Patents by Inventor Shingo Tsurumi

Shingo Tsurumi 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: 10198146
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging part, and a display controller configured to cause a virtual object to be displayed in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in the image. The display controller controls the virtual object on a basis of a size of the real object in a real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20190033058
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to measure a distance in a real space with a simpler operation, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition section that acquires an image captured by a predetermined imaging section, and position information based on at least any of a position and a direction of the imaging section; an estimation section that estimates a first position and a second position in a real space, on a basis of a first image and a second image which are the image captured at each of a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint, and first position information and second position information which are the position information about each of the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint; and a measurement section that measures a distance between the first position and the second position on a basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20190018487
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to perform a derivation process of deriving a relative positional relation between a user and a display screen such that a calibration position is within an angle of view of the display screen, the calibration position being stared by the user of a line of sight detection target when sampling data for calibration of a line of sight is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: SHINGO TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 10181221
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including a state detection unit configured to detect a state of a user who observes an image, and a display control unit configured to cause a display to display the image in which a plurality of display content items are superimposed on a photographed image, and to control a behavior of each of the display content items according to the state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20190012799
    Abstract: [Object] To enable estimation of the size of an object in a real space. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires an image of a real object in a real space captured by a predetermined imaging section, and a measurement result of a distance to the real object by a predetermined distance measuring section; and an estimation section that estimates a size of the real object in the real space on the basis of a size of the real object in the image and the measurement result of the distance, and by comparing the estimation result of the size to a plurality of preset size candidates, specifies the size of the real object in the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: SHINGO TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 10175825
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of detecting contact with high precision from an image picked-up by a normal camera, the information processing apparatus including a contact determination unit. The contact determination unit determines contact of an operation body with a target object on the basis of a change in a color of an image including the target object and the operation body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180300898
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit camera calibration with high accuracy by using a known object in images captured by a plurality of imaging sections. An estimation section estimates a 3D position of a road sign included in each of images captured by a plurality of cameras with respect to each of the imaging sections. A recognition section recognizes a positional relationship between the plurality of cameras on the basis of the 3D position of the road sign with respect to each of the cameras estimated by the estimation section. The positional relationship between the plurality of cameras recognized by the recognition section is used to correct the images captured by the plurality of cameras. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to image processing apparatuses and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180283046
    Abstract: A key management program causes the computer to operate as a position information acquisition unit, a key use condition acquisition unit, and a lock releasing processor. The key use condition acquisition unit acquires key use conditions including a lock releasing time and identification information, and key use location. The lock releasing processor transmits lock releasing signal to release locked state to key management device, if current time is within a range of lock releasing time and identification information included in key use conditions also matches identification information of communicating key management device, and position information acquired is a location preset as key use location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu UCHIDA, Makoto Kamoi, Mayuko Shidata, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180286056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing continuous estimation of a self-position. An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a main imaging unit that includes a stereo camera mounted on a moving body, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate to output a pair of stereo main images as time-series images; a plurality of sub imaging units each of which is so mounted on the moving body as to have an imaging direction different from an imaging direction of the main imaging unit, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate; and a final pose determination unit that estimates a pose of the moving body on the basis of the pair of stereo main images captured by the main imaging unit, and sub images captured by the sub imaging units. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to a self-position sensor for in-vehicle use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kaino, Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Takaaki Kato, Masaki Fukuchi, Tatsuki Kashitani, Shunichi Homma
  • Publication number: 20180288401
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit decision as to whether or not calibration of images is necessary. A decision section decides, using a current image captured by a camera and a past image captured by the camera, whether or not it is necessary to calibrate images captured by the camera. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a vehicle-mounted camera system that includes an automobile vehicle, two cameras, mounted to a front roof of the automobile vehicle such that imaging regions overlap, and an image processing apparatus, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180274915
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for measurement, and a program each of which enables distance estimation to be more simply carried out with higher accuracy. A three-dimensional measurement apparatus has a rotation control portion controlling rotation of a photographing portion by a rotation mechanism in such a way that the photographing portion is rotated with a center of rotation as an axis in a state in which a distance from the center of rotation of the rotation mechanism portion to a focal point position of the photographing portion is a constant distance; and a distance calculating portion calculating a distance to an object on a space on the basis of a plurality of photographed images obtained through photographing in positions different from one another by the photographing portion in a state in which the photographing portion is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Takaaki Kato, Tatsuki Kashitani, Akihiko Kaino, Masaki Fukuchi, Takuto Motoyama, Suguru Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180266830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of estimating the self-position by accurately and continuously estimating the self-movement. The information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a downward imaging section and a movement estimation section. The downward imaging section is disposed on the bottom of a moving object traveling on a road surface and captures an image of the road surface. The movement estimation section estimates the movement of the moving object in accordance with a plurality of images representing the road surface and captured at different time points by the downward imaging section. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a position sensor mounted in an automobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KATO, SHINGO TSURUMI, MASASHI ESHIMA, AKIHIKO KAINO, MASAKI FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180267323
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a determination unit that determines a wearing state of a device being used while being worn on a user's head on the basis of a distance between an optical axis vector that corresponds to a user's gaze and is estimated on the basis of a captured image obtained by imaging an eye irradiated with light from a light source at a first time point, and an eyeball-center position estimated on the basis of a plurality of the captured images in time series at a second time point before the first time point; and a processing control unit that causes processing corresponding to the determined wearing state to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20180259621
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, a program, and an object detection system that enable an object detection to be accurately performed. A stereo camera performs imaging by a right camera and a left camera to thereby acquire a stereo image and a millimeter wave radar acquires a radar image in which a position of an object is detected in a radiation range of millimeter waves by using millimeter waves that are radio waves of a millimeter wave band. Then, by communication via a communication apparatus with a target in which positional information is known, it is determined whether or not the target is reliable, and in a case where it is determined that the target is reliable, calibration processing is performed for eliminating a deviation in coordinate systems generated in the stereo image and the radar image in which the target is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: TOSHIO YAMAZAKI, KENICHI KAWASAKI, RYO SAWAI, SHINGO TSURUMI, AKIHIKO KAINO, TAKUTO MOTOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180259353
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable enhancement of the accuracy in the recognition of locations of a moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: SHINGO TSURUMI, MASASHI ESHIMA, AKIHIKO KAINO, TAKAAKI KATO, MASAKI FUKUCHI, SUGURU AOKI, TAKUTO MOTOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9968845
    Abstract: An image processing device for recognizing an object corresponding to a registered image registered beforehand from an imaged image, comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain the imaged image; a recognizing unit configured to recognize an object corresponding to the registered image from the imaged image; and a detecting unit configured to detect, based on a registered image corresponding to an object recognized from the imaged image thereof, an area where another object is overlapped with the object corresponding to the registered image thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9967690
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an acoustic control apparatus including: a speaker-position computation section configured to find the position of each of a plurality of speakers located in a speaker layout space on the basis of a position computed as the microphone position in the speaker layout space based on a taken image of at least any of the microphone and an object placed at a location close to the microphone position, and a result of sound collection to collect a signal sound each generated by one of the speakers; and an acoustic control section configured to control a sound generated by each of the speakers by computing a user position in the speaker layout space based on a taken image of the user, computing the distance between the user position and the position of each of the speakers, and controlling sounds generated by the speakers according to the computed distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180122149
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9886798
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9865068
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users being present in an input image captured by an imaging device, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit, and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by overlaying the display information acquired by the information acquisition unit on the input image. The output image generation unit may determine which of first display information associated with a first user and second display information associated with a second user is to be overlaid on a front side on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a distance of each user from the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Munechika Maekawa