Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Ohno

Naoyuki Ohno 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).

  • Patent number: 11122969
    Abstract: There is provided an endoscopic device, including: an image sensor section including an image sensor that senses and converts lights into an electrical signal; a substrate that is electrically connected to the image sensor section; and an intermediate unit, interposed between the image sensor section and the substrate, that electrically connects the image sensor section and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Ohno, Masahiro Kojima, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Patent number: 11070735
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control device for controlling an imaging device. The control device includes an operation unit configured to be operated by an external force; a detection unit configured to detect an operation state of the operation unit; a processor configured to execute a program to: perform a predetermined operation based on the operation state of the operation unit; and invalidate an execution of the predetermined operation performed by the processor based on the operation state of the operation unit when the imaging device is connected to an object satisfying a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Naoyuki Ohno, Kenichi Honjo
  • Patent number: 10993637
    Abstract: There is provided an operating apparatus for a medical apparatus, the operating apparatus including a ring-shaped magnet magnetically polarized in a circumferential direction or a radial direction and configured to rotate along with rotating operation by a user, and a sensor unit configured to detect a magnetic field and to output a signal depending on the detected magnetic field. The sensor unit outputs two-phase signals having different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ohno
  • Publication number: 20200137312
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control device for controlling an imaging device. The control device includes an operation unit configured to be operated by an external force; a detection unit configured to detect an operation state of the operation unit; a processor configured to execute a program to: perform a predetermined operation based on the operation state of the operation unit; and invalidate an execution of the predetermined operation performed by the processor based on the operation state of the operation unit when the imaging device is connected to an object satisfying a condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi KOYAMA, Naoyuki OHNO, Kenichi HONJO
  • Publication number: 20200100664
    Abstract: There is provided an endoscopic device, including: an image sensor section including an image sensor that senses and converts lights into an electrical signal; a substrate that is electrically connected to the image sensor section; and an intermediate unit, interposed between the image sensor section and the substrate, that electrically connects the image sensor section and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki OHNO, Masahiro KOJIMA, Shigeru TESHIGAHARA
  • Patent number: 10561306
    Abstract: There is provided an endoscopic device, including: an image sensor section including an image sensor that senses and converts lights into an electrical signal; a substrate that is electrically connected to the image sensor section; and an intermediate unit, interposed between the image sensor section and the substrate, that electrically connects the image sensor section and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Ohno, Masahiro Kojima, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Patent number: 10456017
    Abstract: There is provided a endoscopic camera head including a cover glass, provided on a connecting face that connects to a base of an endoscope, and disposed to cover an opening for taking into a housing observation light guided inside a lens barrel of the endoscope to the base, and an image sensor configured to receive the observation light passing through the cover glass and entering the housing, and capture an image of a target of observation. In the image sensor, an anti-reflective coating is provided on at least one face of a protective glass disposed facing opposite a light receiving face configured to receive the observation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 10203514
    Abstract: There is provided an electric lens including a first lens and a second lens adjacent to each other, and a variable-refractive-index body that is held between a lens face of the first lens and a lens face of the second lens mutually having the same curved surface, and changes refractive index according to an externally applied electrical signal. A thickness of the variable-refractive-index body is uniform in at least a portion that transmits a light ray contributing to image formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ohno
  • Publication number: 20170172388
    Abstract: There is provided an endoscopic device, including: an image sensor section including an image sensor that senses and converts lights into an electrical signal; a substrate that is electrically connected to the image sensor section; and an intermediate unit, interposed between the image sensor section and the substrate, that electrically connects the image sensor section and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicants: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Ohno, Masahiro Kojima, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Publication number: 20160363742
    Abstract: There is provided an electric lens including a first lens and a second lens adjacent to each other, and a variable-refractive-index body that is held between a lens face of the first lens and a lens face of the second lens mutually having the same curved surface, and changes refractive index according to an externally applied electrical signal. A thickness of the variable-refractive-index body is uniform in at least a portion that transmits a light ray contributing to image formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoyuki OHNO
  • Publication number: 20160323527
    Abstract: There is provided a endoscopic camera head including a cover glass, provided on a connecting face that connects to a base of an endoscope, and disposed to cover an opening for taking into a housing observation light guided inside a lens barrel of the endoscope to the base, and an image sensor configured to receive the observation light passing through the cover glass and entering the housing, and capture an image of a target of observation. In the image sensor, an anti-reflective coating is provided on at least one face of a protective glass disposed facing opposite a light receiving face configured to receive the observation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoyuki OHNO
  • Publication number: 20160128607
    Abstract: There is provided an operating apparatus for a medical apparatus, the operating apparatus including a ring-shaped magnet magnetically polarized in a circumferential direction or a radial direction and configured to rotate along with rotating operation by a user, and a sensor unit configured to detect a magnetic field and to output a signal depending on the detected magnetic field. The sensor unit outputs two-phase signals having different phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Naoyuki OHNO
  • Patent number: 8823862
    Abstract: There is provided a position detection device including a first detection sensor that operates in a predetermined direction, outputs a continuously increasing or decreasing signal, and detects an absolute position of a movable lens moved in an optical axis direction, and a second detection sensor that operates in the predetermined direction, outputs a periodically and continuously changing signal, and detects a relative position of the movable lens. The first detection sensor and the second detection sensor operate at different operation speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Katsumata, Naoyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 8120694
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes: a plurality of lenses disposed in an outer enclosure; and an imaging device that converts image light introduced as an image capturing signal through the plurality of lenses into an image signal. The outer enclosure has a unit assembling portion in which an imaging unit is disposed. The imaging unit includes a centering lens disposed in the bottom portion of the unit assembling portion, a pressing plate that presses the centering lens from the side opposite the bottom portion, a packing disposed on the opposite side of the pressing plate, and an imaging module having the imaging device and disposed on the opposite side of the packing to the pressing plate and pressing the packing against the pressing plate. A working hole through which an adjustment jig is inserted is formed in the peripheral side portion of the unit assembling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takatsuka, Naoyuki Ohno, Hironori Shimizu, Hiroshi Mashima
  • Patent number: 8079764
    Abstract: A light quantity adjusting device includes a plate, an upper diaphragm blade, a lower diaphragm blade, and a diaphragm blade driving unit. The upper diaphragm blade has a semicircular upper main opening and a semicircular upper sub opening. The lower diaphragm blade has a semicircular lower main opening and a semicircular lower sub opening formed. The diaphragm blade driving unit is formed so as to be capable of switching between a state in which a circular main diaphragm opening is formed by the upper main opening and the lower main opening with an optical axis being the center and a state in which a circular sub diaphragm opening that is smaller than the main diaphragm opening is formed by the upper sub opening and the lower sub opening with the optical axis being the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 7885016
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light quantity adjusting device including: first and second diaphragm blades shiftably provided to adjust a size of a diaphragm aperture; a neutral density filter blade provided shiftably in the same direction as the first and second diaphragm blades and having a neutral density filter adapted to cover the diaphragm aperture to reduce a quantity of light passing through the diaphragm aperture; and a drive mechanism adapted to shift the first and second blades and the neutral density filter blade; wherein the drive mechanism is configured to include an actuator, a first cam groove, a second cam groove, a third cam groove, an arm, a first cam-pin, and a second cam-pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Makii, Naoyuki Ohno
  • Publication number: 20100308128
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a novel detonation flame spray apparatus which makes it possible to attain stable detonation flame spraying while using a hydrogen fuel. In the detonation flame spray apparatus, stable pulsed detonation with short DDTL has been attained by oppositely injecting hydrogen and oxygen while separating a sub-combustion room and a main combustion room to which a spiral ridge is formed at an inner wall. In addition, by distributing supply ports of flammable gas to the sub-combustion room and a rear end of the main combustion room, high frequency operation can be realized while assuring necessary heat amounts for fusing flame spray material and a mechanism for supplying intermittently the flame spray material to together with the hydrogen fuel has realized enhancement of flame spraying efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: TAMA-TLO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koh-ichi Hayashi, Hiroyuki Satoh, Hirotaka Fukanuma, Naoyuki Ohno
  • Publication number: 20100220988
    Abstract: A light quantity adjusting device includes a plate, an upper diaphragm blade, a lower diaphragm blade, and a diaphragm blade driving unit. The upper diaphragm blade has a semicircular upper main opening and a semicircular upper sub opening. The lower diaphragm blade has a semicircular lower main opening and a semicircular lower sub opening formed. The diaphragm blade driving unit is formed so as to be capable of switching between a state in which a circular main diaphragm opening is formed by the upper main opening and the lower main opening with an optical axis being the center and a state in which a circular sub diaphragm opening that is smaller than the main diaphragm opening is formed by the upper sub opening and the lower sub opening with the optical axis being the center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 7738195
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes: a plurality of lenses disposed in an outer enclosure; an imaging device that converts image light introduced through the plurality of lenses into an image signal; a first movable unit including a first movable lens and a first lens holder that holds the first movable lens; a second movable unit including a second movable lens and a second lens holder that holds the second movable lens; a first lead screw rotated by a first drive motor; a second lead screw rotated by a second drive motor; a first nut member made of a metal material threadably engaging the first lead screw and connected to the first lens holder; and a second nut member made of a metal material threadably engaging the second lead screw and connected to the second lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mashima, Naoyuki Ohno, Hironori Shimizu, Kazuhiko Takatsuka, Hiroaki Tojo
  • Patent number: 7710668
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes: a plurality of lenses disposed in an outer enclosure; an imaging device that converts image light introduced through the plurality of lenses into an image signal; a movable unit including a movable lens and a lens holder that holds the movable lens; a lead screw rotated by a drive motor; a nut member made of a metal material threadably engaging the lead screw and connected to the lens holder, the nut member moved by the rotation of the lead screw in the optical axis direction moving the movable unit in the optical axis direction; a guide shaft that guides the movable unit in the optical axis direction, both axial ends of the guide shaft held by the outer enclosure; and an urging spring that presses part of the lens holder against the nut member when the movable unit moves in the optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Shimizu, Naoyuki Ohno, Hiroshi Mashima, Kazuhiko Takatsuka