Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Sato

Naoyuki Sato 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: 20200089376
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, KUNIAKI TORII, NAOYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20200083262
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensing device and an electronic device for reducing noises. The solid-state image sensing device includes: a photoelectric conversion unit; a charge holding unit for holding charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit; a first transfer transistor for transferring charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit; and a light blocking part including a first light blocking part and a second light blocking part, in which the first light blocking part is arranged between a second surface opposite to a first surface as a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge holding unit, and covers the second surface, and is formed with a first opening, and the second light blocking part surrounds the side surface of the photoelectric conversion unit. The present technology is applicable to solid-state image sensing devices of backside irradiation type, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI TAYANAKA, KENTARO AKIYAMA, YORITO SAKANO, TAKASHI OINOUE, YOSHIYA HAGIMOTO, YUSUKE MATSUMURA, NAOYUKI SATO, YUKI MIYANAMI, YOICHI UEDA, RYOSUKE MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200051336
    Abstract: [Object] To propose an information processing device, information processing method, and program capable of appropriately deciding objects arranged in a virtual space generated on the basis of sensing of a real space. [Solution] An information processing device including: a decision unit that decides, on the basis of a predetermined reference, a shared object arranged in a virtual space that is generated for communication between a first user and a second user on the basis of a sensing result of a first real space including at least one first actual object in relation to the first user and a sensing result of a second real space including at least one second actual object in relation to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, NAOYUKI SATO, SEIJI SUZUKI, MASATO SHIMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200013815
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor base; a photoelectric conversion element provided in the semiconductor base; a photoelectric conversion film arranged on a light receiving surface side of the semiconductor base; a contact section to which a signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion film is read, the contact section being provided in the semiconductor base; a first film member covering the photoelectric conversion element; and a second film member provided on the contact section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki TOGASHI, Naoyuki SATO
  • Patent number: 10528213
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a user information management unit configured to set a user in a window in which an operation screen of an application is displayed and grant at least one of execution authority of the application set in the window according to the user and browsing authority of content in the window to the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Kuniaki Torii, Naoyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10529767
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid state image sensor, a fabrication method, and an electronic apparatus, which enable to efficiently provide trench structures, which surrounds respective pixel sections of the solid state image sensor, and through-electrodes side by side. A solid state image sensor according to a first aspect of the present disclosure includes photoelectric conversion sections formed in respective pixel sections of a semiconductor substrate, trench structures defined by walls of insulating films formed in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the respective pixel sections, and through-electrodes formed through the semiconductor substrate at positions overlapping the respective trench structures. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to back-side illumination CMOS image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Ryosuke Matsumoto, Junpei Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190392157
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that allow authority to be delegated without bothering the user. Provided are an acquisition unit that acquires information for receiving delegation of an authority that is predetermined, a change unit that changes a level of the authority when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and a processing unit that performs a process using the authority that is predetermined. The acquisition unit acquires first information, an inquiry is made to a server using the first information to acquire second information from the server, and the authority that is predetermined is delegated by acquiring the second information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an agent device to which the authority to access predetermined information is delegated from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki SATO, Kuniaki TORII, Fujio ARAI, Yusuke KUDO
  • Patent number: 10515988
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensing device and an electronic device capable of reducing noises. The solid-state image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge holding unit for holding charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a first transfer transistor for transferring charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit, and a light blocking part including a first light blocking part and a second light blocking part. The first light blocking part is arranged between a second surface opposite to a first surface as a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge holding unit, and covers the second surface, and is formed with a first opening, and the second light blocking part surrounds the side surface of the photoelectric conversion unit. The present technology is applicable to solid-state image sensing devices of backside irradiation type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tayanaka, Kentaro Akiyama, Yorito Sakano, Takashi Oinoue, Yoshiya Hagimoto, Yusuke Matsumura, Naoyuki Sato, Yuki Miyanami, Yoichi Ueda, Ryosuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20190387061
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program to enable transmission of information that is from a different device. An acquisition unit that acquires information from a different device, a detection unit that detects whether or not a user pays attention to the different device, and a transmission control unit that transmits the information to the user when it is detected by the detection unit that the user pays attention to the different device are included. The transmission control unit does not perform transmission of the information until the detection unit detects that the user pays attention to the different device. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an agent device that controls a device installed in a house or that presents appropriate information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, YUSUKE KUDO, FUJIO ARAI, KUNIAKI TORII
  • Publication number: 20190377695
    Abstract: An optimal network is constructed in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist. According to the present disclosure, provided is a terminal management device including a receiving unit that receives, from a terminal that collects information from a sensor, access timing information related to an accessible timing to the terminal and a transmitting unit that transmits the access timing information to a server that searches for the information. With this configuration, it is possible to construct an optimal network in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Naoyuki SATO, Katsuyoshi KANEMOTO, Erika SAITO, Hirotaka SUZUKI, Taichi YUKI
  • Publication number: 20190339922
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including an information acquisition section which acquires display information, and a first display section which displays the display information. A display of the display information is controlled for the first display section, in accordance with a relative positional relationship between the first display section and a second display section provided in an external apparatus, based on at least one of a control of a display destination of the display information between the first display section and the second display section, and a control of a layout of the display information displayed on the first display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: KOICHI KAWASAKI, NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI
  • Patent number: 10453882
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor base; a photoelectric conversion element provided in the semiconductor base; a photoelectric conversion film arranged on a light receiving surface side of the semiconductor base; a contact section to which a signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion film is read, the contact section being provided in the semiconductor base; a first film member covering the photoelectric conversion element; and a second film member provided on the contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Togashi, Naoyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190303594
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of appropriately restricting the use of content in a situation in which a certain user ends the use of the content. The information processing device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating an end of use of content of a free viewpoint by a first user, which is provided on the basis of sensing of a real space and shared by at least the first user and a second user; and a use restricting unit configured to set restrictions related to the use of the content of the free viewpoint on the basis of the information indicating the end of the use and first setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato SHIMAKAWA, Naoyuki SATO, Seiji SUZUKI, Hirotake ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190303675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, AKIHIKO IZUMI, KUNIAKI TORII, RYO FUKAZAWA, KATSUYA HYODO
  • Patent number: 10411143
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging element including: a sensor substrate in which a photoelectric conversion section is arranged and formed; a circuit substrate in which a circuit for driving the photoelectric conversion section is formed, the circuit substrate being laminated to the sensor substrate; a sensor side electrode drawn out to a surface of the sensor substrate on a side of the circuit substrate and formed as one of a projection electrode and a depression electrode; and a circuit side electrode drawn out to a surface of the circuit substrate on a side of the sensor substrate, formed as one of the depression electrode and the projection electrode, and joined to the sensor side electrode in a state of the circuit side electrode and the sensor side electrode being fitted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190273107
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of further decreasing reflectivity, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a photoelectric converting unit is formed for each of a plurality of pixels, and an antireflection structure provided on a light incident surface side from which light is incident on the semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of types of projections of different heights is formed. The antireflection structure is formed by performing processing of digging a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate in a plurality of stages with different processing conditions. The antireflection structure is the structure in which a second projection lower than a first projection is formed between the first projections of predetermined height. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20190268587
    Abstract: [Object] To propose an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of appropriately restricting viewing of content based on a result of sensing a real space. [Solution] An information processing device, including: a viewing restricting unit configured to restrict, on the basis of a predetermined condition, viewing of a part of content corresponding to a partial space of a real space among content of a free viewpoint generated based on a sensing result for the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: NAOYUKI SATO, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, SEIJI SUZUKI, MASATO SHIMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190258369
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that provide a mechanism with which the display location of the operation object is able to be operated with a sensation of displacing an actual object. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of an operation object for a device to be operated; and a reference control unit that controls a reference of a location at which the operation object is displayed such that the operation object is able to be visually recognized, on the basis of a predetermined operation performed to the operation object by an operation subject of the device to be operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji SUZUKI, Kentaro IDA, Yousuke KAWANA, Osamu SHIGETA, Maki IMOTO, Takuya IKEDA, Naoyuki SATO, Hirotake ICHIKAWA, Masato SHIMAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10359867
    Abstract: Information processing apparatus and method to provide a technology for enabling UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses to be controlled in consideration of a plurality of users. The disclosed information processing apparatus includes a disposition control unit configured to control UI disposition in a plurality of cooperation apparatuses performing a cooperation operation among a plurality of apparatuses on the basis of at least one of attributes of a plurality of users and a positional relation between the plurality of users and the plurality of apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Izumi, Naoyuki Sato, Kuniaki Torii, Katsuya Hyodo, Hikotatsu Chin
  • Patent number: 10360453
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method according to the present disclosure link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application. The information processing apparatus includes an appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire appearance information indicating a feature of appearance of an own device; and a sending unit configured to send the appearance information to communicate with another device that has imaged the appearance of the own device. According to such a configuration, it is possible to link devices by recognizing the appearance of a device, such as an unknown application or a dynamically changing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Sato, Akihiko Izumi, Kuniaki Torii, Ryo Fukazawa, Katsuya Hyodo