Patents by Inventor Masanori Iwasaki
Masanori Iwasaki 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).
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Publication number: 20230311795Abstract: A vehicle may include a vehicle body including a floor panel, a battery pack located below the floor panel and an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body. A support that protrudes downwardly may be disposed on a lower wall of the battery pack. The energy absorption member may include a protrusion that protrudes inwardly in the vehicle width direction toward the support. A tip end of the protrusion may include a contact surface being in contact with a side surface of the support in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHInventors: Yuuki MUKAIGAWA, Naoki TANI, Ryuma OSAKA, Shungo IIZUKA, Shunji SHIBATA, Kyohei MIYAOKA, Masanori KODERA, Takashi IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20230298542Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display section, an acquisition section, and an image generator. The display section includes a display that has a cylinder-like body and on which an output image is displayed. The acquisition section acquires pieces of direction information that respectively indicate directions of respective users of a plurality of users as viewed from the display. The image generator generates the output image on the basis of the pieces of direction information such that pieces of information that respectively correspond to the users of the plurality of users are presented in the respective directions of the users of the plurality of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20230213766Abstract: To provide a display apparatus that makes it possible to further improve a performance in controlling video presentation according to characteristics of an eyeball of a user. A display apparatus is provided that includes a light source; a processor that performs processing on a distribution of characteristics of an eyeball; a monitoring section that monitors a state of the eyeball; a matching section that performs matching on the distribution of the characteristics of the eyeball and the state of the eyeball; and an irradiator that irradiates a specified position on a retina with video display light emitted by the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Teppei IMAMURA, Ryo OGAWA, Masanori IWASAKI, Takanobu OMATA, Katsuyuki AKUTSU, Itaru SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11589817Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens section that is worn on an eyeball; an acquisition section that is provided in the lens section and acquires biological information; and an output section that outputs the biological information acquired by the acquisition section to an external apparatus to be worn on a human body. The output section has one or a plurality of coil antennas extending along a front surface of the lens section, and a capacitor that is coupled to the one or the plurality of coil antennas in series or in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Naoto Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Masakazu Yajima, Fumiko Shiga, Ken Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20230009290Abstract: The present technology provides a display device capable of appropriately displaying information in a visual field range of a user. The present technology provides a display device including: a display system configured to display information in a visual field range of a user by irradiating a retina of an eyeball with light using an element integrally provided on the eyeball of the user; a detection system configured to detect a change in an orientation and/or a position of the eyeball; and a control system configured to control a display position and/or a display mode of the information in the visual field range on the basis of a detection result in the detection system. According to the present technology, it is possible to provide a display device capable of appropriately displaying information in a visual field range of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventor: MASANORI IWASAKI
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Patent number: 11543621Abstract: There is provided a camera module including a stacked lens structure including a plurality of lens substrates. The plurality of lens substrates includes a first lens substrate including a first lens that is disposed at an inner side of a through-hole formed in the first lens substrate, and a second lens substrate including a second lens that is disposed at an inner side of a through-hole formed in the second lens substrate, wherein the first lens substrate is directly bonded to the second lens substrate. The camera module further includes an electromagnetic drive unit configured to adjust a distance between the stacked lens structure and a light-receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Munekatsu Fukuyama, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Masanori Iwasaki, Toshihiko Hayashi, Shuzo Sato, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Yusuke Moriya, Minoru Ishida
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Patent number: 11534065Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a lens unit to be placed on an eyeball and a mesh-like or meandering linear communication electrode provided in all or a portion of the lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Naoto Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Masakazu Yajima, Fumiko Shiga
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Patent number: 11525984Abstract: The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yusuke Moriya, Masanori Iwasaki, Takashi Oinoue, Yoshiya Hagimoto, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Minoru Ishida
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Publication number: 20220390765Abstract: The present technology provides a display device that is able to display information in a region larger than a visual field region and cause the information to be visually recognized. The display device according to the present technology includes a light irradiation system configured to apply light through a pupil on at least a region outside an ambient light irradiation region, within a larger region than the ambient light irradiation region, the larger region including the ambient light irradiation region, the ambient light irradiation region being a region in a retina on which ambient light is to be applied through the pupil. According to the present technology, it is possible to provide a display device that is able to display information in a region larger than a visual field region and cause the information to be visually recognized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventor: MASANORI IWASAKI
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Patent number: 11520168Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a lens section to be worn on an eyeball. The contact lens further includes a communication electrode, a sensor device, a controller, and a shield layer in the lens section. The controller supplies electric power to the communication electrode, and outputs a signal corresponding to information acquired by the sensor device to the communication electrode. The shield layer is provided at a position facing at least one of the sensor device, the controller, or the communication electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Takayuki Hirabayashi, Naoto Yamaguchi, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Masakazu Yajima, Fumiko Shiga
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Patent number: 11442291Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a lens section attachable to an eyeball, and one or a plurality of structure portions provided in the lens section and intended to accumulate tears. This makes it possible to, for example, measure an absorption spectrum of the tears, by emitting light toward the tears accumulated in the one or plurality of structure portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masanori Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11395629Abstract: A device for placement in contact with an eye of a user. The device includes at least one detector for measuring at least one property, and a signal processor for determining, based on the at least one property, whether the eye of the user is closed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Hayakawa, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Masakazu Yajima, Naoto Yamaguchi, Akira Tange
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Patent number: 11342371Abstract: A deformation of a stacked lens is suppressed. A stacked lens structure has a configuration in which substrates with lenses having a lens disposed on an inner side of a through-hole formed in the substrate are bonded and stacked by direct bonding. The present technique can be applied to a camera module or the like in which a stacked lens structure in which at least three substrates with lenses including first to third substrates with lenses which are substrates with lenses in which a through-hole is formed in the substrate and a lens is formed on an inner side of the through-hole is integrated with a light receiving element, for example.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Masanori Iwasaki, Toshihiko Hayashi, Shuzo Sato, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Minoru Ishida
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Publication number: 20220121042Abstract: A contact lens according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens section that is worn on an eyeball; one or a plurality of functional sections that is provided in the lens section; and one or a plurality of terminals that is physically coupled to the one or plurality of functional sections, and is configured to be physically couplable to an external terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: MASANORI IWASAKI, TSUKASA YOSHIMURA, TAKAYUKI HIRABAYASHI, KEN HAYAKAWA, FUMIKO SHIGA
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Publication number: 20220043241Abstract: The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke MORIYA, Masanori IWASAKI, Takashi OINOUE, Yoshiya HAGIMOTO, Hiroyasu MATSUGAI, Hiroyuki ITOU, Suguru SAITO, Keiji OHSHIMA, Nobutoshi FUJII, Hiroshi TAZAWA, Toshiaki SHIRAIWA, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20220032455Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires a measurement result of a measurement unit that measures an object to be an estimation target of a contact sense in a contactless manner; a determination section that makes a determination as to an aspect of the object or a measurement condition of the object on a basis of the measurement result of the measurement unit; a selection section that selects, on a basis of a result of the determination, an estimation scheme to be used for estimation of the contact sense of the object from among a plurality of estimation schemes; and an estimation section that estimates the contact sense of the object using the selected estimation scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: SHINICHIRO GOMI, MASANORI IWASAKI, KEN HAYAKAWA, NAOKI FUJIWARA, TSUKASA YOSHIMURA, AKINORI SHINGYOUCHI, JUNICHI TANAKA, AKIRA TANGE
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Publication number: 20210397003Abstract: The present technology provides a video projection system (100) including: a video projection device (101) equipped with a projection optical system (110) configured to project video display light onto an eyeball (130); and an optical element (120) configured to cause the video display light to be collected near a pupil and then to reach a retina. The video projection system (100) is used in a state where a positional relationship between the optical element (120) and the eyeball (130) is fixed. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a video projection method including: a projection step of projecting video display light from a video projection device toward an eyeball; and a light collecting step of causing video display light projected in the projection step to be collected near a pupil with an optical element (120) and then to reach a retina.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventor: MASANORI IWASAKI
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Patent number: 11194135Abstract: The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yusuke Moriya, Masanori Iwasaki, Takashi Oinoue, Yoshiya Hagimoto, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Minoru Ishida
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Patent number: 11109015Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display unit formed with a lens being arranged for a plurality of adjoining pixels including a left-eye pixel and a right-eye pixel, as a unit, a detection unit attached to the display unit and configured to detect positional information and orientation information of an eye of an observer with respect to a display surface of the display unit, a signal processing unit configured to generate virtual image information for each of the left-eye pixel and the right-eye pixel so as to present a virtual image in an aspect ratio different from the aspect ratio of the display surface of the display unit on the basis of a result of detection obtained by the detection unit, and a display control unit configured to drive the left-eye pixel and the right-eye pixel on the basis of the virtual image information generated by the signal processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11101308Abstract: [Object] The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device, an image pickup apparatus, and a production apparatus and method with which protection performance of an organic film can be improved. [Solving Means] An image pickup device according to the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion device that photoelectrically converts incident light that has entered from outside; an organic film that is formed by being laminated on a light-incident surface side of the photoelectric conversion device; and an inorganic film that is formed by being laminated on a light-incident surface and side surfaces of the organic film and seals the organic film, the side surfaces of the organic film being tilted by an angle at which a thickness of the inorganic film that is formed by being laminated on the side surfaces becomes a predetermined thickness. The present disclosure is applicable to an image pickup device, an image pickup apparatus, a production apparatus for an image pickup device, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori Iwasaki