Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Mitani
Hiroshi Mitani 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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Patent number: 11908427Abstract: This display device includes n number of liquid crystal displays, where n is an integer of 2 or more, light sources that can emit light of a plurality of different colors and that are provided to the respective liquid crystal displays, and a processor that causes the light sources to emit light of different colors so as to vary emission start timings for the respective light sources provided to the liquid crystal displays on the basis of input signals including color information regarding sub display images to be displayed on the respective liquid crystal displays.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kado, Hiroshi Mitani
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Publication number: 20230142486Abstract: This display device includes n number of liquid crystal displays, where n is an integer of 2 or more, light sources that can emit light of a plurality of different colors and that are provided to the respective liquid crystal displays, and a processor that causes the light sources to emit light of different colors so as to vary emission start timings for the respective light sources provided to the liquid crystal displays on the basis of input signals including color information regarding sub display images to be displayed on the respective liquid crystal displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki KADO, Hiroshi MITANI
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Publication number: 20230137916Abstract: A display device can display a display image obtained by superimposing a plurality of sub display images, and includes n number of liquid crystal displays, where n is an integer of 2 or more, that display the plurality of sub display images, a light source that is provided for each liquid crystal display and is capable of emitting light of m number of different colors, where m is an integer of 2 or more, and a processor that causes the light source corresponding to the liquid crystal display to emit light of a different color based on an input signal including color information on the display image displayed by each liquid crystal display. The number n of the liquid crystal display is an integral multiple of the number m of color of light that the light source is capable of emitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki KADO, Hiroshi MITANI
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Patent number: 11640718Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20210370847Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo TANAKA, Toshiaki ITO, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Hiroshi MITANI, Jyouji WADA
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Patent number: 11117529Abstract: A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a vehicle as a subject, an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the vehicle focused by the lens, a filter unit that rotatably supports a polarization filter which limits the light from the vehicle received by the image sensor, a sensor that detects a daytime mode or a night mode, a processor that disposes the polarization filter on a front side of the image sensor in the daytime mode, and disposes a band pass filter on the front side of the image sensor in the night mode, and an illuminator that irradiates the subject with IR light in the night mode. The filter unit switchably supports the polarization filter and the band pass filter that transmits the IR light.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20200101906Abstract: A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a vehicle as a subject, an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the vehicle focused by the lens, a filter unit that rotatably supports a polarization filter which limits the light from the vehicle received by the image sensor, a sensor that detects a daytime mode or a night mode, a processor that disposes the polarization filter on a front side of the image sensor in the daytime mode, and disposes a band pass filter on the front side of the image sensor in the night mode, and an illuminator that irradiates the subject with IR light in the night mode. The filter unit switchably supports the polarization filter and the band pass filter that transmits the IR light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo TANAKA, Toshiaki ITO, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Hiroshi MITANI, Jyouji WADA
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Patent number: 10324296Abstract: A display device displays video for a virtual image. The display device includes a video generation unit generates image light representing the video, a concave mirror has a reflective surface on which the image light is reflected, and a support mechanism adjusts a position of the concave mirror. The concave mirror has, in each position on the reflective surface, a first radius of curvature in the first direction and a second radius of curvature in a second direction. The first radius of curvature and the second radius of curvature individually change and have different rates of change. The reflective surface has a shape following a partial region on an outer surface of an ellipsoid. The ellipsoid has a radius along the first direction that is greater than a radius along the second direction and a radius along a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Mitani, Katsuo Saigou, Kenya Uomori
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Patent number: 10209518Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, in which a shift of a transmission or reflection wavelength characteristic due to an incident angle of light is suppressed, and observation of external light necessary for display and image light necessary for display is possible. The display apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image light generator that generates image light by use of light in each of at least a first wavelength band, a second wavelength band, and a third wavelength band, and a light synthesizing part that transmits external light and reflects the image light. The light synthesizing part has a transparent substrate having a concave surface on which the image light is reflected, and a film that is provided on the concave surface of the substrate, reflects the image light, and transmits light in a predetermined wavelength band of the external light.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuo Saigo, Hiroshi Mitani
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Publication number: 20180234670Abstract: The display device has a microdisplay, a mirror, and a three-dimensional renderer. The microdisplay has a display surface. A width of the display surface is narrower than a pupil distance between user's right and left pupils. The microdisplay is disposed so that a center of the display surface is equally distant from the right and the left pupils, and the display surface is directed toward a line of sight of the user. The mirror is located at a position at which the display image displayed on the display surface has one-time reflection so that the user views the virtual image symmetrically curved. The three-dimensional renderer processes an input signal and generates the display image to be displayed on the display surface so that when the user views the virtual image, the user accepts the virtual image as if the virtual image is displayed on a three-dimensional surface surrounding the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: HIROSHI MITANI, KATSUO SAIGOU, KENYA UOMORI
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Publication number: 20180217381Abstract: A display device displays video for a virtual image. The display device includes a video generation unit generates image light representing the video, a concave mirror has a reflective surface on which the image light is reflected, and a support mechanism adjusts a position of the concave mirror. The concave mirror has, in each position on the reflective surface, a first radius of curvature in the first direction and a second radius of curvature in a second direction. The first radius of curvature and the second radius of curvature individually change and have different rates of change. The reflective surface has a shape following a partial region on an outer surface of an ellipsoid. The ellipsoid has a radius along the first direction that is greater than a radius along the second direction and a radius along a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: HIROSHI MITANI, KATSUO SAIGOU, KENYA UOMORI
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Patent number: 9641829Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a first light source; a second light source; a deflection unit for deflecting the light emitted from the first light source toward a viewing position of the first image and deflecting the light emitted from the second light source toward a viewing position of the second image; and a spatial light modulator that has a plurality of pixels each of which includes a plurality of subpixels, and modulates the light having passed through the deflection unit on the basis of a first image signal and a second image signal. Each of subpixels is formed in a shape where the length in the first direction, which is substantially parallel with the line connecting the viewing position of the first image to the viewing position of the second image, is longer than or equal to the length in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuo Saigo, Hiroshi Mitani, Kei Tasaka, Kazuo Okamoto, Shuji Inoue
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Patent number: 9506892Abstract: A sensor capable of detecting detection targets that are necessary to be detected with high sensitivity is provided. It comprises a field-effect transistor 1A having a substrate 2, a source electrode 4 and a drain electrode 5 provided on said substrate 2, and a channel 6 forming a current path between said source electrode 4 and said drain electrode 5; wherein said field-effect transistor 1A comprises: an interaction-sensing gate 9 for immobilizing thereon a specific substance 10 that is capable of selectively interacting with the detection targets; and a gate 7 applied a voltage thereto so as to detect the interaction by the change of the characteristic of said field-effect transistor 1A.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Atsuhiko Kojima, Satoru Nagao, Masanori Katou, Yutaka Yamada, Kazuhiro Nagaike, Yasuo Ifuku, Hiroshi Mitani
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Publication number: 20160341965Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, in which a shift of a transmission or reflection wavelength characteristic due to an incident angle of light is suppressed, and observation of external light necessary for display and image light necessary for display is possible. The display apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image light generator that generates image light by use of light in each of at least a first wavelength band, a second wavelength band, and a third wavelength band, and a light synthesizing part that transmits external light and reflects the image light. The light synthesizing part has a transparent substrate having a concave surface on which the image light is reflected, and a film that is provided on the concave surface of the substrate, reflects the image light, and transmits light in a predetermined wavelength band of the external light.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Katsuo SAIGO, Hiroshi MITANI
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Patent number: 9472094Abstract: A display device includes a display portion for displaying a video, a generator for generating a synchronization signal including a command signal synchronized with display of frame images of the video and a transmitter for transmitting the synchronization signal. The command signal including a predetermined member of pulse signals has a leading pulse signal for notifying a start of the command signal, a terminal pulse signal for notifying an end of the command signal and a control pulse signal for notifying a content of synchronization control synchronized with the display of the frame images.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Hiroshi Mitani, Shuji Inoue, Masanobu Inoe, Katsuo Saigo, Seiji Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20160223818Abstract: An image display device of the present disclosure includes a display element configured to project image light based on an input image signal, a concave mirror configured to transmit external environment light incident from outside and to reflect the image light from the display element, and a housing configured to retain the display element and the concave mirror in a predetermined position relation, and having an opening portion for allowing the external environment light and the image light to pass therethrough. The concave mirror and the display element are mounted on the housing in the predetermined position relation in which the concave mirror guides the reflected light of the image light to a fixed direction toward the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Kei TASAKA, Katsuo SAIGO, Hiroshi MITANI
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Publication number: 20150249820Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a first light source; a second light source; a deflection unit for deflecting the light emitted from the first light source toward a viewing position of the first image and deflecting the light emitted from the second light source toward a viewing position of the second image; and a spatial light modulator that has a plurality of pixels each of which includes a plurality of subpixels, and modulates the light having passed through the deflection unit on the basis of a first image signal and a second image signal. Each of subpixels is formed in a shape where the length in the first direction, which is substantially parallel with the line connecting the viewing position of the first image to the viewing position of the second image, is longer than or equal to the length in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Katsuo SAIGO, Hiroshi MITANI, Kei TASAKA, Kazuo OKAMOTO, Shuji INOUE
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Patent number: 9113161Abstract: Provided is a video system equipped with a video display apparatus and video viewing glasses used for viewing a video displayed on the video display apparatus. The video display apparatus includes: a display section for displaying the video; a synchronizing signal generator for generating an external synchronizing signal in synchronism with the video to notify a display end of a frame constituting the video in synchronism with the video; and a synchronizing signal transmitter for transmitting the external synchronizing signal to the video viewing glasses. The video viewing glasses include: a synchronizing signal receiver for receiving the external synchronizing signal; an optical filter section having a pair of optical filters for adjusting light amounts to be transmitted to left and right eyes of a viewer, respectively; and an optical filter controller for controlling the optical filter section in response to the external synchronizing signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Shuji Inoue, Hiroshi Mitani, Masanobu Inoe, Keizo Matsumoto, Kazuo Okamoto, Katsuo Saigo
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Patent number: D965183Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Sugiura, Yukio Kato, Hiroshi Mitani, Kazuma Inoue, Naoyuki Uchida, Shogo Koga
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Patent number: D976448Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Sugiura, Yukio Kato, Hiroshi Mitani, Kazuma Inoue, Naoyuki Uchida, Shogo Koga