Patents by Inventor Akira Shirakura

Akira Shirakura 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).

  • Publication number: 20060051539
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plastic container having a inner wall surface coated with DLC film which has same level of oxygen barrier property as prior art and can prevent a coloring of the DLC film formed on a neck portion of the container, manufacturing apparatus therefor and manufacturign method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: KIRIN BREWERY COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Teruyuki Yamasaki, Akira Shirakura, Hideyasu Ando
  • Patent number: 6980338
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6977761
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6975440
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Publication number: 20050162720
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Publication number: 20050162721
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Publication number: 20050129281
    Abstract: A certification system includes a photographing unit 10 which generates looks image data LI whose object is an individual person P, a holographic stereogram manufacturing unit 20 which makes a holographic stereogram HL in accordance with the looks image data LI, a two dimensional photo printing unit 30 which prints the looks image data LI as a two dimensional photograph PIC, an image server 40 which stores the looks image data LI, an information recoding unit 50 which records connection information in a recording member RM, and a manufacturing unit 60 which integrates the recording member RM, the two dimensional photograph PIC, and the holographic stereogram HL to make a certification card CC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Ashizaki, Akira Shirakura, Takaharu Kitada
  • Publication number: 20050122553
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6903852
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle ? of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6865002
    Abstract: An image exposure recorder for exposure-recording a holographic stereogram image or a hologram image on a recording medium for hologram. The recorder has an inverse correction system for rotating the polarization plane of a reference light (R) by means of a half-wave plate (11), directing the reference light (R) to a hologram recording medium (3), and measuring the intensity of a part of the reference light (R) transmitted through a polarizer (12) out of the reference light (R) transmitted through a part of the area of the hologram recording medium by means of a photodetector (13). In the inverse correction system, the angle of rotation of the half-wave plate is so determined that the intensity of the reference light (R) determined by the photodetector may be minimum or maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Megumi Ezura, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6829430
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus that can easily obtain a train of parallax images to be for preparing a holographic stereogram, without the necessity of laying rails. The apparatus comprises a camera and a position data recording section. The camera takes pictures of an object. The position data recording section for recording position data when the camera takes pictures of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ashizaki, Akira Shirakura, Nobuhiro Kihara, Shigeyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20040194893
    Abstract: A print producing apparatus of a print producing system is provided with a recording medium conveying section which intermittently conveys a strip-like hologram recording medium, a cutting out section which cuts out, as a piece of hologram recording medium, a predetermined region of the recording medium that includes at least a piece of a holographic stereogram image or a hologram from a hologram recording medium, a film retaining section and a film supplying section which one by one provides plural sheets of protecting film PF which are retained, a film opening and closing section which opens and folds a single sheet of the PF which has been folded in two along a folding line of the PF, a mounting retaining and supplying section which one by one provides plural sheets of mountings, and a laminating section which laminates the recording medium piece for hologram and the mounting with the PF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Shirakura, Hirotsugu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6781619
    Abstract: A parallax image string pickup apparatus can attract the gaze of the person being shot to make it stable without making the person nervous about the camera operation when the person is shot from a plurality of different angles and, at the same time, provide the person or object 31 with necessary information for the shooting operation including the position of the person in the frame of the viewfinder of the camera of the camera unit 32 and other shooting conditions. The parallax image string pickup apparatus 1 includes a camera unit 32 screened from the object 31, and a half mirror 40 is arranged between the camera unit 32 and the object 31. As the half mirror 40 shows an image of the object 31, the gaze of the object 31 is attracted to the half mirror 40 before and during a shooting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Shirakura, Shigeyuki Baba, Koji Ashizaki, Nobuhiro Kihara
  • Patent number: 6777092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a a glassy-film forming coating agent, a method of coating a substrate with the a glassy-film forming coating agent, a bottle coated with the glassy-film forming coating agent, and a coating system for coating a substrate with the glassy-film forming coating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignees: Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha, The Clean Japan Center Foundation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hayashi, Nam-Heun Kim, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6778302
    Abstract: A holographic stereogram printing system to print holographic stereograms with good efficiency and no drop in the operating rate of the imaging system and holographic printer. An imaging system control section of an imaging system comprises an operating section that along with controlling the operation of the camera according to the desired selection of the user such as imaging method, image size selection or image layout, also creates an information management file for the base image based on the control information. A holographic stereogram printer prints out a holographic stereogram according to the information management file provided along a transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Toyoda, Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6757086
    Abstract: The image data generator 1 produces image data for recording into a holographic stereogram. The image data generator 1 combines a stereo image model being at least a part of a three-dimensional object image prepared in advance with a separately captured image to provide a synthetic image and produces a parallax image train from the synthetic image. The three-dimensional object image prepared in advance and stereo image model being the part of the three-dimensional object are supplied from the 3D image source 4 to the image data generator 1. The image data generator 1 is also supplied with a two-dimensional image separately captured from the photographic unit 5 such as a digital still camera for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Mori, Akira Shirakura, Nobuhiro Kihara, Takahiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20040120021
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of for example) optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle &thgr; of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6739368
    Abstract: A print producing apparatus of a print producing system is provided with a recording medium conveying section that intermittently conveys a strip-like hologram recording medium, a cutting out section that cuts out, as a piece of hologram recording medium, a predetermined region of the recording medium that includes at least a piece of a holographic stereogram image or a hologram from a hologram recording medium, a film retaining section, and a film supplying section. The film supplying section provides plural sheets of protecting film that are retained, a film opening and closing section that opens and folds a single sheet of the protecting film that has been folded in two along a folding line, a mounting retaining and supplying section that one by one provides plural sheets of mountings, and a laminating section that laminates the piece of hologram recording medium and the mounting with the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Shirakura, Hirotsugu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6738170
    Abstract: An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front surface 7a of the optical member 7 at a predetermined angle of, for example, 60°. The optical member 7 is made of, for example, optical glass or transparent plastic. Each triangular prism has an incidence surface 8, to which the illumination light is applied at right angles. The illumination light is applied to the interface 22 between the optical member 7 and the holographic stereogram 6, at an incidence angle &thgr; of, for example, 60°, thereby to suppress surface reflection of the illumination light 9 at the interface 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Akira Shirakura
  • Patent number: 6710903
    Abstract: In a system in which images having parallax data, and which are made up of plural images containing the parallax information, are processed with viewing point conversion, and the resulting new images having parallax data are used, as in a system of generating a holographic stereogram, a unit for generating the images having parallax data is to be independent from other unit or units. To this end, the information necessary to perform viewing point conversion processing of converting the viewing point for an object is attached to images having parallax data when the images having parallax data have been produced. When the images having parallax data is exchanged between the unit for generating the images having parallax data and other unit or units, the exchanged images having parallax data need to be those to which the information has been attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Baba, Akira Shirakura, Nobuhiro Kihara