Patents by Inventor Junichi Kanai
Junichi Kanai 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).
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Patent number: 11917306Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that decreases a width of a bezel, and restricts a decrease in an image quality of an image captured with a camera. The electronic device includes: a displaying unit; and a capture unit arranged on a side opposite a displaying surface of the displaying unit. The capture unit includes: a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units that converts light that has been made to enter through the displaying unit into electricity; and a plurality of polarization elements arranged on a light entering side of at least one photoelectric-conversion unit of the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakata, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Junichi Kanai, Yuichiro Baba
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Publication number: 20240037412Abstract: A neural network generation device that generates a neural network execution model for performing neural network operations, the neural network generation device including an execution model generation unit that generates the neural network execution model based on hardware information regarding hardware in which the neural network execution model is running and network information regarding the neural network, and a software generation unit that generates software for running neural network hardware obtained by installing the neural network model in the hardware.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Junichi KANAI, Chuta YAMAOKA
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Publication number: 20230335043Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device in which EVS pixels can be arranged closer to a central part, and a method of controlling the electronic device. An electronic device includes a display unit that has a display region in which display elements are arranged in an array in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, and an image sensor that is disposed on a side opposite to a display surface of the display unit so as to overlap the display region in a third direction different from be first direction and the second direction, and includes a plurality of pixels. The display unit transmits incident light, and the plurality of pixels outputs an event signal in a case where a change in luminance of light incident via the display unit is larger than a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Takahiro Akahane, Junichi Kanai
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Publication number: 20230140768Abstract: Color accuracy in an imaging device is improved. An imaging element includes a plurality of pixels that acquires first information that is information of three primary colors and second information that is information of at least two colors different from the three primary colors and that includes at least one of complementary colors of the three primary colors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Hiroaki Yamajo, Yosuke Yamamoto, Yuichiro Baba, Junichi Kanai
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Publication number: 20220368833Abstract: [Object] Provided is electronic equipment that prevents degradation of image quality of captured images and display quality of a display section. [Solving Means] The electronic equipment includes a display section, an imaging section disposed opposite to a display surface of the display section, and a control section that synchronizes a display timing of the display section with an imaging timing of the imaging section such that the imaging section performs imaging at a timing when the display section does not perform displaying.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Junichi Kanai, Masashi Nakata
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Publication number: 20220343471Abstract: Electronic apparatuses with suppressed deterioration image quality and reduced bezel width are disclosed. In one example, an electronic apparatus includes a display unit, imaging optical systems, and an image acquisition unit. The display unit has a displayable region that includes display optical systems disposed in an array in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The imaging optical systems are disposed on a side opposite to a display surface of the display unit and overlapped with the displayable region in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction, and include first and second imaging optical systems with different coordinates in at least one of the first direction and the second direction. The image acquisition unit acquires image data on the basis of information acquired by the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Junichi Kanai
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Publication number: 20210266425Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that decreases a width of a bezel, and restricts a decrease in an image quality of an image captured with a camera. The electronic device includes: a displaying unit; and a capture unit arranged on a side opposite a displaying surface of the displaying unit. The capture unit includes: a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units that converts light that has been made to enter through the displaying unit into electricity; and a plurality of polarization elements arranged on a light entering side of at least one photoelectric-conversion unit of the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Masashi Nakata, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Junichi Kanai, Yuichiro Baba
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Patent number: 11056526Abstract: An imaging device including an electronic shutter and a pixel array with color pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged. The pixel array part has at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including at least two of (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics for red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak for blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak for green. The clear pixel has a high transmittance arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel. An electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Kanai, Nobuo Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200043972Abstract: An imaging device including an electronic shutter and a pixel array with color pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged. The pixel array part has at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including at least two of (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics for red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak for blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak for green. The clear pixel has a high transmittance arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel. An electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Junichi Kanai, Nobuo Nakamura
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Patent number: 10483314Abstract: An imaging device including an electronic shutter and a pixel array with color pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged. The pixel array part has at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including at least two of (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics for red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak for blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak for green. The clear pixel has a high transmittance arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel. An electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Kanai, Nobuo Nakamura
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Patent number: 10327340Abstract: A method for producing circuit board, including: adhering plastic deformable insulating material onto surface of laminate, which contains second-metal-layer of second metal, and first-metal-layer in pattern on second-metal-layer, and the surface of the laminate is surface of second-metal-layer where first-metal-layer is formed, and surface of first-metal-layer, followed by curing the material, and removing second-metal-layer to form plate structure to which first-metal-layer in pattern is formed; opening hole in cured material from surface of the plate structure opposite to surface thereof where first-metal-layer is formed, until the hole reaches first-metal-layer; filling the hole with electroconductive paste, to form the plate structure filled therewith; and laminating one plate structure filled therewith with the other plate structure filled therewith in manner that first-metal-layer of one plate structure filled therewith faces opening of the hole of other plate structure filled therewith, wherein first-mType: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kenji Iida, Takashi Nakagawa, Seigo Yamawaki, Yasuhiro Karahashi, Junichi Kanai, Koji Komemura
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Publication number: 20170347465Abstract: A method for producing circuit board, including: adhering plastic deformable insulating material onto surface of laminate, which contains second-metal-layer of second metal, and first-metal-layer in pattern on second-metal-layer, and the surface of the laminate is surface of second-metal-layer where first-metal-layer is formed, and surface of first-metal-layer, followed by curing the material, and removing second-metal-layer to form plate structure to which first-metal-layer in pattern is formed; opening hole in cured material from surface of the plate structure opposite to surface thereof where first-metal-layer is formed, until the hole reaches first-metal-layer; filling the hole with electroconductive paste, to form the plate structure filled therewith; and laminating one plate structure filled therewith with the other plate structure filled therewith in manner that first-metal-layer of one plate structure filled therewith faces opening of the hole of other plate structure filled therewith, wherein first-mType: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Kenji Iida, Takashi Nakagawa, Seigo Yamawaki, Yasuhiro Karahashi, Junichi Kanai, Koji Komemura
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Patent number: 9827494Abstract: Provided is an external structure configured to be attached to or detached from an electronic device having a concave portion formed on a surface of a housing, and a connection connector provided in a position of the concave portion receding from the surface of the housing, the concave portion having a cross-sectional shape enabling locking of the external structure, the external structure including a first fitting unit configured to be fitted to the connection connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Motoishi, Yuki Kubota, Ryo Yamamoto, Masaaki Kato, Hirotaka Yamamoto, Kazushi Sakuma, Junichi Kanai, Masahiro Takihara
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Patent number: 9769936Abstract: A method for producing circuit board, including: adhering plastic deformable insulating material onto surface of laminate, which contains second-metal-layer of second metal, and first-metal-layer in pattern on second-metal-layer, and the surface of the laminate is surface of second-metal-layer where first-metal-layer is formed, and surface of first-metal-layer, followed by curing the material, and removing second-metal-layer to form plate structure to which first-metal-layer in pattern is formed; opening hole in cured material from surface of the plate structure opposite to surface thereof where first-metal-layer is formed, until the hole reaches first-metal-layer; filling the hole with electroconductive paste, to form the plate structure filled therewith; and laminating one plate structure filled therewith with the other plate structure filled therewith in manner that first-metal-layer of one plate structure filled therewith faces opening of the hole of other plate structure filled therewith, wherein first-mType: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kenji Iida, Takashi Nakagawa, Seigo Yamawaki, Yasuhiro Karahashi, Junichi Kanai, Koji Komemura
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Publication number: 20170077167Abstract: An imaging device including an electronic shutter and a pixel array with color pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged. The pixel array part has at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including at least two of (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics for red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak for blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak for green. The clear pixel has a high transmittance arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel. An electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Junichi Kanai, Nobuo Nakamura
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Patent number: 9560325Abstract: An imaging device including an electronic shutter and a pixel array with color pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity arranged. The pixel array part has at least one clear pixel, the plurality of color pixels including at least two of (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics for red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak for blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak for green. The clear pixel has a high transmittance arranged in an oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel. An electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Kanai, Nobuo Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160338193Abstract: A multilayer board disclosed herein includes: a plurality of insulating layers made of a thermosetting resin and stacked on one another, each insulating layer being provided with a via hole; a plurality of wiring each formed between the insulating layers and including an inclined side surface; and a conductive via made of a cured product of conductive paste filled in the via hole and connecting the vertically adjacent wiring to each other. Here, orientations of the inclined side surfaces are alternately changed from the wiring to the wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Junichi Kanai, Yasuhiro Karahashi, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Shunsuke KOGOI, Junichi Murayama, Koji Komemura, Hidehiko Fujisaki
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Publication number: 20150357822Abstract: An inverter electric generator system is comprised of: master and at least one slave inverter generators, each inverter generator including a communication section, a controller section generating a PWM carrier and an inverter circuit switched by the PWM carrier to generate an alternative current with a controlled voltage and a controlled frequency, the communication sections being mutually connected to exchange a communication data, and the inverter circuits being connected in parallel so as to collect and output the alternative currents as an electric power output, wherein each of the controller sections is configured to synchronize any point of the PWM carrier with any bit of the communication data received by the communication section. The PWM carriers of the master and the slave inverter generators thereby mutually get synchronized.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Narutoshi YOKOKAWA, Kazumi MURATA, Junichi KANAI, Naoyuki MASHIMA
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Publication number: 20150029679Abstract: A method for producing circuit board, including: adhering plastic deformable insulating material onto surface of laminate, which contains second-metal-layer of second metal, and first-metal-layer in pattern on second-metal-layer, and the surface of the laminate is surface of second-metal-layer where first-metal-layer is formed, and surface of first-metal-layer, followed by curing the material, and removing second-metal-layer to form plate structure to which first-metal-layer in pattern is formed; opening hole in cured material from surface of the plate structure opposite to surface thereof where first-metal-layer is formed, until the hole reaches first-metal-layer; filling the hole with electroconductive paste, to form the plate structure filled therewith; and laminating one plate structure filled therewith with the other plate structure filled therewith in manner that first-metal-layer of one plate structure filled therewith faces opening of the hole of other plate structure filled therewith, wherein first-mType: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Kenji Iida, Takashi Nakagawa, Seigo Yamawaki, Yasuhiro Karahashi, Junichi Kanai, Koji Komemura
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Publication number: 20140376182Abstract: Provided is an external structure configured to be attached to or detached from an electronic device having a concave portion formed on a surface of a housing, and a connection connector provided in a position of the concave portion receding from the surface of the housing, the concave portion having a cross-sectional shape enabling locking of the external structure, the external structure including a first fitting unit configured to be fitted to the connection connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Takuya Motoishi, Yuki Kubota, Ryo Yamamoto, Masaaki Kato, Hirotaka Yamamoto, Kazushi Sakuma, Junichi Kanai, Masahiro Takihara