Patents by Inventor Nobutaka Nakayama

Nobutaka Nakayama 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: 8350923
    Abstract: A mobile camera system is disclosed. The camera system connects plural camera apparatuses including at least first and second camera apparatuses mounted on a mobile body to one another and combines images photographed by the first and the second camera apparatuses, wherein reference data obtained by the first camera apparatus is transferred to the second camera apparatus via a camera control unit, signal processing is performed in the second camera apparatus on the basis of the reference data transferred to generate a corrected image, and an image from the first camera apparatus and the corrected image outputted from the second camera apparatus are combined to output a combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Nakayama, Katsumi Katoh, Kazushi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20070285282
    Abstract: A mobile camera system is disclosed. The camera system connects plural camera apparatuses including at least first and second camera apparatuses mounted on a mobile body to one another and combines images photographed by the first and the second camera apparatuses, wherein reference data obtained by the first camera apparatus is transferred to the second camera apparatus via a camera control unit, signal processing is performed in the second camera apparatus on the basis of the reference data transferred to generate a corrected image, and an image from the first camera apparatus and the corrected image outputted from the second camera apparatus are combined to output a combined image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Nobutaka Nakayama, Katsumi Katoh, Kazushi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20070263118
    Abstract: The variation of shades due to light transmissivity controlled by a property device is suppressed with a simple structure. An optical device 1 that blocks light having a wavelength longer than a predetermined wavelength is disposed in a property device 20 that is composed of for example liquid crystal and that can control light transmissivity. The optical device 1 blocks light having a longer wavelength than a wavelength at which a wavelength band of which the wavelength dependency of spectrum characteristic of the property device 20 is weak changes to a wavelength band of which the wavelength dependency of spectrum characteristic of the property device 20 is strong. The optical device 1 blocks light having a longer wavelength than a predetermined wavelength emitted from an object. The property device 20 controls the light transmissivity and enters the light to an image sensor 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Yutaka Sato, Hiroyuki Tabel, Nobutaka Nakayama