Patents by Inventor Masami Ogata
Masami Ogata 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).
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Patent number: 11965680Abstract: In a heat pump device in which a compressor, a gas cooler, a refrigerant heat exchanger, a refrigerant expansion valve, and an evaporator are connected to configure a refrigerant circulation circuit, the heat pump device includes a buffer tank, one end being connected to the high-pressure side of the refrigerant expansion valve and arranged to store a refrigerant, and a first refrigerant pipe, one end being connected to the high-pressure side of the compressor and the other end connected to the low-pressure side of the evaporator and arranged to exchange heat with the buffer tank. The first refrigerant pipe includes a first control valve arranged between the high-pressure side of the compressor and the buffer tank to control opening and closing of the first refrigerant pipe, and a first flow rate regulator arranged between the buffer tank and the low-pressure side of the evaporator to control the refrigerant flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nihon Itomic Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masami Ogata
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Publication number: 20230184469Abstract: Provided is a heat pump device capable of efficiently adjusting the temperature in a buffer tank for collecting or discharging a refrigerant in a high-pressure space of a refrigerant circulation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventor: Masami OGATA
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Publication number: 20220080363Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite semipermeable membrane including: a substrate; a porous support layer disposed on the substrate; and a separation functional layer disposed on the porous support layer, in which the separation functional layer includes: a first layer including a crosslinked aromatic polyamide; and a coating layer existing on the first layer and including an aliphatic polyamide including a fluorine atom, and the composite semipermeable membrane has a proportion of the number of fluorine atoms to the total number of atoms of all elements of 0.5% or more and 8% or less, and has a ratio (N/O ratio) of the number of nitrogen atoms to the number of oxygen atoms of 0.8 or more and 1.3 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Tomoya YOSHIZAKI, Tsuyoshi HAMADA, Masami OGATA, Harutoki SHIMURA, Takafumi OGAWA
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Patent number: 10762688Abstract: Achieving a configuration that reduces the artificiality to give a strange feeling about the viewpoint of the user displayed on the display unit appearing different from the actual viewpoint. Photographed images from a plurality of different viewpoints are input to generate a plurality of virtual viewpoint images, and then, the plurality of virtual viewpoint images is combined to generate a combined image to be output on a display unit. The virtual viewpoint image generation unit generates a plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images each corresponding to each of viewpoints of each of a plurality of viewing users viewing the display unit, while the image combining unit extracts a portion from each of the plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images in accordance with a relative position between the viewing user and the display unit, and combines the extracted image to generate a combined image.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 10670880Abstract: A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 10297055Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a physical property parameter acquisition unit and a texture control unit. The physical property parameter acquisition unit is configured to acquire a physical property parameter on a subject in an image. The texture control unit is configured to control a texture of the subject in the image by using the physical property parameter acquired by the physical property parameter acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masato Akao, Masami Ogata
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Publication number: 20190043245Abstract: Achieving a configuration that reduces the artificiality to give a strange feeling about the viewpoint of the user displayed on the display unit appearing different from the actual viewpoint. Photographed images from a plurality of different viewpoints are input to generate a plurality of virtual viewpoint images, and then, the plurality of virtual viewpoint images is combined to generate a combined image to be output on a display unit. The virtual viewpoint image generation unit generates a plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images each corresponding to each of viewpoints of each of a plurality of viewing users viewing the display unit, while the image combining unit extracts a portion from each of the plurality of user viewpoint-corresponding virtual viewpoint images in accordance with a relative position between the viewing user and the display unit, and combines the extracted image to generate a combined image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventor: MASAMI OGATA
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Patent number: 9835864Abstract: It is made possible to correct a positional gap between an optical system and an eye of an observer appropriately. Based on an eyeball position of the eye of the observer, a positional relationship between the optical system, which leads an image displayed on a display element to the eye of the observer, and the eye of the observer, that is, a positional gap therebetween is detected. Based on the positional relationship detected in such a manner, the positional relationship between the optical system and the eye of the observer is corrected. For example, the positional gap is electronically corrected by performing shift control of a position of the image displayed on the display element. Also, for example, the positional gap is mechanically corrected by performing shift control of the optical system including the display element.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9832445Abstract: To reduce burden of a viewer at the time of performing stereoscopic display by a stereoscopic display device and to show a stereoscopic image in a natural and comfortable manner. A disparity estimating unit 210 estimates disparity from the left and right images of an input image to generate a disparity map. A disparity analyzing unit 230 analyzes the disparity map to generate a disparity control parameter for performing suitable disparity control. A disparity control unit 240 controls the content of processing at an image conversion unit 250 in accordance with the disparity control parameter. The image conversion unit 250 performs image conversion on the input image based on the control by the disparity control unit 240 to output an output image. The image conversion unit 250 performs image conversion of two steps.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Suguru Ushiki, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9779539Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving spatial positions associated with a plurality of images. The method determines displacements of the images in opposing first and second horizontal directions, based on at least the spatial positions. The method then generates, using a processor, first and second composites of the images, based on the determined displacements.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata, Yoshiki Okamoto, Masaaki Hara
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Publication number: 20170276956Abstract: A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9771491Abstract: The present invention provides a laminated film comprising a polyester film having a resin layer on at least one side thereof, wherein said resin layer contains at least metal oxide particles (A) having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 50 nm or less, and an acrylic resin (B), and a component (C1) derived from an oxazoline-based compound and/or a component (C2) derived from a melamine-based compound, and wherein said acrylic resin (B) contains a monomer unit (b1), a monomer unit (b2) and a monomer unit (b3). The present invention provides a laminated film which is excellent in transparency, suppression of interference pattern upon lamination of a high refractive index hard coat layer, adhesive property to a high refractive index hard coat layer, and adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions (adhesion under high temperature and high humidity conditions), at a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Yu Abe, Masami Ogata, Yasushi Takada
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Patent number: 9618759Abstract: A display image is superimposed and displayed on an outside image in a preferred manner. An optical system superimposes a display image displayed on a display device onto an outside image, and leads the display image to an eye of an observer. A display control unit controls the display size and the display position of the display image on the display device so that the display image is displayed in an image superimposition region (a flat region) detected from the outside image. For example, the display control unit controls the display state of the display image in accordance with the state of the image superimposition region in the outside image. Also, the display control unit performs control to selectively display the display image in a line-of-sight region or outside the line-of-sight region in accordance with the line of sight of the observer.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9600888Abstract: A plurality of processes for emphasizing a stereoscopic effect of an image is supposed and a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated in a mode suitable for the image. An image processing device is provided with a stereoscopic effect emphasis processing unit and an integration processing unit. The stereoscopic effect emphasis processing unit executes a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes on an input image. The integration processing unit integrates results of a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes according to an integration coefficient used when a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated obtained by analyzing the input image. This may be further provided with an image analyzing unit which analyzes the input image to generate the integration coefficient used when a plurality of stereoscopic effect emphasis processes is integrated.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Kawai, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9507165Abstract: Influences of physiological stereoscopic elements are removed by image processing using projection transformation. A horopter-plane image projection unit 311 is designed to project a non-stereo image supplied via a signal line 129 onto a cylindrical plane (horopter plane) including a horopter circle. The size of the horopter circle is specified using, for example, the radius as horopter circle information. Additionally, the relationship with two eyes is specified by the interocular distance. A display surface right-eye projection unit 316 is designed to project an image projected on the horopter plane onto a display surface for the right eye. A display surface left-eye projection unit 317 is designed to project the image projected on the horopter plane onto a display surface for the left eye. Therefore, retinal images that are identical to each other are supplied to the two eyes to remove influences of physiological stereoscopic elements, and stereoscopic depth is given.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Ueda, Masami Ogata, Yasunari Hatasawa, Shinichiro Gomi, Yusuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 9280828Abstract: A parallax detection unit generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each pixel of an image formed by right and left images and generates a reliability map indicating reliability of the parallax. A depth information estimation unit generates a depth information map indicating the depth of a subject on the image based on the right and left images. A depth parallax conversion unit converts the depth information map into a pseudo-parallax map using a conversion equation used to convert depth information to parallax information. A parallax synthesis unit synthesizes the parallax map and the pseudo-parallax map to generate a corrected parallax map based on the reliability map. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masami Ogata, Takafumi Morifuji, Suguru Ushiki
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Patent number: 9277207Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a left eye image input unit configured to input a left eye image (L image) which is a left eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a right eye image input unit configured to input a right eye image (R image) which is a right eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a parallax information generating unit configured to generate parallax information from the left eye image (L image) and the right eye image (R image), and a virtual view point image generating unit configured to receive the left eye image (L image), the right eye image (R image), and the parallax information, and generate virtual view point images including a view point image other than view points of the received LR images.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Suguru Ushiki, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 9248629Abstract: A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masami Ogata, Yu Abe, Yasushi Takada
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Patent number: 9247230Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first display control unit that causes a display unit to display a first 3D image, a receiving unit that receives, from a user, a message indicating whether an amount of parallax of the first 3D image being displayed on the display unit is within an allowable range, a determining unit that determines an estimated allowable range on the basis of the message received by the receiving unit so that if the message indicates that the amount of parallax of the 3D image being displayed is not within the allowable range, the amount of parallax is not included in the estimated allowable range; and a second display control unit that causes the display unit to display a second 3D image on the basis of the estimated allowable range.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masami Ogata, Takafumi Morifuji, Suguru Ushiki
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Patent number: 9219911Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and a correction processor. The first acquiring unit acquires an intended viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an intended viewing environment, together with image data of a three-dimensional picture. The second acquiring unit acquires an actual viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an actual viewing environment for a user viewing the three-dimensional picture. The correction processor corrects the three-dimensional picture in accordance with a difference between the acquired intended viewing environment parameter and the acquired actual viewing environment parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Ushiki, Takafumi Morifuji, Masami Ogata