Patents by Inventor Takahiro Kawabe
Takahiro Kawabe 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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Patent number: 11514636Abstract: A visual perception of an arbitrary transparent material is imparted to an arbitrary image. In accordance with each element of each deformation map included in a sequence of deformation maps that correspond to a time series, each element of a target image is moved to obtain each deformed image of the time series. Each element of each of the deformation maps indicates a movement direction and a movement amount of each pixel of the target image corresponding to the element.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11495151Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object that actually exists as a physical object is moving. In an illusion showing system including: an object; and a video presentation device that presents video for superimposition that includes a stationary object area having a substantially identical contour as a contour of the object, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area, and in which luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the object and luminance of the background area, the object and the video for superimposition are shown so that a contour of the stationary object area of the video for superimposition presented by the video presentation device substantially matches a contour of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11488531Abstract: A proximity sensor comprises a light emitting element configured to emit light; a synchronization signal input unit configured to be input with a synchronization signal which is output from a display device and which indicates a rewrite timing of an image displayed on a display screen; and an emission controller configured to control emission of the light from the light emitting element, wherein the emission controller is configured to cause the light emitting element to start the emission of the light at a start timing set based on the rewrite timing at which rewriting of one of a plurality of scanning lines of the image is caused to start in the specific display region, and an emission time of the light from the light emitting element, and the emission controller is configured to cause the light emitting element to end the emission of the light before the rewrite timing comes.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Sharp Semiconductor Innovation CorporationInventors: Kohji Hamaguchi, Takahiro Inoue, Masaya Ohnishi, Isamu Kawabe
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Patent number: 11462138Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object having any contour shape is moving. An image generation device comprises means for generating video including a stationary object area, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area. Luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the stationary object area and luminance of the background area, and the luminance varying area is a portion that does not overlap the stationary object area in at least one area obtained by moving and/or enlarging the stationary object area.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11410630Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object is moving even when an apparent motion is not established between the stationary object and luminance varying areas. An image generation device generates video including a stationary object area, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area. Luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the stationary object area and luminance of the background area.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11403830Abstract: A certain object is enlarged or reduced to generate a visual object in a VR space without significantly changing an apparent quality. A first object in a real space or a virtual reality space is enlarged or reduced to generate a second object that is a visual object in a virtual reality space.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kawabe, Nami Ogawa
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Patent number: 11398007Abstract: A video of a shadow is automatically generated to create an illusion that a region included in a real object floats above a background and an apparent height of the region with respect to a background region changes with time. A video generation device receives input of a dark region image including a dark region that is a spatial region corresponding to a target object and is darker than a background, and control information for specifying a motion to be given to the dark region, and obtains and outputs a video including a shadow region is obtained and output. The shadow region is obtained by performing mask processing on a motion region obtained by giving the motion to the dark region according to the control information. The mask processing replaces pixels of a mask region at a spatial position corresponding to the target object with pixels brighter than the motion region.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11350065Abstract: Using different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, and modulated images are obtained. The modulated images are separated into brightness components and color components to obtain brightness component images and color component images, brightness of brightness component images and/or color of color component images is modulated to obtain brightness-modulated image and/or color-modulated image, and a video is obtained, the video being configured by arranging integrated images obtained by integrating the obtained brightness-modulated images and/or color-modulated images.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Patent number: 11328635Abstract: An object including a final target that is equivalent to an object obtained by a superposition of three objects of a target, a dark object, and a light object with approximately the same shape, a superposition of two objects of a target and a dark object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes, or a superposition of two objects of a target and a light object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes is arranged in a background of which luminance periodically varies over time. However, luminance of the dark object is lower than luminance of the target, luminance of the light object is higher than the luminance of the target, and the superposition described above is an incomplete superposition in which a part of the dark object and/or a part of the light object is hidden by the target.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Kawabe
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Publication number: 20220044603Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object having any contour shape is moving. An image generation device comprises means for generating video including a stationary object area, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area. Luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the stationary object area and luminance of the background area, and the luminance varying area is a portion that does not overlap the stationary object area in at least one area obtained by moving and/or enlarging the stationary object area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20220044601Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object that actually exists as a physical object is moving. In an illusion showing system including: an object; and a video presentation device that presents video for superimposition that includes a stationary object area having a substantially identical contour as a contour of the object, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area, and in which luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the object and luminance of the background area, the object and the video for superimposition are shown so that a contour of the stationary object area of the video for superimposition presented by the video presentation device substantially matches a contour of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210407461Abstract: A feeling is given that a stationary object is moving even when an apparent motion is not established between the stationary object and luminance varying areas. An image generation device generates video including a stationary object area, at least one luminance varying area located along a contour of the stationary object area, and a background area other than the stationary object area and the luminance varying area. Luminance of the luminance varying area varies with time in a luminance range based on luminance of the stationary object area and luminance of the background area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210398293Abstract: A technique that automatically adjusts a motion given to a projection target using a perceptual model is provided. A motion vector generation apparatus includes a first parameter generation unit that generates a first parameter that is a parameter for scaling a motion vector based on a perceptual difference between a projection result reproduction image which is an image that is obtained when a projection target onto which a projection image obtained based on the motion vector has been projected is photographed and a warped image which is an image generated by distorting an image obtained when the projection target is photographed by a perceptual amount of motion perceived when the projection result reproduction image is viewed, and a motion vector reduction unit that scales the motion vector using the first parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Taiki FUKIAGE, Shinya NISHIDA, Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210319624Abstract: A certain object is enlarged or reduced to generate a visual object in a VR space without significantly changing an apparent quality. A first object in a real space or a virtual reality space is enlarged or reduced to generate a second object that is a visual object in a virtual reality space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro KAWABE, Nami OGAWA
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Publication number: 20210258547Abstract: The color and the brightness of a transparent material perception to be given to an image are independently operated using simple image processing techniques. Using a plurality of different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, to obtain a plurality of modulated images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210256887Abstract: To create an illusion that a target which has an arbitrary contour shape and which is actually not moving is perceived to be moving. An object including a final target that is equivalent to an object obtained by a superposition of three objects of a target, a dark object, and a light object with approximately the same shape, a superposition of two objects of a target and a dark object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes, or a superposition of two objects of a target and a light object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes is arranged in a background of which luminance periodically varies over time. However, luminance of the dark object is lower than luminance of the target, luminance of the light object is higher than the luminance of the target, and the superposition described above is an incomplete superposition in which a part of the dark object and/or a part of the light object is hidden by the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210247686Abstract: A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kawabe, Shinya Nishida, Kazushi Maruya, Masataka Sawayama
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Patent number: 11036123Abstract: A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Kawabe, Shinya Nishida, Kazushi Maruya, Masataka Sawayama
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Publication number: 20210150796Abstract: A visual perception of an arbitrary transparent material is imparted to an arbitrary image. In accordance with each element of each deformation map included in a sequence of deformation maps that correspond to a time series, each element of a target image is moved to obtain each deformed image of the time series. Each element of each of the deformation maps indicates a movement direction and a movement amount of each pixel of the target image corresponding to the element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro KAWABE
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Publication number: 20210125305Abstract: A video of a shadow is automatically generated to create an illusion that a region included in a real object floats above a background and an apparent height of the region with respect to a background region changes with time. A video generation device receives input of a dark region image including a dark region that is a spatial region corresponding to a target object and is darker than a background, and control information for specifying a motion to be given to the dark region, and obtains and outputs a video including a shadow region is obtained and output. The shadow region is obtained by performing mask processing on a motion region obtained by giving the motion to the dark region according to the control information. The mask processing replaces pixels of a mask region at a spatial position corresponding to the target object with pixels brighter than the motion region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro KAWABE