Patents by Inventor Kunio Yoneno

Kunio Yoneno 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: 12027082
    Abstract: A display method includes acquiring output corresponding to a movement direction of a human toward a display position of a display apparatus using a sensor, determining an orientation of a content used for alert based on the output corresponding to the movement direction, and displaying the content in the display position in the orientation using the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Nishioka, Kunio Yoneno
  • Patent number: 12019362
    Abstract: A projection system according to the present disclosure includes an image projection section projecting a first image light and a second image light to directions different from each other so that the first image light overlaps the second image light in a first region, and a fog screen production section producing a fog screen in which a plurality of particles that reflect the first image light and the second image light are dispersed in a screen region containing the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Publication number: 20230388459
    Abstract: A display method includes acquiring output corresponding to a movement speed of a human from a first position to a second position using at least one sensor, determining an image according to a content used for alert based on the output corresponding to the movement speed, determining timing of display of the image based on the output corresponding to the movement speed, and displaying the image with the timing in a third position using a display apparatus, wherein the second position is located between the first position and the third position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki NISHIOKA, Kunio YONENO
  • Publication number: 20230386374
    Abstract: A display method includes acquiring output corresponding to a movement direction of a human toward a display position of a display apparatus using a sensor, determining an orientation of a content used for alert based on the output corresponding to the movement direction, and displaying the content in the display position in the orientation using the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki NISHIOKA, Kunio YONENO
  • Publication number: 20230114660
    Abstract: A projection system according to the present disclosure includes an image projection section projecting a first image light and a second image light to directions different from each other so that the first image light overlaps the second image light in a first region, and a fog screen production section producing a fog screen in which a plurality of particles that reflect the first image light and the second image light are dispersed in a screen region containing the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Publication number: 20230007217
    Abstract: An image display system includes a projector projecting image light onto a projection surface, at least one camera picking up at least one image of the projection surface and thus acquiring at least one picked-up image, at least one microphone detecting a sound generated in an image pickup range of the camera, and a control device controlling a position or an orientation of an image displayed on the projection surface by the image light, based on the at least one picked-up image, when a target sound is detected based on the sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Patent number: 11140314
    Abstract: An imaging display device includes an imaging device configured to image a region including a face of an observer and a background, the imaging device being provided to have an optical axis tiltable in a vertical plane, a rotary drive unit configured to incline the imaging device by a predetermined angle in the vertical plane, a display device including a display unit configured to display a captured image captured by the imaging device, and a control unit configured to control the rotary drive unit. The control unit includes a face detection unit configured to detect a face image of the observer from the captured image, and an angle control unit configured to calculate, based on a vertical dimension of the face image, a rotation angle of the imaging device, and to transmit a control signal based on the rotation angle to the rotary drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Publication number: 20210168280
    Abstract: An imaging display device includes an imaging device configured to image a region including a face of an observer and a background, the imaging device being provided to have an optical axis tiltable in a vertical plane, a rotary drive unit configured to incline the imaging device by a predetermined angle in the vertical plane, a display device including a display unit configured to display a captured image captured by the imaging device, and a control unit configured to control the rotary drive unit. The control unit includes a face detection unit configured to detect a face image of the observer from the captured image, and an angle control unit configured to calculate, based on a vertical dimension of the face image, a rotation angle of the imaging device, and to transmit a control signal based on the rotation angle to the rotary drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Patent number: 9791708
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a screen formed in an arcuate shape centering on a center axis and a projection device configured to project, along projecting directions orthogonal to the center axis and different from one another, images corresponding to the projecting directions on the inner circumferential surface or the outer circumferential surface of the screen. The screen includes a retroreflective layer having a reflection surface directed to the projection device and a diffusion layer arranged on the projection device side with respect to the retroreflective layer and configured to diffuse, when transmitting light made incident from the retroreflective layer, the light wider in a first direction along the center axis than in a second direction, which is a circumferential direction centering on the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Yoneno, Tomio Sonehara, Takashi Endo
  • Patent number: 9470899
    Abstract: A transmissive screen formed in an arc shape around a center axis, and, when light entering an inner circumferential surface is output from an outer circumferential surface, having a diffusion angle in a first direction as a direction along the center axis wider than a diffusion angle in a second direction as a circumferential direction around the center axis, projection devices that are arranged at equal intervals along the second direction around the center axis and respectively project image lights on the inner circumferential surface, and a display control device that allows the projection devices to project the image lights so that partial images formed by portions of the respectively projected image lights of the projection devices may be observed as one visually recognized image having the partial images arranged in the second direction at viewpoints set outside of the outer circumferential surface along the second direction are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Yoneno, Takashi Endo, Tomio Sonehara
  • Publication number: 20150362742
    Abstract: A transmissive screen formed in an arc shape around a center axis, and, when light entering an inner circumferential surface is output from an outer circumferential surface, having a diffusion angle in a first direction as a direction along the center axis wider than a diffusion angle in a second direction as a circumferential direction around the center axis, projection devices that are arranged at equal intervals along the second direction around the center axis and respectively project image lights on the inner circumferential surface, and a display control device that allows the projection devices to project the image lights so that partial images formed by portions of the respectively projected image lights of the projection devices may be observed as one visually recognized image having the partial images arranged in the second direction at viewpoints set outside of the outer circumferential surface along the second direction are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Kunio YONENO, Takashi ENDO, Tomio SONEHARA
  • Publication number: 20150355471
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a screen formed in an arcuate shape centering on a center axis and a projection device configured to project, along projecting directions orthogonal to the center axis and different from one another, images corresponding to the projecting directions on the inner circumferential surface or the outer circumferential surface of the screen. The screen includes a retroreflective layer having a reflection surface directed to the projection device and a diffusion layer arranged on the projection device side with respect to the retroreflective layer and configured to diffuse, when transmitting light made incident from the retroreflective layer, the light wider in a first direction along the center axis than in a second direction, which is a circumferential direction centering on the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kunio YONENO, Tomio SONEHARA, Takashi ENDO
  • Patent number: 9097849
    Abstract: A display device includes a flat panel display (object image generator) that generates an object image, a retrotransmissive material (imaging element) that has an element surface tilted with respect to an image generation surface of the object image generator, reflects light emitted from the object image located at one side of the element surface twice, and forms the object image as a real image in a plane-symmetrical location with the element surface in a space at the other side of the element surface, and a diffusion angle limiting film (diffusion angle limiting member) that limits a diffusion angle of light from the object image generator toward the imaging element within a predetermined angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Publication number: 20140253880
    Abstract: A display device includes a flat panel display (object image generator) that generates an object image, a retrotransmissive material (imaging element) that has an element surface tilted with respect to an image generation surface of the object image generator, reflects light emitted from the object image located at one side of the element surface twice, and forms the object image as a real image in a plane-symmetrical location with the element surface in a space at the other side of the element surface, and a diffusion angle limiting film (diffusion angle limiting member) that limits a diffusion angle of light from the object image generator toward the imaging element within a predetermined angle range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Patent number: 8591035
    Abstract: A display device includes a projector, a Fresnel lens converting a projected light from the projector into a nearly parallelized light, a screen with light reflectivity on which an image by the projected light from the projector is generated, and a retrotransmissive material forming another image of an image located on one side of an element plane in a position in a space on the other side of the element plane such that the image and the other image are symmetric with respect to the element plane. The retrotransmissive material forms an image by a light that has obliquely entered the element plane, such that a position from which the light has obliquely entered the element plane and a position in which the image is formed are symmetric with respect to the element plane, and thereby forms a real image of the image on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Patent number: 8274531
    Abstract: A display apparatus adapted to generate image data for controlling a first light modulation section adapted to project a first window, and image data for controlling a second light modulation section adapted to project a second window smaller than the first window and projected so as to overlap with the first window, includes: a first image conversion section adapted to convert a resolution of input image data in accordance a resolution of the first light modulation section to form the image data for controlling the first light modulation section; and a second image conversion section adapted to extract data included in a range corresponding to a resolution of the second light modulation section among the input image data to form the image data for controlling the second light modulation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Publication number: 20120236269
    Abstract: A display device includes a projector, a Fresnel lens converting a projected light from the projector into a nearly parallelized light, a screen with light reflectivity on which an image by the projected light from the projector is generated, and a retrotransmissive material forming another image of an image located on one side of an element plane in a position in a space on the other side of the element plane such that the image and the other image are symmetric with respect to the element plane. The retrotransmissive material forms an image by a light that has obliquely entered the element plane, such that a position from which the light has obliquely entered the element plane and a position in which the image is formed are symmetric with respect to the element plane, and thereby forms a real image of the image on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Publication number: 20120182613
    Abstract: Shutter glasses include a left-eye selection part and a right-eye selection part that respectively switch to a transmission state or a blocking state, a tilt detection part that detects a tilt condition of the shutter glasses, a tilt condition determination part that compares an output value of the tilt detection part and a predetermined threshold value, a signal acquisition part that acquires a left switch signal in synchronization with the image for left eye and a right switch signal in synchronization with the image for right eye, and a switching operation part that switches the left-eye selection part and the right-eye selection part to the transmission state or the blocking state. When the output value is equal to or more than the threshold value, the switching operation part switches both the left-eye and the right-eye selection parts in response to one of the left and the right switch signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO
  • Patent number: 7714941
    Abstract: A control system includes a controlled apparatus adjusting its operation based on a control signal from an independently cased control apparatus. The controlled apparatus includes an indicator light projector projecting indicator light in an invisible wavelength region so that an exiting direction thereof has a known regularity and change over time, a response signal receiver receiving a response signal in response to light reception from the control apparatus having received the indicator light, a relative position recognizer recognizing a relative position of the control apparatus to its housing based on the response signal, and an adjuster performing predetermined adjustment based on the recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kunio Yoneno
  • Publication number: 20100097393
    Abstract: A display apparatus adapted to generate image data for controlling a first light modulation section adapted to project a first window, and image data for controlling a second light modulation section adapted to project a second window smaller than the first window and projected so as to overlap with the first window, includes: a first image conversion section adapted to convert a resolution of input image data in accordance a resolution of the first light modulation section to form the image data for controlling the first light modulation section; and a second image conversion section adapted to extract data included in a range corresponding to a resolution of the second light modulation section among the input image data to form the image data for controlling the second light modulation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio YONENO