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).

  • Publication number: 20160170479
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki FUKUCHI, Kouichi MATSUDA, Yasuhiro SUTO, Kenichiro OI, Jingjing GUO
  • Publication number: 20160163039
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OI, Quan Wang, Kouichi MATSUDA, Takayuki YOSHIGAHARA
  • Publication number: 20160125657
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 9288423
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Fukuchi, Kouichi Matsuda, Yasuhiro Suto, Kenichiro Oi, Jingjing Guo
  • Patent number: 9277267
    Abstract: A content output system includes a content output apparatus; and an information display apparatus, the content output apparatus and the information display apparatus being capable of communicating with each other. The content output apparatus includes a selection section configured to select, in response to a selection instruction, one piece of content from among a plurality of pieces of content that can be output, as content composed of a video signal and/or an audio signal; and an output section configured to output the content selected by the selection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20160055373
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a communication unit receiving first feature amounts, which include coordinates of feature points in an image acquired by another image processing apparatus, and position data showing a position in the image of a pointer that points at a location in a real space; an input image acquisition unit acquiring an input image by image pickup of the real space; a feature amount generating unit generating second feature amounts including coordinates of feature points set in the acquired input image; a specifying unit comparing the first feature amounts and the second feature amounts and specifying, based on a comparison result and the position data, a position in the input image of the location in the real space being pointed at by the pointer; and an output image generating unit generating an output image displaying an indicator indicating the specified position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventor: Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20160035141
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUTO, Masaki FUKUCHI, Kenichirou OOI, Jingjing GUO, Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20150374912
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Hirofumi SUGIMOTO, Toshiaki IIO, Seiji KIKUCHI, Yoshiki TAKEUCHI, Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 9218124
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a detection section configured to detect the position of an object touching a touch-sensitive part as a touched position; a recognition section configured to recognize the type of a finger touching the touch-sensitive part based on the touched position and on an image of the touch-sensitive part; a search section configured to search through a function table defining correspondences between the touched position of at least one finger and the type thereof on the one hand and a function assigned to the combination of the touched position and the type of the finger on the other hand, the search section searching the function table for the function corresponding to the touched position detected by the detection section and to the finger type detected by the recognition section; and an execution section configured to execute the function detected through the search by the search section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9215488
    Abstract: In a content display-playback system, an operation control apparatus controls operations of a content providing apparatus and display-playback apparatus connected to a network so that content can be transmitted and received among the content providing apparatus, the display-playback apparatus, and the operation control apparatus and that the content can be displayed and played back on the display-playback apparatus and the operation control apparatus. The operation control apparatus includes a storage unit. When a user operates the operation control apparatus to stop playback during playback of content received from the content providing apparatus on the display-playback apparatus or the operation control apparatus, content meta-information concerning the played back content and playback position information of the content being played back when the playback is stopped are stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Kouichi Matsuda, Shuichi Otsu, Tomoya Narita
  • Patent number: 9195302
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a communication unit receiving first feature amounts, which include coordinates of feature points in an image acquired by another image processing apparatus, and position data showing a position in the image of a pointer that points at a location in a real space; an input image acquisition unit acquiring an input image by image pickup of the real space; a feature amount generating unit generating second feature amounts including coordinates of feature points set in the acquired input image; a specifying unit comparing the first feature amounts and the second feature amounts and specifying, based on a comparison result and the position data, a position in the input image of the location in the real space being pointed at by the pointer; and an output image generating unit generating an output image displaying an indicator indicating the specified position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9183678
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Masaki Fukuchi, Kenichirou Ooi, Jingjing Guo, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9149582
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sugimoto, Kouichi Matsuda, Toshiaki Iio, Seiji Kikuchi, Yoshiki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150241986
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processor including, a storage section configured to store data representing the appearance features of a target device and data of an operation image used for operation of the target device, an acquisition section configured to acquire an image captured by a camera, a recognition section configured to recognize an object included in the image based on the feature quantity data stored in the storage section, and a display control section configured to display the operation image based on the data of the operation image stored in the storage section if the object included in the image is recognized by the recognition section as the target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20150227554
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Oi, Quan Wang, Kouichi Matsuda, Takayuki Yoshigahara
  • Publication number: 20150189216
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki FUKUCHI, Kouichi MATSUDA, Yasuhiro SUTO, Kenichiro OI, Jingjing GUO
  • Publication number: 20150178952
    Abstract: An information processing system in which an object corresponding to each of two or more users are arranged in a virtual space and moving image information indicative of a moving image indicative of a manner in which the virtual space is viewed from a predetermined viewpoint arranged in the virtual space is generated, this information processing system comprising activity information acquisition means for sequentially acquiring activity information indicative of an action of at least one of the two or more users, arrangement region determination means for determining a partial region in the virtual space, in the partial region of which the object is arranged in accordance with the acquired activity information, motion data acquisition means for acquiring motion data stored as related with the activity information in accordance with the acquired activity information, and object control means for making the object act in the partial region in accordance with the acquired motion data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichi Honda, Yoshikatsu Kanemaru, Norio Nagatsuka, Shinichi Kariya, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9058057
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processor including, a storage section configured to store data representing the appearance features of a target device and data of an operation image used for operation of the target device, an acquisition section configured to acquire an image captured by a camera, a recognition section configured to recognize an object included in the image based on the feature quantity data stored in the storage section, and a display control section configured to display the operation image based on the data of the operation image stored in the storage section if the object included in the image is recognized by the recognition section as the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150157804
    Abstract: An administration instrument includes an injection button which can be pressed at an angle that is not parallel to the needle with respect to a direction in which the needle is inserted into the skin. As a result, it is possible to prevent the force of pressing the injection button from being transmitted in a direction of inserting the needle into the skin deeper than the initial insertion of the needle, thereby achieving an administration under a stable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Tokumi BABA, Tokumi ISHIKAWA, Kouichi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20150150057
    Abstract: A content output system includes a content output apparatus; and an information display apparatus, the content output apparatus and the information display apparatus being capable of communicating with each other. The content output apparatus includes a selection section configured to select, in response to a selection instruction, one piece of content from among a plurality of pieces of content that can be output, as content composed of a video signal and/or an audio signal; and an output section configured to output the content selected by the selection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi MATSUDA