Patents by Inventor Nobukazu Suzuki
Nobukazu Suzuki 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: 20160105740Abstract: A sound output apparatus includes a diaphragm having a predetermined plane positioned at a rear surface side of a light provision unit, and a vibrator for providing vibration in a direction substantially orthogonal to the predetermined plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Nobukazu SUZUKI, Yoshio OHASHI, Masahiro TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 9173030Abstract: A speaker system includes: a display panel having a display screen; a structure having a plate part functioning as an acoustic diaphragm located outside of a perimeter of the display screen and being supported by the display panel; and an actuator attached to the structure so that a displacement direction of the actuator may be a direction of a plate surface of the plate part.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi, Akihisa Inatani, Yasuo Osada, Terutaka Yana, Yutaka Miki
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Patent number: 9060226Abstract: A speaker has an acoustic diaphragm, and an actuator that is driven based on a first acoustic signal. The actuator has a transmission portion that is directly or indirectly attached to the acoustic diaphragm and transmits a displacement output of the actuator to the acoustic diaphragm. The speaker also has a sounding body that is driven based on a second acoustic signal that is identical to or different from the first acoustic signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Inventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Masaru Uryu, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8995702Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes: a diaphragm vibrating to output sounds and being formed in an annular shape having a center hole in the middle thereof; a driving section causing the diaphragm to vibrate; a light emitting member emitting light; and a heat controlling member radiating heat generated when the light emitting member emits light or conducting the heat to a heat radiating section, wherein at least a part of the heat controlling member is provided on an axis including the center axis of the diaphragm, and the light emitting member is disposed on an end face of the heat controlling member.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi, Teppei Yokota
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Patent number: 8810865Abstract: A method for image processing in which an area of a platen on which a document is placed is read and the platen image is processed includes extracting an object included in the platen image, detecting an area of the object and inclination of the area of the object with respect to the platen image, determining the minimum rectangular area which includes the area of the object, and is surrounded with four sides parallel to four sides of the platen image respectively, comparing an extent to which a pixel group constituting an edge of each area includes pixels constituting an edge of the platen image between the area of the object and the minimum rectangular area, and determining a minimum rectangular area as the area of the document if a pixel group includes a larger number of pixels based on the comparing or if the inclination is small.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8792657Abstract: A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm; a vibration transfer member provided in a state of touching the acoustic diaphragm over a given length, which is configured to transfer vibration to the acoustic diaphragm; and an actuator configured to add vibration corresponding to an audio signal to be reproduced to the vibration transfer member to thereby transfer vibration to the acoustic diaphragm through the vibration transfer member and to generate sound.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8750555Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes: an actuator serving as a source of vibration; a vibration transmitting member connected to the actuator; and two sheet-like diaphragms provided opposite to each other in the thickness direction thereof with the vibration transmitting member and disposed in contact with the vibration transmitting member, wherein vibration generated at the actuator is transmitted to each of the two diaphragms through the vibration transmitting member to output sounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8737659Abstract: The present invention allows for the further enhancement of a low pitch range with a simple structure without increasing the size. The present invention is provided with: a pipe (102) open one end side and the other end side; a speaker unit (104) that is coaxial with the pipe (102), arranged at the one end side of the pipe (102), and driven on the basis of an audio signal; and an edge-cum-diaphragm (102B) that is coaxial with the pipe (102), installed at the other end side of the pipe (102), and vibrates in response to a sound wave that passes through the pipe (102). While the pipe (102) functions as a resonance tube by being excited to vibration with the sound wave that is radiated from the speaker unit (104) and passes through the pipe (102), the edge-cum-diaphragm (102B) functions as a passive radiator by vibrating in response to the sound wave that passes through the pipe (102).Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8630428Abstract: A display device includes a display portion that displays video, a first audio output portion that outputs stereo audio of a high frequency range, and that is a surface sound source positioned on a rear surface of the display portion, on one of an upper section and a lower section of the display portion, a second audio output portion that outputs stereo audio of a lower frequency range, and that is one of a surface sound source and a point sound source positioned on the rear surface of the display portion, on which the first audio output portion is not positioned, and a delaying portion that delays output of the second audio output portion to be later than output of the first audio output portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Terutaka Yana, Yutaka Miki, Yoshio Ohashi, Nobukazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8577076Abstract: A speaker device includes: an acoustic diaphragm having a given shape and made of a material having physical anisotropy; and an excitation means attached to the acoustic diaphragm for exciting vibration components in consideration of a direction corresponding to the physical anisotropy.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Nobukazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8369543Abstract: A speaker device includes an acoustic-vibration member, an actuator that is driven on the basis of a sound signal and that includes a displacement-output unit that can obtain the displacement corresponding to the sound signal, and a displacement-output-transfer member configured to connect the displacement-output unit to a point predetermined on a face of the acoustic-vibration member. A displacement output of the actuator is transferred to the predetermined point via the displacement-output-transfer member, and the acoustic-vibration member is excited in a face direction from the predetermined point according to the displacement output.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Masaru Uryu, Yoshio Ohashi
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Publication number: 20130028458Abstract: The present invention allows for the further enhancement of a low pitch range with a simple structure without increasing the size. The present invention is provided with: a pipe (102) open one end side and the other end side; a speaker unit (104) that is coaxial with the pipe (102), arranged at the one end side of the pipe (102), and driven on the basis of an audio signal; and an edge-cum-diaphragm (102B) that is coaxial with the pipe (102), installed at the other end side of the pipe (102), and vibrates in response to a sound wave that passes through the pipe (102). While the pipe (102) functions as a resonance tube by being excited to vibration with the sound wave that is radiated from the speaker unit (104) and passes through the pipe (102), the edge-cum-diaphragm (102B) functions as a passive radiator by vibrating in response to the sound wave that passes through the pipe (102).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8325399Abstract: In a control method for an image reading system comprising an image scanning apparatus selectively reading an original as a reflective or transmissive original, an image processing apparatus receiving image data read by the image scanning apparatus and executing image processing of the image data, an operating unit, and a display unit. The control method includes determining whether the original is the reflective or transmissive original, executing reading of the reflective or transmissive original based on the determination result, processing the read image data, displaying details of processing executed and the image processing, and inputting an instruction to change the details of displayed processing. When the change instruction input instructs change of a process under execution or having been already executed, the image processing is executed again from the changed process.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yusuke Hattori
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Publication number: 20120230499Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes: a diaphragm vibrating to output sounds and being formed in an annular shape having a center hole in the middle thereof; a driving section causing the diaphragm to vibrate; a light emitting member emitting light; and a heat controlling member radiating heat generated when the light emitting member emits light or conducting the heat to a heat radiating section, wherein at least a part of the heat controlling member is provided on an axis including the center axis of the diaphragm, and the light emitting member is disposed on an end face of the heat controlling member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi, Teppei Yokota
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Publication number: 20120224234Abstract: In a control method for an image reading system comprising an image scanning apparatus selectively reading an original as a reflective or transmissive original, an image processing apparatus receiving image data read by the image scanning apparatus and executing image processing of the image data, an operating unit, and a display unit. The control method includes determining whether the original is the reflective or transmissive original, executing reading of the reflective or transmissive original based on the determination result, processing the read image data, displaying details of processing executed and the image processing, and inputting an instruction to change the details of displayed processing. When the change instruction input instructs change of a process under execution or having been already executed, the image processing is executed again from the changed process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yusuke Hattori
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Patent number: 8259372Abstract: Image information of an original(s) is displayed, for example, after rotated to assume an easily viewable orientation for a user. The placement state of an original(s) on an original support of an image reading apparatus is detected and the image information may be displayed after rotated by 90 degrees based on the detection result. In addition, display orientation may be set, so that a thumbnail(s) is displayed in the set orientation.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 8254603Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes an acoustic vibration plate, and an actuator mounted to the acoustic vibration plate such that one end and the other end thereof, in a driving axis direction, exist in a plate surface of the acoustic vibration plate. The actuator applies vibration to the acoustic vibration plate to play back sound. The speaker apparatus enables a sound image to uniformly spread over the entire plate surface of the acoustic vibration plate. In addition, the entire speaker apparatus can be made compact.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8203771Abstract: In a control method for an image reading system comprising an image scanning apparatus selectively reading an original as a reflective or transmissive original, an image processing apparatus receiving image data read by the image scanning apparatus and executing image processing of the image data, an operating unit, and a display unit. The control method includes determining whether the original is the reflective or transmissive original, executing reading of the reflective or transmissive original based on the determination result, processing the read image data, displaying details of processing executed and the image processing, and inputting an instruction to change the details of displayed processing. When the change instruction input instructs change of a process under execution or having been already executed, the image processing is executed again from the changed process.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yusuke Hattori
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Publication number: 20120114150Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes: an actuator serving as a source of vibration; a vibration transmitting member connected to the actuator; and two sheet-like diaphragms provided opposite to each other in the thickness direction thereof with the vibration transmitting member and disposed in contact with the vibration transmitting member, wherein vibration generated at the actuator is transmitted to each of the two diaphragms through the vibration transmitting member to output sounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi
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Publication number: 20120106773Abstract: A speaker device which can form an ideal cylindrical wave as sound traveling nondirectionally in a horizontal direction toward a listener. A vibration transmitting member is supported at one end thereof to the vertex of a conical diaphragm, and vibration generated by a vibrating element according to an acoustic signal is applied to the other end of the vibration transmitting member. The angle ? between the perpendicular dropped from the vertex of the conical diaphragm to the base thereof and the side surface of the conical diaphragm is set according to the sound velocity in the air and the sound velocity in the conical diaphragm so that the distance traveled by a sound radiated from the vertex is equal to the distance traveled by a sound radiated from an end of the side surface of the conical diaphragm farthest from the vertex.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobukazu Suzuki, Yoshio Ohashi