Patents by Inventor MASA TANAKA

MASA TANAKA 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: 11796904
    Abstract: A phase modulator of the present disclosure includes a phase distribution arithmetic unit that generates, in a case of reproducing the same reproduction image over a plurality of frames or a plurality of subframes by a light phase modulation element, target phase distribution data that is allowed to reproduce the same reproduction image in at least two adjacent frames among the plurality of frames or in at least two adjacent subframes among the plurality of subframes and that changes phase distribution in the light phase modulation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kouyama, Osamu Akimoto, Takahiro Mochizuki, Masa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11796900
    Abstract: A light source device and an image display device that combine light with high efficiency are provided. The light source device includes a first light source unit, a first illumination optical system that emits a first illumination light, a second light source unit, a second illumination optical system that emits a second illumination light, and a combiner on which the first illumination light and the second illumination light are incident. The combiner filters the incident light on the basis of a wavelength range and an incident angle, and angles at which the first illumination light and the second illumination light are incident on the combiner are each adjusted in such a way that the wavelength range of the first illumination light emitted from the combiner and the wavelength range of the second illumination light emitted from the combiner approach or overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11656540
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present disclosure includes: a first light source unit that emits first light of a first wavelength band; a first spatial light modulator where the first light from the first light source unit enters; a second light source unit that emits second light of a second wavelength band; an integrator optical system including a first fly-eye lens where the second light from the second light source unit enters and generating illumination light for an illumination target on a basis of the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator and the second light from the second light source unit; and a multiplexing optical system that multiplexes the second light having entered the first fly-eye lens and the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator, in an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and the illumination target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa Tanaka, Ryo Miyao
  • Publication number: 20220283485
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present disclosure includes: a first light source unit that emits first light of a first wavelength band; a first spatial light modulator where the first light from the first light source unit enters; a second light source unit that emits second light of a second wavelength band; an integrator optical system including a first fly-eye lens where the second light from the second light source unit enters and generating illumination light for an illumination target on a basis of the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator and the second light from the second light source unit; and a multiplexing optical system that multiplexes the second light having entered the first fly-eye lens and the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator, in an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and the illumination target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa TANAKA, Ryo MIYAO
  • Patent number: 11353783
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present disclosure includes: a first light source unit that emits first light of a first wavelength band; a first spatial light modulator where the first light from the first light source unit enters; a second light source unit that emits second light of a second wavelength band; an integrator optical system including a first fly-eye lens where the second light from the second light source unit enters and generating illumination light for an illumination target on a basis of the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator and the second light from the second light source unit; and a multiplexing optical system that multiplexes the second light having entered the first fly-eye lens and the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator, in an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and the illumination target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa Tanaka, Ryo Miyao
  • Patent number: 11356644
    Abstract: An illuminator of the present disclosure includes a light source unit that emits at least one colored light, and emits, for each of the pieces of colored light, light having a plurality of peak wavelengths different from each other, and a diffraction device that includes a plurality of divided areas, and displays, in each of the divided areas, a diffraction pattern that is optimized at a corresponding peak wavelength out of each of the peak wavelengths. The plurality of divided areas allows the light of the plurality of peak wavelengths to enter the plurality of divided areas individually for each of the pieces of colored light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Mochizuki, Masa Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220075248
    Abstract: A light source device and an image display device that combine light with high efficiency are provided. The light source device includes a first light source unit, a first illumination optical system that emits a first illumination light, a second light source unit, a second illumination optical system that emits a second illumination light, and a combiner on which the first illumination light and the second illumination light are incident. The combiner filters the incident light on the basis of a wavelength range and an incident angle, and angles at which the first illumination light and the second illumination light are incident on the combiner are each adjusted in such a way that the wavelength range of the first illumination light emitted from the combiner and the wavelength range of the second illumination light emitted from the combiner approach or overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masa TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11258994
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a phase modulator, a lighting system, and a projector that allow for improving diffraction efficiency in a light phase modulation element. The phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a light phase modulation element that has a plurality of pixels arranged with the pixel pitches p being different from each other to have a pixel structure suppressing occurrence of high-order diffraction light and that modulates a phase of light with respect to each of the pixels. Moreover, the phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a capturing optical system that captures a plurality of fluxes of high-order diffraction light generated in each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masa Tanaka, Takahiro Mochizuki, Osamu Akimoto, Masahiro Ueshima, Toshihiko Mochida, Toshihiko Orii, Takayuki Ishida
  • Patent number: 11242963
    Abstract: A light source device includes a wavelength conversion element including a substrate and a wavelength conversion layer that is retained by the substrate. The wavelength conversion layer absorbs a portion of incident first color light to output second color light in a wavelength range different from the first color light while outputting an unabsorbed portion of the first color light, in which a portion of the substrate and the wavelength conversion layer has a function of diffusing the first color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa Tanaka, Shinichiro Tajiri
  • Publication number: 20210294194
    Abstract: An illumination device of the present disclosure includes: a first light source unit that emits first light of a first wavelength band; a first spatial light modulator where the first light from the first light source unit enters; a second light source unit that emits second light of a second wavelength band; an integrator optical system including a first fly-eye lens where the second light from the second light source unit enters and generating illumination light for an illumination target on a basis of the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator and the second light from the second light source unit; and a multiplexing optical system that multiplexes the second light having entered the first fly-eye lens and the first light having been modulated by the first spatial light modulator, in an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and the illumination target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa TANAKA, Ryo MIYAO
  • Publication number: 20210208491
    Abstract: A light source device includes a wavelength conversion element including a substrate; and a wavelength conversion layer that is retained by the substrate, and absorbs a portion of incident first color light to output second color light in a wavelength range different from the first color light while outputting an unabsorbed portion of the first color light, in which a portion of the substrate and the wavelength conversion layer has a function of diffusing the first color light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: MASA TANAKA, SHINICHIRO TAJIRI
  • Publication number: 20210136335
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a phase modulator, a lighting system, and a projector that allow for improving diffraction efficiency in a light phase modulation element. The phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a light phase modulation element that has a plurality of pixels arranged with the pixel pitches p being different from each other to have a pixel structure suppressing occurrence of high-order diffraction light and that modulates a phase of light with respect to each of the pixels. Moreover, the phase modulator according to the present disclosure includes a capturing optical system that captures a plurality of fluxes of high-order diffraction light generated in each of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masa TANAKA, Takahiro MOCHIZUKI, Osamu AKIMOTO, Masahiro UESHIMA, Toshihiko MOCHIDA, Toshihiko ORII, Takayuki ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10782602
    Abstract: A projection display device includes a light source part including a first light source part that emits first color light and a second light source part that emits second color light having an emission intensity distribution different from that of the first color light, an image generator that generates an image on a basis of light emitted from the light source part, and a projection lens that projects the light outputted from the image generator onto a projection surface and has a projection optical axis that is shifted from a reference optical axis of the device as a whole. An emission optical axis of the first light source part is shifted to a direction opposite to a direction of the projection optical axis having been shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Miyao, Mariko Obinata, Masa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10701327
    Abstract: A first projection display apparatus includes a color separator (41A) that has first and second incident surfaces (S1a and S1b), and allows light in first to third wavelength bands to pass therethrough or reflects the light in the first to third wavelength bands; first to third reflective light modulators (15); a first polarization splitter (12G); a second polarization splitter (12RB); and a projection optical system (19). Light in at least one of the first to third wavelength bands enters the first incident surface of the color separator as first polarized light, and light in the other wavelength bands enters the second incident surface of the color separator as second polarized light orthogonal to the first polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Sato, Hiroyuki Yanagisawa, Masa Tanaka, Ryo Miyao
  • Publication number: 20200169707
    Abstract: An illuminator of the present disclosure includes a light source unit that emits at least one colored light, and emits, for each of the pieces of colored light, light having a plurality of peak wavelengths different from each other, and a diffraction device that includes a plurality of divided areas, and displays, in each of the divided areas, a diffraction pattern that is optimized at a corresponding peak wavelength out of each of the peak wavelengths. The plurality of divided areas allows the light of the plurality of peak wavelengths to enter the plurality of divided areas individually for each of the pieces of colored light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro MOCHIZUKI, Masa TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200159102
    Abstract: A phase modulator of the present disclosure includes a phase distribution arithmetic unit that generates, in a case of reproducing the same reproduction image over a plurality of frames or a plurality of subframes by a light phase modulation element, target phase distribution data that is allowed to reproduce the same reproduction image in at least two adjacent frames among the plurality of frames or in at least two adjacent subframes among the plurality of subframes and that changes phase distribution in the light phase modulation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA, OSAMU AKIMOTO, TAKAHIRO MOCHIZUKI, MASA TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200110328
    Abstract: A projection display device includes a light source part including a first light source part that emits first color light and a second light source part that emits second color light having an emission intensity distribution different from that of the first color light, an image generator that generates an image on a basis of light emitted from the light source part, and a projection lens that projects the light outputted from the image generator onto a projection surface and has a projection optical axis that is shifted from a reference optical axis of the device as a whole. An emission optical axis of the first light source part is shifted to a direction opposite to a direction of the projection optical axis having been shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: RYO MIYAO, MARIKO OBINATA, MASA TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10578957
    Abstract: A fluorescent substrate according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate that is in a rotatable manner; a fluorescent layer disposed in a center of the substrate; and a fixing layer that fixes a portion of a surface on side on which the fluorescent layer is located of the substrate and a portion of a surface on side on which the substrate is located of the fluorescent layer to each other. Thus, in a case where warpage occurs in the substrate due to a stress caused by thermal expansion arising in each of the fluorescent layer and the substrate, it is possible to reduce an amount of displacement of the fluorescent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Maeda, Yoshiro Asano, Masa Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190137855
    Abstract: A fluorescent substrate according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate that is configured in a rotatable manner; a fluorescent layer disposed in a center of the substrate; and a fixing layer that fixes a portion of a surface on side on which the fluorescent layer is located of the substrate and a portion of a surface on side on which the substrate is located of the fluorescent layer to each other. Thus, in a case where warpage occurs in the substrate due to a stress caused by thermal expansion arising in each of the fluorescent layer and the substrate, it is possible to reduce an amount of displacement of the fluorescent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: YUKI MAEDA, YOSHIRO ASANO, MASA TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10185213
    Abstract: A fluorescent substrate according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate that is configured in a rotatable manner; a fluorescent layer disposed in a center of the substrate; and a fixing layer that fixes a portion of a surface on side on which the fluorescent layer is located of the substrate and a portion of a surface on side on which the substrate is located of the fluorescent layer to each other. Thus, in a case where warpage occurs in the substrate due to a stress caused by thermal expansion arising in each of the fluorescent layer and the substrate, it is possible to reduce an amount of displacement of the fluorescent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Maeda, Yoshiro Asano, Masa Tanaka