Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Okita
Hiroyuki Okita 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: 10809969Abstract: Implementations of a method of synchronizing audio playback may include, using a correction block and a second sample counter, comparing a number of playback samples in a slave channel stream with a number of master playback samples in a master channel stream received from a wireless telecommunication channel from a first audio speaker device. The method may include adjusting an input transfer rate of playback samples into an ASRC if the number of playback samples in the slave channel stream and the number of master playback samples is not the same, keeping an output transfer rate of playback samples of the slave channel stream out of the ASRC to a slave DAC at a constant value, and, through adjusting the input transfer rate into the ASRC, synchronizing the playback of audio data included in the slave channels stream with the playback of audio data included in the master channel stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihide Ando, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20190121607Abstract: Implementations of a method of synchronizing audio playback may include, using a correction block and a second sample counter, comparing a number of playback samples in a slave channel stream with a number of master playback samples in a master channel stream received from a wireless telecommunication channel from a first audio speaker device. The method may include adjusting an input transfer rate of playback samples into an ASRC if the number of playback samples in the slave channel stream and the number of master playback samples is not the same, keeping an output transfer rate of playback samples of the slave channel stream out of the ASRC to a slave DAC at a constant value, and, through adjusting the input transfer rate into the ASRC, synchronizing the playback of audio data included in the slave channels stream with the playback of audio data included in the master channel stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihide ANDO, Hiroyuki OKITA
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Patent number: 10191715Abstract: Implementations of a method of synchronizing audio playback may include, using a correction block and a second sample counter, comparing a number of playback samples in a slave channel stream with a number of master playback samples in a master channel stream received from a wireless telecommunication channel from a first audio speaker device. The method may include adjusting an input transfer rate of playback samples into an ASRC if the number of playback samples in the slave channel stream and the number of master playback samples is not the same, keeping an output transfer rate of playback samples of the slave channel stream out of the ASRC to a slave DAC at a constant value, and, through adjusting the input transfer rate into the ASRC, synchronizing the playback of audio data included in the slave channels stream with the playback of audio data included in the master channel stream.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihide Ando, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20170277507Abstract: Implementations of a method of synchronizing audio playback may include, using a correction block and a second sample counter, comparing a number of playback samples in a slave channel stream with a number of master playback samples in a master channel stream received from a wireless telecommunication channel from a first audio speaker device. The method may include adjusting an input transfer rate of playback samples into an ASRC if the number of playback samples in the slave channel stream and the number of master playback samples is not the same, keeping an output transfer rate of playback samples of the slave channel stream out of the ASRC to a slave DAC at a constant value, and, through adjusting the input transfer rate into the ASRC, synchronizing the playback of audio data included in the slave channels stream with the playback of audio data included in the master channel stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Yoshihide ANDO, Hiroyuki OKITA
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Patent number: 8624305Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion portion that is provided above an imaging surface of a substrate, and a plurality of readout circuit portions that are provided below the photoelectric conversion portion on the imaging surface. The photoelectric conversion portion includes a photoelectric conversion film that receives incident light and produces a signal charge, and a first electrode and a second electrode that sandwich the photoelectric conversion film, and the first electrode, the photoelectric conversion film, and the second electrode are sequentially layered upward on the imaging surface. Further, each of the readout circuit portions includes a readout circuit that is electrically connected with the first electrode and reads out the signal charge produced by the photoelectric conversion portion, and a ground electrode that is grounded, and the ground electrode is interposed between the readout circuit and the first electrode on the imaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Okita, Toshitaka Kawashima
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Patent number: 8416504Abstract: An optical device includes a first substrate which is transparent to incident light, a second substrate which is transparent to incident light, and a frame member which connects the first substrate to the second substrate. A lens chamber surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the frame member is filled with first and second liquids constituting a liquid lens. A region composed of an inorganic material and a region composed of an organic material coexist in the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member. A first insulating layer composed of an inorganic material, an adhesion layer composed of an organic material, and a second insulating layer composed of an organic material are stacked in that order on the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Okita, Miki Tsuchiya, Yuichi Takai
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Patent number: 8076832Abstract: A method of forming an electron emitter structure for use in a field emission display, or as a field emission backlight for an LCD display is provided. The electron emitter structure is formed by depositing mask elements onto an laminar Al substrate, and etching the Al substrate chemically through gaps between the mask elements, such that a spikes are formed on the substrate. These spikes are then covered with an electron emitter material. The spikes can be formed with a desired pitch/height ratio.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20110255175Abstract: An optical device includes a first substrate which is transparent to incident light, a second substrate which is transparent to incident light, and a frame member which connects the first substrate to the second substrate. A lens chamber surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the frame member is filled with first and second liquids constituting a liquid lens. A region composed of an inorganic material and a region composed of an organic material coexist in the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member. A first insulating layer composed of an inorganic material, an adhesion layer composed of an organic material, and a second insulating layer composed of an organic material are stacked in that order on the inner surface of the first substrate and the inner surface of the frame member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Okita, Miki Tsuchiya, Yuichi Takai
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Publication number: 20110115003Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion portion that is provided above an imaging surface of a substrate, and a plurality of readout circuit portions that are provided below the photoelectric conversion portion on the imaging surface. The photoelectric conversion portion includes a photoelectric conversion film that receives incident light and produces a signal charge, and a first electrode and a second electrode that sandwich the photoelectric conversion film, and the first electrode, the photoelectric conversion film, and the second electrode are sequentially layered upward on the imaging surface. Further, each of the readout circuit portions includes a readout circuit that is electrically connected with the first electrode and reads out the signal charge produced by the photoelectric conversion portion, and a ground electrode that is grounded, and the ground electrode is interposed between the readout circuit and the first electrode on the imaging surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Okita, Toshitaka Kawashima
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Patent number: 7944617Abstract: A lens array device and an image display device using the lens array device, which allow a lens effect characteristic different from that of a single variable lens array to be easily obtained, are provided. The lens array device includes a variable lens array and a fixed lens array. The variable lens array includes a plurality of variable lenses each having electrically-adjustable refracting power. The fixed lens array includes a plurality of fixed lenses each provided in correspondence to each of the plurality of variable lenses. Each of the fixed lenses has a refracting power which, once a corresponding variable lens has come to have a first refracting power, allows the first refracting power to be cancelled out.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Ishioka, Sho Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Okita, Yuichi Takai, Kenichi Takahashi, Masayoshi Akita, Yasuhiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100195190Abstract: A lens array device and an image display device using the lens array device, which allow a lens effect characteristic different from that of a single variable lens array to be easily obtained, are provided. The lens array device includes a variable lens array and a fixed lens array. The variable lens array includes a plurality of variable lenses each having electrically-adjustable refracting power. The fixed lens array includes a plurality of fixed lenses each provided in correspondence to each of the plurality of variable lenses. Each of the fixed lenses has a refracting power which, once a corresponding variable lens has come to have a first refracting power, allows the first refracting power to be cancelled out.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ishioka, Sho Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Okita, Yuichi Takai, Kenichi Takahashi, Masayoshi Akita, Yasuhiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 7690805Abstract: There is provided a lighting device that lights a liquid crystal panel, including a substrate (51) on which red, green and blue light separating plates (52R, 52G, 52B) are alternately disposed with a pitch of w in array. Red LEDs (53R) are disposed one at every other center between the green and blue light separating plates (52G, 52B), green LEDs 53G are disposed one at every other center between the blue and red light separating plates (52B, 52R), and blue LEDs (53B) are disposed one at every other center between the red and green light separating plates (52R, 52G).Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shigeo Kubota, Toshitaka Kawashima, Junichi Osako, Hiroyuki Okita
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Patent number: 7508467Abstract: A backlight device includes a light source (21) arranged in a casing (23) opened in a light radiating surface (20a), so that the light source faces the light radiating surface (20a) and radiates light towards the light radiating surface (20a), a light transmitting reflecting plate (25) arranged in the casing for delimiting a space inclusive of the light source (21) and adapted for transmitting a fraction of the incident light and for reflecting another fraction of the incident light, and a light transmitting diffusing plate (41) arranged on the light radiating surface (20a) of the casing (23) for diffusing the light transmitted through the light transmitting reflecting plate (25) and for causing surface light radiation. A light reflecting surface (24) is formed on the inner surface of the casing (23).Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryota Odake, Toshitaka Kawashima, Shuji Moro, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20080290777Abstract: A method of forming an electron emitter structure for use in a field emission display, or as a field emission backlight for an LCD display is provided. The electron emitter structure is formed by depositing mask elements onto an laminar Al substrate, and etching the Al substrate chemically through gaps between the mask elements, such that a spikes are formed on the substrate. These spikes are then covered with an electron emitter material. The spikes can be formed with a desired pitch/height ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki OKITA
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Publication number: 20080192174Abstract: A backlight device includes a light source (21) arranged in a casing (23) opened in a light radiating surface (20a), so that the light source faces the light radiating surface (20a) and radiates light towards the light radiating surface (20a), a light transmitting reflecting plate (25) arranged in the casing for delimiting a space inclusive of the light source (21) and adapted for transmitting a fraction of the incident light and for reflecting another fraction of the incident light, and a light transmitting diffusing plate (41) arranged on the light radiating surface (20a) of the casing (23) for diffusing the light transmitted through the light transmitting reflecting plate (25) and for causing surface light radiation. A light reflecting surface (24) is formed on the inner surface of the casing (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2005Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Ryota Odake, Toshitaka Kawashima, Shuji Moro, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20080182100Abstract: A magnetic anodized aluminium oxide has a layer of anodized aluminium oxide forming a housing for an array of nanowires of a magnetic material formed in nanopores in the layer of anodized aluminium oxide. The nanowires have their side walls embedded in the nanopores in the layer of anodized aluminium oxide for preventing oxidation of the side walls. A corresponding method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Wei Beng Ng, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20080170178Abstract: There is provided a lighting device that lights a liquid crystal panel, including a substrate (51) on which red, green and blue light separating plates (52R, 52G, 52B) are alternately disposed with a pitch of w in array. Red LEDs (53R) are disposed one at every other center between the green and blue light separating plates (52G, 52B), green LEDs 53G are disposed one at every other center between the blue and red light separating plates (52B, 52R), and blue LEDs (53B) are disposed one at every other center between the red and green light separating plates (52R, 52G).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2005Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Shigeo Kubota, Toshitaka Kawashima, Junichi Osako, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20070160867Abstract: Highly coercive (out-of-plane) hard magnetic films of cobalt-platinum-phosphorus (CoPtP) composition doped with tungsten (W) were fabricated by direct current (DC) galvanostatic electrodeposition. With the addition of 0.003 mol/L of W in the electrolyte solution for CoPtP, coercivity (Hc) of about 3664-3784 Oe, absolute remanent magnetization (Mr) of 7.8-8.4 memu, and squareness (S) of about 0.53-0.55 were achieved for electroplated CoPtWP single-layered film. Upon annealing in ambient atmosphere at 320° C. for 2 hrs, an improvement in magnetic property was observed with Hc of about 4211-4619 Oe, an absolute Mr of about 7.0-8.4 memu, and a S of about 0.68-0.85. Annealing in air caused oxidation of the CoPtWP leading to a slight decrease in absolute Ms and Mr but a marked improvement in Hc and S due to the presence of non-magnetic metallic oxides formed at the grain boundaries. To achieve higher absolute magnetization, CoPtWP/Au multilayered structures were fabricated by a stepwise plating process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Wei Ng, Takehisa Ishida, Hiroyuki Okita
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Publication number: 20060109399Abstract: The present invention has been made to form a reflecting polarizer without using a high-birefringence polymer. The present invention provides a reflecting polarizer that transmits a first linear polarization component that oscillates parallel to a first polarization plane of an incident light and reflects a second linear polarization component that oscillates parallel to a second polarization plane perpendicular to the first polarization plane by utilizing birefringence characteristics to polarize/split the incident light, comprising a dielectric multilayer film obtained by stacking, a plurality of times in an alternate manner, a high refractive index layer formed using a dielectric material having birefringence characteristics, and a low refractive index layer formed using a dielectric material having a refractive index which is substantially the same as one of the refractive indexes that the dielectric material having birefringence characteristics has.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Shigeo Kubota, Junichi Ohsako, Toshitaka Kawashima, Hiroyuki Okita
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Patent number: 6819045Abstract: A display device comprises a display pail having a flexible panel substrate serving as a display elements disposed lengthwise and breadthwise on a surface opposite to the display screen of the panel substrate; and driving circuit parts having flexible driving circuit substrates on which semiconductor elements made of flexile semiconductor materials are mounted. Accordingly, the completely flexible display device in which not only the display part, but also the driving circuit parts have flexibility can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Okita, Junichi Ohsako, Kazuhito Shimoda