Patents by Inventor Yusuke Nakagawa
Yusuke Nakagawa 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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Publication number: 20240004471Abstract: There is provided an information processing device (300) including a first acquisition unit (308) that is based on an input from a first user and that includes presentation unit information designating a presentation unit that presents a haptic stimulus by a haptic presentation device, and form information designating a form of the haptic stimulus, a generation unit (310) that generates, according to the control command, a haptic control signal to present the haptic stimulus to the presentation unit; and a first distribution unit (302) that distributes the haptic control signal to the haptic presentation device worn on a body of a second user. The haptic control signal corresponds to a predetermined image that is superimposed on an image of a real space distributed to the first user and that is generated on a basis of the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Yohei FUKUMA, Osamu ITO, Takayoshi YAMASAKI
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Patent number: 11812141Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle-mounted camera system equipped with a vehicle-mounted camera which captures an image of surroundings of a vehicle includes a margin-of-communication obtainer and a restriction determiner. The margin-of-communication obtainer works to determine a value of the margin of differential signaling between the vehicle-mounted camera and the control apparatus. When the value of the margin of differential signaling is lower than a restriction threshold value, the restriction determiner restricts at least one of a communication characteristic of the differential signaling, an application using the captured image, a frame rate in the vehicle-mounted camera, and an image-capturing area. This achieves the control apparatus for the vehicle-mounted camera system which is high in robustness in the differential signaling.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Katsuhiko Hibino
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Publication number: 20230349742Abstract: The packaged flow sensor is a packaged flow sensor for use by being fixed to an external substrate and includes a flow sensor chip including a sensor unit configured to detect a flow rate of a fluid, a case member including an opening toward the external substrate and configured to house the sensor unit in a state in which the sensor unit faces the opening, and a fixing member protruding from the case member toward the external substrate and configured to fix the packaged flow sensor to the external substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Takashi KASAI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Takuma YOSHIDA, Daisuke MORIHARA
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Patent number: 11779836Abstract: Provided is a vibration control apparatus that acquires content information about content including at least either one of video and audio to be presented to a user, and vibrates a vibration mechanism in such a manner that the user feels a pseudo force sensation defined based on the content information while the content is being presented.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11738261Abstract: Provided is a vibration control apparatus that acquires pseudo force sensory vibration data descriptive of a pseudo force sensory vibration causing a user to feel a pseudo force sensation, acquires tactile sensory vibration data descriptive of a tactile sensory vibration causing the user to feel a tactile sensation, and causes a vibration mechanism to generate a vibration based on the pseudo force sensory vibration data and the tactile sensory vibration data.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11701581Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control section to generate a control signal that controls an operation of a tactile feedback apparatus including a tactile feedback section. The control section changes control on the tactile feedback apparatus on the basis of a type of the tactile feedback section which is recognized by the control section.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Komori, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20230186738Abstract: A haptic signal can be generated using an intermediate state of a plurality of generation algorithms. A plurality of haptic signal generation units that generates haptic signals using generation algorithms different from each other on the basis of a sound signal by the plurality of haptic signal generation units is included. A mixing unit mixes haptic signals generated by at least two of the plurality of haptic signal generation units to obtain an output haptic signal. For example, a control unit that controls mixing ratios of the mixing unit is further included.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO
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Patent number: 11676461Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to reduce the difference in way of feeling a tactile sense in accordance with a state or situation, the information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire context information concerning a state or a situation user of an external environment or context information concerning a user; and a modulation unit configured to modulate a control signal for controlling a haptics unit for presenting haptics to a predetermined part of the user on the basis of the context information having been acquired.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Ogita
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Publication number: 20230099023Abstract: A controller includes a sensor that uses an elastically deformable elastic member, detects user's contact with or deforming action of the elastic member, and outputs an electric signal based on the detected contact or deforming action in question.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Hitoshi Nakamura, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20230083685Abstract: An optical module for endoscope includes a light emitting element, an optical fiber, a ferrule to which the light emitting element is bonded, a wiring board to which the ferrule is bonded, and a resin disposed between the ferrule and the wiring board, wherein the ferrule has a first principal surface made of a transparent material, a second principal surface, and a side surface, the second principal surface has an opening of an insertion hole, the second principal surface has an opening of a groove communicating with the insertion hole, the side surface has an opening of the groove, and a first distance between the opening of the groove on the side surface and the first principal surface is greater than a second distance between the bottom surface of the insertion hole and the first principal surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yohei SAKAI
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Patent number: 11596858Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a control unit; and an operating device including: (i) operation button to be activated by touch of a user, (ii) a first vibration mechanism for vibrating the operation button, and (iii) a second vibration mechanism for vibrating a main body of the operating device, where the control unit controls the first vibration mechanism and the second vibration mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 11565172Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing apparatus-readable recording medium that are capable of adjusting sound caused by vibration of a vibration output unit that vibrates an input device in accordance with the surrounding situation of a game user. The information processing apparatus includes a vibration control unit. The vibration control unit controls vibration of a vibration output unit to change a sound caused by the vibration of the vibration output unit on a basis of surrounding environment information of an input device including a vibration output unit, the input device being held by a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ayumi Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Igarashi
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Publication number: 20230023104Abstract: A totally aerated combustion burner has a combustion plate part through which an air-fuel mixture is ejected. The combustion plate part includes: an air-fuel mixture permeable body made from metallic fibers to allow the air-fuel mixture to pass therethrough; and a distribution plate having formed therein a multiplicity of distribution holes and being stacked on a back surface of the air-fuel mixture permeable body. An air-fuel mixture permeable body is constructed by laminating a plurality of metallic-fiber woven bodies which are woven by metallic-fiber threads obtained by bundling a plurality of metallic fibers relatively large in diameter. These metallic-fiber woven bodies are laminated such that a part of meshes in one metallic-fiber woven body overlaps a portion other than meshes in another metallic-fiber woven body, said one metallic-fiber woven body and said another metallic-fiber woven body that lies adjacent to each other in the laminating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicants: RINNAI CORPORATION, BEST CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11524226Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finType: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 11511185Abstract: An operation device includes a movable member that is movable within a predetermined range, and a restriction member that is disposed in a state of being movable in a movable direction of the movable member, that restricts the movable range of the movable member by coming into contact with a contact surface of the movable member in the movable direction, and that can be switched between a state of being in contact with a first range of the contact surface and restricting the movable range of the movable member and a state of being in contact with a second range, the second range being different from the first range, of the contact surface and restricting the movable range of the movable member.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 11513429Abstract: A camera accessory attachable to and detachable from a bottom surface of a camera includes an accessory body, a fastening member configured to attach the accessory body to the bottom surface, an opening that allows a battery to be inserted into and ejected from the camera while the accessory body is attached to the bottom surface, and an accessory lid member attached to the accessory body and movable between an open position for opening the opening and a closed position for closing the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Yutaka Kojima
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Publication number: 20220321762Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle-mounted camera system equipped with a vehicle-mounted camera which captures an image of surroundings of a vehicle includes a margin-of-communication obtainer and a restriction determiner. The margin-of-communication obtainer works to determine a value of the margin of differential signaling between the vehicle-mounted camera and the control apparatus. When the value of the margin of differential signaling is lower than a restriction threshold value, the restriction determiner restricts at least one of a communication characteristic of the differential signaling, an application using the captured image, a frame rate in the vehicle-mounted camera, and an image-capturing area. This achieves the control apparatus for the vehicle-mounted camera system which is high in robustness in the differential signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Katsuhiko HIBINO
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Patent number: 11458389Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vibration control apparatus that receives a vibration instruction and vibrates a vibration device in accordance with content obtained by correcting the content of the received vibration instruction, wherein the vibration control apparatus determines the correction content for vibration in accordance with a user using the vibration device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
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Patent number: 11445898Abstract: An optical module for endoscope includes an optical fiber, an optical element, a first substrate including, on a first principal plane, an insertion hole into which the optical fiber is inserted, the optical element being mounted on a second principal plane of the first substrate, a second substrate, on a third principal plane of which a recessed section in which the optical element is housed is present, and a solder ring that bonds a seal ring of the second principal plane of the first substrate and a guard ring of the third principal plane of the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate have the same external dimension in an optical axis orthogonal direction, and side surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate are present in the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20220241684Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki