Patents by Inventor Naotaka Kubota

Naotaka Kubota 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: 20190026557
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for a vehicle includes a viewpoint image generation portion generating a viewpoint image in which a three-dimensional virtual projection surface surrounding a periphery of a vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, and a captured image of vehicle surroundings is projected onto the virtual projection surface, and the apparatus includes a marking image generation portion generating a marking image indicating a specific position on the virtual projection surface, and an output image generation portion generating an output image including the viewpoint image and the marking image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Naotaka KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 10163986
    Abstract: There is provided an electro-optical device including a light-emitting element, a sealing layer that covers the light-emitting element, a first color filter transmits light in a first wavelength region, and a second color filter that is formed on the sealing layer and the first color filter and transmits light in a second wavelength region, in which the light in the first wavelength region has higher visibility than the light in the second wavelength region, and the first color filter is first formed on the sealing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi Fukagawa, Takeshi Koshihara, Naotaka Kubota, Suguru Akagawa
  • Patent number: 10157595
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a reception unit that receives an input for designating a first point on a first image, which is displayed on a display screen provided in a vehicle compartment and shows a peripheral environment of a vehicle at a first timing; a display processing unit that displays a first display object at the first point; a specifying unit that specifies a second point at which a first target, which is located at the first point, is located on a second image, which shows the peripheral environment of the vehicle at a second timing after the first timing; and an update unit that displays, along with the second image, the first display object at the second point on the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Hashikawa, Naotaka Kubota, Yoji Inui, Morio Sakai
  • Patent number: 10153330
    Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate; an organic EL element that is disposed on the substrate; a sealing part that is formed to cover the organic EL element; a color filter that includes coloring layers formed on the sealing part; and a dimension evaluation pattern for evaluating dimensional accuracy of the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naotaka Kubota
  • Patent number: 10090364
    Abstract: An organic EL device includes an organic light-emitting layer provided above a first substrate; a protective layer provided above the organic light-emitting layer; a color filter provided on the protective layer; and a second substrate adhered to the color filter via an adhesive, in which a colored layer includes a first colored layer, a second colored layer, and a third colored layer, the color filter includes a first region in which the first colored layer, the second colored layer, and the third colored layer are respectively arranged as single colors and a second region in which the first colored layer, the second colored layer, and the third colored layer are arranged in a layered manner, and a height difference-relieving layer is provided between the color filter and the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Akagawa, Narumi Ishibashi, Naotaka Kubota
  • Publication number: 20180277610
    Abstract: An organic EL device as an electrooptical device includes an organic EL element, a sealing member, a color filter, a dimension evaluation pattern, and a pedestal member. The organic EL element is disposed for each subpixel, in a display area of a base as a substrate. The sealing member includes a sealing layer that covers the organic EL element. The color filter is provided on the sealing layer. The dimension evaluation pattern is provided as an evaluation pattern for evaluating the color filter. The pedestal member is disposed between an end portion of the base and the sealing member. The dimension evaluation pattern is disposed on the pedestal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka KUBOTA, Takeshi KOSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180253106
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image in which a first connection device provided in a vehicle and a second connection device provided in a towed vehicle are captured; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire height information of the second connection device; and a guidance controller configured to calculate a positional relationship between the first connection device and the second connection device based on a display position of the second connection device in the first image and the height information, calculate a path of the vehicle until the first connection device and the second connection device are connected to each other based on the positional relationship, and to guide the vehicle along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji INUI, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kazuya WATANABE, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Osamu KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180229657
    Abstract: A surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image acquisition portion acquiring captured image data, an image conversion portion converting the captured image data to virtual image data with a plurality of virtual viewpoints, and a data control portion sequentially displaying the virtual image data at a display unit in a state where each of the virtual viewpoints moves from a first virtual viewpoint position at which an opposite side of the vehicle is viewed, through a second virtual viewpoint position at which the vehicle is viewed from an overhead region of the vehicle, and to a third virtual viewpoint position at which the one side of the vehicle is viewed. The data control portion rotates the virtual image data with reference to a line of sight of the virtual viewpoint while the virtual image data is displayed so that the virtual viewpoint passes through the second virtual viewpoint position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kinji YAMAMOTO, Naotaka KUBOTA, Kazuya WATANABE, Takayuki NAKASHO
  • Publication number: 20180138245
    Abstract: There is provided an electro-optical device including a light-emitting element, a sealing layer that covers the light-emitting element, a color filter layer that is formed on the sealing layer, and a convex portion that is provided between the sealing layer and the color filter layer and has a first surface in contact with the sealing layer and a second surface in contact with the color filter layer, in which the second surface is a curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru AKAGAWA, Ryoichi NOZAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Takefumi FUKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180138244
    Abstract: There is provided an electro-optical device including a light-emitting element, a sealing layer that covers the light-emitting element, a first color filter transmits light in a first wavelength region, and a second color filter that is formed on the sealing layer and the first color filter and transmits light in a second wavelength region, in which the light in the first wavelength region has higher visibility than the light in the second wavelength region, and the first color filter is first formed on the sealing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi FUKAGAWA, Takeshi KOSHIHARA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Suguru AKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180111553
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device according the embodiment comprising: a first storage that stores therein road surface information in a moving direction of a vehicle including a plurality of wheels; a controller that generates underfloor information on an underfloor region of the vehicle from the road surface information, the underfloor region including at least part of a region of all the wheels; a second storage that is nonvolatile and stores therein the underfloor information when the vehicle ends driving; and a display that displays the underfloor information when the vehicle starts driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotaka KUBOTA, Kazuya WATANABE, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takayuki NAKASHO
  • Publication number: 20180089907
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an image indicating a peripheral environment of a vehicle and information corresponding to a state of the vehicle, the image being captured by an imaging device that is provided in the vehicle; a memory that stores a vehicle model that indicates a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle; a processing unit that processes the vehicle model based on the information; and an output unit that superimposes the vehicle model processed by the processing unit on a position within the image indicating the peripheral environment corresponding to a position within the peripheral environment where the vehicle is present, and displays the image indicating the peripheral environment and having the vehicle model superimposed thereon on a display screen that is provided in a vehicle compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180080984
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a system bus, a plurality of Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores each connected to the system bus, including a scan chain, and being assigned one or more tasks and configured to perform one of the tasks in a normal operation state, and a diagnostic test circuit connected to the system bus and capable of communicating with the plurality of the CPU cores, and configured to perform a scan test for the plurality of the CPU cores by using the scan chain. The plurality of the CPU cores outputs a test start instruction signal to the diagnostic test circuit, when the test start instruction signal is output from one of the plurality of the CPU cores, the diagnostic test circuit performs a scan test for the one of the plurality of the CPU cores in accordance with the test start instruction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Yukitoshi TSUBOI, Hideo NAGANO, Hiroshi NAGAOKA, Yusuke MATSUNAGA, Yutaka IGAKU, Naotaka KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180066941
    Abstract: An image processing system for a vehicle includes: a viewpoint image generating unit that generates a viewpoint image viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint when assumed that a surrounding image corresponding to surrounding image data is projected on a virtual projection plane whose arrangement position has been set in advance, based on inclination information corresponding to an inclination of the vehicle and the surrounding image data obtained by capturing an image of a periphery of the vehicle; and an output image generating unit that generates and outputs output image data in order to cause a display device to display an output image in which an own vehicle model image having an inclination according to an inclination of the vehicle corresponding to the inclination information is superimposed on the viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotaka KUBOTA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Yoji INUI, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180001887
    Abstract: A traveling support device includes: a comparing unit that compares a detection result based on an output value output from a sensor for detecting a state of a vehicle with a reference value stored in advance; and a controller that, when comparison by the comparing unit determines that the detection result is equal to or more than the reference value, switches a first control mode to a second control mode different from the first control mode with respect to at least one of a display control capable of switching display of information on the vehicle, a vehicle height control capable of switching a vehicle height with a vehicle height adjustment device of the vehicle, and a vehicle speed control capable of switching a speed limit value with a vehicle control device of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Naotaka KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20170372682
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a reception unit that receives an input for designating a first point on a first image, which is displayed on a display screen provided in a vehicle compartment and shows a peripheral environment of a vehicle at a first timing; a display processing unit that displays a first display object at the first point; a specifying unit that specifies a second point at which a first target, which is located at the first point, is located on a second image, which shows the peripheral environment of the vehicle at a second timing after the first timing; and an update unit that displays, along with the second image, the first display object at the second point on the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Yoji INUI, Morio SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9810738
    Abstract: Deterioration in operation performance due to a fault diagnosis is prevented. A semiconductor device 90 according to the present invention includes a plurality of CPU cores 91 to 94 each including a scan chain, and a diagnostic test circuit 95 that performs a scan test for the plurality of CPU cores 91 to 94 by using the scan chain of the CPU core. The diagnostic test circuit 95 performs a scan test for each of the plurality of CPU cores 91 to 94 in a predetermined order on a periodic basis so that execution time periods of the scan tests do not overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yukitoshi Tsuboi, Hideo Nagano, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Yusuke Matsunaga, Yutaka Igaku, Naotaka Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170236880
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate; a first organic EL element that is formed in a first sub pixel on the substrate; a second organic EL element that is formed in a second sub pixel adjacent to the first sub pixel on the substrate; a sealing part that is formed to cover the first organic EL element and the second organic EL element; a first coloring layer that is formed in the first sub pixel on the sealing part; a second coloring layer that is formed in the second sub pixel on the sealing part; and a convex portion that has light transmission properties and is formed between the first sub pixel and the second sub pixel on the sealing part, in which the first coloring layer and the second coloring layer are disposed to overlap each other at an upper surface portion of the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naotaka KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20170236879
    Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate; an organic EL element that is disposed on the substrate; a sealing part that is formed to cover the organic EL element; a color filter that includes coloring layers formed on the sealing part; and a dimension evaluation pattern for evaluating dimensional accuracy of the color filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naotaka KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9671640
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device 100, a color filter substrate 20 is provided with colored pixels, which are: a red pixel 2(R) with a colored layer 28(R) formed inside a concave portion 25(R) formed in a first surface 20s of a light-transmissive substrate 20d, a green pixel 2(G) with a colored layer 28(G) formed inside a concave portion 25(G) formed in said surface, and a blue pixel 2(B) with a colored layer 28(B) formed inside a concave portion 25(B) formed in said surface. In addition, in the substrate 20d, a non-colored pixel 2(W), at which no colored layer is provided, is provided outside the concave portion 25(R), 25(G), 25(B) at a position where the thickness of the substrate 20d is greater than that at the colored pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Wachi, Hidetoshi Ushiyama, Naotaka Kubota