Patents by Inventor Hideo Homma

Hideo Homma 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: 7837343
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes a light-condensing sheet, a light-emitting portion, and a control unit. The light-condensing sheet includes a plurality of lenses each with a light-condensing function ranged on a light transmittance substrate. The light-emitting portion is opposed to the light-condensing sheet and includes light-emitting areas with respective dimensions. The control unit switches a luminous state of the light-emitting area to a non-luminous state or vice versa. A display device is provided with the illuminating device described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinari Shibasaki, Hideo Homma, Katsusuke Shimazaki, Masaya Adachi, Sukekazu Aratani
  • Publication number: 20070285410
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes a light-condensing sheet, a light-emitting portion, and a control unit. The light-condensing sheet includes a plurality of lenses each with a light-condensing function ranged on a light transmittance substrate. The light-emitting portion is opposed to the light-condensing sheet and includes light-emitting areas with respective dimensions. The control unit switches a luminous state of the light-emitting area to a non-luminous state or vice versa. A display device is provided with the illuminating device described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Toshinari Shibasaki, Hideo Homma, Katsusuke Shimazaki, Masaya Adachi, Sukekazu Aratani
  • Publication number: 20050218424
    Abstract: A semiconductor switching device for an inverter includes a first conductivity type, low impurity concentration, semiconductor substrate having a band gap equal to or greater than 2.0 eV, a first conductivity type first region formed in a first plane of the substrate having a resistance lower than the substrate, a first electrode formed in another plane of the first region, a first conductivity type second region formed in a second plane of the substrate, and a second electrode formed on the second region. A trench is formed in the second plane, a control region is formed from a bottom of the trench into the substrate and a control electrode of a different conductivity type is formed on the control region. The second electrode is formed over the control electrode through an insulator film, and the control electrode is formed on the trench sidewalls so the control region contacts the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Hidekatsu Onose, Hideo Homma, Atsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6917054
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a trench formed on a source side of a drift region, a p-type gate region and a gate formed at the bottom of the trench, and the source formed over the entire surface of the unit device through an insulating film. The narrowest portion of a channel of the device is deeper than one-half the junction depth of the p-type gate region. This allows the width of the channel on the drain side to be reduced even when a lower energy ion implantation manufacturing process is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekatsu Onose, Hideo Homma, Atsuo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040135178
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a trench formed on the source side of the drift region, the p-type gate region and the gate formed at the bottom of the trench, and the source formed over the entire surface of the unit device through the insulating film. The narrowest portion of the channel is deeper than one-half the junction depth of the p-type gate region. This allows the width of the channel on the drain side to be reduced even with a lower energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Hidekatsu Onose, Hideo Homma, Atsuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6570620
    Abstract: An exposure control device having a light measuring area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on an image sensing plane, a discriminating circuit which discriminates from each other varied states of the image sensing plane through video signal parts corresponding to the inside and the outside of the light measuring area and an exposure compensating circuit which compensates the state of exposure to light is arranged to shift the set position of the light measuring area to trace an object's image at least when the exposure compensating circuit is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuji Yoshimura, Kitahiro Kaneda, Hideo Homma, Kunihiko Yamada, Hirofumi Suda, Akihiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6175384
    Abstract: An exposure control device includes a first exposure control circuit which is arranged to keep constant an average signal level of an image signal corresponding to the whole of an image sensing plane, and a second exposure control circuit which is arranged to compensate the average signal level according to the level of an image signal corresponding to a light measuring area set in a part of the image sensing plane. The second exposure control circuit has a response characteristic arranged to have its exposure control action performed at a slower response speed than the first exposure circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Homma
  • Patent number: 6124891
    Abstract: An exposure control device for performing exposure control on the basis of a video signal obtained from a light measuring area set within an image sensing plane is provided with a determining circuit which determines the position of a photographed object within the image sensing plane from the values of a specific component of the video signal obtained from the inside and outside of a detection area the position of which is variably set within the image sensing plane. The light measuring area is set in the object's position within the image sensing plane detected by the determining circuit. The exposure control device is provided further with a changing circuit which detects the size of the object on the image sensing plane and changes the size of the light measuring area accordingly, and a weighting circuit which performs for light measurement a weighting operation on video signals obtained from the inside and outside of the light measuring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Homma, Akihiro Fujiwara, Hirofumi Suda, Kunihiko Yamada, Masamichi Toyama, Kunio Imai
  • Patent number: 5926292
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a memory device for storing pixel image data including both halftone image data such as data of image of a photograph having a gradation and line image data such as data of text containing characters. The storage is conducted on the basis of blocks each having a predetermined number of pixels. The mean information quantity of the halftone image data per pixel stored in the memory means is not greater than the information quantity of the line image data per pixel stored in the memory means. The halftone image data being compressed on the basis of the block. Therefore, both the halftone image data and line image data can be stored in a small memory by using common addresses, without causing any degradation of the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Hideo Homma, Yoshitake Nagashima, Takashi Saito
  • Patent number: 5677733
    Abstract: An exposure control device having a light measuring area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on an image sensing plane, a discriminating circuit which discriminates from each other varied states of the image sensing plane through video signal parts corresponding to the inside and the outside of the light measuring area and an exposure compensating circuit which compensates the state of exposure to light is arranged to shift the set position of the light measuring area to trace an object's image at least when the exposure compensating circuit is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuji Yoshimura, Kitahiro Kaneda, Hideo Homma, Kunihiko Yamada, Hirofumi Suda, Akihiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5565918
    Abstract: An exposure control device includes an area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on a part of an image sensing plane; a judging circuit which detects a back light image plane on the basis of a difference in level between video signals corresponding to the inside and the outside of the light measuring area; a high luminance detecting circuit which detects a high luminance part of the image sensing plane on the basis of the video signals; and a control circuit arranged to have the light measuring area set on the image sensing plane excluding the high luminance part from the light measuring area by controlling the area setting circuit on the basis of the output of the high luminance detection circuit when the image sensing plane is judged to be a back light image plane by the judging circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Homma, Kitahiro Kaneda, Kunihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 5465173
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a memory device for storing pixel image data including both halftone image data such as data of image of a photograph having a gradation and line image data such as data of text containing characters. The storage is conducted on the basis of blocks each having a predetermined number of pixels. The mean information quantity of the halftone image data per pixel stored in the memory means is not greater than the information quantity of the line image data per pixel stored in the memory means. The halftone image data being compressed on the basis of the block. Therefore, both the halftone image data and line image data can be stored in a small memory by using common addresses, without causing any degradation of the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Hideo Homma, Yoshitake Nagashima, Takashi Saito
  • Patent number: 5442397
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus operating with adaptive selection of a first tracing algorithm in which an object image is traced by moving a detecting area capable of being movably set on an image sensing plane in such a manner that the luminance level difference between the inside and the outside of that area becomes maximum and a second tracing algorithm in which the object image is traced by moving the position of the detecting area in such a manner that a point at which a contrast becomes maximum comes to coincide with a central portion of the detecting are depending on the state of the image sensing plane. The threshold values for changing over between the first tracing algorithm and the second tracing algorithm are made to have a hysteresis characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuji Yoshimura, Masamichi Toyama, Akihiro Fujiwara, Hirofumi Suda, Kunihiko Yamada, Kitahiro Kaneda, Hideo Homma
  • Patent number: 5339163
    Abstract: An exposure control device includes an area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on a part of an image sensing plane; a judging circuit which detects a back light image plane on the basis of a difference in level between video signals corresponding to the inside and the outside of the light measuring area; a high luminance detecting circuit which detects a high luminance part of the image sensing plane on the basis of the video signals; and a control circuit arranged to have the light measuring area set on the image sensing plane excluding the high luminance part from the light measuring area by controlling the area setting circuit on the basis of the output of the high luminance detection circuit when the image sensing plane is judged to be a back light image plane by the judging circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Homma, Kitahiro Kaneda, Kunihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 5321532
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a memory device for storing pixel image data, including both halftone image data such as data of image of a photograph having a gradation, and line image text data such as data, containing characters. The storage is conducted on the basis of blocks each having a predetermined number of pixels. The mean information quantity of the halftone image data per pixel stored in the memory means is not greater than the information quantity of the line image data per pixel stored in the memory means. The halftone image data is compressed on the basis of blocks. Therefore, both the halftone image data and line image data can be stored in a small memory by using common addresses, without causing any degradation of the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Hideo Homma, Yoshitake Nagashima, Takashi Saito
  • Patent number: 5272538
    Abstract: An exposure control device for performing exposure control on the basis of a video signal obtained from a light measuring area set within an image sensing plane is provided with a determining circuit which determines the position of a photographed object within the image sensing plane from the values of a specific component of the video signal obtained from the inside and outside of a detection area the position of which is variably set within the image sensing plane. The light measuring area is set in the object's position within the image sensing plane detected by the determining circuit. The exposure control device is provided further with a changing circuit which detects the size of the object on the image sensing plane and changes the size of the light measuring area accordingly, and a weighting circuit which performs for light measurement a weighting operation on video signals obtained from the inside and outside of the light measuring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Homma, Akihiro Fujiwara, Hirofumi Suda, Kunihiko Yamada, Masamichi Toyama, Kunio Imai
  • Patent number: 5247198
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device capable of having a high integration density and excellent performance and a method of fabricating the semiconductor integrated circuit device are disclosed. In this semiconductor integrated circuit device, a connecting conductor for connecting gate wiring which is formed on a field oxide film and extended from the gate of a MOSFET, to the source/drain region of another MOSFET is interposed between the gate wiring and one of two side space layers for defining the width of the gate wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Homma, Ryuichi Saito, Takashi Akioka, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5065248
    Abstract: An exposure control device includes a first exposure control circuit which is arranged to keep constant an average signal level of an image signal corresponding to the whole of an image sensing plane, and a second exposure control circuit which is arranged to compensate the average signal level according to the level of an image signal corresponding to a light measuring area set in a part of the image sensing plane. The second exposure control circuit has a response characteristic arranged to have its exposure control action performed at a slower response speed than the first exposure circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Homma
  • Patent number: 4987482
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus for outputting an image pickup signal by forming an image of a subject on an image pickup element through an optical system includes a determining circuit for picking up a plurality of color information signals from the image pickup element, comparing the color information signals with a predetermined reference value to determine that the color information signals reach a predetermined level and detecting quantity of a skin color signal component; and a control circuit for controlling the exposure of the image pickup element in accordance with the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunio Imai, Hideo Homma, Teruo Hieda
  • Patent number: 4858020
    Abstract: An image sensing device allowing normal or teleconversion operation has an image sensor which includes a plurality of horizontal lines and is capable of being non-destructively read out. Area setting ciruitry is included for variably setting a reading area of the image sensor. Clock control circuitry includes a plurality of reading lines and is arranged to read out image information from the selected reading area. Reading circuitry non-destructively reads out, a plurality of times for the tele-conversion operation, the signals from the set reading area. The reading cycle corresponds to the size of the set reading area. Clearing circuitry is also included for clearing altogether the areas of the image sensor other than the set reading area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Homma