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).

  • Patent number: 12387442
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
  • Publication number: 20250252617
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
  • Publication number: 20250227217
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a camera, a distance measurement sensor, an illuminance sensor, a brightness/darkness determinator, an image generator, an image storage, an image retriever, a visual image decider, and a display. The camera captures an image of a real object in front of a user to obtain a camera image. The image generator generates a distance image which corresponds to the camera image and represents a distance to each position of the real object based on data of the distance measurement sensor. The brightness/darkness determinator determines whether a place in which the user is present is a bright place or a dark place based on data of the illuminance sensor. The image storage stores the camera image and the distance image obtained in the bright place as a set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Tomonori HIRABAYASHI, Mayumi NAKADE, Osamu KAWAMAE, Hiroshi NAKAMORI, Masuo OKU
  • Patent number: 12321524
    Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a camera that captures an image of the real space and acquires captured video; a distance-measuring camera that measures a distance from a real object in the real space; and a controller. The controller comprises: captured object processing for recognizing the real object from the captured video; AR object processing for obtaining the AR object and assigning a position, which includes a distance in the real space, to the AR object, and displayed video generation processing for generating displayed video in the MR space while reflecting the perspective of the real object and the AR object in the video. The controller is further provided with: processing for detecting an operation-screen display object from the captured video; and processing for displaying an MR-space operation screen on the operation-screen display object. Video on the operation screen includes the AR object in the MR space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masuo Oku
  • Publication number: 20250164787
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Megumi KURACHI, Masuo OKU, Hirokazu ISHII, Osamu KAWAMAE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 12294814
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kaniwa, Masuo Oku
  • Publication number: 20250087021
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mayumi NAKADE, Masuo OKU, Sadao TSURUGA, Yoshiharu UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 12235444
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20240430636
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Masuo OKU
  • Publication number: 20240414286
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Masuo OKU
  • Publication number: 20240312159
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
  • Patent number: 12081910
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masuo Oku
  • Patent number: 12072284
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Yukinobu Tanaka, Misako Kono, Nobuhiro Shiramizu, Masuo Oku, Manabu Katsuki, Megumi Kurachi
  • Publication number: 20240265370
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Masuo OKU
  • Publication number: 20240265651
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
  • Publication number: 20240244173
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi NAKADE, Masuo OKU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 12033286
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
  • Publication number: 20240177363
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Masuo OKU
  • Patent number: 11989838
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Masuo Oku
  • Publication number: 20240077722
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Megumi KURACHI, Masuo OKU, Hirokazu ISHII, Osamu KAWAMAE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA