Patents by Inventor Michiko Sakamoto

Michiko Sakamoto 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: 20250160016
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first pixel including a first filter that transmits light of a first wavelength and a first photoelectric converter; a second pixel including a second filter that transmits light of a second wavelength and a second photoelectric converter; a third pixel including a third filter that transmits light of a third wavelength and a third photoelectric converter; a fourth pixel including a fourth filter that transmits light of the second wavelength and light of the third wavelength and a fourth photoelectric converter; a fifth pixel including a fifth filter that transmits light of the first wavelength and light of the third wavelength and a fifth photoelectric converter; and a sixth pixel including a sixth filter that transmits light of the first wavelength and light of the second wavelength and a sixth photoelectric converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki OGASAHARA, Michiko SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250107258
    Abstract: An imaging device including a pixel array unit with two-dimensionally arranged unit regions each including a plurality of imaging elements, in which each of the imaging elements includes a color filter with a rectangular shape in plan view that transmits light within a predetermined wavelength band, and a photoelectric conversion unit, and in the unit region, five or more types of the plurality of imaging elements distinguished by a wavelength of light transmitted through the corresponding color filter are arranged in m rows and n columns, and the first imaging element and a fourth imaging element including a fourth color filter having a refractive index lower than that of the first color filter at a wavelength of 510 nm to 550 nm are not arranged so as to be in contact with each other on two or more sides of the first imaging element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michiko SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250056908
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of light-receiving pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a first color filter that is disposed over a plurality of the light-receiving pixels arranged in the first direction and has a first color; a second color filter that is disposed over a plurality of the light-receiving pixels arranged in the first direction, and has a second color different from the first color, a first inter-waveguide light-shielding wall that is disposed between the first color filters adjacent in the first direction, and has a light-shielding property; and a second inter-waveguide light-shielding wall that is disposed between the first color filter and the second color filter adjacent in the first direction, has a light-shielding property, and has a length in the first direction that is longer than a length in same direction of the first inter-waveguide light-shielding wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: YUYA MAEDA, MICHIKO SAKAMOTO, KOJI MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20240387583
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photodetector and an electronic apparatus that can enhance their performance. Provided is a photodetector including multiple pixels each having a photoelectric conversion region, and an on-chip micro lens disposed for the pixels. In at least a part of a pixel section including n×n pixels, a first on-chip micro lens and a second on-chip micro lens different from the first on-chip micro lens are disposed. The present disclosure can be applied to CMOS solid-state image pickup devices, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya FURUMOTO, Shinji NAKAGAWA, Michiko SAKAMOTO, Jun KUROIWA, Tadashi IIJIMA, Tetsuya MINAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240339470
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of enhancing pixel sensitivity and preventing color mixture. A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of microlenses that condenses incident light; a plurality of color filters that transmits light of a specific wavelength included in the condensed incident light; a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts on which light having a specific wavelength transmitted through the color filter is incident; and a plurality of waveguide wall parts arranged between the color filters and surrounding the color filter. Then, each of the plurality of waveguide wall parts is formed in a position subjected to pupil correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michiko SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240332330
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image-capturing element and electronic equipment that make it possible to attain more uniform sensitivity characteristics. The solid-state image-capturing element is configured such that it is provided with an on-chip lens for each 2×2 array of pixels in a same-color pixel group including pixels that receive light of the same color and that are arranged in a 4×4 array. Further, a sensitivity adjustment structure is configured by providing, on the light-incidence-surface side of a semiconductor substrate of predetermined pixels in the same-color pixel group, intra-pixel grooves with various shapes that are formed by digging shallower than an element separating portion for separating a photoelectric converting section in units of the pixels. For example, the present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: SHUHEI KASUKAWA, SHO NISHIDA, MICHIKO SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12068347
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of enhancing pixel sensitivity and preventing color mixture. A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of microlenses that condenses incident light; a plurality of color filters that transmits light of a specific wavelength included in the condensed incident light; a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts on which light having a specific wavelength transmitted through the color filter is incident; and a plurality of waveguide wall parts arranged between the color filters and surrounding the color filter. Then, each of the plurality of waveguide wall parts is formed in a position subjected to pupil correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Michiko Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20240204014
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, the semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that each generate electric charge corresponding to a light receiving amount by photoelectric conversion for each of the pixels; an inter-pixel separation section between the pixels adjacent to each other, electrically and optically separating the adjacent pixels from each other, and having a first refractive index; and an in-pixel separation section between the photoelectric conversion sections adjacent to each other inside each of the pixels, electrically separating the adjacent photoelectric conversion sections, and having a second refractive index, a difference between the second refractive index and a refractive index of the semiconductor substrate being smaller than a difference between the first refractive index and the refractive index of the semiconductor
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiko SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi TANAKA, Shogo OTANI, Takashi KOJIMA, Tadashi IIJIMA, Shota KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240170519
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit on the semiconductor substrate, and a recess of two or more steps formed on a surface on a light incident side of the semiconductor substrate, and further provided is a solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit provided on the semiconductor substrate, and a light-shielding wall above the light incident side of the semiconductor substrate, in which the light-shielding wall includes a first portion having a first width extending in a direction substantially parallel to a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second portion having a second width extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the light incident surface, the second width being smaller than the first width, and the second portion is provided between the first portion and the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michiko SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220415944
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device capable of obtaining an image having high image quality is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit which is configured such that a plurality of unit pixels are disposed in a two-dimensional array, the plurality of unit pixels being configured to include a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a plurality of microlenses, the plurality of photoelectric conversion units being formed on a substrate and generating signal charges corresponding to the amount of incident light, and the plurality of microlenses being configured such that one microlens is formed for one photoelectric conversion unit group among a plurality of photoelectric conversion unit groups each of which is constituted by at least two or more adjacent photoelectric conversion units insulated from each other by an impurity layer, and guiding the incident light to each of a plurality of the photoelectric conversion unit groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: MICHIKO SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 6752275
    Abstract: An extraction bag with support includes a support member and a bag member which contains a material to be extracted or which is capable of containing a material to be extracted or which is capable of containing a material to be extraction, and is obtained by using a sheet composite on which the support member is arranged and joined along the center line of a water-permeable filtering sheet member, by folding the sheet composite into two and by passing it through a bag-making machine (and, as required, though a filling machine). The head portions of the extraction bag with support are torn apart, the right and left ends are pushed down or up toward the inside to push open the head portions. At the same time, the leg portions continuous with the head portions are folded down to place the extraction bag with support on an extraction container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Inventor: Michiko Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20030000889
    Abstract: A support-equipped extraction bag which comprises a bag main body containing or capable of containing an extraction-subject material and produced by using a sheet complex having a support disposed along the centerline of a water-permeable filtering sheet member and bonded thereto, and using a bag making machine (and a filling machine, if necessary) while folding it in two, and a support member, wherein extraction can be safely effected by tearing the head of the support-equipped extraction bag, bending the right and left ends inwardly downward or upward so as to spread the head, simultaneously downwardly bending the leg continuous with the head to place it on an extraction vessel, and pouring an extraction liquid (boiling water) over an extraction-subject material which is filled through the tear in the head or which has been filled in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventor: Michiko Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D602772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Pentax Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Michiko Sakamoto