Patents by Inventor Takaaki Sugiyama

Takaaki Sugiyama 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: 9697766
    Abstract: A comparator unit includes: a comparison section configured to compare a control pulse with an electric potential based on a signal voltage; and a control section configured to control, based on the control pulse, operation and non-operation of the comparison section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita
  • Publication number: 20170163253
    Abstract: A comparator circuit includes a differential circuit unit which detects a difference between two input signals, a current supply unit which supplies a current to the differential circuit unit, and a control unit which detects an operation timing of the differential circuit unit and controls the current supplied to the differential circuit unit by the current supply unit according to a detection result thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Ken Kitamura, Masaki Yoshioka, Ken Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9608614
    Abstract: A comparator circuit includes a differential circuit unit which detects a difference between two input signals, a current supply unit which supplies a current to the differential circuit unit, and a control unit which detects an operation timing of the differential circuit unit and controls the current supplied to the differential circuit unit by the current supply unit according to a detection result thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Ken Kitamura, Masaki Yoshioka, Ken Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160118971
    Abstract: A comparator circuit according to the present disclosure includes: a first switch section that selectively takes in a signal voltage; a second switch section that selectively takes in a control waveform; a differential amplifier including a non-inverted input end connected to each of output ends of the first switch section and the second switch section; a capacity section including one end connected to an inverted input end of the differential amplifier and the other end supplied with a reference voltage; and a third switch section that selectively short-circuits the inverted input end and an output end of the differential amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: TAKAAKI SUGIYAMA, MASAKI YOSHIOKA, KEN KIKUCHI, MASARU CHIBASHI, KEN KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150339979
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern, each of which including a light-emitting unit and a drive circuit that drives the unit and includes a comparator circuit that compares a control pulse with potential based on signal voltage and outputs predetermined voltage based on the result, a transistor driving the unit in response to the predetermined voltage, and a current source that supplies current to the unit during driving of the transistor, includes a current-source transistor, a capacity unit connected to a gate electrode of the current-source transistor, a differential amplifier that detects a differential between voltage based on reference constant current and reference voltage, and a transistor controlling the voltage based on reference constant current depending on current flowing through the current-source transistor, and controls gate potential of the current-source transistor on the basis of output of the amplifier in synchronization with a scanning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita
  • Patent number: 9159262
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern, each of which including a light-emitting unit and a drive circuit that drives the unit and includes a comparator circuit that compares a control pulse with potential based on signal voltage and outputs predetermined voltage based on the result, a transistor driving the unit in response to the predetermined voltage, and a current source that supplies current to the unit during driving of the transistor, includes a current-source transistor, a capacity unit connected to a gate electrode of the current-source transistor, a differential amplifier that detects a differential between voltage based on reference constant current and reference voltage, and a transistor controlling the voltage based on reference constant current depending on current flowing through the current-source transistor, and controls gate potential of the current-source transistor on the basis of output of the amplifier in synchronization with a scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita
  • Publication number: 20150187335
    Abstract: A comparator circuit includes a differential circuit unit which detects a difference between two input signals, a current supply unit which supplies a current to the differential circuit unit, and a control unit which detects an operation timing of the differential circuit unit and controls the current supplied to the differential circuit unit by the current supply unit according to a detection result thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Ken Kitamura, Masaki Yoshioka, Ken Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8860709
    Abstract: A level converting circuit includes a level converting part and a bias part. The level converting part includes at least first to fourth n-type field effect transistors and first and second p-type field effect transistors. The bias part includes a fifth n-type field effect transistor, a voltage drop part including at least one resistive element, and a current source having a power-supply-side terminal connected to a voltage source of a voltage higher than a first voltage. The bias part generates a bias voltage higher than the first voltage by the threshold voltage of the first and second n-type field effect transistors or a bias voltage that is higher than the first voltage and lower than the threshold voltage at the side of one end of the resistive element, and supplies the bias voltage to the gates of the first and second n-type field effect transistors in the level converting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Genichiro Oga
  • Publication number: 20140292745
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern, each of which including a light-emitting unit and a drive circuit that drives the unit and includes a comparator circuit that compares a control pulse with potential based on signal voltage and outputs predetermined voltage based on the result, a transistor driving the unit in response to the predetermined voltage, and a current source that supplies current to the unit during driving of the transistor, includes a current-source transistor, a capacity unit connected to a gate electrode of the current-source transistor, a differential amplifier that detects a differential between voltage based on reference constant current and reference voltage, and a transistor controlling the voltage based on reference constant current depending on current flowing through the current-source transistor, and controls gate potential of the current-source transistor on the basis of output of the amplifier in synchronization with a scanning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita
  • Publication number: 20140218414
    Abstract: A comparator unit includes: a comparison section configured to compare a control pulse with an electric potential based on a signal voltage; and a control section configured to control, based on the control pulse, operation and non-operation of the comparison section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita
  • Publication number: 20140218272
    Abstract: A display unit includes a pixel group having pixels. Each of the pixels includes a light emitting section and a drive circuit. The pixel group is divided into P pieces of pixel blocks. The display unit is configured to allow the light emitting sections from the light emitting sections configuring the respective pixels in a first pixel block of the P pieces of pixel blocks to the light emitting sections configuring the respective pixels in a P-th pixel block of the P pieces of pixel blocks to sequentially emit light together on a pixel block basis, and when the light emitting sections configuring the respective pixels in pixel blocks of the P pieces of pixel blocks emit light, configured to allow the light emitting sections configuring the respective pixels in remaining pixel blocks of the P pieces of pixel blocks not to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takehiro Misonou, Genichiro Oga, Takahiro Kita, Takaaki Sugiyama, Eiji Nagasaka, Kenji Watanabe, Takayuki Kubota
  • Publication number: 20120086696
    Abstract: A level converting circuit includes a level converting part and a bias part. The level converting part includes at least first to fourth n-type field effect transistors and first and second p-type field effect transistors. The bias part includes a fifth n-type field effect transistor, a voltage drop part including at least one resistive element, and a current source having a power-supply-side terminal connected to a voltage source of a voltage higher than a first voltage. The bias part generates a bias voltage higher than the first voltage by the threshold voltage of the first and second n-type field effect transistors or a bias voltage that is higher than the first voltage and lower than the threshold voltage at the side of one end of the resistive element, and supplies the bias voltage to the gates of the first and second n-type field effect transistors in the level converting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Genichiro Oga
  • Publication number: 20100328289
    Abstract: A signal-line driving circuit includes an output buffer section configured to amplify input data for driving signal lines in order to generate a positive-polarity signal voltage as well as a negative-polarity signal voltage and selectively supplying the positive-polarity signal voltage as well as the negative-polarity signal voltage to a signal-line pair composing of a first one of the signal lines and a second one of the signal lines, the output buffer section employs: a positive-polarity operational transconductance amplifier; a negative-polarity operational transconductance amplifier; a first output section; a second output section; and a group of switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Enrin, Toshio Suzuki, Nobuhiko Shigyo, Ken Kitamura, Takaaki Sugiyama, Yoshimasa Serizawa
  • Patent number: 7855720
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter includes: a higher resistor string; a lower resistor string; an operational amplifier; a higher selector; a lower selector; a first switch; a higher capacitor; a second switch; a third switch; and a control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Yoshioka, Genichiro Oga, Ken Kitamura, Takaaki Sugiyama, Motoyasu Yano
  • Patent number: 7747979
    Abstract: Even if there exists use restriction in each of devices on a network, cooperation instruction information is created to enable execution of a cooperative processing. A script creation server performs user authentication of a client terminal and acquires user information. Next, the script creation server makes a retrieval request to a service retrieval server for services which the user can use at present, and transmits user information, and then, acquires a service list. When judging that a service is selected as one of structural elements of a job flow, the script creation server causes the user information to reflect the cost and the like required to perform the selected service. Then, the script creation server judges whether the job flow is completed, and creates a script on the basis of information relating to the job flow and inputted function information when it is judged that the job flow is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20080024478
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter includes: a higher resistor string; a lower resistor string; an operational amplifier; a higher selector; a lower selector; a first switch; a higher capacitor; a second switch; a third switch; and a control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Yoshioka, Genichiro Oga, Ken Kitamura, Takaaki Sugiyama, Motoyasu Yano
  • Publication number: 20040199399
    Abstract: Even if there exists use restriction in each of devices on a network, cooperation instruction information is created to enable smooth execution of a cooperative processing. A script creation server performs user authentication of a client terminal and acquires user information. Next, the script creation server makes a retrieval request to a service retrieval server for services which the user can use at present, and transmits user information, and then, acquires a service list. When judging that a service is selected as one of structural elements of a job flow, the script creation server causes the user information to reflect the cost and the like required to perform the selected service. Then, the script creation server judges whether the job flow is completed, and creates a script on the basis of information relating to the job flow and I/F information when it is judged that the job flow is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Sugiyama