Patents by Inventor Seijiro Sakane

Seijiro Sakane 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: 20230199340
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device capable of suppressing an influence of reflecting condition of disturbance light and irradiation light from a light projecting section, and the like. An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging section in which pixels that photoelectrically convert entering light reflected from a measurement object are arranged, the imaging section detecting that amounts of change in luminance of the pixels have exceeded a predetermined threshold as events; and an event suppression section that removes an event having position information outside a range of an upper limit setting value and a lower limit setting value of an expected position from among the events detected by the imaging section as an unnecessary event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: SEIJIRO SAKANE
  • Publication number: 20220390383
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including: an imaging unit (130) that generates a one frame image by sequentially receiving each reflected light reflected by a subject by intermittently and sequentially irradiating the subject with each irradiation light having a different wavelength according to a position of the moving subject, temporarily and sequentially holding signal information based on the reflected light of each wavelength, and collectively reading the held signal information; and a combining unit (140) that generates a combined image by cutting a subject image corresponding to the reflected light of each wavelength from the one frame image and superimposing a plurality of the cut subject images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: SEIJIRO SAKANE
  • Patent number: 11146753
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of analog-digital conversion units that performs parallel processing on a signal of each pixel output in units of a plurality of pixel rows from a pixel array unit in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are arranged, and converts the signal into a digital signal; a plurality of reference voltage generation units that is provided corresponding to the plurality of analog-digital conversion units and generates a reference voltage used for AD conversion; a voltage setting unit that sets a plurality of pixel voltage levels and outputs the plurality of pixel voltage levels through each of the plurality of analog-digital conversion units; and a computing unit that calculates a correction amount for performing correction on a result of the AD conversion of the signal of each pixel of the pixel array unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimura, Seijiro Sakane
  • Publication number: 20210006740
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of analog-digital conversion units that performs parallel processing on a signal of each pixel output in units of a plurality of pixel rows from a pixel array unit in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are arranged, and converts the signal into a digital signal; a plurality of reference voltage generation units that is provided corresponding to the plurality of analog-digital conversion units and generates a reference voltage used for AD conversion; a voltage setting unit that sets a plurality of pixel voltage levels and outputs the plurality of pixel voltage levels through each of the plurality of analog-digital conversion units; and a computing unit that calculates a correction amount for performing correction on a result of the AD conversion of the signal of each pixel of the pixel array unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: MASAHIRO SHIMURA, SEIJIRO SAKANE
  • Patent number: 10623669
    Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes a control unit and a plurality of image processing units. The control unit is configured to perform a read-out control of an image capturing unit such that image signals are read out in parallel, the image signals generated under different image capturing conditions for every pixel line group of a plurality of pixel lines of the image capturing unit. The plurality of image processing units are configured to process the image signals read out from the image capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Patent number: 10091430
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit in which there are arrayed in a matrix form a plurality of pixels including a plurality of normal pixels which are pixels for video output, and a plurality of phase difference pixels which are pixels for focal-point detection; an A/D conversion unit configured to compare pixel signals output from the pixels of the pixel array unit with a ramp signal serving as a reference signal, thereby performing A/D conversion on the pixel signals; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the ramp signal to be compared with the phase difference pixels has a different slope from that of the ramp signal to be compared with at least a part of the normal pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Publication number: 20180234645
    Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes a control unit and a plurality of image processing units. The control unit is configured to perform a read-out control of an image capturing unit such that image signals are read out in parallel, the image signals generated under different image capturing conditions for every pixel line group of a plurality of pixel lines of the image capturing unit. The plurality of image processing units are configured to process the image signals read out from the image capturing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: SEIJIRO SAKANE
  • Patent number: 9060129
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a control unit that performs subject recognition. The control unit recognizes a first subject, decides a first subject recommendation position for the first subject in a screen from among a plurality of subject recommendation positions, displays a first specific display object at the decided first subject recommendation position, determines whether a distance between a position of the first subject and the first subject recommendation position is within a predetermined value, and decides a second subject recommendation position for a second subject in the screen from among the plurality of subject recommendation positions and displays a second specific display object at the second subject recommendation position when the distance is within the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Patent number: 8830369
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel array block configured to get image data by photoelectrically converting light; a register group configured to store information associated with processing of the image sensor; and a parallel interface configured to output the image data to outside in parallel output; wherein the parallel interface further outputs a register value group stored in the register group to outside when the image data is not being outputted to outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Publication number: 20140232913
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit in which there are arrayed in a matrix form a plurality of pixels including a plurality of normal pixels which are pixels for video output, and a plurality of phase difference pixels which are pixels for focal-point detection; an A/D conversion unit configured to compare pixel signals output from the pixels of the pixel array unit with a ramp signal serving as a reference signal, thereby performing A/D conversion on the pixel signals; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the ramp signal to be compared with the phase difference pixels has a different slope from that of the ramp signal to be compared with at least a part of the normal pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: SEIJIRO SAKANE
  • Publication number: 20130258159
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a control unit that performs subject recognition. The control unit recognizes a first subject, decides a first subject recommendation position for the first subject in a screen from among a plurality of subject recommendation positions, displays a first specific display object at the decided first subject recommendation position, determines whether a distance between a position of the first subject and the first subject recommendation position is within a predetermined value, and decides a second subject recommendation position for a second subject in the screen from among the plurality of subject recommendation positions and displays a second specific display object at the second subject recommendation position when the distance is within the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Publication number: 20120120295
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel array block configured to get image data by photoelectrically converting light; a register group configured to store information associated with processing of the image sensor; and a parallel interface configured to output the image data to outside in parallel output; wherein the parallel interface further outputs a register value group stored in the register group to outside when the image data is not being outputted to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijiro SAKANE
  • Patent number: 8106986
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel array block configured to get image data by photoelectrically converting light; a register group configured to store information associated with processing of the image sensor; and a parallel interface configured to output the image data to outside in parallel output; wherein the parallel interface further outputs a register value group stored in the register group to outside when the image data is not being outputted to outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seijiro Sakane
  • Publication number: 20090284633
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a pixel array block configured to get image data by photoelectrically converting light; a register group configured to store information associated with processing of the image sensor; and a parallel interface configured to output the image data to outside in parallel output; wherein the parallel interface further outputs a register value group stored in the register group to outside when the image data is not being outputted to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seijiro SAKANE