Patents by Inventor So Nishimura

So Nishimura 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: 20240154236
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: an electric motor that generates rotational power by which a driving wheel is driven; a battery case defining a battery accommodating space accommodating at least one battery; connectors that are located in the battery case, accommodated in the battery accommodating space, and electrically connected to respective terminals of the battery; and electric power lines through which electric power of the battery is supplied to the electric motor. The electric power lines include a connection circuit that includes a connection portion where the electric power lines extending from the connectors are connected to each other, the connection portion being located in an adjacent region located adjacent to the connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: So NISHIMURA, Hiroshi TAKEUCHI, Motoki KAJI
  • Patent number: 9282300
    Abstract: A projector includes a screen having a periodic array of color stripes for producing visible light depending on incident light, a light source that remits a light beam, a projection unit that scans an area of the screen where the color stripes are disposed, with the light beam in a direction across the color stripes, to display an image on the screen, a detector that detects the visible light from each of the color stripes as a feedback light pulse, and a controller that adjusts a start-of-emission timing of the light source based on a start-of-detection timing at which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector and a detection period during which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector, and controlling the light source to emit the light beam in order to apply light pulses to the color stripes within boundaries thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiho Yanagita, Osamu Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Aoki, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9140967
    Abstract: A projection screen includes: phosphor regions arranged cyclically in an in-plane direction of a display region; a plurality of black stripes and reference black stripes that partition the display region into the phosphor regions; and an optical information formation unit that is provided in a specific position within the display region and that generates readable optical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Aoki, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura, Yoshiho Yanagita, Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 9069171
    Abstract: There are provided a video projection device and a video projection method which can realize both a guarantee of safety and an increase in luminance of a screen. The video projection device includes: a laser light source unit which emits a laser; a laser scanning unit which is provided with one or more scanning directions and project video by performing a reciprocating scan of the laser with respect to a scanning direction with the highest scanning frequency; and a control unit which controls operations of the laser light source unit and the laser scanning unit depending on a video signal so that a scanning angle when emission of the laser in an outgoing path is stopped is different from a scanning angle when emission of the laser in a return path is started with respect to the scanning direction along which the reciprocating scan is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: So Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8960919
    Abstract: An image projection device includes a number-of-times measurement section that measures the number of passage times that the scanned laser light has passed through the light radiation members, a time measurement section that is triggered to measure an elapsed time when the number-of-times measurement section measures the number of passage times, an arithmetic section that calculates an initial timing at which the laser light source section starts outputting the laser light based on the measurement results of the number-of-times measurement section and the time measurement section, and a signal generation section that generates the switch signal at the initial timing calculated by the arithmetic section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140226133
    Abstract: Provided is a multiprojection system capable of preventing degradation in the quality of a displayed image to be while allowing detection of light that an adjacent projector projects to form an image. A plurality of projector units (1) each projects a formed image in such a way that the plurality of formed images are joined with each other to form a single displayed image. The plurality of formed images are projected on screen (10). A light transmitting, low refractivity layer (33) is provided at at least a part of a boundary line between the formed images on screen (10) and along the boundary line. A pair of light transmitting members (31 and 32) have a refractive index higher than the refractive index of low refractivity layer (33) and is provided so that the pair of light transmitting members (31 and 32) sandwich low refractivity layer (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: So Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8648964
    Abstract: A multi-projection display system is provided with a plurality of sensor units corresponding to projector units. The sensor units detect brightness for each color in a projected image that is projected on a screen and supply the detection results. The projector unit generates a brightness correction table on the basis of the image signal of a specific picture element of the projected image realized by an adjacent projector unit and on the basis of the brightness of the specific picture element of the projected image of the adjacent projector unit that is detected by a sensor unit for matching the brightness of the image projected by its own projector unit with that of the adjacent projector unit, refers to the brightness correction table to correct brightness for each color of the image signals that are received as input, and projects onto a screen the light of each color in accordance with the corrected image signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishibashi, Yoshiho Yanagita, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130335390
    Abstract: A multi-projection display includes: a plurality of projector units; a plurality of optical sensors that are provided corresponding to each of the projector units; and a main control unit that both causes adjustment images to be projected by each of the projector units and vertically synchronizes each projected adjustment image. Each projector unit acquires by a respective optical sensor brightness values of the picture elements that are adjacent between the adjustment image that is projected by the projector unit and the adjustment images that are projected by other projector units and adjusts the brightness of the projected image based on the differences in the acquired brightness values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura, Yoshiho Yanagita, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130335641
    Abstract: A projection screen includes: phosphor regions arranged cyclically in an in-plane direction of a display region; a plurality of black stripes and reference black stripes that partition the display region into the phosphor regions; and an optical information formation unit that is provided in a specific position within the display region and that generates readable optical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Aoki, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura, Yoshiho Yanagita, Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130278906
    Abstract: A projector includes a screen having a periodic array of color stripes for producing visible light depending on incident light, a light source that remits a light beam, a projection unit that scans an area of the screen where the color stripes are disposed, with the light beam in a direction across the color stripes, to display an image on the screen, a detector that detects the visible light from each of the color stripes as a feedback light pulse, and a controller that adjusts a start-of-emission timing of the light source based on a start-of-detection timing at which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector and a detection period during which the feedback light pulse is detected by the detector, and controlling the light source to emit the light beam in order to apply light pulses to the color stripes within boundaries thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshiho Yanagita, Osamu Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Aoki, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130229580
    Abstract: A multi-projection display system is provided with a plurality of sensor units corresponding to projector units. The sensor units detect brightness for each color in a projected image that is projected on a screen and supply the detection results. The projector unit generates a brightness correction table on the basis of the image signal of a specific picture element of the projected image realized by an adjacent projector unit and on the basis of the brightness of the specific picture element of the projected image of the adjacent projector unit that is detected by a sensor unit for matching the brightness of the image projected by its own projector unit with that of the adjacent projector unit, refers to the brightness correction table to correct brightness for each color of the image signals that are received as input, and projects onto a screen the light of each color in accordance with the corrected image signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ishibashi, Yoshiho Yanagita, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130229630
    Abstract: A projector includes a screen which has color stripes that are periodically arranged and that generate visible light corresponding to incident light. A laser light source section emits a light beam. A laser scanning section scans the light beam on a region of the color stripes arranged on the screen. A light detection section detects feedback light radiated from the screen corresponding to the light beam. A control section adjusts a light emission timing and a light emission period of the laser light source section based on a detection result of the light detection section and causes the laser light source section to emit the light beam such that light pulses enter the individual color stripes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: So Nishimura, Osamu Ishibashi, Yoshiho Yanagita
  • Publication number: 20130222775
    Abstract: An image projection device includes a number-of-times measurement section that measures the number of passage times that the scanned laser light has passed through the light radiation members, a time measurement section that is triggered to measure an elapsed time when the number-of-times measurement section measures the number of passage times, an arithmetic section that calculates an initial timing at which the laser light source section starts outputting the laser light based on the measurement results of the number-of-times measurement section and the time measurement section, and a signal generation section that generates the switch signal at the initial timing calculated by the arithmetic section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20120327049
    Abstract: There are provided a video projection device and a video projection method which can realize both a guarantee of safety and an increase in luminance of a screen. The video projection device includes: a laser light source unit which emits a laser; a laser scanning unit which is provided with one or more scanning directions and project video by performing a reciprocating scan of the laser with respect to a scanning direction with the highest scanning frequency; and a control unit which controls operations of the laser light source unit and the laser scanning unit depending on a video signal so that a scanning angle when emission of the laser in an outgoing path is stopped is different from a scanning angle when emission of the laser in a return path is started with respect to the scanning direction along which the reciprocating scan is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: So Nishimura