Patents by Inventor Noribumi Shibayama

Noribumi Shibayama 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: 11965754
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that creates map information on the basis of sensor information obtained by an on-vehicle sensor. The information processing apparatus includes a creation section that creates a map of a surrounding area of a mobile body on the basis of sensor information acquired by one or more sensors mounted on the mobile body, a request section that issues an information request to an external apparatus on the basis of a state of the map created by the creation section, and a merge section that merges information acquired by the request section from the external apparatus with the created map. The request section issues an information request to the external apparatus on the basis of a condition of a dead angle included in the map created by the creation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noribumi Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20230367430
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of further improving operability. A virtual touch panel surface that does not actually exist is set in a space in front of a display surface of a display. Then, a touch operation on the virtual touch panel surface performed by a user is detected on the basis of position information of a specific site of a body used by the user for the touch operation on the virtual touch panel surface, and processing corresponding to the detected touch operation is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAFUMI ASAHARA, GOSHI WATANABE, TAKAKI UENO, KAZUYUKI OKUIKE, SATOMI KAWASE, SUGURU KOBAYASHI, NORIBUMI SHIBAYAMA, HIROTAKA NIIKURA, JUNYA MIZUTANI, TOSHIHISA MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20230176695
    Abstract: The present embodiment is an information processing device adapted to a non-contact user interface. The information processing device includes a display control unit configured to perform control such that a first screen is displayed on a display, a feature recognition unit configured to recognize a feature related to a specific part of a user in a spatial coordinate system, a mapping unit configured to specify a position on the first screen, the position corresponding to a position of the specific part in the spatial coordinate system, according to a mapping algorithm on the basis of the feature, an input operation specifying unit configured to specify an input operation on the basis of content of the first screen and the position on the first screen, and a processing execution unit configured to execute processing on the basis of the input operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: NORIBUMI SHIBAYAMA, TAKAFUMI ASAHARA, TAKAKI UENO, SATOMI KAWASE, SUGURU KOBAYASHI, TOSHIHISA MIYAKE, KAZUYUKI OKUIKE, GOSHI WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220099457
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that creates map information on the basis of sensor information obtained by an on-vehicle sensor. The information processing apparatus includes a creation section that creates a map of a surrounding area of a mobile body on the basis of sensor information acquired by one or more sensors mounted on the mobile body, a request section that issues an information request to an external apparatus on the basis of a state of the map created by the creation section, and a merge section that merges information acquired by the request section from the external apparatus with the created map. The request section issues an information request to the external apparatus on the basis of a condition of a dead angle included in the map created by the creation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: NORIBUMI SHIBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210142501
    Abstract: An object detection processing section 21 detects an object region, using at least one of multiple viewpoint images (e.g., left-viewpoint image) with different viewpoint positions on the basis of information learned through prior learning. A distance measuring section 23 performs ellipse fitting on the object region detected by the object detection processing section 21 to set a distance measurement point arrangement region, and sets multiple distance measurement points in the distance measurement point arrangement region. The distance measuring section 22 performs a stereo matching process using the multiple viewpoint images to calculate a parallax with sub-pixel accuracy for each of the distance measurement points corresponding to the object indicated by an image of the object region and, on the basis of the calculated parallaxes, generates distance measurement information regarding the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: NOBUHIRO TSUNASHIMA, NORIBUMI SHIBAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10864855
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging control apparatus, a method for controlling the imaging control apparatus, and a mobile body that can improve the distance measurement accuracy of a stereo camera mounted in a vehicle. A set of cameras included in a stereo camera system is arranged in line, on a side surface of a main body of a vehicle, in a vertical direction relative to a road surface. Further, in order from a front side of columns of pixels arranged in an array, imaged pixel signals are sequentially read in the vertical direction in units of pixels for each of the columns of the pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to an in-vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hashimoto, Hideaki Imai, Noribumi Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20200108774
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging control apparatus, a method for controlling the imaging control apparatus, and a mobile body that can improve the distance measurement accuracy of a stereo camera mounted in a vehicle. A set of cameras included in a stereo camera system is arranged in line, on a side surface of a main body of a vehicle, in a vertical direction relative to a road surface. Further, in order from a front side of columns of pixels arranged in an array, imaged pixel signals are sequentially read in the vertical direction in units of pixels for each of the columns of the pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to an in-vehicle system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hashimoto, Hideaki Imai, Noribumi Shibayama
  • Patent number: 9542720
    Abstract: Captured or input image data is converted into an image of a size of a specific number of pixels. Then, predetermined plural types of different effects are applied to image data obtained through the conversion. Several types of image data items with the applied effects are arranged and simultaneously displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimomura, Yuka Jingushi, Hidehiro Komatsu, Akira Nishiyama, Noribumi Shibayama, Ryoko Amano, Miyuki Shirakawa, Kazuya Takeuchi, Takeshi Tanigawa, Daichi Yagi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20140104319
    Abstract: Captured or input image data is converted into an image of a size of a specific number of pixels. Then, predetermined plural types of different effects are applied to image data obtained through the conversion. Several types of image data items with the applied effects are arranged and simultaneously displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro SHIMOMURA, Yuka Jingushi, Hidehiro Komatsu, Akira Nishiyama, Noribumi Shibayama, Ryoko Amano, Miyuki Shirakawa, Kazuya Takeuchi, Takeshi Tanigawa, Daichi Yagi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8417109
    Abstract: A photographing device, which includes a photographing section; a display section that displays a photography image taken by the photographing section; a person indicator setting section that sets a person indicator prepared beforehand on the display screen; an operation section that operates a target position and/or a target size of the person indicator; a person detection section that detects a position and/or a size of a person in the photography image; a comparison section that compares the detected position and/or size of the person in the photography image with the target position and/or size; a guiding instruction section that generates an instruction for the person to be photographed to guide toward a direction coinciding with the compared result; and a control section that controls the photographing section such that, when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the compared result falls within a predetermined allowable error, a shutter is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Noribumi Shibayama, Hisatoshi Suto
  • Publication number: 20110008036
    Abstract: A photographing device, which includes a photographing section; a display section that displays a photography image taken by the photographing section; a person indicator setting section that sets a person indicator prepared beforehand on the display screen; an operation section that operates a target position and/or a target size of the person indicator; a person detection section that detects a position and/or a size of a person in the photography image; a comparison section that compares the detected position and/or size of the person in the photography image with the target position and/or size; a guiding instruction section that generates an instruction for the person to be photographed to guide toward a direction coinciding with the compared result; and a control section that controls the photographing section such that, when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the compared result falls within a predetermined allowable error, a shutter is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Susumu TAKATSUKA, Noribumi Shibayama, Hisatoshi Suto