Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kuzuhara

Satoshi Kuzuhara 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: 20170184843
    Abstract: A head-up display that allows an observer to visually recognize a virtual image in a viewpoint region of the observer is provided. The head-up display includes: a display device that has a display surface and displays an image on the display surface; and a first optical system that has a concave mirror, and a lens condensing the light and disposed between the concave mirror and the display surface. The first optical system causes a beam exiting from the display surface to form an intermediate image via the lens and the concave mirror, the intermediate image being enlarged from the image displayed on the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi KUZUHARA, Hiroaki OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170092169
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a display device, a CPU, and a projection optical system. The display device has pixels including a first-color subordinate pixel and a second-color subordinate pixel, and displays an image. The CPU controls display of the display device. The projection optical system has a refractive optical system, and projects the image displayed on display device on a viewpoint region of an observer. The CPU asymmetrically shifts, between the reference outer side image end and the reference inner side image end with reference to a center, a pixel of an image formed by the second-color subordinate pixel relative to an image formed by the first-color subordinate pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi KUZUHARA, Hiroaki OKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9599816
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit projecting an image to a light transmissive display member, and the display apparatus forms a virtual image of the image projected by the display unit on an opposite side to a user side. The display unit is configured to accommodate a display device displaying the image and a projection optical system that projects the image displayed on the display device to the display member in a housing. The projection optical system includes a first reflecting member disposed on a display device side and a second reflecting member disposed on an opening side in an optical path extending from the display device. A reflection surface of the first reflecting member reflecting the image displayed on the display device has a convex shape, and a reflection surface of the second reflecting member projecting the image to the display member has a concave shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kuzuhara
  • Patent number: 9488813
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and subsequent five or six lens units, wherein an aperture diaphragm is provided, intervals between the adjacent lens units vary in zooming, the first lens unit moves in zooming and is fixed in focusing, and the conditions: BF/fW<0.66, DA/LW>0.42, and DAIR/Y<2.00 (BF: distance from an image-side surface apex of a most-image-side lens element to an image surface, fW: focal length of system at wide-angle limit, DA: sum of optical axial thicknesses of the lens units in system, LW: overall length of system at wide-angle limit, DAIR: maximum of air spaces between the lens elements constituting system at wide-angle limit, Y=fT×tan(?T), fT: focal length of system at telephoto limit, ?T: half view angle at telephoto limit) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Tsuneo Uchida
  • Publication number: 20160303974
    Abstract: A head-up display in accordance with the present disclosure includes a display device that displays an image toward a vertically downward direction, a first mirror that reflects the image to output reflected light toward a vertically upward direction, and a second mirror that reflects the reflected light from the first mirror to output reflected light toward a vertically upward direction. Also, a vehicle in accordance with the present disclosure includes a head-up display in accordance with the present disclosure, and a windshield that reflects reflected light emitted from the head-up display. The present disclosure makes it possible to provide a thin head-up display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: YUSUKE YONETANI, SATOSHI KUZUHARA
  • Patent number: 9417430
    Abstract: An inner focus lens system comprising a first lens unit and subsequent lens units, wherein the first lens unit: is fixed with respect to an image surface in focusing; and includes a first positive lens element located closest to the object side and a second positive lens element, the subsequent lens units include only a first focusing lens unit located closest to the object side and a second focusing lens unit, at least one of the first focusing lens unit and the second focusing lens unit is composed of two or less lens elements, and the subsequent lens units include an image blur compensating lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20160209650
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that projects an image to a light transmissive display member. The display unit is configured to accommodate a display device and a projection optical system that projects the image displayed on the display device to the display member in a housing including an opening through which projected light is output. The projection optical system includes a first reflecting member disposed on a display device side and a second reflecting member disposed on an opening side in an optical path extending from the display device to the opening. A reflection surface of the first reflecting member that reflects the image displayed on the display device has a convex shape of a free-form surface, and a reflection surface of the second reflecting member that projects the image to the display member has a concave shape of a free-form surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20160202482
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a first display device having a first display element and a combiner; a second display device including a second display element and a second optical system having a first mirror and a second mirror; and a housing having an opening. The first display element is disposed at a back of a vehicle relative to the opening, and the second mirror is disposed at a front of the vehicle relative to the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi KUZUHARA, Hiroaki OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160202480
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present technique includes for use with a light transmissive display member and is configured to project an image onto the light transmissive display member to forms a virtual image of the image, on an opposite side of the display member from a user. The display apparatus includes a display device housed in a housing and configured to display an image, and a projection optical system housed in the housing and configured to project the image displayed on the display device onto the display member. The housing has an opening through which projection light is emitted. The projection optical system includes, on an optical path from the display device to the opening, a first reflection member disposed on a display device side, and a second reflection member disposed on the opening side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: SATOSHI KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20160202479
    Abstract: A head-up display is mounted to a vehicle having a windshield, and includes a display element configured to display an image, a first optical system configured to reflect the image displayed by the display element and project the image onto the windshield; and a second optical system configured to reflect the image displayed by the display element and project the image onto the windshield. The image projected with the first optical system is projected onto the windshield at a position below a position of the image projected with the second optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki OKAYAMA, Satoshi KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20160202481
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit projecting an image to a light transmissive display member, and the display apparatus forms a virtual image of the image projected by the display unit on an opposite side to a user side. The display unit is configured to accommodate a display device displaying the image and a projection optical system that projects the image displayed on the display device to the display member in a housing. The projection optical system includes a first reflecting member disposed on a display device side and a second reflecting member disposed on an opening side in an optical path extending from the display device. A reflection surface of the first reflecting member reflecting the image displayed on the display device has a convex shape, and a reflection surface of the second reflecting member projecting the image to the display member has a concave shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20160193922
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that projects an image to a light transmissive display member. The display apparatus forms a virtual image of the image projected by the display unit. The display unit includes a display device including a display region and a non-display region formed around the display region, a display controller that inputs an image signal to the display device in order to display a predetermined image in the display region, and a projection optical system that projects the image displayed on the display device to the display member. The projection optical system includes a first reflecting member disposed on a display device side and a second reflecting member disposed on a display member side in an optical path extending from the display device to the display member. The display controller is able to change a display position of the image in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20160195727
    Abstract: A head-up display according to the present disclosure is mounted to a vehicle having a windshield and allows an observer to visually recognize a virtual image. The head-up display includes a display element configured to display an image, a reflection optical system configured to reflect the image displayed by the display element and project the image onto the windshield, and a refraction optical system disposed between the reflection optical system and the windshield and having optical power. The reflection optical system reflects the image toward the refraction optical system. The head-up display is configured such that a position where a center optical path of the image emitted from the display element is incident on the refraction optical system is located at a side of the windshield of the vehicle relative to a center axis of the refraction optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi KUZUHARA, Hiroaki OKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9274326
    Abstract: A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having negative optical power; a second lens unit having positive optical power; a third lens unit having negative optical power; and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the third lens unit is composed of two or less lens elements, the fourth lens unit is composed of two or less lens elements, the first lens unit has at least one air space between lens elements constituting the first lens unit, and the condition: Dair/fW>0.75 (Dair: an air space located on the most object side in the first lens unit, fW: a focal length of the entire system at a wide-angle limit) is satisfied; an imaging device; and a camera are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Patent number: 9213219
    Abstract: An inner focus lens system, in order from an object side, comprising: a first lens unit including a most-object-side negative first lens element; a positive second lens unit; and a negative third lens unit, wherein an aperture diaphragm is included, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the aperture diaphragm are fixed relative to an image surface in focusing, the second lens unit moves relative to the image surface in the focusing, and the conditions: BF/Y<1.7 and TH/f>1.6 (BF: distance from an apex of an image-side surface of a most-image-side lens element to the image surface; Y: maximum image height; TH: distance from an apex of an object-side surface of a most-object-side lens element to the apex of the image-side surface of the most-image-side lens element; f: focal length of the lens system) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20150338622
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and subsequent five or six lens units, wherein an aperture diaphragm is provided, intervals between the adjacent lens units vary in zooming, the first lens unit moves in zooming and is fixed in focusing, and the conditions: BF/fW<0.66, DA/LW>0.42, and DAIR/Y<2.00 (BF: distance from an image-side surface apex of a most-image-side lens element to an image surface, fW: focal length of system at wide-angle limit, DA: sum of optical axial thicknesses of the lens units in system, LW: overall length of system at wide-angle limit, DAIR: maximum of air spaces between the lens elements constituting system at wide-angle limit, Y=fT×tan(?T), fT: focal length of system at telephoto limit, ?T: half view angle at telephoto limit) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi KUZUHARA, Tsuneo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150312454
    Abstract: A lens system including: a positive most-object-side lens unit; a first most-image-side lens element; and a second most-image-side lens element, wherein the most-object-side lens unit is fixed in focusing, at least one of the first and second most-image-side lens elements has negative optical power, and the conditions: 0.5<DAIR/Y and 1.5<DIM/DOB<4.0 (DAIR: maximum value of air spaces between the lens elements constituting the lens system in an infinity in-focus condition, Y=f×tan ?, f: focal length of the lens system, ?: half view angle of the lens system, DOB: optical axial thickness of the most-object-side lens unit, DIM: optical axial distance from an object side surface of a most-object-side lens element in a lens unit located immediately on the image side relative to the most-object-side lens unit, to an image side surface of the first most-image-side lens element) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoko IIYAMA, Yusuke YONETANI, Satoshi KUZUHARA, Masafumi SUEYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20150309393
    Abstract: An inner focus lens system, in order from an object side, comprising: a first lens unit including a most-object-side negative first lens element; a positive second lens unit; and a negative third lens unit, wherein an aperture diaphragm is included, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the aperture diaphragm are fixed relative to an image surface in focusing, the second lens unit moves relative to the image surface in the focusing, and the conditions: BF/Y<1.7 and TH/f>1.6 (BF: distance from an apex of an image-side surface of a most-image-side lens element to the image surface; Y: maximum image height; TH: distance from an apex of an object-side surface of a most-object-side lens element to the apex of the image-side surface of the most-image-side lens element; f: focal length of the lens system) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yoshio Matsumura
  • Patent number: 9172882
    Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising a positive first lens unit composed of three or four lens elements, a negative second lens unit, and subsequent lens units, wherein the subsequent lens units include an aperture diaphragm, an image blur compensating lens unit, and a focusing lens unit, which are provided on the image side relative to the aperture diaphragm, and the conditions: 1.8<|(YW/fW)×FNOT×(fT/fW)|<4.5 and 0.001<(D1W+D2T)/fW<0.200 (YW=fW×tan(?W), fW, fT: focal length of the zoom lens system at wide-angle limit, telephoto limit, ?W: half view angle at wide-angle limit, FNOT: F-number at telephoto limit, D1W: inter-apex distance between the first and second lens units at wide-angle limit, D2T: inter-apex distance between the second lens unit and a most object side lens unit among the subsequent lens units at telephoto limit) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Uchida, Satoshi Kuzuhara
  • Patent number: 9110231
    Abstract: An inner focus lens system, in order from an object side, comprising: a first lens unit including a most-object-side negative first lens element; a positive second lens unit; and a negative third lens unit, wherein an aperture diaphragm is included, the first lens unit, the third lens unit, and the aperture diaphragm are fixed relative to an image surface in focusing, the second lens unit moves relative to the image surface in the focusing, and the conditions: BF/Y<1.7 and TH/f>1.6 (BF: a distance from an apex of an image-side surface of a most-image-side lens element to the image surface, Y: a maximum image height, TH: a distance from an apex of an object-side surface of a most-object-side lens element to the apex of the image-side surface of the most-image-side lens element, f: a focal length of the lens system) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Yoshio Matsumura