Patents by Inventor Tsubasa Tsukahara

Tsubasa Tsukahara 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: 8847883
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an input apparatus including an input apparatus main body with which input manipulation is performed to manipulate a manipulation target object, a first manipulation detection unit that detects a first manipulation on the input apparatus main body, a second manipulation detection unit that detects a second manipulation on the input apparatus main body after the first manipulation is detected, and a first processing unit that performs first processing for manipulation on the manipulation target object or a first response of the input apparatus, based on a movement detection value corresponding to movement of the input apparatus main body according to the first manipulation or a detection value of the first manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Hideo Kawabe
  • Patent number: 8810517
    Abstract: Provided is an input apparatus including an input operation section, a capacitive sensor, and an output section. The input operation section includes an operation member configured to mechanically receive an input operation, and a first detection circuit configured to detect the input operation of the operation member. The capacitive sensor includes a plurality of electrodes which are arranged around the operation member, and each of which has a capacitance variable due to an approaching of a detection target, and a second detection circuit configured to detect the capacitance of each of the plurality of electrodes. The output section is configured to output an output of the first detection circuit and an output of the second detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Osamu Ito, Shinobu Kuriya, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20140204062
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main body and an input operation unit. The main body includes a display unit configured to be capable of presenting an image to a user, and is configured to be mountable on a head of the user. The input operation unit includes an operating element having a longitudinal direction in a direction of a first axis, is configured to be capable of electrostatically detecting a first operation on the operating element along the direction of the first axis and detecting a second operation on the operating element along a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the direction of the first axis, and is provided to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Daisuke Kawakami, Shinobu Kuriya, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Hisako Sugano, Hirotaka Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8770773
    Abstract: A light source device capable of suppressing generation of color unevenness, and a display device using the same are provided. The light source device 1 is provided with a plurality of excitation light sources 11 which are arranged at prescribed intervals D on a substrate 10 and emit blue light, and a phosphor layer 12 which converts part of the blue light emitted from the excitation light sources into red light and green light and arranged at a distance from the excitation light sources 11 to oppose the substrate 10. Fluctuation of intensity of each color light due to nonuniform application of the phosphor layer is difficult to occur as compared with a configuration in the past where the phosphor layer is formed adjacent to each excitation light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Yoshida, Shozo Masuda, Naoji Nada, Yasushi Ito, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 8723797
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a key array having a key layout in which rows of input keys parallel to a first direction are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the input keys belonging to one row are shifted in the first direction to the input keys belonging to another row; first wiring electrodes routed between the input keys at intervals in the first direction and each having a capacitance changed by proximity of a detection target; second wiring electrodes routed along the first direction to thread through the rows and each having the capacitance; and a control unit to generate a control signal including a first signal on a position of the detection target along the first direction based on the capacitances of the first and second wiring electrodes and a shift amount of the input keys in each row in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Osamu Ito, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8677820
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes: an input apparatus main body that is used to make an input for operating an operation target; a grip detection portion configured to detect that a user has gripped the input apparatus main body with a predetermined force or more; a motion detection portion configured to detect a movement of the input apparatus main body and output a movement detection value corresponding to the movement of the input apparatus main body; a controller configured to execute, while/after the grip of the input apparatus main body is being detected by the grip detection portion, processing for controlling the operation target based on the movement detection value; and a first response portion configured to return, when at least the grip of the input apparatus main body is detected by the grip detection portion, a first response to the user irrespective of the control of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Hideo Kawabe, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 8677838
    Abstract: There is provided a contact-pressure detecting apparatus including a base, at least three pressure-sensitive sensors, and a plurality of plates. The base has an arbitrary shape. The at least three pressure-sensitive sensors are provided on different vertex positions of a polygon having at least three corners, respectively, the polygon being set on each of a plurality of areas partitioning at least part of an area on a surface of the base. The plurality of plates are arranged corresponding to the areas of the base, respectively, the plurality of plates covering the surface of the base by sandwiching the at least three pressure-sensitive sensors with the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kawabe, Masatoshi Ueno, Shinobu Kuriya, Kenichi Kabasawa, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20140062841
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main body, an operation unit, and a controller. The main body includes a display unit capable of displaying an image in front of an eye of a user. The operation unit includes a buffer that is connected to the main body and deformable with respect to the main body, and a first detector configured to output a detection signal depending on the deformation. The controller is configured to generate an image signal for generating an image based on the detection signal and to output the image signal to the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takeshi Iwatsu, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Masatoshi Ueno, Tetsuro Goto, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Shinobu Kuriya
  • Publication number: 20130300760
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a see-through display, an image mask generator, an image generator, and an image display unit. The see-through display is located before an eye of a user. The image mask generator is configured to generate an image mask. The image generator is configured to generate a display image with the image mask being overlapped with an original image. The image display unit is configured to display the display image on the see-through display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisako Sugano, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Daisuke Kawakami, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130265330
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: an image-taking unit configured to take an image of real scenery to thereby obtain real image; a marker-detecting unit configured to extract a marker image from the real image, the marker image being an image of marker projection light, the marker projection light being projected by a projection device to the real scenery in order to provide spatial first information, the first information being necessary to display virtual information such that the virtual information is superimposed on the real scenery, second information being added to the marker projection light; and an extracting unit configured to extract the second information added to the extracted marker image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Daisuke Kawakami, Shinobu Kuriya, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Hisako Sugano
  • Publication number: 20130228944
    Abstract: A color converting member is capable of suppressing deterioration in a phosphor by a simple manufacturing process. A method of manufacturing a color converting member includes a process of molding a resin material into a shape. In the process, molding the resin material and the phosphor integrally into a shape is performed, after kneading a phosphor that converts one color light to another color light into the resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa TSUKAHARA, Yasushi ITO, Naoji NADA, Yoshihiro OSHIMA, Hideya CHUBACHI
  • Patent number: 8517551
    Abstract: A phosphor sheet having a laminated structure including a first barrier material, a first barrier material, a first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer, and a second barrier layer and a display unit and an illuminating device including display unit is provided. A diffusion plate and a display unit including a diffusion plate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Naoji Nada, Ryo Kasegawa, Yasushi Ito, Yoshihiro Oshima
  • Patent number: 8514350
    Abstract: There is provided is a display device capable of suppressing deterioration of the color conversion layer which converts one color light into another color light, and realizing favorable handling and a display device using the color conversion layer, and a color conversion sheet. A phosphor sheet 10 is, for example, arranged immediately above a light source such as a blue light emitting diode, and obtained by sealing a phosphor layer 11, which converts a part of blue light into another color light, by sealing sheets 12A and 12B. The sealing sheets 12A and 12B are bonded with the phosphor layer 11 in between by a first bonding layer 13 and a second bonding layer 14. Since the phosphor layer 11 is sealed by the sealing sheets 12A and 12B including a water vapor barrier layer 122 held between resin sheets 121A and 121B, water vapor is prevented from entering into the phosphor layer, and a chemical reaction is less likely to be generated between the phosphor layer 11 and the water vapor barrier layer 122.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada, Yoshiro Oshima, Hideya Chubachi
  • Patent number: 8451402
    Abstract: A color conversion sheet realizing suppression of deterioration in a color conversion layer and improvement in light extraction efficiency is provided. The color conversion sheet includes: a color conversion layer converting a part of first color light as incident light to second color light having a wavelength longer than that of the first color light; and a pair of sealing sheets sandwiching the color conversion layer from a light incidence side and a light emitting side and each having an inorganic stack film on a substrate. Reflectance of the sealing sheet on the light incidence side to the second color light is higher than that to the first color light, and reflectance of the sealing sheet on the light emitting side to the first color light is higher than that to the second color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oshima, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada
  • Publication number: 20130088421
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including a communication unit that performs communication with an external device, a detecting unit that detects a direction of an operation device based on detection information representing motion of the operation device, and a display control unit that generates an imaging control command used to control an imaging operation based on the detected direction of the operation device, and controls display of an image obtained through an imaging operation by causing the communication unit to transmit the imaging control command to the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi UENO, Shinobu KURIYA, Kenichi KABASAWA, Toshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Tetsuro GOTO, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA
  • Patent number: 8403512
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an illumination apparatus capable of reducing a view angle dependency of a chromaticity distribution in a light-emitting surface of a phosphor layer. [Solving Means] A light beam control device (11) that controls emitted light from light-emitting diodes (10) so that a view angle dependency of a chromaticity distribution in a light-emitting surface (22a) of a phosphor layer (22) is suppressed is interposed between the light-emitting diodes (10) and the phosphor layer (22). The light beam control device (11) causes the emitted light from the light-emitting diodes (10) to be bent in a vertical direction or an approximately-vertical direction with respect to the light-emitting surface (22a) of the phosphor layer (22) and thus causes the light to enter the phosphor layer (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20130027294
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an input apparatus including an input apparatus main body with which input manipulation is performed to manipulate a manipulation target object, a first manipulation detection unit that detects a first manipulation on the input apparatus main body, a second manipulation detection unit that detects a second manipulation on the input apparatus main body after the first manipulation is detected, and a first processing unit that performs first processing for manipulation on the manipulation target object or a first response of the input apparatus, based on a movement detection value corresponding to movement of the input apparatus main body according to the first manipulation or a detection value of the first manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Hideo Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20130027299
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a determination unit. The calculation unit has a two-dimensional calculation mode configured to perform, when an operation device is placed on an operation surface and a user operates the operation device, calculation based on a detection value of a motion sensor corresponding to two-dimensional motion of the operation device, and has a three-dimensional calculation mode configured to perform, when the user operates the operation device in a three-dimensional space, calculation based on a detection value of the motion sensor corresponding to three-dimensional motion of the operation device. The determination unit is configured to determine which of the two-dimensional calculation mode and the three-dimensional calculation mode is used to perform the calculation with the calculation unit, based on the detection value of the motion sensor and at least one of information other than the detection value of the motion sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130027295
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit acquiring data on at least one of an acceleration or an angular velocity of a controller operated by a user, and a determination unit determining at least one of a velocity of the controller or a trajectory of the controller based on the acquired data on the at least one of the acceleration or the angular velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: SHINOBU KURIYA, TETSURO GOTO, MASATOSHI UENO, KENICHI KABASAWA, TATSUYA SUZUKI, TSUBASA TSUKAHARA, TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, HIDEO KAWABE
  • Publication number: 20120256739
    Abstract: An operation apparatus includes a base, a sensing unit, a plurality of plates, and a drive mechanism. The base has a surface. The sensing unit includes at least three pressure-sensitive detection regions that are provided at different vertex positions of a polygon having at least three corners set in each of a plurality of regions obtained by partitioning at least a part of the surface of the base. The plurality of plates are provided to correspond to the plurality of regions and cover the at least a part of the surface. The drive mechanism is configured to drive the plurality of plates on the basis of a signal generated by detection of the sensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kawabe, Masatoshi Ueno, Shinobu Kuriya, Yusaku Kato, Kenichi Kabasawa, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Toshiyuki Nakagawa