Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Otani

Hiroshi Otani 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: 20240120359
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photodetection device and an electronic apparatus that allow for reducing surface reflection from an on-chip microlens and suppressing deterioration of image quality. Provided is a photodetection device including: a plurality of pixels that have photoelectric conversion units; on-chip microlenses that are formed in such a way as to correspond to the individual pixels; and an antireflection film that is formed on a surface of the on-chip microlens, in which the antireflection film is constituted by a stacking of: a first inorganic film that is formed by a metal oxide film; and a second inorganic film that is formed on a surface of the first inorganic film and has a lower refractive index than the first inorganic film. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS solid-state imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke MORIYA, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Tomiyuki YUKAWA, Kotaro NISHIMURA, Shigehiro IKEHARA, Shogo OTANI, Hiroshi KATO
  • Publication number: 20240107677
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic circuit board, a base member, electronic equipment, an electronic equipment manufacturing method and an electronic circuit board manufacturing method that make it possible to mount an electronic circuit board easily on a curved surface, for example. An electronic circuit board has a deformable wiring board having a plurality of areas that is long in one direction and is formed to be partially continuous with each other, and the plurality of areas of the wiring board is provided with deformable plate-like plate members that are more rigid than the wiring board. For example, the present technology can be applied to an electronic circuit board on which various devices are mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240105758
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 11641431
    Abstract: Both a transmission priority of order data and a reception priority of product data can be controlled based on a usage status of a bandwidth of a network. In an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention, product data is created based on order data received via a network. A transfer priority of current data over preceding data is determined based on a determination condition of transfer priorities, and control is performed such that the preceding data and the current data are transferred according to the transfer priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20220294913
    Abstract: Both a transmission priority of order data and a reception priority of product data can be controlled based on a usage status of a bandwidth of a network. In an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention, product data is created based on order data received via a network. A transfer priority of current data over preceding data is determined based on a determination condition of transfer priorities, and control is performed such that the preceding data and the current data are transferred according to the transfer priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi OTANI
  • Patent number: 11221806
    Abstract: A print support apparatus that receives a print target image selected in a terminal apparatus having a display unit, on which image browsing is possible, and instructs a printer to perform image print includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to generate a terminal setting history by receiving and recording a terminal setting value, which is transmitted in a case where a specific event occurs and is involved in image browsing, from at least one terminal apparatus, specify the terminal setting value having a longest image browsing time as a reference setting value based on the terminal setting history, and correct a characteristic of the print target image based on the reference setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20210303229
    Abstract: A print support apparatus that receives a print target image selected in a terminal apparatus having a display unit, on which image browsing is possible, and instructs a printer to perform image print includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to generate a terminal setting history by receiving and recording a terminal setting value, which is transmitted in a case where a specific event occurs and is involved in image browsing, from at least one terminal apparatus, specify the terminal setting value having a longest image browsing time as a reference setting value based on the terminal setting history, and correct a characteristic of the print target image based on the reference setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi OTANI
  • Patent number: 8698847
    Abstract: According to the image display method, apparatus, and program of the present invention, when a user moves a display location to partially display text that is described in an image over a wide area, the burden of the user in performing return operations with respect to the screen display can be reduced by freely selecting and storing a return destination of the screen from among displayed partial regions in accordance with a user instruction, and thereafter returning to the display of the stored partial region in accordance with an instruction of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 8550711
    Abstract: Lesion positioner systems and, which perform positioning of a lesion A by moving a top board for allowing a subject to be placed thereon, set an isocenter of a diagnostic 3D imaging unit as a virtual isocenter at the time when a treatment table is in a 3D imaging diagnosis position, and positions the lesion A to the virtual isocenter, based on a three-dimensional diagnostic image in consideration of particle beam therapy. A treatment table moving mechanism moves the treatment table to the treatment position relative to the particle beam therapy system while maintaining states of the top board and the lesion positioner systems and at the time of positioning, thereby positioning the lesion A to the isocenter of the particle beam therapy system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Maeda, Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 8299447
    Abstract: There is provided a rotating irradiation apparatus that can secure as large an access floor as possible, reduce noise during the formation of an access floor, and stably operate with a simple structure. The rotating irradiation apparatus includes an irradiation device 7 that irradiates a charged particle beam, a frame 1 on which the irradiation device is mounted and which rotates the irradiation device so that a patient lying on a treatment table 8 fixed to a stationary floor surface is irradiated with the charged particle beam, a ring 10 that is rotatably held on an inner periphery of the frame, an opening/closing-type floor 20 which is provided inside the ring and of which a portion through which the irradiation device passes is openable and closable, and drive means 28 that reversely rotates the ring in synchronization with the rotation of the irradiation device so as to maintain the opening/closing-type floor horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hagino, Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20110121197
    Abstract: Lesion positioner systems and, which perform positioning of a lesion A by moving a top board for allowing a subject to be placed thereon, set an isocenter of a diagnostic 3D imaging unit as a virtual isocenter at the time when a treatment table is in a 3D imaging diagnosis position, and positions the lesion A to the virtual isocenter, based on a three-dimensional diagnostic image in consideration of particle beam therapy. A treatment table moving mechanism moves the treatment table to the treatment position relative to the particle beam therapy system while maintaining states of the top board and the lesion positioner systems and at the time of positioning, thereby positioning the lesion A to the isocenter of the particle beam therapy system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Maeda, Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20110074826
    Abstract: According to the image display method, apparatus, and program of the present invention, when a user moves a display location to partially display text that is described in an image over a wide area, the burden of the user in performing return operations with respect to the screen display can be reduced by freely selecting and storing a return destination of the screen from among displayed partial regions in accordance with a user instruction, and thereafter returning to the display of the stored partial region in accordance with an instruction of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20110024645
    Abstract: There is provided a rotating irradiation apparatus that can secure as large an access floor as possible, reduce noise during the formation of an access floor, and stably operate with a simple structure. The rotating irradiation apparatus includes an irradiation device 7 that irradiates a charged particle beam, a frame 1 on which the irradiation device is mounted and which rotates the irradiation device so that a patient lying on a treatment table 8 fixed to a stationary floor surface is irradiated with the charged particle beam, a ring 10 that is rotatably held on an inner periphery of the frame, an opening/closing-type floor 20 which is provided inside the ring and of which a portion through which the irradiation device passes is openable and closable, and drive means 28 that reversely rotates the ring in synchronization with the rotation of the irradiation device so as to maintain the opening/closing-type floor horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hagino, Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 7579608
    Abstract: Provision is made for a particle-beam treatment system in which, even during particle-beam irradiation, the shape of a multileaf collimator is monitored. The particle-beam treatment system, in which multi-layer conformal irradiation is performed while the setting of the shape of the multileaf collimator in an irradiation head is changed during particle-beam irradiation, is provided with an optical shape-monitoring unit mounted attachably and detachably in the snout portion at the downstream side of the multileaf collimator, the optical shape-monitoring unit having a shape-monitoring mirror, opposing the multileaf collimator, for monitoring the shape of the multileaf collimator; a video camera for shooting the multileaf-collimator shape reflected by the shape-monitoring mirror; and an image monitor for displaying an image of the video camera that shoots the shape of the multileaf collimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Yuehu Pu, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Yasuyuki Takatani, Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20080298553
    Abstract: Provision is made for a particle-beam treatment system in which, even during particle-beam irradiation, the shape of a multileaf collimator is monitored. The particle-beam treatment system, in which multi-layer conformal irradiation is performed while the setting of the shape of the multileaf collimator in an irradiation head is changed during particle-beam irradiation, is provided with an optical shape-monitoring unit mounted attachably and detachably in the snout portion at the downstream side of the multileaf collimator, the optical shape-monitoring unit having a shape-monitoring mirror, opposing the multileaf collimator, for monitoring the shape of the multileaf collimator; a video camera for shooting the multileaf-collimator shape reflected by the shape-monitoring mirror; and an image monitor for displaying an image of the video camera that shoots the shape of the multileaf collimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Yuehu Pu, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Yasuyuki Takatani, Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 7265371
    Abstract: A radiation image conversion panel containing: a stimulable phosphor plate having a stimulable phosphor layer on a substrate; a first protective film provided on a stimulable phosphor layer of the substrate, the first protective film not being adhered to the surface of the stimulable phosphor layer and having a peripheral area extending outside of substrate; and a second protective film provided on the opposite side of the substrate to the stimulable phosphor layer, the second protective film having a peripheral area extending outside of the substrate, wherein the peripheral area of the first protective film and the peripheral area of the second protective film are heat-sealed with each other; and the radiation image conversion panel has a dehydrating function to dehydrate a space surrounded by the first protective film and the second protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiko Shoji, Osamu Morikawa, Shinji Kudo, Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20050274916
    Abstract: A radiation image conversion panel containing: a stimulable phosphor plate having a stimulable phosphor layer on a substrate; a first protective film provided on a stimulable phosphor layer of the substrate, the first protective film not being adhered to the surface of the stimulable phosphor layer and having a peripheral area extending outside of substrate; and a second protective film provided on the opposite side of the substrate to the stimulable phosphor layer, the second protective film having a peripheral area extending outside of the substrate, wherein the peripheral area of the first protective film and the peripheral area of the second protective film are heat-sealed with each other; and the radiation image conversion panel has a dehydrating function to dehydrate a space surrounded by the first protective film and the second protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Takehiko Shoji, Osamu Morikawa, Shinji Kudo, Hiroshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20050253208
    Abstract: A semiconductor micro device is provided with a rectangular silicon micro structure chip; a lead frame having a die pad for securing the silicon structure chip comprising a contact portion with the chip; and a resin encapsulating material for encapsulating the silicon structure chip and part of the lead frame; wherein the die pad of the lead frame has a non-contact portion positioned lower than the contact portion not to be in contact with the silicon structure chip, the non-contact portion being formed at least in a position corresponding to a diagonal portion of the silicon structure chip. A clearance between the non-contact portion and the silicon structure chip is filled with the resin encapsulating material, whereby the die pad and the silicon structure chip are bonded to each other by the resin encapsulating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 6963134
    Abstract: A highly reliable semiconductor device less susceptible to external noise is provided. The semiconductor device has a signal output chip and a substrate. The signal output chip has one or more semiconductors and outputs a predetermined signal. The substrate has a circuit formed thereon and is electrically connected to the signal output chip. A potential of the substrate is fixed to a certain level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani
  • Patent number: 6924537
    Abstract: A first semiconductor substrate (3) is so formed as to surround a periphery of a region between an upper substrate (1) and a lower substrate (11) like an outer peripheral frame, a potential drawing portion (31) of the first semiconductor substrate (3) is formed at a corner portion thereof and an area of the corner portion of the first semiconductor substrate (3) including the potential drawing portion (31) is made equal to or less than an area of each of potential drawing portions (36a, 36b, 40) of other semiconductor substrates (5, 7, 9), to achieve reduction in chip size. A conductive layer is formed on a surface of the upper substrate (1) or the like and the conductive layer is fixed to a fixed voltage such as a ground potential. This conductive layer or the like shields the semiconductor substrates against disturbance such as proximity of other substances, static electricity or radio wave hindrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otani