Patents by Inventor Yoshiteru Uchiyama

Yoshiteru Uchiyama 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: 20240070828
    Abstract: An image correction method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes receiving an input of selecting one of a first method for correcting a shape of an image projected from a projector onto a projection surface and a second method that is a method for correcting the shape of the image and is different from the first method, outputting a signal for causing the projector to project a first pattern image when the first method is selected, generating first correction data for correcting the shape of the image using the first method based on a first captured image that is acquired by imaging the projection surface and includes the projection surface and a first projection image appearing on the projection surface by projecting the first pattern image, outputting a signal for causing the projector to project a second pattern image different from the first pattern image when the second method is selected, and generating second correction data for correcting the shape of the image using the second met
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Issei YOKOYAMA, Yuki MORI, Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA, Makoto MIKAMI, Katsuyoshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230269351
    Abstract: A control method for a display device includes: determining whether an illuminance in an environment where a display device having a light source is installed belongs to a first range or a second range; when the illuminance in the environment belongs to the first range, adjusting a luminance of the light source by referring to first luminance information designating the luminance corresponding to when the illuminance in the environment belongs to the first range; when the illuminance in the environment belongs to the second range, adjusting the luminance by referring to second luminance information designating the luminance corresponding to when the illuminance in the environment belongs to the second range; when a first operation of changing the luminance when the illuminance belongs to the first range is accepted from a user, updating the first luminance information to an updated first luminance information in response to the first operation; updating the second luminance information, based on the updated f
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NAKAMURA, Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA, Takumi TAKAHASHI, Akihiro KASHIWAGI
  • Publication number: 20230105646
    Abstract: A method of controlling a projector includes projecting a correction image having a rectangular shape in which a plurality of correction points is arranged on a first side out of four sides on a projection surface, receiving an operation of moving a first correction point included in the plurality of correction points in a first direction, moving another correction point than the first correction point out of the plurality of correction points in a second direction opposite to the first direction when an amount of movement in the first direction of the first correction point by the operation is larger than a threshold value, and projecting an output image obtained by applying a distortion correction based on the moving the another correction point than the first correction point to an input image on the projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230101765
    Abstract: A projector has a projection optical system including a projection lens and a processing device. The processing device makes the projection optical system project a correction image having a rectangular shape. The number of correction points arranged on a first side out of two sides connecting to a vertex located the farthest from the projection lens when projected on a projection surface out of four vertexes of the correction image is larger than the number of correction points arranged on a side different from the two sides. The processing device receives an operation of moving first correction point included in the correction points arranged on the first side, and makes the projection optical system project an output image obtained by applying a distortion correction based on the operation to an input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11276372
    Abstract: A method of operation performed by a display device displaying an image on a display surface includes the steps of displaying a first image in the display surface's first area, and displaying second image in a second area different from the display surface's first area, displaying a third image formed by superimposing a writing image to the second image on the second image in second area instead of the second image, determining whether or not a condition for changing an image to be displayed in the first and second area is fulfilled, and changing the image to be displayed in the first area from first image to third image and changing image to be displayed in second area from third image to a fourth image when it is determined that the condition is wherein the first image is displayed in first area and third image is displayed in second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20210377489
    Abstract: An image transmission system includes an image transmitting device coupled to a computer, and an image receiving device coupled to a projector, and transmits image information from the image transmitting device to the image receiving device via wireless communication. The image receiving device detects a state of the wireless communication by the image transmitting device, outputs a first control signal turning on a power of the projector to the projector when detecting that the wireless communication is started, receives the image information transmitted from the image transmitting device, and outputs the received image information to the projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11145273
    Abstract: A control method including home screen display step of making display section display a home screen where identification images representing the respective input interfaces are displayed in respective display areas so as to correspond one-to-one when image information is not input to N input interfaces provided to the display device, determination step of determining whether one of the input interfaces has changed to state in which the image information is input, identification step of identifying display area having the highest priority representing an order of displaying image out of the display areas where the identification images are currently displayed when the determination result is affirmative, and home screen information update step of displaying image input to input interface in display area thus identified, and displaying the identification images of the input interfaces in the state in which the image information is not input in the display areas lower in priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20200388241
    Abstract: A control method including home screen display step of making display section display a home screen where identification images representing the respective input interfaces are displayed in respective display areas so as to correspond one-to-one when image information is not input to N input interfaces provided to the display device, determination step of determining whether one of the input interfaces has changed to state in which the image information is input, identification step of identifying display area having the highest priority representing an order of displaying image out of the display areas where the identification images are currently displayed when the determination result is affirmative, and home screen information update step of displaying image input to input interface in display area thus identified, and displaying the identification images of the input interfaces in the state in which the image information is not input in the display areas lower in priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200388244
    Abstract: A method of operation performed by a display device displaying an image on a display surface includes the steps of displaying a first image in the display surface's first area, and displaying second image in a second area different from the display surface's first area, displaying a third image formed by superimposing a writing image to the second image on the second image in second area instead of the second image, determining whether or not a condition for changing an image to be displayed in the first and second area is fulfilled, and changing the image to be displayed in the first area from first image to third image and changing image to be displayed in second area from third image to a fourth image when it is determined that the condition is wherein the first image is displayed in first area and third image is displayed in second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10623684
    Abstract: A display device includes an input section to which image information is externally input, a display section adapted to display an image based on the image information on a display surface, and a control section adapted to control the display device based on setting information related to an operation of the display device to make the display section display the image, and change the setting information from first setting information to second setting information in accordance with an instruction for changing the setting information. In the case in which the image information is not input to the input section for a first time period after the control section changes the setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information, the control section changes the setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Fujimori, Yoshiteru Uchiyama, Takahiro Ano, Toru Karasawa
  • Patent number: 10412335
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section that displays an image and a controller that controls the display apparatus based on setting information to cause the display section to display the image and changes the setting information from first setting information to second setting information in accordance with a first instruction. In a state in which the controller has changed the setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information and causes the display section to display a first image based on first image information from the first input section, and when the controller receives a second instruction to cause the display section to display a second image based on second image information from the second input section, the controller changes the setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information and causes the display section to display the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Fujimori, Yoshiteru Uchiyama, Takahiro Ano, Toru Karasawa
  • Publication number: 20180316888
    Abstract: A display device includes an input section to which image information is externally input, a display section adapted to display an image based on the image information on a display surface, and a control section adapted to control the display device based on setting information related to an operation of the display device to make the display section display the image, and change the setting information from first setting information to second setting information in accordance with an instruction for changing the setting information. In the case in which the image information is not input to the input section for a first time period after the control section changes the setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information, the control section changes the setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki FUJIMORI, Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA, Takahiro ANO, Toru KARASAWA
  • Publication number: 20180278880
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section that displays an image and a controller that controls the display apparatus based on setting information to cause the display section to display the image and changes the setting information from first setting information to second setting information in accordance with a first instruction. In a state in which the controller has changed the setting information from the first setting information to the second setting information and causes the display section to display a first image based on first image information from the first input section, and when the controller receives a second instruction to cause the display section to display a second image based on second image information from the second input section, the controller changes the setting information from the second setting information to the first setting information and causes the display section to display the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki FUJIMORI, Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA, Takahiro ANO, Toru KARASAWA
  • Patent number: 10015457
    Abstract: A projector includes: a projection unit; a position detection unit; and a calibration control unit which causes the projection unit to project a target image at a reference position within a projection range of the projection unit, acquires an operation position for the indicating operation detected by the position detection unit during the projection of the target image, and carries out calibration processing. The target image is projected, starting at the reference position located in a lower part of the projection range, of plural reference positions within the projection range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20150035995
    Abstract: A projector includes: a projection unit; a position detection unit; and a calibration control unit which causes the projection unit to project a target image at a reference position within a projection range of the projection unit, acquires an operation position for the indicating operation detected by the position detection unit during the projection of the target image, and carries out calibration processing. The target image is projected, starting at the reference position located in a lower part of the projection range, of plural reference positions within the projection range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshiteru UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110234994
    Abstract: A projector device includes: a light modulating element which modulates light from a light source section according to an image signal; a projecting section which projects a modulation light modulated by a displayable region in a surface of an effective region of the light modulating element onto a projection surface; a trapezoidal distortion correcting section which corrects trapezoidal distortion of a projection image projected onto the projection surface by projecting a light modulation image by means of the displayable region by an after-correction image region which is a part of the effective region of the light modulating element; and a position adjusting section which adjusts the position of the projection image projected onto the projection surface by moving the after-correction image region in the surface of the effective region while maintaining the size and shape of the after-correction image region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 6710791
    Abstract: A portable information gathering apparatus and information managing method in the same make it possible to capture information entered through an input/display tablet, image information entered through an image input device and voice information entered through a voice input device, and other type of information for individual pages, each corresponding to all information displayed at one time on a screen. In response to an instruction given by a user of the portable information gathering apparatus, an attach-to-page icon setting unit attaches icons to desired pages to manage the page information in units of pages. Several of these icons are: an icon for managing the information captured in respective pages by time-related data such as date and time; an icon for specifying a particular page; an icon serving as a memo guide; and an icon for managing the information captured in the respective pages by the type of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kodama, Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 6525715
    Abstract: The operability of the various kinds of operation buttons that carry out designated functions in a portable information acquisition device is improved so as to make the device user-friendly. Pairs of operation buttons in which each pair carries out a similar kind of function are configured with one operation button of each pair provided on the left side of the device main body, and one operation button provided on the right side. Further, operation buttons that carry out similar kinds of functions are provided in a plurality of opposing configuration of pairs on both the left and right sides, respectively. When the operation buttons are formed respectively into pairs carrying out different functions, in which each pair carries out a similar kind of function, the operation buttons are arranged in symmetrical positions on the left and right. Furthermore, various kinds of operation buttons are provided above the center axis dividing the device into upper and lower parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Uchiyama, Yoshiyuki Kodama
  • Publication number: 20010045942
    Abstract: The operability of the various kinds of operation buttons that carry out designated functions in a portable information acquisition device is improved so as to make the device user-friendly. Pairs of operation buttons in which each pair carries out a similar kind of function are configured with one operation button of each pair provided on the left side of the device main body, and one operation button provided on the right side. Further, operation buttons that carry out similar kinds of functions are provided in a plurality of opposing configuration of pairs on both the left and right sides, respectively. When the operation buttons are formed respectively into pairs carrying out different functions, in which each pair carries out a similar kind of function, the operation buttons are arranged in symmetrical positions on the left and right. Furthermore, various kinds of operation buttons are provided above the center axis dividing the device into upper and lower parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: YOSHITERU UCHIYAMA, YOSHIYUKI KODAMA