Patents by Inventor Takanobu Shimizu

Takanobu Shimizu 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: 11940630
    Abstract: To provide a display apparatus that makes it possible to further improve a performance in controlling video presentation according to characteristics of an eyeball of a user. A display apparatus is provided that includes a light source; a processor that performs processing on a distribution of characteristics of an eyeball; a monitoring section that monitors a state of the eyeball; a matching section that performs matching on the distribution of the characteristics of the eyeball and the state of the eyeball; and an irradiator that irradiates a specified position on a retina with video display light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Imamura, Ryo Ogawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Takanobu Omata, Katsuyuki Akutsu, Itaru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240087205
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus that makes it possible to automatically orient a front face of a three-dimensional object represented by a three-dimensional image to a user. There are provided: a display unit that displays the three-dimensional image, by which the three-dimensional object appears to exist in a space partitioned by members configuring an outer surface, to be visually recognizable from a plurality of circumferential directions; a direction estimation section that estimates a direction in which a user exists as seen from the display unit; and a display control section that orients a front face of the three-dimensional object displayed by the display unit in the direction in which the user exists estimated by the direction estimation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu OMATA, Kaoru KOIKE, Yuichi MIYAGAWA, Hisataka IZAWA, Itaru SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11914797
    Abstract: Provided is an image display apparatus that includes a display displaying a three-dimensional image such that a three-dimensional object looks as if in a space defined by a member constituting an external surface and that the three-dimensional object is visible from multiple directions around the display, a motion detector detecting a motion of the display caused by an external force, a motion calculation unit calculating a motion of the three-dimensional object caused by the motion of the display based on the motion detected by the motion detector, a display control unit changing the three-dimensional image displayed on the display based on the calculation by the motion calculation unit, and a force sense control unit causing a force sense presentation unit to present a sense of force based on the calculation by the motion calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanobu Omata, Kaoru Koike, Yuichi Miyagawa, Hisataka Izawa, Itaru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20060264221
    Abstract: A sensor station (21) installed to a truck (1) receives sensor information transmitted from wireless temperature sensors (32-1) through (32-6) installed inside a container of the truck (1) and stores a temperature variation inside the container during package transportation. When the truck (1) arrives at a delivery center (7), the sensor station (21) transmits data of the temperature variation accumulated in the sensor station (21) to a server (35). A server (20) of an ASP center 2 communicates with the server (35) via the network (4) and obtains the data of the temperature variation. A user (3) accesses the server (20) of the ASP center by a PC (11), a mobile phone (12) or the like, and obtains information on the package temperature variation. The present invention can be applied to a mobile wireless terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Koike, Takanobu Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20050152285
    Abstract: Specific information is registered to only a sensor, which is arranged adjacently to a base unit, by way of a radio output from the base unit. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the base unit can be communicable with only the sensor adjacently arranged. Then, the specific information is registered to only another sensor, which is arranged adjacently to the sensor with the registered specific information, by way of a radio output from the sensor with the registered specific information. The radio output is a faint radio wave for short-range communications by which the communications can be made only between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other. The specific information registration is sequentially repeated between the sensors arranged adjacently to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Takanobu Shimizu, Atsushi Hisano, Masayuki Oyagi, Tomoyuki Koike