Patents by Inventor Manabu Koike

Manabu Koike 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: 11984313
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer according to an embodiment includes a support region facing a support member, an outer circumferential region positioned on an outer side of the support region, and an inner circumferential region positioned on an inner side of the support region. The outer circumferential region has a convex portion with a thickness protruded upward with respect to the inner circumferential region or a concave portion with a thickness recessed downward with respect to the inner circumferential region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Koike, Manabu Takakuwa
  • Patent number: 11955938
    Abstract: Proposed is an acoustic output device that obtains enough distance attenuation to achieve localization of a sound field by controlling the driving of a loudspeaker array by use of a more compact shape. The acoustic output device 10 comprises: a loudspeaker array 20 that includes a plurality of loudspeakers 20-1, 20-2, . . . , 20-N arranged in a two-dimensional plane; and an amplifier array 40 that includes a plurality of amplifiers 40-1, 40-2, . . . , 40-N that control the amplitude and phase of the drive signals for each loudspeaker according to the eigenvectors of the predetermined radiation mode of the loudspeaker array 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY, Foster Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kaizuka, Kimihiko Nakano, Yoshio Koike, Yoshiteru Uchida, Manabu Sasajima
  • Patent number: 11494327
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Koike
  • Patent number: 11455248
    Abstract: A semiconductor device performs a software lock-step. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit group including a first Intellectual Property (IP) to be operated in a first address space, a first bus, and a first memory, a second circuit group including a second IP to be operated in a second address space, a second bus, and a second memory, a third bus connectable to a third memory, and a transfer control circuit coupled to the first to third buses. when the software lock-step is performed, the second circuit group converts an access address from the second IP to the second memory such that an address assigned to the second memory in the second address space is a same as an address assigned to the first memory in the first address space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Akihiro Yamamoto, Kazuaki Terashima, Manabu Koike
  • Publication number: 20210349819
    Abstract: A semiconductor device performs a software lock-step. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit group including a first Intellectual Property (IP) to be operated in a first address space, a first bus, and a first memory, a second circuit group including a second IP to be operated in a second address space, a second bus, and a second memory, a third bus connectable to a third memory, and a transfer control circuit coupled to the first to third buses. when the software lock-step is performed, the second circuit group converts an access address from the second IP to the second memory such that an address assigned to the second memory in the second address space is a same as an address assigned to the first memory in the first address space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Kazuaki TERASHIMA, Manabu KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20210165754
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Manabu KOIKE
  • Patent number: 10949369
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Koike
  • Publication number: 20200242060
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Manabu KOIKE
  • Patent number: 10628360
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Koike
  • Patent number: 10511799
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Atsushi Nakamura, Manabu Koike, Hideaki Kido, Nobuyasu Kanekawa
  • Publication number: 20190196998
    Abstract: A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Manabu KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20190020849
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAMASAKI, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Manabu KOIKE, Hideaki KIDO, Nobuyasu KANEKAWA
  • Patent number: 10104332
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Atsushi Nakamura, Manabu Koike, Hideaki Kido, Nobuyasu Kanekawa
  • Publication number: 20180241964
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAMASAKI, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Manabu KOIKE, Hideaki KIDO, Nobuyasu KANEKAWA
  • Patent number: 9986196
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Atsushi Nakamura, Manabu Koike, Hideaki Kido, Nobuyasu Kanekawa
  • Patent number: 9978117
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus pertaining to one embodiment has: a first processor that operates by a first program and reads pixel data from a storage unit; a second processor that operates by a second program, performs processing to the pixel data, and writes the processed pixel data back to the storage unit; and a buffer circuit that transfers the pixel data from the first processor to the second processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Koike, Akihiro Yamamoto, Atsushi Nakamura, Hideaki Kido
  • Publication number: 20180039858
    Abstract: An image recognition apparatus 100 includes a gradient feature computation unit 120 configured to calculate, from an image divided into a plurality of blocks, gradient feature values for each of the plurality of blocks, a combination pattern storage unit 160 configured to store a plurality of combination patterns of the gradient feature values, and a co-occurrence feature computation unit 131 configured to calculate a co-occurrence feature value in a plurality of blocks for each of the plurality of combination patterns. Further, image recognition apparatus 100 includes an arithmetic computation unit 132 configured to calculate an addition value by adding the co-occurrence feature value calculated for each of the plurality of blocks for each of the plurality of combination patterns, a statistical data generation unit 140 configured to generate statistical data from the addition value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Akira UTAGAWA, Takaaki SATO, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Manabu KOIKE, Masaya ITOH
  • Publication number: 20170147264
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first memory that stores image data; a second memory that can be accessed at a speed higher than that in an access to the first memory; a first operation unit that executes a predetermined task on a predetermined area of the image data transferred from the first memory to the second memory; a second operation unit that determines whether there is an overlapping part of a first area of the image data executed corresponding to a first task executed by the first operation unit and a second area of the image data executed corresponding to a second task different from the first task; and a memory control apparatus that controls the first memory and the second memory. The memory control apparatus performs control to reuse the image data in the second memory when it is determined that there is an overlapping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Motoyasu Takabatake, Hisashi Shiota, Atsushi Nakamura, Manabu Koike
  • Publication number: 20170034471
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAMASAKI, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Manabu KOIKE, Hideaki KIDO, Nobuyasu KANEKAWA
  • Patent number: 9503637
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Atsushi Nakamura, Manabu Koike, Hideaki Kido, Nobuyasu Kanekawa