Patents by Inventor Nobuki Furue

Nobuki Furue 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: 20240094020
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program enabling to obtain an image that gives high satisfaction. An information processing apparatus includes: a control unit configured to control to display an image-capturing sample image list in which a plurality of image-capturing sample images captured at a plurality of image-capturing places different from each other is arranged, and to control to present guide information for guidance to an image-capturing place of a selected image-capturing sample image in a case where any of the image-capturing sample images is selected from the image-capturing sample image list. The present technology can be applied to an image-capturing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: NOBUKI FURUE, FUMIKO TOTSUKA, OSAMU SAKURAI, TERUYOSHI MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11619867
    Abstract: To provide a new method for displaying a video image on a whole circumference screen. Provided is an image display device including: an emission unit configured to emit image light along a predetermined axis; a screen arranged over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis and having a cylindrical shape with the predetermined axis as a substantially central axis; and an optical unit arranged to face the emission unit with the predetermined axis as a reference, and configured to control an incident angle of the image light emitted by the emission unit, the incident angle being with respect to the screen, in which a video image displayed by the image light incident on the screen is simultaneously displayed over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Furue, Mitsuo Okumura, Yoshihito Ohki, Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220011656
    Abstract: To provide a new method for displaying a video image on a whole circumference screen. Provided is an image display device including: an emission unit configured to emit image light along a predetermined axis; a screen arranged over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis and having a cylindrical shape with the predetermined axis as a substantially central axis; and an optical unit arranged to face the emission unit with the predetermined axis as a reference, and configured to control an incident angle of the image light emitted by the emission unit, the incident angle being with respect to the screen, in which a video image displayed by the image light incident on the screen is simultaneously displayed over a whole circumference around the predetermined axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki FURUE, Mitsuo OKUMURA, Yoshihito OHKI, Tomoharu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11120063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to perform a summarization process of summarizing content of speech indicated by voice information based on speech of a user on a basis of acquired information indicating a weight related to a summary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Keisuke Touyama, Nobuki Furue, Keisuke Saito, Daisuke Sato, Mitani Ryosuke, Miwa Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10565462
    Abstract: In an electronic apparatus that captures images, characters in an image are accurately recognized. The electronic apparatus includes an imaging section, a distance measurement section, a shape estimation section, and a coordinate conversion section. The imaging section images an object and captures image data. The distance measurement section measures distances from the imaging section to a plurality of measurement points on a surface of the object. The shape estimation section estimates a shape of the object from the measured distances. The coordinate conversion section performs coordinate conversion on the image data, the coordinate conversion including converting three-dimensional coordinates on the surface of the object into plane coordinates on a predetermined reference plane on the basis of the estimated shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Ohki, Nobuki Furue, Yoshihito Ohki, Keisuke Touyama, Masahiro Watanabe, Kensei Jo
  • Publication number: 20190019511
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to perform a summarization process of summarizing content of speech indicated by voice information based on speech of a user on a basis of acquired information indicating a weight related to a summary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: SHINICHI KAWANO, KEISUKE TOUYAMA, NOBUKI FURUE, KEISUKE SAITO, DAISUKE SATO, MITANI RYOSUKE, MIWA ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10152222
    Abstract: A digital image processing device is provided that improves operability when performing a scaling up/scaling down operation. Based on a single trajectory when a touch position on a display screen of a display portion moves, a center point and ratio used to scale up or scale down the image are set. In this way, for example, it is possible to scale up and scale down the image by an easy touch operation of simply tracing the trajectory with a single finger (namely, by a single-touch operation).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ozawa, Yuji Saitou, Nobuki Furue, Shinichi Iriya, Ayako Iwase
  • Publication number: 20180189591
    Abstract: In an electronic apparatus that captures images, characters in an image are accurately recognized. The electronic apparatus includes an imaging section, a distance measurement section, a shape estimation section, and a coordinate conversion section. The imaging section images an object and captures image data. The distance measurement section measures distances from the imaging section to a plurality of measurement points on a surface of the object. The shape estimation section estimates a shape of the object from the measured distances. The coordinate conversion section performs coordinate conversion on the image data, the coordinate conversion including converting three-dimensional coordinates on the surface of the object into plane coordinates on a predetermined reference plane on the basis of the estimated shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Ohki, Nobuki Furue, Yoshihito Ohki, Keisuke Touyama, Masahiro Watanabe, Kensei Jo
  • Patent number: 9779523
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content related to a first content in accordance with at least part of metadata attached to each of the first content and the second content, a generating unit for generating a three-dimensional display model, the three-dimensional display model including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having one of a first image and a first character representing the first content arranged therewithin, and the second layer having one of a second image and a second character representing the second content arranged therewithin, and a display control unit for controlling displaying one of the first image and the first character and one of the second image and the second character using the three-dimensional display model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Kazuto Mugura, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Meng Ni, Takatoshi Ono, Kei Tateno, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9477388
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a map screen generation portion that, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up, generates a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn, a display control portion that causes a display portion to display the map screen, and a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using an operating body, wherein the position detecting portion detects a point on the trajectory line specified by the operating body, and, based on the image pickup position information, the display control portion causes a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point to be displayed on the map screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Iwase, Yuji Saitou, Nobuki Furue, Shinichi Iriya, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9478257
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to store in a recording medium a piece of attribute information specified by a user input from among a plurality of sequential pieces of the attribute information in association with a predetermined time period of a content stored in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Saitou, Ayako Iwase, Nobuki Furue, Shinichi Iriya, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9361010
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a display unit for displaying a video image being captured, an index operating unit for inputting an instruction for an index, and an index setting unit for setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured for a predetermined time period including a time point of a user's operation of inputting the instruction for the index, in response to one user's operation on the index operating unit while the video image is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Iwase, Yuji Saitou, Takashi Nunomaki, Nobuki Furue, Shinichi Iriya, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9094585
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including, an operating portion on which are input a recording start instruction and a recording stop instruction, a recording portion that records onto a recording medium moving images that are picked up during a recording period from the recording start instruction to the recording stop instruction, a thumbnail generation portion that generates a plurality of thumbnail images that represent each of sections obtained by time division of the moving images, and a display control portion that displays a recorded image verification screen on a display portion immediately after the recording stop instruction, the plurality of thumbnail images being arranged in chronological order on the recorded image verification screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Iwase, Yuji Saitou, Takashi Nunomaki, Nobuki Furue, Shinichi Iriya, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9063646
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a pointed-position detecting section that accepts a pointing operation via an operating surface provided on a display screen of an image display device, and detects and outputs a position pointed at by the pointing operation on the operating surface. The image processing apparatus also includes a display control section that displays on the image display device an image. The display control section controls the image display device to display a first size image for a predetermined time while the pointing operation continues and then displays a plurality of images having a size smaller than the first size in response to a determination that the pointing operation has held the position for the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ozawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Akagawa, Ayako Iwase
  • Patent number: D736254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D749085
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuki Furue, Ayaka Tamura, Motoki Higashide
  • Patent number: D789381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D797802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Kobayashi, Yunha Cho, Masahiro Takahashi, Keiichi Yoshioka, Mitsuo Okumura, Roxy Chaney, Julia Framel, Nobuki Furue, Toshiyuki Kimura, Keisuke Yanagisawa, Tamao Kawai, Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: D802605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Furue, Ayaka Tamura, Motoki Higashide
  • Patent number: D930007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Furue, Mitsuo Okumura, Yoshihito Ohki