Patents by Inventor Osamu Nishida

Osamu Nishida 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: 11256473
    Abstract: To enable listening to audio in a more suitable mode without any complicated operation even in a situation in which the user's state or situation successively changes. An information processing device including: a recognition processing unit that recognizes a user's state in accordance with a detection result of a predetermined state or situation; and an output control unit that controls audio output from a predetermined output unit on the basis of a function map, which is selected in accordance with a predetermined condition, in which a setting related to control of the audio output is associated with each of a plurality of candidates for the user's state, and the recognized user's state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Oide, Takayuki Mizuuchi, Osamu Nishida, Hirohisa Shibuya, Taeko Usui, Taisuke Nakazono
  • Publication number: 20210004203
    Abstract: To enable listening to audio in a more suitable mode without any complicated operation even in a situation in which the user's state or situation successively changes. An information processing device including: a recognition processing unit that recognizes a user's state in accordance with a detection result of a predetermined state or situation; and an output control unit that controls audio output from a predetermined output unit on the basis of a function map, which is selected in accordance with a predetermined condition, in which a setting related to control of the audio output is associated with each of a plurality of candidates for the user's state, and the recognized user's state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi OIDE, Takayuki MIZUUCHI, Osamu NISHIDA, Hirohisa SHIBUYA, Taeko USUI, Taisuke NAKAZONO
  • Patent number: 10809972
    Abstract: To enable listening to audio in a more suitable mode without any complicated operation even in a situation in which the user's state or situation successively changes. An information processing device including: a recognition processing unit that recognizes a user's state in accordance with a detection result of a predetermined state or situation; and an output control unit that controls audio output from a predetermined output unit on the basis of a function map, which is selected in accordance with a predetermined condition, in which a setting related to control of the audio output is associated with each of a plurality of candidates for the user's state, and the recognized user's state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Oide, Takayuki Mizuuchi, Osamu Nishida, Hirohisa Shibuya, Taeko Usui, Taisuke Nakazono
  • Publication number: 20190361666
    Abstract: To enable listening to audio in a more suitable mode without any complicated operation even in a situation in which the user's state or situation successively changes. An information processing device including; a recognition processing unit that recognizes a user's state in accordance with a detection result of a predetermined state or situation; and an output control unit that controls audio output from a predetermined output unit on the basis of a function map, which is selected in accordance with a predetermined condition, in which a setting related to control of the audio output is associated with each of a plurality of candidates for the user's state, and the recognized user's state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi OIDE, Takayuki MIZUUCHI, Osamu NISHIDA, Hirohisa SHIBUYA, Taeko USUI, Taisuke NAKAZONO
  • Patent number: 9645666
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel includes a touch panel unit, a touch panel control unit, a pen incline information acquiring unit, a coordinate correction unit, and a display panel unit. The touch panel control unit detects a touch upon a touch panel surface, and acquires touch point coordinate information which is information for specifying a location which is touched on the touch panel surface. The pen incline information acquiring unit acquires pen or input member incline information, which is information relating to an angle which is formed by the touch pen and the touch panel surface when the touch pen and the touch panel face are in contact. The coordinate correction unit corrects, on the basis of the pen incline information, the touch point coordinate information when the line is drawn with the touch pen or input member upon the touch panel screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Patent number: 9578410
    Abstract: There is provided a sound reproduction device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates at least a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound, a left channel microphone recording an external sound, and a left channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the left channel microphone; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates at least a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound, a right channel microphone recording an external sound, and a right channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the right channel microphone. The left channel micro-computer and the right channel micro-computer are configured to communicate data with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ozawa, Osamu Nishida, Naotaka Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20150309646
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel capable of correcting, with high precision, a line drawn upon the touch panel with an inclined touch pen or input member. A display device equipped with a touch panel includes a touch panel unit, a touch panel control unit, a pen incline information acquiring unit, a coordinate correction unit, and a display panel unit. The touch panel control unit detects a touch upon a touch panel surface, and acquires touch point coordinate information which is information for specifying a location which is touched on the touch panel surface. The pen incline information acquiring unit acquires pen or input member incline information, which is information relating to an angle which is formed by the touch pen and the touch panel surface when the touch pen and the touch panel face are in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150222979
    Abstract: There is provided a sound reproduction device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates at least a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound, a left channel microphone recording an external sound, and a left channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the left channel microphone; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates at least a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound, a right channel microphone recording an external sound, and a right channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the right channel microphone. The left channel micro-computer and the right channel micro-computer are configured to communicate data with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ozawa, Osamu Nishida, Naotaka Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20150145789
    Abstract: The present invention aims at reducing noise caused by driving of the display panel while reducing a drop in the output rate of coordinates representing an object to be drawn. A coordinate output device receives a horizontal synchronization signal of a display panel from a display panel control unit and starts to detect touch location on the touch panel after a prescribed length of time has passed from the initial rise of the horizontal synchronization signal. The coordinate output device detects coordinates representing touch location in accordance with a signal outputted from the touch panel and performs a generation process to generate coordinates based on three consecutive detected coordinates. The coordinate output device outputs coordinate data having the detected coordinates and the generated coordinates to a control unit as coordinates from a period when three of the generated coordinates were detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Nishida, Teruhisa Masui, Masayuki Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 8976987
    Abstract: There is provided a sound reproduction device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates at least a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound, a left channel microphone recording an external sound, and a left channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the left channel microphone; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates at least a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound, a right channel microphone recording an external sound, and a right channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the right channel microphone. The left channel micro-computer and the right channel micro-computer are configured to communicate data with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ozawa, Osamu Nishida, Naotaka Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8847907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that has a function of detecting the position where light emitted from an input pointer 50 has been inputted to an image display surface 10a of an display panel and that switches the display direction (vertical direction) of a display image on the display panel on the basis of the radiation direction of the light emitted from the input pointer 50. Thus, a display device having a position detection function that enables the display direction of a display image to be switched using a simple structure can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Patent number: 8482396
    Abstract: A DPF controller (21) generates, as image information, a layout identifier (MEN) that specifies the layout of an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display device (11), and an element image identifier (SEN) that specifies the display mode of element images that are being subjected to layout. When an SEN is newly determined and the newly determined SEN is equal to a previously determined SEN, the newly determined SEN is not output to a drawing controller (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Nishida, Teruhisa Masui, Fumiaki Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20130053992
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a device control apparatus including one or two or more connection sections which are connected to an external device, and a control section which controls a sound output from a sound output section of sound data input from the one or two or more connection sections. The control section controls the sound output from the sound output section in accordance with a first sound output mode using a first logical address or a second sound output mode using a second logical address, the second sound output mode having functions which are more limited than functions of the first sound output mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20130051561
    Abstract: There is provided a sound reproduction device including a left channel housing unit that accommodates at least a left channel driver unit outputting a left channel sound, a left channel microphone recording an external sound, and a left channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the left channel microphone; and a right channel housing unit that accommodates at least a right channel driver unit outputting a right channel sound, a right channel microphone recording an external sound, and a right channel micro-computer controlling a setting for a noise cancelling processing based on a recording signal of the right channel microphone. The left channel micro-computer and the right channel micro-computer are configured to communicate data with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ozawa, Osamu Nishida, Naotaka Tsunoda
  • Publication number: 20130051584
    Abstract: There is provided a device control apparatus including a wearing information detection section which detects wearing information of a sound output apparatus, and an output control section which switches an output destination of an input sound between the sound output apparatus and another sound output apparatus in accordance with a detection result obtained by the wearing information detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20130027356
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that has a function of detecting the position where light emitted from an input pointer 50 has been inputted to an image display surface 10a of an display panel and that switches the display direction (vertical direction) of a display image on the display panel on the basis of the radiation direction of the light emitted from the input pointer 50. Thus, a display device having a position detection function that enables the display direction of a display image to be switched using a simple structure can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120212440
    Abstract: Provided are an input motion analysis method and an information processing device that enable simultaneous multi-point input via different input instruments to be correctly performed as intended by an operator. The information processing device according to the present invention can simultaneously receive an input motion of a finger (2) and an input motion of a pen (3) that is thinner than the finger (2) in the same input region (1) in a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Nishida, Teruo Hohjoh, Shingo Nomura
  • Publication number: 20120169643
    Abstract: A gesture determination device (1) includes the following; a coordinate data acquisition unit (10) that acquires coordinate data for each predetermined time period generated by an operation of a user; a first angle-category generation unit (11) that generates a first angle-category at first time intervals based on the coordinate data; a second angle-category generation unit (12) that generates a second angle-category at second time intervals based on the coordinate data, in which the second time interval is longer than the first time interval; and a gesture determination unit (13) that determines a gesture based on the first angle-category and/or the second angle-category. When a time interval defined to generate the second angle-category includes an overlapping time period with a time interval defined to generate the first angle-category, the gesture is determined by giving priority to the second angle-category over the first angle-category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Nishida, Fumiaki Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Yoda
  • Patent number: 8199167
    Abstract: A diagnostic support device supports a diagnosis of a display state of a composite image displayed on a display device that is arranged to display a composite image obtained by combining a plurality of composite target images corresponding to pieces of information supplied from respective devices mounted on a vehicle, the plurality of composite target images being combined with reference to layout information, the diagnostic support device including a layout information obtaining section arranged to obtain the layout information, a layout information output section arranged to output to an image combining apparatus, the layout information, per composite target image, the image combining apparatus combining the plurality of composite target images, and the layout information being obtained by the layout information obtaining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120030633
    Abstract: Provided is a display scene creation system that can cause a display scene to make a transition when a gesture is input to a touch panel, without a processing program that relates the touch panel to the gesture. A design of a display scene is set. One or more display components to be displayed in the set design of the display scene are set. A gesture with which the display scene makes a transition when the gesture is input to the set display components is set. A transition display scene table is provided that stores the set gesture and a post-transition display scene where the gesture and the post-transition display scene are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SHARPKABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiaki Fujimoto, Teruhisa Masui, Kazuhiko Yoda, Osamu Nishida, Jun Hamachi, Masayuki Fujisawa