Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Makita

Tetsuya Makita 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: 20240154448
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a battery; an acquisition unit that acquires, at each predetermined timing, satisfaction level information in which a residual capacity of the battery and a user satisfaction level with the residual capacity are associated with each other; and a charging unit that charges the battery with a charging voltage calculated as a voltage for charging the battery until the battery has a residual capacity that makes it difficult for a subsequent user satisfaction level to fall below a specific satisfaction level based on of a plurality of the pieces of satisfaction level information acquired and accumulated by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya MAKITA, Go TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230352958
    Abstract: In a charging control device, a charging circuit charges a battery until an output voltage value of the battery reaches a full charge voltage value, and a processor calculates an integrated amount of expansion damage that is damage received by the battery due to expansion of the battery, the processor decreases the full charge voltage value when an expansion damage rate that is an increase rate of the integrated amount of the expansion damage in a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a threshold value, while the processor increases the full charge voltage value when the expansion damage rate is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: HIKARU FURUKAWA, KUNIHARU SUZUKI, GO TANAKA, TETSUYA MAKITA
  • Patent number: 11758283
    Abstract: An image capture device of the present invention is provided with: a first brightness adjusting unit which adjusts brightness when capturing an image of a subject; a second brightness adjusting unit which adjusts the brightness of an analog image signal of the subject captured with the brightness adjusted by the first brightness adjusting unit; an A/D conversion unit which subjects the analog image signal with the brightness adjusted by the second brightness adjusting unit to A/D conversion; a third brightness adjusting unit which adjusts the brightness of a digital image signal obtained by the A/D conversion; and a gain-up adjusting unit which raises the gain of a low-illuminance portion of the digital image signal with the brightness adjusted by the third brightness adjusting unit, by means of realtime modification adjustment using a gamma characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Hatano, Tetsuya Makita
  • Publication number: 20220021819
    Abstract: An image capture device of the present invention is provided with: a first brightness adjusting unit which adjusts brightness when capturing an image of a subject; a second brightness adjusting unit which adjusts the brightness of an analog image signal of the subject captured with the brightness adjusted by the first brightness adjusting unit; an A/D conversion unit which subjects the analog image signal with the brightness adjusted by the second brightness adjusting unit to A/D conversion; a third brightness adjusting unit which adjusts the brightness of a digital image signal obtained by the A/D conversion; and a gain-up adjusting unit which raises the gain of a low-illuminance portion of the digital image signal with the brightness adjusted by the third brightness adjusting unit, by means of realtime modification adjustment using a gamma characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Toshinobu HATANO, Tetsuya MAKITA
  • Patent number: 10374279
    Abstract: A connector device according to the present disclosure includes a first connector section and a second connector section. The first connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The second connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal, a yoke disposed to cover the waveguide, and a magnet forming a magnetic circuit with the yoke, and is couplable to the first connector section by the attractive force of the magnet. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes two communication devices and a connector device. The connector device has the above-described configuration and transmits a high-frequency signal between the two communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Matsumoto, Takayuki Mogi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Tetsuya Makita, Tatsuhito Aono, Yu Shigeta, Shintaro Nonaka, Takahiro Takeda, Yasuhiro Okada, Hiroyuki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10200602
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including: a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of an object in front of an imaging lens on the basis of first sensing data; and a decision unit configured to decide a behavior related to imaging processing through the imaging lens, on the basis of a result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Makita, Shigeto Matsuda, Kenji Takagi, Takaaki Nishio, Ryo Nakagawa, Masanori Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20180076501
    Abstract: A connector device according to the present disclosure includes a first connector section and a second connector section. The first connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The second connector section includes a waveguide for transmitting a high-frequency signal, a yoke disposed to cover the waveguide, and a magnet forming a magnetic circuit with the yoke, and is couplable to the first connector section by the attractive force of the magnet. A communication system according to the present disclosure includes two communication devices and a connector device. The connector device has the above-described configuration and transmits a high-frequency signal between the two communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: ISAO MATSUMOTO, TAKAYUKI MOGI, KENICHI KAWASAKI, TETSUYA MAKITA, TATSUHITO AONO, YU SHIGETA, SHINTARO NONAKA, TAKAHIRO TAKEDA, YASUHIRO OKADA, HIROYUKI YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20170244892
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including: a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of an object in front of an imaging lens on the basis of first sensing data; and a decision unit configured to decide a behavior related to imaging processing through the imaging lens, on the basis of a result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Makita, Shigeto Matsuda, Kenji Takagi, Takaaki Nishio, Ryo Nakagawa, Masanori Matsushima