Patents by Inventor Toshiro Kinugasa
Toshiro Kinugasa 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: 10554917Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 10462403Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 10397507Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20180241958Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Takahiro NAKANO, Ryuji NISHIMURA, Toshiro KINUGASA
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Publication number: 20170104945Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Takahiro NAKANO, Ryuji NISHIMURA, Toshiro KINUGASA
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Patent number: 9544517Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 9100604Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20150195468Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Takahiro NAKANO, Ryuji NISHIMURA, Toshiro KINUGASA
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Publication number: 20140232915Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 8736729Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 8339493Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 8059177Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20100289907Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 7612798Abstract: A photographing system having plural image pickup units for a moving apparatus with enhanced user's visibility of images for a driver of the apparatus. A system control part controls the image pickup units. Image pickup unit picks up images ahead of the moving apparatus. Image pickup unit picks up images aback. System control unit predicts surrounding state of the moving apparatus based on map information or position information and, when the moving apparatus enters a tunnel, issues a control instruction to image pickup unit so as to increase exposure quantity of image pickup device thereof, and then, when level of output image signal of the image pickup unit enters within a specified range, issues a control instruction to image pickup unit so as to increase exposure quantity of the image pickup device thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Xanavi Informatics CorporationInventors: Toshiro Kinugasa, Yukio Asoh, Hiroshi Takenaga
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Patent number: 7403226Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K pixels to produce a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to the number of effective scanning lines M. The image sensing device can vertically mix or cull appropriate numbers of pixels, and the driver drives the image sensing device in at least two modes. The driver changes the number of pixels to be cyclically mixed or culled according to input information from a switch provided inside or outside the camera which requests a view angle change.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20070058048Abstract: A photographing system having plural image pickup units for a moving apparatus with enhanced user's visibility of images for a driver of the apparatus. A system control part controls the image pickup units. Image pickup unit picks up images ahead of the moving apparatus. Image pickup unit picks up images aback. System control unit predicts surrounding state of the moving apparatus based on map information or position information and, when the moving apparatus enters a tunnel, issues a control instruction to image pickup unit so as to increase exposure quantity of image pickup device thereof, and then, when level of output image signal of the image pickup unit enters within a specified range, issues a control instruction to image pickup unit so as to increase exposure quantity of the image pickup device thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Inventors: Toshiro Kinugasa, Yukio Asoh, Hiroshi Takenaga
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Publication number: 20050093980Abstract: A portable electronic device comprises a photograph-taking component configured to capture an image of an object; a receiver configured to receive information on photography restriction from a first external communication source, wherein the first external communication source transmits first information if the portable electronic device is considered to be within a photography restriction area; and a controller configured to place the portable electronic device in a restricted photography mode if the first information is received by the receiver, the restricted photography mode allowing the photograph-taking component to capture an image of a given object, the captured given object being represented by image data. The portable electronic device is configured to operate the photograph-taking component in the restricted photography mode and a non-restricted photography mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2004Publication date: May 5, 2005Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Nonaka, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 6765616Abstract: A photography related to video cameras, camcorders, digital still cameras and others using a solid-state image sensing device, and particularly an electric camera using a solid-state image sensing device with a large number of pixels. The use of an image sensing device with a sufficient number of pixels for still image photographing ensures good performance for the moving image photographing and for the monitoring of a static image photographing. The image sensing device used has an arbitrary number of vertically arranged pixels equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines of the television system. During the moving image photographing and during the monitoring of a static image photographing, the pixels are cyclically mixed together or culled and desired television signals are generated by performing the signal reading processing during the vertical blanking periods and the interpolation processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20040080652Abstract: An image pick-up device includes a driving unit to drive an image sensor in such a manner as to read a long-time exposed imaging signal having a long exposure time and a short-time exposed imaging signal having a short exposure time from the image sensor, and a signal processing unit to generate an image signal by synthesizing and processing a signal representing the low-brightness portion of the long-time exposed imaging signal and a signal representing the high-brightness portion of the short-time exposed imaging signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: Shinichi Nonaka, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20040046884Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer larger than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa