Patents by Inventor Shinji Kimura
Shinji Kimura 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: 10559978Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an electric power reception apparatus and an electric power supply apparatus adapted to supply electric power to the electric power reception apparatus when the electric power reception apparatus is placed on the electric power supply apparatus. The electric power supply apparatus includes a plurality of electric power supply units adapted to supply electric power by electromagnetic induction to the electric power reception apparatus. A selection unit of the electric power supply apparatus selects, from the total plurality of electric power supply units, a plurality of electric power supply units whose location corresponds to a position where the electric power reception apparatus is placed, and a control unit controls the supply of electric power such that electric power is supplied to the electric power reception apparatus from the selected plurality of electric power supply units.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yosuke Kozuma, Shinpei Nishikawa, Shinji Kimura, Yusuke Hori, Goro Mikano, Yuuki Iwasaki, Shigetoshi Onitsuka
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Patent number: 10349827Abstract: A head mount-type vision testing device, which is a head-mount type vision testing device mounted on a testee's head, including: a device main body having display devices for displaying a visual target for the testee and imaging devices for imaging eyeballs of the testee; a mounting fixture for mounting the device main body on the testee's head; and a controller that displays images of the eyeballs imaged by the imaging devices on the display devices, so that the testee can recognize a positional displacement state of the eyeballs caused by a positional displacement of the device main body mounted on the testee's head using the mounting fixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenzo Yamanaka, Shinji Kimura
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Patent number: 10340344Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film is provided as being in contact with the first main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film such that the gate insulating film lies between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide substrate. In a first stress test in which a gate voltage of ?5 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., an absolute value of a difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage is not more than 0.5 V, with a threshold voltage before the first stress test being defined as the first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the first stress test being defined as the second threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Ryosuke Kubota, Shunsuke Yamada, Taku Horii, Takeyoshi Masuda, Daisuke Hamajima, So Tanaka, Shinji Kimura, Masayuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20190179517Abstract: A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: c/o Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Shuji HIRAMATSU, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Taku SUGAWARA, Shinji KIMURA, Yumiko TANAKA, George ARRIOLA, Carsten SCHWESIG
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Patent number: 10318124Abstract: A screen generating unit 287 generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor 204. The screen generating unit 287 further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Taku Sugawara, Shinji Kimura, Yumiko Tanaka, George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig
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Publication number: 20190174093Abstract: A picture presentation system 1 presents a user U with a picture where a virtual image Di is created in a space in front of the user U. The picture presentation system 1 includes a hologram mirror 10 configured to reflect a picture composed of light of a specific wavelength at an angle different from an angle of incidence and transmit light other than the light of the specific wavelength, and a screen 20 configured to display the picture toward the hologram mirror. The hologram mirror 10, being placed opposite to the user U, reflects the picture from the screen 20 in such a way that the user U can visually recognize the virtual image Di of the picture at a position on the opposite side from the user U across the hologram mirror 10 (arrow AR1).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shinji KIMURA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Yuji ABURAKAWA, Shunsuke IGARASHI, Tomoya NAKAMURA, Masahiro YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190146558Abstract: A mobile terminal that prevents a display screen from finely blurring according to expansion and contraction of a flexible display. When a variation in a sensor value detected by a rotation angle sensor is greater than a range based on a predetermined threshold value, the image processing unit performs control for changing a display size of display information to be displayed on a flexible display. Thus, it is possible to absorb shaking based on a rewinding force of a mainspring in a storage unit and to prevent blurring of the display information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Maki OHATA, Makoto TAKIMOTO, Shinji KIMURA
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Patent number: 10226170Abstract: A small-sized head-mount type vision testing device, which is mounted on a testee's head, including: a display device that presents a visual target to an eyeball of the testee; a display optical system that guides light of the visual target presented on the device to the retina; an imaging device that images the eyeball; and an observation optical system that guides an image of the eyeball to the imaging device, and further including a mirror that reflects light of a specific wavelength and transmits the other light at a point closer to the eyeball side than the display device, wherein an optical axis from a pupil to the mirror in the display optical system and an optical axis from the pupil to the mirror in the observation optical system, coincide with each other, and the optical axes are bent through the mirror.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenzo Yamanaka, Shinji Kimura
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Publication number: 20190042014Abstract: A withdrawal amount calculation unit calculates a withdrawal amount of a display portion and transmits the withdrawal amount to a display control unit. In a case where a display width of the display portion based on the withdrawal amount exceeds a display threshold value, the display control unit causes the display portion to display second content together with first content. In this manner, in a case where the withdrawal amount is detected and the display width based on the withdrawal amount exceeds the threshold value, content (the second content) other than the first content is displayed. Therefore, it is possible to display a plurality of contents only when it is better to output the plurality of contents to the user according to a withdrawal operation of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Maki OHATA, Makoto TAKIMOTO, Shinji KIMURA, Kinya TAGAWA
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Patent number: 10130251Abstract: A vision testing device and a vision testing program are capable of obtaining a correct test result while reducing an accumulation of fatigue added on one of the eyes of a testee, including: image displays that present a light for suppressing a dark adaptation for both eyes of a testee; and image displays that present a target for an eye (L, R, or both) of the testee so that the target is presented for one of the eyes before the vision testing for the other eye is ended.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Fumitaka Sudou, Shinji Kimura, Kenzo Yamanaka, Tsuyoshi Onaka
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Publication number: 20180316798Abstract: In a communication system, a PBX, a smartphone, and a communication adapter are connected. When detecting an event related to a call such as an incoming call and an outgoing call, the communication adapter transmits information on the event to the smartphone through BLE communication with the smartphone. The smartphone makes a notification of the occurrence of the event, based on the information on the event transmitted from the communication adapter. After the notification of the occurrence of the event, the communication adapter transmits an Invite command, “180” command, or the like to the PBX.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Ikko FUJIMURA, Miki AYUKAWA, Shinji IKEGAMI, Masao OHMOTO, Shinji KIMURA, Masahisa OKUDA
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Patent number: 10111585Abstract: When displaying visual targets on a planar display element and performing vision examinations, the size of the visual target visible to the subject changes according to the position at which the visual target is displayed. This vision examination device includes: a planar display element that displays visual targets to a subject of a vision examination; and a display optical system provided upon an optical axis between an eyeball position at which an eyeball of the subject is arranged and a display screen of the planar display element. The display optical system includes an f-? optical system having a proportional relationship between an image height on the display screen of the planar display element and the angle of incidence ? for the main light rays when the subject views the visual target through the display optical system from the eyeball position.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Kenzo Yamanaka, Shinji Kimura
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Publication number: 20180271359Abstract: A head mount-type vision testing device, which is a head-mount type vision testing device mounted on a testee's head, including: a device main body having display devices for displaying a visual target for the testee and imaging devices for imaging eyeballs of the testee; a mounting fixture for mounting the device main body on the testee's head; and a controller that displays images of the eyeballs imaged by the imaging devices on the display devices, so that the testee can recognize a positional displacement state of the eyeballs caused by a positional displacement of the device main body mounted on the testee's head using the mounting fixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi INOUE, Kenzo YAMANAKA, Shinji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20180252927Abstract: Physical burden when a head-mounted display is mounted to the head of a user for use is reduced. A head-mounted display unit includes a head-mounted display, and a fixing stand configured so as to enable the attachment and detachment of the head-mounted display, and to enable the head-mounted display to be mounted in a fixed state. The fixing stand includes a base member, a support column projecting perpendicularly upwards from the base member, a pedestal mount attached to an upper end portion of the support column, a retaining member attached to the pedestal mount, a clamping implement, and a chin rest. The fixing stand is configured such that the head-mounted display is detachably mounted to the retaining member using the clamping implement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi INOUE, Hiroki SATO, Kenzo YAMANAKA, Shinji KIMURA
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Patent number: 10028007Abstract: A home screen display unit arranges and displays a plurality of content icons indicating a plurality of pieces of content in a first area in a content zone screen. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor and if a preset determination operation is performed, a content playback unit starts playback of the content indicated by the focused icon. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor, a related information acquiring unit acquires related information relating to the content that is indicated by the focused icon that is registered in an external device from the external device without starting playback of the content. A home screen display unit displays the acquired related information in a second area of the content zone screen and displays, if related information is updated, the updated related information in the second area so as to replace the related information displayed until that moment.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Patent number: 10014258Abstract: The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film. The interlayer insulating film is provided to cover the gate electrode. The interlayer insulating film includes a first insulating film which is in contact with the gate electrode, contains silicon atoms, and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms, a second insulating film which is provided on the first insulating film and contains silicon atoms and at least one of phosphorus atoms and boron atoms, and a third insulating film which contains silicon atoms and contains neither phosphorus atoms nor boron atoms. The second insulating film has a first surface which is in contact with the first insulating film, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface which connects the first surface and the second surface. The third insulating film is in contact with at least one of the second surface and the third surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Yamada, So Tanaka, Daisuke Hamajima, Shinji Kimura, Masayuki Kobayashi, Masaki Kijima, Maki Hamada
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Publication number: 20180168443Abstract: A vision testing device capable of reducing a psychological sense of uneasiness, stress and the like given to a testee when a vision test is performed with a main body of the vision testing device mounted on a head portion of the testee, including: a device main body mounted on a head portion of a testee who undergoes a vision test, and having display devices for displaying a test image for the testee and a camera for photographing an external image; a switch operated by the testee; and a display control unit which performs switching of display images to be displayed on display devices between a test image and the external image photographed by the camera when the switch is operated under a predetermined operation condition in a state that the test image is displayed on the display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: CREWT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Satoshi INOUE, Kenzo YAMANAKA, Shinji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20180138275Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film is provided as being in contact with the first main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film such that the gate insulating film lies between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide substrate. In a first stress test in which a gate voltage of ?5 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., an absolute value of a difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage is not more than 0.5 V, with a threshold voltage before the first stress test being defined as the first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the first stress test being defined as the second threshold voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Ryosuke Kubota, Shunsuke Yamada, Taku Horii, Takeyoshi Masuda, Daisuke Hamajima, So Tanaka, Shinji Kimura, Masayuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20180069422Abstract: An electric power supply system includes an electric power reception apparatus and an electric power supply apparatus adapted to supply electric power to the electric power reception apparatus when the electric power reception apparatus is placed on the electric power supply apparatus. The electric power supply apparatus includes a plurality of electric power supply units adapted to supply electric power by electromagnetic induction to the electric power reception apparatus. A selection unit of the electric power supply apparatus selects, from the total plurality of electric power supply units, a plurality of electric power supply units whose location corresponds to a position where the electric power reception apparatus is placed, and a control unit controls the supply of electric power such that electric power is supplied to the electric power reception apparatus from the selected plurality of electric power supply units.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: YOSUKE KOZUMA, SHINPEI NISHIKAWA, SHINJI KIMURA, YUSUKE HORI, GORO MIKANO, YUUKI IWASAKI, SHIGETOSHI ONITSUKA
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Patent number: 9905653Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The gate insulating film is provided as being in contact with the first main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film such that the gate insulating film lies between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide substrate. In a first stress test in which a gate voltage of ?5 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., an absolute value of a difference between a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage is not more than 0.5 V, with a threshold voltage before the first stress test being defined as the first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the first stress test being defined as the second threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Ryosuke Kubota, Shunsuke Yamada, Taku Horii, Takeyoshi Masuda, Daisuke Hamajima, So Tanaka, Shinji Kimura, Masayuki Kobayashi