Patents by Inventor SYOHEI UCHIDA

SYOHEI UCHIDA 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: 20230393367
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens drive unit that moves a lens holder holding a lens in an optical axis direction, a locking mechanism that regulates movement of the lens holder at a movable end of the lens holder, and a control unit that performs, as a shift process for shifting the lens holder to a movement regulated state produced by the locking mechanism, control for moving the lens holder by using the lens drive unit to a position where movement regulation is achieved by the locking mechanism in a state where movement regulating force generated by the locking mechanism is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: SYOHEI UCHIDA, TAKUYA HASEGAWA, MASAYUKI MIYAZAWA, NOBUHIRO KONDO, MASAYUKI MIYAZAKI, TETSU TANAKA, DAIKI KONDO
  • Patent number: 11523065
    Abstract: To suppress a difference in brightness and darkness in a captured image caused by a difference in an exposure start time by a rolling shutter even if the exposure period is not changed. Provided is an imaging device including a gain setting unit configured to set a gain for each line in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed, the plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix in an image sensor, on the basis of diaphragm drive information regarding a diaphragm drive locus representing a time-series change in a diaphragm value. Thereby, the difference in brightness and darkness in a captured image caused by the difference in an exposure start time by a rolling shutter can be suppressed even if the exposure period is not changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoomi Ito, Nobuhiro Doi, Syohei Uchida, Yusuke Mimura
  • Publication number: 20210218873
    Abstract: To suppress a difference in brightness and darkness in a captured image caused by a difference in an exposure start time by a rolling shutter even if the exposure period is not changed. Provided is an imaging device including a gain setting unit configured to set a gain for each line in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed, the plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix in an image sensor, on the basis of diaphragm drive information regarding a diaphragm drive locus representing a time-series change in a diaphragm value. Thereby, the difference in brightness and darkness in a captured image caused by the difference in an exposure start time by a rolling shutter can be suppressed even if the exposure period is not changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: TOMOOMI ITO, NOBUHIRO DOI, SYOHEI UCHIDA, YUSUKE MIMURA