Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Shiroishi

Tetsuya Shiroishi 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).

  • Patent number: 11962972
    Abstract: To enhance a sound image localization effect and to ensure a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity. Provided is a display in which an image is displayed in a display surface, a rear cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a first speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover, and a second speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover and positioned higher than the first speaker. The second speaker outputs audio according to operation of a piezoelectric element, and has a higher audio output band than the first speaker. This enables a user to feel as if the audio is being output from the display being viewed, which enhances the sound image localization effect and ensures a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Tatsuya Sakata, Tetsuya Shiroishi, Shigemi Oguchi, Kazumasa Okamoto, Ryosuke Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20220078560
    Abstract: To enhance a sound image localization effect and to ensure a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity. Provided is a display in which an image is displayed in a display surface, a rear cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a first speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover, and a second speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover and positioned higher than the first speaker. The second speaker outputs audio according to operation of a piezoelectric element, and has a higher audio output band than the first speaker. This enables a user to feel as if the audio is being output from the display being viewed, which enhances the sound image localization effect and ensures a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI, TATSUYA SAKATA, TETSUYA SHIROISHI, SHIGEMI OGUCHI, KAZUMASA OKAMOTO, RYOSUKE NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 7537505
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a field emission display having an improved electron emission effect by means of laser irradiation and accordingly mitigating a luminance fluctuation among pixels, and other such techniques. Provided is a method of manufacturing a field emission display which includes a cathode substrate and a fluorescent screen glass opposed to the cathode substrate and emits light when an electron emitted from a carbon nanotube printed layer (7) containing a carbon nanotube of the cathode electrode enters a fluorescent material of the fluorescent screen glass, the method including a laser beam irradiation step of irradiating a surface of the carbon nanotube printed layer (7) with a laser beam having its energy density to be spatially modulated to expose and raise the carbon nanotube of the carbon nanotube printed layer so as to form a laser irradiation part (B) and a non-laser irradiation part (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shiroishi, Akihiko Hosono, Shuhei Nakata, Yoshihito Imai, Takaaki Iwata
  • Publication number: 20070293189
    Abstract: A navigation device that transmits data on a user's voice to a communication party, the voice data being acquired by a microphone, receives data on the communication party's voice, and offers the communication-party-voice data to the user is provided. The navigation device includes a voice-data-generation unit that generates guide-voice data, a voice-output unit that offers a guide voice to the user, a voice-data-analysis unit that measures a pitch of the communication party's voice by analyzing the communication-party-voice data, and a voice-data-variable unit that makes a pitch of the guide voice variable, so as to make the difference between the pitches of the communication party's voice and the guide voice significant on the basis of the analysis result when the communication party's voice and the guide voice are offered to the user at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya SHIROISHI
  • Publication number: 20050221710
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a field emission display having an improved electron emission effect by means of laser irradiation and accordingly mitigating a luminance fluctuation among pixels, and other such techniques. Provided is a method of manufacturing a field emission display which includes a cathode substrate and a fluorescent screen glass opposed to the cathode substrate and emits light when an electron emitted from a carbon nanotube printed layer (7) containing a carbon nanotube of the cathode electrode enters a fluorescent material of the fluorescent screen glass, the method including a laser beam irradiation step of irradiating a surface of the carbon nanotube printed layer (7) with a laser beam having its energy density to be spatially modulated to expose and raise the carbon nanotube of the carbon nanotube printed layer so as to form a laser irradiation part (B) and a non-laser irradiation part (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shiroishi, Akihiko Hosono, Shuhei Nakata, Yoshihito Imai, Takaaki Iwata
  • Patent number: 6664725
    Abstract: A CRT electron gun of the present invention has a cathode for emitting electrons toward a screen as a display face, a G2 electrode to which a voltage higher than that of the cathode is applied, a Gm electrode to which a predetermined voltage is applied, and a G3 electrode to which a voltage higher than that of the G2 electrode is applied, wherein at least those three electrodes are provided with an electron-passing opening and are arranged on the same axis in that order from the side of the cathode, and the potential of the aforementioned cathode is varied to vary the amount of electrons to be drawn; and in this, a configuration is made such that the lowest potential on the axis in a portion where the aforementioned Gm electrode exists substantially agrees with the maximum potential in a range where the potential of the aforementioned cathode varies, and a part of the electrons drawn from the aforementioned cathode flows into at least one of the aforementioned G2 electrode and the aforementioned Gm electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shiroishi, Syuhei Nakata
  • Publication number: 20010000942
    Abstract: A conventional CRT electron gun causes problems in that a great power is required for driving, and an unnecessary electromagnetic wave is large since about 45V width is driven at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: May 10, 2001
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shiroishi, Syuhei Nakata
  • Patent number: 5990608
    Abstract: An electron gun provides an improved focusing characteristic of electron beams surely and effectively, and permits position alignment to be relatively easy in assembling thereof. In an electron gun which includes a cathode for discharging electrons and a plurality of grids each having electron passing-through holes for guiding the electrons discharged from the cathode unidirectionally, an electron dischargeable region is formed in an electron discharging plane of the cathode, which is band-shaped. In addition, the length of the band-shaped area constituting the electron dischargeable region on its shorter side is less than 80% of the diameter of the area from where electrons are discharged when a practical maximum current is taken out without limiting the electron dischargeable region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Shiroishi
  • Patent number: 5604394
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image display apparatus which is light and thin and is manufactured with reduced cost and which assures a clear image with no luminance unevenness over the entire screen. The image display apparatus includes: a string like hot cathode for emitting electrons; a perforated cover electrode for leading out and accelerating the electrons emitted from the cathode; a control electrode disposed substantially parallel with the cathode and having an electron-pass aperture permitting an electron beam to pass therethrough, the control electrode being adapted to control the electron beam; a luminous element which emits light when irradiated with the electron beam and is disposed on a curved surface; and a focusing electrode disposed between the control electrode and the luminous element, the focusing electrode being divided into focusing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Saito, Ryo Suzuki, Tetsuya Shiroishi, Kouichi Sakurai, Yoshio Yamane, Hidenobu Murakami
  • Patent number: 5557590
    Abstract: An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a disc-shaped recording medium records and/or reproduces information signals on or from the recording medium having an information recording region for recording information signals and a table-of-contents region for recording at least the number data and the title data of the information signals recorded in the information recording region. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a recording and/or reproducing unit and a display unit. Within the recording and/or reproducing unit, a plurality of disc-shaped recording media are disposed and arranged co-planarly in a side-by-side relation to one another. The recording and/or reproducing unit records the information signals on a selected one of the disc-shaped recording media and/or reproduces the information signals from the selected disc-shaped recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Matsumoto, Akira Shinada, Tetsuya Shiroishi
  • Patent number: 5436530
    Abstract: A flat display apparatus is disclosed which includes a grid interposed between and spaced apart from control electrodes and an electron source. The grid which includes holes has a higher potential applied than the one applied to a cathode so as to enable electrons to pass through the holes. An additional grid may be interposed between and spaced apart from the grid and the control electrodes. Alternatively, a rear electrode is located between adjacent porous cover electrodes to connect them, and a second rear electrode is located near the rear electrode and has a lower potential applied than the one applied to the cover electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryo Suzuki, Masato Saito, Tetsuya Shiroishi, Takuya Ohira, Yoshiko Fujima, Keiji Fukuyama, Keiji Watanabe