Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Yoshiyuki Kuroda 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).

  • Publication number: 20220225042
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a displacement detection unit configured to detect a displacement amount of a video display panel that is vibrated to generate sound on the basis of an input audio signal, a threshold setting unit configured to calculate a displacement amount at which no image shake occurs and set a displacement amount calculated as a threshold, and a gain adjustment unit configured to adjust a level of the input audio signal on the basis of a result of comparison between a displacement amount detected by the displacement detection unit and the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Michiaki Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20220182030
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a first panel displacement control unit to which a first audio signal is input, a second panel displacement control unit to which a second audio signal is input, and a control unit configured to control the first panel displacement control unit and the second panel displacement control unit. The first panel displacement control unit includes a first gain adjustment unit configured to adjust a level of the first audio signal, the second panel displacement control unit includes a second gain adjustment unit configured to adjust a level of the second audio signal, and the control unit includes a correlation determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of a correlation between the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and a gain control unit configured to control a level adjustment amount in each of the first gain adjustment unit and the second gain adjustment unit on the basis of a determination result of the correlation determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Michiaki Yoneda, Yoshiyuki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20220136115
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrolysis technique such that the electrolysis performance is unlikely to be deteriorated, and excellent catalytic activity is retained stably over a long period of time even when electric power having a large output fluctuation, such as renewable energy, is used a power source, and this object is realized by an alkaline water electrolysis method, in which an electrolytic solution obtained by dispersing a catalyst containing a hybrid cobalt hydroxide nanosheet (Co-NS) being a composite of a metal hydroxide and an organic substance is supplied to an anode chamber and a cathode chamber that form an electrolytic cell, and the electrolytic solution is used for electrolysis in each chamber in common, and an alkaline water electrolysis anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Shigenori MITSUSHIMA, Yoshiyuki KURODA, Takeshi NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210352407
    Abstract: A speaker drive unit includes a control signal generation unit and a signal processing unit. The control signal generation unit generates a control signal on the basis of detection signals generated by a plurality of detection units that is disposed in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of actuators that vibrates a diaphragm, and detects vibration conditions. The signal processing unit includes a plurality of signal systems corresponding one-to-one to the plurality of actuators. The signal systems provide a drive signal to the corresponding actuators on the basis of the same audio signal. The drive signal generated by at least one signal system of the signal systems is controlled by the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: MASAKI KAMATA, NAOKI SHINMEN, MICHIAKI YONEDA, YOSHIYUKI KURODA
  • Publication number: 20210345057
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that carries out a process of deriving a head related transfer function. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a position of a head of a user, a storage unit that stores a head related transfer function of the user, a determination unit that determines a position of a sound source for measuring the head related transfer function of the user based on the position of the head detected by the detection unit and information stored in the storage unit, a control unit that controls the sound source to output measurement signal sound from the position determined by the determination unit, and a calculation unit that calculates the head related transfer function of the user based on collected sound data obtained by collecting, at the position of the head, the measurement signal sound output from the sound source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: GO IGARASHI, NAOKI SHINMEN, KOHEI ASADA, CHISATA NUMAOKA, YOSHIYUKI KURODA
  • Publication number: 20200407860
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode for electrolysis in which electrolysis performance is hard to deteriorate and excellent catalytic activity is kept stable over a long period of time even when electric power in which there is a large fluctuation in output, such as renewable energy, is used as a power source. The electrode for electrolysis is an electrode 10 for electrolysis provided with an electrically conductive substrate 2 at least the surface of which contains nickel or a nickel-based alloy, an intermediate layer 4 formed on the surface of the electrically conductive substrate 2 and containing a lithium-containing nickel oxide represented by composition formula LixNi2-xO2 (0.02?x?0.5), and a catalyst layer 6 of a nickel cobalt spinel oxide, an iridium oxide, or the like, the catalyst layer 6 formed on the surface of the intermediate layer 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Shigenori MITSUSHIMA, Yoshiyuki KURODA, Ikuo NAGASHIMA, Tatsuya TANIGUCHI, Yoshinori NISHIKI, Akihiro KATO, Awaludin ZAENAL, Fumiya TSUJII, Takaaki NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200377973
    Abstract: A metal porous body having a three-dimensional network structure, includes: a framework forming the three-dimensional network structure; and a coating layer having fine pores and coating the framework, the three-dimensional network structure including a rib and a node connecting a plurality of ribs, the framework including an alkali-resistant first metal, the fine pores having an average fine pore diameter of 10 nm or more and 1 ?m or less, the coating layer including an alkali-resistant second metal and optionally including an alkali-soluble metal, the alkali-soluble metal being contained at a proportion of 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less with reference to a total mass of the framework and the coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazuki OKUNO, Takahiro HIGASHINO, Hiromasa TAWARAYAMA, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Haruki MASUMURA, Yoshiyuki KURODA, Shigenori MITSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10734959
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing device, a method, and a program capable of suppressing an excessive amplitude and obtaining higher quality of sound. A sound processing device includes: a prediction value calculation unit that calculates a prediction value of a displacement of a speaker according to an input signal supplied to the speaker on the basis of an equivalent model of the speaker; and an amplitude control unit that performs amplitude control on the input signal in a case in which the prediction value is greater than a predetermined threshold value. The present technology can be applied to a sound reproduction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiaki Yoneda, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Masaki Kamata
  • Publication number: 20190305741
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing device, a method, and a program capable of suppressing an excessive amplitude and obtaining higher quality of sound. A sound processing device includes: a prediction value calculation unit that calculates a prediction value of a displacement of a speaker according to an input signal supplied to the speaker on the basis of an equivalent model of the speaker; and an amplitude control unit that performs amplitude control on the input signal in a case in which the prediction value is greater than a predetermined threshold value. The present technology can be applied to a sound reproduction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: MICHIAKI YONEDA, YOSHIYUKI KURODA, MASAKI KAMATA
  • Patent number: 4060185
    Abstract: In a band for a wrist-watch comprising a thin elastic metal plate with a resilient material being backed up integrally therewith, a band for a wrist watch, in which it is free in bending along the arm without feeling any resistance when it is attached about the arm, further it has holes of fixing said watch in the middle or somewhat leftward or rightward position from the center, and still further the above-mentioned resilient material on the rearside of said metal plate will protrude a litte outward from its both side ends to prevent the human body from being injured due to both sides of said thin elastic metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignees: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Sunarrow Koski, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kuroda