Patents by Inventor Seiji Tatsuta

Seiji Tatsuta 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: 11036775
    Abstract: In an information recording system, a sound processing unit generates a conversion candidate word in a process of converting sound information into text information. A recording unit records the text information and the conversion candidate word on a recording medium such that the text information and the conversion candidate word are associated with each other. A search unit performs a search based on a keyword and extracts a word matching the keyword from words within the text information and the conversion candidate word. A reading unit reads the text information including the word matching the keyword from the recording medium. A display unit displays the text information such that a part corresponding to the word matching the keyword and a part other than the corresponding part are able to be distinguished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10877269
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user, an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user, and a processor. The processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image and performs display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura, Hirofumi Endo, Takao Shibasaki, Yoji Osanai, Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10782533
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a wearable element mounted on a head of a wearer, a display that displays an image in a part of a field of view of the wearer, an arm that holds the display, and a coupling element that couples the arm and the wearable element to each other. The coupling element includes a first rotation mechanism capable of rotating the arm around a first axis, and a second rotation mechanism that is provided closer to the wearable element than the first rotation mechanism is, and is capable of rotating the arm with a degree of freedom including rotation around a second axis and a third axis, the second axis being orthogonal to the first axis, the third axis being orthogonal to the second axis and intersecting with the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10732418
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a first contact element, a second contact element, a headband that couples the first contact element and the second contact element to each other and presses the first contact element and the second contact element toward temporal regions, a first coupling element that couples the first contact element and the headband to each other, and a second coupling element that couples the second contact element and the headband to each other. Each of the first contact element and the second contact element includes an elastic member having a longitudinal direction extending along a forward and backward direction of the head in a state where the wearable device is worn on the head of the wearer. The elastic member is curved to conform to the curved shape of the temporal regions in the forward and backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10585216
    Abstract: A light-guiding prism includes a first optical surface which is a surface of incidence on which image light from a display element is incident, and a second optical surface, a third optical surface, a fourth optical surface, and a fifth optical surface which are at least four optical surfaces disposed to surround an optical path of the image light that is incidence from the first optical surface. A sixth optical surface reflects the image light that is guided in a prism surrounded by that at least four side surfaces, which are the second optical surface, the third optical surface, the fourth optical surface, and the fifth optical surface. The fourth optical surface and the fifth optical surface are inclined at a surface perpendicular to a surface include an incident-light axis of the image light, made by the incident-light axis and a reflected-light axis of the sixth optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Yoichi Iba
  • Publication number: 20200018957
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a display device configured to form a virtual display region by a virtual image of an electronic video in a visual field of a user, an image pickup device configured to pick up an image of an image pickup range including a part or a whole of visual field of the user, and a processor. The processor determines, with signal processing for a picked-up image by the image pickup device, an observation necessary range in the picked-up image and performs display control for displaying, in the virtual display region, an image portion of the observation necessary range in the picked-up image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki UEMURA, Hirofumi ENDO, Takao SHIBASAKI, Yoji OSANAI, Seiji TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20190364241
    Abstract: In an information recording system, an information generation unit is configured to generate processing information for identifying processing to be performed on an object for inspection. An ID acquisition unit is configured to acquire ID information attached to at least one of the object and a physical object for storing or supporting the object. A recording unit is configured to associate first ID information and second ID information with the processing information and record the processing information, the first ID information, and the second ID information on a recording medium. The first ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit before the processing is performed. The second ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit after the processing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWANO, Seiji TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20190346373
    Abstract: An information recording system includes an object information acquisition unit, an image acquisition unit, a recording unit, a reading unit, and a display unit. The object information acquisition unit acquires object information about an object. The image acquisition unit acquires image information indicating a situation in which the object information was acquired. The recording unit records the object information and the image information on a recording medium such that the object information and the image information are associated with each other. The reading unit reads the object information and the image information from the recording medium. The display unit displays the object information and the image information read by the reading unit such that the object information and the image information are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20190340188
    Abstract: In an information recording system, a sound processing unit generates a conversion candidate word in a process of converting sound information into text information. A recording unit records the text information and the conversion candidate word on a recording medium such that the text information and the conversion candidate word are associated with each other. A search unit performs a search based on a keyword and extracts a word matching the keyword from words within the text information and the conversion candidate word. A reading unit reads the text information including the word matching the keyword from the recording medium. A display unit displays the text information such that a part corresponding to the word matching the keyword and a part other than the corresponding part are able to be distinguished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20190306453
    Abstract: In an information recording system, an object information acquisition unit acquires object information. An image acquisition unit acquires image information indicating a type of situation in which the object information was acquired. A recording unit records the object information, the image information, and time point information on a recording medium such that the object information, the image information, and the time point information are associated with each other. An event detection unit detects an event on the basis of at least one piece of the object information and the image information. A reading unit reads the object information and the image information associated with the time point information corresponding to an event occurrence time point from the recording medium. A display unit displays the object information and the image information such that the object information and the image information are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji TATSUTA
  • Patent number: 10324295
    Abstract: An eyeglass-type display apparatus includes an eyeglass-front to be placed in front of the eyes of a user, left and right temples connected to the eyeglass-front and worn on the head of the user, a connector that adjusts the inclination of the eyeglass-front by rotating the eyeglass-front relative to the left and right temples, and an image display unit that is fixed to the eyeglass-front and projects image light onto an eyeball of the user. An axis of rotation of the connector is positioned on the eyeglass-front side of the center of the user's eyeball as viewed from the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Yoichi Iba
  • Patent number: 10288888
    Abstract: An eyeglass-type wearable device includes a first temple part that is positioned along one temporal region of a user, a second temple part that is positioned along the other temporal region of the user, and a front part that is positioned in front of the face of the user, when the eyeglass-type wearable device is worn by the user. The first temple part includes a first electrical unit, and the second temple part includes a second electrical unit. The front part includes a first connection section to which the first temple part is connected, a second connection section to which the second temple part is connected, and a connection line that electrically connects the first electrical unit of the first temple part and the second electrical unit of the second temple part when the first temple part and the second temple part are connected to the front part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20190113759
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a first contact element, a second contact element, a headband that couples the first contact element and the second contact element to each other and presses the first contact element and the second contact element toward temporal regions, a first coupling element that couples the first contact element and the headband to each other, and a second coupling element that couples the second contact element and the headband to each other. Each of the first contact element and the second contact element includes an elastic member having a longitudinal direction extending along a forward and backward direction of the head in a state where the wearable device is worn on the head of the wearer. The elastic member is curved to conform to the curved shape of the temporal regions in the forward and backward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20190113760
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a wearable element mounted on a head of a wearer, a display that displays an image in a part of a field of view of the wearer, an arm that holds the display, and a coupling element that couples the arm and the wearable element to each other. The coupling element includes a first rotation mechanism capable of rotating the arm around a first axis, and a second rotation mechanism that is provided closer to the wearable element than the first rotation mechanism is, and is capable of rotating the arm with a degree of freedom including rotation around a second axis and a third axis, the second axis being orthogonal to the first axis, the third axis being orthogonal to the second axis and intersecting with the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji TATSUTA
  • Patent number: 10186253
    Abstract: A control device for a recording system includes a sound acquisition unit, a recording control unit, an item management unit and a presentation control unit. The sound acquisition unit acquires sound data from a sound pickup device. The recording control unit records information based on the sound data as recording information corresponding to one of predetermined items. The item management unit extracts one of the items, in which the recording information has not yet been recorded, as an uninput item. The presentation control unit causes a presentation device to show the uninput item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Horiuchi, Teruo Tomita, Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10120419
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a wearable element that is worn on the head of the wearer, a display that displays a virtual image within part of the field of view of the wearer, and a connector that is connected to the wearable element. The connector includes a slide-rotation mechanism that supports the display so as to be slidable with respect to the head and rotatable in a state in which the display has been slid. The slide-rotation mechanism is provided to the connector so that the slide direction of the display is parallel to the direction that extends along the rotation axis around which the display is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 10025103
    Abstract: An eyeglass-type wearable device includes a first temple part positioned along one temporal region of a user, a second temple part positioned along the other temporal region of the user, and a front part positioned in front of the face of the user, when the eyeglass-type wearable device is worn by the user. The front part includes an electrical unit including an imaging device, and a first and second connection sections to which the first and the second temple parts can be connected, and at least one of the first and the second temple parts includes a temple-side electrical unit. The first and second temple parts can be attached to and removed from the first and second connection sections of the front part. Information about an image captured by the imaging device included in the front part is transmitted from the front part to the temple-side electrical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
  • Patent number: 9977249
    Abstract: A support member for a wearable device includes first and second contact portions coming into contact with a temporal region of a head, a frame portion interposed along a frontal region of the head between the first and second contact portions, and first and second connection portions respectively connecting the first and second contact portions and the frame portion to each other. In a top view, in the first connection portion, a first extension portion extending from the first contact portion and a first frame extension portion are branched ahead of an ear from the frame portion, and in the second connection portion, a second extension portion extending from the second contact portion and a second frame extension portion are branched ahead of the other ear from the frame portion. At least one of the first and second frame extension portions includes a support portion supporting a wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita, Yoichi Iba
  • Patent number: 9921410
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an eyeglass frame, including a rim, for fixing the head-mounted display device onto a wearer's head, a display that displays an image, and an eyepiece optical unit that guides light of an image displayed on the display into at least one of the wearer's eyes to display the image as an enlarged virtual image. The display and the eyepiece optical unit are attached to the rim, an optical axis of incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece optical unit from the display and an optical axis of exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece optical unit towards the wearer's eye are not coplanar, and the angle between an incident light vector formed by the incident light and an exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is greater than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
  • Publication number: 20180074235
    Abstract: A light-guiding prism includes a first optical surface which is a surface of incidence on which image light from a display element is incident, and a second optical surface, a third optical surface, a fourth optical surface, and a fifth optical surface which are at least four optical surfaces disposed to surround an optical path of the image light that is incidence from the first optical surface. A sixth optical surface reflects the image light that is guided in a prism surrounded by that at least four side surfaces, which are the second optical surface, the third optical surface, the fourth optical surface, and the fifth optical surface. The fourth optical surface and the fifth optical surface are inclined at a surface perpendicular to a surface include an incident-light axis of the image light, made by the incident-light axis and a reflected-light axis of the sixth optical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji TATSUTA, Yoichi IBA