Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Fukunaga
Yasuhiro Fukunaga 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: 20240081718Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes a sensor unit that detects predetermined biological information related to an organ of a living body, an A/D conversion unit that converts a measurement signal output from the sensor unit into a digital signal, a storage unit that stores information including a digital signal related to the measurement signal output from the A/D conversion unit, an analysis processing unit that determines presence or absence of a suspicion of an abnormality in the organ by analyzing the digital signal, and a measurement control unit that changes a sampling frequency related to A/D conversion of the measurement signal under a predetermined condition when the analysis processing unit has determined that a suspicion of an abnormality is present in the organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Kenji FUJII, Yasuhiro KAWABATA, Naomi MATSUMURA, Akito ITO, Yuki SAKAGUCHI, Daizo OKA, Takuya YOSHIDA, Seiji FUKUNAGA, Tatsuaki OKA
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Patent number: 10835104Abstract: An image processing device includes: a separation unit configured to separate a plurality of wide-band image signals corresponding to wide-band light passing through each of a plurality of wide-band filters and a narrow-band image signal corresponding to narrow-band light passing through a narrow-band filter, from each other, based on an image signal input from an imaging device; a demosaicing unit configured to perform demosaic processing that interpolates one of the plurality of wide-band image signals based on edge information from the narrow-band image signal separated by the separation unit; and an image generation unit configured to generate a wide-band image by using the wide-band image signal interpolated by the demosaic processing performed by the demosaicing unit and generate a narrow-band image by using the narrow-band image signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Ioka, Kazunori Yoshizaki, Sunao Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Komiya, Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10602919Abstract: An imaging device includes a first substrate including a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, a second substrate including a plurality of third pixels and facing the first substrate, and a processing unit. The plurality of third pixels receive light transmitted through the plurality of first pixels. The plurality of first pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of green light and transmit a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of red light. The plurality of second pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of blue light and not including wavelengths of red light and wavelengths of green light. The plurality of third pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of red light. The processing unit generates a signal at least from an output of the plurality of first pixels and an output of the plurality of third pixels.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10516866Abstract: An imaging device includes a first substrate with a pixel array having a plurality of first pixels; a second substrate stacked with the first substrate on a side opposite to a light-receiving surface of the pixel array; a filter for narrowing a band of light of a first wavelength; and a plurality of second pixels included in the second substrate for receiving light whose band is narrowed by the filter, wherein the filter configured by a first Fabry-Perot filter or a second Fabry-Perot filter, the first Fabry-Perot filter and the second Fabry-Perot filter have different transmission wavelength bands, a peak wavelength of the transmission wavelength band of the first Fabry-Perot filter is narrow band light in the vicinity of 600 nm, and a peak wavelength of the transmission wavelength band of the second Fabry-Perot filter is narrow band light in the vicinity of 630 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10342417Abstract: An image-capturing element includes: a first substrate; a plurality of first pixels disposed in a matrix on the first substrate, each of the first pixels having a first light receiving element; a second substrate disposed at a position overlapping the first substrate and on a side opposite to a light receiving surface side of the first substrate when viewed from the light receiving surface side of the first substrate; a plurality of second pixels disposed in a matrix on the second substrate, each of the second pixels having a second light receiving element and a Fabry-Perot filter disposed on the light receiving surface side of the second light receiving element; and a plurality of optical systems disposed corresponding to the plurality of second pixels between the first substrate and the plurality of second pixels, the optical systems having negative refractive power.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10335019Abstract: An image pickup element includes a first substrate, a second substrate, first pixels, and second pixels irradiated with light transmitted through the first pixels, and the second pixel includes a first PN junction surface parallel to a light-receiving surface, and a second PN junction surface positioned deeper than the first PN junction surface and parallel to the light-receiving surface, and the second pixel generates a second signal corresponding to light of a second wavelength band from electric charge obtained by the second PN junction surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 10299665Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging sensor; a color filter including first band filters and a second band filter configured to transmit narrowband light having a maximum value of a transmission spectrum outside a range of the wavelength band of the light that passes through each first band filter; a first light source unit; a second light source unit configured to radiate light having an upward projecting distribution of a wavelength spectrum in relation to intensity and having a narrowband light spectrum narrower than the broadband; and a control unit configured to cause the first light source unit and the second light source unit to radiate the beams of light simultaneously, wherein a peak wavelength of the light radiated by the second light source unit is an infrared region or a near-infrared region.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Yoshizaki, Ken Ioka, Sunao Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Komiya, Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20180199018Abstract: An imaging device includes a first substrate with a pixel array having a plurality of first pixels; a second substrate stacked with the first substrate on a side opposite to a light-receiving surface of the pixel array; a filter for narrowing a band of light of a first wavelength; and a plurality of second pixels included in the second substrate for receiving light whose band is narrowed by the filter, wherein the filter configured by a first Fabry-Perot filter or a second Fabry-Perot filter, the first Fabry-Perot filter and the second Fabry-Perot filter have different transmission wavelength bands, a peak wavelength of the transmission wavelength band of the first Fabry-Perot filter is narrow band light in the vicinity of 600 nm, and a peak wavelength of the transmission wavelength band of the second Fabry-Perot filter is narrow band light in the vicinity of 630 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20180049633Abstract: An imaging device includes a first substrate including a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels., a second substrate including a plurality of third pixels and facing the first substrate, and a processing unit. The plurality of third pixels receive light transmitted through the plurality of first pixels. The plurality of first pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of green light and transmit a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of red light. The plurality of second pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of blue light and not including wavelengths of red light and wavelengths of green light. The plurality of third pixels output signals corresponding to a wavelength bandwidth including wavelengths of red light. The processing unit generates a signal at least from an output of the plurality of first pixels and an output of the plurality of third pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20170325658Abstract: An image processing device includes: a separation unit configured to separate a plurality of wide-band image signals corresponding to wide-band light passing through each of a plurality of wide-band filters and a narrow-band image signal corresponding to narrow-band light passing through a narrow-band filter, from each other, based on an image signal input from an imaging device; a demosaicing unit configured to perform demosaic processing that interpolates one of the plurality of wide-band image signals based on edge information from the narrow-band image signal separated by the separation unit; and an image generation unit configured to generate a wide-band image by using the wide-band image signal interpolated by the demosaic processing performed by the demosaicing unit and generate a narrow-band image by using the narrow-band image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken IOKA, Kazunori YOSHIZAKI, Sunao KIKUCHI, Yasuhiro KOMIYA, Yasuhiro FUKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20170276847Abstract: An imaging system includes: an imaging sensor; a plurality of first band filters and a second band filter, the second band filter being configured to transmit narrowband light having a maximum value of a transmission spectrum outside a range of a wavelength band of light that passes through the first band filter; and a light source unit configured to radiate light having a projecting distribution in which at least one of an upper limit value and a lower limit value of a wavelength that are half a maximum value in a light spectrum of a light source is between an upper limit value and a lower limit value of a wavelength that are half the maximum value in the transmission spectrum of the second band filter. A color and a narrowband images are generated from a single image while the light source unit radiates the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori YOSHIZAKI, Ken IOKA, Sunao KIKUCHI, Yasuhiro KOMIYA, Yasuhiro FUKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20170265731Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging sensor; a color filter including first band filters and a second band filter configured to transmit narrowband light having a maximum value of a transmission spectrum outside a range of the wavelength band of the light that passes through each first band filter; a first light source unit; a second light source unit configured to radiate light having an upward projecting distribution of a wavelength spectrum in relation to intensity and having a narrowband light spectrum narrower than the broadband; and a control unit configured to cause the first light source unit and the second light source unit to radiate the beams of light simultaneously, wherein a peak wavelength of the light radiated by the second light source unit is an infrared region or a near-infrared region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori YOSHIZAKI, Ken IOKA, Sunao KIKUCHI, Yasuhiro KOMIYA, Yasuhiro FUKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20170258304Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor. The image sensor includes: a light receiving unit having pixels configured to receive light and generate an imaging signal according to an amount of the received light; a color filter having a filter unit disposed corresponding to the pixels, the filter unit including first band filters for passing light of a wavelength band of a primary color or a complementary color and including at least one second band filter for passing narrow-band light whose wavelength band is narrower than the wavelength band of the light passing through each of the first band filters; and an output unit configured to output the imaging signal under conditions that an amount of light incident on a second pixel corresponding to the at least one second band filter is greater than an amount of light incident on each of first pixels corresponding to the first band filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken IOKA, Kazunori YOSHIZAKI, Sunao KIKUCHI, Yasuhiro KOMIYA, Yasuhiro FUKUNAGA
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Patent number: 9741194Abstract: A banknote discrimination apparatus includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in which an incident light including fluorescence emitted from a banknote irradiated with excitation light enters; a plurality of organic film filters that are arranged so as to overlap each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and have mutually different transmission bands; a circuit including a plurality of pixel circuits which are each connected to one corresponding element among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and output a pixel signal converted by each photoelectric conversion element in accordance with an intensity of the incident light that transmits through the organic film filter and enters to the photoelectric conversion element; a spectral processor; and a discriminator. At least one of the plurality of organic film filters is a filter obtained by overlapping two or more filter layers on each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20170172393Abstract: An image pickup element includes a first substrate, a second substrate, first pixels, and second pixels irradiated with light transmitted through the first pixels, and the second pixel includes a first PN junction surface parallel to a light-receiving surface, and a second PN junction surface positioned deeper than the first PN junction surface and parallel to the light-receiving surface, and the second pixel generates a second signal corresponding to light of a second wavelength band from electric charge obtained by the second PN junction surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20160256039Abstract: An image-capturing element includes: a first substrate; a plurality of first pixels disposed in a matrix on the first substrate, each of the first pixels having a first light receiving element; a second substrate disposed at a position overlapping the first substrate and on a side opposite to a light receiving surface side of the first substrate when viewed from the light receiving surface side of the first substrate; a plurality of second pixels disposed in a matrix on the second substrate, each of the second pixels having a second light receiving element and a Fabry-Perot filter disposed on the light receiving surface side of the second light receiving element; and a plurality of optical systems disposed corresponding to the plurality of second pixels between the first substrate and the plurality of second pixels, the optical systems having negative refractive power.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Publication number: 20160098879Abstract: A banknote discrimination apparatus includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in which an incident light including fluorescence emitted from a banknote irradiated with excitation light enters; a plurality of organic film filters that are arranged so as to overlap each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and have mutually different transmission bands; a circuit including a plurality of pixel circuits which are each connected to one corresponding element among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and output a pixel signal converted by each photoelectric conversion element in accordance with an intensity of the incident light that transmits through the organic film filter and enters to the photoelectric conversion element; a spectral processor; and a discriminator. At least one of the plurality of organic film filters is a filter obtained by overlapping two or more filter layers on each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 9188841Abstract: An imaging device is provided with a color sensor including a first color sensor pixel and a second color sensor pixel. The first color sensor pixel includes a first color filter made from a first material, a second color filter made from a second material and superimposed on the first color filter, and a first color sensor element that is superimposed on the first color filter and the second color filter, and receives light that has passed through them. The second color sensor pixel includes a third color filter made from the first material, a fourth color filter made from the second material, superimposed on the third color filter, and having a different thickness to that of the second color filter, and a second color filter element that is superimposed on the third color filter and the fourth color filter, and receives light that has passed through them.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 9055180Abstract: A pixel that detects short-wavelength light is provided in a light receiving unit on a silicon substrate and has a first color filter. A pixel that detects long-wavelength light is provided in the light receiving unit on the silicon substrate, is provided in a position closer to an outer edge of the light receiving unit than the pixel that detects the short-wavelength light, and has a second color filter. A longest-wavelength transmission band of the first color filter is a first transmission band, and the longest-wavelength transmission band of the second color filter is a second transmission band. The second transmission band has a longer wavelength than the first transmission band.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga
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Patent number: 9054001Abstract: An imaging device includes: an R pixel that is made of an organic material and includes a photodiode on which an organic film color filter that transmits red light is formed; a G pixel that is made of an organic material and includes a photodiode on which an organic film color filter that transmits green light is formed; a B pixel that is made of an organic material and includes a photodiode on which an organic film color filter that transmits blue light is formed; and an FPF pixel including a photodiode on which a Fabry-Perot filter in which an intermediate layer interposed between dielectric layers is made of a material that transmits light is formed. The R pixel, the G pixel, the B pixel, and the FPF pixel are periodically arranged.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Fukunaga