Patents by Inventor Tomoya Shimura

Tomoya Shimura 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: 20240120217
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes: performing a first heat treatment on a substrate on which a coating film of a metal-containing resist has been formed and subjected to an exposure treatment, to form the metal-containing resist into a precursor in an exposed region of the coating film; thereafter, performing a second heat treatment on the substrate to condense the metal-containing resist formed into the precursor in the exposed region of the coating film; and thereafter, performing a developing treatment on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichiro KAWAKAMI, Kosuke YOSHIHARA, Satoru SHIMURA, Yuhei KUWAHARA, Tomoya ONITSUKA, Soichiro OKADA, Tetsunari FURUSHO
  • Patent number: 11077793
    Abstract: A video processing unit generates a conversion video having the same angle of view as an angle of view of a mirror image by converting a camera video. The video processing unit causes the generated conversion video to be displayed in a display region such that the conversion video is superimposed on the mirror image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma Kikuchi, Tomoya Shimura
  • Patent number: 10699541
    Abstract: A feature of a part or the entirety of a body of a person is detected from a captured video; the person in the video is specified from the detected feature; user information indicating physical features of the person is detected from the feature related to the specified person; motion information including a motion or a gesture with a body and hands of a user is detected from the user information and the captured video; a behavior including the motion of the person is recognized from the motion information and the user information; recognized behavior information is divided for each behavior of the person; the divided behavior information is generated as block data; and the generated block data is transmitted to an outside for each block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Shimura
  • Publication number: 20200086792
    Abstract: A video processing unit generates a conversion video having the same angle of view as an angle of view of a mirror image by converting a camera video. The video processing unit causes the generated conversion video to be displayed in a display region such that the conversion video is superimposed on the mirror image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUMA KIKUCHI, TOMOYA SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190102634
    Abstract: A parking position display processing apparatus includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle and generates a captured image; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information of the vehicle; a vehicle surrounding state recognition unit that generates vehicle surrounding information which indicates a state of a surrounding of the vehicle based on the captured image and the vehicle information; a parking position calculation unit that calculates a planned parking position of the vehicle based on the vehicle surrounding information and the vehicle information; a composite image generation unit that generates a composite image from an image which represents the planned parking position and an image which represents the state of the surrounding of the vehicle in the planned parking position based on the planned parking position and the vehicle surrounding information; and a display unit that displays the composite image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: NAOTO SAGAMI, TOMOYA SHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10186057
    Abstract: In a data input device according to one aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit detects a first position based on a position of one part of a body of a user represented in a video captured by an image capturing device and a second position based on a position of another part of the body. A drawing input detection unit establishes, based on the first position, an input detection region in which a drawing input is detected, and detects, based on whether or not the second position is included in the input detection region, the drawing input. A position-of-interest detection unit detects a position-of-interest corresponding to the second position on an image display plane. An image forming unit forms an image indicating a position-of-interest in a case that the drawing input detection unit detects the drawing input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Sakae Saito
  • Patent number: 9778748
    Abstract: A distance calculation unit acquires a first position information indicating a position of a part of a body of each user indicated in an image captured by an imaging device. A user information analysis unit detects an operation region where a user can operate by using a part of a body, based on the first position information, and that identifies as an operator candidate a user having the part of the body indicated by the first position information in case that the detection of the operation region was possible. The user information analysis unit, of operator candidates, identifies as an operator a user including a part of the body in the operation region, and identifies as a user who cannot perform operation a user other than a user identified as the operator of the operator candidates. Because of the above, it is possible to increase operability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Shimura
  • Publication number: 20160335861
    Abstract: A feature of a part or the entirety of a body of a person is detected from a captured video; the person in the video is specified from the detected feature; user information indicating physical features of the person is detected from the feature related to the specified person; motion information including a motion or a gesture with a body and hands of a user is detected from the user information and the captured video; a behavior including the motion of the person is recognized from the motion information and the user information; recognized behavior information is divided for each behavior of the person; the divided behavior information is generated as block data; and the generated block data is transmitted to an outside for each block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160156839
    Abstract: A position detection device, provided with: an associating unit that uses a first image, which is captured by a first camera and includes a second camera displayed on a substantially central axis in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction, and a second image, which is captured by the second camera and includes the first camera displayed on the substantially central axis in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction, as a basis for associating a subject included in the first image and a subject included in the second image as the same subject; and a detection unit that detects three-dimensional coordinates of the associated subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150302617
    Abstract: In a data input device according to one aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit detects a first position based on a position of one part of a body of a user represented in a video captured by an image capturing device and a second position based on a position of another part of the body. A drawing input detection unit establishes, based on the first position, an input detection region in which a drawing input is detected, and detects, based on whether or not the second position is included in the input detection region, the drawing input. A position-of-interest detection unit detects a position-of-interest corresponding to the second position on an image display plane. An image forming unit forms an image indicating a position-of-interest in a case that the drawing input detection unit detects the drawing input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya SHIMURA, Sakae SAITO
  • Patent number: 9070223
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a map filtering processing unit which applies filtering to a parallax map based on a parallax value with respect to each pixel of an image; a blurred image generation unit which generates a blurred image of the image from the image; and an image composition unit which generates a composite image which is obtained by compositing the image and the blurred image based on the parallax map after the filtering by the map filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka, Shinichi Arita, Takuya Okamoto, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20150145762
    Abstract: A distance calculation unit acquires a first position information indicating a position of a part of a body of each user indicated in an image captured by an imaging device. A user information analysis unit detects an operation region where a user can operate by using a part of a body, based on the first position information, and that identifies as an operator candidate a user having the part of the body indicated by the first position information in case that the detection of the operation region was possible. The user information analysis unit, of operator candidates, identifies as an operator a user including a part of the body in the operation region, and identifies as a user who cannot perform operation a user other than a user identified as the operator of the operator candidates. Because of the above, it is possible to increase operability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Shimura
  • Patent number: 8885067
    Abstract: A multocular image pickup apparatus includes: a distance calculation unit that calculates information regarding the distance to a captured object from an output video of a first image pickup unit, which is to be the reference unit of a plurality of image pickup units that pick up images, and from an output video of an image pickup unit that is different from the first image pickup unit; a multocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the plurality of image pickup units based on the distance information for regions where the distance information could be calculated; and a monocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the first image pickup unit for regions where the distance information could not be calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8619183
    Abstract: In order to perform adjustment of relative positions between an optical system and imaging devices, a plurality of the imaging devices, a plurality of solid lenses that form images of the imaging devices, and a plurality of optical-axis control units that control the direction of optical axes of light incident to the imaging devices are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Makoto Kitagawa, Tomoya Shimura, Shinichi Arita, Satoru Inoue, Hirokazu Katakame, Sakae Saito, Shunichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20130279799
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a map filtering processing unit which applies filtering to a parallax map based on a parallax value with respect to each pixel of an image; a blurred image generation unit which generates a blurred image of the image from the image; and an image composition unit which generates a composite image which is obtained by compositing the image and the blurred image based on the parallax map after the filtering by the map filtering processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka, Shinichi Arita, Takuya Okamoto, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20130170737
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image converting apparatus is capable of displaying a stereoscopic image. The apparatus comprises a photographing condition extracting portion for extracting convergent angle conversion information when right/left images are captured; and an image converting portion for changing the convergence angle of the time when the right/left images are captured. The image converting portion comprises a convergent angle correction value calculating portion which calculates the maximum disparity value of the right/left images on the basis of the convergent angle conversion information and display size information and calculates a convergent angle correction value at which the calculated maximum disparity value is equal to or lower than a previously designated maximum disparity value; and a convergent angle conversion processing portion which generates an image in which the convergent angle when the right/left images are captured is changed on the basis of the calculated convergent angle correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Arita, Tomoya Shimura
  • Publication number: 20120262607
    Abstract: A multocular image pickup apparatus includes: a distance calculation unit that calculates information regarding the distance to a captured object from an output video of a first image pickup unit, which is to be the reference unit of a plurality of image pickup units that pick up images, and from an output video of an image pickup unit that is different from the first image pickup unit; a multocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the plurality of image pickup units based on the distance information for regions where the distance information could be calculated; and a monocular video synthesizing unit that generates synthesized video from the output video of the first image pickup unit for regions where the distance information could not be calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100289941
    Abstract: In order to perform adjustment of relative positions between an optical system and imaging devices, a plurality of the imaging devices, a plurality of solid lenses that form images of the imaging devices, and a plurality of optical-axis control units that control the direction of optical axes of light incident to the imaging devices are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Makoto Kitagawa, Tomoya Shimura, Shinichi Arita, Satoru Inoue, Hirokazu Katakame, Sakae Saito, Shunichi Sato
  • Patent number: 6980254
    Abstract: An image interpolation system for interpolating gaps between lines forming an image, includes: generating virtual interpolation data of inter-lines between the lines of an input image, based on the input image line data; and interpolating pixels between the input image lines, based on the generated virtual interpolation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kanako Nishihashi, Masaaki Moriya, Tomoya Shimura
  • Publication number: 20050157599
    Abstract: In write-once media, there occurs wasted recording space at the time of update of an index file for AV file management. In view of this, a new index file is generated at the time of update, and thumbnail image data in an existing index file is referred to, whereby the wasted space is reduced, At the same time, attribute information is stored in the new index file, whereby high-speed access to minimum information required can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Jiro Kiyama, Tomoya Shimura, Yuri Iwano, Hideaki Kizuki, Takayoshi Yamaguchi