Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Oikawa

Yoshiaki Oikawa 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: 20240402994
    Abstract: An electronic device with a novel structure is provided. In an electronic device including a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device includes a CPU, an accelerator, and a memory device. The CPU includes a scan flip-flop circuit and a backup circuit electrically connected to the scan flip-flop circuit. The backup circuit includes a first transistor. The accelerator includes an arithmetic circuit and a data retention circuit electrically connected to the arithmetic circuit. The data retention circuit includes a second transistor. The memory device includes a memory cell including a third transistor. The first transistor to the third transistor each include a semiconductor layer containing a metal oxide in a channel formation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyoshi KATO, Tatsuya ONUKI, Atsushi MIYAGUCHI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 12159606
    Abstract: A moving object including a display apparatus capable of performing highly visible display is provided. The moving object includes a display unit, an imaging unit, an arithmetic unit, and a control unit. The display unit has a function of displaying a display image. The imaging unit has a function of obtaining a first captured image including the display image and an external view overlapping with the display image. The arithmetic unit has a function of comparing a color of the display image and a color of the external view and correcting the color of the display image on the basis of a comparison result. The control unit has a function of controlling running of the moving object on the basis of the first captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kentaro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240395974
    Abstract: A display apparatus with high display quality is provided. The display apparatus includes a first light-emitting device, a second light-emitting device, a first insulating layer, and a filling layer. The first light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor layer over the first electrode, and a common electrode over the first semiconductor layer. The second light-emitting device includes a second electrode, a second semiconductor layer over the second electrode, and the common electrode over the second semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer includes a region in contact with the side surface of the first semiconductor layer and a region in contact with the side surface of the second semiconductor layer. The filling layer includes a region overlapping with the side surface of the first semiconductor layer with the first insulating layer therebetween and a region overlapping with the side surface of the second semiconductor layer with the first insulating layer therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240385456
    Abstract: A multifunctional display apparatus or electronic device is provided. An electronic device that can switch between VR display and AR display is provided. The electronic device includes a first display apparatus, a second display apparatus, a lens, a screen, a wearing tool, and a housing. The wearing tool has a function of fixing the housing to a head. The housing has a function of being transformed into a first mode that closes to block view and a second mode that opens to allow a front side to be viewed. The electronic device has a function of providing a first image displayed on the first display apparatus through the lens and the screen in the first mode, and a function of providing a second image projected to the screen from the second display apparatus in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yosuke TSUKAMOTO, Kiyoshi KATO, Tatsuya ONUKI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240387744
    Abstract: An object is to improve reliability of a light-emitting device. Alight-emitting device has a driver circuit portion including a transistor for a driver circuit and a pixel portion including a transistor for a pixel over one substrate. The transistor for the driver circuit and the transistor for the pixel are inverted staggered transistors each including an oxide semiconductor layer in contact with part of an oxide insulating layer. In the pixel portion, a color filter layer and a light-emitting element are provided over the oxide insulating layer. In the transistor for the driver circuit, a conductive layer overlapping with a gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor layer is provided over the oxide insulating layer. The gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using metal conductive films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Junichiro SAKATA, Masayuki SAKAKURA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Hotaka MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 12142294
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing apparatus which includes an interval detection unit to detect a time interval containing a sound that is emitted from a mobile body and that is included in a recording signal obtained by collecting sounds around the mobile body in a state where another mobile body is present around the mobile body, the time interval being detected on the basis of the recording signal and a sensor signal output from a sensor attached to the mobile body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Namba, Makoto Akune, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20240366084
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a learning unit that performs learning on a machine learning model having one or more non-polarization OCT images that are OCT images without polarization information as inputs and a pseudo polarization OCT image corresponding to a polarization OCT image that is an OCT image with polarization information as output; and a storage unit that stores a learning result of the learning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YASUNO, Kensuke OIKAWA, Shuichi MAKITA, Yusong LIU
  • Patent number: 12131747
    Abstract: Noise suppression performance is enhanced by performing appropriate noise suppression suitable for an environment of noise. Noise dictionary data read out from a noise database unit on the basis of installation environment information including information regarding a type of noise, and an orientation between a sound reception point and a noise source is acquired. Then, noise suppression processing is performed on a voice signal obtained by a microphone arranged at the sound reception point, using the acquired noise dictionary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Namba, Seiji Miyama, Yoshihiro Manabe, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20240353899
    Abstract: A display device or an electronic device in which the number of components can be reduced can be provided. An electronic device in which a space in a housing can be effectively used can be provided. A display panel includes a first display portion positioned on the front surface of the housing, a second display portion and a third display portion that are provided along adjacent two of the side surfaces of the housing, and a first portion that is folded back to the rear side of the first display portion. When the display panel is developed, the first portion faces the first display portion with the second display portion provided therebetween. The first portion includes an external connection terminal or a driver circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yosuke TSUKAMOTO, Yoshiaki OIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12118467
    Abstract: A reduction in concentration due to a change in an emotion is inhibited. A change in an emotion of the human is suitably reduced. Part (in particular, an eye or an eye and its vicinity) or the whole of a user's face is detected, a feature of the user's face is extracted from data on the detected part or whole of the face, and an emotion of the user is estimated from the extracted feature of the face. In the case where the estimated emotion is an emotion that might reduce concentration, for example, a stimulus is applied to the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of touch, the sense of smell, or the like of the user to recover the concentration of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daisuke Kubota, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20240321903
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a driver circuit portion including a driver circuit and a pixel portion including a pixel. The pixel includes a gate electrode layer having a light-transmitting property, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer each having a light-transmitting property provided over the gate insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer covering top surfaces and side surfaces of the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer and provided over the gate electrode layer with the gate insulating layer therebetween, a conductive layer provided over part of the oxide semiconductor layer and having a lower resistance than the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer, and an oxide insulating layer in contact with part of the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKAKURA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Junichiro SAKATA, Masashi TSUBUKU, Kengo AKIMOTO, Miyuki HOSOBA
  • Publication number: 20240314513
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, signal processing method, and program capable of providing a higher realistic feeling. A signal processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires audio data of an audio object and metadata including position information indicating a position of the audio object and direction information indicating a direction of the audio object; and a signal generation unit that generates a reproduction signal for reproducing a sound of the audio object at a listening position on the basis of listening position information indicating the listening position, listener direction information indicating a direction of a listener at the listening position, the position information, the direction information, and the audio data. The present technology is applicable to a transmission reproduction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Namba, Makoto Akune, Keiichi Aoyama, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Patent number: 12094475
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program for enabling reproduction of high-quality sounds with a low process load. The signal processing device includes a demultiplexing section that extracts encoded audio signals and overamplitude flags, which have been generated for a plurality of respective panel loudspeakers and each indicate whether overamplitude will occur in the corresponding panel loudspeaker, by demultiplexing encoded data, a decoding section that decodes the encoded audio signals, and an adjustment section that adjusts audio signals to be supplied to the plurality of panel loudspeakers on the basis of the overamplitude flags and audio signals resulting from the decoding. The present technology is applicable to an encoding device and a decoding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Toguri, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20240306410
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the reliability of a light-emitting device. Another object of the invention is to provide flexibility to a light-emitting device having a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film. A light-emitting device has, over one flexible substrate, a driving circuit portion including a thin film transistor for a driving circuit and a pixel portion including a thin film transistor for a pixel. The thin film transistor for a driving circuit and the thin film transistor for a pixel are inverted staggered thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with a part of an oxide insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Hotaka MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 12081961
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a method, and a program that make it possible for a user to obtain a higher realistic feeling. The signal processing device includes: an audio generation unit that generates a sound source signal according to a type of a sound source on the basis of a recorded signal obtained by sound collection by a microphone attached to a moving object; a correction information generation unit that generates position correction information indicating a distance between the microphone and the sound source; and a position information generation unit that generates sound source position information indicating a position of the sound source in a target space on the basis of microphone position information indicating a position of the microphone in the target space and the position correction information. The present technology can be applied to a recording/transmission/reproduction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Namba, Makoto Akune, Yoshiaki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20240268180
    Abstract: A display apparatus with high resolution or high definition is provided. The display apparatus includes a first light-emitting device, a second light-emitting device, a first insulating layer, a first coloring layer, and a second coloring layer. The first light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer, and a common electrode that are stacked in this order. The second light-emitting device includes a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer, and the common electrode that are stacked in this order. The first coloring layer overlaps with the first light-emitting device. The second coloring layer transmitting light of a color different from a color of light transmitted by the first coloring layer overlaps with the second light-emitting device. The first EL layer and the second EL layer have the same structure and are separated from each other. An end portion of the first EL layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Natsuko TAKASE, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 12057511
    Abstract: An object is to improve reliability of a light-emitting device. A light-emitting device has a driver circuit portion including a transistor for a driver circuit and a pixel portion including a transistor for a pixel over one substrate. The transistor for the driver circuit and the transistor for the pixel are inverted staggered transistors each including an oxide semiconductor layer in contact with part of an oxide insulating layer. In the pixel portion, a color filter layer and a light-emitting element are provided over the oxide insulating layer. In the transistor for the driver circuit, a conductive layer overlapping with a gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor layer is provided over the oxide insulating layer. The gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using metal conductive films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Masayuki Sakakura, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kenichi Okazaki, Hotaka Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20240260365
    Abstract: A high-resolution display device having a light detection function is provided. The display device includes first to fourth subpixels arranged to be adjacent to one another in this order in a first direction; the first subpixel and the second subpixel emit light of the same color; the third subpixel and the fourth subpixel detect light of the same color; the first subpixel includes a first light-emitting device and a first coloring layer overlapping with the first light-emitting device; the second subpixel includes a second light-emitting device and the first coloring layer overlapping with the second light-emitting device; the third subpixel includes a first light-receiving device; the fourth subpixel includes a second light-receiving device; the first light-emitting device and the second light-emitting device have a function of being driven independently; and the first light-receiving device and the second light-receiving device have a function of being driven independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Natsuko TAKASE, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240186151
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Junichiro SAKATA, Masashi TSUBUKU, Kengo AKIMOTO, Miyuki HOSOBA, Masayuki SAKAKURA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240181883
    Abstract: A moving object including a display apparatus capable of performing highly visible display is provided. The moving object includes a display unit, an imaging unit, an arithmetic unit, and a control unit. The display unit has a function of displaying a display image. The imaging unit has a function of obtaining a first captured image including the display image and an external view overlapping with the display image. The arithmetic unit has a function of comparing a color of the display image and a color of the external view and correcting the color of the display image on the basis of a comparison result. The control unit has a function of controlling running of the moving object on the basis of the first captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Hajime KIMURA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kentaro HAYASHI