Patents by Inventor Yohei Muto

Yohei Muto 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: 11969662
    Abstract: There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and a rear right coupled to the trunk; a first indirect portion that tilts the head portion left and right; and a second joint portion that rotates, with respect to the trunk, one of the leg portions on the rear left and the rear right to a front side, and the other to a rear side. It is possible to faithfully reproduce the movement of the four-legged animal by providing the first joint portion and the second joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Ishibashi, Tomoo Mizukami, Takuma Araki, Masato Muraki, Tomoyuki Arai, Goushi Koike, Takayuki Ito, Kouta Katsumura, Yohei Watanabe, Muneyuki Horiguchi, Takashi Maeda, Satoshi Muto, Hideo Miyano
  • Patent number: 8707176
    Abstract: A display control method and a display control apparatus connected to a display apparatus acquires, from a recording apparatus which records drawn contents in a drawing area upon receiving operation information representing an operation in the drawing area, pieces of the operation information and the drawn contents, and determines, of the acquired pieces of the operation information, operation information which is not to be used for playback of drawn contents and decides a playback timing of drawn contents based on the order or the timing in which the operation information is received. Operation information other than the operation information determined not to be used for playback is extracted, and the drawn contents on the display apparatus are played back at the decided playback timing using the extracted operation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Muto, Keiji Adachi
  • Publication number: 20080270901
    Abstract: An object of this invention to cause a display control apparatus capable of sequentially playing back drawn contents to implement, by a simple method, playback that facilitates grasp of contents while shortening the playback time. A display control apparatus of this invention includes an operation information acquisition unit which acquires, from a hard disk which records contents of a change in a drawing area for drawing an object upon acquiring operation information representing an operation in the drawing area, pieces of information about the contents of the change, a playback portion extraction unit which determines, of the pieces of acquired information, information to be used for playback of drawn contents and determines the playback timing of the information, a playback unit which extracts the information determined to be used for playback and plays back the drawn contents on a display apparatus at the determined playback timing using the extracted information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Muto, Keiji Adachi
  • Publication number: 20040268156
    Abstract: A sharing system is provided in which, when a detecting unit in a server apparatus receives image information from a first terminal apparatus, the server apparatus transmits image information of other terminal apparatuses to a second terminal apparatus from which input of an authentication number indicating a user who is identical to a user who is logged in with the first terminal apparatus is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Sakakibara, Yoshihisa Tadokoro, Naoko Hyotani, Takashi Miyasaki, Yohei Muto