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: 9535248
    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: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Yoichiro Sako, Masakazu Yajima, Kouichiro Ono, Masashi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9525292
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Masakazu Yajima, Kazuo Kikuchi, Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 9502919
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including at least one two-way antenna for power recovery, a wireless block processing a wireless signal which the two-way antenna for power recovery transmits and receives, a power recovery block recovering electric power from a received signal of the two-way antenna for power recovery, and a connection switching part connecting the two-way antenna for power recovery to and switching the connection between the wireless block and the power recovery block. A duty ratio at which the connection switching part connects the two-way antenna for power recovery to the wireless block and the power recovery block is set so that the wireless block attains a desired communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20160154256
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wearable device and an electricity supply system that make it possible to reduce the stress on a user in relation to electricity supply. A power generating unit is provided on the external world-side surface or the eyeball-side surface of a contact lens-type wearable device. The power generating unit generates electric power by chemical reaction with a substance contained in a secretion or a body fluid of a user wearing the wearable device, and a power managing unit supplies the electric power obtained in the power generating unit to each part of the wearable device. Thus, the power generating unit performs electricity generation using the secretion or the body fluid of the user as fuel; thereby, electric power can be stably supplied, and the stress on the user in relation to electricity supply can be reduced. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens-type wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Itaru Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20160049108
    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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu YAJIMA, Yoichiro SAKO, Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kouichirou ONO, Masashi TAKEDA, Akira ONO
  • Publication number: 20150102686
    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: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Takanori Washiro, Masakazu Yajima, Kazuo Kikuchi, Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8970437
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a circuit substrate; and an antenna element installed on the circuit substrate, wherein the antenna element is installed at a position apart from an end of the circuit substrate by a given offset so that distribution variation of irradiation characteristics of the antenna element within a horizontal surface is reduced both in cases where the electronic device in which the antenna element is installed is set in portrait orientation and in landscape orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20150054716
    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: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, YOICHIRO SAKO, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, KOUICHIRO ONO, MASASHI TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20150001967
    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: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20140378762
    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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yoichiro SAKO, Katsuhiko NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20140278100
    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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, YOICHIRO SAKO, KOUICHIROU ONO, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, MASASHI TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20140267208
    Abstract: An image display device includes an image display unit that displays an image, a mounting unit that is adapted to mount the image display unit on a user's head or face, a power generation element that is attached to one or more installation portions including an outer surface of the image display unit or the mounting unit, and a control unit that performs control based on a power generation amount of the power generation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASAKAZU YAJIMA, YOICHIRO SAKO, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, AKIRA ONO, MASASHI TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20140187930
    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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yoichiro SAKO
  • Publication number: 20140162572
    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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20140051905
    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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOICHIRO SAKO, MAIKO SAITOU, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, HIDEKI SAKAI, TAKATOSHI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130241692
    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: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Shimizu, Hideo Niikura, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Masakazu Yajima, Shinichi Honda
  • Publication number: 20130234724
    Abstract: A discriminating apparatus includes a discrimination section configured to discriminate the presence or absence of an abnormality, in accordance with information on power generation from a power generation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIDETOSHI KABASAWA, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, HIDEO NIIKURA, MASAKAZU YAJIMA, KOHEI SHIMIZU, SHINICHI HONDA
  • Patent number: 8502738
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a circuit substrate; and an antenna element installed on the circuit substrate, wherein the antenna element is installed at a position apart from an end of the circuit substrate by a given offset so that distribution variation of irradiation characteristics of the antenna element within a horizontal surface is reduced both in cases where the electronic device in which the antenna element is installed is set in portrait orientation and in landscape orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8462065
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus and a communication apparatus able to provide an antenna apparatus having wide band characteristics or diversity characteristics. A first antenna element 11, a second antenna element 12, and a divider circuit 13 to which both the antenna elements 11 and 12 are coupled via respectively separate transmission lines 15 and 16 are included. Additionally, a delay process is conducted on one of the transmission lines by modifying the lengths of the transmission line 15 coupling the first antenna element 11 to the divider circuit 13 and the transmission line 16 coupling the second antenna element 12 to the divider circuit 13. By conducting this delay adjustment, the input impedance and/or phase of the first and second antenna elements are adjusted, and wider band characteristics than the antenna characteristics of the first and second antenna elements individually are configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Arai, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Takashi Enomoto, Sunghyuk Yoon
  • Publication number: 20130035046
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including at least one two-way antenna for power recovery, a wireless block processing a wireless signal which the two-way antenna for power recovery transmits and receives, a power recovery block recovering electric power from a received signal of the two-way antenna for power recovery, and a connection switching part connecting the two-way antenna for power recovery to and switching the connection between the wireless block and the power recovery block. A duty ratio at which the connection switching part connects the two-way antenna for power recovery to the wireless block and the power recovery block is set so that the wireless block attains a desired communication speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki HIRABAYASHI