Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Okada
Hitoshi Okada 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: 11965933Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes: a pair of terminals for measuring voltage or current of a battery, and to which a filter unit including a capacitive element is connected; an AD converter that measures a waveform of voltage between the terminals during charging or discharging of the capacitive element; and a time constant calculation unit that calculates a time constant of the filter unit based on the waveform measured. The AD converter is, for example, a first AD converter or a second AD converter. The filter unit is, for example, a first filter unit or a second filter unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPANInventors: Kazuo Matsukawa, Yu Okada, Yosuke Goto, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Keiichi Fujii
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Publication number: 20240104883Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device and a processor, and the display device displays at least the virtual object among the individual real object cut out from the external real body as an object and the virtual object to be arranged in three dimensions, the object for which the user wants to view is determined as the target object, the object to be interfered when the user views the target object is detected as the interfering object, and when there is an interfering object, the display mode of at least one of the target object and the interfering object is changed so as to eliminate or reduce the interfering caused by the interfering object for viewing the target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Mayumi NAKADE
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Patent number: 11933854Abstract: A battery management circuit includes: a reference signal generator that generates a first reference frequency signal and a second reference frequency signal having a phase different from a phase of the first reference frequency signal; an alternating-current superimposer that superimposes an alternating current on the secondary battery, the alternating current having a frequency component of the first reference frequency signal; a voltage measurer that measures a voltage of the secondary battery by performing sampling using a frequency; a current measurer that measures a current of the secondary battery by performing sampling using a frequency; and a converter that converts each of results of measurements by the voltage measurer and the current measurer into a complex voltage and a complex current, by multiplying the result of the measurement by the first reference frequency signal and the second reference frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPANInventors: Yu Okada, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Keiichi Fujii
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Patent number: 8416480Abstract: A hologram reproducing apparatus includes a first reference light path leading laser light from a laser light source so that a hologram recording medium is irradiated with first reference light; a diffracted light path leading diffracted light, generated from the hologram recording medium by irradiation with the first reference light, to a light receiving element having a plurality of pixels; and a second reference light path leading second reference light, having the same polarization direction as that of the diffracted light, from the laser light source to the light receiving element. The second reference light path is provided with a phase modulating element so that the phase difference between the diffracted light and the second reference light in a light receiving surface of the light receiving element is adjusted within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomiji Tanaka, Masaaki Hara, Kazutatsu Tokuyama, Satoru Seko, Shinji Yamada, Hitoshi Okada
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Patent number: 8194517Abstract: A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive circuit and a laser diode controller. The external cavity laser has a laser diode adapted to emit an optical beam that is used to generate data light and reference light with which a hologram recording medium is irradiated. The photodiode detects the amount of the optical beam output from the external cavity laser. The laser drive circuit supplies a current to the external cavity laser. The laser diode controller controls the laser drive circuit to ensure that a value obtained by integrating the detected intensity of the optical beam with respect to time over a predetermined period is equal to predetermined recording energy.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Okada, Tomiji Tanaka, Takahiro Takeda
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Patent number: 8174745Abstract: An optical unit includes an acousto-optic deflector and a drive control unit. The drive control unit controls the acousto-optic deflector by changing a frequency of a voltage applied to an acousto-optic medium of the acousto-optic deflector to a frequency in a first frequency range during a first period representing a deflection control period and changing the frequency of the voltage to a frequency in a second frequency range different from the first frequency range during a second period representing a transmittance control period.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Okada, Satoru Seko
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Publication number: 20110255391Abstract: A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive circuit and a laser diode controller. The external cavity laser has a laser diode adapted to emit an optical beam that is used to generate data light and reference light with which a hologram recording medium is irradiated. The photodiode detects the amount of the optical beam output from the external cavity laser. The laser drive circuit supplies a current to the external cavity laser. The laser diode controller controls the laser drive circuit to ensure that a value obtained by integrating the detected intensity of the optical beam with respect to time over a predetermined period is equal to predetermined recording energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi OKADA, Tomiji TANAKA, Takahiro TAKEDA
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Patent number: 7969846Abstract: A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive circuit and a laser diode controller. The external cavity laser has a laser diode adapted to emit an optical beam that is used to generate data light and reference light with which a hologram recording medium is irradiated. The photodiode detects the amount of the optical beam output from the external cavity laser. The laser drive circuit supplies a current to the external cavity laser. The laser diode controller controls the laser drive circuit to ensure that a value obtained by integrating the detected intensity of the optical beam with respect to time over a predetermined period is equal to predetermined recording energy.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Okada, Tomiji Tanaka, Takahiro Takeda
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Patent number: 7963138Abstract: A plurality of intermediate cross sections and center points thereof are provided for a plurality of target processed portions from an unprocessed portion of a workpiece up to a final target processed portion. By adjusting a relative position between each intermediate cross section of the workpiece W and rollers 11, 12 revolving around the workpiece between neighboring intermediate cross sections, adjusting a revolution diameter of the roller and an angle of its revolution plane, mating the center point, diameter and inclined angle of the revolution plane inside of a revolving locus of the roller, with the center point, diameter and inclined angle of each intermediate cross section of the workpiece, and driving the roller and workpiece relatively to each other, with a part of outer peripheral surface of the roller being always in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece, a spinning process is performed to change the diameter of the portion to be processed of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Sango Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Okada, Tohru Irie
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Publication number: 20100054104Abstract: A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive circuit and a laser diode controller. The external cavity laser has a laser diode adapted to emit an optical beam that is used to generate data light and reference light with which a hologram recording medium is irradiated. The photodiode detects the amount of the optical beam output from the external cavity laser. The laser drive circuit supplies a current to the external cavity laser. The laser diode controller controls the laser drive circuit to ensure that a value obtained by integrating the detected intensity of the optical beam with respect to time over a predetermined period is equal to predetermined recording energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi OKADA, Tomiji TANAKA, Takahiro TAKEDA
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Patent number: 7652968Abstract: A holographic recording/reproducing apparatus is adapted to split laser light into signal light and reference light and to record a hologram by illuminating a holographic recording medium with the signal light and the reference light and/or to reproduce the hologram by illuminating the holographic recording medium with the reference light. The holographic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a laser light source that emits the laser light, a measuring unit operable to measure the wavelength of the laser light, and a setting unit operable to measure the wavelength of the laser light while changing a current supplied to the laser light source, and to set the current supplied to the laser light source based on a measurement result such that the influence of a change in the wavelength of the laser light is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hitoshi Okada
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Publication number: 20090323481Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a light irradiation section for applying light from a light source via an object lens on a hologram recording medium having a recording layer on which a hologram is formed and a track formation layer on which an address recording track composed of a pit string recording address information representing the hologram recording position on the recording layer and an auxiliary track composed of a continuous groove formed side by side with the address recording track are formed, a light spot displacement section for displacing a light spot formed by the light irradiation section in a radius direction of the hologram recording medium, and a control section for controlling the light spot displacement section following a light information signal upon the auxiliary track traverse of the light spot obtained in accordance with the light spot displacement to execute a jump operation between the address recording tracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki HARA, Satoru SEKO, Hitoshi Okada, Tomiji TANAKA, Yoshiki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20090316239Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a drive unit that rotationally drives a holographic recording medium including a recording layer and a track forming layer that includes guide tracks formed at constant intervals in a radial direction, where a signal beam and a reference beam are emitted to the recording layer so that a hologram is recorded in accordance with the signal beam, a signal beam generating unit, a reference beam generating unit, a recording unit that emits the signal beam and reference beam into the medium and records the hologram, a rotation control unit that controls the drive unit so that the medium is rotationally driven at a constant rotation speed, and a recording control unit that selects some of the guide tracks so that radial-direction recording intervals of the holograms are statistically decreased towards the outer periphery and controls the recording unit to record the holograms along the selected tracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi OKADA, Masaaki Hara, Satoru Seko, Tomiji Tanaka, Yoshiki Okamoto
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Publication number: 20090116088Abstract: An optical unit includes an acousto-optic deflector and a drive control unit. The drive control unit controls the acousto-optic deflector by changing a frequency of a voltage applied to an acousto-optic medium of the acousto-optic deflector to a frequency in a first frequency range during a first period representing a deflection control period and changing the frequency of the voltage to a frequency in a second frequency range different from the first frequency range during a second period representing a transmittance control period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Okada, Satoru Seko
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Publication number: 20080239222Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display device having a structure capable of preventing fur of the rubbing roller from being in disorder, and a fabrication method thereof is disclosed. One embodiment of a substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a fabrication method thereof discloses an alignment film is formed over the transparent common electrode and boundary portions thereof. The transparent common electrode is formed on a transparent substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Shusaku Naitoh, Hitoshi Okada
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Publication number: 20080198432Abstract: A hologram reproducing apparatus includes a first reference light path leading laser light from a laser light source so that a hologram recording medium is irradiated with first reference light; a diffracted light path leading diffracted light, generated from the hologram recording medium by irradiation with the first reference light, to a light receiving element having a plurality of pixels; and a second reference light path leading second reference light, having the same polarization direction as that of the diffracted light, from the laser light source to the light receiving element. The second reference light path is provided with a phase modulating element so that the phase difference between the diffracted light and the second reference light in a light receiving surface of the light receiving element is adjusted within a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomiji Tanaka, Masaaki Hara, Kazutatsu Tokuyama, Satoru Seko, Shinji Yamada, Hitoshi Okada
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Publication number: 20080127699Abstract: A plurality of intermediate cross sections and center points thereof are provided for a plurality of target processed portions from an unprocessed portion of a workpiece up to a final target processed portion. By adjusting a relative position between each intermediate cross section of the workpiece W and rollers 11, 12 revolving around the workpiece between neighboring intermediate cross sections, adjusting a revolution diameter of the roller and an angle of its revolution plane, mating the center point, diameter and inclined angle of the revolution plane inside of a revolving locus of the roller, with the center point, diameter and inclined angle of each intermediate cross section of the workpiece, and driving the roller and workpiece relatively to each other, with a part of outer peripheral surface of the roller being always in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece, a spinning process is performed to change the diameter of the portion to be processed of the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Sango Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Okada, Tohru Irie
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Patent number: 7283286Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device includes a laser light source emitting laser light; a spatial light modulator generating signal light and reference light from the laser light emitted from the laser light source, the signal light and the reference light traveling in a common light path; a first relay lens system including a first shielding plate at a focal position thereof and transmitting the signal light and the reference light generated by the spatial light modulator, the first shielding plate having a pinhole whose size is 1 to 2 times a Nyquist size; a phase modulating element disposed at a conjugate plane of the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the first relay lens system; an objective lens converging the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the phase modulating element on a hologram recording medium; and a light receiving system disposed between the phase modulating element and objective lens and receiving light returning from the hologram recording meType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Mikio Sugiki, Mitsuru Toishi, Naoto Kojima, Hitoshi Okada, Koji Takasaki
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Publication number: 20070146838Abstract: A hologram recording device can easily perform multiplex recording/reproduction on a hologram recording medium. The hologram recording device includes an optical system and a distance controlling mechanism. The optical system focuses on a substantially same location of a hologram recording medium a signal light modulated at a light modulating element and a reference light whose phase has been modulated at a phase modulating element. The distance controlling mechanism controls a distance between the phase modulating element and the hologram recording medium. By controlling the distance between the phase modulating element and the hologram recording medium, multiplex recording can be performed on the hologram recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Toishi, Hitoshi Okada, Tomiji Tanaka
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Publication number: 20060171006Abstract: A hologram recording/reproducing device includes a laser light source emitting laser light; a spatial light modulator generating signal light and reference light from the laser light emitted from the laser light source, the signal light and the reference light traveling in a common light path; a first relay lens system including a first shielding plate at a focal position thereof and transmitting the signal light and the reference light generated by the spatial light modulator, the first shielding plate having a pinhole whose size is 1 to 2 times a Nyquist size; a phase modulating element disposed at a conjugate plane of the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the first relay lens system; an objective lens converging the signal light and the reference light transmitted through the phase modulating element on a hologram recording medium; and a light receiving system disposed between the phase modulating element and objective lens and receiving light returning from the hologram recording meType: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: August 3, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Fukumoto, Mikio Sugiki, Mitsuru Toishi, Naoto Kojima, Hitoshi Okada, Koji Takasaki