Patents by Inventor Masami Himuro

Masami Himuro 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: 7019780
    Abstract: A lens unit and a camera capable of achieving stereoscopic television function and zoom function at the same time. More specifically, a lens unit (2) and a camera (1) each including at least a zoom lens (4), light quantity adjusting device (6 or 20), an electronic optical shutter provided on a stage of the zoom lens (4), and an optical shutter driving portion for controlling the electronic optical shutter (6) to open (6A, 6B) in a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Takeuchi, Masami Himuro, Ko Ishimoto, Seisuke Ohba
  • Publication number: 20050140820
    Abstract: A lens unit and a camera capable of achieving a stereoscopic television function and a zoom function at the same time. More specifically, provided are a lens unit and a camera each including at least a zoom lens, a light quantity adjusting unit, an electronic optical shutter provided on a stage of the zoom lens, and an optical shutter driving portion for controlling the electronic optical shutter to open in a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Koichi Takeuchi, Masami Himuro, Ko Ishimoto, Seisuke Ohba
  • Patent number: 4621903
    Abstract: An electro-optic light shutter is disclosed which includes a ceramic body having electro-optic effect and a pair of electrodes applying A.C. voltage to the ceramic body to cause electro-optic effect, wherein the ceramic body is formed of PLZT ceramics having memory effect at a room temperature and loses the memory effect at an elevated operating temperature caused by application of A.C. voltage to the ceramic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kanji Murano, Susumu Nishigaki, Masami Himuro, Yoshihisa Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4490739
    Abstract: A color image reproducing apparatus having particular utility as a color view finder for a color image pick-up apparatus includes a black and white cathode ray tube for producing a black and white image in response to red, green and blue primary color control signals sequentially supplied thereto; a color filter including red, green and blue horizontal color filter stripes adapted to transmit light of a red, green and blue color, respectively, and arranged vertically in the order of green, blue, red, green, red, blue and green stripes; and electronic shutter for sequentially permitting the transmission of light from the black and white image through the red, green and blue color filter stripes, corresponding to the supply of the red, green and blue primary color control signals to the cathode ray tube, to form a composite color image at a predetermined position; and an objective lens for projecting the black and white image transmitted through the electronic shutter and the color filter stripes to the predete
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Himuro, Susumu Nishigaki, Kazuhiko Terunuma
  • Patent number: 4228473
    Abstract: A pick-up device for reading out information which has been recorded on a magnetic medium. The device comprises a substrate and a layer of soft magnetic material overlying a surface of the substrate, the easy axis or direction of magnetization being normal to the surface and the magnetic material having properties capable of having magnetic bubble domains generated and propagated therein, so that when the pick-up device is used to read out information from a magnetic medium, patterns of magnetic domains are formed in the layer of magnetic material corresponding to the patterns of the recorded information. Although the magnetic material is of the type capable of having magnetic bubble domains generated and propagated therein, there is no need to provide the usual bias field for maintaining the bubble domains or for providing domain-transport or domain-annihilating fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Himuro, Toshiro Yamada, Yoshimi Makino
  • Patent number: 4051513
    Abstract: A color image projecting apparatus having three cathode ray tubes which produce different respective color images and including two projecting lenses. A first primary color image reproduced on a first cathode ray tube is projected on a screen through a first projecting lens, and second and third primary color images reproduced on second and third cathode ray tubes, respectively, are synthesized by a dichroic mirror and then projected on the screen through a second projecting lens. In this case, the projecting axes of the first and second projecting lenses are arranged to converge two images passed therethrough on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Takeuchi, Norio Itoh, Kuniyoshi Koyama, Satoshi Shimada, Masami Himuro