Patents by Inventor Atsushi Suzuki

Atsushi Suzuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20230254442
    Abstract: An imaging device capable of reporting more reliably an occurrence of trouble is provided. The imaging device of the present disclosure includes an imaging sensor configured to generate image data, a diagnosis circuit configured to perform diagnosis processing for the imaging sensor and an output circuit configured to output a flag signal corresponding to a result of the diagnosis processing, wherein the flag signal is set to a ground level signal in response to the result of the diagnosis processing indicating an error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Masaki Murozuka, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11722799
    Abstract: An imaging device having first and second pixels is described. The first pixel includes a first transfer transistor, a first reset transistor, a first amplifier transistor and a first select transistor. The second pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion element, a second transfer transistor, a second reset transistor, a second amplifier transistor and a second select transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Motonobu Torii, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami
  • Publication number: 20230247314
    Abstract: Suppressing a dead period at the time of mode switching. A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels (300) that each outputs a luminance change of incident light; and a detection circuit (305) that outputs an event signal based on the luminance change output from each of the pixels, in which each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element (311) that generates a charge according to an incident light amount; a logarithmic conversion circuit (312, 313) that is connected to the photoelectric conversion element and converts a photocurrent flowing out of the photoelectric conversion element into a voltage signal corresponding to a logarithmic value of the photocurrent; and a first transistor (318) having a drain connected to a sense node of the logarithmic conversion circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Tsutomu Imoto, Yusuke Ikeda, Atsumi Niwa, Atsushi Suzuki, Shinichirou Etou, Kenichi Takamiya, Takuya Maruyama, Ren Hiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230239460
    Abstract: In one example, an imaging device including a plurality of pixel circuits, a first control line, a second control line, a first voltage supply line, a second voltage supply line, a first light-receiving element, and a diagnosis unit is disclosed. The pixel circuits each include a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, an accumulation unit, a first transistor, a second transistor, and an output unit. The first transistor is couples the third terminal to the accumulation unit on the basis of a voltage of the first terminal. The second transistor supplies a predetermined voltage to the accumulation unit on the basis of a voltage of the second terminal. The output unit outputs a signal corresponding to a voltage in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi Oka, Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11711633
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that generates image data on the basis of a first power voltage, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data on the basis of a second power voltage, a reference voltage generating unit that generates a first reference voltage on the basis of the first power voltage and a first flag generating unit that generates a first flag signal for the second power voltage on the basis of a comparison of the second power voltage and the first reference voltage and configured to output the first flag signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Mohammad Munirul Haque, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11706538
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami, Motohashi Yuichi
  • Publication number: 20230211494
    Abstract: To prevent scattering of scattered objects such as of water, sand, mud, or snow accompanied by movement. Scattering prevention constraint information is acquired based on road surface information. Movement is controlled based on the scattering prevention constraint information. For example, vibration information is detected by a vibration sensor or the like, and road surface information (information such as a road surface depth and a road surface type) is acquired based on the vibration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: ATSUSHI SUZUKI, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, WILLIAM CONUS, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, KAZUO HONGO
  • Publication number: 20230202051
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transport device, a transport method, a program, and an information processing device that can prevent damage to the content of luggage during transportation. The transport device includes a luggage characteristic estimation unit that estimates luggage characteristics including at least one of fragility of a content of luggage and packaging quality of the luggage based on at least one of change in center of gravity due to movement of the luggage, vibration characteristics of the luggage, and characteristics of the sound generated from the luggage due to the movement of the luggage. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a robot that transports luggage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: WILLIAM ALEXANDRE CONUS, KAZUO HONGO, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11686630
    Abstract: To obtain an imaging device that can improve temperature detection accuracy. An imaging device of the present disclosure includes a processing unit formed on a first semiconductor substrate and capable of performing predetermined image processing on the basis of image data obtained by an imaging unit, a temperature sensor formed on the first semiconductor substrate and capable of generating a detection signal according to a temperature, and a first pad electrode formed on the first semiconductor substrate and electrically insulated from a circuit formed on the first semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Keita Sasaki, Takumi Oka, Mohammad Munirul Haque, Nobuhiko Fujimori, Makoto Satou, Masahiro Baba, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11671555
    Abstract: To obtain imaging device capable of reporting more reliably an occurrence of trouble. The imaging device of the present disclosure includes an imaging sensor configured to generate image data, a diagnosis circuit configured to perform diagnosis processing for the imaging sensor and an output circuit configured to output a flag signal corresponding to a result of the diagnosis processing, wherein the flag signal is set to a ground level signal in response to the result of the diagnosis processing indicating an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Masaki Murozuka, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11658047
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust nozzle unit capable of discharging a gas atmosphere in a substrate storage container having a loading/unloading opening from the container to an outside of the container through a port formed on a bottom surface of the container. The exhausted nozzle includes a nozzle capable of switching the port from a closed state to an open state by pressing a valve of the port; and a housing configured to hold the nozzle so as to be movable up and down between a use posture in which the port is in the open state and a standby posture in which the port is in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Yasushi Taniyama, Tomoya Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11655152
    Abstract: A carbon foam comprising linear portions and node portions joining the linear portions, wherein the linear portions have a diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 10.0 ?m or less, and the carbon foam has a surface with an area of 100 cm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Junya Yamashita, Shozo Takada
  • Publication number: 20230126967
    Abstract: An unauthorized intrusion analysis support apparatus is configured to receive an input of a field related to an unauthorized intrusion; is configured to extract at least one word in the inputted field relevant to the unauthorized intrusion to an apparatus communicably coupled to a predetermined network from a text relevant to the unauthorized intrusion to the apparatus; is configured to calculate a relevance degree between the extracted word and a mode of the unauthorized intrusion based on the extracted word and information on a word of the mode of the unauthorized intrusion in the inputted field and assume that the text is a text about the unauthorized intrusion in the inputted field when the calculated relevance degree is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold; and is configured to output information indicating that the text is the text about the unauthorized intrusion in a user field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUZUKI, Yiwen CHEN, Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Kengo IJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230112723
    Abstract: An imaging device having first and second pixels is described. The first pixel includes a first transfer transistor, a first reset transistor, a first amplifier transistor and a first select transistor. The second pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion element, a second transfer transistor, a second reset transistor, a second amplifier transistor and a second select transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Motonobu Torii, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami
  • Patent number: 11609725
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screen display method for providing display, on a display screen included in a terminal device, for a given process to be performed for an image processing apparatus. The screen display method includes displaying, in a chat style, a plurality of instructions regarding the given process and a plurality of responses to the instructions, and providing progress display indicating a progress of the given process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11611667
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control device. The control device acts, when a built-in processor executes a control program, as a decider that decides whether the image forming apparatus has been used for business, depending on whether the terminal device that has requested a job to the image forming apparatus, or is to receive an output from the image forming apparatus, is registered in advance as a device for business use, or a device for private use, a used time detector that detects a time decided by the decider to have been used for business by the image forming apparatus, with respect to each of operation modes, and a transmitter that transmits information indicating the time used for business, with respect to each of the operation modes, detected by the used time detector, to a management computer installed in an office, through a network I/F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11603932
    Abstract: A sealing device seals a gap between a housing and a rotational shaft located in a shaft hole provided in the housing. The sealing device includes: an annular mounted part that is to be mounted on an inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole; an inner annular part located radially inside of the mounted part; a seal lip extending from the inner annular part and for being in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft; a bellows part connecting the mounted part with the inner annular part; a sound insulation ring fixed to the mounted part and expanding radially inward from the mounted part, the sound insulation ring including an opening through which the rotational shaft passes; and a circular annular sound insulation lip projecting from the inner annular part or the bellows part toward the sound insulation ring and including a distal end being in slidable contact with the sound insulation ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230071008
    Abstract: A computer-readable, non-transitory recording medium contains therein an image processing program. The image processing program is for generating learning data of a character detection model that at least detects, to recognize a character in a document contained in an image, a position of the character in the image, and configured to cause a computer to generate a cropped image by cropping the image, and adopt the cropped image not containing an image representing a split character as the learning data, instead of adopting the cropped image containing the image representing the split character as the learning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki DOZEN, Yukio IWASAKI, Atsushi SUZUKI, Shunsuke MORI, Takuma FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11598007
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a substrate state determining apparatus includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a substrate placed on a stage; a learning unit that executes a machine learning using training data in which information indicating a state of the substrate is attached to the image of the substrate, so as to generate a substrate state determination model in which the image of the substrate is taken as an input and a value related to the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate is taken as an output; and a determination unit that determines the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate captured by the image capturing unit, using the substrate state determination model generated by the learning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Nao Akashi, Yuta Haga, Hiroyuki Sato, Motoi Okada, Kei Sano, Junya Sato, Takayuki Kita, Atsushi Suzuki, Kiwamu Tsukino, Takuro Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20230066745
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit including a touch panel; and a control unit configured to display, on the display unit, a character input area in which a soft key is arranged, repeatedly receive, from the character input area, an operation for inputting an input character, and display, on the display unit, an input character string display area in which a character string that is a sequence of the input character is displayed. The control unit is configured to arrange in order, in the input character string display area, one of the input character and a replacement character for replacing the input character, acquire from a database including input character confirmation information for confirming a character, when receiving the operation for inputting the input character from the character input area, the input character confirmation information corresponding to the input character, and display the acquired input character confirmation information on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Atsushi SUZUKI