Patents by Inventor Takayuki Hirabayashi

Takayuki Hirabayashi 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: 10256533
    Abstract: An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hiroyuki Shigei, Rikiya Ishikawa, Yu Togasaki, Osamu Kozakai
  • Publication number: 20190089418
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 10206603
    Abstract: There is provided a microwave transmission device including two or more antennas impedance-matched with a contact target having a predetermined dielectric constant. When the impedance matching is achieved, microwaves for tumor detection between the two or more antennas are transmitted via the contact target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako
  • Patent number: 10177446
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna apparatus including: a magnetic sheet; a first antenna provided on one face of the magnetic sheet and used for communication; and a second antenna provided on the other face opposite to the one face of the magnetic sheet and used for wireless power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Hashiguchi, Osamu Kozakai, Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 10070034
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: a display section attached to a head or a face of a user, and configured to display an image; a communication section configured to communicate with an external device; an image capturing section; a positional information acquisition section configured to acquire current positional information of the user; and a control section configured to capture an image of a dangerous place by the image capturing section in accordance with determination of a dangerous state, and transmit a captured image from the communication section to the external device together with the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako, Masakazu Yajima, Kouichiro Ono, Masashi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180242515
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a farm field management system, a farm field management method, and a farm equipment system for improving the efficiency of farm work. A sensor position calculating section calculates a sensor position at which a sensor is deployed on a farm field on the basis of farm field information. A sensor deployment controlling section controls a sensor deploying mechanism that deploys the sensor on the farm field to deploy the sensor in accordance with the sensor position. The present technology may be applied to a farm field management system that manages the farm field or to a farm equipment system that performs farm work on the farm field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu YAJIMA, Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Shinji KOMIYAMA, Yasushi IHARA, Hideo NIIKURA
  • Patent number: 9947214
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes an authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing according to power generation information from a power generation unit configured to generate electric power from ambient energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Shimizu, Hideo Niikura, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Masakazu Yajima, Shinichi Honda
  • Patent number: 9870726
    Abstract: A head-mounted display, a smart phone, a tablet terminal, an electronic book, or the like monitors conditions of the side of a power generation apparatus that charges a battery. An image display apparatus includes a power generation information acquisition means for obtaining power generation information on a power storage amount, a power generation amount, and the like of a secondary battery in each power generation apparatus, appropriately processes the obtained information, and displays it to a user via a display unit. The user can check the power generation amount of the power generation apparatus and the power storage amount of the secondary battery without stopping the use of the image display apparatus. When a power storage amount of a battery in use is lowered, the user can properly judge with which of the power generation apparatuses the user should replace the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Yoichiro Sako, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Kouichirou Ono, Masashi Takeda, Akira Ono
  • Patent number: 9806786
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna device including a first antenna including a first power supply section, a first short-circuited section connected to a bottom board, and a first open-circuited section, and a second antenna including a second power supply section separated from the first power supply section by an electric path length of about n?/4, a second short-circuited section connected to the bottom board, and a second open-circuited section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20170293579
    Abstract: There is provided an information transmission apparatus and an information transmission method for suitably transmitting information on power generation or power storage. A unified format of a message is provided to various power generation devices or power storage devices, which may be connected to various apparatuses for outdoor use that cannot use a commercial power supply, such as portable electronic apparatuses, the message transmitting information on a power generation efficiency and other power generation statuses, and the remaining amount, a power storage efficiency, and other power storage statuses of the secondary battery. The electronic apparatus, which uses electric power from the power generation devices or power storage devices, analyzes the message from any of the power generation devices or power storage devices and presents a result to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, MASASHI TAKEDA, KOUICHIROU ONO
  • Patent number: 9757016
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system including a wireless capsule including an imaging section, a posture control section, a first wireless communication section which transmits an image captured by the imaging section and receives a control signal for controlling the posture control section, and a power supply section which supplies power to the imaging section and the posture control section, and a wireless terminal apparatus including a second wireless communication section which receives the image transmitted from the first wireless communication section, and transmits the control signal, a display control section which performs a control in a manner that the image is displayed on a display section, a posture detection section which detects a posture of the display section, and a generation section which generates the control signal based on a posture signal detected by the posture detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako, Katsuhiko Nakano
  • Publication number: 20170256283
    Abstract: Excellent information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system capable of viewing a content without temporal and spatial limitation are provided. When an arithmetic device 120 receives position/attitude information and time information from an information device 141 on a reproduction side, this loads information of an image and audio around the position information of the device and around the time from a database 111 and reconfigures an image and audio to be reproduced from wanted viewing time from a viewpoint viewing from which is wanted. The reconfigured image and audio are reproduced while being loaded into a main storage unit 202 in the information devices 141 on the reproduction side through a network 150.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Masakazu YAJIMA, Yoichiro SAKO, Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Masashi TAKEDA, Hiromitsu KOMATSU, Kouichirou ONO
  • Publication number: 20170194698
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna apparatus including: a magnetic sheet; a first antenna provided on one face of the magnetic sheet and used for communication; and a second antenna provided on the other face opposite to the one face of the magnetic sheet and used for wireless power transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: TAKAAKI HASHIGUCHI, OSAMU KOZAKAI, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170162934
    Abstract: [Object] To optimize the antenna characteristic both when worn on the human body and when separated from the human body. [Solution] A mounting base includes a mounting portion on which a communication device including an antenna and being worn on a human body is mounted or held such that the communication device comes into contact with or comes close to the mounting portion and a correcting unit installed in the mounting portion and configured to correct an antenna characteristic of the antenna of the communication device mounted or held on the mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu KOZAKAI, Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Rikiya ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9606357
    Abstract: A head- or face-mounted image display device includes an environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information, a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information, a guidance information generation unit that generates guidance information for guidance into a state in which the influence of environment is reduced or increased based on at least one piece of environmental information acquired for each state, and a provision unit that provides the guidance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako, Kouichirou Ono, Masakazu Yajima, Masashi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170085773
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: a display section attached to a head or a face of a user, and configured to display an image; a communication section configured to communicate with an external device; an image capturing section; a positional information acquisition section configured to acquire current positional information of the user; and a control section configured to capture an image of a dangerous place by the image capturing section in accordance with determination of a dangerous state, and transmit a captured image from the communication section to the external device together with the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, YOICHIRO SAKO, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, KOUICHIRO ONO, MASASHI TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20170077758
    Abstract: A power receiving unit includes: a power receiving section configured to receive electric power from a power transmission unit; and an electromagnet configured to be magnetized based on the electric power received from the power transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Masakazu Yajima, Kazuo Kikuchi, Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20170062918
    Abstract: An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIGEI, Rikiya ISHIKAWA, Yu TOGASAKI, Osamu KOZAKAI
  • Patent number: 9566180
    Abstract: There is provided a stimulus generation apparatus including a stimulus generation section which provides a stimulus for promoting fat burning for fat or a satiety center inside a body cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Maiko Saitou, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hideki Sakai, Takatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: D781267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: KORG INC
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi