Patents by Inventor Masahiro Takada

Masahiro Takada 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: 20240053822
    Abstract: It is possible to guide a mounting state of a head-mounted image display device to a visually recognizable region that is a correct design position. A head-mounted image display device 100 includes an image acquisition unit 104 that acquires a positional relationship image from which a positional relationship between a pupil position of an eyeball of a user and a visually recognizable region of the user can be estimated and a projection system 103 onto which incident light is projected, and the visually recognizable region is a focal position of the projection system 103. Further, the image display device 100 includes an imaging element, and the imaging element acquires the three-dimensional positional relationship image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: MASAHIRO TAKADA, TEPPEI IMAMURA, RYO OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240050189
    Abstract: A biomagnetic field measurement device includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a subject with radiation; an imaging unit having a light-receiving surface for receiving radiation, the imaging unit being configured to image the subject based on the radiation from the irradiation unit; a marker part configured to absorb the radiation from the irradiation unit; and a processing circuit configured to output biological information based on third position information of the marker part and an imaged result of the subject by the imaging unit, the third position information of the marker part being calculated from first position information of the marker part, second position information of the irradiation unit, and a captured image of the marker part imaged by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Shigenori Kawabata, Akira Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11677915
    Abstract: An image display device includes M (M?2) ultra-short focus projectors and reflective directional screens that reflect projection light rays from the corresponding ultra-short focus projectors. The ultra-short focus projectors are arranged above or below the directional screens on which the ultra-short focus projectors are supposed to project images. Adjacent directional screens are tightly arranged. The adjacent directional screens are arranged to form an angle of less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Norihiro Ohse
  • Patent number: 11599009
    Abstract: An image sensor attached to a printed circuit board is installed in a camera. A holder includes first and second rails comprising first and second printed circuit boards, respectively, and the holder is fastened to a lens mount of the camera. The holder may be fastened to captively hold the image sensor, and the image sensor may be resiliently supported when captively held. A gripper grasps the image sensor proximate to the holder and aligns the image sensor to an aligned position of the image sensor relative to the lens mount. The image sensor may be moved to the aligned position after directing an image toward the image sensor to produce a processed image for determining relative alignment. The printed circuit board is soldered to the first and/or second printed circuit board such that the holder fixedly holds the image sensor so it is unmovable in its aligned position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bull, Alexander Rybolov, Roderick A. Barman, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20230004215
    Abstract: An object is to provide a head-mounted display apparatus that makes it possible to accurately determine a mounting deviation. The technology provides a head-mounted display apparatus including a sensor that detects a change in position of the head-mounted display apparatus relative to a head. The technology further provides an image display system including the head-mounted display apparatus and an information processor that sends image data to the head-mounted display apparatus. The technology further provides an image display method including a detection step of detecting the change in position of the head-mounted display apparatus relative to the head, and an adjustment step of adjusting a position to which the head-mounted display apparatus projects image display light on the basis of the change in position detected in the detection step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: MASAHIRO TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20220317547
    Abstract: An image sensor attached to a printed circuit board is installed in a camera. A holder includes first and second rails comprising first and second printed circuit boards, respectively, and the holder is fastened to a lens mount of the camera. The holder may be fastened to captively hold the image sensor, and the image sensor may be resiliently supported when captively held. A gripper grasps the image sensor proximate to the holder and aligns the image sensor to an aligned position of the image sensor relative to the lens mount. The image sensor may be moved to the aligned position after directing an image toward the image sensor to produce a processed image for determining relative alignment. The printed circuit board is soldered to the first and/or second printed circuit board such that the holder fixedly holds the image sensor so it is unmovable in its aligned position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey BULL, Alexander RYBOLOV, Roderick A. BARMAN, Masahiro TAKADA
  • Patent number: 11402726
    Abstract: A camera has a lens mount and an image sensor for sensing images. A holder of the camera can captively hold the image sensor such that the image sensor is moveable relative to the lens mount when the image sensor is not attached to the holder. The holder is further operable to fixedly hold the image sensor such that the image sensor is unmoveable relative to the lens mount at an aligned position of the image sensor when the image sensor is attached to the holder. The image sensor may be attached to a printed circuit board. The holder may include first and second rails comprising first and second printed circuit boards, respectively. The holder is then operable to fixedly hold the image sensor by the printed circuit board being soldered to at least one of the first and second printed circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bull, Alexander Rybolov, Roderick A. Barman, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20220218300
    Abstract: A disclosed radiation source position estimation system includes a first position information specifier configured to specify position information of one or more elements included in a position measuring member; an imager configured to acquire images of the one or more elements formed by radiation emitted from a radiation source; and a second position information specifier configured to specify position information of the radiation source, based on the first position information specified by the first position information specifier and the images acquired by the imager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKADA, Yoshihisa NAIJO, Akira KINOSHITA
  • Patent number: 11333954
    Abstract: A camera includes: (a) a printed circuit board supporting a first circuit component; (b) a second printed circuit board; (c) a PCB holder for holding the printed circuit boards spaced apart from each other and pivotable relative to each other; and (d) a housing for enclosing the printed circuit boards and the PCB holder, the PCB holder being dimensioned for fastening to the housing such that the printed circuit boards are not parallel to each other and the first circuit component is placed in thermal communication with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bull, Alexander Rybolov, Roderick A. Barman, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20220031276
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor programmed to obtain a first radiation image of a subject captured from a first direction, obtain a second radiation image of the subject captured from a second direction that intersects the first direction, and either correct one of the first radiation image and the second radiation image based on positional information of a device for capturing the one of the first radiation image and the second radiation image, or correct another one of the first radiation image and the second radiation image based on information on a position of a specific region of the subject obtained from the one of the first radiation image and the second radiation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Taishi WATANABE, Akira Kinoshita, Masahiro Takada, Shigenori Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11138746
    Abstract: A diagnostic support system includes a spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data acquisition device configured to acquire spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data and a medical image information acquisition device configured to acquire first medical image information having each pixel associated with a corresponding pixel of visualized data of the spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data. The diagnostic support system superimposes the visualized data of the spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data on second medical image information based on information included in the first medical image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Kinoshita, Shigenori Kawabata, Masahiro Takada, Kazuya Niyagawa
  • Publication number: 20210274069
    Abstract: A camera includes: (a) a lens mount; (b) an image sensor for sensing images; and (c) a holder for fixedly holding the image sensor unmoveable relative to the lens mount at an aligned position after being aligned by gripping the image sensor. The same or different camera includes: (a) a printed circuit board supporting a first circuit component; (b) a second printed circuit board; (c) a PCB holder for holding the printed circuit boards spaced apart from each other and pivotable relative to each other; and (d) a housing for enclosing the printed circuit boards and the PCB holder, the PCB holder being dimensioned for fastening to the housing such that the printed circuit boards are not parallel to each other and the first circuit component is placed in thermal communication with the housing. Methods of installing the image sensor and an image processing assembly are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey BULL, Alexander RYBOLOV, Roderick A. BARMAN, Masahiro TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20210141290
    Abstract: A camera includes: (a) a lens mount; (b) an image sensor for sensing images; and (c) a holder for fixedly holding the image sensor unmoveable relative to the lens mount at an aligned position after being aligned by gripping the image sensor. The same or different camera includes: (a) a printed circuit board supporting a first circuit component; (b) a second printed circuit board; (c) a PCB holder for holding the printed circuit boards spaced apart from each other and pivotable relative to each other; and (d) a housing for enclosing the printed circuit boards and the PCB holder, the PCB holder being dimensioned for fastening to the housing such that the printed circuit boards are not parallel to each other and the first circuit component is placed in thermal communication with the housing. Methods of installing the image sensor and an image processing assembly are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey BULL, Alexander RYBOLOV, Roderick A. BARMAN, Masahiro TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20210021793
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a detector that detects a first region emitting non-visible light; a projector that projects a visible-light image onto a second region including the first region detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate the visible-light image. The controller varies colors of pixels of the visible-light image in a stepwise manner depending on emission intensities of the non-visible light at positions corresponding to the pixels within the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKADA, Etsuro HATANO, Takashi NITTA, Satoru SEO, Takashi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10885629
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes a memory; and at least one processor configured to execute detecting one or more vertebral bodies and one or more intervertebral disks in a medical image; labeling each part satisfying a predetermined condition among the one or more vertebral bodies and the one or more intervertebral disks detected by the detecting; interpolating a vertebral body or an intervertebral disk in a case where the one or more vertebral bodies and the one or more intervertebral disks detected by the detecting do not include the vertebral body or the intervertebral disk that satisfies the predetermined condition; and executing the labeling also for the vertebral body or the intervertebral disk interpolated by the interpolating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Akira Kinoshita, Kazuya Niyagawa
  • Publication number: 20200411180
    Abstract: A biological data processing apparatus includes an addition averaging processor configured to perform an addition averaging process on measurement data of a magnetic field generated by a living body; an estimator configured to perform an estimation process of estimating an intensity of an action current within the living body based on addition average data acquired by the addition averaging processor; a start instruction acceptor configured to accept a start instruction to start the estimation process by the estimator while measurement of the magnetic field is being performed; and a display configured to display an estimation result obtained by the estimator in response to the start instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Akira KINOSHITA, Shigenori KAWABATA, Masahiro TAKADA, Kazuma GOTO, Fumikazu HOSHI, Taishi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200404226
    Abstract: An image display device includes M (M?2) ultra-short focus projectors and reflective directional screens that reflect projection light rays from the corresponding ultra-short focus projectors. The ultra-short focus projectors are arranged above or below the directional screens on which the ultra-short focus projectors are supposed to project images. Adjacent directional screens are tightly arranged. The adjacent directional screens are arranged to form an angle of less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKADA, Norihiro OHSE
  • Patent number: 10721447
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20190342531
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: D902278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Lucid Vision Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick Arthur Barman, Masahiro Takada, Jeffrey Bull, Vladislav Goldenberg