Patents by Inventor Osamu Nagahara
Osamu Nagahara 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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Patent number: 9709814Abstract: A multilayer display apparatus included in an in-vehicle system includes a stereoscopic vision display device formed by a 3D display unit and a 3D display control unit that display a three-dimensional image utilizing the principle of binocular disparity, a two-dimensional display device formed by a 2D display unit and a 2D display control unit that display a two-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display face, and a half-silvered mirror. The position of the two-dimensional display face is set within a predetermine range of the position of the screen of the stereoscopic vision display device by using the half-silvered mirror.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: ALPINE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Osamu Nagahara
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Patent number: 9218076Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a proximity sensor arranged near a display surface of the display and configured to provide an output signal corresponding to a degree of proximity of an object to the display surface, and provides a position of the approaching object in a direction horizontal to the display surface. A user interface control unit has a first operational mode and a second operational mode, where in the first operation mode, the proximity of a user's hand from the display surface is monitored based on the output signal of the proximity sensor. In the second operational mode, a position of the user's hand in a direction horizontal to the display surface is detected within a detection target range and a user's operation is accepted according to the detected position of the user's hand.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Osamu Nagahara, Futoshi Tomitsuka
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Patent number: 8970453Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an image data generation unit configured to generate image data and an image projection unit configured to project a light flux including an image toward a human riding in a vehicle. The image is based on the image data. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a first display object indicating a travel direction of the vehicle at a travel direction change point when a distance between the travel direction change point and the vehicle is a first distance. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a second display object displayed to correspond to a position of the travel direction change point when the distance is a second distance shorter than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara, Yasuhiko Kawawada, Osamu Nagahara, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto
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Patent number: 8874255Abstract: A method of control of rotation of a spindle device and a control system of a machine tool which enable machining without generation of chatter vibration without using special tools of variable pitch cutting edges or chatter vibration detecting means. The method of control of rotation of a spindle device and control system of a machine tool according to the present invention store spindle rotational speed change data, which determines how to change a rotational speed of a spindle in accordance with an instructed speed, linked with machining conditions and stability limit data, select, from an instructed spindle rotational speed and machining conditions and the stored stability limit data, spindle rotational speed change data giving less vibration, and use the selected spindle rotational speed change data as the basis to change the rotational speed of the spindle.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoichi Miyamoto, Haruka Nagahara, Sumie Nagahara, Osamu Nagahara
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Publication number: 20140104682Abstract: A multilayer display apparatus included in an in-vehicle system includes a stereoscopic vision display device formed by a 3D display unit and a 3D display control unit that display a three-dimensional image utilizing the principle of binocular disparity, a two-dimensional display device formed by a 2D display unit and a 2D display control unit that display a two-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display face, and a half-silvered mirror. The position of the two-dimensional display face is set within a predetermine range of the position of the screen of the stereoscopic vision display device by using the half-silvered mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Osamu Nagahara
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Patent number: 8629887Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The information acquisition unit is configured to acquire information relating to an energy efficiency of a moving body. The control unit is configured to generate image data to include a display object indicating the energy efficiency based on the information. The display unit is configured to present the image including the display object to a human viewer operating the moving body. The control unit is configured to generate the image data to include a first display object when the energy efficiency is in a first state and generate the image data to include a second display object when the energy efficiency is in a second state lower than the first state.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara, Yasuhiko Kawawada, Osamu Nagahara, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto
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Publication number: 20130265248Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a proximity sensor arranged near a display surface of the display and configured to provide an output signal corresponding to a degree of proximity of an object to the display surface, and provides a position of the approaching object in a direction horizontal to the display surface. A user interface control unit has a first operational mode and a second operational mode, where in the first operation mode, the proximity of a user's hand from the display surface is monitored based on the output signal of the proximity sensor. In the second operational mode, a position of the user's hand in a direction horizontal to the display surface is detected within a detection target range and a user's operation is accepted according to the detected position of the user's hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Osamu Nagahara, Futoshi Tomitsuka
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Publication number: 20130027426Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The information acquisition unit is configured to acquire information relating to an energy efficiency of a moving body. The control unit is configured to generate image data to include a display object indicating the energy efficiency based on the information. The display unit is configured to present the image including the display object to a human viewer operating the moving body. The control unit is configured to generate the image data to include a first display object when the energy efficiency is in a first state and generate the image data to include a second display object when the energy efficiency is in a second state lower than the first state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara, Yasuhiko Kawawada, Osamu Nagahara, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto
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Publication number: 20120268351Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an image data generation unit configured to generate image data and an image projection unit configured to project a light flux including an image toward a human riding in a vehicle. The image is based on the image data. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a first display object indicating a travel direction of the vehicle at a travel direction change point when a distance between the travel direction change point and the vehicle is a first distance. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a second display object displayed to correspond to a position of the travel direction change point when the distance is a second distance shorter than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara, Yasuhiko Kawawada, Osamu Nagahara, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto
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Patent number: 8212662Abstract: An automotive display system includes an image projection unit and an angle information acquisition unit. The image projection unit projects a light flux including an image including a display object toward one eye of an image viewer. The angle information acquisition unit acquires at least one of vehicle angle information and external environment angle information. The vehicle angle information relates to an angle of at least one of an attitude and a heading of a vehicle carrying the image viewer. The external environment angle information relates to an angle of a background object at a target position of the display object in a background of an external environment of the vehicle. The image projection unit changes an angle of the display object in the image based on at least one of the vehicle angle information and the external environment angle information acquired by the angle information acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Haruhiko Okumura, Masatoshi Ogawa, Osamu Nagahara, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Kazuo Horiuchi, Naotada Okada
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Publication number: 20120075708Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an image projection unit, a first emitter and a second emitter. The image projection unit is configured to project a luminous flux including an image toward a viewer. The first emitter is configured to emit a first marker light. The first emitter is set along an advance direction of the luminous flux. The second emitter is configured to emit a second marker light. The second emitter is set at a side nearer to the viewer than the first emitter along the advance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Osamu Nagahara, Kazuo Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20110187844Abstract: To provide an image irradiation system and an image irradiation method which can make an image information in an outdoor side of a vehicle be recognized by a driver precisely without widely moving a view point of the driver. An image irradiation system includes a first photographing module photographing a driver of a vehicle, a position calculation module calculating a single eye position of the driver from an image photographed by the first photographing module, an image information generating module creating an outdoor image information of the vehicle, and an irradiation module irradiating the outdoor image information to the single eye position calculated by the position calculation module.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masatoshi Ogawa, Hitoshi Inaba, Haruhiko Okumura, Takashi Sasaki, Naotada Okada, Aira Hotta, Kazuo Horiuchi, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Osamu Nagahara, Toshiaki Matsubayashi
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Publication number: 20100164702Abstract: An automotive display system includes an image projection unit and an angle information acquisition unit. The image projection unit projects a light flux including an image including a display object toward one eye of an image viewer. The angle information acquisition unit acquires at least one of vehicle angle information and external environment angle information. The vehicle angle information relates to an angle of at least one of an attitude and a heading of a vehicle carrying the image viewer. The external environment angle information relates to an angle of a background object at a target position of the display object in a background of an external environment of the vehicle. The image projection unit changes an angle of the display object in the image based on at least one of the vehicle angle information and the external environment angle information acquired by the angle information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Haruhiko Okumura, Masatoshi Ogawa, Osamu Nagahara, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Kazuo Horiuchi, Naotada Okada
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Publication number: 20100157430Abstract: An automotive display system includes a frontward information acquisition unit, a position detection unit and an image projection unit. The frontward information acquisition unit acquires frontward information. The frontward information includes information relating to a frontward path of a vehicle. The position detection unit detects a position of one eye of an image viewer riding in the vehicle. The image projection unit generates a first virtual image at a corresponding position in scenery of the frontward path based on the frontward information acquired by the frontward information acquisition unit and projects a light flux including an image including the generated first virtual image toward the one eye of the image viewer based on the detected position of the one eye. The first virtual image has a size corresponding to at least one of a vehicle width and a vehicle height.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Aira Hotta, Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Masatoshi Ogawa, Osamu Nagahara, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Kazuo Horiuchi, Naotada Okada
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Publication number: 20100066925Abstract: According to one embodiment of a head up display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a display information generating module which generates information that should be projected, a combiner which guides the information that is generated by the display information generating module and should be displayed to a predetermined position, a light adjustment control module which changes a transmitted light amount of the combiner based on brightness of a background and front image detecting module which detects brightness of the background to set the transmitted light amount of the combiner by using the light adjustment control module.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Osamu Nagahara, Takato Katagiri, Haruhiko Okumura, Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Kazuo Horiuchi, Masatoshi Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Toshiaki Matsubayashi
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Publication number: 20100066832Abstract: According to one embodiment of a head up display according to the present invention can improve visibility by changing a position of information projected onto a combiner based on information captured by a front camera and a driver camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Osamu Nagahara, Takato Katagiri, Haruhiko Okumura, Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Kazuo Horiuchi, Masatoshi Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Toshiaki Matsubayashi