Patents by Inventor Tomoki Numata

Tomoki Numata 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: 20240247875
    Abstract: A heat exchanger configured to cause a refrigerant to exchange heat with a heat medium, includes: plates stacked on top of one another. A first flow path and a second flow path are formed between the plates. The refrigerant in a two phase state flows through the first flow path and the heat medium flows through the second flow path. Each of the plates includes: a first inlet from which the refrigerant flows into the first flow path; and a first outlet from which the refrigerant flows out of the first flow path. In each of the plates, when viewed in a direction in which the plates are stacked, the first inlet has line symmetry with respect to a center line in a width direction of the each of the plates, and the first outlet has line symmetry with respect to the center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Mitsuharu Numata, Ko Terai, Shinya Tabata, Tomoki Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 11804198
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, a display control method, and an imaging apparatus for shortening a switching time of a display device that displays a video. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that, in a case where display of a video is switched from a first display unit to which a first video signal is input via a first bus to a second display unit to which a second video signal is input via a second bus, causes the first display unit to transition from an activated state in which operation is performed in a light-emitting state to a standby state in which operation is performed in a non-light-emitting state or a stopped state in which operation is stopped in the non-light-emitting state, and causes the second display unit to transition from the standby state or the stopped state to the activated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 11778325
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mitani, Masafumi Wakazono, Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 11482159
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display control unit configured to control a display unit to output a first image based on a first imaging signal and a second image based on a second imaging signal, the first imaging signal and the second imaging signal being output from an imaging element that outputs the first imaging signal by pixel-thinning for an entire angle of view and outputs the second imaging signal in all of pixels for a partial region in the entire angle of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Nagao, Tomoki Numata
  • Publication number: 20220256096
    Abstract: To enable a photo opportunity not to be missed while reducing a bandwidth and power consumption related to image transmission when a captured image is displayed on a display unit. An image processing device according to the present technology includes an image generation unit configured to generate a first frame rate image based on a captured image and a second frame rate image having a frame rate lower than the first frame rate image; and an output unit configured to output the first frame rate image and the second frame rate image generated by the image generation unit so as to be displayed in different display regions of a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: KAZUAKI MORI, TOMOKI NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20220199052
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, a display control method, a program, and an imaging apparatus capable of shortening a switching time of a display device that displays a video. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that, in a case where display of a video is switched from a first display unit to which a first video signal is input via a first bus to a second display unit to which a second video signal is input via a second bus, causes the first display unit to transition from an activated state in which operation is performed in a light-emitting state to a standby state in which operation is performed in a non-light-emitting state or a stopped state in which operation is stopped in the non-light-emitting state, and causes the second display unit to transition from the standby state or the stopped state to the activated state. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: TOMOKI NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20220070381
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mitani, Masafumi Wakazono, Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 11206355
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mitani, Masafumi Wakazono, Tomoki Numata
  • Publication number: 20200412959
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hitoshi MITANI, Masafumi WAKAZONO, Tomoki NUMATA
  • Patent number: 7986345
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, and an instructing unit instructing the processing unit to capture a still image. When the processing unit is instructed to capture a still image by the instructing unit while performing moving image signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, the processing unit may cause the first recording unit to record the original image signal output from the image capturing unit. In addition, the processing unit may read out the recorded original image signal from the first recording unit and perform still image signal processing upon the read out original image signal while suspending the moving image signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tsujimura, Takuro Enomoto, Masatsugu Fukunaga, Daisuke Miyakoshi, Nobuho Ikeda, Manabu Kubo, Kyoko Fukuda, Yutaka Yoneda, Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 7839961
    Abstract: The invention aims at providing communication timing changing method and device which are capable of changing timing of communication for setting control parameters used to determine operations of analog devices in the analog devices, respectively, over to another one not impeding any of the operation of the analog devices. An interface decoder decodes a control parameter communication signal outputted from a CPU, converts the resulting signal into control parameters, and preserves the resulting control parameters in a register. Interface encoders perform timing management based on a synchronous signal received from a synchronous signal generating circuit, read out the control parameters to be set in analog devices such as an image sensor driving circuit, a sample and hold circuit, and an ADC from a register, and communicate with the analog devices at good timing during a blanking period to set the control parameters in the analog devices, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seishin Asato, Akira Matsui, Naoki Hayashi, Tomoki Numata
  • Publication number: 20100182443
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, and an instructing unit instructing the processing unit to capture a still image. When the processing unit is instructed to capture a still image by the instructing unit while performing moving image signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, the processing unit may cause the first recording unit to record the original image signal output from the image capturing unit. In addition, the processing unit may read out the recorded original image signal from the first recording unit and perform still image signal processing upon the read out original image signal while suspending the moving image signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tsujimura, Takuro Enomoto, Masatsugu Fukunaga, Daisuke Miyakoshi, Nobuho Ikeda, Manabu Kubo, Kyoko Fukuda, Yutaka Yoneda, Tomoki Numata
  • Patent number: 7719572
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, and an instructing unit instructing the processing unit to capture a still image. When the processing unit is instructed to capture a still image by the instructing unit while performing moving image signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, the processing unit may cause the first recording unit to record the original image signal output from the image capturing unit. In addition, the processing unit may read out the recorded original image signal from the first recording unit and perform still image signal processing upon the read out original image signal while suspending the moving image signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tsujimura, Takuro Enomoto, Masatsugu Fukunaga, Daisuke Miyakoshi, Nobuho Ikeda, Manabu Kubo, Kyoko Fukuda, Yutaka Yoneda, Tomoki Numata
  • Publication number: 20070115374
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, and an instructing unit instructing the processing unit to capture a still image. When the processing unit is instructed to capture a still image by the instructing unit while performing moving image signal processing upon the original image signal output from the image capturing unit, the processing unit may cause the first recording unit to record the original image signal output from the image capturing unit. In addition, the processing unit may read out the recorded original image signal from the first recording unit and perform still image signal processing upon the read out original image signal while suspending the moving image signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tsujimura, Takuro Enomoto, Masatsugu Fukunaga, Daisuke Miyakoshi, Nobuho Ikeda, Manabu Kubo, Kyoko Fukuda, Yutaka Yoneda, Tomoki Numata
  • Publication number: 20060193412
    Abstract: The invention aims at providing communication timing changing method and device which are capable of changing timing of communication for setting control parameters used to determine operations of analog devices in the analog devices, respectively, over to another one not impeding any of the operation of the analog devices. An interface decoder decodes a control parameter communication signal outputted from a CPU, converts the resulting signal into control parameters, and preserves the resulting control parameters in a register. Interface encoders perform timing management based on a synchronous signal received from a synchronous signal generating circuit, read out the control parameters to be set in analog devices such as an image sensor driving circuit, a sample and hold circuit, and an ADC from a register, and communicate with the analog devices at good timing during a blanking period to set the control parameters in the analog devices, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seishin Asato, Akira Matsui, Naoki Hayashi, Tomoki Numata