Patents by Inventor Norihisa Shirota

Norihisa Shirota 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: 10663604
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Publication number: 20170219722
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Patent number: 9651683
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Publication number: 20160033655
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Patent number: 9164182
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the. receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Publication number: 20140326892
    Abstract: An image pickup panel (1) includes: photodetection sections (10) each including a photodetector (11-1) and a receiver (11-2) which are integrally molded and having solder bumps (12) formed thereon, the photodetector converting received light into a current signal, the. receiver converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a wiring layer (20) including a wiring pattern installed therein and allowing the photodetection sections to be mounted thereon for respective pixels by the solder bumps, the wiring pattern being connected to the photodetection sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiizu Ootorii, Norihisa Shirota, Haruo Togashi
  • Patent number: 7076725
    Abstract: A wireless relay system (1) comprises a wireless camera (11) and a reception relay station (12). The reception relay station (12) comprises a plurality of external reception units (13) arranged at spatially different positions and an internal reception unit (14). Each reception section (16) in the internal reception unit (14) demodulates a signal received in the external reception unit (13) and outputs a transport stream. At this time, each reception section (16) sets an error indicator flag to 1 for a TS packet causing a transmission error which exceeds the error correction capability. A TS synthesizer section (17) in the internal reception unit (14) completely synchronizes a plurality of input transport streams by referencing synchronization bytes, PID, and CC values, and selects to output a TS packet having the error indicator flag not set to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Ikeda, Norihisa Shirota, Hideyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5859776
    Abstract: In automated design, a useful insertion of a delay buffer or an increase in the delay time of the critical path could not been prevented. When inserting a logic element between two certain points on the circuit, substitution of other paths passing through the relevant insertion position is considered and the insertion position of the logic element is determined finally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Norihisa Shirota, Yasuhiro Iida, Mitsuru Sasano
  • Patent number: 5524264
    Abstract: A parallel arithmetic-logical processing device in which arithmetic-logical processing is shared among and executed in a parallel fashion by a plurality of processing elements. The device includes a large-capacity serial access memory for continuous reading/writing of large-scale data, a small-capacity serial access memory for continuous reading/writing of small-scale data and a high-speed general-purpose random access memory for random writing/readout of small-scale data. A central processing unit (CPU) causes the memories to be used or not used depending on the scale of the arithmetic-logical processing. Since the serial access memory executes continuous data writing and reading, high-speed access may be achieved, so that it can be manufactured inexpensively with a large storage capacity. Consequently, the processing speed in the CPU may be increased, while the parallel arithmetic-logical processing device may be manufactured inexpensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Shirota, Yasunobu Kato, Noboru Oya
  • Patent number: 5416615
    Abstract: A digital data transmitting apparatus comprises: an original block forming circuit for extracting image data in horizontal direction and/or vertical direction at intervals of a predetermined number of samples and forming an original block consisting of (n.times.n) pixel data; a differential block forming circuit for forming a differential block consisting of (m.times.m) pixel data with differential data between adjacent pixel data in horizontal and/or vertical direction and the pixel data concerned; a coding circuit for transform coding the original block and the differential block, respectively; a flag generation circuit for transmitting meaningful data of coefficient data generated by transform coding the differential block and generating a flag representing omission of the transmission of coefficient data where there is no meaningful data; and a transmission circuit for transmitting the flag and the pixel data of each of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 5341385
    Abstract: A decoding method of Reed-Solomon code produces an error position polynomial .sigma.(x) and an error evaluation polynomial .omega.(x) by a Euclidean algorithm, whereby a syndrome polynomial S(x) is obtained, the highest degrees of the syndrome polynomial S(x) and of an initial polynomial x.sup.2t, which is determined by the number t of symbols to be corrected, are multiplied, while the degree is incrementally reduced, thereby obtaining polynomials h(x) and g(x) that satisfy the relation:f(x).multidot.B(x)+g(x).multidot.S(x)=h(x)(where the degree of h(x) is less than the degree of g(x).ltoreq.t). The polynomial g(x) is set to the error position polynomial .sigma.(x), and the polynomial h(x) is set to the error evaluation polynomial .omega.(x), thereby performing the decoding by real time processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 5162795
    Abstract: An apparatus for encoding variable bit length data words into constant bit length data words concatenates the variable length data words supplied at a first data rate so as to output constant length data words at a second data rate. An apparatus for decoding constant bit length data words into variable bit length data words shifts and concatenates the constant bit length data words, determines when a variable length data word is present in the concatenated data, supplies information about the number of bits in the variable length data words which is used when shifting the next constant bit length data word, and outputs variable bit length data words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 5023710
    Abstract: A highly efficient coding apparatus is configured to divide a digital picture signal into picture blocks and, based on a signal from a coding circuit for performing variable-length coding of each picture block, generate an output signal in the form of serial sync blocks. By inserting the most significant bit of a coded output signal for each picture element in a predetermined position of each sync block, a reproduced picture is obtained in a picture search mode in which a magnetic head scans a video tape across a plurality of tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Michio Nagai, Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 5006931
    Abstract: A highly efficient coding apparatus for encoding digital video data in a block format and compressing the video data if required into a number of bits so that the total number of bits in the digital video data to be transmitted is less than that of a predetermined transmission capacity. Coefficient data having a DC component and a plurality of AC components for each block are generated by an orthogonal transformation. A distribution table of the AC coefficient data is generated during a predetermined period, and an accumulating distribution table is generated from the distribution table. The total bit number of the AC coefficient data generated during the predetermined period is controlled in response to the accumulating distribution table and the predetermined transmission capacity of the data transmission channel. The DC coefficient data, the controlled AC coefficient data and an additional code are transmitting for each of the predetermined periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 4769781
    Abstract: An IC device has a first terminal for inputting date in the format for a four-line or two-line type bus line, and for outputting data, a second terminal for receiving a chip select signal, a third terminal for receiving a clock pulse, a fourth terminal for outputting data a first signal processor for receiving data from the first terminal in the format for a two-line type bus line and including an address signal and for outputting the data such first signal processor including a detector for detecting the address signal, a second signal processor for receiving the data supplied from the first terminal in the format of a four-line type bus line and outputting the data to the fourth terminal, the first and second signal processors being selectively enabled in accordance with the chip select signal, and a control unit for receiving the signal from the first or second signal processor and outputting the data to the first terminal or the first or second signal processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Shirota, Shinji Takada, Kazuo Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 4697248
    Abstract: In an arithmetic circuit, a first input of m bits representing the vector expression of a first set of elements of a finite field GF(2m) is converted into the components of a matrix, and each component of the matrix is multiplied by second input of m bits representing the vector expression of a second set of elements of the finite field. A vector product of the first and second inputs is thereby obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 4677499
    Abstract: There is provided a digital time base corrector in which a digital input signal of one block consisting of a continuous data time sequence is converted to a digital signal including data lack intervals or vice versa by a variable delay circuit. A signal selecting circuit is divided into N first unit selecting circuits and a second unit selecting circuit. M of the output signals of a shift register are inputted to the first unit selecting circuits, by which one of them is selected. The outputs of the N first unit selecting circuits are supplied to the second unit selecting circuit, by which one of them is selected. A pipeline process is performed by inserting a delay circuit to delay the signal for the time of one clock period into the input/output line of the second unit selecting circuit. Further, the selecting signal can be made variable for every one clock and a delay circuit is inserted on the output side of a selecting signal forming circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Shirota, Takao Yamazaki, Seiichiro Iwase
  • Patent number: 4517552
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for encoding successive n-bit information words into successive m-bit code words wherein m>n. Each n-bit information word is assigned with a respective set of m-bit code words. Each set of code words is comprised of either two or four words. The words in each two-word set have zero disparity, and their first bits are of opposite logical sets. In the four-word sets, two words have positive disparity and their first bits are of opposite logical sense, and the other two words have negative disparity and their first bits also are of opposite logical sense. The particular m-bit code word that is selected from the set associated with the n-bit word commences with the same bit as the last bit of the immeditely preceding code word, and the selected code word exhibits a disparity that, when combined with the digital sum variation of the preceding encoded code words, reduces the overall digital sum variation toward zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Shirota, Takao Abe
  • Patent number: 4468710
    Abstract: A digital video and audio data recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of rotary magnetic heads provided in association with a tape guide drum assembly having a periphery about which a magnetic tape is helically transported at a predetermined wrap angle, a time compressing circuit for time compressing digitized audio and video data, a multiplexing circuit for mixing the digitized audio and video data to form a mixed signal, a processing circuit for processing the mixed signal, and a signal distributing circuit for supplying the processed mixed signal to each of the rotary magnetic heads so that the latter record the processed mixed signal on the magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Kaichi Yamamoto, Norihisa Shirota
  • Patent number: 4463387
    Abstract: A digitized video data recording and/or reproducing system comprises a plurality of rotary magnetic heads are disposed on a rotary tape guide drum on the periphery of which a magnetic tape is helically transported at a predetermined wrap angle. A signal processing circuit divides a digitized video signal such that each horizontal scan interval thereof contains a plurality of data blocks, and a signal distributing circuit distributes the blocks of the digitized video data sequentially to the magnetic heads, so that every nth block of each horizontal scan interval is distributed to a respective one of the heads, where n is an even integer. Preferably, there are eight blocks in each horizontal scan interval, and every fourth block is distributed to a respective head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Kaichi Yamamoto, Norihisa Shirota