Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Ono
Masatoshi Ono 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: 20120201410Abstract: A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electrical signal output circuit which outputs an electrical signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm. In the housing, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicants: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc.Inventors: Rikuo TAKANO, Kiyoshi SUGIYAMA, Toshimi FUKUOKA, Masatoshi ONO, Ryusuke HORIBE, Fuminori TANAKA, Hideki CHOJI, Takeshi INODA
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Patent number: 8218796Abstract: A microphone unit includes a substrate. The substrate includes a first face formed with a first recess, a second face opposite to the first face, and a through hole communicating the second face to a bottom part of the first recess. A diaphragm unit includes a diaphragm, and at least a part of which is disposed in the first recess so that the diaphragm opposes the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Takeshi Inoda, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8180082Abstract: A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electrical signal output circuit which outputs an electrical signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm. In the housing, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space are formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Hideki Choji, Takeshi Inoda
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Patent number: 8174871Abstract: Disclosed is a memory cell array including word and first bit lines and second bit lines respectively connected to memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a MOS transistor and switching element having first and second conductive layers and a gap in which a resistance value changes by applying a predetermined voltage, and data is written by specifying the first bit line to connect it to a ground, specifying the word line and supplying a write voltage to the second bit lines, and read by specifying the word line, and specifying the first bit line to supply a read voltage lower than the write voltage to the second bit lines, and the word line is specified when the voltage of the word line becomes a gate threshold value voltage or more and a sum of a drive voltage and the gate threshold value voltage or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yutaka Hayashi, Yuichiro Masuda, Shigeo Furuta, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8155707Abstract: A voice input-output device includes a voice input section and a voice output section. The voice input section includes a microphone unit, the microphone unit including a housing that has an inner space, a partition member that is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm, and an electrical signal output circuit that outputs an electrical signal that is the first voice signal based on vibrations of the diaphragm, a first through-hole through which the first space communicates with an outer space of the housing and a second through-hole through which the second space communicates with the outer space being formed in the housing. The voice output section includes: an ambient noise detection section that detects ambient noise during a call based on the first voice signal; and a volume control section that controls volume of the speaker based on a degree of the detected ambient noise.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Hideki Choji, Takeshi Inoda
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Publication number: 20120026572Abstract: An electrochromic display device including: a first substrate; first electrodes parallely extending on the first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; second electrodes parallely extending in a direction orthogonal to the first electrodes on the second substrate; and an electrochromic composition layer between the substrates, wherein the device is passive-matrix driven to perform a display by energization between the electrodes, and to perform erasing of the display by energization in a reverse direction, a pixel is formed in a portion where the first electrodes sterically intersect with the second electrodes, and metal electrical wires extending over the regions between the second electrodes and the second substrate along the second electrodes, each of metal electrical wires being conductively connected to each of the second electrodes corresponding to any one of the regions, and insulated from each of the second electrodes corresponding to the other regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicants: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc.Inventors: Wu WENG, Toshimi Fukuoka, Tetsuya Higuchi, Masao Suzuki, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8108203Abstract: A translation system including: a bilingual data storage section, a plurality of pieces of first language simple sentence data and a plurality of pieces of second language simple sentence data being stored in the bilingual data storage section while being associated with each other so that the first language simple sentences and the second language simple sentences respectively make pairs; and a target language simple sentence data output section which outputs target language simple sentence data corresponding to a target language simple sentence which is a translation of a given source language simple sentence based on source language simple sentence data corresponding to the source language simple sentence.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Satoshi Shirai, Kazuyoshi Oshima, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8098853Abstract: A microphone unit includes: a partition member, including a vibration film configured to be vibrated by sound; a housing, defining an inner space, and formed with a first opening and a second opening, the inner space being divided into a first space and a second space by the partition member, the first space adapted to be communicated with an outer space via the first opening, and the second space adapted to be communicated with the outer space via the second opening; and a shutter, configured to close one of the first and second openings; and an amplifier, configured to: amplify an electric signal at a first gain when the shutter closes the one of the first and second openings; and amplify the electric signal at a second gain that is larger than the first gain when first and second openings are opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Shigeo Maeda, Takeshi Inoda, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8093518Abstract: A switching element 100 includes an insulating substrate 10, a first electrode 20 provided on the insulating substrate 10, a second electrode 30 provided on the insulating substrate 10, and an interelectrode gap 40 provided between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30, a distance G between the first electrode 20 and the second electrode 30 being 0 nm<G?50 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhisa Naitoh, Masayo Horikawa, Hidekazu Abe, Tetsuo Shimizu, Wataru Mizutani, Shigeo Furuta, Masatoshi Ono, Tsuyoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8094484Abstract: Disclosed is a memory cell array including word and first bit lines and second bit lines respectively connected to memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a MOS transistor and switching element having first and second conductive layers and a gap in which a resistance value changes by applying a predetermined voltage, and data is written by specifying the first bit line to connect it to a ground, specifying the word line and supplying a write voltage to the second bit lines, and read by specifying the first bit line to connect it to the sense amplifier, specifying the word line and supplying a read voltage lower than the write voltage to the second bit lines, and the word line is specified when the word line voltage becomes a gate threshold value voltage or more and a sum of a drive voltage and the gate threshold value voltage or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yutaka Hayashi, Yuichiro Masuda, Shigeo Furuta, Masatoshi Ono
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Patent number: 8045359Abstract: Disclosed is a switching element including: an insulative substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode provided to the insulative substrate; an interelectrode gap between the first electrode and the second electrode, comprising a gap of a nanometer order which causes switching phenomenon of resistance by applying a predetermined voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a sealing member to seal the interelectrode gap such that the gap is retained.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignees: Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc., Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Furuta, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Masatoshi Ono
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Publication number: 20110235841Abstract: A microphone unit includes a case; a diaphragm arranged inside the case; and an electric circuit unit that processes an electric signal generated in accordance with vibration of the diaphragm. The case has a first sound introducing space that introduces a sound from outside of the case to a first surface of the diaphragm via a first sound hole; and a second sound introducing space that introduces a sound from outside of the case to a second diaphragm, via a second sound hole. A resonance frequency of the diaphragm is set in the range of ±4 kHz based on the resonance frequency of at least one of the first sound introducing space and the second sound introducing space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicants: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute Inc.Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Takeshi Inoda, Masatoshi Ono, Rikuo Takano, Toshimi Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20110195745Abstract: Provided is a microphone unit having flat frequency characteristics. A microphone unit includes a casing, a first substrate, a second substrate, a vibrating unit, a diaphragm, an ASIC, and a dummy component. The dummy component is attached to the substrate to be located below an opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicants: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Electric Advanced AppliedInventors: Takeshi Inoda, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono
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Publication number: 20110176698Abstract: A differential microphone includes a housing having a first space and a second space formed therein, and a first diaphragm arranged within the housing. A first opening connecting the first space to outside and a second opening connecting the second space to the outside are formed in the housing. A dimension of the first opening and the second opening in a first direction perpendicular to a straight line passing through centers of both openings is longer than a dimension of the first opening and the second opening in a second direction parallel to the straight line passing through the centers of both openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Takeshi Inoda, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono
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Publication number: 20110176690Abstract: There is provided an integrated circuit device having a wiring board 1200?, the wiring board 1200? including: a first vibrating membrane 714-1 which forms a first microphone; a second vibrating membrane 714-2 which forms a second microphone; and a differential signal generating circuit 720 which receives a first voltage signal obtained in the first microphone and a second voltage signal obtained in the second microphone and generates a differential signal indicating a difference between the first and second voltage signals, and a voice input device and an information processing system including the same. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a voice input element having a small size and a noise removal function with high accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Takeshi Inoda
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Publication number: 20110172996Abstract: A voice input device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an information processing system are provided. The voice input device has a function of removing a noise component and includes a first microphone 710-1 that includes a first vibrating membrane, a second microphone 710-2 that includes a second vibrating membrane, and a differential signal generation section 720 that generates a differential signal that represents a difference between a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal. The first and second vibrating membranes are disposed so that a noise intensity ratio is smaller than an input voice intensity ratio that represents the ratio to intensity of an input voice component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicants: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FUNAI ELECTRIC ADVANCED APPLIED TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Takeshi Inoda
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Publication number: 20110170726Abstract: A microphone unit 1 of the present invention includes a case 10 having an internal space 100, a partition member 20 which is provided in the case, and at least partially composed of a vibrating membrane 30, that splits the internal space into a first space 102 and a second space 104, and an electrical signal output circuit 40 that outputs an electrical signal on the basis of vibration of the vibrating membrane. A first through hole 12 through which the first space 102 and an external space of the case are communicated with each other, and a second through hole 14 through which the second space 104 and the external space of the case are communicated with each other are formed in the case 10. In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to provide a high-quality microphone unit whose outer shape is small and which is capable of performing thorough noise cancellation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Hideki Chouji, Takeshi Inoda
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Publication number: 20110158454Abstract: A voice input device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an information processing system are provided. The voice input device has a function of removing a noise component and includes a first microphone 710-1 that includes a first vibrating membrane, a second microphone 710-2 that includes a second vibrating membrane, and a differential signal generation section 720 that generates a differential signal between a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal. The first and second vibrating membranes are disposed so that a noise intensity ratio is smaller than an input voice intensity ratio that represents the ratio to intensity of an input voice component. The differential signal generation section 720 includes a delay section 730 and a differential signal output section 740 that generates and outputs a differential signal with respect to a signal to which a delay is applied by the delay section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono, Ryusuke Horibe, Fuminori Tanaka, Takeshi Inoda
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Publication number: 20110158450Abstract: To provide a downsized microphone unit in which a differential microphone is densely mounted thereon. The microphone unit has a cover portion 30 and a microphone substrate 10, in which a first substrate internal space 15 is communicated with a cover portion internal space 32 via a first substrate opening 11 and a cover portion opening 31, and is communicated with the outside via a second substrate opening 12, a second substrate internal space 16 is communicated with the cover portion internal space 32 via a third substrate opening 13 and a cover portion opening 31, and is communicated with the outside via a fourth substrate opening 14, a partition portion 20 covers a communication aperture between the first substrate opening 11 and the cover portion opening 31, and a diaphragm 22 covers at least a part of the communication aperture between the first substrate opening 11 and the cover portion opening 31.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicants: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Takeshi Inoda, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono
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Publication number: 20110158449Abstract: A microphone unit (2) includes: a microphone substrate (13); and a partition unit (20) having a diaphragm (22). The microphone substrate (13) has a first substrate opening (14) and a second substrate opening (15). The partition unit (20) covers the first substrate opening (14) and the diaphragm (22) covers a part of the first substrate opening (14) so as to form an internal space containing an in-substrate unit space (12) formed at least in the microphone substrate (13) and communicating with outside from the diaphragm (22) via the first substrate opening (14) and the second substrate opening (15). This realizes a microphone unit in which a differential microphone configured by a single diaphragm is mounted with a high density.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Fuminori Tanaka, Ryusuke Horibe, Takeshi Inoda, Rikuo Takano, Kiyoshi Sugiyama, Toshimi Fukuoka, Masatoshi Ono