Patents by Inventor Takatoshi Nakamura

Takatoshi Nakamura 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: 9406123
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging control apparatus including an imaging control section configured to control an imaging section to capture a predetermined area in a body cavity, a comparison section configured to compare a captured image captured by the imaging section with a reference image, and a storage control section configured to execute a control to store the captured image in response to a comparison result by the comparison section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Akira Tange, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9392192
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including an extraction nit configured to extract an object from an image picked up by use of a certain imaging parameter, a ranging unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance between an image pickup unit that has picked up the image and the object that has been imaged, a communication unit having a first transmission function, a second transmission function, and a reception function, and a composition unit configured to combine the object candidate image received by the communication unit in a region of the object included in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Katsuhisa Aratani, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma
  • Publication number: 20160196061
    Abstract: There is provided an input apparatus including an estimation unit configured to automatically estimate an attribute of a user, a setting unit configured to set an input mode based on the attribute of the user estimated by the estimation unit, and a control unit configured to control input based on the set input mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, MITSURU TAKEHARA, KAZUYUKI SAKODA, KAZUHIRO WATANABE, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, KOHEI ASADA, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, YASUNORI KAMADA, TAKAYASU KON, AKIRA TANGE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, TOMOYA ONUMA, YUKI KOGA
  • Publication number: 20160180599
    Abstract: There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akira Tange
  • Publication number: 20160171781
    Abstract: There is provided a server including a reception unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, position information indicating a position of the client terminal, and direction information indicating a direction in which the client terminal is directed, and a search unit configured to search for image data provided with position information indicating an opposite position across a target object present in the direction indicated by the direction information with respect to the position of the client terminal based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Takatoshi NAKAMURA, Yoichiro SAKO, Mitsuru TAKEHARA
  • Publication number: 20160154256
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wearable device and an electricity supply system that make it possible to reduce the stress on a user in relation to electricity supply. A power generating unit is provided on the external world-side surface or the eyeball-side surface of a contact lens-type wearable device. The power generating unit generates electric power by chemical reaction with a substance contained in a secretion or a body fluid of a user wearing the wearable device, and a power managing unit supplies the electric power obtained in the power generating unit to each part of the wearable device. Thus, the power generating unit performs electricity generation using the secretion or the body fluid of the user as fuel; thereby, electric power can be stably supplied, and the stress on the user in relation to electricity supply can be reduced. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens-type wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Itaru Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20160155474
    Abstract: There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma
  • Patent number: 9357128
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program capable of naturally suppressing camera shake with a target object being arranged at a certain position on an image. An information processing terminal of an aspect of the present technology includes an imaging unit that takes an image; a display unit that displays the taken image; a measuring unit that measures a motion occurring in the terminal itself; and a display control unit that displays an indicator composed of a plurality of components arranged in a nested structure on the image and varies a position and a size of each component in accordance with the motion. The present technology is applicable to a mobile terminal provided with a camera and a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20160140768
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to include a first display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a first image from a user viewpoint, which is captured by a first imaging unit, is displayed on a display unit or control is performed in a manner that the display unit is transmissive, and a second display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a second image captured by a second imaging unit including a user within an angle of view is displayed on the display unit, and a switching control unit configured to perform control in response to an instruction from the user in a manner that a display control mode of the display control unit is switched from the first display control mode to the second display control mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Takatoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Akira Tange, Tomoya Onuma, Yuki Koga, Kohei Asada
  • Patent number: 9338644
    Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9336786
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a voice pickup unit that picks up a user's voice and generates an audio signal, a signal processing unit that generates a masking voice signal for masking the user's voice according to the audio signal, and a first speaker that reproduces the masking voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Asada, Yoichiro Sako, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma
  • Patent number: 9325862
    Abstract: There is provided a server including a database configured to store position information and priority of a landmark, a reception unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, position information of the client terminal, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the client terminal, the position information of the landmark corresponding to the position information received by the reception unit, and the priority of the landmark. The reception unit receives position information of a subject captured by the client terminal. Based on the position information of the subject received by the reception unit, the server further includes a control unit configured to perform control in a manner that the priority of the landmark stored in the database is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Yoichiro Sako, Akira Tange
  • Patent number: 9326130
    Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9317737
    Abstract: There is provided an input apparatus including an estimation unit configured to automatically estimate an attribute of a user, a setting unit configured to set an input mode based on the attribute of the user estimated by the estimation unit, and a control unit configured to control input based on the set input mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kohei Asada, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Yuki Koga
  • Publication number: 20160097940
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a contact lens and storage medium capable of controlling an image pickup unit provided in the contact lens. [Solution] Provided is a contact lens including: a lens unit configured to be worn on an eyeball; an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of a subject, the image pickup unit being provided in the lens unit; and an image pickup control unit configured to control the image pickup unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, MASANORI IWASAKI, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, TAKAYASU KON, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, TOMOYA ONUMA, AKIRA TANGE
  • Patent number: 9300858
    Abstract: There is provided a control device including a focus control unit configured to perform control so as to sequentially bring multiple subjects within a captured image into focus, and a recording control unit configured to perform control in response to a trigger from a user so as to record, onto a storage medium, captured images of the multiple subjects sequentially brought into focus by the focus control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange
  • Patent number: 9298969
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit that detects a face image region in an image, a determination unit that determines a human attribute of at least one face image in the face image region detected by the detection unit, and a face image replacement unit that replaces the at least one face image with a natural face image of another person according to the human attribute determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Akira Tange, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Takayasu Kon, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazunori Hayashi, Yasunori Kamada
  • Publication number: 20160062150
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a contact lens and a storage medium enabling a pair of contact lenses to operate in coordination with each other. [Solution] Provided is a pair of contact lenses including: a pair of lens parts configured to be worn on respective eyeballs of both eyes; a first function unit provided to one of the pair of lens parts; and a second function unit provided to the other one of the pair of lens parts, the second function unit having a function different from a function of the first function unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, KAZUNORI HAYASHI, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA, TOMOYA ONUMA, TAKAYASU KON, AKIRA TANGE, HIROYUKI HANAYA, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, KOHEI ASADA
  • Patent number: 9277178
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including an identifying unit that identifies a user and a target with whom the user requests to converse based on a signal detected by a first sensor arranged around the user, a signal processing unit that performs predetermined signal processing on signals detected by the first sensor and a second sensor arranged around the target, an output control unit that causes the signal detected by at least the second sensor and processed by the signal processing unit to be output to a first output unit arranged around the user, and a recognizing unit that recognizes, when a plurality of the targets are identified by the identifying unit, a selection request for selecting a specific target from among the plurality of targets based on the signal detected by the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Onuma, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga
  • Patent number: 9276913
    Abstract: An encryption technique in which a transmission device and a reception device use solutions generated such that those generated in the same order are assumed to be the same is improved so as to enhance versatility without undermining security. An initial solution respectively used by two communication devices involved in communication in order to generate solutions is sent from one communicating device to the other. Both communication devices generate a mutually agreed-upon number of solutions from the initial solution and set the last solution among the generated solutions as a new initial solution, and using solutions generated based on the new initial solution, the transmission device performs encryption while the reception device performs decryption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: N-CRYPT LAB, Inc.
    Inventor: Takatoshi Nakamura