Patents by Inventor Tatsunori Kato
Tatsunori Kato 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).
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Publication number: 20250093982Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main body unit having a pen shape, and having a pen tip that, in operation, performs a position indication, the pen tip being formed in an end portion on a first end side of the electronic pen main body unit in an axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit, a weight member; and an attachment portion that detachably attaches to the weight member, the attachment portion being formed in an end portion on a second end side of the electronic pen main body unit in the axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Naoya NISHIZAWA, Tatsunori KATO, Hiroaki SHIOKAWA, Kentaro MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20250055955Abstract: To prevent a delay in display of a stroke image due to a delay in processing in a computer without the provision of an overlay engine in a timing controller. A computer includes a host processor that generates a stroke image representing a stroke indicated by a series of pieces of coordinate data each representing the position of a pen on a touch surface, and generates a video signal representing the generated stroke image, a timing controller that controls the potential of each of a plurality of gate lines arranged in a display panel, based on a video signal, and an MCU that generates, in parallel with the host processor, a provisional stroke image representing the same stroke as the stroke represented by the stroke image. The above-described provisional stroke image is superimposed onto the video signal that has not yet been supplied to the timing controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Tatsunori KATO, Yoshihiro KOTANI, Hiroyuki SAKUMA, Joo Hoon LEE, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI
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Patent number: 12182346Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main body unit having a pen shape, and having a pen tip that, in operation, performs a position indication, the pen tip being formed in an end portion on a first end side of the electronic pen main body unit in an axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit, a weight member; and an attachment portion that detachably attaches to the weight member, the attachment portion being formed in an end portion on a second end side of the electronic pen main body unit in the axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Nishizawa, Tatsunori Kato, Hiroaki Shiokawa, Kentaro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12176340Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pad, a first protection circuit provided on a first semiconductor substrate, and a second protection circuit provided on a second semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor substrate, which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units each receiving incident light and generating signal charge, and the second semiconductor substrate, which includes at least one signal processing circuit that processes an input signal based on the generated signal charge, are laminated. The pad receives a power supply voltage as input from an outside of the photoelectric conversion apparatus. At least one of the first protection circuit or the second protection circuit is provided on an outside of a region in which the pad is provided, in planar view. At least one of the first protection circuit or the second protection circuit is connected to the pad.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Oseto, Nobuaki Kakinuma, Tatsunori Kato, Ryunosuke Ishii, Koji Hara
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Publication number: 20240296779Abstract: Provided is a computer including a host processor which, in operation, generates a stroke image representing a stroke indicated by a series of coordinate data indicating a plurality of positions of a pen on a touch surface and generates a video signal representing the stroke image, a timing controller which, in operation, controls, based on the video signal, a potential of each of a plurality of gate lines provided in a display, and a temporary stroke image generation processor which in operation, generates, in parallel with the host processor, a temporary stroke image representing a same stroke as the stroke of the stroke image, in which the temporary stroke image is superimposed on the video signal before the video signal is supplied to the timing controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Tatsunori KATO, Yoshihiro KOTANI, Hiroyuki SAKUMA, Joo Hoon LEE, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI
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Publication number: 20240272731Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Naoki WATANABE, Tatsunori KATO
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Publication number: 20240184384Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main body unit having a pen shape, and having a pen tip that, in operation, performs a position indication, the pen tip being formed in an end portion on a first end side of the electronic pen main body unit in an axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit, a weight member, and an attachment portion that detachably attaches to the weight member, the attachment portion being formed in an end portion on a second end side of the electronic pen main body unit in the axial direction of the electronic pen main body unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Naoya NISHIZAWA, Tatsunori KATO, Hiroaki SHIOKAWA, Kentaro MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 12002409Abstract: Provided is a computer including a host processor which, in operation, generates a stroke image representing a stroke indicated by a series of coordinate data indicating a plurality of positions of a pen on a touch surface and generates a video signal representing the stroke image, a timing controller which, in operation, controls, based on the video signal, a potential of each of a plurality of gate lines provided in a display, and a temporary stroke image generation processor which in operation, generates, in parallel with the host processor, a temporary stroke image representing a same stroke as the stroke of the stroke image, in which the temporary stroke image is superimposed on the video signal before the video signal is supplied to the timing controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsunori Kato, Yoshihiro Kotani, Hiroyuki Sakuma, Joo Hoon Lee, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
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Patent number: 11995252Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Tatsunori Kato
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Publication number: 20240053945Abstract: Disclosed is a host device including a display device that, in operation, displays an image in a host display region, a communication device that, in operation, communicates with multiple guest devices each having a display function, and a processor that, in operation, divides the host display region into at least two sub-regions and controls the display device to display at least two images currently displayed by at least two of the guest devices simultaneously connected to the host device, such that the at least two images are respectively displayed in corresponding ones of the at least two sub-regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Hideki FUJIMAKI, Tsukasa NOMI, Akira ITO, Tatsunori KATO
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Publication number: 20230411414Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor layer, a wiring layer or a plurality of wiring layers, and a first heat dissipation layer. The semiconductor layer has a first surface and a second surface and includes, between the first surface and the second surface, a semiconductor element and a protection circuit. The wiring layer(s) is disposed at a first-surface side and electrically connected to the protection circuit. The first-surface side is a side where the first surface is located. The first heat dissipation layer is disposed between the wiring layer and the semiconductor layer or between a wiring layer closest to the semiconductor layer, among the wiring layers, and the semiconductor layer, and not electrically connected to the protection circuit. In a plan view taken at the first-surface side, the first heat dissipation layer is disposed at a position of overlapping with at least a part of the protection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: TATSUNORI KATO, AKIRA OSETO, SAKAE HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230377222Abstract: A remote computer sequentially detects positions of an indicator on a sensor surface at a predetermined sampling rate using an input sensor, and sequentially transmits pieces of report data including the positions to a host computer. A host computer detects a gesture based on a series of the pieces of report data received from the remote computer, generates one or more deformed images by imparting a deformation corresponding to contents and an amount that are indicated by the gesture, to one or more images, transmits the one or more deformed images to the remote computer, and performs cancelation processing that cancels generation of the one or more deformed images when one of the pieces of report data received from the remote computer includes an end report indicating that the indicator has been moved away from the sensor surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Tatsunori KATO, Hajime ASADA, Yoshifumi TAKEBE, Naoki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230360583Abstract: Provided is a computer including a host processor which, in operation, generates a stroke image representing a stroke indicated by a series of coordinate data indicating a plurality of positions of a pen on a touch surface and generates a video signal representing the stroke image, a timing controller which, in operation, controls, based on the video signal, a potential of each of a plurality of gate lines provided in a display, and a temporary stroke image generation processor which in operation, generates, in parallel with the host processor, a temporary stroke image representing a same stroke as the stroke of the stroke image, in which the temporary stroke image is superimposed on the video signal before the video signal is supplied to the timing controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Tatsunori KATO, Yoshihiro KOTANI, Hiroyuki SAKUMA, Joo Hoon LEE, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI
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Publication number: 20230326103Abstract: An image drawing method performed by first and second computers is provided. The image drawing method includes: transmitting, by the second computer, a streaming video that includes a pen stroke image generated by a first rendering process; generating, by the first computer, a pen stroke image by performing a second rendering process, which is shared with the first rendering process, in parallel with the first rendering process; receiving, by the first computer, the streaming video from the second computer via communication that incurs a delay; compositing, by the first computer, the pen stroke image into the streaming video; and outputting, by the first computer, the streaming video. The image drawing method enables alignment of appearances between a provisional image and the pen stroke image that appears within the streaming video.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Tatsunori KATO, Yoshifumi TAKEBE, Kiyokazu SAKAI, Sadao YAMAMOTO, Naoki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230168752Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Naoki WATANABE, Tatsunori KATO
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Patent number: 11586300Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Tatsunori Kato
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Patent number: 11532660Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device including a plurality of substrates in a stacked state, the plurality of substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate electrically connected to each other, the photoelectric conversion device comprising: a memory cell unit including row-selection lines that are to be driven upon selection of a row of a memory cell array and column-selection lines that are to be driven upon selection of a column of the memory cell array; and a memory peripheral circuit unit that includes row-selection line connection portions and column-selection line connection portions so as to drive the row-selection lines and to drive the column-selection lines, wherein a first portion that is at least a part of the memory peripheral circuit unit is formed on the first substrate and the memory cell unit is formed on the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsunori Kato, Akira Oseto, Ryunosuke Ishii, Takanori Watanabe
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Patent number: 11425365Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a first substrate that includes a pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element; a second substrate having a signal processing circuit that drives the pixel circuit or processes a signal from the pixel circuit; a connection part electrically connecting the first substrate and the second substrate; and an inspection circuit, wherein the inspection circuit is formed in one of the first and second substrates and is connected to a wire supplying a first potential and being provided in the one of the first and second substrates, and the inspection circuit is connected via the connection part to a wire supplying a second potential and being provided in the other of the first and second substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryunosuke Ishii, Akira Oseto, Tatsunori Kato, Takanori Watanabe, Nobuaki Kakinuma, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Katsuhito Sakurai
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Publication number: 20220066577Abstract: Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Naoki WATANABE, Tatsunori KATO
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Publication number: 20210358904Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pad, a first protection circuit provided on a first semiconductor substrate, and a second protection circuit provided on a second semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor substrate, which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units each receiving incident light and generating signal charge, and the second semiconductor substrate, which includes at least one signal processing circuit that processes an input signal based on the generated signal charge, are laminated. The pad receives a power supply voltage as input from an outside of the photoelectric conversion apparatus. At least one of the first protection circuit or the second protection circuit is provided on an outside of a region in which the pad is provided, in planar view. At least one of the first protection circuit or the second protection circuit is connected to the pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Akira Oseto, Nobuaki Kakinuma, Tatsunori Kato, Ryunosuke Ishii, Koji Hara