Patents by Inventor Takashi Aoki

Takashi Aoki 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: 20140043508
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a color filter having basic array patterns with first and second array patterns disposed symmetrically, wherein the first array pattern has a first filter at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as the first array pattern and has placement of the second filter and placement of the third filter swapped to that of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels placed on pixels corresponding to positions of centers of at least 1 pair of patterns out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriko KAWAMURA, Kazuki INOUE, Hiroshi ENDO, Takashi AOKI, Seiji Tanaka, Kenkichi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8643114
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a p-type organic transistor including an organic semiconductor layer arranged on or above the substrate; and an n-type inorganic transistor including an inorganic semiconductor layer arranged on or above the organic transistor, wherein a channel region of the inorganic transistor overlaps a channel region of the organic transistor at least partially in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Ryukoku University
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Mutsumi Kimura, Takashi Nakanishi, Mariko Sakemi
  • Publication number: 20140022446
    Abstract: Interpolation precision of phase difference detection pixels is raised. An image sensor (14) is provided with a color filter (30) upon which a basic sequence pattern, formed by disposing a first sequence pattern and a second sequence pattern in point symmetry, is repeatedly disposed. In the first sequence pattern, first filters are disposed on pixels in the four corners and in the center of a square array of 3×3 pixels, second filters are disposed in a horizontal line in the center of a square array, and third filters are disposed in a vertical line in the center of a square array. In the second sequence pattern, the first sequence pattern and the positions of the first filters are the same, while the positions of the second filters and the positions of the third filters have been swapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi ENDO, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Noriko KAWAMURA, Takashi AOKI, Kazuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20140022439
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a capturing lens; an imaging element in which a pair of horizontal light receiving units receiving a pair of split light of a horizontal direction and a pair of vertical light receiving units receiving a pair of split light of a vertical direction are two-dimensionally arranged; a movement unit that moves the imaging lens in the optical axis direction; a specifying unit that specifies one of the pair horizontal light receiving units or the pair vertical light receiving units, of which the calculated absolute value of the signal amount difference is smaller; and a control unit that performs correlation computation based on the signal amount of the plural photoelectric conversion elements aligned in a direction of the specified one of the pair of horizontal light receiving units or the pair of vertical light receiving units and controls the movement unit based on the correlation computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20140022445
    Abstract: An image capturing element is provided with: a color filter in which a basic arrangement pattern having first and second arrangement patterns arranged to be symmetrical about a point is repeated. The first arrangement pattern comprises first filters arranged on pixels in 2×2 arrangement located at the upper-left portion and a pixel located at the lower-right in a 3×3 pixel square arrangement, second filters arranged on the center and lower end lines in the vertical direction of the square arrangement, and third filters arranged on the center and right lines in the horizontal direction of the square arrangement. The second arrangement pattern comprises the first filters having the same arrangement as in the first arrangement pattern, and the second filters and the third filters having the arrangements interchanged with each other compared to the arrangements in the first arrangement pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Hiroshi ENDO, Noriko KAWAMURA, Kazuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20140022422
    Abstract: Interpolation precision of phase difference detection pixels is raised. An image pickup device includes: a color filter disposed with a repeating basic array pattern configured by 3×3 pixel square arrays of a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point; a first phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions of at least one array pattern in 1 pair of the first array pattern and the second array pattern out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern configuring the basic array pattern; and a second phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of the 4 corner portions in the array pattern, out of the first array pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi ENDO, Takashi AOKI, Yoichi IWASAKI, Kazuki INOUE, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Seiji TANAKA, Noriko KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140022614
    Abstract: The precision of phase difference AF control is raised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi ENDO, Yoichi IWASAKI, Takashi AOKI, Kazuki INOUE, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Seiji TANAKA, Noriko KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140022423
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a color filter having repeatedly disposed basic array patterns configured with first and second array patterns disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern has a first filter placed at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter placed in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as the first array pattern and has placement of the second filter and placement of the third filter swapped over to that of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels placed at positions corresponding to the first filter at a top and bottom edge sides in the array pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi HAYASHI, Hiroshi ENDO, Noriko KAWAMURA, Takashi AOKI, Kazuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20130335606
    Abstract: Provides an imaging device including, imaging element in which plural first lines arrayed with first phase difference detection pixels, and plural second lines arrayed with second phase difference detection pixels, are arrayed alternately; reading out section read out signals of the phase difference detection pixels; first correlation computing section carry out first correlation computation on signals read out from a set of the first and the second phase difference detection pixel; second correlation computing section carry out second correlation computation on signals read out from at least one set among a set of plural first phase difference detection pixels of the first line, and a set of plural second phase difference detection pixels of the second line; correcting section corrects results of the first correlation computation, by results of the second correlation computation; and focusing section control focusing based on the corrected correlation computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Tomoki INOUE
  • Patent number: 8608276
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a heat generating element which generates heat energy used to discharge a liquid; a temperature detecting element which changes in output voltage in response to a change in the temperature of the heat generating element; an electrical power source line and a grounding line electrically connected to each other through the heat generating element to apply a current to the heat generating element; and a pair of lines for temperature detection electrically connected to each other through the temperature detecting element to apply a current to the temperature detecting element. Here, each of the pair of lines for temperature detection is arranged adjacent to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji Oohashi, Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Kazunori Masuda, Daishiro Sekijima, Takashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130329095
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an image pick-up device including phase difference detection pixel pairs, each formed from a pair of phase difference detection pixels respectively having their openings eccentrically formed on opposite sides of a main axis of an imaging lens, and imaging pixel pairs; a reading section that reads out signals from the pixels arrayed in the image pick-up device using a rolling shutter method; a first correlation computation section that performs correlation computation on the signals from the phase difference detection pixel pairs; a second correlation computation section that performs correlation computation on the signals from the imaging pixel pairs; a correction section that corrects a result from the first correlation computation section using a result from the second correlation computation section; and a focusing section that performs focus control using the corrected result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Tomoki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20130320568
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a printed wiring board and a semiconductor chip that has a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal and is mounted on the printed wiring board. The printed wiring board has a first land and a second land for solder joining, which are formed on a surface layer thereof. Further, the printed wiring board has a first wiring for electrically connecting the first signal terminal of the semiconductor chip and the first land, and a second wiring for electrically connecting the second signal terminal of the semiconductor chip and the second land. The second wiring is formed so that the wiring length thereof is larger than that of the first wiring. The second land is formed so that the surface area thereof is larger than that of the first land. This reduces difference in transmission line characteristics due to the difference in wiring length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: TAKASHI AOKI
  • Publication number: 20130320569
    Abstract: A first semiconductor package which is located on an upper side includes a first printed wiring board and an encapsulation resin for encapsulating a first semiconductor chip. A second semiconductor package which is located on a lower side includes a second printed wiring board. The first printed wiring board includes first lands and a first solder resist having first openings for exposing the first lands. The second printed wiring board includes second lands opposed to the first lands, respectively, and a second solder resist having second openings for exposing the second lands and opposed to the first openings, respectively. The first lands and the second lands are solder joined to each other through the first openings and the second openings, respectively. The opening area of the first opening is set to be smaller than the opening area of the second opening. This improves joint reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130314500
    Abstract: A stereoscopic imaging apparatus comprising a single photographic optical system; an image sensor, on which subject images that have passed through different first and second areas in a predetermined direction, respectively, are formed after being pupil-split, photoelectrically converting the subject images that have passed through the first and second areas, respectively, to output a first image and a second image; a diaphragm restricting a light flux incident on the image sensor; a subject information acquiring device acquiring distance information of a subject within a photographic angle of view or a device acquiring an amount of parallax of the subject; and a diaphragm control device controlling an F-number of the diaphragm so that a parallax between the first image and the second image is in a predetermined range based on the acquired distance information of the subject or the acquired amount of parallax of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi AOKI
  • Patent number: 8587922
    Abstract: In a feed-through capacitor, a conduction unit having a plurality of conduction inner electrodes can fully secure a tolerable level of DC. A capacitor unit is formed on the mount surface side in a capacitor body, so that high-frequency noise components can be removed by the capacitor unit before reaching the conduction unit. The distance between the grounding inner electrode located closest to the conduction unit and the conduction inner electrode in the conduction unit is greater than that between the signal inner electrode and grounding inner electrode in the capacitor unit. This enhances the impedance between the capacitor unit and the conduction unit, so as to inhibit the high-frequency noise components from flowing into the conduction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Togashi, Takashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8580760
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical and a method for preventing and treating VHSV infection in fish with a VHSV-binding aptamer is provided. Also provided are a method for removing VHSV from an area of water and a method and kit for detecting VHSV with high sensitivity using a VHSV-binding aptamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Ikuo Hirono
  • Patent number: 8561741
    Abstract: An air guide structure for guiding outside air in front of the vehicle to equipment to be cooled. Ai air guide duct structure (20) is provided with: left and right side-wall ducts (46, 68) provided to the left and right sides of equipment (16) to be cooled; and left and right seal sections (47, 69) protruding from the inner wall surfaces (46a, 68a) of the left and right side-wall ducts toward the equipment (16) to be cooled. The left and right seal sections (47, 69) are spaced by a predetermined distance (S1) from the equipment (16) to be cooled toward the front of the vehicle body. Air pressure during the travel of the vehicle elastically deforms the right and left seal sections (47, 69) to cause the seal sections to make contact with the equipment (16) to be cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kurokawa, Tadayuki Uchida, Tomoaki Ichikawa, Toshikatsu Mouri, Hideki Miura, Ryota Abe, Takashi Aoki, Ken Nakane
  • Publication number: 20130270370
    Abstract: A resin-bonded body of a fuel injection apparatus includes a first resin material and a second resin material, which are bonded together and have different properties, respectively. The resin-bonded body has a fuel seal portion to limit leakage of fuel from a boundary surface between the first resin material and the second resin material to an outside. The fuel seal portion is formed in a portion of the boundary surface and is surface-modified to increase hydrophilicity of the fuel seal portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo KONDO, Tooru TAGUCHI, Takashi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20130265632
    Abstract: An electrophoretic particle of the invention include: a mother particle; and a covering layer, wherein the covering layer includes a plurality of polymers, each of which includes a polymerization initiator which includes a polymerization initiation group linked to a surface of the mother particle and polymerization parts in which monomers are polymerized from the polymerization initiation group as a starting point, wherein each of the polymer include the polymerization initiator, a first polymerization part, which is coupled to the polymerization initiator, in which first monomers that includes monomers with cross-linking groups are polymerized, and a second polymerization part in which second monomers that does not include monomers with cross-linking groups are polymerized, and the polymers are linked to each other at the cross-linking groups of the first polymerization parts via cross-linking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Harunobu KOMATSU, Shinobu YOKOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130258168
    Abstract: It is provided a image capturing apparatus including a control unit that determines whether to set a division number to a first division number n or to a second division number m which is larger than n based on the status of a subject, calculating a divided area evaluation curve by calculating a correlation between first detection information and second detection information for each of divided areas formed by dividing a phase difference detection area into the n or the m, and acquires a defocus amount to drive and control a focus lens to the in-focus position from a total evaluation curve obtained by conducting a required calculation processing on the divided area evaluation curves of the plural divided areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi AOKI