Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
Yoshitaka NAKASHIN 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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Patent number: 11854502Abstract: A display method includes displaying an image on a display surface; and differentiating a brightness or a color tone of a first part of the image corresponding to a first user whose face is directed to the display surface, from a brightness or a color tone of a second part of the image that is different from the first part, based on a movement of eyelids of the first user.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Publication number: 20230119949Abstract: A display method includes displaying an image on a display surface; and differentiating a brightness or a color tone of a first part of the image corresponding to a first user whose face is directed to the display surface, from a brightness or a color tone of a second part of the image that is different from the first part, based on a movement of eyelids of the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Publication number: 20230100151Abstract: A display method includes displaying, side by side, in a first region, a first image corresponding to a first terminal and a second image corresponding to a second terminal, when a first voice detected by the first terminal and a second voice detected by the second terminal overlap, displaying a first text image indicating content of the first voice in the first region in association with the first image and displaying a second text image indicating content of the second voice in the first region in association with the second image, and, when receiving operation for moving the first text image to a second region different from the first region, displaying the first text image in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Patent number: 11175780Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position of a pointing unit on the display surface; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image group including a plurality of sample images having different settings of a first attribute from each other and a same setting of a second attribute that is different from the first attribute, the first image group being scrollable in a first direction, and a second image group including a plurality of sample images having a same setting of the first attribute and different settings of the second attribute from each other, the second image group being scrollable in a second direction that is different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Publication number: 20210300590Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes a body configuring at least a part of a frame and a projecting mechanism including a projection lens, which protrudes from the body, and configured to project an image using the projection lens. The projection lens is a wide-angle lens. An object that comes into a projectable region, which is the largest region where the image is projectable by the projecting mechanism, during the projection of the image by the projecting mechanism is not attached to the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Patent number: 11016629Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position on the display surface pointed by a pointing unit; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image and a second image having a different setting of a first attribute and a second attribute from the first image. The control unit decides a setting of the first attribute and the second attribute used for the image based on the position detected by the detection unit, according to an operation on the first image or the second image.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Patent number: 11003285Abstract: A projector includes a communication section that accepts image information supplied from an image supplying apparatus, an image projection section that displays an image based on the image information on a display surface, a detector that detects a pointing position on the display surface at which a light emitting pen is pointing, a drawn image generator that generates a drawn image based on the pointing position detected by the detector, a display controller that causes the image projection section to display the drawn image, and a storage that stores the drawn image in association with the IP address. In a case where the image supplying apparatus, which supplies the communication section with the image information, is changed, the display controller reads the drawn image corresponding to the IP address of the changed image supplying apparatus from the storage and causes the image projection section to display the read drawn image.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Publication number: 20200150824Abstract: A projector includes a communication section that accepts image information supplied from an image supplying apparatus, an image projection section that displays an image based on the image information on a display surface, a detector that detects a pointing position on the display surface at which a light emitting pen is pointing, a drawn image generator that generates a drawn image based on the pointing position detected by the detector, a display controller that causes the image projection section to display the drawn image, and a storage that stores the drawn image in association with the IP address. In a case where the image supplying apparatus, which supplies the communication section with the image information, is changed, the display controller reads the drawn image corresponding to the IP address of the changed image supplying apparatus from the storage and causes the image projection section to display the read drawn image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Publication number: 20200133440Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position on the display surface pointed by a pointing unit; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image and a second image having a different setting of a first attribute and a second attribute from the first image. The control unit decides a setting of the first attribute and the second attribute used for the image based on the position detected by the detection unit, according to an operation on the first image or the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Publication number: 20200133433Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit displaying an image on a display surface; a detection unit detecting a position of a pointing unit on the display surface; and a control unit causing the display unit to display an image based on the position detected by the detection unit. The control unit causes the display unit to display a first image group including a plurality of sample images having different settings of a first attribute from each other and a same setting of a second attribute that is different from the first attribute, the first image group being scrollable in a first direction, and a second image group including a plurality of sample images having a same setting of the first attribute and different settings of the second attribute from each other, the second image group being scrollable in a second direction that is different from the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Patent number: 10565891Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image on a display surface; a control unit that causes the display unit to display the first image on the display surface; an object processing unit that generates a display object; and a storage unit. The control unit generates a second image by combining the display object generated by the object processing unit with the first image displayed on the display surface, and causes the display unit to display the second image. The storage unit stores first display data which represents the first image displayed on the display unit. The storage unit also stores second display data which represents the second image in association with the first display data.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Patent number: 10148925Abstract: A projector includes a projection optical system adapted to project an image on a screen, a lens drive section adapted to perform a focus adjustment in accordance with an operation, a shooting section adapted to shoot the screen, an evaluation value calculation section adapted to calculate an evaluation value used to evaluate contrast of a shot image of the shooting section, and a display control section adapted to make the projection lens project an image, which corresponds to a difference between the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation section after the focus adjustment and a maximum value of the evaluation values having been calculated by the evaluation value calculation section before the focus adjustment, on the screen in a case in which the lens drive section has performed the focus adjustment in accordance with the operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Publication number: 20180061262Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image on a display surface; a control unit that causes the display unit to display the first image on the display surface; an object processing unit that generates a display object; and a storage unit. The control unit generates a second image by combining the display object generated by the object processing unit with the first image displayed on the display surface, and causes the display unit to display the second image. The storage unit stores first display data which represents the first image displayed on the display unit. The storage unit also stores second display data which represents the second image in association with the first display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Patent number: 9762869Abstract: A detection image generation section generates a detection image, which is an image for detection a state of a projection image, and includes a plurality of detection image parts, and background images covering respective peripheries of the detection image parts. Each of the detection image parts includes a plurality of regions with respective luminance values different from each other, and the background images have luminance values lower than the luminance values of the detection image parts. The detection image generation section changes at least one of a luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the detection image to be generated and a size of each of the background images so that a luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the taken detection image obtained by imaging is approximated to a luminance distribution of corresponding one of the detection image parts of the detection image.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Patent number: 9426436Abstract: An image processing device used for a projector displays an image by projecting the image on a projection surface. A detection image generation section adapted to generate a detection image, which is an image adapted to detect a state of a projection image displayed on the projection surface, and includes a plurality of detection image parts is provided. Each of the detection image parts includes a plurality of regions having respective luminance values different from each other. The detection image generation section changes the luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the detection image to be generated so that the maximum luminance values of the detection image parts included in the taken detection image obtained by taking the detection image projected on the projection surface fall within an allowable range.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Patent number: 9383635Abstract: An image processing device is capable of suppressing the influence of the direction in which the image is projected on the projection surface to thereby improve the accuracy of the focus adjustment. The image processing device includes a detection section adapted to detect information regarding a direction in which an adjusting image for adjusting focus of an image to be projected on a projection surface is projected on the projection surface, and an adjusting image acquisition section adapted to obtain the adjusting image different in accordance with the information regarding the direction detected by the detection section.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Patent number: 9215431Abstract: An image processing apparatus projects and displays an image on a projection surface. The image processing apparatus includes an adjustment image producing section (an adjustment image producing section and an image analysis section) that produces an adjustment image for adjusting a focus of a projected image to be displayed on the projection surface and an imaging section that images the adjustment image projected on the projection surface. The adjustment image producing section changes the adjustment image to be produced, such that a grayscale pattern of a captured adjustment image obtained by imaging is close to a grayscale pattern of the adjustment image.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
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Publication number: 20150237318Abstract: A projector includes a projection optical system adapted to project an image on a screen, a lens drive section adapted to perform a focus adjustment in accordance with an operation, a shooting section adapted to shoot the screen, an evaluation value calculation section adapted to calculate an evaluation value used to evaluate contrast of a shot image of the shooting section, and a display control section adapted to make the projection lens project an image, which corresponds to a difference between the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation section after the focus adjustment and a maximum value of the evaluation values having been calculated by the evaluation value calculation section before the focus adjustment, on the screen in a case in which the lens drive section has performed the focus adjustment in accordance with the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventor: Yoshitaka NAKASHIN
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Patent number: 9106844Abstract: A projector that acquires evaluation values representing how well projection light is brought into focus on a screen, outputs the acquired evaluation values and a maximum value of the acquired evaluation values, and updates the maximum value to a new value at a predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Nakashin, Shiki Furui
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Publication number: 20150103257Abstract: An image processing device used for a projector displays an image by projecting the image on a projection surface. A detection image generation section adapted to generate a detection image, which is an image adapted to detect a state of a projection image displayed on the projection surface, and includes a plurality of detection image parts is provided. Each of the detection image parts includes a plurality of regions having respective luminance values different from each other. The detection image generation section changes the luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the detection image to be generated so that the maximum luminance values of the detection image parts included in the taken detection image obtained by taking the detection image projected on the projection surface fall within an allowable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin