Patents by Inventor Takahiro Muraguchi

Takahiro Muraguchi 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: 20200236457
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 10645482
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Publication number: 20190253784
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 10299026
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Publication number: 20140348341
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 8842850
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Publication number: 20120082321
    Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 6175637
    Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type acoustic transducer apparatus including a magnetic gap formed between a plate and a pole piece serving as assemblies of a magnetic circuit, a conductive ring attached to a diaphragm, the diaphragm interposed within the magnetic gap for generating sounds when it is vibrated, and a flat coil disposed in the plate or the pole piece at the position opposing the magnetic gap and of which winding is increased from the vibration direction of the diaphragm to the direction perpendicular to the vibration direction of the diaphragm, wherein a width of the magnetic gap can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Fujihira, Makoto Yamagishi, Jun Kishigami, Takahiro Muraguchi, Kenji Tokushige, Ikuo Shinohara
  • Patent number: 6160894
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus capable of reproducing from low-pitched to high-pitched sounds and a voice reproduction system employing the same. The speaker apparatus includes a speaker unit in which a primary coil is mounted in a gap portion between a plate and a center pole of a magnetic circuit, a secondary coil is disposed within the gap in such a manner as to be fixed to a vibration plate, and a secondary electric current is induced in the secondary coil by a signal current flowing through a primary coil, thereby operating the vibration plate; and a speaker driving circuit adapted to drive the primary coil of the speaker unit in accordance with a digital sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Kishigami, Masao Fujihira, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 6035052
    Abstract: An electromagnetic induction type acoustic transducer including a plate as an assembly of a magnetic circuit and having an opening of a predetermined diameter about a central axis, a pole piece as an assembly of the magnetic circuit and protruded on the central axis, having an outer peripheral diameter smaller than the opening of the plate and having an upper surface located lower than a lower surface of an opening peripheral portion of the plate by a predetermined distance, a lower surface portion of the opening peripheral portion of the plate and an upper surface portion of the pole piece constitute a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit,a diaphragm vibrated in the upper and lower direction on the central axis at the position perpendicular to the central axis in the predetermined distance, an annular ring attached to the diaphragm at the position of the magnetic gap, and a coil attached to the plate and/or pole piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Fujihira, Makoto Yamagishi, Jun Kishigami, Takahiro Muraguchi, Ikuo Shinohara
  • Patent number: 5909496
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus which drives an electromagnetic-coupling-type speaker in accordance with a digital signal is provided with a speaker unit, and a plurality of amplifiers corresponding to the number of quantization bits of a digital audio signal. The output terminals of the amplifiers are connected to the respective primary coils, respectively, and the output impedances of the plurality of the amplifiers are made equal to those of the respective primary coils to which the amplifiers are connected. Each bit of each sample of the digital audio signal is amplified by the plurality of the amplifiers and supplied to the respective primary coils, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Kishigami, Masao Fujihira, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 5862237
    Abstract: A speaker device driving drive coils of a speaker such as an electromagnetically coupled speaker by digital sound signals, where a primary coil of the speaker unit is constituted by 15 pieces of coils, the coils are made to correspond to respective bits excluding MSB of a digital sound of 16 bits issued from a serial/parallel converter, each of the coils are connected in a bridge connection to 4 pieces of FETs respectively opposed to each other and constant current sources are connected to the bridge connection portions whereby a coil drive circuit is constituted, currents from the constant current sources are respectively supplied to the coils and a variable resistor is adjusted by which voltages are changed and the currents of the constant current sources are commonly controlled whereby the volume of the speaker is finely driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Kishigami, Masao Fujihira, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 5668883
    Abstract: A headphone includes an acoustic pipe, a loudspeaker unit, a microphone unit and a feedback circuit. The acoustic pipe has an inner diameter substantially equal to that of an external auditory canal. The acoustic pipe has a mounting portion provided at an end thereof for being mounted on the outer ear and has an acoustically non-reflective end at the other end thereof. The loudspeaker unit is provided on one side of the acoustic pipe with a sound emitting face thereof opposed to the inside of the acoustic pipe. The microphone unit is provided on the one side of the acoustic pipe with a sound collecting face thereof opposed to the inside of the acoustic pipe. The feedback circuit feeds back an output signal of the microphone unit to an input side of the loudspeaker unit. The feedback circuit includes an equalizing section. The output signal of the microphone unit is supplied to the loudspeaker unit by way of the equalizing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kensaku Abe, Takahiro Muraguchi
  • Patent number: 5432874
    Abstract: A light signal transmitting apparatus having first and second light signal terminals and two optical fibers for coupling the first and second light signal terminals to transmit light signals in the opposite directions. The first light signal terminal comprises a separating device for separating a multiplexed light signal in which first and second light signals are multiplexed, first and second light-sensing devices for receiving the first and second light signals thus separated, a detecting circuit for generating a detection signal on the basis of a received output of the second light-sensing device, and a first light emitting device controlled by the detecting circuit so that the first light emitting device emits a third light signal of sufficiently high output level when the second light signal is detected by the detecting circuit and that the first light emitting device emits a third light signal of low output level or disabled when the second light signal is not detected by the detecting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Muraguchi