Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Shigei
Hiroyuki Shigei 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: 11837015Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes an irradiation unit that irradiates a subject with light, an imaging unit that images the subject a plurality of times, a control unit that controls the imaging unit and the irradiation unit, and a combination unit that combines a plurality of imaged images obtained by the imaging unit. The imaging unit has a plurality of imaging elements disposed in a matrix when viewed from the side of the subject. The irradiation unit has a plurality of light emitting elements provided so as to correspond to the plurality of imaging elements. The control unit controls the irradiation unit to turn on the plurality of light emitting elements different for each imaging among the plurality of light emitting elements, and controls the imaging unit to drive the plurality of imaging elements corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements that are not turned on.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Qihong Wang, Masatomo Kurata, Hiroyuki Shigei, Naoko Kobayashi, Toru Amano
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Publication number: 20230246049Abstract: A light detection device (1) includes: a pinhole body (10) provided with a through hole (H); and an optical sensor (20) that is provided behind the pinhole body (10) and receives light transmitted through the through hole (H), in which a first aperture (O1) of the through hole (H) arranged on a first surface (111) being a light incident surface side of the pinhole body (10) is smaller than a second aperture (O2) of the through hole (H) arranged on a second surface (122) opposite to the first surface (111).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: HIROYUKI SHIGEI, TORU AMANO, YASUNORI KAMADA
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Publication number: 20230045739Abstract: A sensing device of an embodiment includes: a first sensor that acquires three-dimensional shape information on a surface of an object to be sensed; and a second sensor that acquires texture information on the surface or a vicinity of the surface of the object to be sensed at a position having a predetermined positional relation with an information acquisition position in the object to be sensed of the first sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: YASUNORI KAMADA, HIROYUKI SHIGEI, ATSUSHI NEGISHI, TAMOTSU ISHII, KENJI SUZUKI, TAKASHI OGATA
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Patent number: 11521951Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of light emitting units mounted on a substrate, and an opening that is provided so as to correspond to each of the light emitting units and guides light emitted from the light emitting units to an outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Shigei, Toru Amano, Toshio Enokido
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Publication number: 20220358197Abstract: An authentication device includes a deciding unit (118) that, based on distribution information of the feature points included in a pattern present in some part of the body of the user, decides on the position of that part of the body to be used in authentication of the user; a guiding unit (120) that, based on the decided position, guides the concerned part of the body to the decided position for the purpose of authentication of the user; and an authenticating unit (122) that performs authentication of the user based on feature information of the pattern as obtained due to the guiding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: QIHONG WANG, MASATOMO KURATA, TAKASHI OGATA, HIROYUKI SHIGEI, MAKOTO SATO, YU TANAKA, AYAKA NISHI
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Patent number: 11443544Abstract: An electronic device including: a transparent panel section in which a plurality of transparent light-emitting elements is disposed; and an imaging section that is disposed under a partial region of the transparent panel section, and images, via the transparent panel section, an object which is in contact with or in proximity to the partial region of the transparent panel section.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko Kobayashi, Yasunori Kamada, Hiroyuki Shigei, Toru Amano, Futoshi Takeuchi, Toshio Enokido, Yusuke Sato
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Patent number: 11393257Abstract: An information processor including a sensor unit that recognizes an operating tool that comes into contact with a display unit, and a control unit that shows a guidance display for guiding an operation of the operating tool on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: QiHong Wang, Masatomo Kurata, Hiroyuki Shigei, Sota Matsuzawa, Naoko Kobayashi, Makoto Sato
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Publication number: 20220222966Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an irradiation unit (100) that irradiates a subject with light; an imaging unit (104) that images the subject a plurality of times; a control unit (202) that controls the imaging unit and the irradiation unit; and a combination unit (204) that combines a plurality of imaged images obtained by the imaging unit. The imaging unit has a plurality of imaging elements (104a) disposed in a matrix when viewed from the side of the subject. The irradiation unit has a plurality of light emitting elements (100a) provided so as to correspond to the plurality of imaging elements. The control unit controls the irradiation unit so as to turn on the plurality of light emitting elements different for each imaging among the plurality of light emitting elements, and controls the imaging unit so as to drive the plurality of imaging elements corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements that are not turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: QIHONG WANG, MASATOMO KURATA, HIROYUKI SHIGEI, NAOKO KOBAYASHI, TORU AMANO
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Publication number: 20210118845Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of light emitting units mounted on a substrate, and an opening that is provided so as to correspond to each of the light emitting units and guides light emitted from the light emitting units to an outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki SHIGEI, Toru AMANO, Toshio ENOKIDO
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Publication number: 20210004554Abstract: An electronic device including: a transparent panel section in which a plurality of transparent light-emitting elements is disposed; and an imaging section that is disposed under a partial region of the transparent panel section, and images, via the transparent panel section, an object which is in contact with or in proximity to the partial region of the transparent panel section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoko KOBAYASHI, Yasunori KAMADA, Hiroyuki SHIGEI, Toru AMANO, Futoshi TAKEUCHI, Toshio ENOKIDO, Yusuke SATO
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Publication number: 20200401828Abstract: An information processor including a sensor unit that recognizes an operating tool that comes into contact with a display unit, and a control unit that shows a guidance display for guiding an operation of the operating tool on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: QiHong WANG, Masatomo KURATA, Hiroyuki SHIGEI, Sota MATSUZAWA, Naoko KOBAYASHI, Makoto SATO
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Patent number: 10256533Abstract: An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hiroyuki Shigei, Rikiya Ishikawa, Yu Togasaki, Osamu Kozakai
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Patent number: 9912587Abstract: Communication is performed by selecting any one of or two or more paths from among multiple paths existing between a communication apparatus and the other party in communication. In addition to measuring an effective rate itself, the effective rate is estimated from a combination of Phy rate, received power, Phy rate, and statistics information. Then, on the basis of information about the effective rate of each path, a path used for data transmission is selected according to a single selection method for selecting a single path or a multi-selection method for selecting multiple paths at a time. The single selection method can be classified into a method for each session or a physically exclusive method. The multi-selection method includes weighting method and redundancy degree attaching method.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Shigei
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Publication number: 20170062918Abstract: An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIGEI, Rikiya ISHIKAWA, Yu TOGASAKI, Osamu KOZAKAI
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Patent number: 9136976Abstract: [Object] To prevent or reduce the degradation in transmission characteristics caused by fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) to achieve optimized throughput. [Solution] A process for detecting fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) is performed (ST2). Fast fading is detected by, for example, detecting a variable light source whose frequency is twice the frequency of an alternating current power supply. When fast fading is detected, a frame length update process is performed (ST3, ST4). In the case of “subject transmission” in which the subject apparatus is the transmitter of a data frame, the setting of the maximum number of aggregations in frame aggregation (A-MPDU, A-MSDU) is changed to “the recommended maximum number of aggregations”. “The recommended maximum number of aggregations” is set in advance so that the UDP throughput can be maximized under the conditions where fast fading has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Shigei, Haruhiko Yata, Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura, Katsunori Honma, Nobuaki Kawai, Hidekazu Kamimura
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Publication number: 20140126415Abstract: Communication is performed in a preferable manner upon selecting any one of or two or more paths from among multiple paths existing between a communication apparatus and the other party in communication. In addition to measuring an effective rate itself, the effective rate is estimated from a combination of Phy rate, received power, Phy rate, and statistics information. Then, on the basis of information about the effective rate of each path, a path used for data transmission is selected according to a single selection method for selecting a single path or a multi-selection method for selecting multiple paths at a time. The single selection method can be classified into a method for each session or a physically exclusive method. The multi-selection method includes weighting method and redundancy degree attaching method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Shigei
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Patent number: 8390503Abstract: A remote control method includes: grouping a plurality of apparatuses to respond to a command from a single remote controller at the same time; broadcasting, by the remote controller, a command corresponding to an operation; receiving, by each of the plurality of apparatuses, the command and judging whether the received command is addressed to a group to which the apparatus itself belongs; and executing, when it is judged by each of the plurality of apparatuses that the received command is addressed to the apparatus itself, processing corresponding to the command.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shigei
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Publication number: 20120155518Abstract: [Object] To prevent or reduce the degradation in transmission characteristics caused by fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) to achieve optimized throughput. [Solution] A process for detecting fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) is performed (ST2). Fast fading is detected by, for example, detecting a variable light source whose frequency is twice the frequency of an alternating current power supply. When fast fading is detected, a frame length update process is performed (ST3, ST4). In the case of “subject transmission” in which the subject apparatus is the transmitter of a data frame, the setting of the maximum number of aggregations in frame aggregation (A-MPDU, A-MSDU) is changed to “the recommended maximum number of aggregations”. “The recommended maximum number of aggregations” is set in advance so that the UDP throughput can be maximized under the conditions where fast fading has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Shigei, Haruhiko Yata, Takeshi Itagaki, Tomoya Yamaura, Katsunori Honma, Nobuaki Kawai, Hidekazu Kamimura
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Patent number: 8204030Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of: establishing a session with one or two or more other communication terminals according to a set content before it is changed in a case where a change request for own set information about a radio communication is received; notifying a set content to be changed to the one or two or more other communication terminals with which the session is established; and changing the own set information from the set content before it is changed to the set content to be changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shigei
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Patent number: 8059550Abstract: To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily detecting a terminal that forms a loop connection state with a simplified configuration. A control unit counts the number of broadcast packet supplied from a switching hub to a communication unit within a predetermined time period and determines whether the number of packets exceeds a threshold value (ST2, ST3). If the number of packets exceeds the threshold value, the control unit determines that an abnormal connection state occurs, that is, a loop is detected and starts a process in which the control unit identifies a network terminal that forms the loop connection state (ST3, ST5). The control unit counts the number of broadcast packets that reach each of the network terminals, that is, broadcast packets input to each port of the switching hub.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takehiko Saito, Masaki Kitano, Hiroyuki Shigei, Masaaki Takesue