Patents by Inventor Akihiro Horii
Akihiro Horii 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: 20100253879Abstract: An optical sheet includes a sheet body including a single translucent resin material layer having a first surface that light enters and a second surface that the light exits. The sheet body is orientationally crystallized in a first in-plane axis direction and a second in-plane axis direction orthogonal to each other and having a linear expansion coefficient of 1.0*10E?5/° C. or less in all in-plane directions. A structure surface portion that has a geometric configuration and is formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Hirai, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akiko Kakibe, Tokuhiro Morioka, Shunichi Kajiya
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Publication number: 20100188608Abstract: A light-transmitting film that has a predetermined polarization split function, in addition to a light-collecting function is provided. The index of refraction nx in a prism extension direction and the index of refraction in a prism alignment direction differ from each other. By generating a difference in the indices of refraction in the prism extension direction and the prism alignment direction orthogonal thereto, for the light incident on the light-transmitting film, the polarization component Lx oscillating in the prism extension direction and the polarization component Ly oscillating in the prism alignment direction can have different transmission characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunari Hoshi, Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Patent number: 7712908Abstract: A light-transmitting film that has a predetermined polarization split function, in addition to a light-collecting function is provided. The index of refraction nx in a prism extension direction and the index of refraction in a prism alignment direction differ from each other. By generating a difference in the indices of refraction in the prism extension direction and the prism alignment direction orthogonal thereto, for the light incident on the light-transmitting film, the polarization component Lx oscillating in the prism extension direction and the polarization component Ly oscillating in the prism alignment direction can have different transmission characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsunari Hoshi, Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Publication number: 20100067117Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, and capable of being thinned is provided. The optical packaged body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Yu Andrew Chakchung, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
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Publication number: 20100039584Abstract: An optical element laminate is provided and includes a first optical element and a second optical element superimposed with the first optical element. The first optical element and the second optical element are each a rectangular film or sheet. The first optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the first optical element and the second optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the second optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Sasaki, Satoshi Sekino, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Katsuhiro Doi, Makoto Aoki
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Patent number: 7633682Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, capable of being thinned is provided. The optical package body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
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Publication number: 20090220709Abstract: A sheet for thermal transcription including a substrate (2) and a receiving layer (3) formed on the substrate (2) for receiving a dye. The receiving layer (3) contains a graft polymer of at least one monomer out of acrylic monomers and methacrylic monomers and at least one polyester sort. The sheet for thermal transcription assures satisfactory printing density and satisfactory adhesion performance with respect to a laminate film, while preventing image bleeding or fading and assuring stabilized running performance. Thus, it is possible to generate an image of high quality and high resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2005Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Horii, Tomoko Haga, Daigo Koide, Hirokazu Okada
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Publication number: 20090195728Abstract: A display unit in which the view angle in the horizontal direction of emitting light is wider than the view angle in the vertical direction thereof, in which the emitting light has a polarization component in the vertical direction viewable with the use of a polarized sunglass, and which is able to improve display luminance is provided. A luminance enhancement film has a plurality of convex sections which extend toward in the horizontal direction and are arranged in the direction crossing the extending direction, and in which the refractive index in the extending direction is larger than the refractive index in the arrangement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno, Noriyuki Hirai, Mitsunari Hoshi
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Publication number: 20090162437Abstract: The present invention provides a self-assembling peptide comprising: (a) a first amino acid domain that mediates self-assembly, wherein the domain comprises alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acids that are complementary and structurally compatible and self-assemble into a macroscopic structure when present in unmodified form; and (b) a second amino acid domain that does not mediate self-assembly in isolated form, wherein the second amino acid domain comprises at least one minimal biologically active sequence. Such self-assembling peptides are described herein as “modified self-assembling peptides.” The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, kits and matrices comprising a modified self-assembling peptide, and methods of using and making such compositions, kits and matrices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Akihiro Horii, Shuguang Zhang, Xiumei Wang, Fabrizio Gelain
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Patent number: 7529321Abstract: A digital satellite broadcast receiver capable of an optimum signal reception even when an arbitrary outdoor unit is connected. Please noise characteristics of an outdoor unit connected to a digital satellite broadcast receiver when receiving a burst symbol is estimated based on a bit error rate of an 8PSK modulation signal determined by a trellis decoder (7) when a CNR measured by a CNR measurement circuit (5) is equal to a preset value, and, based on the estimated phase noise characteristics of the outdoor unit, a filter factor of a loop filter (9) inserted into a carrier regenerative loop is set.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1999Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood, Leader Electronics CorporationInventors: Kenichi Shiraishi, Shoichi Suzuki, Akihiro Horii, Shoji Matsuda, Takahiro Wada
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Publication number: 20090059120Abstract: An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film. The light transmission film is disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and includes a plurality of prisms formed on a surface thereof, the plurality of prisms each having a ridge line in a first direction and being continuously arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In the illumination apparatus, the light transmission film is disposed such that a ridge line direction of the plurality of prisms is one of a perpendicular direction and an approximately perpendicular direction to a transmission axis of the polarization plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunari Hoshi, Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Mizuno, Jun Shimizu
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Publication number: 20080303975Abstract: An optical sheet combination structure disposed between a polarizer and a surface emitting unit, includes a first optical sheet having a number of columnar cubic structures of curing resin arrayed on a transparent base, a valley portion between adjacent cubic structures contacting a surface of the transparent base, and a second optical sheet disposed nearer to the side of the polarizer than the first optical sheet, having a number of columnar cubit structures arrayed on a surface, and a refractive index of the cubic structures along an extension direction thereof being different from a refractive index of the cubic structures along an array direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Kei Obata, Mitsunari Hoshi, Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki
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Publication number: 20080247192Abstract: A light-transmitting film that has a predetermined polarization split function, in addition to a light-collecting function is provided. The index of refraction nx in a prism extension direction and the index of refraction in a prism alignment direction differ from each other. By generating a difference in the indices of refraction in the prism extension direction and the prism alignment direction orthogonal thereto, for the light incident on the light-transmitting film, the polarization component Lx oscillating in the prism extension direction and the polarization component Ly oscillating in the prism alignment direction can have different transmission characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunari Hoshi, Kei Obata, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Publication number: 20080239200Abstract: An optical sheet capable of eliminating rapid lowering of the luminance view angle while minimizing the lowering amount of the front luminance, or while avoiding the lowering of the front luminance is provided. The optical sheet includes a first light transmissive film and a second light transmissive film. The first light transmissive film and the second light transmissive film are layered on each other, the first light transmissive film has a plurality of first convexes that extend in a given direction and are arranged in parallel in a direction crossing the given direction in-plane on the second light transmissive film side, and the second light transmissive film has a plurality of second convexes that are arranged in parallel in one direction and are arranged in parallel in a direction crossing the one direction in-plane on the first light transmissive film side, and has shape anisotropy and refractive index anisotropy in-plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Hirai, Akihiro Horii, Hiroshi Mizuno, Kei Obata, Mitsunari Hoshi
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Publication number: 20080232113Abstract: A light-transmissive film for use in display devices is provided. The light-transmissive film includes a plurality of first protrusions formed on one surface and extending in a predetermined direction of the one surface, and a plurality of second protrusions formed on an opposite surface to the one surface, extending in one direction of the opposite surface, arranged parallel to the one direction, and arranged parallel to a direction intersecting the one direction. At least one of the first and second protrusions has a refractive index anisotropy in a plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Horii, Kei Obata, Mitsunari Hoshi, Noriyuki Hirai, Hiroshi Mizuno
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Patent number: 7427747Abstract: A control portion of an optical image pickup apparatus includes a scan driver, a lock-in amplifier, and an A/D converter. The scan driver outputs a predetermined drive signal to a Y-scanning mirror and an X-scanning mirror and scans the Y-scanning mirror and the X-scanning mirror. The lock-in amplifier detects a signal level Vout of a frequency component of the drive signal of the scan driver among signals detected by a detector portion. The A/D converter converts a signal detected by a detector portion and a signal level of the detected signal of a frequency component of a drive signal detected by the lock-in amplifier to digital signals and outputs the digital signals to an image processor. Thus, mirror scan operations of the scanning mirrors can be securely detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yasushige Ishihara, Atsushi Okawa, Hiroshi Tosaka, Tianyu Xie, Tadashi Hirata, Akihiro Horii, Kazunari Tokuda
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Publication number: 20080223510Abstract: A manufacture method of an optical sheet made of a transparent thermoplastic resin sheet on whose surface a regular geometric design working is performed, the optical sheet manufacture method comprising steps of performing a geometric design working on the resin sheet at a temperature not lower than a glass transition temperature of the resin sheet, by using a metal endless working belt formed with a geometric design on a surface thereof, rapidly cooling the resin sheet on which the geometric design working is performed to a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature, and detaching the rapidly cooled resin sheet from the metal endless working belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Noriyuki Hirai, Masashi Ogawa, Yuu Miura, Kei Obata, Makoto Aoki
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Publication number: 20080205066Abstract: An optical packaged body capable of preventing generation of a wrinkle, deflection, and warpage, capable of being thinned is provided. The optical package body includes a support medium and a packaging film that covers the support medium in a state of being applied with shrinkage force. The packaging film has an optical function section that acts on light from a light source in at least one of a first region into which the light from the light source enters and a second region from which the light from the light source is emitted after passing through the optical packaged body when the light source is arranged on one face side of the optical packaged body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiji Ohta, Toru Abiko, Yasuyuki Kudo, Hirokazu Odagiri, Satoshi Sato, Andrew Chakchung Yu, Shogo Shinkai, Taro Omura, Hiroshi Mizuno, Akihiro Horii, Tatsuya Harima
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Publication number: 20080130103Abstract: A clear image having suppressed blurring due to pulsing is obtained by in-vivo examination of biological tissue or various internal organs of mammals, including small laboratory animals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Hara, Hiroshi Tosaka, Akihiro Horii, Yoshihisa Tanikawa
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Patent number: 7352380Abstract: A thermal head printer includes a platen, a thermal head having a heating element, a heating-value arithmetic unit, a heating-value comparator, an excess-value counter, and a heating-value controller. The thermal head printer performs a printing operation by conveying a recording medium between the platen and the thermal head and heating the heating element on the basis of image data to be printed. The heating-value arithmetic unit calculates heating values for the heating element corresponding to the image data. The heating-value comparator compares each calculated heating value with a reference heating value of the heating element. The excess-value counter counts the number of calculated heating values that exceed the reference heating value so as to determine an excess-value number. The heating-value controller limits the heating values of the heating element if the excess-value number exceeds a reference number.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoki Takizawa, Shinji Kato, Akihiro Horii