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).
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Publication number: 20180031847Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji TATSUTA, Yoichi IBA
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Patent number: 9829931Abstract: A head-mounted display is worn on the head of the user, and allows the user to observe a display image, the head-mounted display including a display section that displays the display image, and a control section that performs a control process that controls the timing at which the display image is displayed on the display section. The control section performs the control process that causes a display period and a non-display period to repeat alternately, and sets one display period to be equal to or less than 600 ms, the display period being a period in which the display image is displayed on the display section, and the non-display period being a period in which the display image is not displayed on the display section.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
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Publication number: 20170310873Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to obtain information; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device, transmit the information obtained by the acquisition unit to the external device and receive external device information obtained on the external device when the acquisition unit obtains the information; and a recording control unit configured to associate the external device information received by the communication unit with the information obtained by the acquisition unit and record the associated information on a recording unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu HAYASHI, Teruo TOMITA, Seiji TATSUTA, Osamu NONAKA
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Patent number: 9779549Abstract: An information presentation system includes: a display that displays an image as a virtual image so that the image can be observed by the user, and a display control section that causes the display to display information based on a captured image acquired from an imaging section, the imaging section being equipped to the head of the user and capturing a range in the direction of the field of view of the user, when an object recognition range is set to part of an imaging range of the imaging section, the display displaying the virtual image in a virtual image display range, the virtual image display range having such a positional relationship with the object recognition range that at least part of the virtual image display range in which the virtual image is displayed overlaps part of the object recognition range.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
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Publication number: 20170227780Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA, Yoichi IBA
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Publication number: 20170185109Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Seiji TATSUTA
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Patent number: 9665133Abstract: A head-mounted display is worn on the head of the user, and allows the user to observe a display image, the head-mounted display including a display section that displays the display image, and a control section that performs a control process that controls the timing at which the display image is displayed on the display section. The control section performs the control process that causes a display period and a non-display period to repeat alternately, and sets one display period to be equal to or less than 600 ms, the display period being a period in which the display image is displayed on the display section, and the non-display period being a period in which the display image is not displayed on the display section.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
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Publication number: 20170098449Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Horiuchi, Teruo Tomita, Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20170090202Abstract: A wearable device includes a wearable element that is worn on the head, a connector that is connected to the wearable element so as to be rotatable around a first rotation axis, and a display that is connected to the connector so as to be rotatable around a second rotation axis. The relationship “20 mm?L1+L2?45 mm” is satisfied provided that a virtual plane includes an eyepiece optical axis of the display and intersects the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis, L1 is the distance from a first intersection that is the intersection of the virtual plane and the first rotation axis to a second intersection that is the intersection of the virtual plane and the second rotation axis, and L2 is the distance from the second intersection to an intersection of an eyepiece and the eyepiece optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Seiji TATSUTA
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Publication number: 20160357227Abstract: A head-mounted display is worn on the head of the user, and allows the user to observe a display image, the head-mounted display including a display section that displays the display image, and a control section that performs a control process that controls the timing at which the display image is displayed on the display section. The control section performs the control process that causes a display period and a non-display period to repeat alternately, and sets one display period to be equal to or less than 600 ms, the display period being a period in which the display image is displayed on the display section, and the non-display period being a period in which the display image is not displayed on the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150293361Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150212329Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Patent number: 9091847Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted image display device, including: a main body for emitting an image light beam; an eyepiece optical portion having a light-guide portion in a polyhedral shape, the eyepiece optical portion allowing the image light beam emitted from the main body to be incident on one surface of the light-guide portion and causing the image light beam incident on the one surface of the light-guide portion and emitted from another surface on the same side as the one surface or on the different side from the one surface; an attaching portion for connecting the main body and the eyepiece optical portion, in which the attaching portion has a movement mechanism for moving the eyepiece optical portion relative to the main body so as to adjust the position of an exit pupil of the eyepiece optical portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Yoichi Iba, Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 9039169Abstract: A support member for a wearable instrument which is mounted on a user's head part in cooperation with an eyeglass frame includes a head-contact portion that comes in contact with the user's head part, a temple-contact portion that comes in contact with a temple part of the eyeglass frame on a surface opposite of the head-contact portion, an instrument-connection portion for a wearable instrument that is disposed on the side of the temple-contact portion. Here, the temple-contact portion 30 has a first contact surface that comes in contact with a head-side surface of the temple part.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Kengo Kitaichi
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Publication number: 20150123881Abstract: A head-mounted display device including: a holder which is mounted on the head of a user; and a display unit which is supported by the holder and has a display element, wherein the holder includes: a first casing which includes an electronic circuit board having at least a drive circuit for generating a drive signal for driving the display element of the display unit; a second casing on which the display unit is fixed; and a flexible support part having flexibility which has a wire for electrically connecting the drive circuit and the display element and which connects the first casing and the second casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA, Tetsuyuki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8994611Abstract: A head-mounted type display device includes: a spectacle frame for fixture to a user's head; a body unit 2 fixed to the spectacle frame and having an image output unit from which image output unit image light of an image to be displayed is output; an eyepiece optical unit 3 for allowing image light output from the image output unit to be incident on the eyepiece optical unit, for guiding the incident image light to the corresponding eyeball 11 of the user with the spectacle frame being mounted on the user's head, and for displaying, as a virtual image, a magnified version of the image from the image output unit within a user's visual field; and an attachment means 4 for attaching the eyepiece optical unit 3 to the body unit in a replaceable manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Yoichi Iba
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Publication number: 20150084862Abstract: A head-mounted display is worn on the head of the user, and allows the user to observe a display image, the head-mounted display including a display section that displays the display image, and a control section that performs a control process that controls the timing at which the display image is displayed on the display section. The control section performs the control process that causes a display period and a non-display period to repeat alternately, and sets one display period to be equal to or less than 600 ms, the display period being a period in which the display image is displayed on the display section, and the non-display period being a period in which the display image is not displayed on the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150054717Abstract: To improve a balance of weight and improve wearing comfort of a user. A head-mounted display device is provided which includes a display having a display element, an electronic circuit board which controls the display, a battery which supplies power to the electronic circuit board and the display, and a holder which holds these components at the head of the user, and the battery is disposed at an opposite side of the display over a position held by the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Patent number: D725100Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
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Patent number: D743089Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita