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: 9842570
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a display device and method, and a program for presenting high-quality stereoscopic images in a simpler manner. A display unit is a four-viewpoint display device having a parallax barrier. On the display unit, block regions that are formed with pixels of channels CH0 through CH3 aligned in the parallax direction are aligned in the parallax direction. An allocation control unit allocates a parallax image for the left eye or a parallax image for the right eye to the pixels of each channel in block regions, in accordance with the viewpoint position of the user. For example, the same parallax image is allocated to pixels of two different channels adjacent to each other in the parallax direction. A generating unit generates a combined image by combining the parallax image for the right eye and the parallax image for the left eye in accordance with the allocation performed by the allocation control unit, and causes the display unit to stereoscopically display the combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Masaya Igarashi, Noriyuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170293794
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a detection unit configured to detect a corneal reflection image corresponding to light from a light source reflected at a cornea from a captured image in which an eye irradiated with the light from the light source is imaged. The detection unit estimates a position of a center of an eyeball on the basis of a plurality of time-series captured images each of which is the captured image according to the above, estimates a position of a center of the cornea on the basis of the estimated position of the center of the eyeball, estimates a position of a candidate for the corneal reflection image on the basis of the estimated position of the center of the cornea, and detects the corneal reflection image from the captured image on the basis of the estimated position of the candidate for the corneal reflection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9741141
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users 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; a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight of each user recognized by the recognition unit; and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by determining a display position of the display information associated with each user on the basis of the weight of each user determined by the weight determination unit and overlaying the display information on the input image in the determined display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Munechika Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20170235458
    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: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20170186239
    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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya HANAI, Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9665982
    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: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20170140547
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of detecting contact with high precision at low cost, 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 normal line vector on a surface of the target object, the target object being an operation target of the operation body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20170139545
    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: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20170116709
    Abstract: To easily understand the contents of a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus. An image conversion block 150 converts a taken image on the basis of conversion information. A transparency conversion block 160 converts the transparency in the converted taken image. A image synthesis block 170 synthesizes the taken image with the transparency converted with a log image and holds a resultant new log image in an image memory 180. An index image extraction block 190 extracts a new index image from among the converted taken images on the basis of the coordinate position and size of an index image in an image taking space. A selection block 270 selects an index image on the basis of the position of a selected representative image when the position of a panorama image displayed on a display block 292 is selected. A display control block 291 displays a panorama image on the display block 292 and displays the selected index image, overlapped on the panorama image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: QiHong WANG, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Masatomo Kurata, Shingo Tsurumi, Mitsuo Okumura
  • Patent number: 9613461
    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: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Hanai, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9552653
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of a real object, and a display control unit configured to display a virtual object according to the acquired motion state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9513712
    Abstract: A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Tsurumi, Masao Kondo
  • Patent number: 9489043
    Abstract: An image display device and controlling method capable of optimizing a state of the image display device for a user at a desired position. The display device includes: an imaging section that takes an image of a predetermined range of a dynamic image with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzing section that analyzes the dynamic image taken by the imaging section and calculates a position of a user; a system optimization processing section that calculates system control information for optimizing a system based on the position of the user calculated by the image analyzing section; and a system controlling section that optimizes the system based on the system control information calculated by the system optimization processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuichi Iida, Shinichi Hayashi, Yusuke Sakai, Junji Oi, Daijiro Sakuma, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9426406
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range in an image display direction, a moving body detection unit that detects whether or not a moving body is present in a predetermined range in the image display direction, an image analysis unit that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit to detect whether or not a face is present, and a power control unit that controls power consumption with different patterns according to a plurality of modes that are set by combining whether or not the face detected by the image analysis unit is present and whether or not the moving body detected by the detection unit is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Ooi, Yusuke Sakai, Shingo Tsurumi, Tomohiko Gotoh, Yuichi Iida, Shinichi Hayashi, Junichi Tsukamoto, Asako Tadenuma
  • Patent number: 9402015
    Abstract: A synthetic dynamic image is output by first transforming each frame of a first dynamic image based on a relative positional relationship between each frame of the first dynamic image to create a first transformed dynamic image. Next, each frame of a second dynamic image is transformed based on a relative positional relationship between at least one frame including the first dynamic image and at least one frame including the second dynamic image, and a relative positional relationship between each frame of the second dynamic image to create a second transformed dynamic image. Finally, the synthesized dynamic image is synthesized by aligning, for each frame of the first transformed dynamic image and the second transformed dynamic image, a position in the first transformed dynamic image with a position in the second transformed dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20160163117
    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: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Shingo TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9344760
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a communication unit for receiving, from an external device, degree-of-attention information including information on a degree of attention, for each part of first content, calculated based on a state of viewing of a user, and a priority information generation unit for generating, using the degree-of-attention information, priority information including information on a priority for viewing for each part of second content. The communication unit transmits the priority information to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 9298258
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position are provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruo Oba, Yusuke Sakai, Eijiro Mori, Kenichi Okada, Katsunori Tanaka, Shinichi Hayashi, Tomohiko Gotoh, Shingo Tsurumi, Asako Tadenuma
  • Patent number: 9286850
    Abstract: To provide a display method capable of displaying the original power saving effect if a monitoring display of the power saving effect is not made when the monitoring display of the power saving effect is made. Provided is a display method including capturing an image in front of an image display surface included in a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface, deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image, and deriving and displaying the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eijiro Mori, Yusuke Sakai, Kenichi Okada, Haruo Oba, Shingo Tsurumi, Yuichi Iida, Shinichi Hayashi, Asako Tadenuma, Junichi Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9261954
    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: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi