Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Muramatsu
Hirotaka Muramatsu 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: 11399698Abstract: To enable calculation a wavelength shift amount more accurately. A light source system is provided including a light source unit configured to emit a light beam, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a wavelength shift amount of the light beam on the basis of an output from a color sensor that detects the light beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Oki, Hirotaka Muramatsu, Zenya Nagashima, Masayoshi Akita, Akio Furukawa
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Patent number: 11076106Abstract: To provide an observation system and a light source control apparatus capable of more efficiently generating observation light to be used for special observation different from normal observation, and enabling the special observation to be more efficiently performed. An observation system includes: a plurality of light sources that emits light of different wavelength bands that can be combined to generate white light; an optical system that irradiates an observation object with first light that includes light emitted from some of the plurality of light sources; an imaging device that captures an image of the observation object irradiated with the first light; and a light source control unit that controls the quantity of the first light on the basis of the luminance of a pixel corresponding to a predetermined wavelength band in the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Muramatsu, Takashi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11031748Abstract: To provide an illumination device, a control device, and a control method enabled to perform control to cause output of each of a plurality of light sources to be constant with a more simplified temperature control circuit. There is provided an illumination device including: a plurality of light sources; a plurality of cooling units respectively provided for the light sources and respectively cooling the light sources; and a drive control unit that performs switching of control with respect to each of the light sources on the basis of a comparison between a target temperature of each of the light sources and a measured temperature of each of the light sources or an environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotaka Muramatsu, Akio Furukawa
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Publication number: 20210120646Abstract: To enable calculation a wavelength shift amount more accurately. A light source system is provided including a light source unit configured to emit a light beam, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a wavelength shift amount of the light beam on the basis of an output from a color sensor that detects the light beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki OKI, Hirotaka MURAMATSU, Zenya NAGASHIMA, Masayoshi AKITA, Akio FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 10960536Abstract: A robot arm supporting a workpiece, a support mechanism in a form of a coordinate measuring machine supporting a detector head, and a fixation portion in a form of a contact block fixing the detector head to the workpiece are used to bring the contact block fixed to a table and the workpiece into contact to each other. The detector head measures the workpiece while a relative position of the detector head and the workpiece is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Kayaba, Go Fukino, Hirotaka Muramatsu
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Patent number: 10904981Abstract: Provided is a medical light source device that includes a light source part including two or more semiconductor light-emitting devices having wavelengths of emitted light different from each other. The light source part generates light of predetermined chromaticity by mixing the light emitted from each of the semiconductor light-emitting devices and emits outward the generated light of the chromaticity as illumination light. The medical light source device further includes a control unit that controls a mixing rate of the light emitted from each of the semiconductor light-emitting devices based on a light amount setting value of the illumination light emitted from the light source part, and keeps the chromaticity constant regardless of a light amount of the illumination light.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Zenya Nagashima, Tomoyuki Oki, Masayoshi Akita, Hirotaka Muramatsu, Akio Furukawa
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Publication number: 20200154548Abstract: To more easily inhibit a change in chromaticity that occurs at the time of light amount fluctuation of semiconductor light-emitting devices without providing a feedback system. A medical light source device according to the present disclosure includes: a light source part including two or more semiconductor light-emitting devices having wavelengths of emitted light different from each other, the light source part being configured to generate light of predetermined chromaticity by mixing the light emitted from each of the semiconductor light-emitting devices and emitting outward the generated light of the chromaticity as illumination light; and a control unit configured to control a mixing rate of the light emitted from each of the semiconductor light-emitting devices in accordance with a light amount setting value of the illumination light emitted from the light source part, the control unit being configured to keep the chromaticity constant regardless of a light amount of the illumination light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: ZENYA NAGASHIMA, TOMOYUKI OKI, MASAYOSHI AKITA, HIROTAKA MURAMATSU, AKIO FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20200154028Abstract: To provide an observation system and a light source control apparatus capable of more efficiently generating observation light to be used for special observation different from normal observation, and enabling the special observation to be more efficiently performed. An observation system includes: a plurality of light sources that emits light of different wavelength bands that can be combined to generate white light; an optical system that irradiates an observation object with first light that includes light emitted from some of the plurality of light sources; an imaging device that captures an image of the observation object irradiated with the first light; and a light source control unit that controls the quantity of the first light on the basis of the luminance of a pixel corresponding to a predetermined wavelength band in the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka MURAMATSU, Takashi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10557626Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a plurality of light source portions, a plurality of temperature adjustment units, and a drive control unit. The plurality of temperature adjustment units are capable of respectively adjusting temperatures of the plurality of light source portions. The drive control unit is capable of controlling a drive timing of each of the plurality of temperature adjustment units.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Oki, Hirotaka Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20190379178Abstract: To provide an illumination device, a control device, and a control method enabled to perform control to cause output of each of a plurality of light sources to be constant with a more simplified temperature control circuit. There is provided an illumination device including: a plurality of light sources; a plurality of cooling units respectively provided for the light sources and respectively cooling the light sources; and a drive control unit that performs switching of control with respect to each of the light sources on the basis of a comparison between a target temperature of each of the light sources and a measured temperature of each of the light sources or an environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: HIROTAKA MURAMATSU, AKIO FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20190328206Abstract: [Object] To provide an observation apparatus capable of capturing an observation image having appropriate color discriminability regardless of color of an observation target and a method of controlling the observation apparatus. [Solution] The observation apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources configured to emit light different in wavelength spectrum; an optical system configured to emit observation light obtained by combining respective beams of light emitted from the plurality of light sources to an observation target; an image generation unit configured to generate an observation image on the basis of light from the observation target; a light quantity ratio calculation processing unit configured to determine a light quantity ratio of each of the plurality of light sources on the basis of information related to a color of the generated observation image; and a controller configured to control the plurality of light sources on the basis of the determined light quantity ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Hirotaka MURAMATSU, Takashi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190168378Abstract: A robot arm supporting a workpiece, a support mechanism in a form of a coordinate measuring machine supporting a detector head, and a fixation portion in a form of a contact block fixing the detector head to the workpiece are used to bring the contact block fixed to a table and the workpiece into contact to each other. The detector head measures the workpiece while a relative position of the detector head and the workpiece is fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Yoshitaka KAYABA, Go FUKINO, Hirotaka MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20190170339Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a plurality of light source portions, a plurality of temperature adjustment units, and a drive control unit. The plurality of temperature adjustment units are capable of respectively adjusting temperatures of the plurality of light source portions. The drive control unit is capable of controlling a drive timing of each of the plurality of temperature adjustment units.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: TOMOYUKI OKI, HIROTAKA MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20190076008Abstract: [Object] To propose an endoscope light source capable of making an area of a region to be irradiated with illumination light changeable, a control method of an endoscope light source, and an endoscope apparatus using such an endoscope light source. [Solution] An endoscope light source according to the present disclosure includes: a light source section that emits light from at least one or more solid light sources; a coupling section capable of connecting with a light guide connected to an endoscope; and a control section that performs control so as to make an incident angle of a light ray that enters the light guide in the coupling section, changeable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: MITSUNORI UEDA, TOMOYUKI OKI, TAKASHI YAMAGUCHI, AKIO FURUKAWA, SATORU MIZOUCHI, HIROTAKA MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 10222044Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a plurality of light source portions, a plurality of temperature adjustment units, and a drive control unit. The plurality of temperature adjustment units are capable of respectively adjusting temperatures of the plurality of light source portions. The drive control unit is capable of controlling a drive timing of each of the plurality of temperature adjustment units.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Oki, Hirotaka Muramatsu
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Publication number: 20180073715Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a plurality of light source portions, a plurality of temperature adjustment units, and a drive control unit. The plurality of temperature adjustment units are capable of respectively adjusting temperatures of the plurality of light source portions. The drive control unit is capable of controlling a drive timing of each of the plurality of temperature adjustment units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: TOMOYUKI OKI, HIROTAKA MURAMATSU
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Publication number: 20180064321Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a white light source, a plurality of laser light sources, a detection unit, and a light source control unit. The white light source emits white light. The plurality of laser light sources emit a plurality of laser lights capable of adjusting a color temperature of the white light. The detection unit is capable of detecting a failure of each of the white light source and the plurality of laser light sources. The light source control unit controls an intensity ratio of the plurality of laser lights that are emitted from the plurality of laser light sources in a case where the failure of the white light source is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hirotaka MURAMATSU
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Patent number: 9095260Abstract: A measurement apparatus according to the present disclosure including a plurality of transparent electrodes provided on a surface of a display, an acquisition part acquiring an imaging signal obtained by imaging the surface of the display from an inside of the display, a configuring part configuring electrode pair candidates from the plurality of transparent electrodes based on the imaging signal acquired in a state that a subject touches the surface of the display, an electrocardiographic waveform signal measurement part measuring electrocardiographic waveform signals of the subject using respective electrode pair candidates configured, and a determination part determining a measurement electrode pair from the electrode pair candidates based on the electrocardiographic waveform signals measured using respective electrode pair candidates. This measurement apparatus is applicable to, for example, performing a personal authentication process of the subject based on the electrocardiographic waveform signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Isamu Nakao, Hirotaka Muramatsu, Takayuki Ogiso, Akira Endo
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Publication number: 20140296682Abstract: There is provided a biological-information acquisition apparatus including a plurality of flexible attachment devices each provided with an electrode that is attached to a body and that is configured to acquire biological information, and a connector configured to connect the plurality of attachment devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Seiji Wada, Takashi Tomita, Hirotaka Muramatsu
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Patent number: 8411808Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, including a preamble detection portion, a sync detection portion, a storage portion, a storage control portion, a delay time imparting portion, a bias computation portion, a half sampling portion, an adaptive equalization portion an equalization performance determination portion that compares equalization errors for each one of the sync portion candidates for which the training equalization has been performed by the adaptive equalization portion, and that sets the candidate position with the least error, and a binary determination portion that decodes the Manchester code into NRZ code by subjecting to binary determination the received signal that has been adaptively equalized by the adaptive equalization portion. The storage control portion reads the received signal from the storage portion based on information about the candidate position with the least error that has been set by the equalization performance determination portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hirotaka Muramatsu