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).

  • Publication number: 20170235380
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display unit that makes a user visually perceive an image, and an control device, capable of being moved independently of the image display unit, which includes a six-axis sensor detecting a movement and a track pad receiving an operation. The HMD controls the display of the image display unit in accordance with the movement detected by the six-axis sensor in a state where the track pad receives an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori SENDAI, Kazuo NISHIZAWA, Fusashi KIMURA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 9720230
    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: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Saito, Masahide Takano, Hiroyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20170213377
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display device is provided. The head mounted display device includes an image display unit that displays an image to allow a user wearing the head mounted display device to visually recognize the image and is capable of transmitting external scenery, a use environment determination unit (step S110, step S120) that determines a use environment of the head mounted display device, and a processing control unit (step S160, step S170) that changes at least a portion of a predetermined function built into the head mounted display device in accordance with the determined use environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TORII, Teruhito KOJIMA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20170185214
    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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruhito KOJIMA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 9684486
    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 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Atsunari Tsuda, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20170168562
    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 that displays an image such that the image is visually recognizable together with the outside scenery. Further, the head mounted display device includes a target detection unit that detects a target of the user in a visual line direction and a position detection unit that detects a position of the target with respect to a display region of the image display unit. Further, the head mounted display device includes an information display control unit that determines a display position of information based on a position of the target detected by the position detection unit and allows the image display unit to display information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori SENDAI, Atsunari TSUDA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 9613592
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display device includes an image display unit including an image-light generating unit configured to generate image light on the basis of image data and emit the image light, the image display unit causing a user to visually recognize the image light as a virtual image and transmitting an outside scene in a state in which the image display unit is worn on the head of the user, and a control unit configured to set, as the image light that the control unit causes the user to visually recognize using the image display unit, specific image light generated on the basis of set specific image data and changing according to elapse of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Toshikazu Uchiyama, Hitomi Wakamiya, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20170090851
    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 basi of the guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide TAKANO, Akio YAMAZAKI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170010662
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to be visually recognizable through an outside scene. The HMD includes a position detecting section configured to recognize an input and a control section configured to cause the image display section to display information and change the display in the image display section according to the input recognized by the position detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIZAWA, Masahide TAKANO, Teruhito KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170010850
    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: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160322026
    Abstract: A transmission type head mounted display device includes an image display unit including an image-light generating unit configured to generate image light on the basis of image data and emit the image light, the image display unit causing a user to visually recognize the image light as a virtual image and transmitting an outside scene in a state in which the image display unit is worn on the head of the user, and a control unit configured to set, as the image light that the control unit causes the user to visually recognize using the image display unit, specific image light generated on the basis of set specific image data and changing according to elapse of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Toshikazu Uchiyama, Hitomi Wakamiya, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20160284129
    Abstract: A HMD is provided with a virtual image display including a first display and a second display that display images respectively corresponding to a right eye and a left eye of a user such that an outside scene is visible. The HMD is provided with a control device that controls a display mode of the image by the virtual image display according to a gaze distance of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo NISHIZAWA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160239082
    Abstract: A transmissive head-mounted display device includes an image display unit, a detection unit, a control unit, an imaging unit, and an imaging setting unit. The display unit generates image light representing an image, allows a user to visually recognize the image light, and transmits outside scenery when worn on a head of a user. The detection unit detects a shielding object that is located at a predetermined distance from an eye of the user. A control unit performs control of the image light based on the detection result of the detection unit. The imaging unit images the outside scenery. The imaging setting unit adjusts the imaging unit. The imaging setting unit shifts a display mode of the image display unit to an imaging adjustment mode based on the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Masahide Takano, Fusashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160238842
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display unit which displays an image. The head-mounted display device includes: a microphone unit including an audio input unit which converts a sound into an electrical signal and capable of switching a position of the audio input unit between a plurality of positions; a position determination unit which determines which position of the plurality of positions the audio input unit is located at; and a mode switching control unit which switches an operation of the audio input unit and a display mode of the image display unit, respectively, on the basis of the determined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kaori Sendai, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20160209916
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image includes an image display section configured to cause the user to visually recognize the virtual image, an image acquiring section configured to acquire an outside scene image in a visual field direction of the user in a state in which the head-mounted display device is mounted, and a guiding section configured to guide, with sound, the user to an object of attention, which is at least one real object present in the real world and included in the acquired outside scene image and is a real object to which the user is urged to pay attention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori SENDAI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160196693
    Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display device including a display section worn on the head of a user and an operation device configured separately from the display section. The head-mounted display device performs, according to the operation device, with an image display section, AR display related to an outside scene transmitted through the image display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160187661
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device worn on the body of a user includes a first sensor and a second sensor having different resolutions. The head-mounted display device includes a control section that switches detection values of the first sensor and the second sensor to perform processing and controls the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Kenro YAJIMA, Yutaka FUJIMAKI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160188277
    Abstract: A display system includes one HMD and another HMD, and the one HMD includes an image display section adapted to display an image so that an outside view can visually be recognized, and an imaging section adapted to take an image of a range including at least a part of the outside view, which can visually be recognized in the image display section. Further, the one HMD includes a communication section, and a control section adapted to make the image display section display the image. The another HMD includes an image display section, a communication section, a display control section adapted to display the image based on the information received from the one HMD, an operation detection section, and a control section adapted to generate the guide information and transmit the guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko MIYASAKA, Naoki KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160179148
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display unit that displays an image so as to be visually recognized by an observer, a holding member that holds the display unit and has at least a portion thereof exposed to the outside, and a heat conduction member, having a sheet shape, which is connected to the holding member. The display unit includes an image forming device that forms the image. The heat conduction member comes into contact with the image forming device so as to be capable of heat conduction, and transmits heat of the image forming device to the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TAKAGI, Toshiaki MIYAO, Takeshi FUJISHIRO, Takahiro TOTANI, Takashi TAKEDA, Akira KOMATSU, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20160171774
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part that acquires procedure information as information representing a series of motion procedures using virtual objects for being additionally displayed to a real world, a division part that generates divided information formed by chronological division of at least part containing time-series information of the acquired procedure information, an evaluation part that evaluates each of the divided information, and a generation part that generates new procedure information from the divided information based on a result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi AONUMA, Masahide TAKANO