Patents by Inventor Ryohei Sugihara
Ryohei Sugihara 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: 9366866Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source, a display device, an at least one illumination prism, and an at least one eyepiece optic. The light source emits illumination light. The display device modulates the illumination light and emits the modulated light as image light. The illumination light emitted from the light source is incident on the illumination prism. The at least one eyepiece optic transmits the image light emitted from the display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryohei Sugihara
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Patent number: 9217882Abstract: A head mounted display that is attached to an eyeglass frame for use, includes: a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a first electrical component including a display element and an eyepiece optical part that allows a user to observe a display image by the display element as a virtual image. The second unit which is a temple tip for display device having a temple connecting part to which a temple of the eyeglass frame is attachable includes a second electrical component and an attachment part in which the first unit is detachably engaged and supported. When the first unit is engaged and supported in the attachment part, the first electrical component and the second electrical component are electrically coupled.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryohei Sugihara
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Publication number: 20150293361Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an eyeglass frame, including a rim, for fixing the head-mounted display device onto a wearer's head, a display that displays an image, and an eyepiece optical unit that guides light of an image displayed on the display into at least one of the wearer's eyes to display the image as an enlarged virtual image. The display and the eyepiece optical unit are attached to the rim, an optical axis of incident light that is image light incident on the eyepiece optical unit from the display and an optical axis of exiting light that is image light exiting from the eyepiece optical unit towards the wearer's eye are not coplanar, and the angle between an incident light vector formed by the incident light and an exiting light vector formed by the exiting light is greater than 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150260988Abstract: A first light blocking portion and a second light blocking portion are formed in at least one of the side surfaces of a light guide prism. The first light blocking portion and the second light blocking portion are arranged so that a shaded area and an invisible area overlap each other at least partly and cover an inter-groove area between the first light blocking portion and the second light blocking portion, where the shaded area is an area shadowed from image light due to the first light blocking portion, and the invisible area is an area invisible during virtual image observation by the observer due to the second light blocking portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Shinya TAKAHASHI, Yoichi IBA
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Publication number: 20150253576Abstract: A head-mounted display device is provided, the head-mounted display device including: a display element; a light guide prism that includes an incident surface through which image light from the display element enters and that guides the image light to user's eyes; and a housing that contains the display element and the light guide prism; and support unit that fixes the housing to user's head. The light guide prism is partially covered by and contained in the housing. A portion of side surface of the light guide prism covered by the housing is formed with a first groove, and portion of side surface of the light guide prism exposed outside the housing is formed with a second groove. Depth of the first groove measured from the side surface is greater than that of the second groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Shinya TAKAHASHI, Yoichi IBA
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Publication number: 20150212329Abstract: An eyeglass-type wearable device includes a first temple part positioned along one temporal region of a user, a second temple part positioned along the other temporal region of the user, and a front part positioned in front of the face of the user, when the eyeglass-type wearable device is worn by the user. The front part includes an electrical unit including an imaging device, and a first and second connection sections to which the first and the second temple parts can be connected, and at least one of the first and the second temple parts includes a temple-side electrical unit. The first and second temple parts can be attached to and removed from the first and second connection sections of the front part. Information about an image captured by the imaging device included in the front part is transmitted from the front part to the temple-side electrical unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Patent number: 9091847Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted image display device, including: a main body for emitting an image light beam; an eyepiece optical portion having a light-guide portion in a polyhedral shape, the eyepiece optical portion allowing the image light beam emitted from the main body to be incident on one surface of the light-guide portion and causing the image light beam incident on the one surface of the light-guide portion and emitted from another surface on the same side as the one surface or on the different side from the one surface; an attaching portion for connecting the main body and the eyepiece optical portion, in which the attaching portion has a movement mechanism for moving the eyepiece optical portion relative to the main body so as to adjust the position of an exit pupil of the eyepiece optical portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Yoichi Iba, Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 9039169Abstract: A support member for a wearable instrument which is mounted on a user's head part in cooperation with an eyeglass frame includes a head-contact portion that comes in contact with the user's head part, a temple-contact portion that comes in contact with a temple part of the eyeglass frame on a surface opposite of the head-contact portion, an instrument-connection portion for a wearable instrument that is disposed on the side of the temple-contact portion. Here, the temple-contact portion 30 has a first contact surface that comes in contact with a head-side surface of the temple part.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Kengo Kitaichi
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Publication number: 20150123881Abstract: A head-mounted display device including: a holder which is mounted on the head of a user; and a display unit which is supported by the holder and has a display element, wherein the holder includes: a first casing which includes an electronic circuit board having at least a drive circuit for generating a drive signal for driving the display element of the display unit; a second casing on which the display unit is fixed; and a flexible support part having flexibility which has a wire for electrically connecting the drive circuit and the display element and which connects the first casing and the second casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA, Tetsuyuki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8994611Abstract: A head-mounted type display device includes: a spectacle frame for fixture to a user's head; a body unit 2 fixed to the spectacle frame and having an image output unit from which image output unit image light of an image to be displayed is output; an eyepiece optical unit 3 for allowing image light output from the image output unit to be incident on the eyepiece optical unit, for guiding the incident image light to the corresponding eyeball 11 of the user with the spectacle frame being mounted on the user's head, and for displaying, as a virtual image, a magnified version of the image from the image output unit within a user's visual field; and an attachment means 4 for attaching the eyepiece optical unit 3 to the body unit in a replaceable manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Yoichi Iba
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Publication number: 20150084862Abstract: A head-mounted display is worn on the head of the user, and allows the user to observe a display image, the head-mounted display including a display section that displays the display image, and a control section that performs a control process that controls the timing at which the display image is displayed on the display section. The control section performs the control process that causes a display period and a non-display period to repeat alternately, and sets one display period to be equal to or less than 600 ms, the display period being a period in which the display image is displayed on the display section, and the non-display period being a period in which the display image is not displayed on the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150054717Abstract: To improve a balance of weight and improve wearing comfort of a user. A head-mounted display device is provided which includes a display having a display element, an electronic circuit board which controls the display, a battery which supplies power to the electronic circuit board and the display, and a holder which holds these components at the head of the user, and the battery is disposed at an opposite side of the display over a position held by the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150042544Abstract: An eyeglass-type wearable device includes a first temple part that is positioned along one temporal region of a user, a second temple part that is positioned along the other temporal region of the user, and a front part that is positioned in front of the face of the user, when the eyeglass-type wearable device is worn by the user. The first temple part includes a first electrical unit, and the second temple part includes a second electrical unit. The front part includes a first connection section to which the first temple part is connected, a second connection section to which the second temple part is connected, and a connection line that electrically connects the first electrical unit of the first temple part and the second electrical unit of the second temple part when the first temple part and the second temple part are connected to the front part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20150002544Abstract: An information presentation system includes: a display that displays an image as a virtual image so that the image can be observed by the user, and a display control section that causes the display to display information based on a captured image acquired from an imaging section, the imaging section being equipped to the head of the user and capturing a range in the direction of the field of view of the user, when an object recognition range is set to part of an imaging range of the imaging section, the display displaying the virtual image in a virtual image display range, the virtual image display range having such a positional relationship with the object recognition range that at least part of the virtual image display range in which the virtual image is displayed overlaps part of the object recognition range.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20140306881Abstract: A wearable device configured to be worn by a wearer, the wearable device includes a display to provide an image on a display area that occupies a part of a field of view of the wearer, an eyesight sensor to acquire eyesight sensing information by an eyesight sensing in a field of view of the eyesight sensor, a peripheral sensing acquisition section to acquire peripheral sensing information from a peripheral sensing having a detection angle larger than an angle of the field of view of the eyesight sensor, and a display controller to control displaying object information of an object in the image, the object being selected from at least one candidate object recognized by at least one of the eyesight sensing and the peripheral sensing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA, Teruo TOMITA
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Publication number: 20140231474Abstract: A support member for a wearable instrument which is mounted on a user's head part in cooperation with an eyeglass frame includes a head-contact portion that comes in contact with the user's head part, a temple-contact portion that comes in contact with a temple part of the eyeglass frame on a surface opposite of the head-contact portion, an instrument-connection portion for a wearable instrument that is disposed on the side of the temple-contact portion. Here, the temple-contact portion 30 has a first contact surface that comes in contact with a head-side surface of the temple part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SUGIHARA, Seiji TATSUTA
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Publication number: 20140232981Abstract: A head mounted display that is attached to an eyeglass frame for use, includes: a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a first electrical component including a display element and an eyepiece optical part that allows a user to observe a display image by the display element as a virtual image. The second unit which is a temple tip for display device having a temple connecting part to which a temple of the eyeglass frame is attachable includes a second electrical component and an attachment part in which the first unit is detachably engaged and supported. When the first unit is engaged and supported in the attachment part, the first electrical component and the second electrical component are electrically coupled.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryohei SUGIHARA
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Patent number: D719571Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Yoichi Iba, Shinya Takahashi
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Patent number: D725100Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita
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Patent number: D743089Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Teruo Tomita