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).

  • Publication number: 20120179408
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit configured to calculate, based on information on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor included in an operation device that is operated by a user, movement information as information on one of a velocity and a movement distance of the operation device; and a correction unit configured to correct, based on information obtained by the acceleration sensor within an acceleration period as a period between an acceleration start time and an acceleration end time of the operation device, the movement information of the operation device within a period between the acceleration end time of the operation device and a movement end time at which the movement ends, that is calculated by the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Shinobu Kuriya, Kenichi Kabasawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Hideo Kawabe, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20120154387
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit which acquires information of acceleration, angular velocity, and magnetic intensity of an operation device, a coordinate conversion unit which converts the angular velocity acquired by the acquisition unit into global angular velocity in a global coordinate system using information of posture angles of the operation device, an initial posture angle calculation unit which calculates a posture angle of the operation device in the initial stage in the global coordinate system based on the information of the acceleration and the magnetic intensity, an updating unit which updates the posture angle of the operation device in the global coordinate system based on information of the global angular velocity, and a control unit which causes the coordinate conversion unit to convert the first angular velocity into the global angular velocity and to convert a second angular velocity into the global angular velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Tetsuro Goto, Shinobu Kuriya, Kenichi Kabasawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Hideo Kawabe, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20120139944
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a generation unit generating object information including at least information for displaying an object to rotate at a velocity corresponding to a rotation velocity, which is detected by a rotation sensor installed in an operation device operated by a user, within a screen based on the rotation velocity; and a changing unit changing the object information generated by the generation unit based on a pressure detected by a pressure sensor installed in the operation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Kuriya, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Hideo Kawabe, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20120092332
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing having a two dimensional detection surface, a first detection unit detecting a position coordinate of a detection object that travels on the detection surface and outputting a first signal to calculate a travel direction and an amount of travel of the detection object, a second detection unit detecting gradient of the detection surface relative to one reference plane in a spatial coordinate system to which a screen belongs and outputting a second signal to calculate a tilt angle of the detection surface relative to the reference plane, and a control unit generating a control signal to three dimensionally control a display of an image displayed on the screen based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Masatoshi Ueno, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Hideo Kawabe, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Kenichi Kabasawa
  • Publication number: 20120017702
    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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Kawabe, Masatoshi Ueno, Shinobu Kuriya, Kenichi Kabasawa, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20120011932
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Masatoshi Ueno, Kenichi Kabasawa, Hideo Kawabe, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20110298699
    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: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Goto, Osamu Ito, Shinobu Kuriya, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20110291939
    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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Osamu Ito, Shinobu Kuriya, Tetsuro Goto, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110267310
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a sensor unit, a calculation unit, a switch circuit unit, and a control unit. The sensor unit has a plurality of detection electrodes each having a capacitance changed by proximity of a detection target object. The calculation unit calculates a first distance, which is a distance between the detection target object and the sensor unit. The switch circuit unit is capable of switching the detection electrodes between a first state in which a signal voltage for detecting the capacitance is supplied and a second state which is an electrically floating state, and selects at least two detection electrodes one by one switched from the second state to the first state. The control unit controls the switch circuit unit to cause a second distance, which is a distance between the detection electrodes switched from the second state to the first state, to correspond to the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Osamu Ito, Tetsuro Goto, Shinobu Kuriya, Toshiyuki Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110037926
    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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada, Yoshiro Oshima, Hideya Chubachi
  • Publication number: 20110002140
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Naoji Nada, Ryo Kasegawa, Yasushi Ito, Yoshihiro Oshima
  • Publication number: 20100238648
    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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20100238381
    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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Oshima, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada
  • Publication number: 20100188613
    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: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada, Yoshihiro Oshima, Hideya Chubachi
  • Publication number: 20100187975
    Abstract: An optical member realizing suppressed occurrence of a light loss between a phosphor layer performing color conversion and itself, and a display device using the same is provided. The optical member includes a base member having two opposed surfaces, and a phosphor layer provided integrally with one surface of the base member and containing a phosphor that converts a color light to another color light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Tsukahara, Ryo Kasegawa, Yasushi Ito, Naoji Nada