Patents by Inventor Kenji Gotoh

Kenji Gotoh 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: 20210302188
    Abstract: A route guidance system includes: a vehicle including a first processor including hardware, the first processor being configured to prepare, in response to an occupant inputting a destination and a budget of route guidance, a route guidance plan to the destination satisfying a condition of the budget, and output, in response to the occupant selecting the route guidance plan, selected plan information including at least information specifying the occupant and information regarding a cost of the selected route guidance plan; and a server including a second processor including hardware, the second processor being configured to acquire the selected plan information, and execute settlement processing of the cost of the route guidance plan included in the received selected plan information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210304249
    Abstract: A server includes a processor including hardware, the processor is configured to: record information about a traveling route of a vehicle and a driver of the vehicle as action history information; select a service to be provided to the driver based on the action history information; and provide the selected service to the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Keisuke NISHINAKA, Hiroki TAMURA, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Kenji GOTOH, Kota KATO
  • Publication number: 20210181864
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that detects at least two candidate points positioned in a detected operation direction, switches the candidate points such that a predetermined candidate point is selected from the at least two candidate points, and displays at least the selected candidate point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji OTSUKA, Masaki HANDA, Kenji GOTOH, Tetsuo IKEDA, Eisuke FUJINAWA, Kosuke YOSHITOMI, Katsuji MIYAZAWA, Shoji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200409547
    Abstract: [Problem] It is desired to provide a technology capable of conveniently determining the type of operation in a case where a non-contact operation is performed with a fingertip separated from an object. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that determines whether an operation of a user is a pointing operation or a hover operation on the basis of an angle of at least a part of an upper limb of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, EISUKE FUJINAWA, KOSUKE YOSHITOMI, MASAKI HANDA, JUNJI OTSUKA, KENJI GOTOH, KATSUJI MIYAZAWA, SHOJI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200314410
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of obtaining the accuracy of the parameter regarding the attitude of a plurality of viewpoints with higher accuracy. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a plane estimator configured to estimate a plane on the basis of a first depth map, the first depth map being obtained on the basis of a plurality of captured images acquired by image-capturing at a plurality of viewpoints; and a correction unit configured to correct a parameter regarding an attitude of the plurality of viewpoints on the basis of comparison between the first depth map and the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: KENJI GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20190362131
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: an acquisition unit; and a generation control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an importance level relating to at least one part of an object. The generation control unit controls, on the basis of the acquired importance level, generation of a model of the object displayed in a virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji GOTOH
  • Patent number: 9456139
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a posture change detection part which detects a posture change of an imaging device body, a deflection correction part which corrects deflection of a captured image generated by the posture change, a distortion correction part which corrects distortion of the captured image generated by the posture change, and a control part which makes the deflection be corrected in the deflection correction part based on the posture change detected in the posture change detection part, and makes the distortion be corrected in the distortion correction part based on posture change after limiting processing to the detected posture change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20150116467
    Abstract: A parallax adjustment device including a parallax adjustment unit configured to perform parallax adjustment on a left-eye image and a right-eye image that are obtained by imaging, and a data processing unit configured to associate metadata regarding the parallax adjustment with image data including the left-eye image and the right-eye image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keizo Gomi, Takahide Otani, Kenji Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20140327744
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program product perform image processing to suppress an amount of parallax adjustment based on a posture of the image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a parallax control unit that adjusts a position of an object in a left image and in a right image captured by an imaging device based on detected movement of the imaging device during an imaging operation. The left image and the right image are configured to be displayed together as a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20130321650
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a posture change detection part which detects a posture change of an imaging device body, a deflection correction part which corrects deflection of a captured image generated by the posture change, a distortion correction part which corrects distortion of the captured image generated by the posture change, and a control part which makes the deflection be corrected in the deflection correction part based on the posture change detected in the posture change detection part, and makes the distortion be corrected in the distortion correction part based on posture change after limiting processing to the detected posture change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji GOTOH
  • Patent number: 6493306
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 6464747
    Abstract: Sintered cermet materials far tools such as cutting tools, which are excellent in heat resistance, wear resistance and fracture resistance, are inexpensive, and have long life time, and a method for producing such sintered cermet materials. The sintered cermet materials for tools are composed of sintered bodies which are obtained by preparing a mixed powder containing powders of TiCN, Si3N4, Al2O3, CrxN (x=1-2.7 and ZrN, at least one powder of W and WC, and at least one kind of metal powder selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Ta and Mo, and sintering the mixed powder .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tomei Diamond Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Enya, Kenji Gotoh, Satoru Hosomi
  • Patent number: 6466530
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 6438079
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Publication number: 20020094296
    Abstract: Sintered cermet materials for tools such as cutting tools, which are excellent in heat resistance, wear resistance and fracture resistance, are inexpensive, and have long life time, and a method for producing such sintered cermet materials. The sintered cermet materials for tools are composed of sintered bodies which are obtained by preparing a mixed powder containing powders of TiCN, Si3N4, Al2O3, CrxN (x=1-2.7) and ZrN, at least one powder of W and WC, and at least one kind of metal powder selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Ta and Mo, and sintering the mixed powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Enya, Kenji Gotoh, Satoru Hosomi
  • Publication number: 20020024900
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Publication number: 20020015372
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 6337845
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Oohata, Masato Nagasawa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 6337839
    Abstract: An optical disk according to the present invention has data recording tracks of lands and grooves. Each of the data recording tracks has a length corresponding to a revolution of the disk and includes a plurality of track sectors. The data recording tracks of lands and grooves are connected alternately to each other so as to form a continuous data recording spiral. Each of the track sectors has a preformatted identification signal part for representing sector address data and has a data recording part for recording data. The identification signal part has the first address data region and the second address region. The first address data region and the second address data region are shifted by the same predetermined distance from the center of a groove track oppositely in the radial direction of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakane, Hiroyuki Ohata, Masato Nagasa, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 6307821
    Abstract: In an optical disk drive apparatus for recording data on and reproducing data from an optical disk using both of data recording tracks formed of grooves and lands, is divided into an integer number of sectors, and the address data area of each sector is shifted in the radial direction. When a first sector is scanned, a data from the address data area of the first sector is read as a first direct address data, and a data from the address data area of an adjacent sector is read as a second direct address data. A first modified address data of the first sector is produced by modifying the second direct address data with an inter-track address difference, and a correct address value of the first sector is produced using the first direct address data and the first modified address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oohata, Kazuhiko Nakane, Kenji Gotoh, Yoshinobu Ishida