Patents by Inventor Koji Nagahiro
Koji Nagahiro 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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Publication number: 20240121507Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: KOJI NAGAHIRO, YOSHIHIRO OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11924544Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Nagahiro, Yoshihiro Otsuka
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Publication number: 20230197752Abstract: The image sensor includes: a substrate; a first pixel including a first photoelectric conversion region that is provided in the substrate; a second pixel including a second photoelectric conversion region that is provided in the substrate so as to be adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion region; a first separation portion provided between the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region in the substrate; and a second separation portion that separates a pixel group including at least the first pixel and the second pixel from a pixel group adjacent thereto, in which there is at least one protruding portion of the first separation portion in at least one photoelectric conversion region of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region, and a p-type impurity region and an n-type impurity region are stacked on a side surface of the protruding portion. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki KUBOI, Koji NAGAHIRO
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Publication number: 20230121943Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: KOJI NAGAHIRO, YOSHIHIRO OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11588965Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Nagahiro, Yoshihiro Otsuka
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Publication number: 20220359584Abstract: A photodetector including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that is provided to a semiconductor substrate. The photoelectric conversion sections each include a first region of a first electrical conduction type that is provided on a first surface side of the semiconductor substrate, a second region of a second electrical conduction type that is provided on a second surface side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the first surface, a third region of a third electrical conduction type that is provided in a region between the first region and the second region of the semiconductor substrate, a first electrode that is electrically coupled to the first region from the first surface side, and a second electrode that is electrically coupled to the second region from the second surface side. The third region absorbs incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro HAMASAKI, Koji NAGAHIRO, Hiroyuki OHRI, Satoe MIYATA, Takahiro MIURA, Hisao YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20220278141Abstract: A photodetector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that is provided to a semiconductor substrate. The photoelectric conversion sections each include a first region of a first electrical conduction type that is provided on a first surface side of the semiconductor substrate, a second region of a second electrical conduction type that is provided on a second surface side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the first surface, a third region of a third electrical conduction type that is provided in a region between the first region and the second region of the semiconductor substrate, a first electrode that extends from the second surface in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate, a pixel separation layer having an insulation property, and a second electrode that is electrically coupled to the second region from the second surface side. The third region absorbs incident light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro HAMASAKI, Hiroyuki TAKASHINO, Koji NAGAHIRO, Hiroyuki OHRI, Satoe MIYATA, Takahiro MIURA, Hisao YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20210400184Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Koji Nagahiro, Yoshihiro Otsuka
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Publication number: 20210375963Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image sensor and an electronic device that can increase a charge storage capacity. The image sensor includes: a substrate; a first pixel including a first photoelectric conversion region; a second pixel including a second photoelectric conversion region, adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion region; a first separation portion between the first and second photoelectric conversion regions; and a second separation portion that separates a pixel group including at least the first pixel and the second pixel from an adjacent pixel group, in which there is at least one protruding portion of the first separation portion in at least one of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region, and a p-type impurity region and an n-type impurity region are stacked on a side surface of the protruding portion. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki KUBOI, Koji NAGAHIRO
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Patent number: 11140307Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Nagahiro, Yoshihiro Otsuka
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Patent number: 10976900Abstract: The display unit 12 displays an item-selection-screen, on which selectable items are two-dimensionally-arranged. The operation input unit 13 receives a user's operation. The controller unit 15 selects, every time an operation input unit receives an item-change-operation, items two-dimensionally-arranged on an item-selection-screen in order in a predetermined selection-direction, selects an item at an end in the selection-direction, and then selects adjacent-items in order in the selection-direction from an item at an end in a direction opposite to the selection-direction, the adjacent-items being adjacent at a predetermined side of the selection-direction. Since the items are two-dimensionally-arranged on the item-selection-screen, a user may easily understand the selectable items. Further, only by executing the item-change-operation again and again, it is possible to easily select a desired item. It is possible to execute setting or the like of the desired item efficiently and easily.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Nagahiro
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Publication number: 20200329190Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: KOJI NAGAHIRO, YOSHIHIRO OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20200264744Abstract: The display unit 12 displays an item-selection-screen, on which selectable items are two-dimensionally-arranged. The operation input unit 13 receives a user's operation. The controller unit 15 selects, every time an operation input unit receives an item-change-operation, items two-dimensionally-arranged on an item-selection-screen in order in a predetermined selection-direction, selects an item at an end in the selection-direction, and then selects adjacent-items in order in the selection-direction from an item at an end in a direction opposite to the selection-direction, the adjacent-items being adjacent at a predetermined side of the selection-direction. Since the items are two-dimensionally-arranged on the item-selection-screen, a user may easily understand the selectable items. Further, only by executing the item-change-operation again and again, it is possible to easily select a desired item. It is possible to execute setting or the like of the desired item efficiently and easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2016Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventor: KOJI NAGAHIRO
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Patent number: 10721385Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Nagahiro, Yoshihiro Otsuka
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Patent number: 10483306Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to one embodiment of the disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion region inside a semiconductor layer. The photoelectric conversion region includes a region in which a depletion region is to be formed by voltage application to the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has a first main surface and a second main surface. The depletion region converts light into a photoelectron, in which the light enters from side on which the first main surface is disposed. The photoelectric conversion element further includes an isoelectronic trap region in the region in which the depletion region is to be formed.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinya Yamakawa, Jun Komachi, Koji Nagahiro
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Patent number: 10448446Abstract: An information processing apparatus (e.g., smart phone), a first external device (e.g., first camera), and a second external device (e.g., second camera), may establish respective wireless communication connections in one of a first communication mode and a second communication mode. In the first communication mode, the information processing apparatus may act as a client device. In the second communication mode, the information processing apparatus may act as a master device. When there is an active communications connection between the information processing apparatus and the first external device in the first communication mode, the information processing apparatus switches from the first communication mode to the second communication mode based on a communications connection being initiated between the second external device and the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Nagahiro
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Publication number: 20190074312Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to one embodiment of the disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion region inside a semiconductor layer. The photoelectric conversion region includes a region in which a depletion region is to be formed by voltage application to the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has a first main surface and a second main surface. The depletion region converts light into a photoelectron, in which the light enters from side on which the first main surface is disposed. The photoelectric conversion element further includes an isoelectronic trap region in the region in which the depletion region is to be formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya YAMAKAWA, Jun KOMACHI, Koji NAGAHIRO
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Publication number: 20180359406Abstract: Reduction in power consumption of a video camera and a remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera and improvement of operability are achieved. In a system including the video camera and the remote controller that displays a captured image of the video camera, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a first prescribed time, transmission of the captured image from the video camera to the remote controller via Wi-Fi communication and displaying processing on a display unit of the remote controller are stopped. Further, when a period in which there is no operation on the operation unit of the remote controller reaches a second prescribed time, the Wi-Fi communication is interrupted. Valid operation unit information in each mode is displayed on the display unit of the remote controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: KOJI NAGAHIRO, YOSHIHIRO OTSUKA
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Display control device and display control method for displaying content on multiple display screens
Patent number: 10120636Abstract: A display control device includes a control device to control display of a first object on a first display screen and a second object on a second display screen. The second object on the second display screen corresponds to the first object on the first display screen, and is at a different level in a hierarchy from the first object on the first display screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Nagahiro -
Publication number: 20170273131Abstract: An information processing apparatus (e.g., smart phone), a first external device (e.g., first camera), and a second external device (e.g., second camera), may establish respective wireless communication connections in one of a first communication mode and a second communication mode. In the first communication mode, the information processing apparatus may act as a client device. In the second communication mode, the information processing apparatus may act as a master device. When there is an active communications connection between the information processing apparatus and the first external device in the first communication mode, the information processing apparatus switches from the first communication mode to the second communication mode based on a communications connection being initiated between the second external device and the information processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventor: Koji Nagahiro