Patents by Inventor Taichi Honjo

Taichi Honjo 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: 9674495
    Abstract: A projection device includes: a projection part configured to project an image; a shape acquisition part configured to acquire a shape of a screen on which the image from the projection part is projected; a first projection control part configured to project a first image using a part of a projectable area by the projection part in accordance with the shape of the screen; a determination part configured to determine whether there is a projection target in an area outside the screen; and a second projection control part configured to project a second image by the projection part to the projection target in the area outside the screen in accordance with a result of the determination by the determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga Murayama, Taichi Honjo
  • Patent number: 9619693
    Abstract: In an imaging device in a display system, a control unit recognizes human traits from an image of a human being that is an object to be displayed, which is obtained by photography. The image of the human being is correlated to information indicating the recognized traits and then transmitted to a digital signage device by a communication unit. In the digital signage device, the display area on an image display unit is determined in accordance with this information indicating the human traits that have been correlated to the image of the human being that is the object to be displayed, and the image of the human being that is the object to be displayed is modified so to be displayed in the determined display area, after which the modified image is displayed on the determined display area of the image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga Murayama, Taichi Honjo
  • Patent number: 9564101
    Abstract: In a digital signage device, a control unit extracts a face region and a torso region from an image of the object to be displayed, compares the extracted face region and torso region to a face region and torso region extracted from a screen image on an image display unit in use, and then calculates, on the basis of these comparison results, a first adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the face region and a second adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the torso region in the image of the object to be displayed, the respective sizes of the face region and torso region in the image of the object to be displayed being separately adjusted on the basis of the calculated first adjustment factor and second adjustment factor in order to display an adjusted image on the image display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Honjo, Taiga Murayama
  • Patent number: 9342738
    Abstract: According to the imaging device, the control unit divides the subject in the photographed image into a plurality of regions, corrects the sizes of the respective regions such that a ratio of vertical width to horizontal width of the respective divided regions and ratios of sizes between the respective reaches match prescribed target ratios. The control unit then generates a region-optimized image by connecting the plurality of corrected regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Honjo, Taiga Murayama
  • Publication number: 20150186741
    Abstract: According to the imaging device, the control unit divides the subject in the photographed image into a plurality of regions, corrects the sizes of the respective regions such that a ratio of vertical width to horizontal width of the respective divided regions and ratios of sizes between the respective reaches match prescribed target ratios. The control unit then generates a region-optimized image by connecting the plurality of corrected regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi HONJO, Taiga MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150154944
    Abstract: In a digital signage device, a control unit extracts a face region and a torso region from an image of the object to be displayed, compares the extracted face region and torso region to a face region and torso region extracted from a screen image on an image display unit in use, and then calculates, on the basis of these comparison results, a first adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the face region and a second adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the torso region in the image of the object to be displayed, the respective sizes of the face region and torso region in the image of the object to be displayed being separately adjusted on the basis of the calculated first adjustment factor and second adjustment factor in order to display an adjusted image on the image display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi HONJO, Taiga MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150154448
    Abstract: In an imaging device in a display system, a control unit recognizes human traits from an image of a human being that is an object to be displayed, which is obtained by photography. The image of the human being is correlated to information indicating the recognized traits and then transmitted to a digital signage device by a communication unit. In the digital signage device, the display area on an image display unit is determined in accordance with this information indicating the human traits that have been correlated to the image of the human being that is the object to be displayed, and the image of the human being that is the object to be displayed is modified so to be displayed in the determined display area, after which the modified image is displayed on the determined display area of the image display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga MURAYAMA, Taichi HONJO
  • Publication number: 20150070591
    Abstract: A projection device includes: a projection part configured to project an image; a shape acquisition part configured to acquire a shape of a screen on which the image from the projection part is projected; a first projection control part configured to project a first image using a part of a projectable area by the projection part in accordance with the shape of the screen; a determination part configured to determine whether there is a projection target in an area outside the screen; and a second projection control part configured to project a second image by the projection part to the projection target in the area outside the screen in accordance with a result of the determination by the determination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiga MURAYAMA, Taichi HONJO
  • Patent number: 7960677
    Abstract: A projection apparatus including a projection drive control unit modulating an emitted light from a light source unit for each of a plurality of color components at predetermined time, and a projection distance acquisition unit irradiating light to the projection screen to acquire a distance to the projection screen, wherein the projection distance acquisition unit carries out laser distance measurement during a period the projection drive control unit modulates a color component of the emitted light to color components except one color component of a plurality of modulated color components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taichi Honjo, Keiichi Kobayashi, Hideaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20090207384
    Abstract: A projection apparatus including a projection drive control unit modulating an emitted light from a light source unit for each of a plurality of color components at predetermined time, and a projection distance acquisition unit irradiating light to the projection screen to acquire a distance to the projection screen, wherein the projection distance acquisition unit carries out laser distance measurement during a period the projection drive control unit modulates a color component of the emitted light to color components except one color component of a plurality of modulated color components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taichi Honjo, Keiichi Kobayashi, Hideaki Inoue