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).

  • Publication number: 20210286232
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: YUSUKE SUGITA, TAKEO KISHIDA, SHIGEKI FUJIBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11095818
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Tani, Takeo Kishida, Nobuyuki Kodama
  • Publication number: 20200322517
    Abstract: [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: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: ATSUSHI TANI, TAKEO KISHIDA, NOBUYUKI KODAMA
  • Patent number: 9245585
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
  • Patent number: 8949044
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
  • Publication number: 20140099073
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
  • Patent number: 8644986
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida, Tetsuharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20130291621
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
  • Patent number: 8577200
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Akihiro Komori, Takeo Kishida
  • Patent number: 8536863
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
  • Patent number: 8510063
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Takeo Kishida
  • Patent number: 8499651
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
  • Patent number: 8290359
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Masami Sato
  • Publication number: 20110252896
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Takeo KISHIDA, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
  • Patent number: 7984658
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Shizuka Yata
  • Publication number: 20110026911
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Masami Sato
  • Publication number: 20100125423
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Toshimitsu TSUBOI, Takeo KISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20100090691
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
  • Patent number: 7663362
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Kishida, Toshimitsu Tsuboi, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Takafumi Yabana
  • Publication number: 20090252474
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Tatsushi NASHIDA, Akihiro KOMORI, Takeo KISHIDA