Patents by Inventor Masayuki Imanishi
Masayuki Imanishi 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: 8279279Abstract: An image processing apparatus permits a user to readily recognize a current state of an angle of view. When an angle of view is switched from a wide-angle to a narrow-angle, range display is performed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. Range display includes a narrow-angle image frame formed with lines indicating a border of an image displayed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. After the predetermined time, a narrow-angle image is displayed and the range display is no longer displayed. The range display allows a user to readily recognize that the wide-angle image has been switched to the narrow-angle image by recognizing to what area in a pre-switching wide angle of view image the post-switching narrow-angle image corresponds.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Toshihiro Hattori, Masayuki Imanishi
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Patent number: 8245309Abstract: Disclosed herein is a content viewing system including a content viewing apparatus, and a viewing approval apparatus used by a viewing approval party to perform an approval process. The content viewing apparatus includes: a viewing approval requesting section that transmits a viewing approval request to the viewing approval apparatus when it has been determined that approval for viewing of a content is necessary; and a content viewing control section that receives, from the viewing approval apparatus, an approval/disapproval response, and, if the approval/disapproval response indicates that the viewing of the content has been approved, enables the viewing of the content. The viewing approval apparatus includes: an output section that outputs information concerning the viewing approval request; an input section that accepts input of the approval/disapproval response; and an approval/disapproval response notification section that notifies the content viewing apparatus of the approval/disapproval response.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Koichi Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20120147999Abstract: A receiving device includes: a buffer temporarily accumulating receive data received through a network; a data processing means for processing the receive data; a short-time variation value acquisition means for acquiring a short-time variation value indicating variation of accumulated quantity of the receive data sequentially accumulated in the buffer in a first unit time; a long-time variation value acquisition means for acquiring a long-time variation value indicating variation of accumulated quantity in a second unit time; and a clock control means for controlling a clock frequency for performing processing of the receive data by the data processing means in accordance with evaluation results of the acquired long-time variation value. The clock control means stops adjustment of the clock frequency when an error of the network or the receive data is detected, and starts the adjustment again after a given adjustment stop time passes from the detection of the error.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventor: Masayuki IMANISHI
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Patent number: 8180109Abstract: If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlargement image is generated to enable simultaneously displaying, as a narrow angle enlargement image, (i) the enlarged image in the enlargement image area and (ii) the compressed image in the not-enlargement image area. When a warning target is detected, a corresponding image area is enlarged. An audio alarm is outputted via a speaker. Further, a new narrow angle enlargement image is generated so as to merge the initial narrow angle enlargement image with an image of enlarging the image area of the warning target. A display window including the new narrow angle enlargement image is then displayed in a display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Akiba, Toshihiro Hattori, Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20110301846Abstract: A vehicle perimeter monitor includes: a shooting device mounted on a vehicle for shooting an image of an outside of the vehicle; a controller including a detector and a generator, wherein the detector sets a detection line in a shot image, and detects a change amount of brightness of a picture cell on the detection line so that the detector detects movement of a moving object along with the detection line, and wherein the generator generates information display according to a detection result of the moving object; and a display for displaying the shot image and the information display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicants: NIPPON SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirohiko Yanagawa, Hideki Ootsuka, Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20110246604Abstract: An image delivery management server of present invention includes a delivery load amount acquiring portion that acquires a delivery load amount of an image that is delivered to a viewer's terminal connected via a network, and a delivery device determining portion that determines, based on the delivery load amount, a type or a quantity of a delivery device that performs image delivery to the viewer's terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20110066329Abstract: A driving support device includes: an in-vehicle camera for shooting an image toward a driving direction of the vehicle; a display device for displaying the image; a steering wheel angle detector for detecting a steering wheel angle of the vehicle; and a display controller for calculating an expected driving track corresponding to a vehicle width and the steering wheel angle and for controlling the display device to display the expected driving track overlapped on the image. The display controller calculates one steering wheel line, which has a curvature changeable in accordance with the steering wheel angle. The display controller controls the display device to display the one steering wheel line at a center of the expected driving track in a vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko WAKAYAMA, Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20110032374Abstract: An image correction apparatus, an image correction method and a transformation map making method are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory section, a corrected image creation section and a display device. The imaging device has an optical axis inclined upward or downward with respect to a ground surface, and captures an image. The corrected image creation section transforms the captured image into a corrected image in accordance with a transformation map stored in the memory section, thereby making a correction on inclination of a display object with respect to a vertical direction. The display device displays the corrected image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicants: NIPPON SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Hideki Ootsuka
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Patent number: 7818784Abstract: A communication control apparatus selects an optimum terminal for an authentication device among a plurality of terminals that have completed authentication of the authentication device via wireless communication. The communication control apparatus has an information acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The information acquiring unit acquires address information and capability information of each of the plurality of terminals and identification information of the authentication device from each of the plurality of terminals. The selecting unit selects the optimum terminal having a capability of handling data addressed to the authentication device among the plurality of terminals on the basis of the capability information of the plurality of terminals and the identification information of the authentication device acquired by the information acquiring unit, when the address information and capability information of the plurality of terminals are acquired by the information acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kunito, Yasuto Masuda, Masayuki Imanishi, Koichi Ogasawara, Minoru Furukawa
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Patent number: 7814358Abstract: Simply constituted electronic apparatus that can definitely output an outputted data after predetermined length of time from a time when an inputted data processing is started, even if data processing time of the inputted data varies with the contents of the data.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Hironori Sato, Masayuki Imanishi, Yasuhiko Satoh, Shusuke Aoki, Satoshi Osanai
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Publication number: 20100245574Abstract: An imaging unit photographs an image of a periphery of the vehicle. An object detection unit obtains image information related to a brightness or a color of the image and position information on the obtained image from the image and detects object from the image information according to a specific feature of the image. A storing unit prestores a vehicle image and history data, which include the image information associated with the position information. A graphic unit overlaps the vehicle image and an image produced according to the history data and converts the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint. A peripheral image display region indicates a present periphery of the vehicle. A history display region is adjacent to the peripheral image display region for indicating the converted image and the detected object at a position according to the position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
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Publication number: 20100251173Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including, a screen control unit that causes a user terminal to display a position selection screen displaying a plurality of user positions where a user can be located in a virtual space and allowing a user to select one user position from the plurality of user positions, a data storage unit that stores a user list listing users having selected each user position with respect to each user position selected by using the position selection screen; and a contents processing unit that processes contents to be delivered to the user terminal according to a positional relationship between users represented by the user list stored in the data storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki IMANISHI
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Publication number: 20100201818Abstract: A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an imaging device for capturing a periphery image; a storage medium for storing history data comprising one of the periphery image and information on an object-in-periphery, the storage medium pre-storing a vehicle image; a display screen having a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image with distortion of the periphery image being uncorrected, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image and a history image being produced based on the history data; and a drawing section configured to superimposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image provided with the distortion that the periphery image has, such that the object-in-periphery shown in the history image is continuously connected to that shown in the periphery image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicants: Nippon Soken, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
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Publication number: 20090327085Abstract: An information processing system includes: a terminal device including a purchase information generating unit generating purchase information for relating a user who purchased a product to the purchased product, the purchase information identified by a predetermined identifier, a verification means generating unit generating verification means verifying correctness of the identifier, and a communication unit sending a purchase verification including the verification means and the identifier verified by the verification means to a terminal of the user; and an information processing device including a communication unit receiving word-of-mouth information entered by a user and a purchase verification when the word-of-mouth information involves it, a validation unit validating correctness of the identifier contained in the received purchase verification using the verification means, and a data holding unit holding purchaser word-of-mouth information having the identifier with correctness verified by the validatiType: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventor: Masayuki IMANISHI
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Publication number: 20090327007Abstract: An information processing system includes: a terminal device including a purchase information generating unit generating purchase information for relating a user who purchased a product to the purchased product, the purchase information identified by a predetermined identifier, a verification means generating unit generating verification means verifying correctness of the identifier, and a communication unit sending a purchase verification including the verification means and the identifier verified by the verification means to a terminal of the user; and an information processing device including a communication unit receiving word-of-mouth information entered by a user and a purchase verification when the word-of-mouth information involves it, a validation unit validating correctness of the identifier contained in the received purchase verification using the verification means, and a data holding unit holding purchaser word-of-mouth information having the identifier with correctness verified by the validatiType: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventor: Masayuki IMANISHI
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Publication number: 20090299684Abstract: A method for calibrating vehicle cameras is simplified by providing painted patterns on a road surface and by capturing those patterns by the cameras to be calibrated. According to a predefined positional relationship of the cameras with the painted patterns, captured images of the painted patterns are bird's-eye converted and matched with reference to calculate camera positions in a vehicle, thereby enabling an automatic calibration of camera directions and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Hirohiko Yanagawa
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Patent number: 7612356Abstract: A raindrop sensor includes an image sensor and an image processor. The image sensor captures an image of a windshield from inside a vehicle. The image processor performs a frequency analysis of the image to detect a high-frequency component in the image. When the high-frequency component is detected, the image processor detects a width of a change region where a change in gradation of the image occurs. When the width of the change region is within a predetermined range corresponding to a diameter of a raindrop, the image processor determines that the raindrop is on the windshield. Even when a foreign matter such as a water stain appears as the high-frequency component as a result of the frequency analysis, the raindrop and the foreign matter can be distinguished from each other based on the width of the change region.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Akira Utida, Masayuki Imanishi, Katsunori Michiyama, Atsushi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090066842Abstract: An image processing apparatus executes distortion compensation based on distortion compensation information associated with desired distortion compensation and an angle of view of an image currently being displayed on a display device. Distortion compensation can be performed stepwise without use of any other distortion compensation information until a distortion compensated state is realized based on distortion compensation information stored in a memory unit. Distortion compensation based on a level received by an operating unit is provided. An image having undergone distortion compensation can be displayed. The number of distortion compensation information items need not be increased proportionally to the number of levels for a magnitude of distortion compensation to be implemented since distortion compensation can be stepwise implemented from the current distortion compensation until a magnitude of distortion compensation is realized based on specific distortion compensation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Toshihiro Hattori, Bingchen Wan, Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20090059006Abstract: An image processing apparatus permits a user to readily recognize a current state of an angle of view. When an angle of view is switched from a wide-angle to a narrow-angle, range display is performed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. Range display includes a narrow-angle image frame formed with lines indicating a border of an image displayed for a predetermined time prior to the switching. After the predetermined time, a narrow-angle image is displayed and the range display is no longer displayed. The range display allows a user to readily recognize that the wide-angle image has been switched to the narrow-angle image by recognizing to what area in a pre-switching wide angle of view image the post-switching narrow-angle image corresponds.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Toshihiro Hattori, Masayuki Imanishi
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Publication number: 20090010567Abstract: If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlargement image is generated to enable simultaneously displaying, as a narrow angle enlargement image, (i) the enlarged image in the enlargement image area and (ii) the compressed image in the not-enlargement image area. When a warning target is detected, a corresponding image area is enlarged. An audio alarm is outputted via a speaker. Further, a new narrow angle enlargement image is generated so as to merge the initial narrow angle enlargement image with an image of enlarging the image area of the warning target. A display window including the new narrow angle enlargement image is then displayed in a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Akiba, Toshihiro Hattori, Masayuki Imanishi