Patents by Inventor Shunsaku Okada

Shunsaku Okada 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).

  • Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and image capturing circuit
    Patent number: 9357100
    Abstract: Provided is an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a target object by optically scanning the target object by moving in a predetermined scanning direction. The apparatus includes a light-receiving device that is disposed on a light-receiving surface of the image capturing apparatus and accumulates an electric charge according to an amount of light received from a light detection window, a length of which in the scanning direction is shorter than a length in the scanning direction of an area defined as one pixel of the target object; and an output device that outputs the electric charge accumulated by the light-receiving device when the light-receiving device has completed the optical scanning of the area defined as one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Space Technologies, Ltd., Teledyne Dalsa Inc., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsaku Okada, Kazuhide Noguchi, Takashi Sakashita
  • IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20120127542
    Abstract: Provided is an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a target object by optically scanning the target object by moving in a predetermined scanning direction. The apparatus includes a light-receiving device that is disposed on a light-receiving surface of the image capturing apparatus and accumulates an electric charge according to an amount of light received from a light detection window, a length of which in the scanning direction is shorter than a length in the scanning direction of an area defined as one pixel of the target object; and an output device that outputs the electric charge accumulated by the light-receiving device when the light-receiving device has completed the optical scanning of the area defined as one pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: NEC TOSHIBA SPACE SYSTEMS, LTD., NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsaku Okada, Kazuhide Noguchi, Takashi Sakashita