Patents by Inventor Masuo Oku
Masuo Oku 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: 12294814Abstract: A watching monitoring apparatus includes a monitoring camera and a home server, and monitors a watching space in which a watched person exists. The monitoring camera images the watching space. The home server includes a person detector that detects a person from a captured image, and classifies the detected person into a face part and a body part, a processing-drawing part that performs a processing-drawing process with respect to the body part except for the face part, an image synthesizer that creates a synthesized image of an image subjected to the processing-drawing process and the captured image, and a network part through which the synthesized image is transmitted to a display terminal of a watching person. When the detected person has not been registered in face information registration data in which face information of the watched person is registered, the processing-drawing process is not performed with respect to the person.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kaniwa, Masuo Oku
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Publication number: 20250087021Abstract: Provided is a wearable device and a behavior evaluation system that are capable of measuring and evaluating a direct relationship between a wearer and a target person and making the wearer aware, etc., of behavior by clearly indicating an evaluation result. They also contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of “health and well-being for all” by enabling maintenance of people's mental and physical health.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Mayumi NAKADE, Masuo OKU, Sadao TSURUGA, Yoshiharu UCHIDA
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Patent number: 12235444Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20240430636Abstract: An audio-augmented-reality-object playback device comprises a microphone, an audio playback device to be worn on a listener, and a processor, and the processor is configured to place an audio-augmented-reality-object in a real space, acquire a stereoscopic audio signal from the audio-augmented-reality-object to carry out control for causing the audio playback device to output a sound based on the stereoscopic audio signal, detect a level of a sound in the real space collected by the microphone and a sound source direction of the sound in the real space and correct a placement position of the audio-augmented-reality-object based on a result of the detection so as to separate the placement position of the audio-augmented-reality-object from the sound source direction of the sound in the real space, and carry out control for causing the audio playback device to output the sound based on the stereoscopic sound signal at the placement position as corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20240414286Abstract: An information device having a camera and a display is connected to a camera image sharing service providing device by communication means to upload a captured image of the camera and its feature amount and download a captured image of another information device and its feature amount. The information device is connected to an auto-framing service providing device to download a plurality of framing patterns for combining a plurality of captured images. Framing means of the information device calculates the feature amount of the captured image of the camera, selects one framing pattern from the plurality of downloaded framing patterns based on the calculated feature amount and the downloaded feature amount of the captured image of another information device, and combines the captured images of the camera and another information device. The captured images of the camera and another information device that have been combined are displayed on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20240312159Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) display device includes a camera that captures a background image; a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance to a real object in the background image; a position and orientation sensor that detects the position of the camera and the shooting direction of the camera; a controller that recognizes the real object from the background image captured by the camera and associates the predetermined AR object with the recognized real object; a display displaying an image of the associated AR object; and a memory that stores data of the real object and the AR object associated with each other. The controller determines whether or not the real object is movable from the measurement result of the distance measuring sensor, and arranges the AR object according to the current position of the real object when the position of the real object associated with the AR object moves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
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Patent number: 12081910Abstract: An information device having a camera and a display is connected to a camera image sharing service providing device by communication means to upload a captured image of the camera and its feature amount and download a captured image of another information device and its feature amount. In addition, the information device is connected to an auto-framing service providing device to download a plurality of framing patterns for combining a plurality of captured images. Framing means of the information device calculates the feature amount of the captured image of the camera, selects one framing pattern from the plurality of downloaded framing patterns based on the calculated feature amount and the downloaded feature amount of the captured image of another information device, and combines the captured images of the camera and another information device. The captured images that have been combined are displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masuo Oku
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Patent number: 12072284Abstract: Terahertz wave detection equipment comprises: a terahertz wave transceiver including a transmitter for transmitting a terahertz wave and a receiver for receiving a reflected terahertz wave reflected by a background reflected object which exists behind an object to be analyzed; a display; and an information processing apparatus, wherein the transmitter irradiates a terahertz wave based on a transmission signal including a specific frequency toward a two-dimensional area including the object to be analyzed, and the information processing apparatus is configured to analyze concentration of the object to be analyzed based on the reflected terahertz wave and generate a composite image in which a concentration image of the object to be analyzed is combined with an image of the background reflected object.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Yukinobu Tanaka, Misako Kono, Nobuhiro Shiramizu, Masuo Oku, Manabu Katsuki, Megumi Kurachi
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Publication number: 20240265370Abstract: A technique in which with respect to cashless payment technique, suitable cashless payment can be carried out with less operation by a user who is a purchaser is provided. An information terminal is configured to: photograph, by a camera, a code of payment destination information posted by a store and a payment amount corresponding to a purchase amount of a product or service on a basis of an operation of a user; issue a payment command in a case where both payment destination information and the payment amount are recognized on a basis of a photographed image, the payment command including the payment destination information and the payment amount; and transmit the payment command to a server to cause the server to execute the cashless payment processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20240265651Abstract: The MR display device includes a controller and a display unit. The controller recognizes a reality object from a reality video imaged by a camera and links a predetermined virtual object to the reality object based on an operation of an experiencing person. The display unit displays a video of the linked virtual object. The controller acquires a recognition result of a reality object generated by the other MR display device and data of the linked virtual object, via a communication unit, synthesizes the acquired data and the own data, and displays a video obtained by the synthesis on the display unit. In addition, the controller allows an edit of the virtual object linked to the reality object on the video displayed on the display unit, based on an operation of the experiencing person.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20240244173Abstract: A head mounted display includes a non-transmissive display for displaying a VR image, a camera, and a controller, the controller analyzing a captured image generated by the camera while a user is experiencing VR contents, and when it is determined from the captured image that the user is holding an information processor, causing a non-transmissive display to superimpose the VR image and an image of the information processor and display them.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Mayumi NAKADE, Masuo OKU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 12033286Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) display device includes a camera that captures a background image; a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance to a real object in the background image; a position and orientation sensor that detects the position of the camera and the shooting direction of the camera; a controller that recognizes the real object from the background image captured by the camera and associates the predetermined AR object with the recognized real object; a display displaying an image of the associated AR object; and a memory that stores data of the real object and the AR object associated with each other. The controller determines whether or not the real object is movable from the measurement result of the distance measuring sensor, and arranges the AR object according to the current position of the real object when the position of the real object associated with the AR object moves.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
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Publication number: 20240177363Abstract: A mount type device includes a camera configured to photograph a work site in a wider range than a visual field of a worker; a sensor configured to obtain a visual line of the worker; and a visual line movement detector configured to detect, as visual line movement information, movement of a direction of the visual line of the worker by using the sensor information. The mount type device transmits data on the photographed image and the visual line movement information to an operation instructing apparatus via a network. An operation instructing apparatus includes a display setter configured to extract a first image having a wider range than a visual field range of the worker from the image photographed by the camera, correct the first image using the visual line movement information, and cause a display of the corrected first image; and an instruction image is generated for the worker.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
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Patent number: 11989838Abstract: The MR display device includes a controller and a display unit. The controller recognizes a reality object from a reality video imaged by a camera and links a predetermined virtual object to the reality object based on an operation of an experiencing person. The display unit displays a video of the linked virtual object. The controller acquires a recognition result of a reality object generated by the other MR display device and data of the linked virtual object, via a communication unit, synthesizes the acquired data and the own data, and displays a video obtained by the synthesis on the display unit. In addition, the controller allows an edit of the virtual object linked to the reality object on the video displayed on the display unit, based on an operation of the experiencing person.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
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Publication number: 20240077722Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Megumi KURACHI, Masuo OKU, Hirokazu ISHII, Osamu KAWAMAE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
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Patent number: 11915339Abstract: A mount type device includes a camera configured to photograph a work site in a wider range than a visual field of a worker; a sensor configured to obtain a visual line of the worker; and a visual line movement detector configured to detect, as visual line movement information, movement of a direction of the visual line of the worker by using the sensor information. The mount type device transmits data on the photographed image and the visual line movement information to an operation instructing apparatus via a network. An operation instructing apparatus includes a display setter configured to extract a first image having a wider range than a visual field range of the worker from the image photographed by the camera, correct the first image using the visual line movement information, and cause a display of the corrected first image; and an instruction image is generated for the worker.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
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Patent number: 11852811Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20230300296Abstract: A watching monitoring apparatus includes a camera and a home server. The camera images a watching space where a watched person exists. The home server includes a person detector detecting a person from a captured image by the camera, and classifies the detected person into face and body parts, a processing-drawing part performing a processing-drawing process for the body part except for the face part, an image synthesizer that creates a synthesized image of an image subjected to the processing-drawing process and the captured image, and a network part through which the synthesized image is transmitted to a display terminal of a watching person. The apparatus further includes face information registration data in which face information of the watched person is registered, and when a detected person is not registered in the face information registration data, the processing-drawing process is not performed for the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Koji KANIWA, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20230290081Abstract: A virtual reality sharing system is configured such that a VR-server that composites a plurality of camera-captured videos obtained by capturing videos of a same real space from different viewpoints to create a VR video, an AR-server that draws and creates an AR object (ARO), and a viewer virtual reality sharing terminal (terminal) that receives the VR video and the ARO, superimposes the ARO on the VR video, and then displays the VR video are connected so as to be able to communicate with each other via a network, and when an input interface of the terminal accepts a setting input operation about a viewer’s viewpoint for taking in the VR video, the terminal transmits data indicating a position and direction of the viewer’s viewpoint to the VR-server and the AR-server, receives the VR video viewed from the viewer’s viewpoint from the VR-server, receives drawing data of the ARO viewed from the viewer’s viewpoint from the AR-server, superimposes the ARO based on the drawing data on the VR video viewed from the vType: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
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Publication number: 20230258558Abstract: Terahertz wave detection equipment comprises: a terahertz wave transceiver including a transmitter for transmitting a terahertz wave and a receiver for receiving a reflected terahertz wave reflected by a background reflected object which exists behind an object to be analyzed; a display; and an information processing apparatus, wherein the transmitter irradiates a terahertz wave based on a transmission signal including a specific frequency toward a two-dimensional area including the object to be analyzed, and the information processing apparatus is configured to analyze concentration of the object to be analyzed based on the reflected terahertz wave and generate a composite image in which a concentration image of the object to be analyzed is combined with an image of the background reflected object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Yukinobu TANAKA, Misako KONO, Nobuhiro SHIRAMIZU, Masuo OKU, Manabu KATSUKI, Megumi KURACHI