Patents by Inventor Tetsuyuki Miyawaki
Tetsuyuki Miyawaki 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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Publication number: 20210385394Abstract: The present technology relates to solid-state imaging apparatuses and electronic equipment, each of which is capable of contributing to an increased sense of resolution at an outer peripheral portion of an image photographed by using a wide-angle lens. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array section in which a plurality of pixels is arranged such that a pixel pitch becomes smaller at a greater distance away from a central portion toward an outer peripheral portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, solid-state imaging apparatuses and the like suited for photographing by using a wide-angle lens such as a fisheye lens used in a 360-degree panoramic camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: TETSUYUKI MIYAWAKI, RYOJI SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10209516Abstract: An apparatus includes a user action state obtaining circuit configured to obtain an action state of a user; and a display control circuit configured to control a display to modify display information based on the action state.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Takuro Noda, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kenji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20170255010Abstract: An apparatus includes a user action state obtaining circuit configured to obtain an action state of a user; and a display control circuit configured to control a display to modify display information based on the action state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Takuro Noda, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kenji Suzuki
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Patent number: 9709809Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Patent number: 9678342Abstract: An apparatus includes a user action state obtaining circuit configured to obtain an action state of a user; and a display control circuit configured to control a display to modify display information based on the action state.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Takuro Noda, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kenji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20170115492Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Patent number: 9569897Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Patent number: 9201242Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Publication number: 20150269784Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Publication number: 20150153570Abstract: An apparatus includes a user action state obtaining circuit configured to obtain an action state of a user; and a display control circuit configured to control a display to modify display information based on the action state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Takuro Noda, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kenji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20150143283Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control circuit configured to control a display to display content; and a user input circuit configured to receive a command from the user. The display control circuit is configured to modify scrolling of the content being automatically scrolled in a first direction based on the command from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Noda, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki
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Patent number: 8907865Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Publication number: 20140347252Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Patent number: 8220929Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source and an optical system including a light modulation unit having pixels for generating a two-dimensional image by modulating light from the light source by the respective pixels and emitting a spatial frequency in the generated two-dimensional image along a diffraction angle corresponding to diffraction orders generated from the respective pixels, a Fourier transform image formation unit for performing Fourier transform on the spatial frequency in the two-dimensional image to generate Fourier transform images corresponding to the diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection unit for selecting a Fourier transform image corresponding to a desired diffraction order among the Fourier transform images, and a conjugate image formation unit for forming a conjugate image of the selected Fourier transform image, and further includes a semi-transmissive mirror for changing a light ray travelling direction emitted from the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki
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Publication number: 20110248904Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical position adjustment method of a head mounted display, the head mounted display including (a) an eyeglass type frame worn on the head of a viewer, and (b) two image display devices for the right and left eyes attached to the frame, and each of the image display devices including (A) an image forming device, and (B) an optical device adapted to receive, guide and emit light emitted from the image forming device, wherein the optical position adjustment method includes the step of: controlling an image signal that is supplied to the image forming device making up at least one of the image display devices so as to control the position of the image displayed on the optical device making up at least one of the image display devices and adjust the mutual positions of the two images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Ikuo Matsumura
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Publication number: 20110043909Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: a light source configured to emit light from a plurality of light emitting positions disposed discretely; optical modulation means for including a plurality of pixels and configured such that a plurality of light beams successively emitted from the different light emitting positions of the light source and having different incoming directions from each other are modulated individually by the pixels to generate two-dimensional images and spatial frequencies of the generated two-dimensional images are individually emitted along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders generated from the pixels; and Fourier transform image forming means for Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional images emitted from the optical modulation means to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the plural number of diffraction orders to form the Fourier transform images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Xueming Yu
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Publication number: 20090303597Abstract: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source and an optical system including a light modulation unit having pixels for generating a two-dimensional image by modulating light from the light source by the respective pixels and emitting a spatial frequency in the generated two-dimensional image along a diffraction angle corresponding to diffraction orders generated from the respective pixels, a Fourier transform image formation unit for performing Fourier transform on the spatial frequency in the two-dimensional image to generate Fourier transform images corresponding to the diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection unit for selecting a Fourier transform image corresponding to a desired diffraction order among the Fourier transform images, and a conjugate image formation unit for forming a conjugate image of the selected Fourier transform image, and further includes a semi-transmissive mirror for changing a light ray travelling direction emitted from the optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090015917Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: (A) a light source including U0×V0 planar light emitting members disposed in a two-dimensional matrix; (B) an optical modulation section having a plurality of pixels modulating light beams successively outputted from the planar light emitting members by section of each of the pixels to produce a two-dimensional image and emitting spatial frequencies of the produced two-dimensional image along a plurality of diffraction angles corresponding to different diffraction orders produced from the pixels; and (C) a Fourier transform image forming section Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional image emitted from the optical modulation section to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the number of diffraction orders and forming the Fourier transform images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Yoshio Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080192343Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus, including: a light source configured to emit light from a plurality of light emitting positions disposed discretely; optical modulation means for including a plurality of pixels and configured such that a plurality of light beams successively emitted from the different light emitting positions of the light source and having different incoming directions from each other are modulated individually by the pixels to generate two-dimensional images and spatial frequencies of the generated two-dimensional images are individually emitted along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders generated from the pixels; and Fourier transform image forming means for Fourier transforming the spatial frequencies of the two-dimensional images emitted from the optical modulation means to produce a number of Fourier transform images corresponding to the plural number of diffraction orders to form the Fourier transform images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Xueming Yu
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Publication number: 20060290777Abstract: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a light source, a light modulation section modulates light from the light source by means of pixels to produce two-dimensional images and emits a spatial frequency of the produced two-dimensional images along diffraction angles corresponding to a plurality of diffraction orders produced from each pixel, a Fourier transform image formation section Fourier transforms the spatial frequency of the two-dimensional images emitted from the light modulation section to produce Fourier transform images whose number corresponds to the number of diffraction orders, a Fourier transform image selection section selects one of the Fourier transform images produced by the Fourier transform section which corresponds to a desired diffraction order, a conjugate image formation section forms a conjugate image of the Fourier transform image selected by the Fourier transform image selection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Kyohei Iwamoto, Yoshio Suzuki, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki, Qingyu Lu