Patents by Inventor Koji Kikuchi

Koji Kikuchi 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: 20170338268
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9768215
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels configured adjacent to one another; and an isolation structure arranged so as to isolate light entering each of light-receiving units of the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, in which the isolation structure is formed so as to have a inclined side wall surface whose cross section is tapered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9653512
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a solid-state image pickup device, including a pixel portion in which a plurality of light receiving areas corresponding to different wavelengths, respectively, are disposed, and transistors used commonly to the plurality of adjacent light receiving areas in the pixel portion, and disposed so as to be brought near to a side of the light receiving area, corresponding to the shorter wavelength, of the plurality of adjacent light receiving areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9627429
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9525004
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160358963
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels configured adjacent to one another; and an isolation structure arranged so as to isolate light entering each of light-receiving units of the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, in which the isolation structure is formed so as to have a inclined side wall surface whose cross section is tapered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160315125
    Abstract: A organic electroluminescence device includes: a plurality of pixels each including an organic layer and a second electrode in this order on a first electrode having light reflectivity, and each configured to emit light of one wavelength out of two or more different wavelengths, the organic layer including an organic electroluminescence layer; and a black matrix layer provided on light emission side of the second electrode, and having first apertures for the respective pixels. The black matrix layer has inclined surfaces inside the respective first apertures, and inclination angles of the inclined surfaces are set, based on emission wavelengths of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Koji Kikuchi, Mamoru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9467619
    Abstract: There is provided a focus detection apparatus including: microlenses; light reception units that receive light which is incident through the microlenses; waveguides that cause light, which is incident to the microlenses at a predetermined angle, to be received by the light reception units and that are provided between the microlenses and the light reception units; and a detection unit that detects focusing using output values from the light reception units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9450008
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of phase difference detection pixels configured adjacent to one another; and an isolation structure arranged so as to isolate light entering each of light-receiving units of the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, in which the isolation structure is formed so as to have a inclined side wall surface whose cross section is tapered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160218137
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160065836
    Abstract: There is provided a focus detection apparatus including: microlenses; light reception units that receive light which is incident through the microlenses; waveguides that cause light, which is incident to the microlenses at a predetermined angle, to be received by the light reception units and that are provided between the microlenses and the light reception units; and a detection unit that detects focusing using output values from the light reception units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9261400
    Abstract: There is provided a focus detection apparatus including: microlenses; light reception units that receive light which is incident through the microlenses; waveguides that cause light, which is incident to the microlenses at a predetermined angle, to be received by the light reception units and that are provided between the microlenses and the light reception units; and a detection unit that detects focusing output values from the light reception units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160021718
    Abstract: A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels configured to emit emission light different from one another; and an insulating film provided between the plurality of pixels and having a reflective surface with respect to the emission light, in which an angle of the reflective surface of the insulating film is set for each of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Koji KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9231016
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a substrate, a wiring layer, and a waveguide. The substrate is provided with a pixel array portion constituted of a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into an electrical signal. The wiring layer includes a plurality of wirings and an insulating layer that covers the plurality of wirings that are laminated above the substrate. The waveguide guides light to each of the photoelectric converters of the plurality of pixels, the waveguide being formed in the wiring layer. The waveguide is formed to have a waveguide exit end from which light exits the waveguide so that a distance between the waveguide exit end and a surface of the photoelectric converter that receives light from the waveguide become shorter, as wavelengths of light guided by the waveguide are longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horikoshi, Koji Kikuchi, Tomohiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150372041
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9153490
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikue Mitsuhashi, Kentaro Akiyama, Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9141941
    Abstract: A computer determines whether destination information is included in permission target information. The destination information indicates a destination to which a file stored in a storage device is transferred. The permission target information includes information indicating a target permitted to access the file. The computer prompts before the file is transferred, upon determining that the destination information is not included in the permission target information, a user to input whether to permit the transfer. The computer adds the destination information to the permission target information upon receiving, via an input device, a permission input for permitting the transfer. The computer transfers the file upon receiving the permission input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koji Hashimoto, Takayoshi Kurita, Koji Kikuchi, Tsuguto Chiba, Takeshi Gomi
  • Publication number: 20150076643
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of phase difference detection pixels configured adjacent to one another; and an isolation structure arranged so as to isolate light entering each of light-receiving units of the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, in which the isolation structure is formed so as to have a inclined side wall surface whose cross section is tapered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8937728
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines whether to execute an image processing function indicated by an execution instruction based on a state of a web browser when the received execution instruction indicates a local use, and executes the image processing function indicated by the execution instruction irrespective of the state of the web browser when the received execution instruction indicates a remote use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: RE46729
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixel units configured and disposed in an imaging area in such a way that a plurality of pixels corresponding to different colors are treated as one unit, the amount of shift of a position of each of the pixels in the pixel unit being set as to differ depending on distance from a center of the imaging area to the pixel unit and a color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kikuchi