Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Komatsu

Yoshikazu Komatsu 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: 11156907
    Abstract: [Object] To implement a light source apparatus that is high in efficiency and has favorable color reproducibility. [Solution] There is provided a light source apparatus including: a light source configured to output light in a first wavelength region; and a wavelength conversion member including a first fluorescent substance and a second fluorescent substance, the first fluorescent substance being excited by the light in the first wavelength region to emit light in a second wavelength region, the second fluorescent substance being stacked on the first fluorescent substance and excited by the light in the first wavelength region and the light in the second wavelength region to emit light in a third wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10551031
    Abstract: To implement a light source apparatus that can efficiently excite a fluorescent substance and has favorable color reproducibility. There is provided a light source apparatus including: a first light source configured to output light having a first wavelength ?b1 included in a first wavelength region; a second light source configured to output light having a second wavelength ?b2 that is included in the first wavelength region, and is shorter than the first wavelength; a fluorescent substance (133) configured to be excited by the light having the first wavelength and the light having the second wavelength to emit light ?y in a second wavelength region; and a wavelength selection member (140) provided to face the fluorescent substance (133), and configured to reflect the light having the second wavelength ?b2 among light output from the fluorescent substance (133).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10429636
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20190155134
    Abstract: [Object] To implement a light source apparatus that is high in efficiency and has favorable color reproducibility. [Solution] There is provided a light source apparatus including: a light source configured to output light in a first wavelength region; and a wavelength conversion member including a first fluorescent substance and a second fluorescent substance, the first fluorescent substance being excited by the light in the first wavelength region to emit light in a second wavelength region, the second fluorescent substance being stacked on the first fluorescent substance and excited by the light in the first wavelength region and the light in the second wavelength region to emit light in a third wavelength region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190137077
    Abstract: To implement a light source apparatus that can efficiently excite a fluorescent substance and has favorable color reproducibility. There is provided a light source apparatus including: a first light source configured to output light having a first wavelength ?b1 included in a first wavelength region; a second light source configured to output light having a second wavelength ?b2 that is included in the first wavelength region, and is shorter than the first wavelength; a fluorescent substance (133) configured to be excited by the light having the first wavelength and the light having the second wavelength to emit light ?y in a second wavelength region; and a wavelength selection member (140) provided to face the fluorescent substance (133), and configured to reflect the light having the second wavelength ?b2 among light output from the fluorescent substance (133).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20180239126
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9995927
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9733558
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20170212414
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9618738
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20170097561
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20160202468
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9369682
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20160050403
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a plurality of mixer units, a plurality of scale processing units, and an enable signal processing unit. A mixer unit of the plurality of the plurality of mixer units selects one of an output of another mixer unit of the plurality of mixer units, and an output image of a scale processing unit of the plurality of scale processing units to generate a composite image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUKADA, Yoshikazu KOMATSU
  • Patent number: 9197875
    Abstract: An image processing device and image processing method that are capable of generating a stereoscopic image with limited system resources. Mask information defines a display region so that substantially the same number of pixels in first image data and second image data are displayed while the pixels are dispersed substantially uniformly. A mixer unit references the mask information and mixes the first image data with the second image data to generate output image data, which is a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsukada, Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20150229891
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9052582
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; a fluorescent substance that, when irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and transmits a part of the excitation light, and thereby multiplexes and emits the transmitted excitation light having the first wavelength and the emitted excitation light having the second wavelength; and a driving unit that moves an irradiation position of the excitation light in the fluorescent substance with the passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8673033
    Abstract: A display control circuit includes a device driving unit that alternately writes a left video image and a right video image in a time-division manner to a light modulating device, a light source driving unit that increases or reduces the brightness of a light source that emits light passing through the light modulating device, a shutter eyeglass driving unit that provides shutter eyeglasses with a shutter driving signal, and a control unit that instructs the light source driving unit to reduce the brightness of the light source in the duration of a switchover between the left video image and the right video image for the light modulating device or instructs the light source driving unit to increase the brightness of the light source in the duration in which the left video image or the right video image is written solely to the light modulating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20120301052
    Abstract: An image processing device and image processing method that are capable of generating a stereoscopic image with limited system resources. Mask information defines a display region so that substantially the same number of pixels in first image data and second image data are displayed while the pixels are dispersed substantially uniformly. A mixer unit references the mask information and mixes the first image data with the second image data to generate output image data, which is a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUKADA, Yoshikazu Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20120120211
    Abstract: A display control circuit includes a device driving unit that alternately writes a left video image and a right video image in a time-division manner to a light modulating device, a light source driving unit that increases or reduces the brightness of a light source that emits light passing through the light modulating device, a shutter eyeglass driving unit that provides shutter eyeglasses with a shutter driving signal, and a control unit that instructs the light source driving unit to reduce the brightness of the light source in the duration of a switchover between the left video image and the right video image for the light modulating device or instructs the light source driving unit to increase the brightness of the light source in the duration in which the left video image or the right video image is written solely to the light modulating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU