Patents by Inventor Kenta Makimoto

Kenta Makimoto 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: 20210165084
    Abstract: In one example, a light receiving apparatus includes a light receiving section with pixels arranged in a two-dimensional shape. A signal line is connected to each of the pixels. A time measuring section connected to the signal line measures a time from a light emission instruction timing to a light reception timing, a histogram creating section creates a histogram of the measured value, a storage section stores correction values corresponding to positions of the pixels, a correction processing section executes correction processing on the histogram on the basis of the stored correction values, and an output section outputs a signal subjected to the correction processing. The light receiving apparatus may, for example, be used in a distance measuring apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Kenta Makimoto
  • Publication number: 20120242657
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays an image; an image signal processing unit that divides each of left-eye and right-eye images input in accordance with a frame sequential format into an upper-half signal of a screen upper portion and a lower-half signal of a screen lower portion and generates left-eye and right-eye images of the frame sequential format in upper and lower division simultaneous driving of a screen of the display unit so that the upper-half signal of the left-eye image and the lower-half signal of the right-eye image at each time become an input image at an identical time; and a driving control unit that vertically divides the screen of the display unit into two portions and simultaneously drives the screen upper portion and the screen lower portion to display the left-eye and the right-eye images processed by the image signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Asano, Kenta Makimoto, Ken Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20110007136
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus and an image display which are allowed to achieve stereoscopic image display with a more natural sense of depth are provided. The image signal processing apparatus includes: a first motion vector detection section and an information obtaining section. The first motion vector detection section detects one or more two-dimensional motion vectors as motion vectors along an X-Y plane of an image, from an image-for-left-eye and an image-for-right-eye which have a parallax therebetween. The information obtaining section obtains, based on the detected two-dimensional motion vectors, information pertaining to a Z-axis direction. The Z-axis direction is a depth direction in a stereoscopic image formed with the image-for-left-eye and the image-for-right-eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Miura, Kenta Makimoto, Yudai Kawahara