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).

  • Patent number: 11843883
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Shiro Omori, Takeshi Kozasa, Kazuhide Fujita, Naoto Hayashida, Shoyu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11770639
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220345651
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshioka, Shiro Ornori, Takeshi Kozasa, Kazuhide Fujita, Naoto Hayashida, Shoyu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220272292
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi, Kazuhito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11290619
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachi, Hiroaki Yamajo
  • Patent number: 11275296
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
  • Publication number: 20210377482
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji SAKIOKA, Masayuki TACHI, Hisashi NISHIMAKI, Taishin YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11122229
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210149283
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
  • Patent number: 10986264
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Ejiri, Masayuki Tachi, Yusuke Minagawa, Teruhiko Mochizuki, Nobuyuki Asakura, Michimasa Obana, Hisashi Nishimaki
  • Patent number: 10877357
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
  • Patent number: 10638035
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20200029046
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji SAKIOKA, Masayuki TACHI, Hisashi NISHIMAKI, Taishin YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10542229
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Youji Sakioka, Masayuki Tachi, Hisashi Nishimaki, Taishin Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10531002
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Yasunobu Hitomi, Kentaro Okamura, Masayuki Tachi
  • Patent number: 10432847
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Masayuki Tachi
  • Publication number: 20190158730
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUN EJIRI, MASAYUKI TACHI, YUSUKE MINAGAWA, TERUHIKO MOCHIZUKI, NOBUYUKI ASAKURA, MICHIMASA OBANA, HISASHI NISHIMAKI
  • Patent number: 10277830
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sano, Masayuki Tachi
  • Publication number: 20190109980
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190098180
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Tachi, Hiroaki Yamajo