Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Nakanishi

Hideyuki Nakanishi 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: 20240121530
    Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya KABE, Hideyuki ARAI, Hisashi AIKAWA, Yuki SUGIURA, Akito INOUE, Mitsuyoshi MORI, Kentaro NAKANISHI, Yusuke SAKATA
  • Patent number: 11948958
    Abstract: The solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric converter, a first separator, and a second separator. The photoelectric converter is configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. The first separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a first trench formed from a first surface side. The second separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a second trench formed from a second surface side facing a first surface. The present technology is applicable to an individual imaging element mounted on, e.g., a camera and configured to acquire an image of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Honda, Tetsuya Uchida, Toshifumi Wakano, Yusuke Tanaka, Yoshiharu Kudoh, Hirotoshi Nomura, Tomoyuki Hirano, Shinichi Yoshida, Yoichi Ueda, Kosuke Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11936103
    Abstract: Provided is a conductive film for antennas, in which a conducting film and a substrate made of a polycarbonate resin material containing a polycarbonate resin are laminated, and the polycarbonate resin contains, as main constituent units, a unit (A) represented by the following formula (1) and/or a unit (B) represented by the following formula (2). The conductive film for antennas has low dielectric characteristics and bendability, can form an antenna with a low transmission loss, and has excellent adhesion to the conducting film. (In the formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a halogen atom, and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsunemori, Hiroshi Okamoto, Tomoya Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20220295406
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a terminal. A base station including a generator that generates control information on controlling a power source of a communicator in a terminal that executes a wireless communication in a first communication method and a second communication method, the communicator being for executing the wireless communication in the second communication method, and a transmitter that transmits the control information to the terminal that controls the power source of the communicator based on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI ISHIKURA, ATSUSHI YAMAZAKI, YUHSUKE TAKAGI, HIDEYUKI NAKANISHI, RYOKI HINATA
  • Publication number: 20220286962
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a terminal. A terminal including: a first communicator that performs wireless communication by a first communication method; a second communicator that performs wireless communication by a second communication method; a standby determiner that determines a communication method to be used for standby; and a power source controller that controls a power source of the second communicator on the basis of the communication method determined by the standby determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI ISHIKURA, Tadashi AOKI, ATSUSHI YAMAZAKI, HIDEYUKI NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 11328680
    Abstract: An image processing device that generates a second output image signal output to a second liquid crystal panel that is disposed to be superposed on a first liquid crystal panel, includes: a first corrector that generates a gamma correction signal in which a gradation value of an input image signal is corrected; a detector that receives the gamma correction signal and detects an image region brighter than surroundings as a first high-frequency portion from the gamma correction signal; and a second corrector that receives the gamma correction signal and a detection result of the detector and performs correction to decrease the gradation value of the first high-frequency portion in the gamma correction signal. The second output image signal is generated based on the gamma correction signal corrected by the second corrector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takenobu Nishiguchi, Tatsuo Itoman
  • Patent number: 11170738
    Abstract: A display device according to present disclosure comprising: a first display panel that displays a first image; a second display panel disposed on a back surface side of the first display panel to display a second image; and an image processor that acquires input image data and generates first image data corresponding to the first image and second image data corresponding to the second image based on the input image data, wherein the image processor includes a first filter circuit that performs first low-pass filter processing on the input image data, and the first filter circuit reduces a degree of the first low-pass filter processing when input gradation of the input image data is less than first gradation as compared with a case that the input gradation is greater than or equal to the first gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toshikazu Koudo, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11146967
    Abstract: A communication system is for improving utilization efficiency of radio resources. The communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of terminal devices that communicate with the base station device. The base station device includes a first control unit that assigns radio resources including at least one or more resource blocks to at least one of the plurality of terminal devices. The at least one of the plurality of terminal devices comprises a second control unit that transmits transmission data by using at least some of the radio resources assigned to the at least one of the plurality of terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ishikura, Shuichi Takehana, Atsushi Yamazaki, Yuhsuke Takagi, Hideyuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11132967
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of display panels disposed in a superposed manner, comprising: a first display panel that displays a first image; a second display panel disposed on a back surface side of the first display panel to display a second image; and an image processor that generates first image data for the first image and second image data for the second image based on the input image data, wherein the image processor includes: a differential filter that performs differential filter processing on a luminance signal calculated from the input image data and outputs a differential detection value; a background level detection circuit that detects a background level using the luminance signal; a gain determination circuit that determines a filter gain using the differential detection value and the background level; and a low-pass filter that performs low-pass filter processing using the filter gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toshikazu Koudo, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11120760
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second liquid crystal panels disposed to be overlapped with each other; a parallax reduction unit that generates the second output image signal by performing smoothing processing on a first signal based on the input image signal; a first temporal filter that generates a first response correction signal determining the first output image signal based on the second output image signal; and a corrector that generates the first output image signal based on at least the first response correction signal and a second signal based on the input image signal. The first temporal filter generates the first response correction signal of a current frame based on the second output image signal of the current frame and the first response correction signal of a previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takenobu Nishiguchi, Tatsuo Itoman
  • Publication number: 20210256924
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of display panels disposed in a superposed manner, comprising: a first display panel that displays a first image; a second display panel disposed on a back surface side of the first display panel to display a second image; and an image processor that generates first image data for the first image and second image data for the second image based on the input image data, wherein the image processor includes: a differential filter that performs differential filter processing on a luminance signal calculated from the input image data and outputs a differential detection value; a background level detection circuit that detects a background level using the luminance signal; a gain determination circuit that determines a filter gain using the differential detection value and the background level; and a low-pass filter that performs low-pass filter processing using the filter gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki NAKANISHI, Toshikazu KOUDO, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 11081068
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that displays an input video signal according to a present disclosure comprises: a first liquid crystal display panel and a second liquid crystal display panel disposed to be laminated; a first video signal generator that generates a first video signal for the first liquid crystal display panel by performing stereoscopic vision suppression processing of suppressing stereoscopic vision due to parallax on the video signal; and a second video signal generator that generates a second video signal for the second liquid crystal display panel using the first video signal, wherein when the video signal indicates a black spot, the first video signal generator performs the stereoscopic vision suppression processing with intensity different from that in a case where the video signal indicates a bright spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Koudo, Hideyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20210233480
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and an image processor. The image processor generates first image data and second image data that correspond to a first image and a second image for display on the first display panel and the second display panel, respectively. The image processor includes a first image data decision unit that decides the first image data, a filter that decides a correction factor, and a second image data decision unit that decides the second image data based on smoothed image data and the correction factor. A method for displaying an image in a LC display device with a first display panel and a second display panel includes determining first image data based on smoothed input image data, and determining second image data based on the smoothed input image data and a correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki NAKANISHI, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Takenobu NISHIGUCHI, Tatsuo ITOMAN
  • Patent number: 11074877
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and an image processor. The image processor generates first image data and second image data that correspond to a first image and a second image for display on the first display panel and the second display panel, respectively. The image processor includes a first image data decision unit that decides the first image data, a filter that decides a correction factor, and a second image data decision unit that decides the second image data based on smoothed image data and the correction factor. A method for displaying an image in a LC display device with a first display panel and a second display panel includes determining first image data based on smoothed input image data, and determining second image data based on the smoothed input image data and a correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., PASONA KNOWLEDGE PARTNER INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takenobu Nishiguchi, Tatsuo Itoman
  • Patent number: 11064410
    Abstract: A base-station apparatus includes: a communicator that performs wireless communication; and a controller. During communication with at least a first terminal apparatus, when a communication volume used for communication that is newly stated with a second terminal apparatus becomes smaller than or equal to an un-used communication volume, the controller transmits, to a target terminal apparatus that is one of the first and second terminal apparatuses, a communication instruction for communication with a second base-station apparatus having a coverage range in which the target terminal apparatus is located, and when a communication volume used for communication with the target terminal apparatus exceeds the un-used communication volume, the controller transmits a callback instruction for callback from the second base-station apparatus to the base-station apparatus to the target terminal apparatus or the second base-station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhsuke Takagi, Katsutoshi Ishikura, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Ryoki Hinata
  • Publication number: 20210201836
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second liquid crystal panels disposed to be overlapped with each other; a parallax reduction unit that generates the second output image signal by performing smoothing processing on a first signal based on the input image signal; a first temporal filter that generates a first response correction signal determining the first output image signal based on the second output image signal; and a corrector that generates the first output image signal based on at least the first response correction signal and a second signal based on the input image signal. The first temporal filter generates the first response correction signal of a current frame based on the second output image signal of the current frame and the first response correction signal of a previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki NAKANISHI, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Takenobu NISHIGUCHI, Tatsuo ITOMAN
  • Publication number: 20210193061
    Abstract: An image processing device that generates a second output image signal output to a second liquid crystal panel that is disposed to be superposed on a first liquid crystal panel, includes: a first corrector that generates a gamma correction signal in which a gradation value of an input image signal is corrected; a detector that receives the gamma correction signal and detects an image region brighter than surroundings as a first high-frequency portion from the gamma correction signal; and a second corrector that receives the gamma correction signal and a detection result of the detector and performs correction to decrease the gradation value of the first high-frequency portion in the gamma correction signal. The second output image signal is generated based on the gamma correction signal corrected by the second corrector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki NAKANISHI, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Takenobu NISHIGUCHI, Tatsuo ITOMAN
  • Patent number: 11044781
    Abstract: A base station device includes: a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a terminal device; a storage unit; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to refer to discontinuous reception information, stored in the storage unit, which indicates a plurality of discontinuous reception settings, transmit transmission data to the terminal device in at least a portion of a first reception period of time corresponding to at least one of the discontinuous reception settings, and transmit the transmission data to the terminal device in at least a portion of a second reception period of time corresponding to at least another one of the discontinuous reception settings in a case that it is determined that response information with respect to the transmitted transmission data is not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ishikura, Yuhsuke Takagi, Atsushi Yamazaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20210105630
    Abstract: A communication system is for improving utilization efficiency of radio resources. The communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of terminal devices that communicate with the base station device. The base station device includes a first control unit that assigns radio resources including at least one or more resource blocks to at least one of the plurality of terminal devices. The at least one of the plurality of terminal devices comprises a second control unit that transmits transmission data by using at least some of the radio resources assigned to the at least one of the plurality of terminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI ISHIKURA, SHUICHI TAKEHANA, ATSUSHI YAMAZAKI, YUHSUKE TAKAGI, HIDEYUKI NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 10789901
    Abstract: A LCD device of display panels includes n-bit (n<m) driving first display panel that displays first image based on m-bit input image data, n-bit driving second display panel that displays second image based on the m-bit input image data, and image processor including first gradation converter that converts gradation of the m-bit input image data into n-bit gradation, second gradation converter that converts gradation of the m-bit input image data into m1-bit (m1?m) gradation, and extension processor that performs extension processing of extending gradation expression with the n bits on the input image data converted into the m1-bit gradation. The n-bit driving first display panel displays the first image based on the n-bit input image data, and the n-bit driving second display panel displays the second image based on the n-bit input image data subjected to the extension processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Pasona Knowledge Partner Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toshikazu Koudo, Katsuhiro Kikuchi