Patents by Inventor Kiminobu Ichimura

Kiminobu Ichimura 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: 11223390
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 10734829
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20200044472
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10447059
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10277281
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20190089418
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20190067972
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10097025
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 9961444
    Abstract: A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20170195787
    Abstract: A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Kiminobu ICHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9628896
    Abstract: A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20160156213
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus including: a heating section; a heat storage section; a detection section configured to detect a heat storage amount of the heat storage section; and a control section configured to control operation of the heating section, based on the heat storage amount detected by the detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Yuichi Ishida, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yoshio Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20150001967
    Abstract: A power feeding unit includes: an electrode array including a plurality of power feeding electrodes arranged side by side; a power feeding section configured to supply power to a power receiving unit via the electrode array; and a setting section configured to set a power feeding condition for each of the power feeding electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Yajima, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8340319
    Abstract: A playback device includes: a playback portion that plays back content and outputs at least an audio signal; an acquisition portion that acquires an external audio signal; a generating portion that, based on noise collected by a sound collecting device, generates a noise cancellation signal to reduce the noise; a switching portion that, if the acquisition portion has acquired the external audio signal when the playback portion is playing back content, switches an output signal from the audio signal to the external audio signal; and a synthesizing portion that synthesizes the output signal from the switching portion with the noise cancellation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kinouchi, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8208676
    Abstract: There is provided an earpiece comprising: a main unit having a cylindrical shape having made therein a through hole that can allow sound to be transmitted therethrough; a cap portion that has a film-like shape which is formed to extend from all around a front-end surface, in a direction of making the through hole, of the main unit toward a rear-end surface side, and which covers at least a portion of the main unit on the front-end surface side, and in which space between the main unit and the cap portion expands as it goes toward the rear-end surface side; and at least one cutting portion formed in the cap portion so that the cap portion can deform in a direction of the main unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Murozaki, Koji Nageno, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20110096939
    Abstract: A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiminobu ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20100135517
    Abstract: There is provided an earpiece comprising: a main unit having a cylindrical shape having made therein a through hole that can allow sound to be transmitted therethrough; a cap portion that has a film-like shape which is formed to extend from all around a front-end surface, in a direction of making the through hole, of the main unit toward a rear-end surface side, and which covers at least a portion of the main unit on the front-end surface side, and in which space between the main unit and the cap portion expands as it goes toward the rear-end surface side; and at least one cutting portion formed in the cap portion so that the cap portion can deform in a direction of the main unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Murozaki, Koji Nageno, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20090147969
    Abstract: A playback device includes: a playback portion that plays back content and outputs at least an audio signal; an acquisition portion that acquires an external audio signal; a generating portion that, based on noise collected by a sound collecting device, generates a noise cancellation signal to reduce the noise; a switching portion that, if the acquisition portion has acquired the external audio signal when the playback portion is playing back content, switches an output signal from the audio signal to the external audio signal; and a synthesizing portion that synthesizes the output signal from the switching portion with the noise cancellation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KINOUCHI, Kiminobu Ichimura
  • Patent number: 5706353
    Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus, such as a tape recorder, includes a recording and/or reproducing unit housed within a main body portion, an electro-acoustic transducing section, an actuating input unit, first and second connection cord assemblies and first and second cord take-up units. The recording and/or reproducing unit records and/or reproduces the information on or from a recording medium, such as a magnetic tape. An electro-magnetic transducer is fed with information signals reproduced by the recording and/or reproducing unit. An actuating input unit, removably mounted on the main body portion, sets or switches the recording or reproducing state of the recording and/or reproducing unit. The first connection cord assembly interconnects the actuating input unit and the recording and/or reproducing unit for exchanging information signals, and the second connection cord assembly interconnects the electro-acoustic transducing unit and the actuating input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Arai, Takashi Kubo, Kazutaka Nakashima, Kiminobu Ichimura, Mitsuru Ida