Patents by Inventor Atsuo Minato
Atsuo Minato 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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Patent number: 11143836Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and a third lens group with a positive refractive power. When the zoom lens changes from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group is reduced, and a spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group changes. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are negative, and a refractive power of the fourth lens is positive. Abbe numbers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are larger than 60. A ratio of a focal length of the first lens group over a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end is larger than ?2.5 and smaller than ?1.2.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiko Matsunaga, Atsushi Ohata, Atsuo Minato
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Patent number: 11064123Abstract: A method for zooming an imaging device relative to an object to be imaged includes determining a condition associated with the object and/or the imaging device, and selecting a zooming mode of the imaging device based on the determined condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsuo Minato
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Publication number: 20210112202Abstract: To perform zoom control more effectively when shooting an image with a dolly zoom effect, a control method, a control apparatus, a mobile body, and programs are provided. During moving of a photographing apparatus from a first time point to a second time point, by causing a focus lens and a zoom lens to move, the first control component causes a zoom ratio to change, and causes a focus distance to change; and where during moving of the photographing apparatus from the second time point to a third time point, by performing electronic zooming, a second control component causes the zoom ratio to change and by causing the focus lens to move, the focus distance to change.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomonaga YASUDA, Kenichi HONJO, Atsuo MINATO
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Patent number: 10838178Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having a negative refracting power and having a meniscus shape; a second lens having a negative refracting power and having a meniscus shape; a third lens having a positive refracting power and having a meniscus shape; an aperture stop; a fourth lens having a positive refracting power and having a bi-convex shape; a fifth lens having a negative refracting power and having a bi-concave shape; and a sixth lens having a positive refracting power and having a bi-convex shape The imaging lens has a total angle of view of 150 degrees or more, and fulfills predetermined conditional expressions.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Nakamura, Yoshitomo Onoda, Atsuo Minato
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Publication number: 20200292596Abstract: The monitoring system includes: a management server, and a transmission device which obtains, from the power storage system, first charged power index values indicating charged power of the power storage system and input/output power index values indicating input/output power from the power receiving point to which the power storage system is connected to a system, and transmits the index values to the management server via a network. The management server includes: a calculation part which calculates, based on the first charged power index values and the input/output power index values, second charged power index values indicating power charged by generated power of the power generation system connected to the power receiving point of charged power of the power storage system; and a diagnosis part which diagnoses presence or absence of abnormality of the power generation system based on the second charged power index values calculated by the calculation part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kunio AONO, Hideki OZEKI, Atsuo MINATO, Kazuyoshi IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20190285824Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and a third lens group with a positive refractive power. When the zoom lens changes from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group is reduced, and a spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group changes. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are negative, and a refractive power of the fourth lens is positive. Abbe numbers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are larger than 60. A ratio of a focal length of the first lens group over a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end is larger than ?2.5 and smaller than ?1.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Shigehiko MATSUNAGA, Atsushi OHATA, Atsuo MINATO
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Patent number: 10340845Abstract: A voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power input to an input part. A first input and output part outputs the transformed direct-current power to a battery unit and to which direct-current power is input from the battery unit. A conversion part converts the direct-current power input to the input part into alternating-current power. A second input and output part outputs the alternating-current power to a power system or a load and to which an alternating-current power is input from the power system. The conversion part converts the alternating-current power input to the second input and output part into direct-current power. The second voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power converted by the conversion part and transforms the direct-current power input to the first input and output part. The conversion part converts the direct-current power transformed by the second voltage transform part into alternating-current power.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Atsuo Minato, Katsumi Ohashi, Arata Yoneda, Kazumi Tsuchimichi, Katsutaka Tanabe, Junichiro Yamada, Yasuhiro Tsubota
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Patent number: 10320327Abstract: A power storage power conditioner includes an input part, a voltage-transforming part, a first input-output part, a converting part and a second input-output part. The voltage-transforming part transforms the voltage of DC power from the input part and the converting part into a second predetermined voltage. The first input-output part outputs the DC power of the voltage-transforming part to a battery unit, and inputs DC power from the battery unit. The voltage-transforming part transforms a voltage of the DC power from the first input-output part into a third predetermined voltage. The converting part converts the DC power from the input part and the voltage-transforming part into AC power. The second input-output part outputs the AC power to a power system or a load, and inputs AC power from the power system. The converting part converts the AC power from the second input-output part into DC power.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kunio Aono, Kazumi Tsuchimichi, Kotaro Nakamura, Atsuo Minato
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Publication number: 20190165726Abstract: A power storage power conditioner includes an input part, a voltage-transforming part, a first input-output part, a converting part and a second input-output part. The voltage-transforming part transforms the voltage of DC power from the input part and the converting part into a second predetermined voltage. The first input-output part outputs the DC power of the voltage-transforming part to a battery unit, and inputs DC power from the battery unit. The voltage-transforming part transforms a voltage of the DC power from the first input-output part into a third predetermined voltage. The converting part converts the DC power from the input part and the voltage-transforming part into AC power. The second input-output part outputs the AC power to a power system or a load, and inputs AC power from the power system. The converting part converts the AC power from the second input-output part into DC power.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Kunio AONO, Kazumi TSUCHIMICHI, Kotaro NAKAMURA, Atsuo MINATO
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Publication number: 20190165725Abstract: A voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power input to an input part. A first input and output part outputs the transformed direct-current power to a battery unit and to which direct-current power is input from the battery unit. A conversion part converts the direct-current power input to the input part into alternating-current power. A second input and output part outputs the alternating-current power to a power system or a load and to which an alternating-current power is input from the power system. The conversion part converts the alternating-current power input to the second input and output part into direct-current power. The second voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power converted by the conversion part and transforms the direct-current power input to the first input and output part. The conversion part converts the direct-current power transformed by the second voltage transform part into alternating-current power.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Atsuo MINATO, Katsumi OHASHI, Arata YONEDA, Kazumi TSUCHIMICHI, Katsutaka TANABE, Junichiro YAMADA, Yasuhiro TSUBOTA
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Publication number: 20190158754Abstract: A method for zooming an imaging device relative to an object to be imaged includes determining a condition associated with the object and/or the imaging device, and selecting a zooming mode of the imaging device based on the determined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventor: Atsuo MINATO
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Publication number: 20180341089Abstract: An imaging lens is provided in which a total angle of view is 150 degrees or more, and which exhibits a high-image quality, is compact, is inexpensive, and keeps a stable quality under a harsh environment in an on-board camera or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Nakamura, Yoshitomo Onoda, Atsuo Minato
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Publication number: 20180054572Abstract: A control device can include an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit can acquire information that indicates at least one of a mass or a center of gravity position of an optical device having one or more lens. The control unit can control an attitude of the optical device based on the at least one of the mass or the center of gravity position indicated in the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventor: Atsuo MINATO
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Patent number: 8797656Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from the object side, a positionally-fixed first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power and movable in an optical axis direction for zooming, a third lens group having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group movable in the optical axis direction. The first lens group includes a negative lens, a positive lens and another positive lens disposed in order from the object side and satisfies 15.0<ft/fw<31.0??(1) 7.0<f1/fw<13.0??(2) ?8.5<fL1/fw<?4.0??(3) where fw and ft are the focal lengths of the entire lens system in a wide angle end state and a telephoto end state, respectively, f1 is the focal length of the first lens group, and fL1 is the focal length of the negative lens of the first lens group.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sota Miyatani, Kazuki Yonemoto, Hiroshi Omichi, Atsuo Minato
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Publication number: 20140214726Abstract: An information management device has a provision condition storage unit in which, for each sensor, provision condition information of sensing data generated by a sensor is registered in association with identification information of the sensor, a use condition storage unit in which, for each application that requires use of the sensing data, use condition information of the sensing data required by an application is registered in association with an address of a transmission destination of the sensing data, a sensing data acquisition unit that acquires through communication the sensing data generated by the sensor registered in the provision condition storage unit, and a specification unit that specifies the provision condition information matched with the use condition information by searching the provision condition storage unit for each piece of the use condition information registered in the use condition storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuo Minato, Atsushi Hisano
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Patent number: 8730357Abstract: An image processing method includes the steps of calculating, with respect to a processing-target pixel in an input image signal, a concentric aberration correction amount for concentric aberration that is a component of magnification chromatic aberration, the concentric aberration causing a color shift to occur in a concentric manner from the center of an image, calculating, with respect to the processing-target pixel, a uniform aberration correction amount for uniform aberration that is a component of magnification chromatic aberration, the uniform aberration causing a color shift direction and a color shift amount to uniformly occur on a whole image, and correcting a pixel value of the processing-target pixel on the basis of the calculated concentric aberration correction amount and the calculated uniform aberration correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichi Nishio, Hyongmyong Kang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsukasa Hashino, Takuya Kato, Gentaro Irisawa, Atsuo Minato
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Patent number: 8446477Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a shift lens driven to be shifted; a uniform aberration correction data storing unit storing uniform aberration correction data for correcting uniform aberration; a shift amount calculating unit calculating an amount of aberration correction shift of the shift lens for correcting uniform aberration using the uniform aberration correction data; a shift lens driving unit driving the shift lens to be shifted according to an amount of driving shift based on the amount of aberration correction shift; a concentric aberration correction amount calculating unit calculating an amount of concentric aberration correction for correcting concentric aberration with respect to a process target pixel of an input image signal; and a pixel value correcting unit correcting a pixel value of the process target pixel on the basis of the calculated amount of concentric aberration correction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Gentaro Irisawa, Atsuo Kikuchi, Takuya Kato, Atsuo Minato, Kenichi Nishio, Hiroyuki Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8395677Abstract: An aberration correction apparatus includes: a correction data holding section that holds correction data on a correction level used to correct chromatic aberration of magnification; a center position discrepancy data holding section that holds center position discrepancy data on the discrepancy between the center of an image area and the position of an aberration center of the chromatic aberration of magnification; an aberration center calculating section that selects one of the center position discrepancy data that corresponds to a combination of the discrepancy variation conditions in an imaging apparatus and calculates the position of the aberration center based on the selected center position discrepancy data; an image height calculating section; a magnification chromatic aberration correction level calculating section; and a pixel value correcting section.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsuo Kikuchi, Gentaro Irisawa, Atsuo Minato, Kenichi Nishio, Hyongmyong Kang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsukasa Hashino
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Publication number: 20120081583Abstract: An aberration correction apparatus includes: a correction data holding section that holds correction data on a correction level used to correct chromatic aberration of magnification; a center position discrepancy data holding section that holds center position discrepancy data on the discrepancy between the center of an image area and the position of an aberration center of the chromatic aberration of magnification; an aberration center calculating section that selects one of the center position discrepancy data that corresponds to a combination of the discrepancy variation conditions in an imaging apparatus and calculates the position of the aberration center based on the selected center position discrepancy data; an image height calculating section; a magnification chromatic aberration correction level calculating section; and a pixel value correcting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsuo Kikuchi, Gentaro Irisawa, Atsuo Minato, Kenichi Nishio, Hyongmyong Kang, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsukasa Hashino
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Publication number: 20120044369Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a shift lens driven to be shifted; a uniform aberration correction data storing unit storing uniform aberration correction data for correcting uniform aberration; a shift amount calculating unit calculating an amount of aberration correction shift of the shift lens for correcting uniform aberration using the uniform aberration correction data; a shift lens driving unit driving the shift lens to be shifted according to an amount of driving shift based on the amount of aberration correction shift; a concentric aberration correction amount calculating unit calculating an amount of concentric aberration correction for correcting concentric aberration with respect to a process target pixel of an input image signal; and a pixel value correcting unit correcting a pixel value of the process target pixel on the basis of the calculated amount of concentric aberration correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Gentaro IRISAWA, Atsuo Kikuchi, Takuya Kato, Atsuo Minato, Kenichi Nishio, Hiroyuki Kinoshita