Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Kouyama

Yoshiaki Kouyama 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: 11953781
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a light source unit that emits color light beams having different wavelengths; a light intensity modulation element including pixels, and subjecting the color light beams to intensity modulation to generate an image; a diffraction element configured to simultaneously illuminate at least two pixel regions at different pixel positions, with different color light beams, by diffracting the respective color light beams from the light source unit toward pixel regions at different pixel positions on the light intensity modulation element; and a control unit that changes diffraction angles of the respective color light beams in the diffraction element within a predetermined period. The control unit also sequentially switches illumination regions for the pixel regions by the respective color light beams, to allow all of the color light beams to time-divisionally illuminate any pixel region of the pixel regions within the predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20230350344
    Abstract: User experience is improved. An information processing device includes: a grouping unit (21) that groups a plurality of pixels configuring one or more objects included in one piece of image data into one or more groups; a phase adjustment unit (22) that allocates, to the plurality of pixels, a phase pattern having a phase difference different for each of the one or more groups; and a calculation unit (30) that generates hologram data from the image data to which the phase pattern is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shihhao WEN, Masato AKAO, Yoshiaki KOUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11796904
    Abstract: A phase modulator of the present disclosure includes a phase distribution arithmetic unit that generates, in a case of reproducing the same reproduction image over a plurality of frames or a plurality of subframes by a light phase modulation element, target phase distribution data that is allowed to reproduce the same reproduction image in at least two adjacent frames among the plurality of frames or in at least two adjacent subframes among the plurality of subframes and that changes phase distribution in the light phase modulation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kouyama, Osamu Akimoto, Takahiro Mochizuki, Masa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11676546
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, an optical phase modulator, a drive circuit, and a controller. The optical phase modulator includes a plurality of pixels, and modulates a phase of light from the light source for each of the pixels by displaying a phase distribution pattern indicated by phase distribution data. The drive circuit performs voltage application to the optical phase modulator based on the phase distribution data. The controller divides a pixel region in the optical phase modulator into a plurality of division regions. The controller causes the drive circuit to perform voltage application based on adjustment data to perform display in at least one division region of the plurality of division regions. The adjustment data is for determining an amount of voltage application performed by the drive circuit. The amount of voltage application corresponds to the phase distribution data. The display is based on the adjustment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20230176437
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) includes an adjustment unit (123) that shifts a phase distribution range of light passing through a phase modulation element with respect to a phase-modulatable range of the phase modulation element in such a way that a difference between a median value of the phase-modulatable range and an average value of the phase distribution range becomes small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11630339
    Abstract: A display element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an optical control layer and a lens layer. The optical control layer modulates incident light for each pixel. The lens layer includes an incident surface, a plurality of refractive lenses disposed for each pixel, and a plurality of diffractive lenses disposed for each pixel to face the plurality of refractive lenses, and emits light incident from the incident surface and passing through the plurality of refractive lenses and the plurality of diffractive lenses to the optical control layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Patent number: 11353763
    Abstract: A phase modulation device of the present disclosure includes: a light source; and an optical phase modulation element including a plurality of pixels in each of which liquid crystal molecules are arrayed, and including a plurality of pixel regions each including the plurality of pixels, the optical phase modulation element modulating, for each of the pixels, a phase of incident light entering the plurality of pixel regions from the light source. The optical phase modulation element includes, as the plurality of pixel regions, at least one first alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a first direction parallel with a polarization axis of the incident light, and at least one second alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a second direction parallel with the polarization axis of the incident light and different from the first direction by 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20220082887
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a light source unit that emits color light beams having different wavelengths; a light intensity modulation element including pixels, and subjecting the color light beams to intensity modulation to generate an image; a diffraction element configured to simultaneously illuminate at least two pixel regions at different pixel positions, with different color light beams, by diffracting the respective color light beams from the light source unit toward pixel regions at different pixel positions on the light intensity modulation element; and a control unit that changes diffraction angles of the respective color light beams in the diffraction element within a predetermined period, and sequentially switches illumination regions for the pixel regions by the respective color light beams, to allow all of the color light beams to time-divisionally illuminate any pixel region of the pixel regions within the predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki KOUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220084475
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a light source; an optical phase modulator; a drive circuit; and a controller. The optical phase modulator includes a plurality of pixels. The optical phase modulator modulates a phase of light from the light source for each of the pixels by displaying a phase distribution pattern indicated by phase distribution data. The drive circuit performs voltage application to the optical phase modulator. The voltage application is based on the phase distribution data. The controller divides a pixel region in the optical phase modulator into a plurality of division regions. The controller causes the drive circuit to perform voltage application based on adjustment data to perform display in at least one division region of the plurality of division regions. The adjustment data is for determining an amount of voltage application performed by the drive circuit. The amount of voltage application corresponds to the phase distribution data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220066261
    Abstract: A display element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an optical control layer and a lens layer. The optical control layer modulates incident light for each pixel. The lens layer includes an incident surface, a plurality of refractive lenses disposed for each pixel, and a plurality of diffractive lenses disposed for each pixel to face the plurality of refractive lenses, and emits light incident from the incident surface and passing through the plurality of refractive lenses and the plurality of diffractive lenses to the optical control layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210141261
    Abstract: A phase modulation device of the present disclosure includes: a light source; and an optical phase modulation element including a plurality of pixels in each of which liquid crystal molecules are arrayed, and including a plurality of pixel regions each including the plurality of pixels, the optical phase modulation element modulating, for each of the pixels, a phase of incident light entering the plurality of pixel regions from the light source. The optical phase modulation element includes, as the plurality of pixel regions, at least one first alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a first direction parallel with a polarization axis of the incident light, and at least one second alignment region where an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is a second direction parallel with the polarization axis of the incident light and different from the first direction by 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10991329
    Abstract: A control circuit according to an embodiment of the disclosure performs control of active matrix driving by a field inversion driving method to cause a vertical effective display period in one field period to be close to a start time of the one field period upon observation of a waveform of a signal outputted from the control circuit with display resolution of 200 ?sec or display resolution lower than display resolution of 200 ?sec. The one field period is defined by a vertical start signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20200159102
    Abstract: A phase modulator of the present disclosure includes a phase distribution arithmetic unit that generates, in a case of reproducing the same reproduction image over a plurality of frames or a plurality of subframes by a light phase modulation element, target phase distribution data that is allowed to reproduce the same reproduction image in at least two adjacent frames among the plurality of frames or in at least two adjacent subframes among the plurality of subframes and that changes phase distribution in the light phase modulation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA, OSAMU AKIMOTO, TAKAHIRO MOCHIZUKI, MASA TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180151138
    Abstract: A control circuit according to an embodiment of the disclosure performs control of active matrix driving by a field inversion driving method to cause a vertical effective display period in one field period to be close to a start time of the one field period upon observation of a waveform of a signal outputted from the control circuit with display resolution of 200 ?sec or display resolution lower than display resolution of 200 ?sec. The one field period is defined by a vertical start signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: SEIICHIRO JINTA, YOSHIAKI KOUYAMA
  • Patent number: 8096669
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a light source facing a reflective surface of a reflecting member, and a light-controlling member composed of a transparent material and disposed across the light source from the reflecting member in such a manner as to face the reflective surface, the light-controlling member guiding light emitted from the light source in a predetermined direction. The light-controlling member has on a surface thereof remote from the reflective surface projections arranged on a plane. The projections have profiles of at least one kind, each having a symmetry axis or a symmetry plane. The symmetry axes or the symmetry planes of the projections are tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to a direction in which the light controlling member faces the reflecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Patent number: 8075151
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a diffusing member which diffuses light, a reflective member which reflects light, plural light sources provided aligned in a flat manner between the diffusing member and the reflective member, and a light control member provided between the plural light sources and the reflective member as well as arranged in a state that a gap is imposed between the reflective member and the light control member, which has a light-guiding function of guiding part of light emitted from respective light sources in an alignment direction of the light sources, in which the light control member has a rugged structure portion in which geometric shapes in cross section are continuously formed on at least one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20090262521
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a diffusing member which diffuses light, a reflective member which reflects light, plural light sources provided aligned in a flat manner between the diffusing member and the reflective member, and a light control member provided between the plural light sources and the reflective member as well as arranged in a state that a gap is imposed between the reflective member and the light control member, which has a light-guiding function of guiding part of light emitted from respective light sources in an alignment direction of the light sources, in which the light control member has a rugged structure portion in which geometric shapes in cross section are continuously formed on at least one surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Yoshiaki Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20090185364
    Abstract: A surface light source device includes a light source facing a reflective surface of a reflecting member, and a light-controlling member composed of a transparent material and disposed across the light source from the reflecting member in such a manner as to face the reflective surface, the light-controlling member guiding light emitted from the light source in a predetermined direction. The light-controlling member has on a surface thereof remote from the reflective surface projections arranged on a plane. The projections have profiles of at least one kind, each having a symmetry axis or a symmetry plane. The symmetry axes or the symmetry planes of the projections are tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to a direction in which the light controlling member faces the reflecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Atsushi ITO, Yoshiaki Kouyama