Patents by Inventor Takeo Kishida
Takeo Kishida 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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Publication number: 20210286232Abstract: To secure smooth operation states of a movable body and achieve improvement in functionality. An optical device includes: a movable body including an optical element; a support body configured to support the movable body; at least one first spherical body configured to be positioned between the movable body and the support body in an axial direction of a first fulcrum axis orthogonal to an optical axis and to be rollable; and at least one second spherical body configured to be positioned between the movable body and the support body in an axial direction of a second fulcrum axis orthogonal to the optical axis and the first fulcrum axis and to be rollable.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: YUSUKE SUGITA, TAKEO KISHIDA, SHIGEKI FUJIBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11095818Abstract: A vibration generation device capable of feeding back execution of image capturing to an image capturing person without affecting hand-shake correction control includes a vibration unit that generates vibration and a vibration control unit that performs vibration control on the vibration unit. In accordance with image capturing operation of an image capturing device, the vibration control unit causes the vibration unit to generate vibration at a second frequency band different from a first frequency band that the image capturing device has as a vibration range used for hand-shake correction control.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Tani, Takeo Kishida, Nobuyuki Kodama
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Publication number: 20200322517Abstract: [Problem] Image capturing is fed back to an image capturing person without affecting hand-shake correction control. [Solution] A vibration generation device capable of feeding back execution of image capturing to an image capturing person without affecting hand-shake correction control includes: a vibration unit configured to generate vibration; and a vibration control unit configured to perform vibration control on the vibration unit. In accordance with image capturing operation of an image capturing device, the vibration control unit causes the vibration unit to generate vibration at a second frequency band different from a first frequency band that the image capturing device has as a vibration range used for hand-shake correction control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: ATSUSHI TANI, TAKEO KISHIDA, NOBUYUKI KODAMA
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Patent number: 9245585Abstract: There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a reproducing operation of content data. The content editing apparatus includes an operation input processing unit 104 into which a reproduction operating command of content data is input by a user and a record controlling unit 108 for recording operation data corresponding to the reproduction operating command input into the operation input processing unit along with a reproduction position of the content data in a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
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Patent number: 8949044Abstract: A control device includes a force detector configured to detect a force in a normal direction and a force in a shearing direction of fingertips of a robot hand device respectively as a normal force and a shearing force, and an object detector configured to calculate a friction coefficient using the normal force and the shearing force detected by the force detector and to detect whether or not a thin-film object having a maximum friction coefficient different from a maximum stationary friction coefficient between the fingertips is grasped between the fingertips on the basis of the calculation result.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
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Publication number: 20140099073Abstract: There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a reproducing operation of content data. The content editing apparatus includes an operation input processing unit 104 into which a reproduction operating command of content data is input by a user and a record controlling unit 108 for recording operation data corresponding to the reproduction operating command input into the operation input processing unit along with a reproduction position of the content data in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
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Patent number: 8644986Abstract: A control device that controls grip of an object is disclosed. The control device includes: detecting means for detecting a slip of the object and outputting a slip detection value; change-value calculating means for calculating, on the basis of the slip detection value, a change value for changing a command value, which sets gripping force for the object, to magnitude for resting the object; suppression-value calculating means for calculating, on the basis of the slip detection value, a suppression value for suppressing the command value to necessary minimum magnitude for resting the object; and setting means for setting the magnitude of the command value on the basis of the change value and the suppression value.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida, Tetsuharu Fukushima
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Publication number: 20130291621Abstract: A control device includes a force detector configured to detect a force in a normal direction and a force in a shearing direction of fingertips of a robot hand device respectively as a normal force and a shearing force, and an object detector configured to calculate a friction coefficient using the normal force and the shearing force detected by the force detector and to detect whether or not a thin-film object having a maximum friction coefficient different from a maximum stationary friction coefficient between the fingertips is grasped between the fingertips on the basis of the calculation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
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Patent number: 8577200Abstract: There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a reproducing operation of content data. The content editing apparatus includes an operation input processing unit 104 into which a reproduction operating command of content data is input by a user and a record controlling unit 108 for recording operation data corresponding to the reproduction operating command input into the operation input processing unit along with a reproduction position of the content data in a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
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Patent number: 8536863Abstract: A detecting device includes a viscoelastic magnet obtained by kneading and molding a magnet material and a viscoelastic material and a magnetic-flux detecting unit that detects a change in a magnetic flux density vector due to deformation of the viscoelastic magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
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Patent number: 8510063Abstract: A control device includes a force detector configured to detect a force in a normal direction and a force in a shearing direction of fingertips of a robot hand device respectively as a normal force and a shearing force, and an object detector configured to calculate a friction coefficient using the normal force and the shearing force detected by the force detector and to detect whether or not a thin-film object having a maximum friction coefficient different from a maximum stationary friction coefficient between the fingertips is grasped between the fingertips on the basis of the calculation result.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
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Patent number: 8499651Abstract: A detecting device including a pressure sensor that is deformed by a load from an outside and causes stress dispersion includes a slip detecting unit that calculates a pressure center position using a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor, calculates a movement value of the calculated pressure center position using a temporal change of the pressure center position, and detects a slip on the basis of the calculated movement value of the pressure center position. The pressure sensor has a multilayer structure in which two detecting units that detect pressure are arranged to hold a viscoelastic body made of a viscoelastic material that is deformed by a load from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
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Patent number: 8290359Abstract: An optical finder unit includes: light guide means for guiding an optical image of a subject to a finder window through an internal space formed in the optical finder unit; and a display unit capable of displaying information on the finder window through the internal space when the display unit is in a set state in which the display unit is set in a predetermined position, wherein the display unit in the set state blocks an opening communicating with the internal space, and the display unit can transit from the set state to a non-set state in which the display unit is not set in the predetermined position but unblocks the internal space.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Masami Sato
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Publication number: 20110252896Abstract: A detecting device including a pressure sensor that is deformed by a load from an outside and causes stress dispersion includes a slip detecting unit that calculates a pressure center position using a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor, calculates a movement value of the calculated pressure center position using a temporal change of the pressure center position, and detects a slip on the basis of the calculated movement value of the pressure center position. The pressure sensor has a multilayer structure in which two detecting units that detect pressure are arranged to hold a viscoelastic body made of a viscoelastic material that is deformed by a load from the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Takeo KISHIDA, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
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Patent number: 7984658Abstract: A detecting device including a pressure sensor that is deformed by a load from an outside and causes stress dispersion includes a slip detecting unit that calculates a pressure center position using a pressure value detected by the pressure sensor, calculates a movement value of the calculated pressure center position using a temporal change of the pressure center position, and detects a slip on the basis of the calculated movement value of the pressure center position. The pressure sensor has a multilayer structure in which two detecting units that detect pressure are arranged to hold a viscoelastic body made of a viscoelastic material that is deformed by a load from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
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Publication number: 20110026911Abstract: An optical finder unit includes: light guide means for guiding an optical image of a subject to a finder window through an internal space formed in the optical finder unit; and a display unit capable of displaying information on the finder window through the internal space when the display unit is in a set state in which the display unit is set in a predetermined position, wherein the display unit in the set state blocks an opening communicating with the internal space, and the display unit can transit from the set state to a non-set state in which the display unit is not set in the predetermined position but unblocks the internal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Masami Sato
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Publication number: 20100125423Abstract: A control device includes a force detector configured to detect a force in a normal direction and a force in a shearing direction of fingertips of a robot hand device respectively as a normal force and a shearing force, and an object detector configured to calculate a friction coefficient using the normal force and the shearing force detected by the force detector and to detect whether or not a thin-film object having a maximum friction coefficient different from a maximum stationary friction coefficient between the fingertips is grasped between the fingertips on the basis of the calculation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: Toshimitsu TSUBOI, Takeo KISHIDA
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Publication number: 20100090691Abstract: A detecting device includes a viscoelastic magnet obtained by kneading and molding a magnet material and a viscoelastic material and a magnetic-flux detecting unit that detects a change in a magnetic flux density vector due to deformation of the viscoelastic magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
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Patent number: 7663362Abstract: A detecting device includes a viscoelastic magnet obtained by kneading and molding a magnet material and a viscoelastic material and a magnetic-flux detecting unit that detects a change in a magnetic flux density vector due to deformation of the viscoelastic magnet.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
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Publication number: 20090252474Abstract: There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a reproducing operation of content data. The content editing apparatus includes an operation input processing unit 104 into which a reproduction operating command of content data is input by a user and a record controlling unit 108 for recording operation data corresponding to the reproduction operating command input into the operation input processing unit along with a reproduction position of the content data in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Tatsushi NASHIDA, Akihiro KOMORI, Takeo KISHIDA