Patents by Inventor Mariko Nishiyama

Mariko Nishiyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20240118517
    Abstract: A lens apparatus to be attached to an imaging apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store correction data on distortion aberrations in association with a plurality of focal lengths, and a communication unit configured to transmit the correction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mariko NISHIYAMA, Kazuya SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20240112446
    Abstract: An image processing device according to the present technology includes: a foreground-background classification unit configured to classify an input image into a foreground image portion which is a portion in which a subject in a foreground is captured and a background image portion which is a portion in which a subject in a background farther than the foreground image portion is captured; a foreground correction unit configured to correct the foreground image portion; and an inconsistency correction unit configured to correct an inconsistent portion caused by the correction of the foreground image portion by the foreground correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhiro CHIBA, Shogo KUBOTA, Mariko NISHIYAMA, Ryo MIYAO, Tetsuo IKEDA, Maho HAYASHI, Yuya TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230176463
    Abstract: A projection optical system of an image display apparatus that includes a lens system and a concave reflection surface. The lens system is has a positive refractive power as a whole. The concave reflection surface reflects the image light emitted from the lens system toward an object. The projection optical system is configured such that a relationship 0<|??(hmax) ??(0.9·hmax)|/?(hmax)<0.056 is satisfied, where a light beam height from the reference axis is h, an angle with respect to an optical axis height direction of a tangent line of a function Z(h) representing a shape of the concave reflection surface corresponding to the light beam height h is ?(h), an amount of change in the angle ?(h) is ??(h), and the light beam height h of a reflection point farthest from the reference axis of the concave reflection surface for reflecting the image light is hmax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko NISHIYAMA, Jun NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11143871
    Abstract: An image display apparatus that includes a first light collecting-reflecting device (10, 11) which image light (L0) from an image forming apparatus enters, and a second light collecting-reflecting device (20, 21) which second light (L2), of the image light, having passed through the first light collecting-reflecting device enters. The first light collecting-reflecting device has transmission action and light collecting-reflecting action with respect to the image light. The first light collecting-reflecting device collects and reflects first light (L1), of the entering image light, toward a first conversion position in a viewer's eye (201). The second light collecting-reflecting device has at least the light collecting-reflecting action with respect to the image light. The second light collecting-reflecting device causes the second light to reenter the first light collecting-reflecting device and collects and reflects the second light toward a second conversion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Ohkawa, Ryo Ogawa, Mariko Nishiyama, Atsushi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200033603
    Abstract: An image display apparatus that includes a first light collecting-reflecting device (10, 11) which image light (L0) from an image forming apparatus enters, and a second light collecting-reflecting device (20, 21) which second light (L2), of the image light, having passed through the first light collecting-reflecting device enters. The first light collecting-reflecting device has transmission action and light collecting-reflecting action with respect to the image light. The first light collecting-reflecting device collects and reflects first light (L1), of the entering image light, toward a first conversion position in a viewer's eye (201). The second light collecting-reflecting device has at least the light collecting-reflecting action with respect to the image light. The second light collecting-reflecting device causes the second light to reenter the first light collecting-reflecting device and collects and reflects the second light toward a second conversion position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: SHINGO OHKAWA, RYO OGAWA, MARIKO NISHIYAMA, ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8142024
    Abstract: An image display device includes: an optical modulator; and an optical compensation element configured to cancel out phase difference generated within the optical modulator; wherein the optical compensation element is installed in a state in which the brightness of a projected image corresponding to a region having relatively great phase difference within the optical modulator becomes a minimal value, at the minimum driving voltage to be applied to the optical modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suzuki, Tetsuaki Iwane, Mariko Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20090310041
    Abstract: An image display device includes: an optical modulator; and an optical compensation element configured to cancel out phase difference generated within the optical modulator; wherein the optical compensation element is installed in a state in which the brightness of a projected image corresponding to a region having relatively great phase difference within the optical modulator becomes a minimal value, at the minimum driving voltage to be applied to the optical modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: SONY Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Suzuki, Tetsuaki Iwane, Mariko Nishiyama