Patents by Inventor Yoshio Matsuzawa

Yoshio Matsuzawa 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: 9470940
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer disposed over a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed over the first electrode layer, and a reflective electrode layer disposed on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the first electrode layer, wherein the second electrode layer is exposed externally, and a thickness of the second electrode layer is greater than a thickness of the reflective electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomiyasu Saito, Tatsuya Mise, Yoshio Matsuzawa, Tetsuya Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150160499
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer disposed over a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed over the first electrode layer, and a reflective electrode layer disposed on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the first electrode layer, wherein the second electrode layer is exposed externally, and a thickness of the second electrode layer is greater than a thickness of the reflective electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Tomiyasu Saito, Tatsuya Mise, Yoshio Matsuzawa, Tetsuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5819119
    Abstract: A camera with a visual line position detection device is capable of shortening the time required for auto focus detection and capable of more accurate selection of the focus detection point. The camera includes a focus detection device to output the results of distance measurements at a plurality of points where focus detection is possible and to detect focus for one of these points. A liquid crystal display device displays on a screen specified symbols overlapping the subject image on the positions corresponding to each of the points. A microprocessor accepts the results of the distance measurements from the focus detection system and selects one of the points based on the photographer visual line position as the point for focus detection among all the points whose distances are measured and on which focus detection is possible, excluding the points with an infinite focus distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuharu Imafuji, Hidehiro Ogawa, Toru Kosaka, Yoshio Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 5727234
    Abstract: A camera is provided that accomplishes a warning display using a range measurement frame indicating a specific subject field region. The camera includes a shake amount detection system that detects the amount of shaking of the camera, a drive system that drives the correction lens to effect shake correction and a movement amount detection system that detects the amount of movement of the correction lens. The camera may also include a lens MPU and a camera MPU. The lens MPU determines whether or not shaking has been negated through driving of the correction lens accomplished by the drive system. When shaking has not been negated, the lens MPU outputs a warning signal. The camera MPU sends a signal to the warning display system upon receiving this output warning signal to cause a range measurement frame to flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sakagami, Yoshio Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 5162839
    Abstract: A camera comprising a light press timer for maintaining a power source until a predetermined power source maintaining time elapses even if the power source is switched on by the half depression operation of a release button and the half depression operation is released, a time counting device for starting time counting with photographing, a memory device for finding the photographing interval time from the preceding photographing till the current photographing from the result of the time counting by the time counting device each time photographing is effected and memorizing it, and a determining device for determining a predetermined power source maintaining time from the memorized photographing interval time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Naoki Tomino, Tetsuro Goto, Masaaki Yanagisawa, Yoshio Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 5159364
    Abstract: There is disclosed a camera equipped with a mode setting device which counts the number of uses of each of plural modes, and sets the most frequently used mode as the initial mode. At the phototaking operation, the camera is set at such most frequently used mode. The above-mentioned plural modes can be plural exposure control modes, focal length control modes, photographing magnification setting modes, self-timer modes, automatic exposure value correcting modes, or alarm modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Yanagisawa, Tetsuro Goto, Naoki Tomino, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Yoshio Matsuzawa, Kazuyuki Kazami, Koichi Daitoku, Akira Ezawa, Toshio Sosa, Kazuto Otsuka, Hideya Inoue
  • Patent number: 5130735
    Abstract: An automatic focus state detecting apparatus is capable of focus detection with respect to an object in different focus state detection areas, such as a narrow area or a wide area of an object field, or in areas extending in different directions in the object field. The focus state detecting area may be selected automatically or manually, and the automatic selection may depend upon whether the object is stationary or moving, and the direction of movement. Automatic switching between narrow and wide focus state detecting areas may occur after an in-focus state or a nearly in-focus state is obtained in the narrow area, after a predetermined time has elapsed from the selection of the narrow area, or after a predetermined number of focus detecting operations in the narrow area. Defocus amounts may be calculated for a plurality of sub-areas of the wide area. The defocus amount or a lens driving amount may be limited when the wide area is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Kusaka, Yoshio Matsuzawa, Masaru Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 4436792
    Abstract: A device capable of containing at least one planar battery having a positive electrode and a negative electrode and capable of supplying a power to a circuit when the battery has been completely contained includes a plurality of terminals for contacting the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively, of the battery when completely contained, means for holding each of the terminals, the holding means holding at least one of the terminals movably between a first position and a second position and wherein the movable terminal, when in the first position, contacts neither of the positive electrode and the negative electrode and, when in the second position, can contact one of the electrodes, and means for moving the movable terminal to the second position in response to the containment of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.
    Inventors: Naoki Tomino, Osamu Ikeda, Yoshio Matsuzawa, Hideya Inoue
  • Patent number: 4318603
    Abstract: A film rewind device in a camera in which a rewind coupling is automatically engaged with a cassette shaft in response to rewind operation has a rotatable member having a spiral groove on its peripheral wall portion and said rewind coupling at the end of the shaft thereof, the rotatable member being slidable in axial direction and rotatable by rewind operation, and a meshing member meshing with the spiral groove at the initial stage of the rewind operation to thereby slide the rotatable member in axial direction to cause the coupling to engage the cassette shaft. The mesh engagement between the meshing member and the spiral groove is released in axial direction when the coupling engages the cassette shaft, so that the meshing member comes to support the rotatable member so as to block the return of the rotatable member in axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Nippon Kogaku K.K.
    Inventors: Koichi Daitoku, Hatsuo Sakamoto, Nobuhiko Terui, Toshiaki Hozumi, Yoshio Sekine, Yukio Hyodo, Masanori Ichikawa, Masamichi Wada, Tsuyoshi Kudo, Manabu Nakamura, Nobuaki Nakanishi, Takeo Komai, Yoshio Matsuzawa