Patents by Inventor Kyohei Iwamoto

Kyohei Iwamoto 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: 10812195
    Abstract: An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nakao, Kyohei Iwamoto, Taiji Ito, Tamotsu Ishii, Mitsuhiro Ueno, Shinji Ohta, Takeshi Sano, Keiichi Shibata, Yasuyuki Takeshita, Hiromitsu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20200127738
    Abstract: An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI NAKAO, KYOHEI IWAMOTO, TAIJI ITO, TAMOTSU ISHII, MITSUHIRO UENO, SHINJI OHTA, TAKESHI SANO, KEIICHI SHIBATA, YASUYUKI TAKESHITA, HIROMITSU KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 10556512
    Abstract: Power control can be performed for electronic apparatuses that are unable to connect to a network. A user accesses the URL of a power supply center, and downloads an application (S11). The application is downloaded for each individual electronic apparatus to be controlled. In S12, the user makes various settings. After the settings are complete, the power supply center 2 transmits a power-limiting signal (S2), and a communication device receives the power-limiting signal (S13). If it is determined in S14 that the power-limiting function is set active, the application is started in S16. In S17, the kind of the communication that has been set is infrared. If the kind of the communication is infrared, in S18, a power-limiting signal is transmitted to a target electronic apparatus via infrared communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Taiji Ito
  • Publication number: 20160214497
    Abstract: Power control can be performed for electronic apparatuses that are unable to connect to a network. A user accesses the URL of a power supply center, and downloads an application (S11). The application is downloaded for each individual electronic apparatus to be controlled. In S12, the user makes various settings. After the settings are complete, the power supply center 2 transmits a power-limiting signal (S2), and a communication device receives the power-limiting signal (S13). If it is determined in S14 that the power-limiting function is set active, the application is started in S16. In S17, the kind of the communication that has been set is infrared. If the kind of the communication is infrared, in S18, a power-limiting signal is transmitted to a target electronic apparatus via infrared communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Taiji Ito
  • Publication number: 20120296481
    Abstract: Power control can be performed for electronic apparatuses that are unable to connect to a network. A user accesses the URL of a power supply center, and downloads an application (S11). The application is downloaded for each individual electronic apparatus to be controlled. In S12, the user makes various settings. After the settings are complete, the power supply center 2 transmits a power-limiting signal (S2), and a communication device receives the power-limiting signal (S 13). If it is determined in S14 that the power-limiting function is set active, the application is started in S16. In S17, the kind of the communication that has been set is infrared. If the kind of the communication is infrared, in S18, a power-limiting signal is transmitted to a target electronic apparatus via infrared communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Taiji Ito
  • Patent number: 8220929
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source and an optical system including a light modulation unit having pixels for generating a two-dimensional image by modulating light from the light source by the respective pixels and emitting a spatial frequency in the generated two-dimensional image along a diffraction angle corresponding to diffraction orders generated from the respective pixels, a Fourier transform image formation unit for performing Fourier transform on the spatial frequency in the two-dimensional image to generate Fourier transform images corresponding to the diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection unit for selecting a Fourier transform image corresponding to a desired diffraction order among the Fourier transform images, and a conjugate image formation unit for forming a conjugate image of the selected Fourier transform image, and further includes a semi-transmissive mirror for changing a light ray travelling direction emitted from the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120176484
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display system, including: a multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce two-dimensional images, which include a plurality of parallax images within one frame, at a first frame rate; and a three-dimensional display apparatus configured to carry out multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display at a second frame rate based on a plurality of parallax images reproduced by the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus where one frame of stereoscopic moving pictures is formed from a multi-parallax image formed from a predetermined number of parallax images; the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus reproducing an image wherein control information is included in any of the parallax images for every one frame or every plurality of frames, the three-dimensional image display apparatus carrying out control in accordance with the control information included in the parallax images to carry out the multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Suzuki, Qingyu Lu, Kyohei Iwamoto, Xueming Yu
  • Publication number: 20110043909
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: a light source configured to emit light from a plurality of light emitting positions disposed discretely; optical modulation means for including a plurality of pixels and configured such that a plurality of light beams successively emitted from the different light emitting positions of the light source and having different incoming directions from each other are modulated individually by the pixels to generate two-dimensional images and spatial frequencies of the generated two-dimensional images are individually emitted along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders generated from the pixels; and Fourier transform image forming means for Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional images emitted from the optical modulation means to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the plural number of diffraction orders to form the Fourier transform images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Xueming Yu
  • Patent number: 7843636
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image display method wherein an image display apparatus which includes a light source and an optical system is used, the optical system including, an optical modulation section, a Fourier transform image forming section, a Fourier transform image selection section, and a conjugate image forming section, the image forming method including, a step, carried out by the optical modulation section, of producing a two-dimensional image based on two-dimensional image data whose aberrations caused by the optical system are corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Xueming Yu, Yoshio Suzuki, Qingyu Lu
  • Patent number: 7705886
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling a display device, includes: an acquisition unit acquiring an image of a subject formed in an image capture area made of a plurality of pixels performing an image capture operation, based on outputs from pixels constituting an image capture area; a transmitter transmitting data of the acquired image data to an other information processing apparatus controlling an other display device having the same construction as the display device; a receiver receiving data of an image of other subject transmitted from the other information processing apparatus; and a display controller displaying the image of the other subject in a display area based on the received image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Hirotoshi Fujisawa, Kyohei Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20090303597
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source and an optical system including a light modulation unit having pixels for generating a two-dimensional image by modulating light from the light source by the respective pixels and emitting a spatial frequency in the generated two-dimensional image along a diffraction angle corresponding to diffraction orders generated from the respective pixels, a Fourier transform image formation unit for performing Fourier transform on the spatial frequency in the two-dimensional image to generate Fourier transform images corresponding to the diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection unit for selecting a Fourier transform image corresponding to a desired diffraction order among the Fourier transform images, and a conjugate image formation unit for forming a conjugate image of the selected Fourier transform image, and further includes a semi-transmissive mirror for changing a light ray travelling direction emitted from the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090015917
    Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: (A) a light source including U0×V0 planar light emitting members disposed in a two-dimensional matrix; (B) an optical modulation section having a plurality of pixels modulating light beams successively outputted from the planar light emitting members by section of each of the pixels to produce a two-dimensional image and emitting spatial frequencies of the produced two-dimensional image along a plurality of diffraction angles corresponding to different diffraction orders produced from the pixels; and (C) a Fourier transform image forming section Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional image emitted from the optical modulation section to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the number of diffraction orders and forming the Fourier transform images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Yoshio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080252977
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image display method wherein an image display apparatus which includes a light source and an optical system is used, the optical system including, an optical modulation section, a Fourier transform image forming section, a Fourier transform image selection section, and a conjugate image forming section, the image forming method including, a step, carried out by the optical modulation section, of producing a two-dimensional image based on two-dimensional image data whose aberrations caused by the optical system are corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Xueming Yu, Yoshio Suzuki, Qingyu Lu
  • Publication number: 20080192343
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: a light source configured to emit light from a plurality of light emitting positions disposed discretely; optical modulation means for including a plurality of pixels and configured such that a plurality of light beams successively emitted from the different light emitting positions of the light source and having different incoming directions from each other are modulated individually by the pixels to generate two-dimensional images and spatial frequencies of the generated two-dimensional images are individually emitted along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders generated from the pixels; and Fourier transform image forming means for Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional images emitted from the optical modulation means to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the plural number of diffraction orders to form the Fourier transform images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Xueming Yu
  • Publication number: 20080186308
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display system, including: a multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce two-dimensional images, which include a plurality of parallax images within one frame, at a first frame rate; and a three-dimensional display apparatus configured to carry out multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display at a second frame rate based on a plurality of parallax images reproduced by the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus where one frame of stereoscopic moving pictures is formed from a multi-parallax image formed from a predetermined number of parallax images; the multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus reproducing an image wherein control information is included in any of the parallax images for every one frame or every plurality of frames, the three-dimensional image display apparatus carrying out control in accordance with the control information included in the parallax images to carry out the multi-parallax stereoscopic moving pictu
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Suzuki, Qingyu Lu, Kyohei Iwamoto, Xueming Yu
  • Publication number: 20060290777
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source, a light modulation section modulates light from the light source by means of pixels to produce two-dimensional images and emits a spatial frequency of the produced two-dimensional images along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders produced from each pixel, a Fourier transform image formation section Fourier transforms the spatial frequency of the two-dimensional images emitted from the light modulation section to produce Fourier transform images whose number corresponds to the number of diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection section selects one of the Fourier transform images produced by the Fourier transform section which corresponds to a desired diffraction order, a conjugate image formation section forms a conjugate image of the Fourier transform image selected by the Fourier transform image selection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Qingyu Lu
  • Publication number: 20050226319
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling a display device, includes: an acquisition unit acquiring an image of a subject formed in an image capture area made of a plurality of pixels performing an image capture operation, based on outputs from pixels constituting an image capture area; a transmitter transmitting data of the acquired image data to an other information processing apparatus controlling an other display device having the same construction as the display device; a receiver receiving data of an image of other subject transmitted from the other information processing apparatus; and a display controller displaying the image of the other subject in a display area based on the received image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Hirotoshi Fujisawa, Kyohei Iwamoto