Patents by Inventor Keita Sasaki
Keita Sasaki 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: 11025828Abstract: There is provided an imaging control apparatus including a control section that creates a first image by performing exposing to a pixel with first exposure by a first exposure time and creates a second image by performing exposing to a pixel with second exposure by a second exposure time in succession to the first image and a synthesizing section that synthesizes a synthesized image in which the first image and the second image have been synthesized and a selected image selected from either the first image or the second image. The control section decides the first exposure time and the second exposure time such that an image to be selected as the selected image in the synthesizing section is switched over on a basis of an exposure ratio being a ratio of an exposure time of the synthesized image and an exposure time of the selected image.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihito Yasuma, Ryo Hirono, Keita Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210132230Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light detector includes an element including a photodiode. A plurality of the elements are provided. The element includes a structure body for at least a portion of the plurality of elements. The structure body surrounds the photodiode and has a different refractive index from the photodiode. At least portions of the structure bodies are separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Ikuo FUJIWARA, Honam KWON, Yuki NOBUSA, Keita SASAKI, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Masaki ATSUTA
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Publication number: 20210082986Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light detector includes an element and a quenching resistance. The element includes a photodiode. The quenching resistance is electrically connected to the element. The quenching resistance includes a semiconductor member and a plurality of first metal members. The plurality of first metal members is electrically connected to the semiconductor member and separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Honam KWON, lkuo FUJIWARA, Keita SASAKI, Kazuhiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210041305Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Kawazu, Keita Sasaki, Takumi Oka, Mohammad Munir Haque, Nobuhiko Fujimori, Makoto Satou, Masahiro Baba, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yuichi Motohashi, Atsushi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200412950Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging unit configured to perform an imaging operation; a data generator configured to generate first power supply voltage data corresponding to a first power supply voltage; and a flag generation section configured to generate a flag signal for the first power supply voltage by comparing the first power supply voltage data and first reference data. The first power supply voltage is supplied to the imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: NAOKI KAWAZU, KEITA SASAKI, TAKUMI OKA, YUICHI MOTOHASHI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200404204Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels each including a first light-receiving element and a second light-receiving element, the plurality of pixels including a first pixel; a generating section that is able to generate a first detection value on a basis of a light-receiving result by the first light-receiving element of each of the plurality of pixels, and is able to generate a second detection value on a basis of a light-receiving result by the second light-receiving element of each of the plurality of pixels; and a diagnosis section that is able to perform a diagnosis processing on a basis of a detection ratio that is a ratio between the first detection value and the second detection value in the first pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: NAOKI KAWAZU, KEITA SASAKI, TAKUMI OKA, MOHAMMAD MUNIR HAQUE, YUICHI MOTOHASHI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200368862Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connecting device and a connecting method which securely connect a workpiece to a connector. The connecting device includes a holding part configured to hold a workpiece, an abutting part against which the workpiece is abutted, and processing circuitry configured to control the holding part to hold the workpiece, control movement of the holding part, and control movement of the abutting part. The processing circuitry controls the holding part and the abutting part so that the holding part holds the workpiece abutted against an abutting position of the abutting part and so that the workpiece is connected to the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunori HIRATA, Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Takayuki ISHIZAKI, Keita SASAKI
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Patent number: 10843345Abstract: A workpiece holding mechanism includes a first and second support having a first and second surface part, third support having a third surface part located closer to second than first surface part and located at a height corresponding to first surface part's lower end, fourth support having a fourth surface part located closer to first than second surface part and located at a height corresponding to second surface's part lower end, a fifth support having a fifth surface part located, at first surface part one end in first direction, closer to second than first surface part and located above third surface part, and a sixth support having a sixth surface part, at second surface part's end portion, closer to the first than second surface part and located above fourth surface part. At least one third and fourth face part includes one face or plurality of faces extending in first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuhei Kuraoka, Keita Sasaki, Tatsuhiro Uto
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Publication number: 20200304698Abstract: [Object] To provide an imaging control apparatus that can create an HDR image that is natural even in the case where an object being moving is included in a photographic subject. [Solution] There is provided an imaging control apparatus including: a control section that creates a first image by performing exposing to a pixel with first exposure by a first exposure time and creates a second image by performing exposing to a pixel with second exposure by a second exposure time in succession to the first image; and a synthesizing section that synthesizes a synthesized image in which the first image and the second image have been synthesized and a selected image selected from either the first image or the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: FUMIHITO YASUMA, RYO HIRONO, KEITA SASAKI
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Publication number: 20200295217Abstract: A photodetector according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of light detectors. Each light detector has a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, in which the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer constitute a PN junction. The photodetector further includes a quench resistor that is optically transmissive and connected to the second semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaki ATSUTA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Ikuo FUJIWARA, Honam KWON, Keita SASAKI, Yuki NOBUSA
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Publication number: 20200256778Abstract: The molecule detecting apparatus of an embodiment includes a light source 31, a fluorescent layer 42 emitting different fluorescence depending on the kind of a target molecule 60 captured when being irradiated with light from the light source 31, a photodetector 32 configured to detect fluorescence, and the photodetector 32 is an array of avalanche photodiodes operating in Geiger mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Honam KWON, Ikuo FUJIWARA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Keita SASAKI, Yuki NOBUSA, Yasushi SHINJO
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Publication number: 20200198157Abstract: A gripping device capable of securing an adequate holding allowance when gripping a soft bag-like object includes a base portion, a displacement portion capable of being displaced with respect to the base portion, finger portions capable of abutting on a grip target object to grip the grip target object, and a drive portion that drives the finger portions. The finger portions are supported by the displacement portion so as to be permitted to move in a direction of approaching each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazunori HIRATA, Keita SASAKI, Kentaro AZUMA, Takayuki ISHIZAKI, Mitsunobu OKA, Masataka YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10595798Abstract: A detection apparatus according to an embodiment includes first detectors, a first electrode, second detectors and a second electrode. The first detectors detect a photon. The first electrode is electrically connected to each of the first detectors. The second detectors detect a photon. The second electrode is electrically connected to each of the second detectors. The number of first detectors is less than the number of second detectors.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Go Kawata, Keita Sasaki, Rei Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20200088852Abstract: In one embodiment, a photo detection element includes a first region of a first conductivity type, a second region of a second conductivity type, a third region of the first conductivity type provided between the first region and the second region, a fourth region of the second conductivity type provided so as to surround a periphery of the second region, in a direction crossing with a direction from the first region toward the second region, and a fifth region of the first conductivity type provided between the first region and the fourth region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Ikuo FUJIWARA, Yuki NOBUSA, Honam KWON, Keita SASAKI, Kazuhiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200070359Abstract: A workpiece holding mechanism includes a first and second support having a first and second surface part, third support having a third surface part located closer to second than first surface part and located at a height corresponding to first surface part's lower end, fourth support having a fourth surface part located closer to first than second surface part and located at a height corresponding to second surface's part lower end, a fifth support having a fifth surface part located, at first surface part one end in first direction, closer to second than first surface part and located above third surface part, and a sixth support having a sixth surface part, at second surface part's end portion, closer to the first than second surface part and located above fourth surface part. At least one third and fourth face part includes one face or plurality of faces extending in first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuhei KURAOKA, Keita SASAKI, Tatsuhiro UTO
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Publication number: 20200025934Abstract: In one embodiment, a photo detector includes a plurality of photo detection elements, a plurality of trenches each provided among a plurality of the photo detection elements, and a wiring provided between the two photo detection elements out of the plurality of photo detection elements to electrically connect to the two photo detection elements. The trenches surround the 2·m (m is a positive integer) photo detection elements including the two photo detection elements. And the two photo detection elements are lined in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the metal layer for electrical connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Honam KWON, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Ikuo FUJIWARA, Keita SASAKI, Yuki NOBUSA
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Publication number: 20200009725Abstract: A holding device for food includes a second posture detecting part configured to detect that all the plurality of foods fed to the given positions are in the second posture, and a control part configured to control operation of the second holding part to hold the plurality of foods in the second posture so that the foods are piled up in the given direction, when the second posture detecting part detects that all the plurality of foods are in the second posture at the given positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiko HASHIMOTO, Kenji BANDO, Kazunori HIRATA, Keita SASAKI
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Publication number: 20190351563Abstract: A holding device for food includes a right hand part configured to hold the food in a first posture where a first surface part is oriented horizontally, and to be changeable the posture of the food from the first posture into a second posture where a second surface part is oriented horizontally, a right arm (food feeding part) configured to sequentially feed the food held in the second posture by the first holding part to a given position, a left hand part (second holding part) configured to hold a plurality of foods fed to the given position in the second posture, the foods being held so as to be laterally piled up in a given direction, and a left arm (food accommodating part) configured to accommodate the plurality of foods held by the left hand part into a given container.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji BANDO, Kazunori HIRATA, Keita SASAKI, Yasuhiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190293767Abstract: A photodetector includes a plurality of first light detection elements having a first driving voltage range, the first light detection elements including first semiconductor layers having a first conductivity type and second semiconductor layers having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type; and a second light detection element having a second driving voltage range different from the first driving voltage range, the second light detection element including a third semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type and a fourth semiconductor layer having the second conductivity type.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Honam KWON, lkuo FUJIWARA, Kazuhiro SUZUKI, Keita SASAKI, Yuki NOBUSA
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Patent number: 10353057Abstract: A photodetector according to an embodiment includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, including a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, disposed on the second surface; and at least one photo-sensing device including a region in the first semiconductor layer, a region in the second semiconductor layer, and a first electrode disposed in a first region of the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Keita Sasaki, Hideyuki Funaki