Patents by Inventor Shinichi Fujii

Shinichi Fujii 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: 11933752
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes: a gas-sensitive body layer disposed above a substrate and including a metal oxide layer; a first electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer; and a second electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer, being apart from the first electrode by a gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance change characteristic that reversibly transitions to a high-resistance state and a low-resistance state on basis of a voltage applied across the first electrode and the second electrode. At least a part of the gas-sensitive body layer is exposed to the gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance that decreases when gas containing a hydrogen atom is in contact with the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Satoru Fujii, Zhiqiang Wei, Kazunari Homma, Shinichi Yoneda, Yasuhisa Naito, Hisashi Shima, Hiroyuki Akinaga
  • Publication number: 20240022813
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging element that includes photodiode split pixels, the photodiode split pixels each including a first photodiode pixel and a second photodiode pixel, the first photodiode pixel and the second photodiode pixel outputting different pixel signals, respectively, a signal processing section that, in a case where output values of the pixel signals reach saturation values, performs a saturation handling process of correcting the output values according to the saturation values and predicted output values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: SHINICHI FUJII
  • Publication number: 20230422459
    Abstract: A management device used in a mounting system including multiple mounting-related devices in which a member is attached to one or more attachment sections, and a moving work device that moves between the multiple mounting-related devices to automatically attach and detach the member to and from the attachment sections, the management device including, when acquiring prohibition information including information on the attachment sections to and from which the member is not attachable and detachable by the moving work device from the mounting-related device, a management control section that creates an instruction list based on the prohibition information, in which an attachment and detachment instruction of the member for the attachment sections other than the attachment sections to and from which the member is not attachable and detachable is registered, and causes the moving work device to execute attachment and detachment processing of the member based on the instruction list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi FUJII, Yuhei INOUE, Satoshi SONODA, Yusuke KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230415998
    Abstract: A production system includes a loader configured to perform a first work with respect to a predetermined production device, and a control section configured to limit movement of the loader to a first range set in advance when performing a second work on the predetermined production device by a self-propelled work robot, and configured to limit the movement of the loader to a second range set wider than the first range in a case where the loader completes the first work which can be performed by the movement in the first range during performing the second work by the work robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi FUJII
  • Patent number: 11792534
    Abstract: A signal processing device, on the basis of an image capture signal acquired by an image capture device provided with an anamorphic lens, performs a detection process each in a vertical direction of the anamorphic lens and in a horizontal direction of the anamorphic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyatani, Norihiko Akamatsu, Noriaki Kozuka, Shinichi Fujii, Genta Yagyu
  • Publication number: 20230217126
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including photodiode divided pixels, and a control unit. The control unit performs control to execute first readout in which an addition value of a first pixel and a second pixel constituting a photodiode divided pixel is read out as a pixel value constituting an image and second readout of performing readout in which a value of the first pixel and a value of the second pixel used for phase difference detection can be obtained from a photodiode divided pixel that is not a readout target in the first readout. In this case, the first readout is performed after performing the second readout in one vertical period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230199342
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging element including a photodiode division pixel, and a control unit. The control unit performs control such that, as reading corresponding to one frame of an image in a case where rolling shutter reading from the imaging element is performed, first reading that reads an addition value of a first pixel and a second pixel constituting the photodiode division pixel for all pixels as image generation targets, and second reading that can obtain a value of the first pixel and a value of the second pixel for some pixels of pixels as image generation targets are performed in a time division manner, and an exposure period for the first reading and an exposure period for the second reading are separately provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: SHINICHI FUJII
  • Publication number: 20230185163
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method by which high-precision auto focus (AF) processing can be performed while a focus lens or a zoom lens is being operated. An interchangeable lens acquires position information regarding a focus lens and a zoom lens at a predetermined time interval during an exposure time period of detection information acquisition pixels for use in calculation of a defocus amount (DF), and outputs the position information to an imaging device. The imaging device calculates the defocus amount (DF) by using information regarding the detection information acquisition pixels, calculates a reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) by using points, on a cam curve, corresponding to the inputted lens position information, calculates a target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) in an in-focus position, from the reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) and the defocus amount (DF), and outputs the target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) to the interchangeable lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoomi Ito, Yoshinori Yamatsuta, Shinichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230051556
    Abstract: An article transport system includes a station group, a first communication device, and a determination section. In the station group, multiple stations capable of sending out and receiving an article, which is used in a board work machine performing a predetermined board work on a board, are arranged side by side. The first communication device includes a first communication section, which is provided in a transport vehicle capable of sending out and receiving the article between the transport vehicle and a predetermined station among the multiple stations, and a second communication section, which is provided in each of the multiple stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuho NOZAWA, Shinichi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20230040322
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present technology includes an imaging element including a light shielding pixel and a photodiode division pixel, and a defocus amount calculation unit that calculates a defocus amount using at least one of an output signal of the light shielding pixel and an output signal of the photodiode division pixel on the basis of an exposure amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Shinichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11493829
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method by which high-precision auto focus (AF) processing can be performed while a focus lens or a zoom lens is being operated. An interchangeable lens acquires position information regarding a focus lens and a zoom lens at a predetermined time interval during an exposure time period of detection information acquisition pixels for use in calculation of a defocus amount (DF), and outputs the position information to an imaging device. The imaging device calculates the defocus amount (DF) by using information regarding the detection information acquisition pixels, calculates a reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) by using points, on a cam curve, corresponding to the inputted lens position information, calculates a target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) in an in-focus position, from the reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) and the defocus amount (DF), and outputs the target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) to the interchangeable lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoomi Ito, Yoshinori Yamatsuta, Shinichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11417548
    Abstract: A component mounting machine includes a control device that controls a wafer supply device and a component transfer device. The control device includes a die information storage section storing the position of the dies stored in the wafer supply device associated with a rank of the dies, a block information acquisition section acquiring the condition of the dies to be mounted on a block provided on a board, a rank designation section designating the rank of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device, and a position designation section designating the position of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device. The position designation section designates the position of the die so that the die having the rank designated by the rank designation section is continuously picked up over the multiple wafers stored in the wafer supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinori Nakayama, Shinichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11394866
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a control unit that acquires distance measurement information on the basis of an addition value obtained by adding together outputs of a plurality of phase difference detection pixels supplied from an imaging element in which the plurality of phase difference detection pixels different in phase difference characteristic is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11239101
    Abstract: A wafer supply device configured to supply a wafer divided into multiple dies to a supply position, the wafer supply device includes a die information storage section configured to store the number of dies for each rank allocated to each of the dies, a block information acquisition section configured to acquire a condition of dies to be mounted on a block provided on a board to be conveyed, a required block number acquisition section configured to acquire a required number of dies to be mounted on the block, and a producible number calculation section configured to calculate a number of blocks that can be produced based on a content stored in the die information storage section and a content acquired by the block information acquisition section and the required block number acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinori Nakayama, Shinichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20210306581
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, a lens control method, and a vehicle capable of suppressing deterioration in quality of a captured image. A sub block includes a plurality of pixels of the same color, a block includes a plurality of sub blocks including different colors, and phase difference detection pixels are disposed at positions corresponding to each other in two or more sub blocks in a case in which the phase difference detection pixels are disposed in two or more sub blocks among the plurality of sub blocks configuring the block. For example, the present technology is able to be applied to a camera that calculates an amount of a deviation of a focus and performs focus control on a basis of a calculated defocus amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUMI KAGEYAMA, SHINICHI FUJII
  • Publication number: 20210203841
    Abstract: A signal processing device, on the basis of an image capture signal acquired by an image capture device provided with an anamorphic lens, performs a detection process each in a vertical direction of the anamorphic lens and in a horizontal direction of the anamorphic lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: YOSHITAKA MIYATANI, NORIHIKO AKAMATSU, NORIAKI KOZUKA, SHINICHI FUJII, GENTA YAGYU
  • Patent number: 10999543
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, a lens control method, and a vehicle capable of suppressing deterioration in quality of a captured image. A sub block includes a plurality of pixels of the same color, a block includes a plurality of sub blocks including different colors, and phase difference detection pixels are disposed at positions corresponding to each other in two or more sub blocks in a case in which the phase difference detection pixels are disposed in two or more sub blocks among the plurality of sub blocks configuring the block. For example, the present technology is able to be applied to a camera that calculates an amount of a deviation of a focus and performs focus control on a basis of a calculated defocus amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumi Kageyama, Shinichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200314347
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, a lens control method, and a vehicle capable of suppressing deterioration in quality of a captured image. A sub block includes a plurality of pixels of the same color, a block includes a plurality of sub blocks including different colors, and phase difference detection pixels are disposed at positions corresponding to each other in two or more sub blocks in a case in which the phase difference detection pixels are disposed in two or more sub blocks among the plurality of sub blocks configuring the block. For example, the present technology is able to be applied to a camera that calculates an amount of a deviation of a focus and performs focus control on a basis of a calculated defocus amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUMI KAGEYAMA, SHINICHI FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200244893
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a control unit that acquires distance measurement information on the basis of an addition value obtained by adding together outputs of a plurality of phase difference detection pixels supplied from an imaging element in which the plurality of phase difference detection pixels different in phase difference characteristic is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200234984
    Abstract: A component mounting machine includes a control device that controls a wafer supply device and a component transfer device. The control device includes a die information storage section storing the position of the dies stored in the wafer supply device associated with a rank of the dies, a block information acquisition section acquiring the condition of the dies to be mounted on a block provided on a board, a rank designation section designating the rank of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device, and a position designation section designating the position of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device. The position designation section designates the position of the die so that the die having the rank designated by the rank designation section is continuously picked up over the multiple wafers stored in the wafer supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinori NAKAYAMA, Shinichi FUJII