Patents by Inventor Katsuhisa Ito

Katsuhisa Ito 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).

  • Patent number: 8933998
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an image display device comprising a rotating section having a plurality of light emitting elements. The rotating section rotates about a center and presents an image. A sensor detects an object, and a display controller controls presentation of the image based at least in part on detection of an object by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ito, Naoya Eguchi, Hiroki Kikuchi, Shinichiro Tajiri, Izushi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 8884691
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a splitting/matching section for carrying out a matching process of making the amplitude and phase of a first modulated signal match respectively the amplitude and phase of a second modulated signal; and a demodulation section for generating a demodulated signal on the basis of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, which have been subjected to the matching process carried out by the splitting/matching section, wherein the splitting/matching section has a splitting section, a first matching section, and a second matching section, the first circuit-element constants determining the first input impedance of the first matching section and the second circuit-element constants determining the second input impedance of the second matching section are set at values determined in advance in order to make the first input impedance equal to the second input impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Ito
  • Patent number: 8854439
    Abstract: A stereoscopic picture is viewable from all directions with high reproducibility without complicating a stereoscopic display mechanism, compared to related art. A cylindrical rotation section 104 rotating around a rotation shaft as a rotation center, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101 mounted in the rotation section and having a light-emission surface formed of a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix, and a slit 102 arranged in a circumferential surface of the rotation section in a position facing the light-emission surface are included. As the two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array including a curved portion with a concave surface which is formed as a light-emission surface is used. The plurality of light-emitting elements emit light, which corresponds to orientation of the light-emission surface, to outside of the rotation section through the slit 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ito, Naoya Eguchi, Hiroki Kikuchi, Shinichiro Tajiri, Izushi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 8829547
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting chip arranged on a substrate; a resin lens which covers the light emitting chip and focuses irradiation light from the light emitting chip; a mask which covers a region of an upper layer surface of the substrate, other than the resin lens; and a low surface tension film formed on a region of the upper layer surface of the substrate, other than in the proximity of the light emitting chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8820977
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting chip arranged on a substrate; and a resin lens formed to cover the light emitting chip, wherein the center of the light emitting chip and the center of the resin lens are offset so that the centers do not match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8787005
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein each curve-arranged display has an L-shaped or inverted L-shaped cross-section, and short sides of a plurality of display device substrates in which a display device is installed on the short side of the L shape or the inverted L shape are arranged in the form of an arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8749324
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal transmission apparatus for transmitting a signal to a signal processing section provided inside a rotated rotary body, the signal transmission apparatus including: a waveguide tube provided on the rotating shaft of the rotary body; a signal transmitting section provided outside the rotary body to serve as a section for transmitting the signal through the waveguide tube; a signal receiving section provided inside the rotary body to serve as a section for receiving the signal transmitted by the signal transmitting section through the waveguide tube and supplying the signal to the signal processing section; a slip ring rotated along with the rotary body around the waveguide tube serving as a rotation axis; and a power supplying section provided outside the rotary body to serve as a section for supplying power to the signal processing section through the slip ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Sakurai, Katsuhisa Ito, Izushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8695246
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein the curve-arranged displays include a light housing which is an approximately semi-cylindrical column having a hollow structure, and a plurality of display device substrates installed on an arc-shaped side surface of the approximately semi-cylindrical column of the light housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8539701
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein the curve-arranged displays include a light housing which is an approximately semi-cylindrical column having a hollow structure, and a plurality of display device substrates installed on an arc-shaped side surface of the approximately semi-cylindrical column of the light housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Patent number: 8498583
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a frequency conversion section configured to carry out frequency conversion on a modulated signal transmitted to the signal receiving apparatus by adoption of a radio transmission technique, wherein the frequency conversion section carries out the frequency conversion by adoption of a frequency conversion method selected from a plurality of frequency conversion methods adoptable by the frequency conversion section in the frequency conversion to be executed on the modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Ito
  • Publication number: 20120122416
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a frequency conversion section configured to carry out frequency conversion on a modulated signal transmitted to the signal receiving apparatus by adoption of a radio transmission technique, wherein the frequency conversion section carries out the frequency conversion by adoption of a frequency conversion method selected from a plurality of frequency conversion methods adoptable by the frequency conversion section in the frequency conversion to be executed on the modulated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Ito
  • Publication number: 20120119827
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a splitting/matching section for carrying out a matching process of making the amplitude and phase of a first modulated signal match respectively the amplitude and phase of a second modulated signal; and a demodulation section for generating a demodulated signal on the basis of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, which have been subjected to the matching process carried out by the splitting/matching section, wherein the splitting/matching section has a splitting section, a first matching section, and a second matching section, the first circuit-element constants determining the first input impedance of the first matching section and the second circuit-element constants determining the second input impedance of the second matching section are set at values determined in advance in order to make the first input impedance equal to the second input impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Ito
  • Publication number: 20120092093
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal transmission apparatus for transmitting a signal to a signal processing section provided inside a rotated rotary body, the signal transmission apparatus including: a waveguide tube provided on the rotating shaft of the rotary body; a signal transmitting section provided outside the rotary body to serve as a section for transmitting the signal through the waveguide tube; a signal receiving section provided inside the rotary body to serve as a section for receiving the signal transmitted by the signal transmitting section through the waveguide tube and supplying the signal to the signal processing section; a slip ring rotated along with the rotary body around the waveguide tube serving as a rotation axis; and a power supplying section provided outside the rotary body to serve as a section for supplying power to the signal processing section through the slip ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisao Sakurai, Katsuhisa Ito, Izushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8120420
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a splitting/matching section for carrying out a matching process of making the amplitude and phase of a first modulated signal match respectively the amplitude and phase of a second modulated signal; and a demodulation section for generating a demodulated signal on the basis of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, which have been subjected to the matching process carried out by the splitting/matching section, wherein the splitting/matching section has a splitting section, a first matching section, and a second matching section, the first circuit-element constants determining the first input impedance of the first matching section and the second circuit-element constants determining the second input impedance of the second matching section are set at values determined in advance in order to make the first input impedance equal to the second input impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Ito
  • Publication number: 20120008204
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein the curve-arranged displays include a light housing which is an approximately semi-cylindrical column having a hollow structure, and a plurality of display device substrates installed on an arc-shaped side surface of the approximately semi-cylindrical column of the light housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20120007108
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting chip arranged on a substrate; a resin lens which covers the light emitting chip and focuses irradiation light from the light emitting chip; a mask which covers a region of an upper layer surface of the substrate, other than the resin lens; and a low surface tension film formed on a region of the upper layer surface of the substrate, other than in the proximity of the light emitting chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20120008317
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a plurality of displays in which a plurality of light emitting devices which emit irradiation light of one of an R component, a G component, and a B component are arrayed, wherein with reference to arbitrary 3×3 light emitting devices among the arrayed light emitting devices, the color components of the light emitting devices arrayed in the longitudinal direction are different from each other and the color components of the light emitting devices arrayed in the transverse direction are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20120008262
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a cylindrical casing which is rotatably driven; and a plurality of curve-arranged displays which are installed inside the casing and have the same number as a plurality of slits formed in the casing, wherein each curve-arranged display has an L-shaped or inverted L-shaped cross-section, and short sides of a plurality of display device substrates in which a display device is installed on the short side of the L shape or the inverted L shape are arranged in the form of an arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20120008328
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting chip arranged on a substrate; and a resin lens formed to cover the light emitting chip, wherein the center of the light emitting chip and the center of the resin lens are offset so that the centers do not match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Izushi Kobayashi, Katsuhisa Ito, Hiroki Kikuchi, Yukitoyo Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20110234772
    Abstract: A stereoscopic picture is viewable from all directions with high reproducibility without complicating a stereoscopic display mechanism, compared to related art. A cylindrical rotation section 104 rotating around a rotation shaft as a rotation center, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101 mounted in the rotation section and having a light-emission surface formed of a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix, and a slit 102 arranged in a circumferential surface of the rotation section in a position facing the light-emission surface are included. As the two-dimensional light-emitting element array 101, a two-dimensional light-emitting element array including a curved portion with a concave surface which is formed as a light-emission surface is used. The plurality of light-emitting elements emit light, which corresponds to orientation of the light-emission surface, to outside of the rotation section through the slit 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ito, Naoya Eguchi, Hiroki Kikuchi, Shinichiro Tajiri, Izushi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Yasunaga