Patents by Inventor Naotaka Kubota
Naotaka Kubota 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: 11495774Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate including a light-emitting element, a mounting terminal, and a protective film that is provided on the light-emitting element and that has an opening portion overlapping with the mounting terminal in plan view. The substrate has recessed portion that communicates with the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Hama, Naotaka Kubota
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Patent number: 11260794Abstract: A peripheral monitoring device according to one embodiment includes an acquirer configured to acquire a first rear image of a vehicle at first timing, the vehicle including a first coupler device which couples a towed vehicle; and an image processing unit configured to superimpose first identification information on the first rear image at second timing being after the first timing, the first identification information representing a position of the first coupler device at the second timing, and to display, on a display screen, the first rear image on which the first identification information has been superimposed, the display screen configured to be installed in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Maruoka, Itsuko Fukushima, Kazuya Watanabe, Kinji Yamamoto, Takashi Hiramaki, Naotaka Kubota
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Publication number: 20210225959Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate including a light-emitting element, a mounting terminal, and a protective film that is provided on the light-emitting element and that has an opening portion overlapping with the mounting terminal in plan view. The substrate has recessed portion that communicates with the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka HAMA, Naotaka KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20210028246Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a semi-transmissive reflection layer, a first reflection layer that is disposed in a first sub-pixel, a first pixel electrode that is disposed in the first sub-pixel, a second reflection layer that is disposed in a second sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel that emits same color light as the first sub-pixel, a second pixel electrode that is disposed in the second sub-pixel, and a light-emitting functional layer that is disposed between the first reflection layer and the semi-transmissive reflection layer, the light-emitting functional layer that is disposed between the second reflection layer and the semi-transmissive reflection layer. The first pixel electrode is disposed between the first reflection layer and the light-emitting functional layer. The second pixel electrode is disposed between the second reflection layer and the light-emitting functional layer. A thickness of the second pixel electrode is thicker than a thickness of the first pixel electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naotaka KUBOTA, Jun IROBE
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Patent number: 10857944Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a roughness state of a road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a guide marker to be superimposed onto an image based on captured image data output from an imager that captures an image of a peripheral region including the traveling direction of the vehicle, the guide marker being displayed in a manner that follows a roughness state of the road surface in the traveling direction of the vehicle; and a controller configured to superimpose the guide marker onto the image in the display manner that follows the roughness state and display the image on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Nakasho, Kazuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Maruoka, Kinji Yamamoto, Takashi Hiramaki, Takuya Hashikawa, Naotaka Kubota, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi, Yasumasa Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10793070Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus having an acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional model image. The three-dimensional model image indicates an irregular state of a road surface. The three-dimensional model image includes image data outputted from an imaging unit that takes a peripheral image including the road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle and includes height data that indicates heights of individual regions of the road surface represented in the peripheral image. The periphery monitoring apparatus also includes a control that superimposes an indicator of a height of the road surface based on the height data onto each region included in the acquired three-dimensional model image and displays the three-dimensional model image on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Yoji Inui, Kinji Yamamoto, Takashi Hiramaki, Takuya Hashikawa, Tetsuya Maruoka, Naotaka Kubota, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi
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Patent number: 10632915Abstract: A surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image acquisition portion acquiring captured image data, an image conversion portion converting the captured image data to virtual image data with a plurality of virtual viewpoints, and a data control portion sequentially displaying the virtual image data at a display unit in a state where each of the virtual viewpoints moves from a first virtual viewpoint position at which an opposite side of the vehicle is viewed, through a second virtual viewpoint position at which the vehicle is viewed from an overhead region of the vehicle, and to a third virtual viewpoint position at which the one side of the vehicle is viewed. The data control portion rotates the virtual image data with reference to a line of sight of the virtual viewpoint while the virtual image data is displayed so that the virtual viewpoint passes through the second virtual viewpoint position.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kinji Yamamoto, Naotaka Kubota, Kazuya Watanabe, Takayuki Nakasho
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Publication number: 20200035207Abstract: A display control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire predetermined data and imaged image data from an imaging unit that images a periphery of a vehicle; a storage unit configured to store therein vehicle shape data expressing a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle; and a display processor configured to switch transparency of the vehicle shape data based on the predetermined data when the vehicle shape data is superimposed and displayed on display data expressing the periphery of the vehicle based on the imaged image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya MARUOKA, Itsuko OHASHI, Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20200031281Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a three-dimensional model image indicating an irregular state of a road surface, the three-dimensional model image including taken image data output from an imaging unit that takes a peripheral image including the road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle and including height data that indicates heights of individual regions of the road surface represented in the peripheral image; and a control unit configured to superimpose an indicator indicating a height of the road surface based on the height data onto each region included in the acquired three-dimensional model image and display the three-dimensional model image on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
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Publication number: 20200031283Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a roughness state of a road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a guide marker to be superimposed onto an image based on captured image data output from an imager that captures an image of a peripheral region including the traveling direction of the vehicle, the guide marker being displayed in a manner that follows a roughness state of the road surface in the traveling direction of the vehicle; and a controller configured to superimpose the guide marker onto the image in the display manner that follows the roughness state and display the image on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki NAKASHO, Kazuya WATANBE, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI, Yasumasa YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10520549Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a system bus, a plurality of Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores each connected to the system bus, including a scan chain, and being assigned one or more tasks and configured to perform one of the tasks in a normal operation state, and a diagnostic test circuit connected to the system bus and capable of communicating with the plurality of the CPU cores, and configured to perform a scan test for the plurality of the CPU cores by using the scan chain. The plurality of the CPU cores outputs a test start instruction signal to the diagnostic test circuit, when the test start instruction signal is output from one of the plurality of the CPU cores, the diagnostic test circuit performs a scan test for the one of the plurality of the CPU cores in accordance with the test start instruction signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yukitoshi Tsuboi, Hideo Nagano, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Yusuke Matsunaga, Yutaka Igaku, Naotaka Kubota
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Publication number: 20190366929Abstract: A peripheral monitoring device according to one embodiment includes an acquirer configured to acquire a first rear image of a vehicle at first timing, the vehicle including a first coupler device which couples a towed vehicle; and an image processing unit configured to superimpose first identification information on the first rear image at second timing being after the first timing, the first identification information representing a position of the first coupler device at the second timing, and to display, on a display screen, the first rear image on which the first identification information has been superimposed, the display screen configured to be installed in the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya MARUOKA, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA, Kazuya WATANABE, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Naotaka KUBOTA
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Patent number: 10495458Abstract: An image processing system for a vehicle includes: a viewpoint image generating unit that generates a viewpoint image viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint when assumed that a surrounding image corresponding to surrounding image data is projected on a virtual projection plane whose arrangement position has been set in advance, based on inclination information corresponding to an inclination of the vehicle and the surrounding image data obtained by capturing an image of a periphery of the vehicle; and an output image generating unit that generates and outputs output image data in order to cause a display device to display an output image in which an own vehicle model image having an inclination according to an inclination of the vehicle corresponding to the inclination information is superimposed on the viewpoint image.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naotaka Kubota, Tetsuya Maruoka, Yoji Inui, Takashi Hiramaki, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi
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Patent number: 10474898Abstract: An image processing apparatus for a vehicle includes a viewpoint image generation portion generating a viewpoint image in which a three-dimensional virtual projection surface surrounding a periphery of a vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, and a captured image of vehicle surroundings is projected onto the virtual projection surface, and the apparatus includes a marking image generation portion generating a marking image indicating a specific position on the virtual projection surface, and an output image generation portion generating an output image including the viewpoint image and the marking image.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Naotaka Kubota
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Patent number: 10464551Abstract: A traveling support device includes: a comparing unit that compares a detection result based on an output value output from a sensor for detecting a state of a vehicle with a reference value stored in advance; and a controller that, when comparison by the comparing unit determines that the detection result is equal to or more than the reference value, switches a first control mode to a second control mode different from the first control mode with respect to at least one of a display control capable of switching display of information on the vehicle, a vehicle height control capable of switching a vehicle height with a vehicle height adjustment device of the vehicle, and a vehicle speed control capable of switching a speed limit value with a vehicle control device of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Yoji Inui, Naotaka Kubota
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Patent number: 10403687Abstract: There is provided an electro-optical device including a light-emitting element, a sealing layer that covers the light-emitting element, a color filter layer that is formed on the sealing layer, and a convex portion that is provided between the sealing layer and the color filter layer and has a first surface in contact with the sealing layer and a second surface in contact with the color filter layer, in which the second surface is a curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Akagawa, Ryoichi Nozawa, Naotaka Kubota, Takefumi Fukagawa
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Publication number: 20190244324Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment includes an acquirer configured to acquire image data from an imager to image surroundings of a vehicle, storage that stores therein vehicle-shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle, and a display processor configured to display a certain region of the vehicle-shape data at transmittance different from transmittance of another region, when superimposing, for display, the vehicle-shape data on display data which is based on the image data and represents the surroundings of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 10363872Abstract: A periphery monitoring device according the embodiment comprising: a first storage that stores therein road surface information in a moving direction of a vehicle including a plurality of wheels; a controller that generates underfloor information on an underfloor region of the vehicle from the road surface information, the underfloor region including at least part of a region of all the wheels; a second storage that is nonvolatile and stores therein the underfloor information when the vehicle ends driving; and a display that displays the underfloor information when the vehicle starts driving.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naotaka Kubota, Kazuya Watanabe, Kinji Yamamoto, Takayuki Nakasho
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Patent number: 10347698Abstract: An organic EL device as an electrooptical device includes an organic EL element, a sealing member, a color filter, a dimension evaluation pattern, and a pedestal member. The organic EL element is disposed for each subpixel, in a display area of a base as a substrate. The sealing member includes a sealing layer that covers the organic EL element. The color filter is provided on the sealing layer. The dimension evaluation pattern is provided as an evaluation pattern for evaluating the color filter. The pedestal member is disposed between an end portion of the base and the sealing member. The dimension evaluation pattern is disposed on the pedestal member.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naotaka Kubota, Takeshi Koshihara
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Publication number: 20190026557Abstract: An image processing apparatus for a vehicle includes a viewpoint image generation portion generating a viewpoint image in which a three-dimensional virtual projection surface surrounding a periphery of a vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, and a captured image of vehicle surroundings is projected onto the virtual projection surface, and the apparatus includes a marking image generation portion generating a marking image indicating a specific position on the virtual projection surface, and an output image generation portion generating an output image including the viewpoint image and the marking image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Naotaka KUBOTA