Patents by Inventor Norihito Mihota

Norihito Mihota 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).

  • Publication number: 20240019382
    Abstract: In a device measuring an amount of moisture in a medium, the performance of the device is improved. The sensor device includes a transmission probe, a reception probe, and a measurement circuit. The transmission probe includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and the reception probe includes a plurality of reception antennas. In this sensor device, the measurement circuit performs time-divisional control in which control of selecting one transmission antenna among the plurality of transmission antennas each time and radiating electromagnetic waves is repeatedly performed until performance of radiation ends in all the antennas set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro OISHI, Norihito MIHOTA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Minoru ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240019383
    Abstract: A sensor device is disclosed for measuring an amount of moisture in a medium that includes: a transmission antenna; a reception antenna to receive electromagnetic waves transmitted from the transmission antenna and through a medium; a measurement unit to measure the electromagnetic waves propagating to the reception antenna; and a sensor casing and further includes a transmission substrate including a plurality of wiring layers and a reception substrate including a plurality of wiring layers, and a measurement unit substrate including a plurality of wiring layers and includes the measurement unit or a first coating layer that, in a part of the transmission substrate, coats an outer circumference of the substrate and is formed from an electromagnetic wave absorbent material and a second coating layer that, in a part of the reception substrate, coats an outer circumference of the substrate and is formed from an electromagnetic wave absorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito MIHOTA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240011924
    Abstract: A device for measuring the amount of moisture in a medium that includes a transmission antenna that sends a signal as an electromagnetic wave, a reception antenna that receives the electromagnetic wave sent from the transmission antenna and transmitted through a medium, a measurement section that measures the electromagnetic wave propagated to the reception antenna, and a sensor casing. The sensor device further includes a transmission substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers and a reception substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers, or a first covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the transmission substrate and a second covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the reception substrate The coverings are formed of an electromagnetic wave absorption material. The sensor casing includes a transmission probe casing that accommodates the transmission substrate and a reception probe casing that accommodates the reception substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ICHIHARA, Norihito MIHOTA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240004030
    Abstract: In a device that measures an amount of moisture in a medium, performance of the device is improved. A sensor device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a sensor control unit. In this sensor device, a transmitter supplies a transmission signal to a transmission antenna. In addition, in the sensor device, a receiver receives a reception signal corresponding to the transmission signal through a reception antenna. In the sensor device, before measuring a predetermined parameter on the basis of the reception signal, the sensor control unit adjusts electric power of the transmission signal on the basis the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Norihito MIHOTA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230417686
    Abstract: Measurement accuracy of the amount of moisture is improved by a device that measures the amount of moisture in a medium. The sensor device includes a pair of antennas, a measurement circuit, a transmission path, and a radio wave absorption section. In the sensor device which includes the pair of antennas, the measurement circuit, the transmission path, and the radio wave absorption section, the measurement circuit measures the amount of moisture in a medium between the pair of antennas. Also, the transmission path connects the pair of antennas to the measurement circuit in the sensor device. The radio wave absorption section is formed in the surroundings of the transmission path in the sensor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Norihito MIHOTA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230194440
    Abstract: An inspection device and method suppressing measurement time and power consumption. A detection device according to the present disclosure includes a first probe with a first antenna unit for transmission, a second probe with a second antenna unit for reception, the second probe being opposed to the first probe at a predetermined distance, a measurement unit that measures a measurement signal including a propagation characteristic of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna units, and a calculation unit that calculates characteristics information of the medium based on the measurement signal. In a first mode, the measurement unit measures the measurement signal in a first frequency band for the electromagnetic wave propagating in the medium, and in a second mode, the measurement unit measures the measurement signal in a second frequency band, which is a part of the first frequency band for the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito MIHOTA, Sachio IIDA
  • Patent number: 10763977
    Abstract: A device for determining a DC component in a zero-IF radio receiver comprises an input configured to receive a complex baseband signal; and an analyzer configured to analyze the complex baseband signal to determine a DC component in the complex baseband signal by selecting at least three samples of the complex baseband signal and determining the intersection of at least two perpendicular bisectors of at least two straight lines, each straight line running through a different pair of two of said selected samples, said intersection representing the DC component. Further, a corresponding method, a radar device and a radar method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rolf Noethlings, Norihito Mihota
  • Patent number: 10670706
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting the presence of a living being at a predetermined location within a monitored area comprises an evaluation unit configured to evaluate radar radiation received by a radar unit from an assigned radar area included in said monitored area in response to radar radiation emitted by said radar unit to detect if a living being is present within said radar area and to localize a detected living being within said radar area, and a detection unit configured to correlate the location of a detected living being in said radar area with a set of predetermined locations in said monitored area to detect the presence of a living being at a predetermined location of said monitored area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Schwager, Honghui Yan, Norihito Mihota, Ralf Boehnke
  • Patent number: 10205620
    Abstract: In a transmission circuit that transmits transmission data using an amplitude shift modulation method (ASK modulation method) for changing an amplitude of carrier waves based on the transmission data or a transmission system that uses the transmission circuit, a phase of the carrier waves is changed based on the transmission data to suppress an irradiation of carrier wave components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Publication number: 20180054262
    Abstract: A device for determining a DC component in a zero-IF radio receiver comprises an input configured to receive a complex baseband signal; and an analyzer configured to analyze the complex baseband signal to determine a DC component in the complex baseband signal by selecting at least three samples of the complex baseband signal and determining the intersection of at least two perpendicular bisectors of at least two straight lines, each straight line running through a different pair of two of said selected samples, said intersection representing the DC component. Further, a corresponding method, a radar device and a radar method are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Sony CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rolf NOETHLINGS, Norihito MIHOTA
  • Publication number: 20170111203
    Abstract: In a transmission circuit that transmits transmission data using an amplitude shift modulation method (ASK modulation method) for changing an amplitude of carrier waves based on the transmission data or a transmission system that uses the transmission circuit, a phase of the carrier waves is changed based on the transmission data to suppress an irradiation of carrier wave components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: NORIHITO MIHOTA
  • Patent number: 9571325
    Abstract: In a transmission circuit that transmits transmission data using an amplitude shift modulation method (ASK modulation method) for changing an amplitude of carrier waves based on the transmission data or a transmission system that uses the transmission circuit, a phase of the carrier waves is changed based on the transmission data to suppress an irradiation of carrier wave components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Publication number: 20160370463
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting the presence of a living being at a predetermined location within a monitored area comprises an evaluation unit (21) configured to evaluate radar radiation received by a radar unit (10) from an assigned radar area included in said monitored area in response to radar radiation emitted by said radar unit (10) to detect if a living being is present within said radar area and to localize a detected living being within said radar area, and a detection unit (22) configured to correlate the location of a detected living being in said radar area with a set of predetermined locations in said monitored area to detect the presence of a living being at a predetermined location of said monitored area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: ANDREAS SCHWAGER, HONGHUI YAN, NORIHITO MIHOTA, RALF BOEHNKE
  • Publication number: 20160072658
    Abstract: In a transmission circuit that transmits transmission data using an amplitude shift modulation method (ASK modulation method) for changing an amplitude of carrier waves based on the transmission data or a transmission system that uses the transmission circuit, a phase of the carrier waves is changed based on the transmission data to suppress an irradiation of carrier wave components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: NORIHITO MIHOTA
  • Patent number: 9007981
    Abstract: Signal distribution, signal switching, and signal collection are performed with a simple configuration. An electronic device comprises a transmission unit (108) for transmitting, as a wireless signal, a signal to be transmitted and a reception unit (208) for receiving the wireless signal transmitted from the transmission unit. In the electronic device, a plurality of pairs of wireless signal transmission points in the transmission unit and wireless signal reception points in the reception unit can be formed. Using the pairs of transmission points and reception points make it possible to execute at least either one of signal distribution in which the same signal to be transmitted from a transmission point is transmitted to the multiple reception points and signal switching in which a signal to be transmitted from a transmission point is selectively transmitted to any of the multiple reception points. The signal to be transmitted is transmitted as a wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Mihota, Hirofumi Kawamura, Yasuhiro Okada, Naoto Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8995935
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wireless communication device, including: a plurality of communication units for transmission adapted to modulate and transmit a transmission subject signal; the communication units for transmission including a communication unit or units for transmission which adopt a method which modulates the amplitude and a communication unit or units for transmission which adopt a modulation method which modulates at least the phase or the frequency and requires transmission power lower than that of the method which modulates the amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Patent number: 8988993
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system including antenna pairs, a demodulation functional unit, and a transmission characteristic correction unit. The antenna pairs include transmission and reception antennae. A desired wave arrives at a reception antenna in a wireless signal from one transmission antenna. Meanwhile, the reception antenna receives an unnecessary wave in a wireless signal transmitted from a different transmission antenna. The demodulation functional unit corresponding to each antenna pair demodulates a signal received by the reception antenna. The transmission characteristic correction unit carries out correction calculation based on a transmission characteristic of a transmission space between the transmission and reception antennae based on demodulation signals demodulated by the demodulation functional units to acquire an output signal corresponding to a transmission subject signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Publication number: 20150002685
    Abstract: An imaging device including: a first substrate having a first communication device; a second substrate having a solid-state imaging device and second communication device to exchange signals with the first substrate; a shake correction section adapted to detect the shake of an enclosure and correct the shake based on the detection result by moving the first substrate in the plane vertical to the optical path; and a millimeter wave signal transmission line that permits transmission of information in the millimeter wave band between the first and second communication devices, wherein a signal to be transmitted between the first and second communication devices is converted into a millimeter wave signal first before being transmitted via the millimeter wave signal transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Norihito Mihota, Hirofumi Kawamura, Youtarou Sanada, Ryuichi Yasuhara, Katsuhiko Ueno
  • Patent number: 8781412
    Abstract: A radio transmission system includes: antenna pairs, each antenna pair being a combination of a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna in one-to-one correspondence. A radio signal from the transmitting antenna in one of the antenna pairs reaches the receiving antenna of the one antenna pair as a desired wave directly, and a radio signal from the transmitting antenna of another antenna pair different from the one antenna pair reaches the receiving antenna of the one antenna pair as an unnecessary wave directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihito Mihota
  • Patent number: 8736396
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a radio communicating device including: a first communicating block; a second communicating block rotatable about an axis of rotation relative to the first communicating block; and a radio signal transmission line capable of information transmission by radio between the first communicating block and the second communicating block; wherein between the first communicating block and the second communicating block, a signal to be transmitted is converted into a radio signal of a circularly polarized wave, and the radio signal of the circularly polarized wave is transmitted via the radio signal transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okada, Norihito Mihota