Patents by Inventor Hisao Nakamura

Hisao Nakamura 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: 20240122465
    Abstract: A visual field testing method is a visual field testing method of testing a visual field range divided into at least a first partial area and a second partial area, the method including: a step of measuring sensitivities of a plural first test points that are included in the first partial area: and a step of performing a process of estimating sensitivities of a plural second test points that are included in the first partial area and are test points other than the first test points, by using the sensitivities of the plural first test points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara NAKAMURA, Taishi AOKI, Teruo HORIKAWA, Hisao OSAWA
  • Patent number: 10132627
    Abstract: An electronic device has a storage unit that stores unit information relating to movement with respect to each of an elevating state and a horizontal movement state and an altitude measurement unit that measures a series of altitudes. An altitude change determination unit determines whether the movement is the elevating state or not using a first determination section having a first altitude range based on a first set of altitudes within the measured series of altitudes, and determines whether the movement is the horizontal movement state or not using a second determination section having a second altitude range smaller than the first altitude range and based on a second set of altitudes within the measured series of altitudes. A movement distance calculator reads from the storage unit the unit information corresponding to the state determined by the determination unit and calculates a movement distance based on the read unit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Tsubata, Kazuo Kato, Tomohiro Ihashi, Takanori Hasegawa, Hisao Nakamura, Katsuya Mugishima, Akira Takakura
  • Patent number: 9887113
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip tray is provided that includes a support plate, a first protruding portion, a second protruding portion and a recess. The first protruding portion forms a housing space for a semiconductor chip by being provided on a top surface of the support plate. The second protruding portion is provided on a bottom surface of the support plate, and is fitted to an outer periphery of the first protruding portion of another semiconductor chip tray when the tray is stacked so as to overlap the other tray. The recess is provided on the bottom surface of the support plate. The recess faces a part of the first protruding portion of another chip tray when the tray is stacked so as to overlap the other tray. The recess is formed extending up to an outside of the first protruding portion from the housing space formed by the first protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Koji Akimoto, Hisao Nakamura, Tsutomu Fukaya
  • Patent number: 9443808
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer includes circuit integration regions each incorporating an integrated circuit and guard rings disposed to surround the circuit integration regions, respectively. A scribe region disposed between every adjacent two of the guard rings. An element and a pad electrically connected to the element are disposed in the scribe region. A groove is disposed along a corresponding guard ring on a front surface of the semiconductor wafer between the pad and the corresponding guard ring. The distance between the groove and the pad is varied along the corresponding guard ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
    Inventors: Hisao Nakamura, Yuichi Nakagomi, Yasuhiro Kumagai
  • Patent number: 9385096
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip having a main face which has a pair of long sides parallel to each other and a pair of short sides orthogonal to the pair of long sides; first bumps arrayed in a first bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the first bump placement region being positioned along one of the pair of long sides; second bumps arrayed in a second bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the second bump placement region being positioned along the other of the pair of long sides; first power lines disposed in a region between the first bump placement region and the second bump placement region, the first power lines extending in a direction parallel to the pair of long sides; and third bumps integrated on the semiconductor chip. Each of the third bumps provides short-circuiting of the first power lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
    Inventors: Hisao Nakamura, Yuichi Nakagomi, Shinya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160071769
    Abstract: In order to shield the light incident from the chip side surface or chip rear surface of a semiconductor chip that forms an LCD driver, a light-shielding film is formed over the chip side surface and chip rear surface of the semiconductor chip itself, not using a light-shielding tape that is a component separate from the semiconductor chip. Accordingly, the light-shielding tape as a separate component is not used, and hence the trouble that the light-shielding tape may protrude from the surface of a glass substrate whose thickness has been made small can be solved. As a result, the thinning of a liquid crystal display, and the subsequent thinning of the mobile phone in which the liquid crystal display is mounted can be promoted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichi ICHIHARA, Hisao NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160071752
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip tray is provided that includes a support plate, a first protruding portion, a second protruding portion and a recess. The first protruding portion forms a housing space for a semiconductor chip by being provided on a top surface of the support plate. The second protruding portion is provided on a bottom surface of the support plate, and is fitted to an outer periphery of the first protruding portion of another semiconductor chip tray when the tray is stacked so as to overlap the other tray. The recess is provided on the bottom surface of the support plate. The recess faces a part of the first protruding portion of another chip tray when the tray is stacked so as to overlap the other tray. The recess is formed extending up to an outside of the first protruding portion from the housing space formed by the first protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Koji AKIMOTO, Hisao NAKAMURA, Tsutomu FUKAYA
  • Patent number: 9224622
    Abstract: In order to shield the light incident from the chip side surface or chip rear surface of a semiconductor chip that forms an LCD driver, a light-shielding film is formed over the chip side surface and chip rear surface of the semiconductor chip itself, not using a light-shielding tape that is a component separate from the semiconductor chip. Accordingly, the light-shielding tape as a separate component is not used, and hence the trouble that the light-shielding tape may protrude from the surface of a glass substrate whose thickness has been made small can be solved. As a result, the thinning of a liquid crystal display, and the subsequent thinning of the mobile phone in which the liquid crystal display is mounted can be promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Ichihara, Hisao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9076371
    Abstract: A display device includes independently driven common and segment terminals. The common and segment terminals are connected to display components divided into display blocks that are turned ON to perform a display function and are turned OFF so as to not perform the display function. A first driver drives the common terminals using a scanning signal of a predetermined period and a second driver drives the segment terminals using a segment signal synchronized with the scanning signal to correspond to a display signal, so that the display components perform a display corresponding to the display signal. The first driver separates the common terminals into common terminal blocks and drives the common terminals. The first and second drivers perform the driving so that the common and segment terminals which are connected to display blocks that are turned OFF are not supplied with a turn-off signal and are maintained at ground potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kato, Akira Takakura, Keisuke Tsubata, Hisao Nakamura, Tomohiro Ihashi, Yoshinori Sugai, Eriko Noguchi, Satoshi Sakai, Takanori Hasegawa, Shotaro Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20150168142
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a storage unit that stores unit information relating to a movement with respect to each of an elevating state and a horizontal movement state; an altitude measurement unit that measures an altitude; an altitude change determination unit that determines whether the movement is the elevating state or the horizontal movement state based on the altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit; and a movement distance calculator that reads the unit information corresponding to the state determined by the altitude change determination unit from the storage unit and calculates a movement distance based on the read unit information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Keisuke TSUBATA, Kazuo KATO, Tomohiro IHASHI, Takanori HASEGAWA, Hisao NAKAMURA, Katsuya MUGISHIMA, Akira TAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20150168438
    Abstract: To provide an electronic device, a data processing method and a data processing program capable of measuring a stable ascending/descending velocity on which the most recent ascending/descending state is reflected. The electronic device includes an altitude measurement unit measuring altitudes, an altitude change determination unit determining an altitude change state based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first time interval until a current time and an ascending/descending velocity calculation unit calculating an ascending/descending velocity based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second time interval until the current time, which is equal to the first time interval or longer than the first time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Keisuke TSUBATA, Hisao NAKAMURA, Takanori HASEGAWA, Tomohiro IHASHI, Katsuya MUGISHIMA, Kazuo KATO, Akira TAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20150168141
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an altitude measurement unit, an altitude change determination unit, and an elevating speed calculator. The altitude measurement unit measures an altitude, the altitude change determination unit determines whether a change state of the altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit is at least an ascending state or a descending state, and the elevating speed calculator calculates an average elevating speed in each change state determined by the altitude change determination unit based on the altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit. A data processing method in the electronic device and a data processing program executed by a computer of the electronic device may be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo KATO, Keisuke TSUBATA, Hisao NAKAMURA, Tomohiro IHASHI, Takanori HASEGAWA, Katsuya MUGISHIMA, Akira TAKAKURA
  • Patent number: 8982675
    Abstract: A power supply unit has a first power supply circuit that supplies a voltage to a load driving unit and a second power supply circuit that supplies a voltage to circuits other than the load driving unit. A first switching unit connects any one of a power supply that supplies a power supply voltage and a voltage step-down circuit that supplies a step-down voltage of the power supply voltage to the first power supply circuit. A second switching unit connects any one of the power supply and the voltage step-down circuit to the second power supply circuit. A control unit controls the connection by the first switching unit and the connection by the second switching unit to switch the voltage supplied to the first power supply circuit and the voltage supplied to the second power supply circuit in accordance with properties of the load driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kato, Akira Takakura, Toshitaka Fukushima, Keisuke Tsubata, Hisao Nakamura, Tomohiro Ihashi, Yoshinori Sugai, Eriko Noguchi, Satoshi Sakai, Takanori Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150039263
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, an altitude measurement unit that measures an altitude, key input means for receiving an operation input, and a CPU that starts recording of altitude information regarding an altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit at a predetermined time interval if the key input means receives an input for instructing starting of recording of an altitude, stops the recording of the altitude information if the key input means receives an input for instructing stopping of recording of an altitude, and displays the altitude information when the recording starts on the display unit if the key input means receives an input for instructing display of the altitude information in a state in which the altitude information is currently recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Takanori HASEGAWA, Akira TAKAKURA, Keisuke TSUBATA, Kazuo KATO, Hisao NAKAMURA, Tomohiro IHASHI, Katsuya MUGISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150021733
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer includes circuit integration regions each incorporating an integrated circuit and guard rings disposed to surround the circuit integration regions, respectively. A scribe region disposed between every adjacent two of the guard rings. An element and a pad electrically connected to the element are disposed in the scribe region. A groove is disposed along a corresponding guard ring on a front surface of the semiconductor wafer between the pad and the corresponding guard ring. The distance between the groove and the pad is varied along the corresponding guard ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hisao Nakamura, Yuichi Nakagomi, Yasuhiro Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20140361429
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip having a main face which has a pair of long sides parallel to each other and a pair of short sides orthogonal to the pair of long sides; first bumps arrayed in a first bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the first bump placement region being positioned along one of the pair of long sides; second bumps arrayed in a second bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the second bump placement region being positioned along the other of the pair of long sides; first power lines disposed in a region between the first bump placement region and the second bump placement region, the first power lines extending in a direction parallel to the pair of long sides; and third bumps integrated on the semiconductor chip. Each of the third bumps provides short-circuiting of the first power lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas SP Drivers Inc.
    Inventors: Hisao Nakamura, Yuichi Nakagomi, Shinya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140128710
    Abstract: An electronic device in which a battery can be positioned in a diameter direction, the battery can be brought into contact with a positive terminal member stably and sufficiently, and a portion housing the battery and a case body can be molded individually from optimal materials is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Hisao NAKAMURA, Teruo KATO, Hideaki KOSHOJI, Dai TERASAWA, Hideki OKUDA
  • Patent number: 8699305
    Abstract: A solar cell electronic device includes a cover glass fitted into a case opening of an exterior case via a glass packing, and a solar panel disposed on the back face of the cover glass with a predetermined distance from the cover glass. The case opening has a base portion on the inner periphery thereof for mounting an outer peripheral portion of the cover glass and for positioning the solar panel in a plane direction. The glass packing includes a packing main body interposed between the case opening and the cover glass, and a flange portion that extends from an end on the base portion side of the packing main body and that is interposed between the cover glass and the base portion. The base portion has a base opening through which at least a part of the flange portion is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Hisao Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawamata
  • Patent number: 8682420
    Abstract: A heartbeat measuring device has a measurement unit that measures a heart rate of a user, and an information storage unit that stores unique information regarding a heart rate unique to the user or information regarding a detected heartbeat of the user. A determination unit determines whether or not a heartbeat measurement state of the user is normal on the basis of the unique information or the information regarding a heartbeat stored in the information storage unit. An abnormality detection unit detects an abnormality corresponding to poor mounting of the heartbeat measuring device or interference due to external noise on the basis of a heart rate measured by the measurement unit. A notification unit performs a notification when the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detection unit. The notification unit changes information to be notified on the basis of a detection result by the abnormality detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Tsubata, Takanori Hasegawa, Akira Takakura, Katsuya Mugishima, Kazuo Kato, Kazuhiro Koyama, Hisao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8586938
    Abstract: The ultraviolet ray sensor measures the intensity of ultraviolet rays irradiated to the ultraviolet ray receiving surface. The CPU performs control to measure ultraviolet intensity in a case in which the ultraviolet ray receiving surface of the ultraviolet ray sensor faces in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Tsubata, Tomohiro Ihashi, Satoshi Sakai, Hisao Nakamura, Eriko Noguchi, Kazuo Kato, Yoshinori Sugai