Patents by Inventor YOSHIO SHIMBO

YOSHIO SHIMBO 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: 9857592
    Abstract: A display device of the disclosure includes a projector including optical elements to project images on left or right eye of an observer and a frame connected to the projector for mounting on the observer. With the frame mounted on the observer, at least part of the projector is placed in visual fields of the eyes, and length from tangent point between leftmost one among lines of sight of the left eye overlapping outline of at least the part and the outline to intersection between an imaginary line through the tangent point parallel to direction of pupillary distance of the observer and rightmost one among lines of sight of the right eye overlapping the outline is shorter than the pupillary distance in a top plan view of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Seiji Nishiwaki, Tsuguhiro Korenaga, Yoshio Shimbo
  • Patent number: 9645401
    Abstract: An image display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a display including light-emitting elements arrayed two-dimensionally, and having regions, in each of which a part of the light-emitting elements is located; a mirror lens array including mirror lenses, each of the mirror lenses being disposed correspondingly to one of the regions, reflecting light from the regions, and forming virtual images; and a beam splitter disposed between the display and the mirror lens array, the beam splitter transmitting a part of the light from the regions in a direction of the mirror lens array and reflecting a part of reflected light from the mirror lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Nishiwaki, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Yoshio Shimbo, Tsuguhiro Korenaga
  • Publication number: 20160161753
    Abstract: An image display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a display including light-emitting elements arrayed two-dimensionally, and having regions, in each of which a part of the light-emitting elements is located; a mirror lens array including mirror lenses, each of the mirror lenses being disposed correspondingly to one of the regions, reflecting light from the regions, and forming virtual images; and a beam splitter disposed between the display and the mirror lens array, the beam splitter transmitting a part of the light from the regions in a direction of the mirror lens array and reflecting a part of reflected light from the mirror lens array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: SEIJI NISHIWAKI, TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA, YOSHIO SHIMBO, TSUGUHIRO KORENAGA
  • Publication number: 20160165219
    Abstract: An image display device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a display including light-emitting elements arrayed two-dimensionally, and having regions, in each of which a part of the light-emitting elements is located; a lens array including lenses, each of the lenses being disposed correspondingly to one of the regions, the lens array forming real images or virtual images of images displayed at each of the regions; and a control circuit that, in operation, controls each of the light-emitting elements, the control circuit being electrically connected to the display, and, in operation, causing a first part of the light-emitting elements to emit light when the control circuit causes a second part of the light-emitting elements different from the first part of the light-emitting elements not to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA, SEIJI NISHIWAKI, TSUGUHIRO KORENAGA, YOSHIO SHIMBO
  • Publication number: 20160091721
    Abstract: A display device of the disclosure includes a projector including optical elements to project images on left or right eye of an observer and a frame connected to the projector for mounting on the observer. With the frame mounted on the observer, at least part of the projector is placed in visual fields of the eyes, and length from tangent point between leftmost one among lines of sight of the left eye overlapping outline of at least the part and the outline to intersection between an imaginary line through the tangent point parallel to direction of pupillary distance of the observer and rightmost one among lines of sight of the right eye overlapping the outline is shorter than the pupillary distance in a top plan view of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: TAKEYOSHI TOKUHARA, SEIJI NISHIWAKI, TSUGUHIRO KORENAGA, YOSHIO SHIMBO