Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Okuyama
Hiroyuki Okuyama 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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Publication number: 20240144602Abstract: A distribution system according to one embodiment includes: an arrangement unit that arranges a plurality of virtual viewpoints around an object represented by stereoscopic data constituting stereoscopic video content; a first creation unit that creates, for each of the virtual viewpoints, one side stereoscopic data in which an amount of data of a portion of the object that cannot be visually recognized from the virtual viewpoint is reduced; and a distribution unit that distributes one side stereoscopic data of one virtual viewpoint among the one side stereoscopic data for each of the virtual viewpoints to a terminal of a user according to a position and a field of view of the user in a virtual space in which the object is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaotian ZHAO, Takafumi OKUYAMA, Hiroyuki KITADA
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Patent number: 11924484Abstract: A system control apparatus for acquiring a prototype manifest file that is a basis of a manifest file to be transmitted to a viewing client in a system for delivering video data over a network, includes: an estimation unit configured to analyze content of a prototype manifest file acquired from an origin server, to determine a next acquisition timing of the prototype manifest file; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the prototype manifest file from the origin server, based on the next acquisition timing determined by the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takafumi Okuyama, Hiroyuki Kitada, Xiaotian Zhao
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Publication number: 20220352418Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor light emitting element including a semiconductor stacked structure having a projecting portion from which light is emitted, an insulating layer provided on a side face of the projecting portion and a bottom face on a periphery of the projecting portion, a transparent electrode provided on a top face of the projecting portion and on at least part of a front surface of the insulating layer, and an electrode covering the bottom face on the periphery of the projecting portion and covering at least part of the transparent electrode provided on the front surface of the insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: HIDEKAZU AOYAGI, HIROYUKI OKUYAMA
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Publication number: 20210351324Abstract: A light-emitting element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface, and including a first conductive-type layer, an active layer, and a second conductive-type layer that are stacked in order from the first surface side; a first dielectric layer provided on the second surface side of the semiconductor layer and having an opening; a first electrode electrically coupled to the first conductive-type layer on the first surface side of the semiconductor layer; and a second electrode provided on the first dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the second conductive-type layer via the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: HIROYUKI OKUYAMA, MASAKI SHIOZAKI, SHINSUKE NOZAWA, NAOKI FURUKAWA, NOBUHIRO SUBAWARA
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Publication number: 20210328115Abstract: A light-emitting device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a semiconductor light-emitting section and a base. The base supports the semiconductor light-emitting section, and includes a light extraction surface and a side surface including a concave portion and a convex portion that are alternately arranged in a specified direction. This makes it possible to control an emission direction (a scattering direction) of light emitted from the side surface. This results in being able to provide a light-emitting device that is capable of controlling light emitted from a side surface of the light-emitting device, and a method for producing the light-emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Hidekazu AOYAGI, Takahiro ARAKIDA, Hiroyuki OKUYAMA
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Patent number: 10516080Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device (101), including: a first semiconductor layer (25) having a main surface that is a growth surface in a lamination direction and a first side surface (251) disposed at a first angle; and a second semiconductor layer (24) adjacent the first semiconductor layer (25) having a second side surface (241) extending from the first side surface (251) of the first semiconductor layer (25) at a second angle different from the first angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 10050177Abstract: A GaN based semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first GaN based compound semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type; an active layer; a second GaN based compound semiconductor layer; an underlying layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor, the underlying layer being disposed between the first GaN based compound semiconductor layer and the active layer; and a superlattice layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor doped with a p-type dopant, the superlattice layer being disposed between the active layer and the second GaN based compound semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 9786638Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device including a plurality of first light-emitting elements mounted in a matrix form on a common wiring board. Each of the first light-emitting elements has a single crystal semiconductor multilayer structure and is a semiconductor element in the form of a chip that emits light in a given band of wavelengths. When attention is focused on the plurality of first light-emitting elements that belong in a given area of all the plurality of first light-emitting elements, the orientations of the common crystal axes of the first light-emitting elements adjacent to each other at least in one of the row and column directions differ.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Publication number: 20170133554Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device (101), including: a first semiconductor layer (25) having a main surface that is a growth surface in a lamination direction and a first side surface (251) disposed at a first angle; and a second semiconductor layer (24) adjacent the first semiconductor layer (25) having a second side surface (241) extending from the first side surface (251) of the first semiconductor layer (25) at a second angle different from the first angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki OKUYAMA
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Patent number: 9566818Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument applicable to an applicator, in which a writing or applying direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a tip, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one liquid guiding part for feeding an liquid to the writing or applying part, which comprises a relay porous member for feeding a liquid contained in a instrument main body to the liquid guiding part provided in the holding member 55 and in which the holding member is a visible part wherein an area ratio of the above visible part on the front or side face is 40% or more of the tip protruding from a tip part.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Mitsuhiro Kawabata, Tadashi Kouriki
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Publication number: 20160276323Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device including a plurality of first light-emitting elements mounted in a matrix form on a common wiring board. Each of the first light-emitting elements has a single crystal semiconductor multilayer structure and is a semiconductor element in the form of a chip that emits light in a given band of wavelengths. When attention is focused on the plurality of first light-emitting elements that belong in a given area of all the plurality of first light-emitting elements, the orientations of the common crystal axes of the first light-emitting elements adjacent to each other at least in one of the row and column directions differ.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 9373274Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device including a plurality of first light-emitting elements mounted in a matrix form on a common wiring board. Each of the first light-emitting elements has a single crystal semiconductor multilayer structure and is a semiconductor element in the form of a chip that emits light in a given band of wavelengths. When attention is focused on the plurality of first light-emitting elements that belong in a given area of all the plurality of first light-emitting elements, the orientations of the common crystal axes of the first light-emitting elements adjacent to each other at least in one of the row and column directions differ.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 9368685Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including an active layer, a compound semiconductor layer on the active layer, a contact layer on the compound semiconductor layer, and an electrode on the contact layer, where the contact layer is substantially the same size as the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Naito, Takahiro Koyama, Kensuke Kojima, Arata Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Makoto Oogane, Takayuki Kawasumi
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Publication number: 20150367672Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument applicable to an applicator, in which a writing or applying direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a tip, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a tip 40 is equipped with a porous member 45 as a writing part and a holding member 55 holding the above porous member 45 and having at least one liquid guiding part 50 for feeding an liquid to the writing or applying part, which comprises a relay porous member 30 for feeding a liquid contained in a instrument main body 10 to the liquid guiding part 50 provided in the holding member 55 and in which the holding member 55 is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing or an applying direction, wherein an area ratio of the above visible part on the front or side face is 40% or more of the tip 40 protruding from a tip part of the instrument main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Toshimi KAMITANI, Hiroyuki OKUYAMA, Mitsuhiro KAWABATA, Tadashi KOURIKI
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Publication number: 20150339647Abstract: A commodity information input apparatus comprises a recognition section configured to recognize an input voice; a detection section configured to detect, from a commodity database, data of more than one candidate for an input commodity based on the result of the recognition on the input voice; an output section configured to output information related to the more than one candidate for the input commodity; an acceptance section configured to accept the determination on the more than one candidate for the input commodity; an input section configured to input the data of the more than one candidate for the input commodity to an input database corresponding to the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 9132692Abstract: In order to provide a writing instrument in which a writing direction can be visually recognized in a broad range at a visual part of a pen tip and which can surely write to end of writing, the writing instrument is endowed with a constitution in which a pen tip is equipped with a porous member as a writing part and a holding member holding the above porous member and having at least one ink guiding part through which an ink contained in a barrel is provided to a writing part held by the holding member which is a visible part enabling to visually recognize a writing direction, wherein an area ratio of the visible part is 40% or more of the pen tip protruding from a tip part of the writing instrument.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Mitsuhiro Kawabata, Tadashi Kouriki
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Publication number: 20150199571Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a POS terminal apparatus comprises a display section and a control section. The control section calculates the feature amount of the people contained in the image data captured by an image capturing section. The control section specifies the age group and the gender of the people in the image data based on the data stored in a storage section and associating the age group information and the gender information of a people with a pre-calculated feature amount and the calculated feature amount. The control section displays the specified age group information and gender information on a display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Publication number: 20150171275Abstract: A GaN based semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first GaN based compound semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type; an active layer; a second GaN based compound semiconductor layer; an underlying layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor, the underlying layer being disposed between the first GaN based compound semiconductor layer and the active layer; and a superlattice layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor doped with a p-type dopant, the superlattice layer being disposed between the active layer and the second GaN based compound semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 8993992Abstract: A GaN based semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first GaN based compound semiconductor layer of an n-conductivity type; an active layer; a second GaN based compound semiconductor layer; an underlying layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor, the underlying layer being disposed between the first GaN based compound semiconductor layer and the active layer; and a superlattice layer composed of a GaN based compound semiconductor doped with a p-type dopant, the superlattice layer being disposed between the active layer and the second GaN based compound semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 8946764Abstract: A GaN-based semiconductor element which can suppress a leakage current generated during reverse bias application, an optical device using the same, and an image display apparatus using the optical device are provided. The GaN-based semiconductor element has a first GaN-based compound layer including an n-type conductive layer; a second GaN-based compound layer including a p-type conductive layer; and an active layer provided between the first GaN-based compound layer and the second GaN-based compound layer. In this GaN-based semiconductor element, the first GaN-based compound layer includes an underlayer having an n-type impurity concentration in the range of 3×1018 to 3×1019/cm3, and when a reverse bias of 5 V is applied, a leakage current density, which is the density of a current flowing per unit area of the active layer, is 2×10?5 A/cm2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Goshi Biwa, Ippei Nishinaka, Hiroyuki Okuyama