Patents by Inventor Hironori Nakahara

Hironori Nakahara 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: 20240088906
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor integrated circuit and an imaging device capable of reducing power consumption without complicating a configuration of oscillation control. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an oscillator that generates an oscillation signal whose oscillation frequency is discretely adjustable on the basis of a digital control input signal, an oscillation controller that generates the digital control input signal, and an intermittent controller that generates an intermittent control signal and supplies the intermittent control signal to the oscillation controller so that the oscillation controller intermittently updates the digital control input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: VAN TUAN PHAM, HIRONORI NAKAHARA, MASAHISA TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230253927
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an electronic device and an electroacoustic conversion apparatus that can suppress noise. [Solving Means] According to the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device including a switching element unit that applies a voltage based on a direct-current power supply to one end of an electroacoustic converter in response to a first pulse signal and applies a voltage based on the direct-current power supply to another end of the electroacoustic converter in response to a second pulse signal, and a delay circuit that generates a delay based on a communication frequency in at least one of the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: HIRONORI NAKAHARA, DAISUKE MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11714110
    Abstract: The present technology is to provide a detector capable of detecting an input voltage outside the guaranteed operating voltage range, even if the delay time caused in a logic element by a decrease in power-supply voltage varies due to an external factor. The detector includes a plurality of first detection circuits, a first detection rate calculation unit, a plurality of second detection circuits, a second detection rate calculation unit, and a comparison determination unit. Each of the plurality of first detection circuits detects whether or not an input voltage has a value outside a guaranteed operating range for a normal operation. The first detection rate calculation unit calculates a first detection rate of the detected number of the first detection circuits, and each of the plurality of second detection circuits detects whether or not a predetermined reference voltage is lower than a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20220026473
    Abstract: The present technology is to provide a detector capable of detecting an input voltage outside the guaranteed operating voltage range, even if the delay time caused in a logic element by a decrease in power-supply voltage varies due to an external factor. The detector includes a plurality of first detection circuits, a first detection rate calculation unit, a plurality of second detection circuits, a second detection rate calculation unit, and a comparison determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: HIRONORI NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 10650855
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Nobuo Takeshita, Masaharu Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20190325909
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAHARA, Nobuo TAKESHITA, Masaharu OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10381037
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Nobuo Takeshita, Masaharu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10254551
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a light source unit, a polarization switching unit, an image generation unit, an optical path unit and a projection unit. The polarization switching unit switches a polarization direction of a light beam emitted from the light source unit. The optical path unit includes a first optical path through which the light beam having the first polarization direction travels and a second optical path through which the light beam having the second polarization direction travels. A first virtual image is displayed at a first distance with the light beam that has traveled through the first optical path. A second virtual image is displayed at a second distance farther than the first distance with the light beam that has traveled through the second optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomo Kishigami, Hironori Nakahara, Nozomi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10194083
    Abstract: A wobble detection device includes a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a one-dimensional image sensor and a one-dimensional image sensor arranged side by side in an auxiliary scanning direction so that their corresponding pixels coincide with each other in a main scanning direction, and acquires an image of an object moving in the auxiliary scanning direction as one-dimensional data. The wobble detection device makes a comparison of data corresponding to the same image region by using one-dimensional data acquired by the one-dimensional image sensor and one-dimensional data acquired by the one-dimensional image sensor and thereby detects a movement amount of the image in the main scanning direction between a time when the one-dimensional data used for the comparison was acquired and a time when the one-dimensional data used for the comparison was acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Nobou Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20180309929
    Abstract: A wobble detection device includes a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes a one-dimensional image sensor and a one-dimensional image sensor arranged side by side in an auxiliary scanning direction so that their corresponding pixels coincide with each other in a main scanning direction, and acquires an image of an object moving in the auxiliary scanning direction as one-dimensional data. The wobble detection device makes a comparison of data corresponding to the same image region by using one-dimensional data acquired by the one-dimensional image sensor and one-dimensional data acquired by the one-dimensional image sensor and thereby detects a movement amount of the image in the main scanning direction between a time when the one-dimensional data used for the comparison was acquired and a time when the one-dimensional data used for the comparison was acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAHARA, Nobuo TAKESHITA
  • Publication number: 20180268857
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAHARA, Nobuo TAKESHITA, Masaharu OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10002634
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Nobuo Takeshita, Masaharu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9817233
    Abstract: The image display device (100) provides images perceivable from the area of the eye box (E), and includes a light source unit (110), a screen (140), a scanning unit (130) and an optical system (155). The screen (140) has a single micro lens array (1) on which multiple micro lenses (3) are arranged. The scanning unit (130) includes a mirror (130a) to reflect beams emitted from the light source unit (110), and swings the mirror (130a) around a pivot center (130c) to scan the beams thereover, thereby generating images. The optical system (155) brings the images formed on the screen (140) to the eye box (E). An angle (?out) formed between a zero-order diffracted beam and a first-order diffracted beam, which are among a luminous flux of beams diffracted by the screen (140) and pass through the center of the eye box (E), is smaller than a minimum visual angle (Vmin).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomi Nakagawa, Hironori Nakahara, Tomo Kishigami, Nobuo Takeshita
  • Patent number: 9800844
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus (1) joins a plurality of display images displayed by scanning a plurality of light beams, as if there is no seam between them, thereby displaying a large-sized high-quality image. The image projection apparatus (1) includes a MEMS mirror device (11), a MEMS mirror control unit (13), and a laser beam detector (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Tomo Kishigami, Toshiya Matozaki, Nobuo Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20170294204
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAHARA, Nobuo TAKESHITA, Masaharu OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170285341
    Abstract: The image display device (100) provides images perceivable from the area of the eye box (E), and includes a light source unit (110), a screen (140), a scanning unit (130) and an optical system (155). The screen (140) has a single micro lens array (1) on which multiple micro lenses (3) are arranged. The scanning unit (130) includes a mirror (130a) to reflect beams emitted from the light source unit (110), and swings the mirror (130a) around a pivot center (130c) to scan the beams thereover, thereby generating images. The optical system (155) brings the images formed on the screen (140) to the eye box (E). An angle (?out) formed between a zero-order diffracted beam and a first-order diffracted beam, which are among a luminous flux of beams diffracted by the screen (140) and pass through the center of the eye box (E), is smaller than a minimum visual angle (Vmin).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi NAKAGAWA, Hironori NAKAHARA, Tomo KISHIGAMI, Nobuo TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 9741387
    Abstract: In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Nobuo Takeshita, Masaharu Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20170146803
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a light source unit, a polarization switching unit, an image generation unit, an optical path unit and a projection unit. The polarization switching unit switches a polarization direction of a light beam emitted from the light source unit. The optical path unit includes a first optical path through which the light beam having the first polarization direction travels and a second optical path through which the light beam having the second polarization direction travels. A first virtual image is displayed at a first distance with the light beam that has traveled through the first optical path. A second virtual image is displayed at a second distance farther than the first distance with the light beam that has traveled through the second optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomo KISHIGAMI, Hironori NAKAHARA, Nozomi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9488829
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a first scanning driving unit and a second scanning driving unit. The first scanning driving unit includes a scanning mirror and a frame structure supporting the scanning mirror. The first scanning driving unit is configured to cause the scanning mirror to rotate about a first rotation axis by means of deformation of the frame structure. The second scanning driving unit includes a rotation holder supporting the first scanning driving unit and a supporting shaft. The second scanning driving unit is configured to cause the rotation holder to rotate about the second rotation axis. The frame structure includes a pair of beams provided so as to sandwich the scanning mirror in a direction of the first rotation axis, and a pair of base portions provided on sides of respective beams of the pair of beams opposite to the scanning mirror. Each of the pair of base portions has an elongated shape elongated in a direction of the second rotation axis, and is deformable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Matozaki, Hironori Nakahara, Nobuo Takeshita
  • Patent number: 9470889
    Abstract: A laser scanning device includes: a plurality of laser light sources, each of the plurality of laser light sources emitting a laser light having a light intensity distribution having an elliptical shape; an aperture through which the laser lights emitted from the plurality of laser light sources pass; and a scanning mirror for reflecting the laser lights from the aperture to a scan position. A position of the aperture is adjustable in a first adjustment direction. The plurality of laser light sources are oriented so that long axis directions of the light intensity distributions of the laser lights emitted by the plurality of laser light sources are parallel to the first adjustment direction at positions at which the laser lights emitted by the plurality of laser light sources enter the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Matozaki, Hironori Nakahara, Tomo Kishigami, Nobuo Takeshita