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).
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Patent number: 11156907Abstract: [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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 10551031Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 10429636Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20190155134Abstract: [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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU
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Publication number: 20190137077Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU
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Publication number: 20180239126Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 9995927Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 9733558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20170212414Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 9618738Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20170097561Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20160202468Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 9369682Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20160050403Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Takeshi TSUKADA, Yoshikazu KOMATSU
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Patent number: 9197875Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Takeshi Tsukada, Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20150229891Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 9052582Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Patent number: 8673033Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20120301052Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Takeshi TSUKADA, Yoshikazu Komatsu
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Publication number: 20120120211Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventor: Yoshikazu KOMATSU