Patents by Inventor KENTA KATAGATA

KENTA KATAGATA 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: 9092671
    Abstract: There is provided a visual line detection device including at least one light source configured to radiate light to an eyeball of a user observing a display surface through at least one optical member, and an imaging unit configured to acquire a captured image of the eyeball used to detect a visual line of the user on the display surface by detecting reflected light of the light from the eyeball. The reflected right from the eyeball passes through at least the optical member installed in an optical path along which the light from the display surface travels from the display surface to the eyeball of the user, and is incident on the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Sayaka Watanabe, Shinichi Haseno, Kenta Katagata
  • Publication number: 20150103411
    Abstract: An eyepiece optical system includes: a first lens having a biconvex shape in optical axis center and having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having positive refractive power. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in order from an image to be observed. The following conditional expression is satisfied, 0.47<f3/f4<3.00 ??(1) where f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Kenta Katagata
  • Publication number: 20150009313
    Abstract: There is provided a visual line detection device including at least one light source configured to radiate light to an eyeball of a user observing a display surface through at least one optical member, and an imaging unit configured to acquire a captured image of the eyeball used to detect a visual line of the user on the display surface by detecting reflected light of the light from the eyeball. The reflected right from the eyeball passes through at least the optical member installed in an optical path along which the light from the display surface travels from the display surface to the eyeball of the user, and is incident on the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: TAKURO NODA, SAYAKA WATANABE, SHINICHI HASENO, KENTA KATAGATA