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  • Amplifying circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit, wireless transmission system, and communication apparatus
    Patent number: 8285230
    Abstract: An amplifying circuit includes: an amplifying cell portion configured by cascade-connecting a plurality stage of amplifying cells each including a pair of N-type transistors differentially connected to each other, load resistors and a current source for generating an operating current, and each having a function of amplifying differential signals; a feedback portion configured to feed differential output signals from the amplifying cell in a rear stage side of the amplifying cell portion back to differential input terminals of the amplifying cell on a front stage side; and an input portion configured to supply differential input signals to input terminals in a first stage of the amplifying cell portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Komori
  • Inverter circuit and display device
    Patent number: 8284182
    Abstract: An inverter circuit includes: first and second transistors connected between first and second voltage lines; a fifth transistor having a drain connected to a fifth voltage line and a source connected to a gate of the second transistor; a first capacitive element between a gate and the source of the fifth transistor; a second capacitive element between a first input terminal and the source of the fifth transistor; and the third capacitive element between a second input terminal and the source of the fifth transistor. A first pulse signal into the first input terminal has a phase advanced more than a second pulse signal into the second input terminal. The second pulse signal is switched while the gate of the fifth transistor and the first voltage line are connected. The first pulse signal is switched while the gate of the fifth transistor and the first voltage line are unconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 8284499
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: first, second and third lens groups having a negative refractive power, a positive refractive power and a positive refractive power, respectively. The first lens group includes a single compound aspheric lens formed of a spherical glass lens having a negative refractive power and a resin lens having a positive refractive power and an image side surface thereof is aspheric, and the conditional expressions (1) to (4) are satisfied f11/fw<?1.8,??(1) 1.55<n11,??(2) 55<?11, and??(3) G1r1<?16.5,??(4) where f11 and fw are focal lengths of the spherical glass lens and the whole lens system at a wide-angle end, respectively, n11 and ?11 are a refractive index and an Abbe number, respectively, of the spherical glass lens at the d-line, and G1r1 is a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the spherical glass lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohata
  • Xenon short arc lamp for digital a projector
    Patent number: 8283863
    Abstract: A xenon short arc lamp for a digital projector, includes an anode, a cathode having a cathode main body that is made of tungsten containing electron emissive material, and an arc tube made of silica glass, wherein a supply source of carbon is formed on a metal portion in the arc tube except a tip area of the cathode, and the carbon is supplied to the tip of the cathode through a gaseous phase during lamp lighting, so that a surface layer of the cathode is melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunichi Morimoto, Tetsuya Kitagawa, Akiko Uchino, Tomoyoshi Arimoto
  • Duty correction circuit, delay locked loop circuit, column A/D converter, solid-state imaging device and camera system
    Patent number: 8284285
    Abstract: A duty correction circuit includes: a C-element including a first input and a second input; and an inverter connected to the second input of the C-element, wherein the C-element obtains an output of a logic “1” when both inputs are the logic “1”, obtains an output of a logic “0” when both inputs are the logic “0”, and maintains the output to a previous state in other conditions, and complementary clocks having a phase difference of an approximately half cycle are inputted to the first input of the C-element and the inverter respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Solid-state imaging element, method for driving the same, and camera system
    Patent number: 8284284
    Abstract: Since the great number of elements constituting a unit pixel having an amplification function would hinder reduction of pixel size, unit pixel n,m arranged in a matrix form is comprised of a photodiode, a transfer switch for transferring charges stored in the photodiode, a floating diffusion for storing charges transferred by the transfer switch, a reset switch for resetting the floating diffusion, and an amplifying transistor for outputting a signal in accordance with the potential of the floating diffusion to a vertical signal line, and by affording vertical selection pulse ?Vn to the drain of the reset switch to control a reset potential thereof, pixels are selected in units of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Ueno, Kazuya Yonemoto, Ryoji Suzuki, Koichi Shiono
  • Solid-state imaging device and method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device
    Patent number: 8283746
    Abstract: A solid state imaging device having a back-illuminated type structure in which a lens is formed on the back side of a silicon layer with a light-receiving sensor portion being formed thereon. Insulating layers are buried into the silicon layer around an image pickup region, with the insulating layer being buried around a contact layer that connects an electrode layer of a pad portion and an interconnection layer of the surface side. A method of manufacturing such a solid-state imaging device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Yamamoto, Hayato Iwamoto
  • Display panel module and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8284187
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a self-light-emission-type display panel module including: a pixel array section including pixel areas laid out to form a 2-dimensional matrix in a display area to serve as pixel areas each having a signal holding capacitor, a device driving transistor, and a signal sampling transistor; and a third driving section configured to provide a second control line connected to the other main electrode of the device driving transistor sequentially from time to time with the three different driving voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Display device and luminance control method therefor
    Patent number: 8284176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device having an insulating substrate, an effective pixel area formed on the insulating substrate and having at least pixels arranged in the form of a matrix, and a peripheral circuit formed on the insulating substrate so as to surround the effective pixel area, the pixels being driven by the peripheral circuit to display a desired image in the effective pixel area, the display device including an extraneous light sensor provided in the effective pixel area for detecting extraneous light to output an extraneous light quantity detection result for use in controlling the luminance of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nakajima, Takayuki Nakanishi, Natsuki Otani
  • Inverter circuit and display device
    Patent number: 8284183
    Abstract: An inverter circuit including: first to third transistors; first and second switches; and a first capacitive element. The first and second transistors are connected in series between a first voltage line and a second voltage line. The third transistor is connected between the second voltage line and a gate of the second transistor. The first and second switches are connected in series between a voltage supply line and a gate of the third transistor, and are turned on/off alternately to prevent the first and second switches from simultaneously turning ON. One end of the first capacitive element is connected to a node between the first and second switches. Off-state of the first transistor allows a predetermined fixed voltage to be supplied from the voltage supply line to the gate of the second transistor, via the first switch, the one end of the first capacitive element and the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Clock data recovery circuit and multiplied-frequency clock generation circuit
    Patent number: 8284887
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a clock data recovery circuit including: a first phase detector; a loop filter; a charge pump; a voltage-controlled oscillator; a second phase detector; a phase correction information generation section; and a phase correction information addition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kikuchi, Hideo Morohashi, Tomokazu Tanaka
  • Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 8284277
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array section having an effective pixel region formed by a plurality of pixels which are disposed in the form of a matrix, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion device and a transistor reading out an electric charge obtained by photoelectric conversion at the photoelectric conversion device, and which are illuminated by light and a light-shielded pixel region formed by a plurality of pixels which are shielded from light; a row scan section selecting and controlling each row of pixels of the pixel array section to output a signal from each of the pixels of the selected row of pixels to a column signal line provided in association with the row of pixels; and an A-D conversion section converting the signal output from the signal line into a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihiro Nikai
  • Power consumption detection apparatus, power consumption control apparatus image processing apparatus, self-luminous display apparatus, electronic device, power consumption detection method, power consumption control method, and computer program
    Patent number: 8284185
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power consumption detection apparatus including: a line current calculation section configured to calculate, based on an image signal, a value of a line current consumed by each of horizontal lines; and a power consumption calculation section configured to calculate, on a horizontal line cycle, power consumed by an entire display panel based on the most recent values of the line currents, the values corresponding in number to a vertical resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Atsushi Ozawa
  • Display panel module and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8284178
    Abstract: A self-light-emission-type display panel module employs: a pixel array section including pixel areas laid out to form a two dimensional matrix in a display area to serve as pixel areas each having a signal holding capacitor, a device driving transistor, and a signal sampling transistor; a first driving section; a second driving section; and a third driving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Storage device
    Patent number: 8285916
    Abstract: A storage device, enabling elimination of redundant write operations of non-selected data and enabling optimization of arrangement of pages to a state efficient for rewriting, having two flash memories which can be accessed in parallel, a page register for acquiring data in parallel from the flash memories and temporarily storing the same, and a control circuit having a built-in RAM in which is constructed an address conversion table for managing correspondence between logical addresses and physical addresses in units of data stored in parallel in the page register, wherein data is rewritten by updating of the address conversion table and additional writing into a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nishihara, Takeshi Ishimoto
  • Excimer discharge lamp and method of making the same
    Patent number: 8283865
    Abstract: An excimer discharge lamp includes an electric discharge container having a pair of plates which face each other and connected by a side wall. An electrical discharge space is formed between the plates. A pair of external electrodes are provided on exterior surfaces of the plates. A light emission gas of rare gas, halogen or halide is enclosed in the electrical discharge space. The pair of plates and the side wall are made of sapphire, YAG, or single crystal yttria. Impurities which exist in an inner surface of the electric discharge container surrounding the electrical discharge space contain at least silicon, carbon, or cerium, and the quantity thereof is 0.6 ng/cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukihiro Morimoto
  • Bumper system
    Patent number: 8276954
    Abstract: A bumper system for motor vehicles has a cross-member and two crush boxes. The cross-member is made from steel and the crush boxes are made from aluminum, or vice versa. The bumper member that is made from steel has a zinc coating on at least the joint area thereof. A braze weld fixedly connects the crush boxes to the cross-member along associated joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Handing, Michael Wibbeke
  • Earphone
    Patent number: D668631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Katsumata, So Morimoto, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Earphone
    Patent number: D668637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sohei Kitayama
  • Video camera
    Patent number: D669108
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Maeyama