Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Sano

Hiroaki Sano 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).

  • Patent number: 11157757
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts a horizontal edge line in which edge points are arranged consecutively in a horizontal direction from an image taken that contains an image of a parking frame; a detection unit which detects a three-dimensional indication body to serve as a stop position indication body in the parking frame based on the horizontal edge line extracted by the extraction unit; and a determining unit which, in a case where a plurality of the horizontal edge lines are arranged in a vertical direction in an image of the three-dimensional indication body detected by the detection unit, determines the stop position regarding one of the plurality of the horizontal edge lines other than a highest horizontal edge line in the vertical direction as corresponding to a top end line of the three-dimensional indication body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11145041
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a setting unit configured to set an area, as a first area, in which at least one delimiting line for delimiting a parking space is detected in a first image of plural images continuously captured while moving; and a prediction unit configured to predict, based on the first area, a second area in which the at least one delimiting line is to be detected in at least one second image of the plural images, the at least one second image being captured later in time than the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11138450
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an extraction unit configured to extract at least one edge line based on image data obtained by an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding of a vehicle; a giving unit configured to give a priority to each of the at least one edge line; a registration unit configured to register the at least one edge line in descending order of the priority while limiting a number of registration of the at least one edge line to an upper limit or smaller of the number of registration; and a detection unit configured to detect a parking space, based on the at least one edge line registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11116533
    Abstract: A medical manipulator is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom arm, which can be mounted with a medical instrument; a memory configured to retain an insertion port position indicating a spatial position of an insertion port for inserting the medical instrument mounted in the multiple-degree freedom arm into a human body; and a controller configured to determine an insertion posture of the medical instrument so as to cause an extended line of a major axis of the medical instrument to pass through the spatial position indicated by the insertion port position, and configured to move the multiple-degree freedom arm to the determined insertion posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20210273203
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a substrate having a main surface, a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element disposed on the main surface, wherein light emitted from the first light emitting element is emitted from a first area and light emitted from the second light emitting element is emitted from a second area, a first lens into which light emitted from the first area enters, and a second lens into which light emitted from the second area enters. In a direction parallel to the main surface, a distance between a middle point of the second area and a vertex of the second lens is greater than a distance between a middle point of the first area and a vertex of the first lens. The second area is smaller than the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11100342
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a calculation unit which calculates chroma values of pixels of image data taken by a shooting device based on differences between R values or G values and B values, respectively; a correction unit which corrects luminance values of pixels that satisfy a prescribed condition for being a yellow pixel using the calculated chroma values as emphasis amounts, respectively; and a detection unit which detects a line drawn on a road surface based on the corrected luminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Publication number: 20210202848
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL elements. Each of the organic EL elements includes a reflection electrode, a hole transport region, an electron-trapping luminescent layer, and a light extraction electrode in this order. The hole transport region has a sheet resistance of 4.0×107 ?/sq.? or more at a current of 0.1 nA/pixel, and the total thickness of the hole transport region and the electron-trapping luminescent layer is equivalent to an optical path length enabling emission from the electron-trapping luminescent layer to be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Itaru Takaya, Hirokazu Miyashita, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11041824
    Abstract: A measurement device including: an ion-sensitive element; a reference electrode disposed in a state in which a measurement subject is interposed between the reference electrode and the ion-sensitive element; and a controller configured to: establish a first state at a predetermined interval, the first state being a state in which a current flows at the ion-sensitive element, and establish a second state within each period after the first state has been established and before the first state is next established, the second state being a state in which a potential difference between the ion-sensitive element and the reference electrode is greater than a potential difference between the ion-sensitive element and the reference electrode in the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kusano, Atsuhiko Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Masao Okihara
  • Publication number: 20210118959
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising first and second light-emitting elements in a display region, and first and second dummy elements in a dummy region is provided. Each of the light-emitting elements, and the dummy elements includes a reflector arranged, a first electrode arranged above the reflector, a light-emitting layer arranged above the first electrode, and a second electrode arranged above the light-emitting layer. A difference between a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the first light-emitting element and a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the second light-emitting element is larger than a difference between a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the first dummy element and a distance from the reflector to the light-emitting layer in the second dummy element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Koji Ishizuya
  • Patent number: 10985323
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL elements. Each of the organic EL elements includes a reflection electrode, a hole transport region, an electron-trapping luminescent layer, and a light extraction electrode in this order. The hole transport region has a sheet resistance of 4.0×107 ?/sq. or more at a current of 0.1 nA/pixel, and the total thickness of the hole transport region and the electron-trapping luminescent layer is equivalent to an optical path length enabling emission from the electron-trapping luminescent layer to be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Itaru Takaya, Hirokazu Miyashita, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 10975497
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a laser diode that emits a blue light, and a wavelength conversion part that absorbs a part of light emitted from the laser diode and converts a wavelength thereof. The wavelength conversion part includes a YAG-based single crystal phosphor. Irradiance of light emitted from the laser diode and irradiated on the wavelength conversion part is not less than 80 W/mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Tamura Corporation, Koha Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikihiko Uwani, Akira Ito, Hiroyuki Sawano, Kentaro Tone, Hiroaki Sano, Daisuke Inomata, Kazuyuki Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20210098536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 10949686
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts a horizontal edge line in which edge points are arranged consecutively in a horizontal direction from an image taken that contains an image of a parking frame; a detection unit which detects, in a case where an edge length of a series edge line in which a plurality of the horizontal edge lines are arranged in the horizontal direction like a broken line is longer than or equal to a prescribed threshold value among a plurality of the horizontal edge lines extracted by the extraction unit, the series edge line as corresponding to a deep-side boundary line of a parking frame; and a determining unit which determines a stop position in the parking frame based on the boundary line detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Publication number: 20210066411
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises an electrode on a substrate, an insulating layer covering an edge of the electrode and disposed on the substrate, and an organic layer comprising a charge transport layer on the electrode and insulating layer and a functional layer, wherein the insulating layer has a first portion forming an angle of 0° to 50° with respect to a surface parallel to a lower surface of the electrode, a second portion located closer to the substrate than the first portion and sloping at more than 50°, and a third portion located closer to the organic layer than the first portion and sloping at more than 50°, wherein a length of the third portion in a direction perpendicular to the parallel surface is larger than a thickness of the charge transport layer at a position in contact with the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sano, Daisuke Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 10930891
    Abstract: An organic device comprising light emitting elements arranged on a substrate is provided. Each of the light emitting elements comprises, from a side of the substrate, a reflection layer, a light-shielding member, a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The light emitting elements comprise a first element and a second element arranged adjacent to each other. A length in a second direction of a portion of the light-shielding member is longer than that of the portion in a first direction, the portion being arranged in a region where the first and second element are adjacent to each other, and the first direction is a direction in which the first and second element are arranged and the second direction is a direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Takayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 10896336
    Abstract: To provide a parking space recognition apparatus that can reduce a processing load for detecting the parking space. The parking space recognition apparatus recognizes a parking space by using images generated by four cameras to be mounted on a vehicle. In the parking space recognition apparatus, an image acquisition part acquires the images generated by the cameras. A detection setter selects the cameras to be used for detecting the parking space from among the cameras based on a traveling state of the vehicle. A parking space detector acquires the images generated by the cameras selected by the detection setter from the image acquisition part, and detects the parking space from the acquired images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akihiko Shiotani, Hiroki Morinaga
  • Patent number: 10896934
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20210014393
    Abstract: A light emitting device including a first light emitting element disposed on a main surface of a substrate, and a first lens fixed to the substrate and overlapping a center of a first light-emission region of the first light emitting element in plan view in a direction perpendicular to the main surface. In the plan view in the direction perpendicular to the main surface, the center of the first light-emission region and a center of the first lens are separated from each other by a first distance in a direction parallel to the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Shoma Hinata, Yojiro Matsuda, Hiroaki Sano, Hidekazu Takahashi, Yoshihito Harada
  • Publication number: 20200381499
    Abstract: A displaying apparatus in which a plurality of pixels each including an organic light emitting element are arrayed in a pixel region, comprising a plurality of lower electrodes arrayed on a substrate in correspondence with the plurality of pixels, a first insulating layer covering an upper surface of the substrate and at least side surfaces of the plurality of lower electrodes, an organic compound layer provided all over the pixel region to cover the plurality of lower electrodes and the first insulating layer, an upper electrode provided all over the pixel region to cover the organic compound layer, and an interpixel electrode provided between the plurality of lower electrodes to be arranged along a boundary of the plurality of pixels under the organic compound layer and above the first insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20200352586
    Abstract: A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm, which is able to be mounted with a medical instrument including a shaft portion and an end effector disposed at a distal end of the shaft portion; a first input device configured to receive a first input to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a second input device configured to receive a second input to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first input device; a touch panel configured to set an operation mode for the multiple-degree freedom slave arm operated by the second input device; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm based on the first input or second input, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not an in-operation signal is turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Medicaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto JINNO, Hiroaki SANO