Patents by Inventor Masanori Iwasaki
Masanori Iwasaki 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: 20190369355Abstract: There is provided a camera module including a stacked lens structure including a plurality of lens substrates. The plurality of lens substrates includes a first lens substrate including a first lens that is disposed at an inner side of a through-hole formed in the first lens substrate, and a second lens substrate including a second lens that is disposed at an inner side of a through-hole formed in the second lens substrate, wherein the first lens substrate is directly bonded to the second lens substrate. The camera module further includes an electromagnetic drive unit configured to adjust a distance between the stacked lens structure and a light-receiving element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Munekatsu FUKUYAMA, Hiroyasu MATSUGAI, Hiroyuki ITOU, Suguru SAITO, Keiji OHSHIMA, Masanori IWASAKI, Toshihiko HAYASHI, Shuzo SATO, Nobutoshi FUJII, Hiroshi TAZAWA, Toshiaki SHIRAIWA, Yusuke MORIYA, Minoru ISHIDA
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Patent number: 10491841Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
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Patent number: 10431618Abstract: A deformation of a stacked lens is suppressed. A stacked lens structure has a configuration in which substrates with lenses having a lens disposed on an inner side of a through-hole formed in the substrate are bonded and stacked by direct bonding. The present technique can be applied to a camera module or the like in which a stacked lens structure in which at least three substrates with lenses including first to third substrates with lenses which are substrates with lenses in which a through-hole is formed in the substrate and a lens is formed on an inner side of the through-hole is integrated with a light receiving element, for example.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Masanori Iwasaki, Toshihiko Hayashi, Shuzo Sato, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Minoru Ishida
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Patent number: 10426382Abstract: The present technology relates to a detection device, a detection method, and a program capable of detecting a living body state of a human body easily and accurately. A contact lens type display device is provided with a tear detection unit 26 to collect tears on an eyeball and to analyze a constituent and detect affective information of a user. The detection result is sent from the contact lens type display device 11 to a mobile terminal SP and displayed on the mobile terminal SP. Consequently, the living body state can be detected on the basis of the constituent of the tears of the user, whereby the living body state of the user can be accurately detected. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens type display unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Yajima, Ken Hayakawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Tsukasa Yoshimura, Naoto Yamaguchi, Akira Tange
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Publication number: 20190273122Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first substrate including a plurality of light-emitting elements and a color filter provided corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting elements and a second substrate being a light-transmissive substrate and disposed facing the first substrate with an adhesive provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. An adhesive surface of the color filter of the first substrate is provided with protrusions and recesses in a stripe pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori IWASAKI, Suguru AKAGAWA, Narumi ISHIBASHI, Takeshi KOSHIHARA
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Patent number: 10379323Abstract: The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yusuke Moriya, Masanori Iwasaki, Takashi Oinoue, Yoshiya Hagimoto, Hiroyasu Matsugai, Hiroyuki Itou, Suguru Saito, Keiji Ohshima, Nobutoshi Fujii, Hiroshi Tazawa, Toshiaki Shiraiwa, Minoru Ishida
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Publication number: 20190191114Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
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Publication number: 20190187455Abstract: The present technology relates to a liquid lens and a liquid lens driving method, an imaging apparatus, and a display apparatus, capable of providing a liquid lens capable of achieving easier manufacture. The liquid lens includes a first electrode and a second electrode to which a predetermined voltage is applied. The second electrode is arranged outside the first electrode in the planar direction, and an insulating film having water repellency is formed on an upper surface of the second electrode. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a lens incorporated in an imaging apparatus or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporatonInventor: Masanori IWASAKI
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Patent number: 10317593Abstract: An imaging device, comprising: an infrared light absorption layer including a cyanine dye represented by Chemical Formula (A) below: wherein R1 and R2 are selected from the group consisting of: a chain alkyl group, a cyclic alkyl group, a phenyl group, and a benzyl group; wherein the chain alkyl group and the cyclic alkyl group including at least one group member selected from the group consisting of: 1) a first group having one or more hydrogen atoms in a first alkyl group substituted with at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of: a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an alkanoloxy group, an amino group, a thiol group, and a mercapto group; 2) a second group having at least one reactive group selected from the group consisting of: a vinyl group, an acrylic group, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkenyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a nitrile group, a carboxyl group, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, a benzoyloxy groupType: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nozomi Takiguchi, Shinji Imaizumi, Masanori Iwasaki
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Patent number: 10264198Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
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Publication number: 20190035364Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a display unit in which apertures are arranged in units of a plurality of adjacent pixels including a left-eye pixel and a right-eye pixel; a signal processing unit that generates image information items with respect to the left-eye pixel and the right-eye pixel, respectively, such that an image is presented with an aspect ratio different from an aspect ratio of a display surface of the display unit; and a display control unit that drives the left-eye pixel and the right-eye pixel on the basis of the image information items generated by the signal processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventor: MASANORI IWASAKI
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Patent number: 10194102Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: a polarization removing element layer including a plurality of polarization removing elements, each of the plurality of polarization removing elements being configured to polarize an incident light to thereby obtain light having a polarization axis in a predetermined direction and to transmit the polarized light; a polarizer layer provided in front of the polarization removing element layer, the polarizer layer being configured to twist polarization axes of light having a plurality of polarization axes by predetermined angles, respectively, and to transmit the light; an inclination detecting device configured to detect inclination of the incident light to an optical axis; a controller configured to control and drive the polarizer layer such that the polarizer layer twists the polarization axis of light depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detecting device and transmits the light; and an image pickup device configured to detect the light.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masanori Iwasaki
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Patent number: 10080091Abstract: A signal processing device is provided for acquisition of predetermined information. The signal processing device includes a light source unit configured to radiate beams of coherent light having a plurality of wavelengths; an imaging unit configured to capture a speckle image representing an interference state of reflected light caused by the light radiated from the light source unit to an object; and a processing unit configured to process, for each of the wavelengths, the speckle image captured by the imaging unit. The processing unit acquires the predetermined information by analyzing a variation amount of the speckle image acquired for each of the wavelengths. The light source unit radiates beams of light having different wavelengths to a plurality of respective objects. The present technology can be applied to a sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20180259749Abstract: The present technology relates to, for example, a lens attached substrate including a substrate which has a through-hole formed therein and a light shielding film formed on a side wall of the through-hole and a lens resin portion which is formed inside the through-hole of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a lens attached substrate, a layered lens structure, a camera module, a manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing method, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Yusuke MORIYA, Masanori IWASAKI, Takashi OINOUE, Yoshiya HAGIMOTO, Hiroyasu MATSUGAI, Hiroyuki ITOU, Suguru SAITO, Keiji OHSHIMA, Nobutoshi FUJII, Hiroshi TAZAWA, Toshiaki SHIRAIWA, Minoru ISHIDA
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Patent number: 9996151Abstract: A contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus has a shape such that it is wearable on an eyeball of a user. Furthermore, in the line-of-sight detection apparatus, a plurality of light-emitting sections that output light and a plurality of light-receiving elements that receive light reflected by an eyeball surface. The light-receiving elements receive light that has been output from the light-emitting sections and reflected by the eyeball surface and output light-receiving signals according to amounts of light received. The signal processing unit detects a line of sight of the user based on the light-receiving signals of the light-receiving elements. The present technology can be applied to a contact lens type line-of-sight detection apparatus or a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Yoichiro Sako
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Publication number: 20180108697Abstract: A deformation of a stacked lens is suppressed. A stacked lens structure has a configuration in which substrates with lenses having a lens disposed on an inner side of a through-hole formed in the substrate are bonded and stacked by direct bonding. The present technique can be applied to a camera module or the like in which a stacked lens structure in which at least three substrates with lenses including first to third substrates with lenses which are substrates with lenses in which a through-hole is formed in the substrate and a lens is formed on an inner side of the through-hole is integrated with a light receiving element, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyasu MATSUGAI, Hiroyuki ITOU, Suguru SAITO, Keiji OHSHIMA, Masanori IWASAKI, Toshihiko HAYASHI, Shuzo SATO, Nobutoshi FUJII, Hiroshi TAZAWA, Toshiaki SHIRAIWA, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20180103220Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
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Patent number: 9888193Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura
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Patent number: 9817485Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Ozawa, Masanori Iwasaki, Hideaki Mogi
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Publication number: 20170310911Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Masanori Iwasaki, Ken Ozawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Daisuke Hobara, Nozomi Kimura