Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Kobayashi
Tsutomu Kobayashi 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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Publication number: 20220174223Abstract: A camera system includes: a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting incident light into electric charge; voltage application circuitry; and a controller that derives a duty cycle corresponding to an attenuation ratio set for a first frame and that causes the voltage application circuitry to apply a pulse voltage having the duty cycle between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Kazuko NISHIMURA, Yasuo MIYAKE, Sanshiro SHISHIDO
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Patent number: 11284016Abstract: A camera system includes an imaging device configured to change sensitivity according to an instruction from a user; a display; and a graphic interface unit that causes the display to selectively display a first image for receiving the instruction for continuously changing the sensitivity and a second image for receiving the instruction for changing the sensitivity stepwise.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido
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Publication number: 20210258520Abstract: An imaging device includes: a pixel electrode; a counter electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer that is located between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode and that generates signal charge; a charge accumulation portion that is connected to the pixel electrode to accumulate the signal charge; and a voltage supply circuit that alternately supplies a first voltage and a second voltage different from the first voltage to the counter electrode. The voltage supply circuit supplies a third voltage to the counter electrode in a period between a first period in which the first voltage is supplied and a second period that is subsequent to the first period and in which the second voltage is supplied. The second voltage is a voltage between the first voltage and the third voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventor: TSUTOMU KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11076116Abstract: An imaging device includes: pixels arranged in m rows by n columns; a first comparator that generates a first output signal indicating a result of comparison between a first pixel signal outputted from each pixel located in an ath column among the pixels and a reference signal; a first counter that generates a first digital signal by counting a period from start of a first counting period to inversion of the first output signal; and a first control circuit that determines, in accordance with a magnitude correlation between the first digital signal obtained from a first pixel located at the ath column and a bth row and a threshold, a period in which the first clock signal is supplied to the first counter in the first counting period of a second pixel located at the ath column and a cth row different from the bth row.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Kobayashi, Yuusuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 11064139Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a first signal line connected to the first pixel; a second signal line connected to the second pixel; and a power-supply line connected to at least one of the plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel that are located in a same column. Two or more voltages that differ from each other are applied to the power-supply line. When a distance between the power-supply line and the first signal line is denoted by d1, and a distance between the power-supply line and the second signal line is denoted by d2, d1<d2 is satisfied in a first cross-section that is orthogonal to a column direction, and d1>d2 is satisfied in a second cross-section that is orthogonal to the column direction and that is different from the first cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20210206998Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel liquid repellent. A liquid repellent including a poly(hydrocarbylamine) derivative, which is poly(hydrocarbylamine) substituted by one or more substituents, wherein at least one of the substituents is a substituent on an amine nitrogen in the poly(hydrocarbylamine), and is represented by the formula: —Ray in which Ray is a hydroxyethyl group optionally having one or more substituents (at least one of the substituents is an alkyl group optionally having one or more substituents).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicants: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OITA UNIVERSITYInventors: Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Atsushi SHIRAI, Yosuke KISHIKAWA, Seiji UJIIE, Shiori TOMITAKA
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Publication number: 20210168313Abstract: An imaging device including pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel, the pixels arranged in rows and columns, the first pixel belonging to a first column, the second pixel belonging to a second column adjacent the first column; a first signal path through which a signal from the first pixel flows; and a second signal path through which a signal from the second pixel flows, a first circuit including first and second lines, a first voltage being applied to the first lines, a second voltage different from the first voltage applied to the second lines. The first signal path is located in a region closer to one of the first lines than any of the second lines in a plan view, and the second signal path is located in a region closer to one of the second lines than any of the first lines in the plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Takayuki NISHITANI, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210125772Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Toshio TOMONARI, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Kazunori ARIMITSU
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Patent number: 10958233Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes a winding core part and first and second wires wound in a same direction around the winding core part. A predetermined one turn of the first wire crosses a predetermined one turn of the second wire a plurality of times.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo Asai, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari
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Patent number: 10958857Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a first circuit, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first circuit includes a first wiring part and a second wiring part. A signal of the first pixel flows through the first signal path. A signal of the second pixel flows through a second signal path. In a flow of the signal of the first pixel, a first crossing portion is located upstream of a first extension portion. In a flow of the signal of the second pixel, a second crossing portion is located upstream of a second extension portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Nishitani, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10910144Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu
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Publication number: 20200412977Abstract: A camera system includes an imaging device configured to change sensitivity according to an instruction from a user; a display; and a graphic interface unit that causes the display to selectively display a first image for receiving the instruction for continuously changing the sensitivity and a second image for receiving the instruction for changing the sensitivity stepwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Kazuko NISHIMURA, Yasuo MIYAKE, Sanshiro SHISHIDO
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Publication number: 20200343035Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Toshio TOMONARI, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Kazunori ARIMITSU
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Patent number: 10805554Abstract: An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter including a pixel electrode, a counter electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting incident light into an electric charge; and a voltage application circuit that applies a first voltage between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in a first frame and that applies a second voltage between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in a second frame different from the first frame, the first voltage being a constant voltage, the second voltage being a pulse-shaped voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido
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Patent number: 10755848Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu
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Publication number: 20200244905Abstract: An imaging device includes: pixels arranged in m rows by n columns; a first comparator that generates a first output signal indicating a result of comparison between a first pixel signal outputted from each pixel located in an ath column among the pixels and a reference signal; a first counter that generates a first digital signal by counting a period from start of a first counting period to inversion of the first output signal; and a first control circuit that determines, in accordance with a magnitude correlation between the first digital signal obtained from a first pixel located at the ath column and a bth row and a threshold, a period in which the first clock signal is supplied to the first counter in the first counting period of a second pixel located at the ath column and a cth row different from the bth row.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Yuusuke SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20200213541Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a first signal line connected to the first pixel; a second signal line connected to the second pixel; and a power-supply line connected to at least one of the plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel that are located in a same column. Two or more voltages that differ from each other are applied to the power-supply line. When a distance between the power-supply line and the first signal line is denoted by d1, and a distance between the power-supply line and the second signal line is denoted by d2, d1<d2 is satisfied in a first cross-section that is orthogonal to a column direction, and d1>d2 is satisfied in a second cross-section that is orthogonal to the column direction and that is different from the first cross-section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventor: TSUTOMU KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200185145Abstract: A device includes a core having a first end and a second end, and first and second wires wound around the core, each of the first and second wires having 1st to Nth turns counting from the first end to the second end, the 1st to Nth turns including an i?1th turn, an ith turn, a jth turn, and a j+1th turn, where j is greater than i. The ith turn of the first wire is closer to the first end than the ith turn of the second wire, the i?1th turn of the second wire is closer to the first end than the ith turn of the first wire, and the i?1th turn of the first wire is closer to the first end than the i?1th turn of the second wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu, Yuma Komaya
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Patent number: 10666887Abstract: An imaging device includes: pixels arranged in m rows by n columns; a comparator that generates a first output signal indicating a result of comparison between a first pixel signal outputted from each pixel located in an ath column among the pixels and a reference signal; a first counter that generates a first digital signal by counting a period from start of a first counting period to inversion of the first output signal; and a first control circuit that controls, in accordance with a magnitude correlation between the first digital signal obtained from a first pixel located at the ath column and a bth row and a threshold, an operation current of the comparator in the first counting period of a second pixel located at the ath column and a cth row different from the bth row.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Kobayashi, Yuusuke Shimizu
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Publication number: 20200137332Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a first circuit, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first circuit includes a first wiring part and a second wiring part. A signal of the first pixel flows through the first signal path. A signal of the second pixel flows through a second signal path. In a flow of the signal of the first pixel, a first crossing portion is located upstream of a first extension portion. In a flow of the signal of the second pixel, a second crossing portion is located upstream of a second extension portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: TAKAYUKI NISHITANI, TSUTOMU KOBAYASHI