Patents by Inventor Tatsunobu Ando

Tatsunobu Ando 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: 10206214
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a radio transmitting device that includes a memory, a controller and a wireless communication processing circuit. The memory is configured to store correction data for correcting an azimuth angle detected by a device in a surrounding range around a location where the radio transmitting device is installed. The controller is configured to read the correction data from the memory. The wireless communication processing circuit is configured to transmit a radio signal to carry the correction data to assist the device in the surrounding range to correct the azimuth angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Tetsuya Naruse, Takashi Shiina, Tatsunobu Ando
  • Publication number: 20170034811
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a radio transmitting device that includes a memory, a controller and a wireless communication processing circuit. The memory is configured to store correction data for correcting an azimuth angle detected by a device in a surrounding range around a location where the radio transmitting device is installed. The controller is configured to read the correction data from the memory. The wireless communication processing circuit is configured to transmit a radio signal to carry the correction data to assist the device in the surrounding range to correct the azimuth angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Takashi SHllNA, Tatsunobu ANDO
  • Patent number: 8570404
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device capable of improving a decline in the usability caused by an angle of view of a camera. The communication device includes: a camera capturing a picture; an information processing section detecting a face image from the picture captured by the camera, to generate a partial picture including the detected face image; a transmitting section encoding the partial picture to generate encoded data, and transmitting the encoded data to a counterpart; and a first receiving section receiving data transmitted from the counterpart, and decoding the received data to generate a picturephone picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunobu Ando, Kazuya Katsuki, Takashi Kagawa, Hirofumi Yuchi
  • Publication number: 20110234831
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device capable of improving a decline in the usability caused by an angle of view of a camera. The communication device includes: a camera capturing a picture; an information processing section detecting a face image from the picture captured by the camera, to generate a partial picture including the detected face image; a transmitting section encoding the partial picture to generate encoded data, and transmitting the encoded data to a counterpart; and a first receiving section receiving data transmitted from the counterpart, and decoding the received data to generate a picturephone picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsunobu Ando, Kazuya Katsuki, Takashi Kagawa, Hirofumi Yuchi
  • Patent number: 7577276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fingerprint collation apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program, which can increase the throughput of fingerprint collation and decrease a data amount therefor. An information processing apparatus characterized by first detection means for detecting from a fingerprint image first feature points which include one of ridge bifurcations and ridge endings of a fingerprint; first generation means for generating a triangle which connects three arbitrary points close to one another from among the plurality of first feature points; first calculation means for calculating an area and a length of each side of the triangle generated by the first generation means; and storage means for storing the area and the length of each side of the triangle calculated by the first calculation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsunobu Ando
  • Publication number: 20060153431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fingerprint collation apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program, which can increase the throughput of fingerprint collation and decrease a data amount therefor. An information processing apparatus characterized by first detection means for detecting from a fingerprint image first feature points which include one of ridge bifurcations and ridge endings of a fingerprint; first generation means for generating a triangle which connects three arbitrary points close to one another from among the plurality of first feature points; first calculation means for calculating an area and a length of each side of the triangle generated by the first generation means; and storage means for storing the area and the length of each side of the triangle calculated by the first calculation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Tatsunobu Ando
  • Patent number: 6201581
    Abstract: In synthesizing a foreground picture and a background picture in accordance with a key signal, for example, by soft chroma key processing, a preview screen 102 as a picture as a result of processing by the key signal and a key parameter setting screen 101 for setting characteristics of the key signal are displayed. Characteristics of the key signal are changed on a three-dimensional space by information obtained through the key parameter setting screen 101, and the picture as a result of processing is changed on the preview screen 102. Thus, even when the range of key signal setting is adjusted on the three-dimensional color space, desired processing may be carried out by simple operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuakira Moriwake, Tatsunobu Ando, Katsuro Matsuzaki, Atsushi Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5602727
    Abstract: An image processor comprising a plurality of processor elements each having a product sum calculating function. Input switching means are incorporated for selection of image data so that the desired data in an arbitrary processing step of any one processor element can be transferred to an arbitrary processing step of the other processor element. Each processor element includes a data writing line memory, a multiplier for multiplying the output data of the line memory, a register file for storing the multiplied output therein, and an accumulator for calculating the output of the register file. Pipeline processing of the data can be executed in such constitution, and due to the provision of the input switching means in the preceding stage of each processing circuit, the image data can be transferred between the processor elements to consequently realize enhanced general ability for the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Kurokawa, Tatsunobu Ando