Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Takao
Yoshiyuki Takao 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: 11735078Abstract: There is provided a control device, a control method, a control program, and a control system that are capable of presenting a VR experience with a high sense of immersion using a tiling display. The control device acquires arrangement of displays in a tiling display in which a plurality of displays is tiled, acquires a light-emitting characteristic of each of the displays, tracks a position and a line-of-sight direction of a user with respect to the tiling display, and adjusts a luminance value of each of the displays on the basis of the light-emitting characteristic and a tracking result by the tracking such that brightness of the displays viewed from the user becomes continuous through a boundary of the displays.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20220262284Abstract: There is provided a control device, a control method, a control program, and a control system that are capable of presenting a VR experience with a high sense of immersion using a tiling display. The control device acquires arrangement of displays in a tiling display in which a plurality of displays is tiled, acquires a light-emitting characteristic of each of the displays, tracks a position and a line-of-sight direction of a user with respect to the tiling display, and adjusts a luminance value of each of the displays on the basis of the light-emitting characteristic and a tracking result by the tracking such that brightness of the displays viewed from the user becomes continuous through a boundary of the displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki TAKAO
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Patent number: 11388378Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a projection system are provided. The image processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes a calculating section which, on the basis of a positional relationship between a viewpoint position set in front of a curved display surface and a virtual surface set behind the display surface, calculates the positions of respective pixels on the display surface, the pixels being included in a planar image generated on the assumption that the planar image is displayed on a plane, and displays the planar image on the display surface such that the respective pixels are displayed at the calculated positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20210065659Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system that can prevent a sense of realism and immersion from being impaired even in a case where a planar image generated on the assumption that the planar image is to be displayed on a flat surface is displayed on a curved display surface. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology causes a planar image and an effect image to be displayed on a curved display surface such that an image representing a predetermined space is displayed as the effect image around the planar image, the planar image having been generated on the assumption that the planar image is to be displayed on a flat surface. The present technology can be applied to a computer that causes a plurality of projectors to project a video.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: NAOMASA TAKAHASHI, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, YOSHIYUKI TAKAO
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Patent number: 10872434Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus and a method to improve the robustness of posture estimation during viewing of contents with respect to a projected image. Similarity between a captured image obtained by imaging a projected image by an imaging unit, the projected image having been projected by a projection unit, and a simulation image simulating a captured image supposed to be obtained by imaging a projected image by the imaging unit, the projected image having been projected by the projection unit, is evaluated, and a posture of the projection unit or the imaging unit or postures of both of the projection unit and the imaging unit on the basis of an evaluation result of the similarity are set.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20200366876Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system which make it possible to reduce a necessary space in the case where the content of a planar image generated on the assumption that the planar image is displayed on a plane is provided in such a manner that a sense of realism and a sense of immersion can be obtained. An image processing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present technology includes a calculating section which, on the basis of a positional relationship between a viewpoint position set in front of a curved display surface and a virtual surface set behind the display surface, calculates the positions of respective pixels on the display surface, the pixels being included in a planar image generated on the assumption that the planar image is displayed on a plane, and displays the planar image on the display surface such that the respective pixels are displayed at the calculated positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventor: YOSHIYUKI TAKAO
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Patent number: 8818180Abstract: A video reproducing apparatus includes a decoding unit performing decoding of coded video signals of multiple viewpoints, a load detecting unit detecting a process load on the decoding unit, and a control unit controlling the decoding unit in accordance with the detected process load and reducing a load of the decoding from a viewpoint with a low degree of priority.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20120201520Abstract: A video reproducing apparatus includes a decoding unit performing decoding of coded video signals of multiple viewpoints, a load detecting unit detecting a process load on the decoding unit, and a control unit controlling the decoding unit in accordance with the detected process load and reducing a load of the decoding from a viewpoint with a low degree of priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Takao
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Patent number: 7831132Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to execute a sequence of processing operations for recording video data recorded to a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format, without user's manual intervention. Any one of three settings is provided in accordance with total time Tx of data to be written to a DVD: a first setting in which a maximum value of image bit rate (first value B1) and a maximum value of audio bit rate (second value B2) are used; a second setting in which a first value of image bit rate and a third value B3 of audio bit rate are used; and a third setting in which a fourth value of image bit rate determined on the basis of a line and the third value B3 of audio bit rate are used. The information processing apparatus may be an apparatus for recording the data recorded to a digital cassette video tape to a DVD.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Makoto Urushihara, Keisuke Hiroi, Hideyuki Agata, Takashi Ohkubo, Yoshiyuki Takao
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Patent number: 7185056Abstract: A program for processing information in a selected terminal apparatus includes reproducing contents data as a browsing object for output by the selected terminal apparatus; enabling operations to be performed on the browsing object; transmitting and receiving information over a network between a plurality of terminal apparatuses reproducing and outputting the contents data, the plurality of terminal apparatuses including the selected terminal apparatus, each of the terminal apparatuses having the browsing object, the information including shared information which denotes an operation performed on the browsing object of one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to obtain a result; and sharing the result of the operation between the browsing objects of a remainder of the terminal apparatuses, the sharing being based on the shared information.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoki Fujisawa, Kiyonobu Kojima, Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20050286361Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus adapted to execute a sequence of processing operations for recording video data recorded to a first recording medium in a first format to a second recording medium in a second format, without user's manual intervention. Any one of three settings is provided in accordance with total time Tx of data to be written to a DVD: a first setting in which a maximum value of image bit rate (first value B1) and a maximum value of audio bit rate (second value B2) are used; a second setting in which a first value of image bit rate and a third value B3 of audio bit rate are used; and a third setting in which a fourth value of image bit rate determined on the basis of line 152 and the third value B3 of audio bit rate are used. The present invention is applicable to information processing apparatuses for recording the data recorded to a digital cassette video tape to a DVD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Makoto Urushihara, Keisuke Hiroi, Hideyuki Agata, Takashi Ohkubo, Yoshiyuki Takao
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Publication number: 20030145056Abstract: A program for processing information in a selected terminal apparatus includes reproducing contents data as a browsing object for output by the selected terminal apparatus; enabling operations to be performed on the browsing object; transmitting and receiving information over a network between a plurality of terminal apparatuses reproducing and outputting the contents data, the plurality of terminal apparatuses including the selected terminal apparatus, each of the terminal apparatuses having the browsing object, the information including shared information which denotes an operation performed on the browsing object of one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to obtain a result; and sharing the result of the operation between the browsing objects of a remainder of the terminal apparatuses, the sharing being based on the shared information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoki Fujisawa, Kiyonobu Kojima, Yoshiyuki Takao