Patents by Inventor Taiji Ito

Taiji 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: 10466773
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display apparatus and a display method for realizing control for display operations by a user precisely reflecting the user's status, i.e., the user's intentions, visual state and physical conditions. Worn as an eyeglass-like or head-mount wearable unit for example, the display apparatus of the present invention enables the user to recognize visibly various images on the display unit positioned in front of the user's eyes thereby providing the picked up images, reproduced images, and received images. As control for various display operations such as switching between the display state and the see-through state, display operation mode and selecting sources, the display apparatus of the present invention acquires information about either behavior or physical status of the user, and determines either intention or status of the user in accordance with the acquired information, thereby controlling the display operation appropriately on the basis of the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20190237409
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of identical electronic component modules includes: preparing an assembly substrate that includes a plurality of electronic components mounted thereon; digging a first groove along the dicing lines from a top surface of a sealing member that seals each electronic component, the first groove penetrating the sealing member and reaching an intermediate depth within a base substrate; widening an upper portion of the first grove to define a second groove that is continuous with the lower portion of the first groove; forming a shielding film by depositing a film made of a conductive material on the top surface of the sealing member and on inner walls of the first and second grooves that include the sidewalls of the sealing member; and thereafter, cutting the base substrate at a bottom of the lower portion of the first groove along dicing lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo KITAZAKI, Takehiko KAI, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Jin MIKATA, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20190193528
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an air conditioner to regulate a state of air in a room; a sensor device including at least one detector to detect an amount of an odor-causing substance included in the air in the room; and a control device to control operation of the air conditioner. The control device includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a detected value of each of the at least one detector at a first timing when a person is present in the room; a second acquisition unit to acquire a detected value of each of the at least one detector at a second timing later than the first timing; a difference calculator to calculate a difference between the detected value at the first timing and the detected value at the second timing; and an instruction unit to control operation of the air conditioner based on the difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi HATTORI, Yosuke ONDA, Kenichi SHIMOMAI, Jin MIKATA, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20190197757
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 10262449
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 10219101
    Abstract: There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takehara, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Akinobu Sugino, Akane Sano, Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Yasunori Kamada
  • Patent number: 10187612
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki Tsuruta, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Kan Ebisawa, Nozomu Ozaki, Akinobu Sugino, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Yonetaro Totsuka
  • Publication number: 20180286816
    Abstract: To provide an electronic component module capable of forming a shielding film in a state of an assembly substrate and enhancing productivity. An electronic component module includes: a substrate including a conductive pattern; an electronic component provided to the substrate; a sealing portion covering the electronic component and the substrate, the sealing portion having an upper surface and a side surface, the upper surface and the side surface forming an edge portion; a contact portion provided to the substrate, the contact portion being configured to be electrically connected with the conductive pattern, the contact portion having a vertical surface continuous with the side surface of the sealing portion and a horizontal surface continuous with the vertical surface; and a shielding film covering the upper surface and the side surface of the sealing portion and the contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo KITAZAKI, Takehiko KAI, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Jin MIKATA, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20180286817
    Abstract: Forming a groove in a dicing region so as to expose a conductive pattern material on a side surface, closer to a first side of each of mounting regions, of a substrate; when forming a first sealing portion enclosing a wireless region and a second sealing portion enclosing an antenna region adjacent to the wireless region on a side of a second side of each of the mounting regions, reducing a thickness in a height direction such that a thickness of the second sealing portion becomes smaller in thickness than a thickness of the first sealing portion; forming a shielding film such that a scattered matter made of a conductive material is allowed to pass through an upper surface of the second sealing portion, to be deposited onto the conductive pattern material exposed on a side surface of the substrate; and separating the substrate into the mounting regions individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo KITAZAKI, Takehiko KAI, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Jin MIKATA, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20180286796
    Abstract: An electronic component module includes: a substrate including a conductive pattern; an electronic component provided to the substrate; a sealing portion covering the electronic component and substrate, and having an upper surface and a side surface that form an edge portion; a contact portion configured to be electrically connected with the conductive pattern, the contact portion exposed on a vertical surface continuous with the side surface of the sealing portion; a removal portion formed by removing the predetermined edge portion formed by the upper surface and the side surface of the sealing portion; and a shielding film covering the upper surface, the side surface and the contact portion of the sealing portion. The removal portion is a region allowing a conductive material to pass therethrough so that the contact portion is covered with the shielding film, the conductive material being scattered in vacuum atmosphere lower than atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenzo Kitazaki, Takehiko Kai, Masaya Shimamura, Mikio Aoki, Jin Mikata, Taiji Ito
  • Patent number: 10075544
    Abstract: [Object] To associate information generated on the basis of an activity that is carried out by a user with respect to a content with the content, thereby effectively using the information. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an activity detection unit configured to detect an activity of a user who currently plays back a content; a tag generation unit configured to generate tag information on the basis of information on the activity; and a tag association unit configured to associate the tag information with one or more positions in the content, the one or more positions corresponding to the activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sutou, Hiroaki Kitano, Shotaro Hori, Taiji Ito, Tetsu Natsume, Koichi Oshima, Hironari Mizumura, Yoshihiro Takagi, Yasuo Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20180232931
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20180166767
    Abstract: A wireless module includes: a rectangular shaped substrate; an antenna element provided in a first region of the substrate; a rectangular shaped integrated circuit element provided in a second region of the substrate, the integrated circuit element including, in a single package, an RF unit to process an RF signal, a baseband unit to process a baseband signal, and a power supply unit; and discrete components provided in a third region of the substrate, the integrated circuit element provided such that two parallel sides of the integrated circuit element are along long sides of the substrate, neither the first region nor the third region being provided between each long side of the substrate and each side of the integrated circuit element along the long side, the first region and the third region being provided to be aligned in a longitudinal direction of the substrate with respect to the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiji Ito, Jin Mikata
  • Publication number: 20180159209
    Abstract: A wireless module, including: a substrate; an electronic circuit mounted in a first region on a one face of the substrate; a conductive pattern formed in a second region on another face of the substrate and serving as an antenna; a resin layer sealing the electronic circuit in the first region; and a shielding layer formed on a surface of the resin layer and having conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin MIKATA, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Takehiko KAI, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20180159217
    Abstract: A wireless module, including: a substrate; an electronic circuit mounted in a first region on a one face of the substrate; a conductive pattern formed in a second region on another face of the substrate, the conductive pattern being connected to a radio communication section of the electronic circuit, and the conductive pattern serving as an antenna when transmitting/receiving radio wave, the second region being different from the first region; a resin layer sealing the electronic circuit in the first region; a shielding layer formed on a surface of the resin layer; and a shield disposed in either one of a top layer of the substrate and an inner layer of the substrate, the shield being for shielding noise radiated from the electronic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin MIKATA, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Takehiko KAI, Taiji ITO
  • Publication number: 20180159216
    Abstract: Solution is preparing a substrate; covering an electronic component mounting region and an antenna mounting region of the substrate with a resin material having viscosity or fluidity; curing the resin material to form a resin layer, and thereafter performing grinding or polishing so as to substantially flatten a surface of the resin layer on the electronic component mounting region and the antenna mounting region; and covering the flattened resin layer with a shielding material having viscosity or fluidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiko KAI, Masaya SHIMAMURA, Mikio AOKI, Jin MIKATA, Taiji ITO
  • Patent number: 9972116
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20180067313
    Abstract: Display control that extends a user's visual ability is accomplished. By wearing an eyeglass-type or headgear-type mounting unit, he or she is allowed to see display means disposed in front of his or her eyes. By causing a part of a screen area of the display means to be in a through-state and a display with a display image signal to be executed, the user can see an image of a scene different from a scene that he or she ordinarily sees with a display of the display image signal while he or she can see the ordinary visual scene with the through-state area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Masaaki TSURUTA, Taiji ITO, Masamichi ASUKAI, Kan EBISAWA
  • Publication number: 20180020191
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to let a user arbitrarily and easily see any other scene than himself or herself in his or her view (the scene seen from any other moving body than him or her). In a display device (an image pickup and display device 1 or a display device 40), specification information is generated to specify a specific image pickup device of outer image pickup devices (the image pickup and display device 1 or and image pickup device 30), and image data are received from the image pickup device specified by the specification information and are displayed. As an outer image pickup device, for example, and image pickup device wore by some other person, image pickup devices set at a car, an electric train, and the like, or further mage pickup devices set at an animal, a bird, and the like are supposed. Image data picked up by these image pickup devices are transmitted to the display side and the image display is carried out in the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro SAKO, Keiji Kimura, Masaaki TSURUTA, Masamichi ASUKAI, Taiji ITO, Kan EBISAWA, Nozomu OZAKI, Akinobu SUGINO, Hidehiko SEKIZAWA, Yonetaro TOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 9846304
    Abstract: Display control that extends a user's visual ability is accomplished. By wearing an eyeglass-type or headgear-type mounting unit, he or she is allowed to see display means disposed in front of his or her eyes. By causing a part of a screen area of the display means to be in a through-state and a display with a display image signal to be executed, the user can see an image of a scene different from a scene that he or she ordinarily sees with a display of the display image signal while he or she can see the ordinary visual scene with the through-state area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Masaaki Tsuruta, Taiji Ito, Masamichi Asukai, Kan Ebisawa