Light-shielding device and light-shielding method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11414923
APP PUB NO 20190195012A1
SERIAL NO

16328716

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The present technology relates to a light-shielding device and a light-shielding method which make an object that is meant to be invisible to human beings enter a state in which the object is hidden so as to be invisible to eyes, or make an object that is meant to be visible enter a state in which the object is visible to eyes in correspondence with biological information. A light-shielding wall, which partitions two spaces and includes a plurality of panels capable of being controlled to a transmitting state in which light is transmitted or a light-shielding state in which light is shielded, is used as a window, an orientation of a face of a user who is sleeping is detected as biological information, and the light-shielding wall is controlled so that the user is capable of visually recognizing light when it reaches an alarm setting time.

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SONY CORPORATIONTOKYO

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nagamine, Kunihiko Kanagawa, JP 14 51
Rekimoto, Junichi Kanagawa, JP 201 9081
Suwa, Shunichi Tokyo, JP 51 251

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