Patents by Inventor Masahide Takano

Masahide Takano 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: 10162408
    Abstract: A head mounted display for supporting improvement in an act of moving a body is provided. The head mounted display includes image display unit that transmits external scenery therethrough and forms an image, a body motion detection unit that detects motions of a body of a user and at least a part of a tool bundled with the body, a model moving image acquisition unit that accesses a model moving image storage unit which stores, as a model moving image, a moving image showing a motion of the body, used as a reference of the act and stores the model moving image for each type of act, and acquires one or a plurality of model moving images corresponding to a detection result from the body motion detection unit, and a display control unit that causes the image display unit to form the acquired model moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Saito, Masahide Takano, Hiroyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20180364965
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires plural pieces of medical apparatus information which are plural pieces of information acquired from a plurality of medical apparatuses; a generation unit that generates presentation information which contains at least a part of the plural pieces of medical apparatus information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a presentation unit that outputs the generated presentation information to a plurality of image display apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunari TSUDA, Toshikazu UCHIYAMA, Hitomi WAKAMIYA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180356882
    Abstract: An HMD mounted on the head of a user, includes an image display section that displays an image, a processing unit that performs processes including processing on data, a storage unit that stores the data processed by the processing unit, a detection unit that detects that a position of the HMD is not a set position, and a control unit that restricts processing on data correlated with the set position among pieces of the data stored in the storage unit in a case where the detection unit detects that a position of the head mounted display is not the set position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideho KANEKO, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180341454
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section that allows a user to view an image and transmits an outside scene, an evaluation section that evaluates the state of the user, and a communication section that communicates with another HMD. A control section transmits visual field data on the basis of images captured with a right camera and a left camera to the other HMD, causes the communication section to transmit notification data on the basis of a result of the evaluation performed by the evaluation section to the other HMD, and causes the image display section to perform display on the basis of data transmitted from the other HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 10140768
    Abstract: A head mounted display, includes an image display unit enabling the user to visually recognize the virtual image, and an augmented reality processing unit causing the image display unit to form the virtual image including a virtual object displayed additionally to a real object actually existing in the real world, in which the augmented reality processing unit causes the virtual image including the virtual object in a first display aspect to be formed, and then causes the virtual image including the virtual object in a second display aspect to be formed after a predetermined retention time period has elapsed, and in which a degree of the visibility hindrance of the virtual object in the second display aspect for the real object is lower than a degree of the visibility hindrance of the virtual object in the first display aspect for the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsunori Takahashi, Masahide Takano, Kaoru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10133532
    Abstract: In a display system, a projector detects an operation, generates guide information indicating the detected operation, and transmits the guide information to an HMD, and the HMD receives the guide information transmitted from the projector and displays an image corresponding to the operation of the projector and an image indicating a point of view or line-of-sight direction of an operator carrying out the operation, on the basis of the guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Akio Yamazaki, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10133407
    Abstract: An HMD includes a right light guide and a left light guide as a display section that displays an image with the display section mounted on a user's head in such a way that the user is allowed to visually recognize a real object. The HMD further includes a right sensor section and a left sensor section that detect approach of an instruction body to the right light guide and the left light guide and touchpads that accept operation. A control section of the HMD relates contents displayed in the right light guide and the left light guide to operation corresponding to motion of the instruction body detected by the right sensor section and the left sensor section in response to the motion of the instruction body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruhito Kojima, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 10114610
    Abstract: A head mounted display device is used by being mounted on a body of a user and includes an image display unit through which outside scenery is transmitted and which displays an image such that the image is visually recognizable together with the outside scenery. Further, the head mounted display device includes a right headphone and a left headphone outputting a sound. Further, the head mounted display device includes a target detection unit that detects a target of the user in the visual line direction; a distance detection unit that detects a distance between the detected target and the user; and an information output control unit that controls the output of the sound of the right headphone and the left headphone according to the detected distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Atsunari Tsuda, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 10102627
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display unit cause a user to visually recognize image light as a virtual image on the basis of image data and cause the user to visually recognize an outside scene in a state in which the image display unit is worn on the head of the user, an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of the outside scene, and a control unit configured to cause, when a mark image, which is an image of a specific mark, is included in the picked-up image, using the image display unit, the user to visually recognize a specific virtual image associated with a combination of a kind of the mark image and a shape of the mark image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunari Tsuda, Masahide Takano, Toshikazu Uchiyama, Hitomi Wakamiya
  • Publication number: 20180249085
    Abstract: An HMD includes a display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, a HMD control section configured to generate, according to the operation detected by the operation detecting section, a command for operating a first mobile body, a communication control section configured to acquire first mobile body image data concerning a captured image captured by the mobile body, and a display control section configured to cause the display section to display an image based on the first mobile body image data acquired by the communication control section. The display control section controls visibility of the outside scene in the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi OZAWA, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180249086
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, a mobile-body-position acquiring section configured to acquire a position of a mobile machine, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the image. The display control section executes visibility control processing for controlling, on the basis of the position of the mobile machine acquired by the mobile-body-position acquiring section and the operation detected by the operation detecting section, visibility of the image displayed by the image display section with respect to the external light transmitted through the image display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi OZAWA, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 10048922
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section that allows a user to view an image and transmits an outside scene, an evaluation section that evaluates the state of the user, and a communication section that communicates with another HMD. A control section transmits visual field data on the basis of images captured with a right camera and a left camera to the other HMD, causes the communication section to transmit notification data on the basis of a result of the evaluation performed by the evaluation section to the other HMD, and causes the image display section to perform display on the basis of data transmitted from the other HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 10042598
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires plural pieces of medical apparatus information which are plural pieces of information acquired from a plurality of medical apparatuses; a generation unit that generates presentation information which contains at least a part of the plural pieces of medical apparatus information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a presentation unit that outputs the generated presentation information to a plurality of image display apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunari Tsuda, Toshikazu Uchiyama, Hitomi Wakamiya, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20180217590
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section worn on a head of a user, an HMD communication section configured to receive a captured image transmitted by a vehicle, a position estimating section configured to estimate a position of the vehicle in a real space on the basis of the captured image received by the HMD communication section, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the captured image received by the HMD communication section and information concerning the position of the vehicle estimated by the position estimating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180196505
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display a display image in a display region to be recognizable together with an outside scene, a display control section configured to cause the display section to display, in the display region, a pointer indicating a pointed position, and a six-axis sensor and a detection control section configured to detect operation. The display control section switches a first operation mode for moving, according to the operation detected by the six-axis sensor and the detection control section, a position of the pointer to correspond to the outside scene and a second operation mode for moving, according to the operation detected by the six-axis sensor and the detection control section, the position of the pointer in a form different from the movement corresponding to the outside scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIZAWA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180197344
    Abstract: A display which allows a user to visually recognize a virtual image and external scenery includes an image display unit that forms the virtual image which is visually recognized by the user. The display also includes a superimposition processing unit that generates a plurality of pieces of superimposition information, based on a plurality of images of the external scenery, for superimposing invisible information which is not shown in an outward appearance of an object on the object included in the external scenery. The superimposition processing unit extracts a feature of the object. The invisible information includes a feature in common with the extracted feature of the object. The superimposition processing unit generates the plurality of pieces of superimposition information such that the extracted feature of the object and the feature of the invisible information overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Atsunari Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20180164983
    Abstract: A guidance system includes first and second HMDs. The first HMD includes a first image display section, and a reception section receiving an instruction, and a first control section generating output information in response to an instruction received by the reception section and transmitting the output information to the second HMD. The second HMD includes a second image display section displaying an image to be visually recognized in an overlapping manner with external scenery, a second storage section storing AR content including an AR image combined with external scenery visually recognized in the second display section, and a second control section displaying an image based on at least one of the AR content stored in the second storage section and the output information on the second display section according to a position of the second HMD or a visual field of external scenery visually recognized in the second display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TORII, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20180150147
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image in a display region to be transmitted through an outside scene and recognizable together with the outside scene, a camera and an imaging control section configured to detect a pointer associated with a motion of the user in a region including at least a range in which the image is transmitted through the image display section, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display, in the display region, an image indicating a detection state of the pointer by the camera and the imaging control section and cause the display section to display a candidate of input content corresponding to at least any one of a movement, a shape, and a position of the pointer detected by the camera and the imaging control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka FUJIMAKI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180143433
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes a plurality of vibrators disposed in a device main body which is attached to a head and includes a display unit that displays an image, and a control unit that individually controls the plurality of vibrators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka FUJIMAKI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 9972319
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes an image display unit that allows a user to visually recognize an image and through which outside scenery is transmitted and a microphone that detects a voice. In addition, the head mounted display device further includes a data acquisition unit that acquires data and an additional data display control unit that allows the image display unit to display an image based on the voice detected by the microphone and the data acquired by the data acquisition unit when the outside scenery is visually recognized by the user through the image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Atsunari Tsuda, Masahide Takano