Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Tao
Yukihiro Tao 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: 11531147Abstract: There is provided a transparent screen which is capable of separating a direction where a hot spot is observed and a direction where a bright video is allowed to be observed, and establishing a direction where a video is allowed to be wholly brightly observed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki Yamada, Yukihiro Tao, Tsuneo Ichimatsu
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Patent number: 11480864Abstract: A reflective transparent screen exhibiting high brightness over a wide region in the screen although with a narrow viewing angle, and an image display system is provided. The reflective transparent screen has a first transparent layer 32 having an irregular surface, a reflective layer 40 formed on the irregular surface, and a second transparent layer 52 formed on the irregular surface on which the reflective layer 40 is formed so as to fill irregularities. The irregular surface of the first transparent layer 32 has a slant angle in a first direction being within a range of from ?44? to +44?, and a slant angle in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction being within a range of from ?44? to +44?.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki Yamada, Yukihiro Tao
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Patent number: 11385534Abstract: A transparent screen includes a plurality of transparent plates arranged in a front-rear direction; and a screen main body, interposed between the transparent plates, configured to display video images projected from a front side or a rear side of the transparent screen to a user on the front side, and enable a rear background to be visually recognized by the user. In a cross section orthogonal to a part of an outer edge of the transparent screen, the transparent screen has a curved shape, and a length of a center line in a plate thickness direction of the transparent plate on an external side of the screen main body in a curvature radius direction of the curved shape is greater than a length of a center line of the transparent plate on an internal side of the screen main body.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryuichi Shiraishi, Yuriko Kaida, Yoshinori Iguchi, Yukihiro Tao
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Publication number: 20220171273Abstract: The visibility of the external scene from the inside of the transmissive transparent screen when the video image is not displayed and the visibility of the video image from the outside when the video image is displayed are satisfied. In a video image display system comprising a projection device 100 and a transmissive transparent screen 1 having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface, having a visible light transmittance of at least 5[%], and displaying video images projected from the projection device 100 installed on the first surface side, as video images visible to an observer on the second surface side, the following formula 1 is satisfied: ?1.5?ln(((B/A)/I)×G)?3.9??Formula 1 in the formula 1, A is the projection area [m2] of the projection device 100, B is the luminous flux [lm] projected onto A by the projection device 100, I is the ambient illuminance [lx] at the side of the second surface, and G is the screen gain of the transparent screen 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hideaki HAYASHI, Yoshinori IGUCHI, Yukihiro TAO
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TRANSPARENT SENSING DEVICE, LAMINATED GLASS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSPARENT SENSING DEVICE
Publication number: 20220131026Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a transparent sensing device comprising: a transparent substrate; a microsensor arranged on the transparent substrate and having an area of 250,000 ?m2 or less; a plurality of wirings connected to the microsensor; and a sealing layer covering the microsensor arranged on the transparent substrate and the plurality of wirings. The sealing layer is a transparent resin having a water absorption rate of 1% or less after curing. Therefore, it is possible to provide a transparent sensing device in which migration of wirings is suppressed and which has excellent reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masahide KOGA, Yukihiro TAO, Yoko MITSUI -
Publication number: 20220051643Abstract: A display-system includes a transparent-display-body having a first-surface and a second-surface opposite to the first-surface, a sensor to detect a brightness of the transparent-display-body or a brightness around the transparent-display-body, an arithmetic-unit configured to derive, based on the brightness detected by the sensor, a background luminance caused by outside-light as when the transparent-display-body is viewed from a side of the second-surface, and a controller to cause video to be displayed on the first-surface, wherein where rear-show-through-luminance that is a luminance of the video that occurs on the side of the second-surface is denoted as BB and the background luminance is denoted as SB, the controller controls a video luminance in accordance with the background luminance derived by the arithmetic-unit such that (BB/SB) is less than or equal to a predetermined-contrast-value, the video luminance being a luminance at which the video is to be displayed on the first-surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki YAMADA, Yukihiro TAO, Yoshinori IGUCHI, Osamu IWATA
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Publication number: 20210316535Abstract: A transparent display device includes a transparent substrate, a film provided on the transparent substrate via an adhesive layer, and a plurality of light-emitting units provided on the film, wherein each of the light-emitting units includes a light-emitting diode having a surface area of 1 mm2 or less, a thickness of the film is 2 ?m or more and 400 ?m or less, a value obtained by multiplying a tensile strength of the film by the thickness is 5×102 (Pa·m) or more, and a transmittance of visible light is 20% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryo EGUCHI, Masahide KOGA, Yoko MITSUI, Yukihiro TAO
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Publication number: 20210276307Abstract: To provide a functional film with which a functional laminated glass excellent in adhesion between layers can be obtained, and a functional laminated glass excellent in adhesion between layers. A functional film (transmission image display film 10) comprising a substrate film (transparent film 11) and a functional layer (light scattering layer 12) containing an organic material, which has a deposited layer (first deposited layer 13, second deposited layer 14, third deposited layer 15) formed of an inorganic oxide having an isoelectric point of at most 6 or at least 7.4 as measured by streaming potential method, either one of or both on the outermost surface of the functional film and between the substrate film and the functional layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori IGUCHI, Yukihiro TAO, Yoko MITSUI
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Patent number: 11106125Abstract: A transparent screen, wherein a direction normal to a reference surface is defined as a first direction, a direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and in which each reflective inclined surface extends as seen from the first direction is defined as a second direction, and a direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction and in which the reflective inclined surfaces are arranged side by side is defined as a third direction, and in at least a part of an image projection area, to which the image is projected, in a section perpendicular to the second direction, the reflective inclined surfaces are formed so that inclination angles of the reflective inclined surfaces, measured on a per-respective reflective inclined surface basis, decrease, in a stepwise manner or continuously, away from one end in the third direction toward another end in the third direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki Yamada, Yukihiro Tao, Tsuneo Ichimatsu, Yusuke Sato
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Publication number: 20210240068Abstract: To provide a reflective transparent screen exhibiting high brightness over a wide region in the screen although with a narrow viewing angle, and an image display system. A reflective transparent screen comprising: a first transparent layer 32 having an irregular surface, a reflective layer 40 formed on the irregular surface, and a second transparent layer 52 formed on the irregular surface on which the reflective layer 40 is formed, so as to fill irregularities, the irregular surface of the first transparent layer 32 having a slant angle in a first direction being within a range of from ?44° to +44°, and a slant angle in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction being within a range of from ?44° to +44°.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki YAMADA, Yukihiro TAO
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Publication number: 20210223676Abstract: A transparent screen includes a plurality of transparent plates arranged in a front-rear direction; and a screen main body, interposed between the transparent plates, configured to display video images projected from a front side or a rear side of the transparent screen to a user on the front side, and enable a rear background to be visually recognized by the user. In a cross section orthogonal to a part of an outer edge of the transparent screen, the transparent screen has a curved shape, and a length of a center line in a plate thickness direction of the transparent plate on an external side of the screen main body in a curvature radius direction of the curved shape is greater than a length of a center line of the transparent plate on an internal side of the screen main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryuichi SHIRAISHI, Yuriko KAIDA, Yoshinori IGUCHI, Yukihiro TAO
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Patent number: 11054559Abstract: A reflective transparent screen (1) capable of displaying an image light projected from a projector as an image to an observer who is on the same side as the projector, is provided with two transparent substrates and a metal thin film (23) sandwiched therebetween, wherein the color tone of the image light reflected from the metal thin film (23) or the image visibility is improved by adjusting the metallic composition of the metal thin film (23).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yasushi Kawamoto, Yukihiro Tao, Yoko Mitsui, Yuko Tachibana, Kenta Sekikawa
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Patent number: 11046154Abstract: A vehicular laminated glass in which a plurality of glass plates and an intermediate film disposed between the plurality of glass plates are stacked. The vehicular laminated glass includes a first region having a colored layer disposed along an upper edge of the vehicular laminated glass with reference to an orientation of a vehicle to which the vehicular laminated glass is attached, and a second region disposed lower than the first region. The first region includes a region A having a light scattering layer and a region B not having the light scattering layer. In the region A, a visible light transmittance is 0.7% to 32%, a visible light reflectance is 0.5% to 10%, a vehicle-inner side visible light diffuse reflectance is 3% to 45%, and the light scattering layer is arranged at a vehicle-inner side relative to the colored layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yukihiro Tao, Reo Usui
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Publication number: 20210183943Abstract: A transparent display device includes a first transparent substrate, light-emitting units arranged on the first transparent substrate, and a wiring unit connected to each of the light-emitting units, wherein each of the light-emitting units includes a light-emitting diode having a surface area of 1 mm2 or less, and wherein a display region includes a heat dissipation promotion unit that promotes heat dissipation in the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki MORI, Yukihiro TAO
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Patent number: 11022873Abstract: A transparent screen includes a plurality of transparent plates arranged in a front-rear direction; and a screen main body, interposed between the transparent plates, configured to display video images projected from a front side or a rear side of the transparent screen to a user on the front side, and enable a rear background to be visually recognized by the user. In a cross section orthogonal to a part of an outer edge of the transparent screen, the transparent screen has a curved shape, and a length of a center line in a plate thickness direction of the transparent plate on an external side of the screen main body in a curvature radius direction of the curved shape is greater than a length of a center line of the transparent plate on an internal side of the screen main body.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Ryuichi Shiraishi, Yuriko Kaida, Yoshinori Iguchi, Yukihiro Tao
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Publication number: 20210072632Abstract: There are provided a video projecting structure, which is capable of having not only transparency but also high visibility of a video, a process for producing the same, and a video display system including the video projection structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yukihiro TAO, Naruki YAMADA, Osamu IWATA, Yoshinori IGUCHI, Yusuke SATO, Yoko MITSUI, Tsuneo ICHIMATSU
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Patent number: 10852632Abstract: A transparent screen sheet that displays images projected from a front side of the transparent screen sheet and/or a rear side of the transparent screen sheet to a user on the front side, and causes the user on the front side to view a rear background behind the rear side. The transparent screen sheet includes an image display layer configured to display the images; and a resin film that holds the image display layer. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of retardations of the resin film measured by irradiating a main surface of the resin film with a light with a wavelength of 460 nm in a direction orthogonal to the main surface, within a region on the main surface that overlaps with the image display layer, is one fourth of the wavelength of the light or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yukihiro Tao, Kenta Sekikawa, Yuriko Kaida
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Publication number: 20200350361Abstract: A transparent display apparatus includes a first transparent substrate, light emitting units arranged for respective pixels on the first transparent substrate, and a strip unit connected to the light emitting units, wherein each of the light emitting units includes at least one light emitting diode having a size of area of 10,000 ?m2 or less, and a size of area having a transmittance of 20% or less accounts for 30% or less of a display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yukihiro TAO, Masahide KOGA, Remi KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20200271832Abstract: There is provided a transparent screen which is capable of separating a direction where a hot spot is observed and a direction where a bright video is allowed to be observed, and establishing a direction where a video is allowed to be wholly brightly observed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naruki YAMADA, Yukihiro TAO, Tsuneo ICHIMATSU
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Patent number: 10732329Abstract: To provide an image projecting structure having a wide viewing angle and whereby the visibility of a projected image is high. The image projecting structure comprises a first transparent layer having irregularities formed on its surface, a reflective film formed on the surface on which the irregularities are formed, of the first transparent layer, and a second transparent layer formed on the reflective film, wherein the transmittance of visible light is from 5 to 95%; the value obtained by dividing the haze by the diffuse reflectance of visible light is at least 0.1 and at most 1; the vertical difference Sk in the core section defined by ISO 25178, of the surface on which the irregularities are formed, is at least 0.1 ?m; and the value obtained by dividing the shortest autocorrelation length Sal by the vertical difference Sk in the core section is at least 1.2 and at most 190.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Yuko Tachibana, Yukihiro Tao, Kenta Sekikawa