Patents by Inventor Jun Nishikawa

Jun Nishikawa 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).

  • Patent number: 12354801
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including: a multi-layer unit including an electrode laminating unit including internal electrodes laminated in a first axis direction, covers covering the electrode laminating unit in the first axis direction, and covered surfaces perpendicular to a second axis, end portions of the internal electrodes being aligned on the covered surfaces within a range of 0.5 ?m in the second axis direction; and side margins covering the covered surfaces and having a porosity of 3% or more in end regions. The ceramic body has a dimension in the first axis direction, which is 1.5 times or more a dimension in the second axis direction, and a proportion of an area of the electrode laminating unit to an entire cross-section perpendicular to a third axis and located at the center portion of the ceramic body in a third axis direction is 80% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Jun Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20250201477
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer section, a side margin section that is provided on a side surface facing in a first direction, and an external electrode that is provided on an end surface facing in a second direction and is connected to at least one of the plurality of internal electrode layers. When viewing a cross section of the multilayer section along a stacking direction and the first direction, at least at one corner of the multilayer section, a first end of the side margin section in the stacking direction contacts a second end of the cover layer in the first direction from the stacking direction. A ratio of a distance in the first direction between a tip of the first end of the side margin section and the side surface to a thickness of the cover layer in the stacking direction is 2.8 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyousuke SHIMAZAKI, Jun NISHIKAWA, Masaki SAITOU
  • Publication number: 20250161139
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a movement assistance device and a movement assistance method capable of safely guiding a user. A movement assistance device includes a drive control unit configured to control a drive unit to apply, to a user, an assisting force that is a resultant force of a virtual force that is a force for stabilizing a posture of the user and a guiding force that is a force for guiding the user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a movement assistance system using a drone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kurena MOTOKURA, Jun NISHIKAWA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Mari SAITO, Shingo UTSUKI, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Takayoshi YAMASAKI, Ritsuko KANO, Hiroko MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20250102895
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light source, an image generator, and a projection optical system. The image generator modulates light emitted by the light source to generate image light that includes a plurality of pieces of pixel light. The projection optical system includes a lens system and a reflection optical system. The lens system is formed along a reference axis at a position at which the generated image light enters the lens system. The lens system refracts the plurality of pieces of pixel light included in the generated image light, and emits the plurality of pieces of refracted pixel light. The reflection optical system is formed along the reference axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: JUN NISHIKAWA, TOMOHARU NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12250471
    Abstract: An imaging element, an imaging method, and an imaging device capable of acquiring a pixel signal of a high dynamic range without losing an information amount are provided. An imaging element according to an embodiment includes an imaging unit (100 or 101) and a generation unit (102). The imaging unit includes a unit pixel that outputs a pixel signal corresponding to received light. The generation unit generates, on the basis of the pixel signal, a processing pixel signal corresponding to each of a plurality of luminance regions having continuous luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Nishikawa, Hiroshi Sumihiro, Takeo Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20240411127
    Abstract: A head mount device (100) includes a housing (110, 120) and a light guidance unit (130). The housing (110, 120) is configured to fix a portable display device (200) thereto. The light guidance unit (130) is configured to change an angle of view of a sensor (212) mounted on the portable display device (200) so as to allow the sensor (212) to sense at least a lower region below a line-of-sight direction of a user in a mounting state in which the portable display device (200) is fixed to the housing (110, 120), and the housing (110, 120) is mounted on the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: YUICHI HASEGAWA, JUN NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12100986
    Abstract: A charging system includes a power transfer device and a rapid charging battery. The power transfer device includes a first power transfer unit being compatible with a first charging standard specifying that the rapid charging battery is to be charged at a predetermined current value. The rapid charging battery includes a first charging unit being compatible with the first charging standard, and a second power transfer unit being compatible with a second charging standard specifying that power is to be transferred at a predetermined current value that is lower than the predetermined current value specified by the first charging standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kodai Nagano, Atsushi Sugihara, Shizuka Masuoka, Sokichi Okubo, Hiroyuki Obata, Hiroshi Temmyo, Yuki Yoshikawa, Jun Nishikawa, Wataru Okada, Iwao Nitta
  • Publication number: 20240220775
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that performs processing related to a subjective evaluation of data generated using a machine learning model. An information processing system includes a system feedback acquisition unit that acquires generation data and evaluation information based on an evaluation model for the generation data, a system feedback presentation unit that presents the generation data and the evaluation information, a user feedback acquisition unit that acquires a user evaluation for the generation data or the evaluation information, and an output unit that outputs the user evaluation acquired by the user feedback acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: JUN NISHIKAWA, MASATO ISHII, TAKUYA NARIHIRA
  • Publication number: 20240007754
    Abstract: An imaging element, an imaging method, and an imaging device capable of acquiring a pixel signal of a high dynamic range without losing an information amount are provided. An imaging element according to an embodiment includes an imaging unit (100 or 101) and a generation unit (102). The imaging unit includes a unit pixel that outputs a pixel signal corresponding to received light. The generation unit generates, on the basis of the pixel signal, a processing pixel signal corresponding to each of a plurality of luminance regions having continuous luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Nishikawa, Hiroshi Sumihiro, Takeo Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20230334312
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus is configured to have a filter elimination processing section for eliminating a filter whose dispersion is less than a threshold value in a neural network having a Depthwise convolution layer, a Pointwise convolution layer, and a Batch normalization layer, and have a quantization processing section for performing quantization of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: JUN NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11756733
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers that are stacked, and having a first main face and a second main face, and a plurality of external electrodes, the plurality of external electrodes being spaced from each other, each of the plurality of external electrodes being connected to a part of the plurality of internal electrode layers, the plurality of external electrodes having a predetermined area in the planar view. On at least one of the first main face and the second main face, at least one of the plurality of external electrodes has an extension portion extending along a side of the rectangular shape toward at least one of external electrodes adjacent to the at least one of the plurality of external electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Chigira, Jun Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11683471
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a displacement information acquisition unit that acquires displacement information corresponding to 3-dimensional displacement of a predetermined portion of an object that a user mounts in accordance with a body motion on the basis of positional information of the predetermined portion and an output control unit that performs control such that an output unit performs a predetermined output on the basis of the acquired displacement information. The object has, for example, a seatback on which a user can sit. The displacement information acquisition unit acquires a change in a position in at least one of front and rear directions, right and left directions, or upward and downward directions of a seatback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsushi Nashida, Masanori Mikami, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Naomasa Takahashi, Yosuke Shimizu, Jun Nishikawa, Naoko Edamitsu
  • Publication number: 20230176463
    Abstract: A projection optical system of an image display apparatus that includes a lens system and a concave reflection surface. The lens system is has a positive refractive power as a whole. The concave reflection surface reflects the image light emitted from the lens system toward an object. The projection optical system is configured such that a relationship 0<|??(hmax) ??(0.9·hmax)|/?(hmax)<0.056 is satisfied, where a light beam height from the reference axis is h, an angle with respect to an optical axis height direction of a tangent line of a function Z(h) representing a shape of the concave reflection surface corresponding to the light beam height h is ?(h), an amount of change in the angle ?(h) is ??(h), and the light beam height h of a reflection point farthest from the reference axis of the concave reflection surface for reflecting the image light is hmax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko NISHIYAMA, Jun NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230170142
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including: a multi-layer unit including an electrode laminating unit including internal electrodes laminated in a first axis direction, covers covering the electrode laminating unit in the first axis direction, and covered surfaces perpendicular to a second axis, end portions of the internal electrodes being aligned on the covered surfaces within a range of 0.5 ?m in the second axis direction; and side margins covering the covered surfaces and having a porosity of 3% or more in end regions. The ceramic body has a dimension in the first axis direction, which is 1.5 times or more a dimension in the second axis direction, and a proportion of an area of the electrode laminating unit to an entire cross-section perpendicular to a third axis and located at the center portion of the ceramic body in a third axis direction is 80% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo ONO, Jun NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11528458
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source, an image generation unit which generates image light, and a projection optical system including a first lens system which refracts the image light, a first reflection optical system having two or more reflection surfaces that fold back and reflect the refracted image light, a second lens system which refracts the image light reflected by the first reflection optical system, and a second reflection optical system which reflects the image light refracted by the second lens system toward a projection object. The first reflection optical system includes an optical component having a principal surface on which one of the reflection surfaces is configured. The principal surface includes a transmission surface that allows the image light to pass therethrough, configured in a region having a shape rotationally asymmetric to the reflection surface with respect to an optical axis of the optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Nishikawa, Naoko Edamitsu
  • Patent number: 11476053
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a first end surface and a second end surface facing in a direction of a first axis, and internal electrodes laminated in a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and drawn from the first end surface or the second end surface; a first external electrode disposed to cover the first end surface; and a second external electrode disposed to cover the second end surface. Each of the first external electrode and the second external electrode has an electrode end surface facing in the direction of the first axis. The electrode end surface includes a pair of first peripheral regions located at peripheral edges in the direction of the second axis, and a first concave region located between the pair of first peripheral regions and recessed from the pair of first peripheral regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11425345
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source; an image generation unit; and a projection optical system. The image generation unit generates image light on the basis of light from the light source. The projection optical system includes a first lens system, a first reflective optical system, a second lens system, and a second reflective optical system. The first lens system refracts the generated image light. The first reflective optical system has first and second reflection surfaces that fold back and reflect the image light refracted by the first lens system. The second lens system refracts the image light reflected by the second reflection surface. The second reflective system has a recessed reflection surface for reflecting the image light refracted by the second lens system toward an object to be projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220046214
    Abstract: This image display apparatus includes a light source, an image generation unit, and a projection optical system. The image generation unit generates image light. The projection optical system includes a first lens system, a first reflection optical system, a second lens system, and a second reflection optical system. The first lens system refracts the image light. The first reflection optical system has two or more reflection surfaces that fold back and reflect the refracted image light. The second lens system refracts the image light reflected by the first reflection optical system. The second reflection optical system reflects the image light refracted by the second lens system toward a projection object. The first reflection optical system includes an optical component having a principal surface on which one reflection surface of the two or more reflection surfaces is configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jun NISHIKAWA, Naoko EDAMITSU
  • Publication number: 20220045536
    Abstract: A charging system includes a power transfer device and a rapid charging battery. The power transfer device includes a first power transfer unit being compatible with a first charging standard specifying that the rapid charging battery is to be charged at a predetermined current value. The rapid charging battery includes a first charging unit being compatible with the first charging standard, and a second power transfer unit being compatible with a second charging standard specifying that power is to be transferred at a predetermined current value that is lower than the predetermined current value specified by the first charging standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kodai NAGANO, Atsushi SUGIHARA, Shizuka MASUOKA, Sokichi OKUBO, Hiroyuki OBATA, Hiroshi TEMMYO, Yuki YOSHIKAWA, Jun NISHIKAWA, Wataru OKADA, Iwao NITTA
  • Patent number: 11232769
    Abstract: An image display system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image display unit, an acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The image display unit is capable of displaying an image and moves in association with a movement of a user. The acquisition unit acquires movement information regarding a movement of the image display unit. The display control unit causes the image display unit to execute suppression image display for suppressing an influence of the movement of the image display unit with respect to an external space on the basis of the acquired movement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nagata, Takashi Saitoh, Yoshinori Nasada, Tomoya Takei, Jun Nishikawa