Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Ogawara

Yoshiaki Ogawara 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: 7386230
    Abstract: A wide-angle shooting apparatus includes a convex surface structure which reflects light from outside, a concave surface structure having a first polarizing device which permits the light from outside to be transmitted and reflects the light reflected by the convex surface structure. The concave surface structure is positioned before the convex surface structure. The apparatus also includes a second polarizing device which permits the light reflected by the concave surface structure to be transmitted and shielding direct light beam transmitted through the concave surface structure. The second polarizing device is positioned at a part to which the light reflected by the concave surface structure is concentrated. The apparatus further includes image-shooting device which receives the light transmitted through the second polarizing device and shoots an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ogawara, Hidemi Takakuwa, Hiroaki Seki
  • Publication number: 20070177012
    Abstract: For an object for displaying output images of a plurality of imaging means equipped in a vehicle concurrently in a form in which the positional relation thereof can be comprehended easily, there are provided with projection means 30 for projecting output images of a plurality of imaging means; and a plurality of hologram films 21, 22 and 23 in which the output image of the projection means 30 is projected, a projection image is displayed imaginarily at a position different from an actual arrangement position, and at the same time the position on which the projection image is displayed imaginarily is made to be at lease two different positions. For a viewer seeing an image projected to the hologram films 21, 22 and 23, it looks such that a plurality of images are displayed at different positions and it becomes easy to comprehend which image picture it is imaged by an imaging means arranged at which position according to the image positional relation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ogawara, Hidemi Takakuwa
  • Publication number: 20060029386
    Abstract: A wide-angle shooting apparatus includes a convex surface structure which reflects light from outside, a concave surface structure having a first polarizing device which permits the light from outside to be transmitted and reflects the light reflected by the convex surface structure. The concave surface structure is positioned before the convex surface structure. The apparatus also includes a second polarizing device which permits the light reflected by the concave surface structure to be transmitted and shielding direct light beam transmitted through the concave surface structure. The second polarizing device is positioned at a part to which the light reflected by the concave surface structure is concentrated. The apparatus further includes image-shooting device which receives the light transmitted through the second polarizing device and shoots an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ogawara, Hidemi Takakuwa, Hiroaki Seki
  • Publication number: 20050023448
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided with a detection range on its screen. Along right and left sides of this detection range, two mirrors are arranged as opposed to each other, and along one of sides perpendicular to the sides along which the mirrors are arranged a camera unit is arranged. The camera unit comprises a linear light sensor and a pinhole. When an arbitrary position in the detection range is pointed by a fescue, the linear light sensor detects a real image of a detection target. The linear light sensor also detects a mapped image of the detection target reflected by the mirror. Then, positional information of the real image and the mapped image of the detection target on the linear light sensor is used to obtain a two-dimensional position of the fescue in the detection range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ogawara, Hidemi Takakuwa
  • Patent number: 5625192
    Abstract: An imaging method and an imaging device are disclosed which use no image forming optical system. A grid system 25 including an objective grid array 22 with a plurality of coplanarly arranged grids having pitches different from each other and a detector grid array 23 having a similarly enlarged configuration of the objective grid array, and a detector array 24 constitute a detection system. An energy ray such as an X-ray which has been transmitted through the grid system 25 is detected by the detector array 24 while rotating an object 20 under observation placed on a rotary table 21. A signal processing means 28 subjects signals detected by the detector array 24 to inverse Fourier transform to synthesize an image of the object 20, and the image is displayed on a display 29.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
    Inventors: Minoru Oda, Kazuo Makishima, Yoshiaki Ogawara, Masaru Matsutaka, Shigenori Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 5428453
    Abstract: In a magnetic disk recorder, a displacement of recording timings of a video signal and a timebase-compressed audio signal on a master disk can be corrected on a slave disk. When an output of a master disk reproducing apparatus is a video signal, a vertical synchronizing signal from a synchronizing separating circuit is delayed by a delay time of substantially 7H (H is the horizontal period) and supplied to a phase servo circuit in a slave disk recording apparatus as a reference signal, while when the output of the master disk reproducing apparatus is the timebase-compressed audio signal, a start flag signal accompanying with the timebase-compressed audio signal is detected by a flag detecting circuit and the start flag signal thus detected is employed as a pseudo vertical synchronizing signal, which is supplied to the phase servo circuit in the slave disk recording circuit as a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Ido, Satoru Gozu, Yoshiaki Ogawara
  • Patent number: 3968403
    Abstract: A circuit for correcting vertical deflection distortion of an image displayed by a cathode ray tube is composed of first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth transistors, a common load connected to output electrodes or collectors of the first and fourth transistors and a variable DC source connected to a control electrode or base of the sixth transistor. A saw-tooth signal having the vertical deflection frequency is applied to a control electrode or base of the third transistor, and the first and firth transistors and the second and fourth transistors are differentially switched at a rate corresponding to the horizontal deflection frequency so as to obtain from the load a signal for correcting vertical pincushion distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ogawara
  • Patent number: 3956668
    Abstract: A vertical deflection circuit including a Miller integrator and a Schmitt trigger circuit in combination to obtain a sawtooth wave signal at an output terminal of the Miller integrator circuit and a vertical deflection coil connected to the output terminal of the Miller integrator circuit to be supplied with the sawtooth wave signal therefrom in which the Schmitt trigger circuit is controlled by a vertical pulse signal for synchronization and the Miller integrator circuit is preferably controlled by a parabolic wave signal of the vertical scanning rate in order to compensate for or correct the non-linearity in the vertical deflection. The circuit configuration is well suited for being formed as an integrated circuit on a single semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ogawara
  • Patent number: 3956713
    Abstract: An astable multivibrator circuit having an adjustable pulse width but constant frequency, including a pair of active elements such as transistors for being switched on and off alternately and reciprocally, and a control circuit associated therewith for controlling the multivibrator circuit to derive therefrom a controlled output pulse signal, the pulse width of which is varied without changing the frequency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ogawara