Patents by Inventor Kouichi Matsuda
Kouichi Matsuda 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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Publication number: 20240312157Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space: a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
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Patent number: 12002173Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Masaki Fukuchi, Kenichirou Ooi, Jingjing Guo, Kouichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 11835552Abstract: A current detection device (100) includes a shunt resistor (1) connected in series to a path through which a current flows; a first circuit (2) that converts a voltage across the shunt resistor (1) into a predetermined differential voltage; a second circuit (3) to which the predetermined differential voltage is input from the first circuit (2) via a pair of wirings (55) and that amplifies the predetermined differential voltage; a constant current circuit (4) connected between the pair of wirings (55); and an arithmetic circuit (5) that operates the current flowing through the path based on the voltage amplified by the second circuit (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., RENAULT S.A.S.Inventors: Naoki Takigashira, Masanori Yamashita, Kouichi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20230385309Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users arc in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan WANG, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
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Patent number: 11762887Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
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Publication number: 20230245402Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20230204631Abstract: A current detection device (100) includes a shunt resistor (1) connected in series to a path through which a current flows; a first circuit (2) that converts a voltage across the shunt resistor (1) into a predetermined differential voltage; a second circuit (3) to which the predetermined differential voltage is input from the first circuit (2) via a pair of wirings (55) and that amplifies the predetermined differential voltage; a constant current circuit (4) connected between the pair of wirings (55); and an arithmetic circuit (5) that operates the current flowing through the path based on the voltage amplified by the second circuit (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., RENAULT S.A.S.Inventors: Naoki TAKIGASHIRA, Masanori YAMASHITA, Kouichi MATSUDA
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Patent number: 11651574Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Masaki Fukuchi, Kenichirou Ooi, Jingjing Guo, Kouichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 11460997Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Kouichi Matsuda, Tatsushi Nashida
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Publication number: 20220076499Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20220050588Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: DRNC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Kouichi Matsuda, Tatsushi Nashida
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Patent number: 11189105Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Masaki Fukuchi, Kenichirou Ooi, Jingjing Guo, Kouichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 11163436Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Kouichi Matsuda, Tatsushi Nashida
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Patent number: 11058817Abstract: An expansion/compression mechanism of a piston rod assembly is composed of a bush shaft, a first cylindrical piston rod that is screwed with the bush shaft, a second cylindrical piston rod that is screwed with the first piston rod, and a piston rod holding member for housing the bush shaft and these piston rods. Therefore, the piston rods move linearly in multiple stages.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Sugimoto, Toshiaki Iio, Seiji Kikuchi, Yoshiki Takeuchi, Kouichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 10908676Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Fukuchi, Kouichi Matsuda, Yasuhiro Suto, Kenichiro Oi, Jingjing Guo
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Publication number: 20210027543Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20200401611Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local mapType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan WANG, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
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Patent number: 10810803Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Masaki Fukuchi, Kenichirou Ooi, Jingjing Guo, Kouichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 10803098Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
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Publication number: 20200310581Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: DRNC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Homma, Kouichi Matsuda, Tatsushi Nashida