Patents by Inventor Ken Ozawa

Ken Ozawa 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: 9851483
    Abstract: A stereoscopic imaging method where a pixel matrix is divided into groups such that parallax information is received by one pixel group and original information is received by another pixel group. The parallax information may, specifically, be based on polarized information received by subgroups of the one pixel, group and by processing all of the information received multiple images are rendered by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuzo Sato, Eiji Otani, Ken Ozawa, Seiji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9817485
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a display control device, a method, and a program that can improve user's operability of a free-cursor type user interface. An imaging unit outputs an RGB image based on a pixel signal corresponding to a visible light among light input through a lens and an IR image based on a pixel signal corresponding to an infrared light among light input through the lens. An ROI set unit sets a movement area of an infrared light source in the IR image based on the RGB image, and a display control unit controls a cursor movement amount on a display unit according to movement of the infrared light source in the movement area. The present technique can be applied to a television set that monitors a viewing condition of a viewer, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Ozawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Hideaki Mogi
  • Publication number: 20170310911
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9736407
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170184449
    Abstract: An imaging device and method are provided. Light from an object is provided as a plurality of sets of light beams to a phase difference array having a plurality of elements. The phase difference array is configured to provide different optical paths for light included within at least some of a plurality of sets of light beams. The light from the phase difference array is received at an imaging element array. The imaging element array includes a plurality of imaging elements. Information obtained from hyperspectral imaging data based on output signals of the imaging element array can be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9681059
    Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing unit 30 including a first image-capturing element 41, a second image-capturing element 51, a third image-capturing element 61, and a fourth image-capturing element 71, and includes an image processing unit 11, wherein a sensitivity of the fourth image-capturing element 71 is less than sensitivities of the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and the image processing unit 11 generates high sensitivity image data on the basis of outputs from the first image-capturing element 41 to the third image-capturing element 61, and generates low sensitivity image data on the basis of an output from the fourth image-capturing element 71, and further, the image processing unit 11 generates a combined image using high sensitivity image data corresponding to a low illumination image area in the low illumination image area obtained from the low sensitivity image data or the high sensitivity image data, and using low sensitivity image da
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Ozawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Hideaki Mogi
  • Patent number: 9670532
    Abstract: A chemical sensor including a substrate, an on-chip lens layer, and a flattening layer. On the substrate, a plurality of photodiodes are formed and arranged in a planar form. The on-chip lens layer collects incident light to the photodiodes and is provided on the substrate. The flattening layer covers and planarizes the on-chip lens to form a probe holding surface for holding a probe material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Kensaku Maeda, Yusuke Moriya, Ken Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9648259
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170104941
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9523803
    Abstract: To provide an image capturing element and an image capturing apparatus in which an image capturing optical system can be thinned without degrading image capturing properties. An image capturing element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an on-chip lens, a low refractive index layer and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip lens is composed of a high refractive index material. The low refractive index layer is formed flatly on the on-chip lens and is composed of a low refractive index material. The infrared absorption layer is laminated above the low refractive index layer and is composed of an infrared absorption material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Nozomi Kimura, Taichi Natori, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara
  • Publication number: 20160353037
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9508662
    Abstract: A technique is provided which can prevent the quality of an electrical signal from degrading in an optical semiconductor device. In a cross-section perpendicular to an extending direction of an electrical signal transmission line, the electrical signal transmission line is surrounded by a shielding portion including a first noise cut wiring, second plugs, a first layer wiring, first plugs, a shielding semiconductor layer, first plugs, a first layer wiring, second plugs, and a second noise cut wiring, and the shielding portion is fixed to a reference potential. Thereby, the shielding portion blocks noise due to effects of a magnetic field or an electric field from the semiconductor substrate, which affects the electrical signal transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kunishima, Yasutaka Nakashiba, Masaru Wakabayashi, Shinichi Watanuki, Ken Ozawa, Tatsuya Usami, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Keiji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9432598
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160165158
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 9312327
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a capacitor which includes a first electrode electrically coupled to a transistor and a second electrode separate from the first electrode and covered with an interlayer insulating film, in which a plurality of coupling holes are formed in the interlayer insulating film and are in contact with the second electrode at the lower ends; and, when the capacitance of the second electrode is represented by C [nF] and the total area of the lower ends of the coupling holes is represented by A [?m2], the following expression (1) is satisfied. C/A?1.98 [nF/?m2]??(1) The elution of the second electrode constituting the capacitor at the lower ends of the coupling holes is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Ozawa, Hiroyuki Kunishima
  • Patent number: 9294697
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160054521
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical semiconductor device which can be improved in light shift precision and restrained from undergoing a loss in light transmission. In this device, an inner side-surface of a first optical coupling portion of an optical coupling region and an inner side-surface of a second optical coupling portion of the region are increased in line edge roughness. This manner makes light coupling ease from a first to second optical waveguide. By contrast, the following are decreased in line edge roughness: an outer side-surface of the first optical coupling portion of the optical coupling region; an outer side-surface of the second optical coupling portion of the region; two opposed side-surfaces of a portion of the first optical waveguide, the portion being any portion other than the region; and two opposed side-surfaces of a portion of the second optical waveguide, the portion being any portion other than the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kunishima, Yasutaka Nakashiba, Masaru Wakabayashi, Shinichi Watanuki, Ken Ozawa, Tatsuya Usami, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Keiji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20160056115
    Abstract: A technique is provided which can prevent the quality of an electrical signal from degrading in an optical semiconductor device. In a cross-section perpendicular to an extending direction of an electrical signal transmission line, the electrical signal transmission line is surrounded by a shielding portion including a first noise cut wiring, second plugs, a first layer wiring, first plugs, a shielding semiconductor layer, first plugs, a first layer wiring, second plugs, and a second noise cut wiring, and the shielding portion is fixed to a reference potential. Thereby, the shielding portion blocks noise due to effects of a magnetic field or an electric field from the semiconductor substrate, which affects the electrical signal transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kunishima, Yasutaka Nakashiba, Masaru Wakabayashi, Shinichi Watanuki, Ken Ozawa, Tatsuya Usami, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Keiji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20160029005
    Abstract: This invention relates to capturing an image of a subject as a three-dimensional image using a single image-capturing apparatus. The image-capturing apparatus includes a first polarization means, a lens system, and an image-capturing device array having a second polarization means. The first polarization means includes first and second regions arranged along a first direction, and the second polarization means includes multiple third and fourth regions arranged alternately along a second direction. First region transmission light having passed the first region passes the third region and reaches the image-capturing device, and second region transmission light having passed the second region passes the fourth region and reaches the image-capturing device. Thus, an image is captured to obtain a three-dimensional image in which a distance between a barycenter BC1 of the first region and a barycenter BC2 of the second region is a base line length of parallax between two eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Shuzo Sato, Eiji Otani, Ken Ozawa, Seiji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150380480
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a capacitor which includes a first electrode electrically coupled to a transistor and a second electrode separate from the first electrode and covered with an interlayer insulating film, in which a plurality of coupling holes are formed in the interlayer insulating film and are in contact with the second electrode at the lower ends; and, when the capacitance of the second electrode is represented by C [nF] and the total area of the lower ends of the coupling holes is represented by A [?m2], the following expression (1) is satisfied. C/A?1.98 [nF/?m2]??(1) The elution of the second electrode constituting the capacitor at the lower ends of the coupling holes is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Ken OZAWA, Hiroyuki KUNISHIMA