Patents by Inventor Yohei Fukuma
Yohei Fukuma 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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Patent number: 9013884Abstract: There are provided a display and an electronic unit that realize excellent operability when display content is switched based on a user operation associated with a variation in a physical form, and a supporting substrate employed in such a display. The display includes: a supporting substrate having flexibility; and a display section provided on the supporting substrate. The flexibility of the supporting substrate gradually increases toward an edge in a first region provided at at least a portion on a side of the edge in a plane thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Masahiro Kinoshita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 8988315Abstract: There is provided a head mounted display including a glasses-type frame to be worn on a head of an observer; two optical modules including two image creation devices, and two light guides having two light guide plates coupled one-to-one with the two image creation devices and placed closer to a center of a face of the observer than the image creation devices are as a whole, that guide light beams output from the image creation devices and output the light beams toward pupils of the observer; and an optical plate supporting the two light guides, wherein the optical plate is attached to a center part of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mukawa, Atsushi Kagawa, Satoshi Nakano, Keita Hibi, Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma
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Publication number: 20140333211Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus and a method capable of realizing a communication tool of a new mode. An LED emits light according to a light emission pattern identified based on a set of light emission parameters indicating characteristics of light emission. An action control unit controls the light emission pattern of the LED based on a relationship between the self apparatus and a group to which the self apparatus and at least one other information processing apparatus including the LED belong, or a relationship between the other information processing apparatus and the self apparatus belonging to the group. The present technique may be applied to an information processing apparatus used as a communication tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Oka, Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Yohei Fukuma, Kazunori Hamada, Kenji Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Kawauchi
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Publication number: 20140247132Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that can realize new forms of communication tools. LEDs emit light in accordance with a light emission pattern specified by a combination of light emission parameters that represent light emission characteristics. A light emission control unit performs control to select a light emission pattern from among two or more preset light emission patterns, based on a change in physical quantity resulting from an action of a user, and cause a light-emitting unit to emit light in accordance with the selected light emission pattern. The present technique can be applied to information processing devices used as communication tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Takeshi Oka, Kazunori Hamada, Kenji Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Yoshihiro Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20140092539Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus that has enhanced strength and reduced weight. An electronic apparatus includes: a housing having two faces that face each other, having an accommodation space therein, and having an opening on one of the two faces; and an electronic device contained in the accommodation space. The housing is configured of a first member and a second member that are divided in the faces, and has a device insertion opening on at least one of opposing faces of the first member and the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma, Shigeru Yoshida, Tetsu Sumii, Keita Hibi
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Patent number: 8675904Abstract: A headphone device is provided which includes a housing including a speaker unit, and a band formed of a series of links and connected to the housings at an end of the band, each link being connected to one another by a joint. The each link includes an angle limiter for limiting a rotation angle between the each link and an adjacent link to the each link, and the band has an elastic force in a direction in which the housing presses an auricle by limiting the rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yohei Fukuma
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Publication number: 20140028151Abstract: A generator includes a sliding member, a first power generation element and a second power generation element. The sliding member is made of a biomass-containing material. The first power generation element is configured to slide with respect to the sliding member. The second power generation element is configured to generate electrical power by variation of its relative position with respect to the first power generation element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuko Morita, Masakazu Yajima, Hideo Niikura, Yohei Fukuma
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Publication number: 20130070431Abstract: There are provided a display and an electronic unit that realize excellent operability when display content is switched based on a user operation associated with a variation in a physical form, and a supporting substrate employed in such a display. The display includes: a supporting substrate having flexibility; and a display section provided on the supporting substrate. The flexibility of the supporting substrate gradually increases toward an edge in a first region provided at at least a portion on a side of the edge in a plane thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Masahiro Kinoshita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20130070949Abstract: A sound-reproducing apparatus includes plural coupling portions, plural rods, plural shell portions, an actuator, and first, second, and third speakers. The coupling portions are disposed at positions corresponding to vertices of an assumed first regular tetrahedron and second regular tetrahedron in a duality relation. The rods connect adjacent coupling portions with each other among the coupling portions. The shell portions are joined to the rods. The actuator is disposed outside one coupling portion selected from the coupling portions with respect to a center of the first regular tetrahedron or second regular tetrahedron, and the actuator is connected with the one coupling portion. The first, second, and third speakers are disposed on, of the four coupling portions disposed at positions corresponding to the vertices of the one of the first and second regular tetrahedra including the one coupling portion, three coupling portions excluding the one coupling portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORTIONInventor: Yohei FUKUMA
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Patent number: 8363407Abstract: A power switch and connector that are conventionally included in a body are formed in spaces created at the outer ends of the shafts of hinges other than the body and a display, whereby the body is thinned. Electronic device comprises a body, a display, and a hinge that joins the body and display so that they can be freely opened or closed. A power switch is formed at an end of the shaft of the hinge. Furthermore, the electronic device comprises the body, the display, and another hinge that joins the body and display so that they can be freely opened or closed. A port of a connector opens at an end of the shaft of the hinge.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Yamamoto, Toru Karashima, Yohei Fukuma
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Publication number: 20120162878Abstract: A display device includes a display main body having a housing having an opening formed through the front surface and a display unit attached to the housing to close the opening and displaying an image, a stand base placed on a mounting surface, and at least one support connected to the display main body at one end and connected to the stand base at the other end, in which the support includes a cable inputting/outputting power or signals to/from the display main body and a coating covering the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma, Shigeru Yoshida, Tetsu Sumii, Keita Hibi
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Patent number: 8125759Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display portion, a main body portion, an articulated coupling mechanism, and an interlock mechanism. The display portion includes a display screen. The main body portion is coupled to the display portion. The articulated coupling mechanism includes, at each of end portions, a plurality of coupling members each having a rotation axis and being rotatably coupled to one another in series about the rotation axis, the plurality of coupling members coupled in series having one end coupled to the main body portion side and the other end coupled to the display portion side. The interlock mechanism interlocks rotations of the plurality of coupling members with one another in the articulated coupling mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Rui Morisawa, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Naofumi Yoneda
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Patent number: 8111317Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a camera body having an image-capturing lens for receiving light to form an image of a subject and a display unit having a display screen for displaying the image. The display unit is slidably supported by the camera body. A surface of the display unit opposite a surface having the display screen disposed thereon faces a surface of the camera body opposite a surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. An image capture button is disposed on the surface of the camera body opposite the surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. The image capture button is exposed when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a first direction and the image capture button is covered by the display unit when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Kenichi Agata, Ryo Yamamoto, Toru Karashima, Naohiko Otake, Nozomi Ozaki, Hisaya Miyashita, Daisuke Ishii
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Patent number: 8080306Abstract: There is provided an exterior member including a first layer formed on a surface of a substrate and containing coating inclusions and a second layer stacked on a surface of the first layer and containing a material that can allow light to be transmitted therethrough, the light having a wavelength at which optical characteristics of the coating inclusions can be changed. The first layer has a marking portion which is a portion where the optical characteristics of the coating inclusions have changed by laser-irradiation of the light having the wavelength to at least a part of the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Kiyoto Kusama
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Publication number: 20110241975Abstract: There is provided a head mounted display including a glasses-type frame to be worn on a head of an observer; two optical modules including two image creation devices, and two light guides having two light guide plates coupled one-to-one with the two image creation devices and placed closer to a center of a face of the observer than the image creation devices are as a whole, that guide light beams output from the image creation devices and output the light beams toward pupils of the observer; and an optical plate supporting the two light guides, wherein the optical plate is attached to a center part of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mukawa, Atsushi Kagawa, Satoshi Nakano, Keita Hibi, Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma
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Publication number: 20110157806Abstract: A power switch and connector that are conventionally included in a body are formed in spaces created at the outer ends of the shafts of hinges other than the body and a display, whereby the body is thinned. Electronic device comprises a body, a display, and a hinge that joins the body and display so that they can be freely opened or closed. A power switch is formed at an end of the shaft of the hinge. Furthermore, the electronic device comprises the body, the display, and another hinge that joins the body and display so that they can be freely opened or closed. A port of a connector opens at an end of the shaft of the hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo YAMAMOTO, Toru KARASHIMA, Yohei FUKUMA
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Patent number: 7969497Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a camera body having an image-capturing lens for receiving light to form an image of a subject and a display unit having a display screen for displaying the image. The display unit is slidably supported by the camera body. A surface of the display unit opposite a surface having the display screen disposed thereon faces a surface of the camera body opposite a surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. An image capture button is disposed on the surface of the camera body opposite the surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. The image capture button is exposed when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a first direction and the image capture button is covered by the display unit when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Kenichi Agata, Ryo Yamamoto, Toru Karashima, Naohiko Otake, Nozomi Ozaki, Hisaya Miyashita, Daisuke Ishii
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Publication number: 20110109785Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a camera body having an image-capturing lens for receiving light to form an image of a subject and a display unit having a display screen for displaying the image. The display unit is slidably supported by the camera body. A surface of the display unit opposite a surface having the display screen disposed thereon faces a surface of the camera body opposite a surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. An image capture button is disposed on the surface of the camera body opposite the surface having the image-capturing lens disposed thereon. The image capture button is exposed when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a first direction and the image capture button is covered by the display unit when the display unit is slid over the camera body in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Fukuma, Kenichi Agata, Ryo Yamamoto, Toru Karashima, Naohiko Otake, Nozomi Ozaki, Hisaya Miyashita, Daisuke Ishii
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Publication number: 20110002497Abstract: A headphone device is provided which includes a housing including a speaker unit, and a band formed of a series of links and connected to the housings at an end of the band, each link being connected to one another by a joint. The each link includes an angle limiter for limiting a rotation angle between the each link and an adjacent link to the each link, and the band has an elastic force in a direction in which the housing presses an auricle by limiting the rotation angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yohei Fukuma
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Patent number: D710840Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Yamamoto, Toru Karashima, Yohei Fukuma, Yujin Morisawa