Patents by Inventor Daisuke Yamagiwa

Daisuke Yamagiwa 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: 9581435
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a photodetector, a notification light emitter, and a determination component. The photodetector detects reflected light of light from a projection device within a detection region, the projection device projecting the light in a projection region on a projection surface. The notification light emitter emits on the projection surface two notification lines of visible wavelength that approach each other towards the photodetector. The determination component determines that the projection region is at least partially located outside the detection region based on a detection result of the photodetector. The determination component further determines that an edge of the projection region that is located closest to the photodetector is substantially parallel to a line segment that connects ends of the two notification lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20170017144
    Abstract: A projector is provided which includes: a Peltier device having a first surface in contact with an optical component (heat generating component) and a second surface in contact with a heat sink (heat dissipating component); and a Peltier device driving unit as a controller that generates a temperature difference between the two surfaces of the Peltier device by applying a cyclically changing voltage to the Peltier device. The Peltier device driving unit applies to the Peltier device a first voltage in a first of two time periods of a cycle and applies a lower second voltage in the second time period, the first voltage being for transferring heat from the optical component to the heat sink to reduce the temperature of the first surface below that of the second surface, and the second voltage being for preventing the transfer of heat from the second surface to the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Shintaro IZUKAWA, Daisuke YAMAGIWA, Norihito KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20160273910
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a photodetector, a notification light emitter, and a determination component. The photodetector detects reflected light of light from a projection device within a detection region, the projection device projecting the light in a projection region on a projection surface. The notification light emitter emits on the projection surface two notification lines of visible wavelength that approach each other towards the photodetector. The determination component determines that the projection region is at least partially located outside the detection region based on a detection result of the photodetector. The determination component further determines that an edge of the projection region that is located closest to the photodetector is substantially parallel to a line segment that connects ends of the two notification lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke YAMAGIWA
  • Patent number: 9372074
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a projection unit and a detection unit. The projection unit is configured to project light in a projection region on a projection surface. The detection unit is disposed away from the projection unit. The detection unit includes a photodetector and a notification light emitter. The photodetector is configured to detect reflected light of the light from the projection unit within a detection region. The notification light emitter is configured to emit to the projection surface notification light for setting a position of the projection region within the detection region of the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 9335158
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection portion including a laser beam generation portion and a scanning portion scanning a laser beam, projecting an image, a light detection sensor provided separately from the projection portion, including a light receiving portion receiving the laser beam reflected by a detection object, and a control portion acquiring the position of the detection object on the image on the basis of a detection result of the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20150234263
    Abstract: This headup display (projector) includes a plurality of light source portions, an optical scanning portion, a base portion and a heat transfer portion that contacts with the light source portions, and the thermal resistance of a first heat transfer path from the light source portions to the base portion is larger than the thermal resistance of a second heat transfer path from the light source portions to the heat transfer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMAGIWA, Daisuke SHIMIZU, Tomohiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150029405
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a projection device that projects a light to a projection region on a projection surface and a detection device separately disposed from the projection device. The detection device includes a light detector that detects a reflected light of the light projected from the projection device and a notification light emitter that emits to the projection surface a notification light for indicating an inclination of the light detector relative to the projection surface. The notification light emitter emits the notification light in directions respectively fixed relative to the detection device from a plurality of locations in the detection device, and each notification light passes through a same point on the projection surface when the detection device is installed at a predetermined inclination relative to the projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20140307265
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a projection unit and a detection unit. The projection unit is configured to project light in a projection region on a projection surface. The detection unit is disposed away from the projection unit. The detection unit includes a photodetector and a notification light emitter. The photodetector is configured to detect reflected light of the light from the projection unit within a detection region. The notification light emitter is configured to emit to the projection surface notification light for setting a position of the projection region within the detection region of the photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke YAMAGIWA
  • Publication number: 20140211216
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection portion including a laser beam generation portion and a scanning portion scanning a laser beam, projecting an image, a light detection sensor provided separately from the projection portion, including a light receiving portion receiving the laser beam reflected by a detection object, and a control portion acquiring the position of the detection object on the image on the basis of a detection result of the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke YAMAGIWA
  • Publication number: 20140185021
    Abstract: An image projecting device includes a light-emitting element that emits a laser beam and is secured to a housing and a mirror element adjustably disposed on the housing and that reflects the laser beam emitted from the light-emitting element to be directed to a position that has been determined to be a focusing target. The mirror element is adjustable while being disposed on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 8495128
    Abstract: A plurality of servers each transmit data of an initial screen to be displayed on a display screen of radio equipment at a predetermined time interval. The radio equipment is in a reception waiting mode until it is connected to any one of the servers, and is performing channel scanning. Once the data of the initial screen transmitted from any one of the servers is received by the radio equipment, the radio equipment displays the initial screen on the display screen based on the received data. When an operation of a connection instruction is performed on the initial screen, the radio equipment is connected to the server corresponding to the initial screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Wakabayashi, Yoshihisa Nishigori, Yasunari Miyake, Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 8400761
    Abstract: A portable terminal according to the present invention has a first casing, a second casing and a third casing overlapped in the order from the bottom toward the top. And the portable terminal according to the present invention includes: a slide section slidably coupling the first casing and the second casing; a first hinge section rotatably coupling the second casing and the third casing around a first rotation axis; and a second hinge section that enables the third casing to be rotatable relative to the second casing around a second rotation axis that is approximately perpendicular to the first rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamagiwa, Yasuhiro Shingin
  • Patent number: 8374336
    Abstract: This portable terminal includes an operating portion-side housing having an operating portion-side guide portion, a display portion-side housing having a display portion-side guide portion, a sliding plate arranged between the display portion-side housing and the operating portion-side housing, a first sliding member, and a second sliding member. The operating portion-side guide portion is engaged with the sliding plate through the first sliding member, and the display portion-side guide portion is engaged with the sliding plate through the second sliding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamagiwa, Yoshihisa Nishigori, Yasuhiro Shingin, Seiki Jinno
  • Patent number: 8369071
    Abstract: A slide support mechanism included in a portable terminal includes: a first guide groove provided on a first housing side, and having a straight part parallel to the longitudinal direction of a display screen and an arc-shaped arc part continuous with one end of the straight part; and a first guide pin provided on a second housing side, and engaged with and held by the first guide groove in a slidable manner. Input parts which are covered by the second housing when the first guide pin is located at a cross-point between the straight part and the arc part are entirely or partially exposed in both cases of moving the first guide pin located at the cross-point between the straight part and the arc part along the straight part, and moving it along the arc part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamagiwa, Yasuhiro Shingin
  • Patent number: 8199500
    Abstract: In a heat radiation mechanism of an electronic apparatus, an opening allowing flow of air between a first duct side and a second duct side is formed on a portion mounted with a heating device of a circuit board in an air flow route constituted by a first duct and a second duct, and heat generated from the heating device is radiated from a first vent hole or a second vent hole through the air flow route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20120013781
    Abstract: This portable telephone includes a body portion, a display portion, a stylus pen and a penholder, and is so formed that the user can move the stylus pen held in the penholder to a standing position where the stylus pen functions as a stand and to a stored position where the stylus pen is arranged when in an unused state neither employed as an input pen nor functioning as the stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke YAMAGIWA
  • Patent number: 7944690
    Abstract: A housing, comprises: a first housing part, one side of which is an opening, including a hook member having a hook at its tip and projected from an inner surface thereof; and a second housing part, one side of which is an opening, having an engagement recess to be engaged with the hook, wherein the openings of the first housing part and the second housing part are closed by engaging the engagement recess and the hook to make a closed space inside, the hook member has a recess to which a release member is insertable from an outer surface of the first housing part, an engagement state of the hook and the engagement recess is released by bending the hook member by the release member inserted into the recess of the engagement recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20110105191
    Abstract: This portable terminal includes an operating portion-side housing provided with a first operating key capable of switchably displaying a plurality of display patterns, a display portion-side housing, provided to be relatively slidingly movable with respect to the operating portion-side housing, including a display portion and a control portion switching the display patterns of the first operating key in response to a sliding movement position of the display portion-side housing with respect to the operating portion-side housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMAGIWA, Yoshihisa Nishigori, Yasuhiro Shingin, Seiki Jinno
  • Publication number: 20110083880
    Abstract: A support member of a circuit board includes a columnar portion capable of reducing an outer shape by elastic deformation and capable of passing through an opening provided on the circuit board, and a plurality of projecting portions provided to protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the columnar portion, arranged at a prescribed interval in an axial direction of the columnar portion, and passing through the opening of the circuit board when the columnar portion is elastically deformed to reduce the outer shape. The circuit board is arranged between the projecting portions adjacent in the axial direction of the columnar portion in a state where the columnar portion passes through the opening of the circuit board, so that a plurality of the circuit boards are held at the prescribed interval along the axial direction of the columnar portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SHINGIN, Daisuke Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20110075955
    Abstract: This portable terminal includes an operating portion-side housing having an operating portion-side guide portion, a display portion-side housing having a display portion-side guide portion, a sliding plate arranged between the display portion-side housing and the operating portion-side housing, a first sliding member, and a second sliding member. The operating portion-side guide portion is engaged with the sliding plate through the first sliding member, and the display portion-side guide portion is engaged with the sliding plate through the second sliding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMAGIWA, Yoshihisa Nishigori, Yasuhiro Shingin, Seiki Jinno