Patents by Inventor Toshiro Nishio
Toshiro Nishio 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: 20230280596Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first lens barrel in a shape of a bottomed barrel and including, as a bottom portion, a first display device that displays a first image; a second lens barrel in a shape of a bottomed barrel and including, as a bottom portion, a second display device that displays a second image; a support member that supports the first and second lens barrels; and an eye cup that is in a barrel shape and is provided at an open end of each of the first and second lens barrels along the open end. The eye cup includes two or more ventilation paths through which inside and outside of the eye cup communicate with each other in an intersecting direction that intersects a barrel axis direction of the first and second lens barrels and an arrangement direction in which the first and second lens barrels are arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Suguru OGAWA, Masayuki KOZUKA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Makoto SERIZAWA, Junya SUZUKI, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Toshiro NISHIO, Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Kota NAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro MORI
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Publication number: 20230258945Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first lens barrel in a bottomed barrel shape and including, at the bottom, a first display that displays an image; a second lens barrel in a bottomed barrel shape and including, at the bottom, a second display that displays another image; a support member elongated in an arrangement direction of the first and second lens barrels, and supporting, by passing through the first and second lens barrels in the arrangement direction, at least one of the first and second lens barrels to allow the at least one lens barrel to move in the arrangement direction; and temple parts respectively connected to two ends of the support member in the arrangement direction. The first lens barrel includes first and second sound pickup devices, the second lens barrel includes third and fourth sound pickup devices, and the temple parts respectively include fifth and sixth sound pickup devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Suguru OGAWA, Masayuki KOZUKA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Makoto SERIZAWA, Junya SUZUKI, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Toshiro NISHIO, Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Kota NAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro MORl
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Patent number: 11624930Abstract: A display device includes: a first closed-bottom lens tube including a first display part on the closed bottom for displaying a first image; a second closed-bottom lens tube including a second display part on the closed bottom for displaying a second image; an adjustment mechanism including a first rod that extends from the first lens tube and a second rod that extends from the second lens tube and is rotatably connected to the first rod; and an image outputter that outputs the first and second images to the first and second display parts, respectively. The image outputter, in accordance with the angle of rotation of the first and second rods of the adjustment mechanism, controls and outputs the first and second images to bring the horizontal directions thereof closer to the arrangement direction of the first and second lens tubes.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasutoshi Yamamoto, Suguru Ogawa, Hiroyasu Makino, Makoto Serizawa, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Toshiro Nishio, Masayuki Kozuka
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Publication number: 20220146814Abstract: A display device includes: a first closed-bottomed lens tube including a first display part on the closed bottom for displaying a first image; a second closed-bottomed lens tube including a second display part on the closed bottom for displaying a second image; and an adjustment mechanism that couples the first lens tube and the second lens tube and is capable of adjusting a distance between the first lens tube and the second lens tube. The adjustment mechanism includes an operable part that adjusts the distance between the first lens tube and the second lens tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Suguru OGAWA, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Makoto SERIZAWA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiro NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Publication number: 20220121032Abstract: A display device includes: a closed-bottomed first lens tube including a first display part on the closed bottom for displaying a first image; a closed-bottomed second lens tube including a second display part on the closed bottom for displaying a second image; an adjustment mechanism including an operable part that is provided between and adjusts a distance between the first and second lens tubes; and an eye cup provided for each of the first and second lens tubes that is tubular and detachably attached to the open end of the first or second lens tube. The eye cup includes: an insertion part that is tubular and inserted inside the first or second lens tube; and a cup part having a curved sheet shape that extends outside of the first or second lens tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Makoto SERIZAWA, Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Suguru OGAWA, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Junya SUZUKI, Toshiro NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Publication number: 20220099981Abstract: A display device includes: a first closed-bottom lens tube including a first display part on the closed bottom for displaying a first image; a second closed-bottom lens tube including a second display part on the closed bottom for displaying a second image; an adjustment mechanism including a first rod that extends from the first lens tube and a second rod that extends from the second lens tube and is rotatably connected relative to the first rod; and an image maintainer that, in accordance with the angle of rotation of the first and second rods of the adjustment mechanism, rotates the first and second display parts relative to the first and second lens tubes to bring the horizontal directions of the first and second display parts closer to the arrangement direction of the first and second lens tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Suguru OGAWA, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Makoto SERIZAWA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiro NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Publication number: 20220035171Abstract: A display device includes: a first closed-bottom lens tube including a first display part on the closed bottom for displaying a first image; a second closed-bottom lens tube including a second display part on the closed bottom for displaying a second image; an adjustment mechanism including a first rod that extends from the first lens tube and a second rod that extends from the second lens tube and is rotatably connected to the first rod; and an image outputter that outputs the first and second images to the first and second display parts, respectively. The image outputter, in accordance with the angle of rotation of the first and second rods of the adjustment mechanism, controls and outputs the first and second images to bring the horizontal directions thereof closer to the arrangement direction of the first and second lens tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Yasutoshi YAMAMOTO, Suguru OGAWA, Hiroyasu MAKINO, Makoto SERIZAWA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiro NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Patent number: 9319658Abstract: Provided is a digital video signal output device for outputting digital video signals to a display device for displaying pictures. The digital video signal output device captures display capability data having described therein video-data structure such as a 3D format and the like from the digital video display device. The digital video signal output device is configured to select one video-data structure from at least one video-data structure, superimpose packet data including structural information that designates the selected video-data structure, during a blanking period of a digital video signal including video data based on the selected video-data structure, and transmits, as a digital video output signal, a signal obtained as a result of the superimposing.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiro Nishio
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Patent number: 8902368Abstract: In a transmission device: a controller performs a control of reading, from information regarding video specification, first information indicating whether a reception device is capable of intermittent reception of receiving a video signal at a timing that causes certain number of frames to be intermittent, and, when the reception device can perform intermittent reception, multiplexing, to the video signal during a blanking period of the video signal to be updated, an enable signal indicating the present video signal is to be enabled and second information indicating that transmission of the video signal will not resume unless the video signal is updated; and a transmitter transmits the video signal that is to be updated and then does not resume transmission of the video signal unless the video signal is updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yutaka Nio, Toshiro Nishio
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Patent number: 8872982Abstract: In a transmission device: a controller performs a control of reading, from information regarding video specification, information regarding a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution that are supported by a reception device and information regarding frame rate that is supported by the reception device, and multiplexing, to the video signal during a blanking period of the video signal, information indicating a reduce frame rate that is selectable from a range supported by the reception device; and a transmitter transmits baseband video data at the reduced frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiro Nishio, Yutaka Nio
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Publication number: 20140267902Abstract: In a transmission device: a controller performs a control of reading, from information regarding video specification, information regarding a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution that are supported by a reception device and information regarding frame rate that is supported by the reception device, and multiplexing, to the video signal during a blanking period of the video signal, information indicating a reduce frame rate that is selectable from a range supported by the reception device; and a transmitter transmits baseband video data at the reduced frame rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Toshiro Nishio, Yutaka Nio
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Publication number: 20140232940Abstract: In a transmission device (2): a controller (2a) performs a control of reading, from information regarding video specification, first information indicating whether a reception device is capable of intermittent reception of receiving a video signal at a timing that causes certain number of frames to be intermittent, and, when the reception device can perform intermittent reception, multiplexing, to the video signal during a blanking period of the video signal to be updated, an enable signal indicating the present video signal is to be enabled and second information indicating that transmission of the video signal will not resume unless the video signal is updated; and a transmitter (2d) transmits the video signal that is to be updated and then does not resume transmission of the video signal unless the video signal is updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Yutaka Nio, Toshiro Nishio
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Publication number: 20140133579Abstract: A transmission apparatus for digitally transmitting a video signal through a transmission path, includes an acquiring unit to acquire a video signal generated by decoding a compressively coded signal, and a transmission pass coder to multiplex a luminous signal and a color difference signal which compose the acquired video signal in a video signal period, and multiplex a control signal related to the video signal in a blanking period. The control signal is (1) information to be used by a receiving apparatus which receives the video signal to adjust image quality of the video signal, and (2) includes information indicating whether the compressively coded signal based on which the video signal transmitted by the transmission pass coder is generated is I picture, P picture, or B picture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: TOSHIRO NISHIO, YUKATA NIO
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Patent number: 8681276Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Toshiro Nishio
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Publication number: 20130235268Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu SUZUKI, Toshiro NISHIO
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Patent number: 8451385Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Toshiro Nishio
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Patent number: 8345169Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Toshiro Nishio
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Publication number: 20120281069Abstract: Provided is a digital video signal output device for outputting digital video signals to a display device for displaying pictures. The digital video signal output device captures display capability data having described therein video-data structure such as a 3D format and the like from the digital video display device. The digital video signal output device is configured to select one video-data structure from at least one video-data structure, superimpose packet data including structural information that designates the selected video-data structure, during a blanking period of a digital video signal including video data based on the selected video-data structure, and transmits, as a digital video output signal, a signal obtained as a result of the superimposing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiro Nishio
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Publication number: 20120081613Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: Hidekazu SUZUKI, Toshiro Nishio
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Publication number: 20110072485Abstract: In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further, a demultiplexing part demultiplexes a video/audio multiplexed signal received through the data line into the original video signal and audio signal by a demultiplexing control signal in the signal receiver. According to the so-configured signal transmitter and signal receiver, it is possible to realize a signal transmission system compliant with the DVI standard, in which the audio signal as well as the video signal can be transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Toshiro Nishio