Patents by Inventor Takashi HIMUKASHI

Takashi HIMUKASHI 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: 11985298
    Abstract: An image adjustment system includes a camera, an image adjustor, an image display, and a controller. The image adjustor includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical image and a composite image to be synthesized with a shooting image imaged by the camera. The image processor acquires the spherical image generated by the image generator and displays the spherical image on an image display. The image processor rotates the spherical image based on instruction information output from the controller, adjusts the shooting image displayed on the image display in accordance with rotating the spherical image, adjusts the composite image in accordance with the adjusted shooting image, and synthesizes the adjusted composite image with the adjusted shooting image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Patent number: 11936986
    Abstract: An image adjustment system and an image adjustment method include a camera, an image adjustment device, an image display device, and a controller. The image adjustment device includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical image. The image processor acquires the spherical image from the image generator based on instruction information output from the controller and displays the spherical image on the image display device. The image processor rotates the spherical image based on the instruction information, and adjusts a captured image displayed on the image display device in accordance with the rotation of the spherical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Publication number: 20230379432
    Abstract: A video recording device includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire data indicating a result of detecting a phenomenon associated with an action of taking the video recording device out from a vehicle, a determination unit configured to determine whether the result indicated by the data meets a predetermined condition, and a control unit configured to control the video recording device such that an operation for an interface used to operate the video recording device is disabled when the result indicated by the data is determined to meet the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Fumihiko YOKOYAMA, Tomohiro MATSUOKA, Takeshi KUCHINOMACHI, Yasuo SUGITA, Takashi HIMUKASHI, Manabu KARASAWA, Yoshiharu KOJI
  • Patent number: 11703948
    Abstract: In an image adjustment system, an image display device displays a captured image that is adjusted by an image adjustment device. The image adjustment device includes an image processor and an image generator. The image generator generates a spherical surface image. The image processor acquires the spherical surface image from the image generator to display the spherical surface image on the image display device on the basis of instruction information output from a controller. The image generator adjusts the captured image in accordance with a rotation of the spherical surface image, corrects camera shake in the captured image adjusted, and determines that a travel direction of a camera is changed when the captured image that is camera-shake corrected is changed by a predetermined angle or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Patent number: 11647292
    Abstract: An image adjustment system includes a camera, an image adjustment device, an image display device, and a controller. The image display device displays a captured image adjusted by the image adjustment device. The image adjustment device includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical surface image. The image processor acquires the spherical surface image from the image generator to display the spherical surface image on the image display device on the basis of instruction information output from the controller. The image processor rotates the spherical surface image on the basis of the instruction information. The image processor adjusts a right-eye image or a left-eye image of the captured image displayed on the image display device in accordance with a rotation of the spherical surface image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Patent number: 11417050
    Abstract: A region image extractor extracts a region image from an omnidirectional image or a superimposed image obtained by superimposing a sphere image on the omnidirectional image. An image rotation unit corrects the tilt of the horizontal plane of the omnidirectional image by rotating the omnidirectional image through an operation to rotate the sphere image while the region image of the superimposed image is displayed on the head-mounted display. A vanishing point detector detects a vanishing point of the omnidirectional image. A front setting unit determines the front of the omnidirectional image based on the vanishing point and rotates the omnidirectional image so that the front of the omnidirectional image corresponds to the region image extracted when the user is facing forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Patent number: 11412151
    Abstract: A measurement unit measures a first generation time of a first vanishing point of a plurality of radially diverging motion vectors generated in a front image region and a second generation time of a second vanishing point of a plurality of converging motion vectors generated in the front image region within a predetermined period of time in a state in which an image rotation unit adjusts positions of the front image region and a rear image region in a circumferential direction. The image rotation unit keeps the positions of the front image region and the rear image region in the circumferential direction when the first generation time measured by the measurement unit is longer than the second generation time, and rotates the captured image to reverse the front image region and the rear image region when the first generation time is not longer than the second generation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshitaka Murata, Takashi Himukashi, Yu Hojo
  • Patent number: 11330240
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a user-specified video creation unit configured to create a user-specified video to be distributed to a user terminal from a free-viewpoint video created based on a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of cameras, an accepting unit configured to accept an instruction of changing setting of a virtual camera from the user terminal, a determination unit configured to determine whether a user needs assistance in setting a viewpoint of the virtual camera based on the instruction from the user accepted by the accepting unit, and a switching unit configured to switch an image being displayed on the user terminal to another image when the determination unit determines that the user needs assistance in setting the viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Publication number: 20210329171
    Abstract: An image adjustment system includes a camera, an image adjustment device, an image display device, and a controller. The image display device displays a captured image adjusted by the image adjustment device. The image adjustment device includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical surface image. The image processor acquires the spherical surface image from the image generator to display the spherical surface image on the image display device on the basis of instruction information output from the controller. The image processor rotates the spherical surface image on the basis of the instruction information. The image processor adjusts a right-eye image or a left-eye image of the captured image displayed on the image display device in accordance with a rotation of the spherical surface image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI
  • Publication number: 20210325965
    Abstract: In an image adjustment system, an image display device displays a captured image that is adjusted by an image adjustment device. The image adjustment device includes an image processor and an image generator. The image generator generates a spherical surface image. The image processor acquires the spherical surface image from the image generator to display the spherical surface image on the image display device on the basis of instruction information output from a controller. The image generator adjusts the captured image in accordance with a rotation of the spherical surface image, corrects camera shake in the captured image adjusted, and determines that a travel direction of a camera is changed when the captured image that is camera-shake corrected is changed by a predetermined angle or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI
  • Publication number: 20210329168
    Abstract: An image adjustment system and an image adjustment method include a camera, an image adjustment device, an image display device, and a controller. The image adjustment device includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical image. The image processor acquires the spherical image from the image generator based on instruction information output from the controller and displays the spherical image on the image display device. The image processor rotates the spherical image based on the instruction information, and adjusts a captured image displayed on the image display device in accordance with the rotation of the spherical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI
  • Publication number: 20210329223
    Abstract: An image adjustment system includes a camera, an image adjustor, an image display, and a controller. The image adjustor includes an image generator and an image processor. The image generator generates a spherical image and a composite image to be synthesized with a shooting image imaged by the camera. The image processor acquires the spherical image generated by the image generator and displays the spherical image on an image display. The image processor rotates the spherical image based on instruction information output from the controller, adjusts the shooting image displayed on the image display in accordance with rotating the spherical image, adjusts the composite image in accordance with the adjusted shooting image, and synthesizes the adjusted composite image with the adjusted shooting image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI
  • Publication number: 20210314475
    Abstract: A measurement unit measures a first generation time of a first vanishing point of a plurality of radially diverging motion vectors generated in a front image region and a second generation time of a second vanishing point of a plurality of converging motion vectors generated in the front image region within a predetermined period of time in a state in which an image rotation unit adjusts positions of the front image region and a rear image region in a circumferential direction. The image rotation unit keeps the positions of the front image region and the rear image region in the circumferential direction when the first generation time measured by the measurement unit is longer than the second generation time, and rotates the captured image to reverse the front image region and the rear image region when the first generation time is not longer than the second generation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toshitaka MURATA, Takashi HIMUKASHI, Yu HOJO
  • Patent number: 11080875
    Abstract: Provided is a shape measuring apparatus, a shape measuring method, and a program that can efficiently measure a three-dimensional shape of an object. The shape measuring apparatus includes an imaging unit, a distance image sensor unit, and a processing apparatus. The imaging unit acquires a two-dimensional image of an object over a plurality of frames. The distance image sensor unit acquires a distance image of the object over the plurality of frames. The processing apparatus detects a feature point of the object from the distance image of each of the plurality of frames and writes the detected feature point in a coordinate system set for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Publication number: 20210192834
    Abstract: A region image extractor extracts a region image from an omnidirectional image or a superimposed image obtained by superimposing a sphere image on the omnidirectional image. An image rotation unit corrects the tilt of the horizontal plane of the omnidirectional image by rotating the omnidirectional image through an operation to rotate the sphere image while the region image of the superimposed image is displayed on the head-mounted display. A vanishing point detector detects a vanishing point of the omnidirectional image. A front setting unit determines the front of the omnidirectional image based on the vanishing point and rotates the omnidirectional image so that the front of the omnidirectional image corresponds to the region image extracted when the user is facing forward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi Himukashi
  • Publication number: 20210120218
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a user-specified video creation unit configured to create a user-specified video to be distributed to a user terminal from a free-viewpoint video created based on a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of cameras, an accepting unit configured to accept an instruction of changing setting of a virtual camera from the user terminal, a determination unit configured to determine whether a user needs assistance in setting a viewpoint of the virtual camera based on the instruction from the user accepted by the accepting unit, and a switching unit configured to switch an image being displayed on the user terminal to another image when the determination unit determines that the user needs assistance in setting the viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI
  • Publication number: 20190295275
    Abstract: Provided is a shape measuring apparatus, a shape measuring method, and a program that can efficiently measure a three-dimensional shape of an object. The shape measuring apparatus includes an imaging unit, a distance image sensor unit, and a processing apparatus. The imaging unit acquires a two-dimensional image of an object over a plurality of frames. The distance image sensor unit acquires a distance image of the object over the plurality of frames. The processing apparatus detects a feature point of the object from the distance image of each of the plurality of frames and writes the detected feature point in a coordinate system set for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Takashi HIMUKASHI