which receives, from a client terminal, present position information showing a position of the client terminal, and direction information showing an orientation of the client terminal, a retrieval section which retrieves sensory data to which detection position information is added corresponding to a position in a vicinity of an axial line extending in a direction shown by the direction information from the position of the client terminal, and a transmission section which transmits the sensory data retrieved by the retrieval section to the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, MITSURU TAKEHARA, KOHEI ASADA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KATSUHISA ARATANI, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, AKIRA TANGE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, YUKI KOGA, TOMOYA ONUMA
  • Patent number: 9167212
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image displaying apparatus connected to a first camera and a second camera, on both of which pan/tilt control can be carried out, the image displaying apparatus including: an information acquisition section for acquiring information used for moving a display area over a virtual area obtained by combining a first area with a second area by making the first and second areas adjacent to each other; a control section for monitoring the position of the display area in the virtual area, requesting the first camera to carry out pan/tilt operations when the display area is positioned in the first area before and after a movement of the display area, and requesting the second camera to carry out pan/tilt operations when the display area has been moved from the first area to the boundary with the second area; and an image displaying section for displaying an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150295268
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack manufacturing method includes: a step of disposing a fuel cell stack so as to be sandwiched between a first fastening member and a second fastening member; a step of temporarily fastening the fuel cell stack by inserting a jig into a hole-form first connecting portion formed on each end portion of the first fastening member and a second connecting portion formed on each end portion of the second fastening member while applying pressure to the fuel cell stack at a predetermined load; a step of performing aging processing on the temporarily fastened fuel cell stack in order to advance creep deformation of the fuel cell stack; and a step of inserting a pin into the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion while reapplying the pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150293644
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes an imaging unit images a video in front of a user, a display unit overlaps and displays an image of a keyboard therein as a virtual object on a scene in the real world, a recognition unit recognizes a touch on an actual object in the real world, a determination unit, when the recognition unit recognizes a touch on the actual object, determines that a touch operation is performed on the keyboard overlapped and displayed on the actual object, and a generation unit generates a character string by key codes of keys corresponding to touch positions on the displayed keyboard that is a virtual object, wherein when the generated character string is a meaningless character string, one or more modified candidate character strings obtained by shifting each character included in the character string by a predetermined amount on the keyboard are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150287244
    Abstract: An eyepiece-type display apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture a video of reality, a display unit configured to display a virtual image while superimposing the virtual image on the video of reality, a determination unit configured to determine whether a video being captured by the imaging unit is a video during advancing, and a display control unit configured to change a display mode of the virtual image so as not to block a user's viewing field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150273717
    Abstract: A sheet holder is provided in which a sheet is held without deflection in a process treatment by a plotter and the sheet is easily detached thereafter. The sheet holder is used for holding the sheet during the process treatment on the sheet, and a plurality of circular adhesive dots are applied to a sheet-shaped base material. The adhesive dots each having a predetermined diameter are arranged at predetermined intervals in a diagonal grid pattern along a sheet feeding direction. Specifically, the adhesive dots are arranged side by side along the sheet feeding direction to form adhesive dot lines. The plural adhesive dot lines are formed to be arranged side by side in a carriage moving direction. Among two adjoining adhesive dot lines, formation positions of the respective adhesive dots in one adhesive dot line and in the other adhesive dot line are different in the feeding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Ryoichi OKA, Kazuhiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150272502
    Abstract: Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Shihoko Morota, Yoshiki Kuno, Emi Nagamine, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Takahiro Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20150262787
    Abstract: A beam energy measuring device in an ion implanter includes a parallelism measuring unit that measures a parallelism of an ion beam at a downstream of a beam collimator of the ion implanter and an energy calculating unit that calculates an energy of the ion beam from the measured parallelism. The ion implanter may further include a control unit that controls a high energy multistage linear acceleration unit based on the measured energy of the ion beam so that the ion beam has a target energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Haruka Sasaki, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kariya
  • Publication number: 20150262156
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device including an acceptation unit configured to accept a service execution request for requesting execution of a service, a control unit configured to specify a service providing device to which a request for execution of a service provided by the service providing device is made based on a device record that includes the service and provision destination group information that indicates a provision destination group of the service, and the service execution request accepted by the acceptation unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the service execution request to the service providing device specified by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Kenta Kawamoto, Taizo Shirai, Masayuki Takada
  • Publication number: 20150253951
    Abstract: A GUI member is operated to let a user feel as if operation of a real object is realized. An imaging unit captures fingers of an operator. A system control unit detects the finger portion from the image captured by the imaging unit. The system control unit combines images in such a manner that the GUI member is positioned on a finger portion of a palm side and a finger portion of a back side is positioned on the GUI member from the image of the finger portions detected from the captured image, and displays the combined image on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Osamu Sakata, Daijirou Nagasaki, Kaoru Konishi, Satoshi Shinata
  • Patent number: 9125623
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus for acquiring a radiographic image includes: a position detector configured to detect a position of an X-ray receiver, in which the X-ray receiver is configured to receive a radiant ray radiated by an X-ray radiator, which radiates a radiant ray, and output an electrical signal in accordance with the received radiant ray; and a display controller configured to display, on a display unit, image data pertaining to the X-ray receiver and image data pertaining to a radiating area of the radiant ray of the X-ray radiator, overlapped with each other based on the position of the X-ray receiver detected by the position detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Kotaro Izumiya, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150248168
    Abstract: A communication system includes processing circuitry that responds to a recognition result by initiating an electronic communication session with a user-designated destination. The recognition result corresponds with a recognized gesture made by the user as detected by a sensor, and the user-designated destination corresponds with the recognized gesture. A method and non-transitory computer program product also respond to the recognition result in a similar manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yasunori Kamada, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Mitsuru Takehara, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9123385
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a thumbnail preparation unit configured to retrieve thumbnail images, each thumbnail image representing a scene of a different time of one or more moving images, a first thumbnail line display unit configured to time sequentially display a first plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to at least a part of one of the moving images as a first thumbnail line, a second thumbnail line display unit configured to display a second plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a marked part of the moving images as a second thumbnail line, and a thumbnail shifting unit configured to shift a selection of a thumbnail along the second thumbnail line and update the first thumbnail line to display at least one thumbnail image of a temporally adjacent part of the marked part of the moving image corresponding to the newly selected thumbnail in response to a user instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Isozu, Takehiko Sasaki, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9108642
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange
  • Publication number: 20150221971
    Abstract: There is a need to improve the positioning accuracy in stacking gas separators. A guide section 58 provided in a fuel cell manufacturing apparatus 50 has first and second guide members 52 arranged to be parallel to each other and away from each other in a horizontal direction and extended in a stacking direction of the gas separators. The gas separator has first and second engagement elements 28 provided at corresponding positions to the first and the second guide members 52 to have a concave and/or convex shape formed along its outer periphery. A manufacturing method of a fuel cell includes a stacking step of stacking a plurality of members including gas separators by engaging the first engagement element with the first guide member and engaging the second engagement element with the second guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro WATANABE