Patents by Inventor Masayuki Tachi
Masayuki Tachi 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).
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Patent number: 11843883Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device that makes it possible to suppress deterioration of phase difference information, and an electronic device. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed. The plurality of pixels includes a phase difference pixel for phase difference detection, the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which pixel units including neighboring pixels of a same color are regularly arrayed, and the phase difference pixel is partially not added when horizontal/vertical addition is performed on a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a horizontal direction and a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a vertical direction, in reading the plurality of pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor having a phase difference pixel.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Shiro Omori, Takeshi Kozasa, Kazuhide Fujita, Naoto Hayashida, Shoyu Tanaka
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Patent number: 11770639Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which one microlens is formed for a plurality of pixels in a manner such that a boundary of the microlens coincides with boundaries of the pixels. The correction circuit corrects a sensitivity difference between the pixels inside the pixel unit based on a correction coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a solid-state imaging device and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220345651Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device that makes it possible to suppress deterioration of phase difference information, and an electronic device. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed. The plurality of pixels includes a phase difference pixel for phase difference detection, the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which pixel units including neighboring pixels of a same color are regularly arrayed, and the phase difference pixel is partially not added when horizontal/vertical addition is performed on a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a horizontal direction and a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a vertical direction, in reading the plurality of pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor having a phase difference pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Shiro Ornori, Takeshi Kozasa, Kazuhide Fujita, Naoto Hayashida, Shoyu Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220272292Abstract: Solid-state imaging devices, methods of driving solid-state imaging devices, and electronic devices are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which pixels are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix. At least some pixel rows include a first signal line configured to transmit a drive signal for driving a first transfer transistor of a first pixel in units of microlenses having a color filter of a first color, a second signal line configured to transmit a drive signal for driving a second transfer transistor of a second pixel different from the first pixel, and a third signal line configured to transmit a drive signal for driving a third transfer transistor of a third pixel in units of microlenses having a color filter of a second color different from the first color.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11290619Abstract: An imaging control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an imaging controller that synchronizes an exposure timing of a first imaging device that performs exposure by a rolling shutter system and an exposure timing of a second imaging device that performs exposure by a rolling shutter system with imaging conditions different from imaging conditions of the first imaging device, on a basis of the imaging conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayuki Tachi, Hiroaki Yamajo
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Patent number: 11275296Abstract: A signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positioner and a synthesizer. The positioner generates, on the basis of two pieces of RAW data different in angle of view from each other, positioning data of the two pieces of RAW data. The synthesizer synthesizes the two pieces of RAW data with each other on the basis of the positioning data generated by the positioner.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
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Publication number: 20210377482Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which one microlens is formed for a plurality of pixels in a manner such that a boundary of the microlens coincides with boundaries of the pixels. The correction circuit corrects a sensitivity difference between the pixels inside the pixel unit based on a correction coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a solid-state imaging device and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Youji SAKIOKA, Masayuki TACHI, Hisashi NISHIMAKI, Taishin YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11122229Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which one microlens is formed for a plurality of pixels in a manner such that a boundary of the microlens coincides with boundaries of the pixels. The correction circuit corrects a sensitivity difference between the pixels inside the pixel unit based on a correction coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a solid-state imaging device and the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210149283Abstract: A signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positioner and a synthesizer. The positioner generates, on the basis of two pieces of RAW data different in angle of view from each other, positioning data of the two pieces of RAW data. The synthesizer synthesizes the two pieces of RAW data with each other on the basis of the positioning data generated by the positioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
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Patent number: 10986264Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, an image sensor, an information processing device, and a program that facilitate cancellation of a locked state. An image processing device includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined state, using data from a plurality of sensors; and an imaging unit that captures an image of a predetermined object, in a case where the predetermined state is detected by the detection unit. The image processing device further includes a plurality of input interfaces that input the data from the plurality of sensors. When an application processor switches from an activated state to a non-activated state, detection by the detection unit is started. The present technology can be applied to a smartphone, for example.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Ejiri, Masayuki Tachi, Yusuke Minagawa, Teruhiko Mochizuki, Nobuyuki Asakura, Michimasa Obana, Hisashi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 10877357Abstract: A signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positioner and a synthesizer. The positioner generates, on the basis of two pieces of RAW data different in angle of view from each other, positioning data of the two pieces of RAW data. The synthesizer synthesizes the two pieces of RAW data with each other on the basis of the positioning data generated by the positioner.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
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Patent number: 10638035Abstract: An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20200029046Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which one microlens is formed for a plurality of pixels in a manner such that a boundary of the microlens coincides with boundaries of the pixels. The correction circuit corrects a sensitivity difference between the pixels inside the pixel unit based on a correction coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a solid-state imaging device and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Youji SAKIOKA, Masayuki TACHI, Hisashi NISHIMAKI, Taishin YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10542229Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a signal processing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus enabling sensitivity correction in which a sensitivity difference between solid-state imaging devices is suppressed. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which one microlens is formed for a plurality of pixels in a manner such that a boundary of the microlens coincides with boundaries of the pixels. The correction circuit corrects a sensitivity difference between the pixels inside the pixel unit based on a correction coefficient. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a solid-state imaging device and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
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Patent number: 10531002Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and an image processing method capable of generating a high-quality composite image. Exposure time and exposure timing of a basic imaging unit which images a basic image and a plurality of auxiliary imaging units which may image under an imaging condition independent from that of the basic imaging unit are controlled according to a motion amount. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Yasunobu Hitomi, Kentaro Okamura, Masayuki Tachi
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Patent number: 10432847Abstract: A signal processing apparatus of one embodiment of the disclosure includes a composition unit that generates first composite imaging data, by adding together a low-frequency component of first imaging data, a high-frequency component of the first imaging data, and a high-frequency component of second imaging data. The first imaging data is imaging data of a relatively wide angle of view, out of two pieces of imaging data that differ in angle of view from each other. The second imaging data is imaging data of a relatively narrow angle of view, out of the two pieces of the imaging data.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
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Publication number: 20190158730Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, an image sensor, an information processing device, and a program that facilitate cancellation of a locked state. An image processing device includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined state, using data from a plurality of sensors; and an imaging unit that captures an image of a predetermined object, in a case where the predetermined state is detected by the detection unit. The image processing device further includes a plurality of input interfaces that input the data from the plurality of sensors. When an application processor switches from an activated state to a non-activated state, detection by the detection unit is started. The present technology can be applied to a smartphone, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: JUN EJIRI, MASAYUKI TACHI, YUSUKE MINAGAWA, TERUHIKO MOCHIZUKI, NOBUYUKI ASAKURA, MICHIMASA OBANA, HISASHI NISHIMAKI
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Patent number: 10277830Abstract: There is provided a signal processor including a phase difference detection part configured to acquire a pixel value of one light-shielding pixel having a part of a light-receiving region shielded therein and pixel values of a peripheral pixel row of the light-shielding pixel in a light shielding direction. A corrected pixel value obtained by subjecting the pixel value of the light-shielding pixel to a reduced sensitivity correction is compared with the pixel values of the peripheral pixel row to detect a phase difference of the light-shielding pixel.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Sano, Masayuki Tachi
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Publication number: 20190109980Abstract: An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20190098180Abstract: An imaging control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an imaging controller that synchronizes an exposure timing of a first imaging device that performs exposure by a rolling shutter system and an exposure timing of a second imaging device that performs exposure by a rolling shutter system with imaging conditions different from imaging conditions of the first imaging device, on a basis of the imaging conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayuki Tachi, Hiroaki Yamajo