Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Sano

Hiroaki Sano 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: 11393879
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising first and second light-emitting elements in a display region, and first and second dummy elements in a dummy region is provided. Each of the light-emitting elements, and the dummy elements includes a reflector arranged, a first electrode arranged above the reflector, a light-emitting layer arranged above the first electrode, and a second electrode arranged above the light-emitting layer. A difference between a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the first light-emitting element and a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the second light-emitting element is larger than a difference between a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the first dummy element and a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the second dummy element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Koji Ishizuya
  • Patent number: 11380864
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a plurality of first electrodes, a second electrode, a functional layer disposed between each first electrode and the second electrode, and an insulating layer having a slope portion on the first electrode, wherein the functional layer is continuously disposed so as to cover the first electrode, a neighboring first electrode, and the insulating layer covering the first electrode and the neighboring first electrode, the functional layer on the first electrode has a layer thickness smaller than a height from an upper surface of the first electrode to an upper surface of the insulating layer, and the functional layer on the slope portion of the insulating layer has a layer thickness of 20 nm or more in a direction perpendicular to a slope surface of the slope portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Norifumi Kajimoto, Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano, Hiroyuki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11373327
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a first generation unit which generates first target parking frame information based on an image taken by a first shooting unit that is provided at a side position of a vehicle; a second generation unit which generates second target parking frame information based on an image taken by a second shooting unit that is provided at a front or rear position of the vehicle; and a determination unit which determines a stop position in a parking frame by generating third target parking frame information to serve as a stop target based on the first target parking frame information generated by the first generation unit and the second target parking frame information generated by the second generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Hiroki Morinaga, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akihiko Shiotani
  • Patent number: 11373416
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a detection unit which detects a target object based on edge information acquired from image data; and a judging unit which judges whether a certain region in the image data is an improper region that is not suitable for detection of the target object based on an edge pattern of edge information in the certain region and a feature pattern indicating a feature of the target object, and the detection unit detects the target object excluding a region that has been judged to be the improper region by the judging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Publication number: 20220158134
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a surface of a substrate, the plurality of pixels including a first pixel including a first sub-pixel that includes a first light emitting element and emits light of a first color and a second sub-pixel that includes a second light emitting element and emits light of a second color, a first lens disposed on a first light emitting area of the first light emitting element, and a second lens disposed on a second light emitting area of the second light emitting element. A vector from a center of the first light emitting area in plan view from a direction perpendicular to the main surface to an apex of the first lens differs from a vector from a center of the second light emitting area to an apex of the second lens in plan view from the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shoma Hinata, Hiroaki Sano, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11322555
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20220130925
    Abstract: An electronic device including elements arranged on a substrate, each of the elements including an insulating layer, a first electrode, a functional layer, and a second electrode in mentioned order starting from a side closer to the substrate. The insulating layer has an inclined portion that is inclined relative to the substrate. The first electrode has a first portion positioned on the inclined portion and a second portion in contact with the functional layer. The second portion has a smaller inclination angle relative to the substrate than the first portion. A thickness of the functional layer positioned on the first portion in a direction normal to a functional layer surface in contact with the first portion is smaller than a thickness of the functional layer positioned on the second portion in a direction normal to a functional layer surface in contact with the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220131110
    Abstract: The light-emitting device has: a display region; a peripheral region; a first light-emitting element having a light-emitting region in which a lower electrode, a light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode are laminated; a first laminated section, between the substrate and the lower electrode of the first light-emitting element, in which there are laminated a first high-reflection layer and a first low-reflection layer that has a lower reflectance than the first high-reflection layer; a peripheral laminated section, in the peripheral region, in which there are laminated on the substrate; a peripheral lamination layer in which a peripheral high-reflection layer and a peripheral low-reflection layer that has a lower reflectance than the peripheral high-reflection layer are laminated. For at least a portion of the first laminated section that overlaps in plan view with the light-emitting region, the first low-reflection layer has an opening such that the first high-reflection layer is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20220131112
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a lens; and a light-emitting part provided between the substrate and the lens, wherein the lens has a convex curved surface portion on an opposite side to the substrate, in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate, the light-emitting part is more distant from the lens than a curvature center of the curved surface portion, when an apex of the curved surface portion in the first direction is referred to as a first position, and an end of the curved surface portion in a second direction in parallel with the substrate is referred to as a second position, and h represents a distance from the first position to the second position in the first direction, and r represents a distance from the first position to the second position in the second direction, h/r<0.95 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shoma Hinata, Hiroaki Sano, Koji Ishizuya, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220130924
    Abstract: An apparatus including sub-pixels arranged on a substrate, the sub-pixels including a first, a second, and a third sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels including a lower electrode, an insulating layer covering an end portion of the lower electrode, an organic layer, and an upper electrode in mentioned order starting from a side closer to the substrate, at least part of the organic layer being continuously arranged in at least two of regions between a position on a first lower electrode included in the first sub-pixel and a position on a second lower electrode included in the second sub-pixel, between the position on the second lower electrode and a position on a third lower electrode included in the third sub-pixel, and between the position on the third lower electrode and the position on the first lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Kentaro Suzuki, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220123268
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes, on an insulating layer, a first lower electrode, an upper electrode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the first lower electrode and the upper electrode, wherein the organic compound layer includes a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer disposed between the first light-emitting layer and the upper electrode, and a first organic compound layer disposed between the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer, the first organic compound layer includes a second organic compound layer containing an alkali metal, and a third organic compound layer disposed between the second organic compound layer and the upper electrode and containing a compound having a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level energy of -5.0 eV or less, and an orthogonal projection of the first organic compound layer onto the insulating layer is smaller than an orthogonal projection of the first light-emitting layer onto the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Yojiro Matsuda, Shoma Hinata, Kentaro Ito
  • Patent number: 11297273
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels each having: a photoelectric conversion unit; a first charge holding unit; a second charge holding unit; a first gate; and a second gate. In a period when the photoelectric conversion unit is storing charges to be transferred to the first charge holding unit, the potential of the first gate is set to a first potential, and the potential of the second gate is set to a second potential. Both the first potential and the second potential are higher than the potential of the first gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the first charge holding unit and the potential of the second gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the second charge holding unit. The first potential is lower than the second potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroaki Sano, Hisashi Takado, Takahiro Yamasaki, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11271058
    Abstract: A displaying apparatus in which a plurality of pixels each including an organic light emitting element are arrayed in a pixel region, comprising a plurality of lower electrodes arrayed on a substrate in correspondence with the plurality of pixels, a first insulating layer covering an upper surface of the substrate and at least side surfaces of the plurality of lower electrodes, an organic compound layer provided all over the pixel region to cover the plurality of lower electrodes and the first insulating layer, an upper electrode provided all over the pixel region to cover the organic compound layer, and an interpixel electrode provided between the plurality of lower electrodes to be arranged along a boundary of the plurality of pixels under the organic compound layer and above the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11256933
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a delimiting line detection unit configured to detect a delimiting line candidate based on image data obtained by capturing a surrounding of a vehicle; an exclusion determination unit configured to determine whether there is a parking-unavailable area in which parking of the vehicle is not permitted; and a parking space detection unit configured to detect the parking space based on the delimiting line candidate. In a case where plural parallel lines that are adjacent to the delimiting line candidate and that have a predetermined angle to the delimiting line candidate is detected, the exclusion determination unit regards an area in which the plural parallel lines are provided as the parking-unavailable area, and prohibits the parking space detection unit from detecting the parking space across the delimiting line candidate adjacent to the parking-unavailable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11250290
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts, from image data taken by shooting a neighborhood of a vehicle, edge points that are to be used for detecting partition lines of a parking frame and whose edge intensity values are larger than an edge threshold value; and a correction unit which corrects the edge threshold value based on a density of the edge points extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11213311
    Abstract: A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes: a multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a first operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a second operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a third operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first and second operation interfaces; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not an in-operation signal is turned on; until the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm is operated by at least one of the second operation interface and the third operation interface; and while the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multi-degree-of-freedom slave arm is operated by the first operation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11213310
    Abstract: A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a first operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm to make a movement of a medical instrument; a second operation interface configured to receive an operational instruction for the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first operation interface; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not in-operation signal is turned on; until the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm performs a movement based on the operational instruction via the second operation interface; and while the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multi-degree-of-freedom slave arm follows the movement of the first operation interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11195032
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a delimiting line detection unit configured to detect a delimiting line candidate based on image data obtained by capturing a surrounding of a vehicle, the delimiting line candidate being a candidate of a delimiting line that delimits a parking space; and an exclusion determination unit configured to determine whether or not to exclude the delimiting line candidate detected by the delimiting line detection unit from the candidate of the delimiting line. In a case where a plurality of the delimiting line candidates is detected within a predetermined range in the image data, the exclusion determination unit determines whether or not to exclude the delimiting line candidate from the candidate of the delimiting line by comparing edge strength of the plurality of delimiting line candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11182627
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a detection unit which detects partition line candidates that are candidates for a partition line for partitioning a parking frame, based on edge lines that are detected based on luminance of each pixel of image data taken by shooting a neighborhood of a vehicle; and a generation unit which generates an integrated partition line candidate by integrating the partition line candidates detected by the detection unit, according to a prescribed integration condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11170235
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts edge lines based on image data taken by an imaging device by shooting a neighborhood of a vehicle; a selection unit which selects, as a pair of edge lines, edge lines that satisfy a prescribed condition from the extracted edge lines; an exclusion unit which, in a case where a non-paint-out region exists between the pair of edge lines, excludes quasi-edge lines that form the non-paint-out region from the pair of edge lines; and a detection unit which detects a partition line that partitions a parking frame based on the pair of edge lines from which the quasi-edge lines are excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori