Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Minebea Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Display Inc.

Sony Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Ntt Corporation

Asahi Breweries, Ltd.

Advanex Inc.

Logic and Design Co., Ltd

Masahiro Kobayashi

Yusuke Onuki

Yuichiro Yamashita

Takeshi Ichikawa

Hiroshi Sekine

Kazunari Kawabata

Toru Koizumi

Mineo Shimotsusa

Akira Okita

Hirofumi Totsuka

Yoichi Wada

Takafumi Miki

Shigeaki Harada

Takeshi Kojima

Takanori Watanabe

Fumihiro Inui

Hajime Ikeda

Yasushi Matsuno

Yosuke Nishide

Masatsugu Itahashi

Yu Maehashi

Takafumi Kishi

Tomoaki Kato

Ginjiro Toyoguchi

Katsuyuki Hoshino

Masanori Shibata

Tetsuya Itano

Yukihiro Kuroda

Junji Iwata

Taro Kato

Hiroyuki Maeda

Yu Arishima

Tatsuya Ryoki

Takeru Ohya

Hiromasa Tsuboi

Masaaki Minowa

Hideo Kobayashi

Daisuke Yoshida

Hiroki Hiyama

Masaki Sato

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa

Mahito Shinohara

Daisuke Kobayashi

Hiroaki Kobayashi

Toshiaki Ono

Hideaki Takada

Shin Kikuchi

Kohichi Nakamura

Masaaki Iwane

Takeshi Sato

Koichiro Iwata

Kazutoshi Torashima

Yukio Fujiwara

Toshinori Hasegawa

Takashi Muto

Takehiko Soda

Sho Suzuki

Hisashi Takado

Taiichi Miya

Hideaki Ishino

Shinichiro Shimizu

Yasuhiro Oguro

Takashi Okagawa

Junichiro Sakata

Toshihiro Suzuki

Hidekazu Takahashi

Kiyofumi Sakaguchi

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Masateru Morimoto

Hiroaki Sano

Tatsuhito Goden

Akinari Takagi

Minoru Takahashi

Kazuyuki Shigeta

Yasuhiro Sekine

Hiroaki Kameyama

Takahiro Sakaguchi

Kazushi Yoshida

Keisuke Ota

Masaki Kurihara

Shoji Kono

Kazuhiro Morimoto

Yasuharu Ota

Yoichiro Handa

Genzo Momma

Kei Ochiai

Eiichi Takami

Akito Suzuki

Yoshiaki Takada

Keisuke Ishibashi

Junichi Shimizu

Manabu Nakamura

Junko Nagasawa

Yusuke Yamashita

Yasushi Nakata

Shota Amano

Toshiki Tsuboi

Takahiro Yamasaki

Kumiko Sasaki

A control apparatus that determines a relief carrier that relieves communication in a failure area occurring when an antenna of a wireless base station fails and a tilt angle of the relief carrier includes: a failure area aggregation unit that aggregates a plurality of adjacent failure areas to collectively generate a single aggregated failure area; a relief carrier selection unit that selects a plurality of relief carriers for the aggregated failure area; and a tilt angle determination unit that simultaneously optimizes a plurality of tilt angles in the plurality of relief carriers.

Control apparatus, wireless communication system, and program

A loop-type flash drying apparatus configured to dry an object to be treated with a gas by supplying the object into a gas stream circulating in a loop-type drying pipe, wherein the loop-type flash drying apparatus includes: (i) a loop-type drying pipe; (ii) a feeding port configured to feed an object to be treated into the drying pipe; (iii) a second blowing port configured to blow a gas into the drying pipe; (iv) a discharge port configured to discharge the object from the drying pipe; (v) a discharge region formed by the drying pipe and the discharge port; and (vi) a first blowing port through which a gas for accelerating a gas flowing in the discharge region is linearly blown toward the discharge region.

Flash drying apparatus and method of producing particles

An image capturing and display apparatus comprises a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements for converting incident light from the outside of the image capturing and display apparatus to electrical charge signals, and a plurality of light-emitting elements for emitting light of an intensity corresponding to the electrical charge signals acquired by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A pixel region is defined as a region in which the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in an array. Signal paths for transmitting signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements to the plurality of light-emitting elements lie within the pixel region.

Image capturing and display apparatus and wearable device

An apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel area and a second substrate superimposed on the first substrate, a first processing unit for processing signals output from a plurality of pixels, and a second processing unit for performing processing based on a calculation model. At least part of the first processing unit and at least part of the second processing unit are disposed on either the first substrate or the second substrate. A first power supply voltage to the first processing unit and a second power supply voltage to the second processing unit are supplied via different paths.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, mobile body, and semiconductor substrate

An image processing method is disclosed. The image processing method includes setting n reference pixels around a pixel of interest, where n is an integer, sequentially comparing a pixel value of the pixel of interest with a pixel value of each reference pixel, counting a number of the reference pixels whose pixel values are less than or equal to the pixel value of the pixel of interest, incrementing a histogram value of each reference pixel by 1 to compare with a preset inclination limit value, counting a number of the reference pixels satisfying both a condition that the reference pixel value is less than or equal to the pixel value of the pixel of interest and a condition that the histogram value is less than or equal to the inclination limit value so as to obtain a true-in-both count value, and proportionally distributing the true-in-both count value for output.

Image processing method

A throughput estimation apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute estimating a QoE (quality of experience) for each of a plurality of selection candidates for a parameter set related to a quality of a video to be distributed via a network; and estimating a throughput required for satisfying a target QoE by using, as inputs, the estimated QoE for each of the selection candidates, the parameter set for each of the selection candidates, and the target QoE.

Throughput estimation apparatus, throughput estimation method and program

A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.

Solid-state imaging device and imaging system

An apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel area and a second substrate superimposed on the first substrate, a first processing unit for processing signals output from a plurality of pixels, and a second processing unit for performing processing based on a neural network calculation model. At least part of the first processing unit and at least part of the second processing unit are disposed on either the first substrate or the second substrate. A wiring density of a plurality of first wirings connected to the first processing unit is different from a wiring density of a plurality of second wirings connected to the second processing unit.

A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes pixels having adjacent first and second pixels. The pixels each include, in a semiconductor layer of a substrate, a photoelectric conversion portion that generates charges, a charge holding portion that holds the charges, and a floating diffusion layer that converts the charges into a voltage. At least parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel, parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the charge holding portion in the second pixel, and/or parts of the floating diffusion layer in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel overlap each other without physically touching each other in a depth direction of the substrate in a state where a region for separating the at least parts of the charge holding portions and the floating diffusion layers is provided therebetween.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus having overlapped parts of charge holding portions, imaging system, and movable body

An image capturing and display apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing units, a plurality of display units, and a signal processing unit. The plurality of image capturing units includes a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit configured to output a signal corresponding to an incident light quantity higher than that of the first image capturing unit. The signal processing unit generates a single third image signal based on a first image signal from the first image capturing unit and a second image signal from the second image capturing unit, and the plurality of display devices displays images based on the third image signal.

A photoelectric conversion device includes a photodiode configured to perform avalanche multiplication, a recharging circuit configured to perform a recharging operation to bring the photodiode after the avalanche multiplication into a state in which the avalanche multiplication can be performed again based on a first control signal including pulses that periodically repeat transitions from a first level to a second level, and a counter configured to count the number of occurrences of the avalanche multiplication by being enabled based on a second control signal. Before the counter is enabled based on the second control signal, the first control signal transitions from the first level to the second level and transitions from the second level to the first level.

Photoelectric conversion device

A solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion portion, a charge holding portion accumulating a signal charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion portion, and a floating diffusion region to which the signal charge of the charge holding portion is transferred, wherein the photoelectric conversion portion includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type formed under the first semiconductor region, the charge holding portion includes a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, and a fourth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type formed under the third semiconductor region, and a p-n junction between the third semiconductor region and the fourth semiconductor region is positioned deeper than a p-n junction between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region.

A unit circuit includes a photoelectric conversion element, an output transistor including an input node and configured to output a signal based on a charge from the photoelectric conversion element, a reset transistor, and a first transistor connected to the input node and configured to change a capacitance of the input node. A first control signal supplied to a gate electrode of the first transistor has at least three types of voltages.

Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, moving body, and stackable semiconductor device

A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a first substrate that includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, a second substrate that includes at least a part of a readout circuit configured to read signals based on electric charges of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a peripheral circuit including a control circuit, and a wiring structure that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes a pad portion electrically connected to the peripheral circuit via a draw-out wiring and an insulating layer. The wiring structure has, at least at a part thereof, a seal ring disposed in such a way as to surround the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit.

Solid-state imaging apparatus and method for manufacturing the solid-state imaging apparatus having sealing portion disposed in bonded members

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Kobayashi