Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi 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: 11962948Abstract: The display method includes obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface in a real space having the target region and a display, and displaying, on the display, a first simulation image including the target image and a first display image which is superimposed on the target image and fits within the display irrespective of a position of the display in real space, the first display image being obtained by viewing an image projected on a virtual plane corresponding to the surface from a virtual projector in a virtual space, the virtual plane being located at a first position corresponding to a position of the surface in the real space, from a second position corresponding to the position of the display in the real space.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
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Patent number: 11763727Abstract: The display method includes obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface, displaying a simulation image on a display, the simulation image being obtained by superimposing a display image on the target image, the display image corresponding to an image to be projected by a projector on the surface, displaying the target image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on first information which specifies a brightness of the target region, and displaying the display image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on second information which specifies a brightness of the display image.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
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Publication number: 20230262204Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a captured image by causing a camera to image a projection region in a position where a center portion of an imaging range at the time when the projection region including a projection target object in a real space in which a projector and the projection target object are disposed, a first guide image being displayed in the projection region by the projector, and a center portion of the first guide image overlap. The information processing apparatus generates a projection image by causing a user to edit the captured image and transmits projection image data representing the generated projection image to the projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Manae MIYATA, Tetsuta NISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230262194Abstract: An information processing apparatus causes a display apparatus to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing a material image applied with transmission processing on a captured image obtained by imaging a projection target object, which is a projection target of an image from a projector, with a camera and a user interface image for receiving an input for determining a position of the camera. The information processing apparatus generates projection image data representing a projection image by correcting the material image according to a three-dimensional shape measured based on a captured image obtained by imaging, from the determined position, with the camera, the projection target object onto which a pattern image for three-dimensional measurement is projected from the projector and outputs the projection image data to the projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Keisuke HIGASHI, Manae MIYATA, Akihiko TAMURA
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Patent number: 11675420Abstract: A method for operating a display apparatus, the method including, detecting a first change in a first sensor signal from a first sensor, performing a first action in response to the detection of the first change, detecting changes in the first sensor signal in a first period that starts in response to the detection of the first change, maintaining the first action during the first period, and performing a second action after the first period if a second change in the first sensor signal last detected in the first period among the changes in the first sensor signal is different from the first change.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Eisuke Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220264066Abstract: The display method includes obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface in a real space having the target region and a display, and displaying, on the display, a first simulation image including the target image and a first display image which is superimposed on the target image and fits within the display irrespective of a position of the display in real space, the first display image being obtained by viewing an image projected on a virtual plane corresponding to the surface from a virtual projector in a virtual space, the virtual plane being located at a first position corresponding to a position of the surface in the real space, from a second position corresponding to the position of the display in the real space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220238060Abstract: The display method includes obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface, displaying a simulation image on a display, the simulation image being obtained by superimposing a display image on the target image, the display image corresponding to an image to be projected by a projector on the surface, displaying the target image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on first information which specifies a brightness of the target region, and displaying the display image included in the simulation image on the display with a brightness based on second information which specifies a brightness of the display image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220237827Abstract: The display method includes the steps of obtaining a target image showing a target region including a surface in a real space having the target region and a display, and displaying a first simulation image on the display, the first simulation image being obtained by superimposing a first display image on the target image, the first display image being obtained by viewing an image from a second position which corresponds to a position of the display in the real space, the image being projected on a virtual plane, which is located at a first position corresponding to a position of the surface in the real space and corresponds to the surface, from a virtual projector when a relative position of the virtual projector to the second position is fixed in a virtual space having the virtual plane and the virtual projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Kazue SUNOHARA
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Publication number: 20220121271Abstract: A method for operating a display apparatus, the method including, detecting a first change in a first sensor signal from a first sensor, performing a first action in response to the detection of the first change, detecting changes in the first sensor signal in a first period that starts in response to the detection of the first change, maintaining the first action during the first period, and performing a second action after the first period if a second change in the first sensor signal last detected in the first period among the changes in the first sensor signal is different from the first change.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Eisuke SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11282422Abstract: A projector includes an image generation section adapted to generate a composite image including a first image based on a first image signal, a second image based on a second image signal, and a boundary line indicating a position to be a boundary between the first image and the second image, a projection section adapted to display the composite image generated by the image generation section on a screen, a position detection section adapted to detect a position of a pointing body with respect to the screen, and a control section adapted to make the image generation section generate a composite image with a boundary line moved based on the position of the pointing body detected by the position detection section.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ano, Koichiro Ota, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Kento Yamada
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Patent number: 11234037Abstract: A projector includes: a projection unit which projects content in response to a playback instruction to play back the content; and a transmitting unit which transmits the playback instruction to another projector. The playback instruction includes specification information which specifies the content.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Takahiro Otsu
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Patent number: 11064171Abstract: A method of controlling a projector includes a distributing step of distributing each of luminance values of a plurality of pixels constituting an original image into a first luminance value, a second luminance value lower than the first luminance value, a third luminance value lower than the second luminance value, a first replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the third luminance value in the original image to generate a first image, a second replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the first luminance value in the original image to generate a second image, and a generating step of converting the luminance values of the pixels into transmittances in each of the first image and the second image to generate mask images.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
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Publication number: 20210203896Abstract: A method of controlling a projector includes a distributing step of distributing each of luminance values of a plurality of pixels constituting an original image into a first luminance value, a second luminance value lower than the first luminance value, a third luminance value lower than the second luminance value, a first replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the third luminance value in the original image to generate a first image, a second replacing step of replacing the luminance values of the pixels corresponding to the second luminance value with the first luminance value in the original image to generate a second image, and a generating step of converting the luminance values of the pixels into transmittances in each of the first image and the second image to generate mask images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200365068Abstract: A projector includes an image generation section adapted to generate a composite image including a first image based on a first image signal, a second image based on a second image signal, and a boundary line indicating a position to be a boundary between the first image and the second image, a projection section adapted to display the composite image generated by the image generation section on a screen, a position detection section adapted to detect a position of a pointing body with respect to the screen, and a control section adapted to make the image generation section generate a composite image with a boundary line moved based on the position of the pointing body detected by the position detection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro ANO, Koichiro OTA, Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Kento YAMADA
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Patent number: 10769974Abstract: A projector includes an image generation section adapted to generate a composite image including a first image based on a first image signal, a second image based on a second image signal, and a boundary line indicating a position to be a boundary between the first image and the second image, a projection section adapted to display the composite image generated by the image generation section on a screen, a position detection section adapted to detect a position of a pointing body with respect to the screen, and a control section adapted to make the image generation section generate a composite image with a boundary line moved based on the position of the pointing body detected by the position detection section.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ano, Koichiro Ota, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Kento Yamada
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Patent number: 10657925Abstract: A projector includes a video processing section configured to generate a third image by combining, on the basis of transmittance, a first image based on first image information and a second image generated by converting luminance information of second image information including the luminance information into the transmittance and an image forming section configured to display the third image.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Yasuda, Tatsuya Kaido, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Takahiro Ano
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Patent number: 10462438Abstract: A display apparatus includes a storage that stores a set period that is a period from the point of time when electric power supply starts to the point of time when a projection section starts displaying an image, a remote control that accepts operation, and a controller that changes the set period based on the operation accepted by the remote control, and the controller causes the projection section to start projecting the image after the electric power supply starts and the set period then elapses.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Mizuno, Takahiro Ano, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi
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Publication number: 20190221147Abstract: A projector includes an image generation section adapted to generate a composite image including a first image based on a first image signal, a second image based on a second image signal, and a boundary line indicating a position to be a boundary between the first image and the second image, a projection section adapted to display the composite image generated by the image generation section on a screen, a position detection section adapted to detect a position of a pointing body with respect to the screen, and a control section adapted to make the image generation section generate a composite image with a boundary line moved based on the position of the pointing body detected by the position detection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro ANO, Koichiro OTA, Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Kento YAMADA
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Patent number: 10283029Abstract: A projector includes an image generation section adapted to generate a composite image including a first image based on a first image signal, a second image based on a second image signal, and a boundary line indicating a position to be a boundary between the first image and the second image, a projection section adapted to display the composite image generated by the image generation section on a screen, a position detection section adapted to detect a position of a pointing body with respect to the screen, and a control section adapted to make the image generation section generate a composite image with a boundary line moved based on the position of the pointing body detected by the position detection section.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ano, Koichiro Ota, Kazuyoshi Kitabayashi, Kento Yamada
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Publication number: 20190043444Abstract: A projector includes a video processing section configured to generate a third image by combining, on the basis of transmittance, a first image based on first image information and a second image generated by converting luminance information of second image information including the luminance information into the transmittance and an image forming section configured to display the third image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka YASUDA, Tatsuya KAIDO, Kazuyoshi KITABAYASHI, Takahiro ANO