Patents by Inventor Takahiro Iinuma
Takahiro Iinuma 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: 11606527Abstract: There is provided is a transmitter including an image processor that sets region information corresponding to a region set for an image for each row in the image and that transmits the set region information and region data corresponding to the region for each row, in which the image processor sets the region by analyzing the image or on a basis of externally acquired region-designating information, and the region information includes information indicating a position of a row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Takahashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naoki Yoshimochi, Yoshiaki Inada, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Koji Yoda, Takahiro Iinuma
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Patent number: 11514581Abstract: Provided is an image capturing device including a motion determination unit that determines the presence/absence of motion in a plurality of pixels on the basis of an addition signal of the plurality of pixels to obtain a motion determination result, and a transmission control unit that controls whether or not to transmit image data corresponding to at least the plurality of pixels on the basis of the motion determination result.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Hoshino, Takahiro Iinuma
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Publication number: 20220021816Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
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Patent number: 11196922Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
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Patent number: 11131479Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit on which maintenance work can be performed without removing a wire from a control box is provided. An air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit according to the present invention is an air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit to be embedded in an indoor ceiling surface. The indoor unit includes a housing, a heat exchanger installed in the housing, a drain pan installed below the heat exchanger, a wire extending into the housing from outside, and a control box connected with the wire in the housing and installed below the drain pan. The housing includes a cutout part at a lower end part of a side plate as a side surface of the housing, and a wire pass-through plate is detachably fitted to the cutout part. The wire pass-through plate includes a hole through which the wire passes. The control box is adjacent to the wire pass-through plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Miyata, Yasuyuki Kotake, Yasutomo Hirai, Takahiro Iinuma, Yoshinori Fujii
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Patent number: 11074023Abstract: There is provided a transmission device including: an image processing unit that sets region information corresponding to a region set in an image for each of rows in the image and causes the set region information and region data corresponding to the region to be transmitted for each row. The region information includes information indicating a position of the row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Tomohiro Takahashi, Takahiro Iinuma, Koji Yoda, Miho Ozawa, Yoshiaki Inada
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Patent number: 11025822Abstract: The power consumption is reduced in an imaging apparatus that detects the presence or absence of an event. In a pixel array unit, a plurality of transfer transistors that transfer charges from mutually different photoelectric conversion devices to a floating diffusion layer is provided. A scan circuit simultaneously controls the plurality of transfer transistors in a pixel addition mode in which pixel addition is performed, to transfer the charges and sequentially controls the plurality of transfer transistors in a normal mode in which pixel addition is not performed, to transfer the charges. An event detection unit detects the presence or absence of a predetermined event on the basis of an addition signal which is an analog signal generated in the normal mode, and generates a detection result. A mode control unit sets one of the pixel addition mode and the normal mode on the basis of the detection result.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Iinuma
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Patent number: 10863129Abstract: Reducing power consumption without reducing the number of pixel signals in a solid-state imaging element that performs AD conversion of a pixel signal. A pixel array unit includes a plurality of lines each having a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined direction. A scanning circuit sequentially selects the plurality of lines and then controls to output an analog signal from each of the pixels within the selected line in a non-addition mode, and simultaneously selects the plurality of lines and controls to add up the analog signals of each of the pixels arranged in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction and output the added signals in a pixel addition mode. The analog-to-digital conversion unit converts each of the analog signals into a digital signal. The control unit performs control of switching from one of the pixel addition mode and the non-addition mode to the other on the basis of the digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Hoshino, Takahiro Iinuma
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Publication number: 20200342607Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technique capable of further reducing the power consumption of the image capturing device. An image capturing device including: a motion determination unit that determines the presence/absence of motion in a plurality of pixels on the basis of an addition signal of the plurality of pixels to obtain a motion determination result; and a transmission control unit that controls whether or not to transmit image data corresponding to at least the plurality of pixels on the basis of the motion determination result is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: KAZUHIRO HOSHINO, TAKAHIRO IINUMA
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Publication number: 20200333993Abstract: There is provided a transmission device including: an image processing unit that sets region information corresponding to a region set in an image for each of rows in the image and causes the set region information and region data corresponding to the region to be transmitted for each row. The region information includes information indicating a position of the row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Tomohiro Takahashi, Takahiro Iinuma, Koji Yoda, Miho Ozawa, Yoshiaki Inada
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Patent number: 10724760Abstract: An air-conditioning indoor unit includes: a heat exchanger of a refrigerant circuit; a drain pan installed below the heat exchanger; a fan configured to send air to the heat exchanger; a control box containing control parts configured to control operation of the fan and other components; and a casing, in which the heat exchanger, drain pan, fan, and control box are stored in the casing, a drain pan inlet-outlet port is formed in the casing, a hinge assembly is installed on a side plate of the casing, and the control box is coupled to the casing so as to be able to be taken in and out of the drain pan inlet-outlet port of the casing. This allows the drain pan to be attached and detached to and from the casing by removing internal wiring from the control box without removing the control box from the casing.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shingo Iwatsuki, Takahiro Iinuma, Yoshinori Miyata
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Publication number: 20200084388Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
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Publication number: 20190327440Abstract: Reducing power consumption without reducing the number of pixel signals in a solid-state imaging element that performs AD conversion of a pixel signal. A pixel array unit includes a plurality of lines each having a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined direction. A scanning circuit sequentially selects the plurality of lines and then controls to output an analog signal from each of the pixels within the selected line in a non-addition mode, and simultaneously selects the plurality of lines and controls to add up the analog signals of each of the pixels arranged in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction and output the added signals in a pixel addition mode. The analog-to-digital conversion unit converts each of the analog signals into a digital signal. The control unit performs control of switching from one of the pixel addition mode and the non-addition mode to the other on the basis of the digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2017Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: KAZUHIRO HOSHINO, TAKAHIRO IINUMA
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Publication number: 20190268532Abstract: The power consumption is reduced in an imaging apparatus that detects the presence or absence of an event. In a pixel array unit, a plurality of transfer transistors that transfer charges from mutually different photoelectric conversion devices to a floating diffusion layer is provided. A scan circuit simultaneously controls the plurality of transfer transistors in a pixel addition mode in which pixel addition is performed, to transfer the charges and sequentially controls the plurality of transfer transistors in a normal mode in which pixel addition is not performed, to transfer the charges. An event detection unit detects the presence or absence of a predetermined event on the basis of an addition signal which is an analog signal generated in the normal mode, and generates a detection result. A mode control unit sets one of the pixel addition mode and the normal mode on the basis of the detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro IINUMA
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Publication number: 20190120520Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit on which maintenance work can be performed without removing a wire from a control box is provided. An air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit according to the present invention is an air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit to be embedded in an indoor ceiling surface. The indoor unit includes a housing, a heat exchanger installed in the housing, a drain pan installed below the heat exchanger, a wire extending into the housing from outside, and a control box connected with the wire in the housing and installed below the drain pan. The housing includes a cutout part at a lower end part of a side plate as a side surface of the housing, and a wire penetrator detachably fitted to the cutout part. The wire penetrator includes a hole through which the wire passes. The control box is disposed adjacent to the wire penetrator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Eiectric CorporationInventors: Yoshinori MIYATA, Yasuyuki KOTAKE, Yasutomo HIRAI, Takahiro IINUMA, Yoshinori FUJII
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Publication number: 20180328620Abstract: An air-conditioning indoor unit includes: a heat exchanger of a refrigerant circuit; a drain pan installed below the heat exchanger; a fan configured to send air to the heat exchanger; a control box containing control parts configured to control operation of the fan and other components; and a casing, in which the heat exchanger, drain pan, fan, and control box are stored in the casing, a drain pan inlet-outlet port is formed in the casing, a hinge assembly is installed on a side plate of the casing, and the control box is coupled to the casing so as to be able to be taken in and out of the drain pan inlet-outlet port of the casing. This allows the drain pan to be attached and detached to and from the casing by removing internal wiring from the control box without removing the control box from the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Shingo IWATSUKI, Takahiro IINUMA, Yoshinori MIYATA
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Publication number: 20180176445Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an imaging method that enable more appropriate exposure control to be performed quickly. An image sensor includes an image sensor in which an exposure detection pixel configured to output a pixel value to be used for detection of brightness of a subject and an effective pixel configured to output a pixel value effective for construction of an image are arranged in an imaging effective area to be utilized for imaging of the image; and an exposure control unit configured to control exposure time of the image sensor on the basis of the pixel value output from the exposure detection pixel. Furthermore, the pixel value of the exposure detection pixel has a higher dynamic range than the pixel value of the effective pixel. The present technology can be applied to an image sensor including AE control, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventor: Takahiro IINUMA
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Patent number: D742488Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Shoji Akamatsu
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Patent number: D742489Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Shoji Akamatsu
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Patent number: D963153Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ryo Horie, Takuya Teramoto, Takahiro Iinuma