Patents by Inventor Koji Yoda
Koji Yoda 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: 11606527Abstract: There is provided is a transmitter including an image processor that sets region information corresponding to a region set for an image for each row in the image and that transmits the set region information and region data corresponding to the region for each row, in which the image processor sets the region by analyzing the image or on a basis of externally acquired region-designating information, and the region information includes information indicating a position of a row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Takahashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naoki Yoshimochi, Yoshiaki Inada, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Koji Yoda, Takahiro Iinuma
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Patent number: 11451737Abstract: Provided is an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels, a memory unit, a memory control unit, and a bus interface. Each of the memory unit, the plurality of pixels, the memory control unit, and the bus interface is in any one of a plurality of semiconductor substrates. The plurality of pixels performs photoelectric conversion. The memory unit stores image data generated on the basis of a result of the photoelectric conversion. The memory control unit performs a read operation on the basis of first internal address information. The read operation is for reading, from the memory unit, image data corresponding to the first internal address information among pieces of the image data. The bus interface performs communication for first address information with an external device, supplies the memory control unit with the first internal address information, and transmits the read image data to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Yoda
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Patent number: 11290670Abstract: Output control is separately performed on pixels corresponding to a plurality of different regions (ROIs) in the entire region of an imaging element. An imaging element that captures an image of a subject includes first and second pixels. First and second analog-to-digital converters convert pixel signals from the first and second pixels from an analog value to a digital value. A first switch supplies a pixel signal from the first pixel to any one of the first and second analog-to-digital converters. A second switch supplies a pixel signal from the second pixel to any one of the first and second analog-to-digital converters.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20210377485Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels; a memory unit; a memory control unit; and a bus interface. The plurality of pixels is formed in any of a plurality of semiconductor substrates that is stacked. The plurality of pixels is each configured to perform photoelectric conversion. The memory unit is formed in any of the plurality of semiconductor substrates. The memory unit is configured to store image data generated on the basis of a result of the photoelectric conversion. The memory control unit is formed in any of the plurality of semiconductor substrates. The memory control unit is configured to perform a read operation on the basis of first internal address information. The read operation is for reading, from the memory unit, image data corresponding to the first internal address information among pieces of the image data. The bus interface is formed in any of the plurality of semiconductor substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventor: KOJI YODA
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Publication number: 20210281794Abstract: Output control is separately performed on pixels corresponding to a plurality of different regions (ROIs) in the entire region of an imaging element. An imaging element configured to capture an image of a subject includes first and second pixels. First and second analog-to-digital converters convert pixel signals from the first and second pixels from an analog value to a digital value. A first switch supplies a pixel signal from the first pixel to any one of the first and second analog-to-digital converters. A second switch supplies a pixel signal from the second pixel to any one of the first and second analog-to-digital converters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventor: KOJI YODA
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Patent number: 11074023Abstract: There is provided a transmission device including: an image processing unit that sets region information corresponding to a region set in an image for each of rows in the image and causes the set region information and region data corresponding to the region to be transmitted for each row. The region information includes information indicating a position of the row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Tomohiro Takahashi, Takahiro Iinuma, Koji Yoda, Miho Ozawa, Yoshiaki Inada
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Publication number: 20210218923Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device capable of further improving processing performance. A solid-state imaging device is provided including an array unit in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and an analog memory unit is arranged, in which the analog memory unit holds an electric charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit by first exposure, and the electric charge held in the analog memory unit by the first exposure is adaptively and non-destructively read. A technology according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20200333993Abstract: There is provided a transmission device including: an image processing unit that sets region information corresponding to a region set in an image for each of rows in the image and causes the set region information and region data corresponding to the region to be transmitted for each row. The region information includes information indicating a position of the row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Tomohiro Takahashi, Takahiro Iinuma, Koji Yoda, Miho Ozawa, Yoshiaki Inada
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Publication number: 20200275046Abstract: There is provided is a transmitter including an image processor that sets region information corresponding to a region set for an image for each row in the image and that transmits the set region information and region data corresponding to the region for each row, in which the image processor sets the region by analyzing the image or on a basis of externally acquired region-designating information, and the region information includes information indicating a position of a row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Tomohiro Takahashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naoki Yoshimochi, Yoshiaki Inada, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Koji Yoda, Takahiro Ilnuma
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Patent number: 8305448Abstract: An image processing device includes a face detector configured to detect a face based on a taken image, and an output processor configured to have a function to execute privacy-mask processing for privacy protection for an image of a face detected by the face detector or an image of a background of the face. The output processor includes a function to separately output an image of a face detected by the face detector and an image of a background of the face which are each subjected to or not subjected to the privacy-mask processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Patent number: 8289420Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing device capable of correcting distortion of au original image picked up bad a wide-angle lens using distortion correcting parameters formed in a form of a lattice. The image processing device includes a processing unit configured to sharably process distortion correcting parameters for at least one of an arbitrary pan angle and an arbitrary tilt angle on a basis of a fact that distortion of the wide-angle lens has symmetry from a central point of an optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Patent number: 8149280Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a face detector configured to detect a face from an image given on a basis of detection information; and a processing unit configured to set the detection information of the face detector, receive at least an input image before distortion correction of the image before the distortion correction and an image after the distortion correction, divide an entire image region of the input image, and supply each of the divided images to the face detector on a time-division basis, wherein the face detector detects faces from a face of a maximum size to a face of a minimum size in the entire image in a detectable range.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Patent number: 7929023Abstract: In a camera device having a function for converting an image formed by a lens and captured by an imaging element into image data and correcting distortion of the image data caused by distortion aberration of the lens, the camera device includes a first storage unit for storing first distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a first state, a second storage unit for storing second distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a second state, and a distortion-correction-parameter interpolator for generating distortion correction parameters through interpolation when transition of the image data from the first state to the second state is performed. The distortion correction parameters indicate states of the image data during the transition of the image data and correct the distortion of the image data caused by the distortion aberration of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20090207266Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a face detector configured to detect a face from an image given on a basis of detection information; and a processing unit configured to set the detection information of the face detector, receive at least an input image before distortion correction of the image before the distortion correction and an image after the distortion correction, divide an entire image region of the input image, and supply each of the divided images to the face detector on a time-division basis, wherein the face detector detects faces from a face of a maximum size to a face of a minimum size in the entire image in a detectable range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20090207269Abstract: An image processing device includes a face detector configured to detect a face based on a taken image, and an output processor configured to have a function to execute privacy-mask processing for privacy protection for an image of a face detected by the face detector or an image of a background of the face. The output processor includes a function to separately output an image of a face detected by the face detector and an image of a background of the face which are each subjected to or not subjected to the privacy-mask processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20080218606Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing device capable of correcting distortion of au original image picked up bad a wide-angle lens using distortion correcting parameters formed in a form of a lattice. The image processing device includes a processing unit configured to sharably process distortion correcting parameters for at least one of an arbitrary pan angle and an arbitrary tilt angle on a basis of a fact that distortion of the wide-angle lens has symmetry from a central point of an optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20070200937Abstract: In a camera device having a function for converting an image formed by a lens and captured by an imaging element into image data and correcting distortion of the image data caused by distortion aberration of the lens, the camera device includes a first storage unit for storing first distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a first state, a second storage unit for storing second distortion correction parameters for correcting the distortion of the image data in a second state, and a distortion-correction-parameter interpolator for generating distortion correction parameters through interpolation when transition of the image data from the first state to the second state is performed. The distortion correction parameters indicate states of the image data during the transition of the image data and correct the distortion of the image data caused by the distortion aberration of the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventor: Koji Yoda
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Publication number: 20050147754Abstract: In the preparation of a PZT (Pb/Zr/Ti) thin film by a liquid source CVD method, the use of zirconium tetrakis(isobutyrylpivaloylmethanate) as a zirconium precursor allows a constant composition ratio of films to be obtained within a wide range of substrate temperature and negates the need for thermal treatment after the film preparation. Accordingly, this preparation method provides a PZT thin film having a constant quality at a low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2005Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Koji Yoda, Yuzo Tasaki
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Patent number: 4849351Abstract: Vector plasmids are constructed to provide sites for insertion of a structural gene in phase with three reading frames downstream from the promoter of alkaline phosphatase gene of Escherichia coli.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1986Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: Gakuzo TamuraInventors: Gakuzo Tamura, Koji Yoda, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Makari Yamasaki