Patents by Inventor Koji Miura

Koji Miura 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: 8764199
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes a plurality of light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device configured to emit light from a light emission region including a single or a plurality of light-emitting spots. The solid-state light-emitting device includes a single chip or a plurality of chips each emitting light beam. Three or more of the light-emitting spots are provided within the whole light sources, to allow the whole light sources to emit light beams in two or more wavelength bands different from one another. Two or more of the plurality of the light sources include respective light-emitting spots which emit light in the same wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 8682490
    Abstract: A storage medium stores a program which, when executed by a controller, causes the controller to control a boiler group including boilers each of which has a plurality of stepwise combustion positions. The program includes the steps of calculating a number of a presently combustion shiftable boilers, a number of their combustion positions, or a gross evaporation quantity, calculating a deviation quantity between a set physical quantity and a present time physical quantity, calculating a ratio between the deviation quantity and a control width that corresponding to the set physical quantity, and calculating the combustion subject boilers and their combustion positions based on the number of the combustion shiftable boilers, the number of their combustion positions, or the gross evaporation quantity and the ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Miura Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 8624799
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes: one or more light sources, an optical member, and an optical device. The optical member includes an integrator having a first fly-eye lens on which light from a solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which the light from the first fly-eye lens is incident. The integrator uniformalizes an illuminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated by the light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device. The optical device is disposed on an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and one or more light sources including one or more chips configured by the laser diode, and allows a shape of a luminance distribution of incidence light on an incidence plane of the first fly-eye lens to be expanded along a minor axis direction of the shape of the luminance distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20140002801
    Abstract: An illumination unit capable of reducing luminance unevenness in illumination light, a projection display unit, and a direct-view display unit each of which uses such an illumination unit. An illumination optical system includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device; and an optical member configured to allow light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device to pass therethrough and exit therefrom, and at least one of the chips in the one or more light sources is configured of a laser diode. The optical member includes an integrator including a first fly-eye lens on which light from the solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which light from the first fly-eye lens is incident, and uniformizing a luminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated with light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 8616706
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a first light source; a first beam spread angle changing element; an integrator; and a first small-amplitude oscillation element, in which the integrator is configured of a first fly-eye lens and a second fly-eye lens, optical magnification of an optical system configured of the first beam spread angle changing element and the first and second fly-eye lenses, and a shape of the first small-amplitude oscillation element are determined to allow a size of each light source image formed on the second fly-eye lens by each cell of the first fly-eye lens not to exceed a size of one cell of the second fly-eye lens, an amount of displacement of each light source image by oscillation amplitude of the first small-amplitude oscillation element is determined not to form the light source image over a plurality of cells of the second fly-eye lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20130321780
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes: light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device, the solid-state light-emitting device emitting light from a light emission region thereof, the light emission region including a plurality of light-emitting spots arranged along a predetermined direction; and an optical member, in which the optical member includes coupling lenses, the solid-state light-emitting device includes a single chip or a plurality of chips, the single chip or the plurality of chips in the solid-state light-emitting device having the plurality of light-emitting spots each include a laser diode, and a first coupling lens of the coupling lenses has a smaller lens effect along the predetermined direction than a lens effect along a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction in the light emission region, the first coupling lens on which laser light emitted from the solid-state light-emitting device having the plurality of light-emitting spots is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 8573162
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus for boiler includes an air supply device that varies a supply amount of combustion air, a fuel supply device that varies a supply amount of fuel, and a control device that controls the air supply device and the fuel supply device, obtains the supply amounts in accordance with respective combustion stages, and realizes the multiple combustion stages. The the control device controls the air supply device and the fuel supply device so as to return to a predetermined combustion stage when a request for transition cancel is received during transition from the predetermined combustion stage to another combustion stage, and controls so as not to perform the transition to the other combustion stage until a predetermined time period has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Miura Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sasaki, Ryo Miyagawa, Tetsuji Namoto, Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20130258294
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source section including a laser light source; a first uniformization optical member receiving light from the light source section; a second uniformization optical member receiving light from the first uniformization optical member; an optical device disposed on an optical path of outgoing light from the light source section; and a drive section vibrating the optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kaneda, Koji Miura, Toshifumi Yasui, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130021581
    Abstract: An illuminator and a display capable of achieving miniaturization are provided with use of a plurality of light sources emitting light with two or more kinds of wavelengths. In the light source unit 11, a red-color laser 11R, a green-color laser 11G, a blue-color laser 11B, a microlens section 116, and a microprism 117 are integrated on a base material. Each laser beam emitted from each of the laser light sources is transmitted through the microlens section 116, and then, comes into the microprism 117. In the microprism 117, optical path conversion is performed to shorten the distance between the optical paths of the incident light beams (to allow the optical axes of the incident light beams to be closer to each other).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Koji Miura, Tatsuya Oiwa
  • Publication number: 20130010002
    Abstract: Provided are an illumination unit and a display capable of achieving size reduction in a case where a plurality types of light sources emitting light with various different wavelengths are in use. An optical-path conversion member 12 is provided for performing optical-path conversion to light (red laser light Lr, green laser light Lg, and blue laser light Lg) coming from three types of light sources (a red laser 11R, a green laser 11G, and a blue laser 11B) in a light source unit 11 in such a manner that, compared with an angle formed by center rays in the light, an angle formed by center rays in outgoing light becomes much smaller. Such optical-path conversion is performed without using a large-scale optical system (optical members).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Koji Miura, Tatsuya Oiwa
  • Publication number: 20120249973
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes one or more light sources and an optical member. The optical member includes an integrator having a first fly-eye lens on which light from a solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which the light from the first fly-eye lens is incident. The integrator uniformalizes an illuminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated by the light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device. Each of the first fly-eye lens and the second fly-eye lens has a plurality of cells. The cells of the first fly-eye lens are arranged in a first direction and a second direction that intersect each other, and positions of the cells in the second direction are different from one another at least partially among a plurality of cell rows arranged along the first direction in the first fly-eye lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120249621
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes: one or more light sources, an optical member, and an optical device. The optical member includes an integrator having a first fly-eye lens on which light from a solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which the light from the first fly-eye lens is incident. The integrator uniformalizes an illuminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated by the light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device. The optical device is disposed on an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and one or more light sources including one or more chips configured by the laser diode, and allows a shape of a luminance distribution of incidence light on an incidence plane of the first fly-eye lens to be expanded along a minor axis direction of the shape of the luminance distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120242961
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a first light source; a first beam spread angle changing element; an integrator; and a first small-amplitude oscillation element, in which the integrator is configured of a first fly-eye lens and a second fly-eye lens, optical magnification of an optical system configured of the first beam spread angle changing element and the first and second fly-eye lenses, and a shape of the first small-amplitude oscillation element are determined to allow a size of each light source image formed on the second fly-eye lens by each cell of the first fly-eye lens not to exceed a size of one cell of the second fly-eye lens, an amount of displacement of each light source image by oscillation amplitude of the first small-amplitude oscillation element is determined not to form the light source image over a plurality of cells of the second fly-eye lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120242960
    Abstract: Provided are an illumination device and a display apparatus capable of reducing generation of an interference pattern, while achieving downsizing and enhancing light use efficiency. An illumination device includes: a light source section that includes a laser light source; an optical device disposed on a light path through which laser light from the laser light source travels; an optical member that outputs illumination light; and a driving section that displaces a relative position between the optical device and the optical member to vary at least one of an incidence position and an incidence angle, in an incidence surface of the optical member, of the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oiwa, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 8260714
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is provided which guarantees operation of a use condition bytecode while securing a degree of freedom for a service provider generating the use condition bytecode. A terminal apparatus (300), in which a license (1200) includes a use condition determining logic code (1204) and a version number (1202), includes a license obtainment unit (304) obtaining the license (1200), a use condition verification unit (302) determining, based on the version number (1202), whether or not an operation of the use condition determining logic code (1204) has been confirmed, a use condition bytecode execution unit (303) executing the use condition determining logic code (1204) when the operation of the use condition determining logic code (1204) has been determined to have been confirmed, and a content playback unit (306) playing back content based on the use condition determining logic code (1204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Okamoto, Tohru Nakahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Shinya Kemi, Koji Miura, Atsunori Sakurai, Tohru Wakabayashi, Hiroki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20120133901
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes a plurality of light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device configured to emit light from a light emission region including a single or a plurality of light-emitting spots. The solid-state light-emitting device includes a single chip or a plurality of chips each emitting light beam. Three or more of the light-emitting spots are provided within the whole light sources, to allow the whole light sources to emit light beams in two or more wavelength bands different from one another. Two or more of the plurality of the light sources include respective light-emitting spots which emit light in the same wavelength band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120133900
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device configured to emit light from a light emission region including a single or a plurality of light-emitting spots. The solid-state light-emitting device includes a single chip or a plurality of chips each emitting a light beam. Three or more of the light-emitting spots are provided within the whole of one or more light sources, to allow the whole of one or more light sources to emit light beams in two or more wavelength bands different from one another, and the solid-state light emitting device in a first light source which is at least one of the one or more light sources, has a plurality of light-emitting spots which emit light in the same wavelength band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120092624
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source section having plural kinds of light sources, in which the light sources emits light beams having different wavelengths; a parallelizing optical system parallelizing each of the light beams entered from the light sources, and allowing each of the parallelized light beams to exit therefrom; a light path unifying optical system unifying the parallelized light beams exited from the parallelizing optical system into a single light path; an expanding optical system expanding a beam diameter of each of the parallelized light beams unified into the single light path, and allowing each of the expanded and parallelized light beams to exit therefrom; and a uniformizing optical system uniformizing an in-plane intensity distribution in each of the expanded and parallelized light beams exited from the expanding optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oiwa, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20120086916
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device having a light emission region configured of one or more light-emission spots, one or more traveling-direction angle conversion device each converting a traveling-direction-angle of light, and an integrator including a first fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the traveling-direction angle conversion device and a second fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the first fly-eye lens, the integrator uniformalizing illumination distribution in a predetermined illumination area. An optical system configured with the traveling-direction angle conversion device and the first and second fly-eye lenses has an optical magnification which allows each of light source images to have a size not exceeding a size of the cell in the second fly-eye lens, the light source images being formed on the second fly-eye lens by the respective cells in the first fly-eye lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Miura, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Tatsuya Oiwa
  • Patent number: 8144901
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sound image position correction system that applies sound image position correction processing to a voice signal so that an optimal sound image position is obtained. There is provided a sound image position correction system which corrects the position of a sound image output from a plurality of speakers in a multichannel reproduction system having three or more channels, which includes a speaker moving section that moves the positions of the plurality of speakers provided in the multichannel reproduction system, a speaker position detection section that detects the positions of the plurality of speakers moved by the speaker moving section, and a sound image position correction section that applies sound image position correction processing to a sound signal to be supplied to the plurality of speakers based on the positions of the speakers detected by the speaker position detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Tsuiki, Teiichi Shiga, Koji Miura