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).

  • Publication number: 20200193184
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a detection unit configured to detect, from an image, a pair of delimiting lines for delimiting a parking space; and an estimation unit configured to estimate an inclination angle of an actual road surface on which the pair of delimiting lines is provided based on deflection angles of the pair of delimiting lines on a road surface, the pair of delimiting lines being included in the at least one delimiting line detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka OKADA, Hiroaki SANO, Tetsuo YAMAMOTO, Atsushi YOSHIHARA, Jun KANETAKE, Ryo YOSHIMURA, Tomoki SHIDORI
  • Publication number: 20200193187
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a delimiting line detection unit configured to detect a delimiting line candidate based on image data obtained by capturing a surrounding of a vehicle; an exclusion determination unit configured to determine whether there is a parking-unavailable area in which parking of the vehicle is not permitted; and a parking space detection unit configured to detect the parking space based on the delimiting line candidate. In a case where plural parallel lines that are adjacent to the delimiting line candidate and that have a predetermined angle to the delimiting line candidate is detected, the exclusion determination unit regards an area in which the plural parallel lines are provided as the parking-unavailable area, and prohibits the parking space detection unit from detecting the parking space across the delimiting line candidate adjacent to the parking-unavailable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka OKADA, Hiroaki SANO, Tetsuo YAMAMOTO, Atsushi YOSHIHARA, Jun KANETAKE, Ryo YOSHIMURA, Tomoki SHIDORI
  • Publication number: 20200060708
    Abstract: A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes: a multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a first operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a second operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a third operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first and second operation interfaces; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not an in-operation signal is turned on; until the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm is operated by at least one of the second operation interface and the third operation interface; and while the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multi-degree-of-freedom slave arm is operated by the first operation
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Medicaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto JINNO, Hiroaki SANO
  • Publication number: 20200060707
    Abstract: A remote operation-type surgery system is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a first operation interface configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm to make a movement of a medical instrument; a second operation interface configured to receive an operational instruction for the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first operation interface; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm, wherein the controller is configured to: determine whether or not in-operation signal is turned on; until the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm performs a movement based on the operational instruction via the second operation interface; and while the in-operation signal is turned on, control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multi-degree-of-freedom slave arm follows the movement of the first operation interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Medicaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20190393272
    Abstract: An organic device is provided. The device comprises a substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements formed on a first surface of the substrate. Each of the plurality of light emitting elements includes, from a side of the first surface, a first electrode, an organic layer formed on the first electrode and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. The organic device further comprises a third electrode formed between the first electrodes of adjacent light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting elements, and an insulating layer covering a portion between the first electrode and the third electrode, an end portion of the first electrode, and an end portion of the third electrode. The insulating layer includes a recess between the first electrode and the third electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20190392229
    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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuo YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki SANO, Akihiko SHIOTANI, Hiroki MORINAGA
  • Publication number: 20190360962
    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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: KENICHIRO KUSANO, ATSUHIKO OKADA, HIROAKI SANO, MASAO OKIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190305051
    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: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 10383647
    Abstract: This medical manipulator is provided with: an opening/closing drive transmission unit that transmits driving force for an opening/closing operation to a tip operation section from a handle side; and a rotary driving transmission unit that transmits rotary force for a rolling operation to the tip operation section from the handle. The rotary driving transmission unit has: a rolling drive transmission tube disposed rotatably within a shaft; a bevel gear provided to the joint between the shaft and the tip operation section; and a rotating sleeve that meshes with the bevel gear. A pull-wire having flexibility and configuring a portion of the opening/closing drive transmission unit extends through the inside of the joint to the inside of the tip operation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Shinji Ishida, Hiroaki Sano, Tsuneyoshi Suzuki, Hirofumi Mugishima
  • Patent number: 10340429
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: KOHA CO., LTD., TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Daisuke Inomata, Hiroaki Sano, Seitaro Yoshida, Kazuo Aoki, Kiyoshi Shimamura, Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora
  • Publication number: 20190123279
    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: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Itaru Takaya, Hirokazu Miyashita, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20190021753
    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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto JINNO, Hiroaki SANO
  • Patent number: 10111678
    Abstract: A medical manipulator is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom arm which can be mounted with a medical instrument, an insertion port position which indicates a spatial position of an insertion port for inserting the medical instrument mounted in the multiple-degree freedom arm into a human body is retained, and the multiple-degree freedom arm is controlled so as to insert the medical instrument into the human body from the retained insertion port position. The multiple-degree freedom arm is driven under operational restriction in which movement of the medical instrument is restricted by the insertion port position after the medical instrument is inserted from the insertion port position. The multiple-degree freedom arm is driven so as to move a predetermined portion of the medical instrument to spatial coordinates instructed by a user while maintaining a state where the medical instrument passes through the insertion port position under the operational restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 10103183
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an imaging device includes ion-implanting impurity ions of a second conductivity type into a first region and a second region using a first mask, the first region being disposed under a region to be an electric charge accumulation region and the second region being under an element isolation portion, continuous with the first region, and positioned shallower than the first region, and ion-implanting impurity ions of the second conductivity type into a third region and a fourth region using a second mask, the third region being disposed under the region and positioned shallower than the first region, and the fourth region being under the element isolation portion, continuous with the third region and the second region, and positioned shallower than the third region and the second region, wherein the first and the second mask cover a part of the element isolation portion and have an aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumihiro Inui, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 10064639
    Abstract: A medical manipulator is provided with a brake release mechanism. The brake release mechanism is provided with a release button which is provided on a tilt wheel, and a lever mechanism which has at least one portion arranged on the inside of the tilt wheel and which is pressed when the release button moves inwards. By the action of the lever mechanism when the release button is operated, braking by a brake mechanism is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Shinji Ishida, Hiroaki Sano, Tsuneyoshi Suzuki, Junichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20180182793
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an imaging device includes ion-implanting impurity ions of a second conductivity type into a first region and a second region using a first mask, the first region being disposed under a region to be an electric charge accumulation region and the second region being under an element isolation portion, continuous with the first region, and positioned shallower than the first region, and ion-implanting impurity ions of the second conductivity type into a third region and a fourth region using a second mask, the third region being disposed under the region and positioned shallower than the first region, and the fourth region being under the element isolation portion, continuous with the third region and the second region, and positioned shallower than the third region and the second region, wherein the first and the second mask cover a part of the element isolation portion and have an aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Fumihiro Inui, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 9999434
    Abstract: A medical manipulator is provided with a brake mechanism. The brake mechanism is provided with a brake rotor and a brake shoe which can contact the outer periphery of the brake rotor. On the outer periphery of the brake rotor, a first gear is provided along the circumference. On the portion of the brake shoe which is opposite of the outer periphery of the brake rotor, a second gear is provided which can mesh with the first gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Shinji Ishida, Hiroaki Sano, Tsuneyoshi Suzuki, Junichi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9946326
    Abstract: A user interface device includes: a proximity sensor configured to detect proximity of a user; an electrostatic switch configured to detect capacitance changes of a plurality of electrodes; an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration; and a microcomputer configured to control supply of electric current to the electrostatic switch and the acceleration sensor based on a detection result of the proximity sensor, and recognize a plurality of user operations based on detection results of the electrostatic switch and the acceleration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 9844416
    Abstract: A medical manipulator is disclosed, which includes a multiple-degree freedom arm which can be mounted with a medical instrument, an insertion port position which indicates a spatial position of an insertion port for inserting the medical instrument mounted in the multiple-degree freedom arm into a human body is retained. An insertion posture of the medical instrument is determined so as to cause an extended line of a major axis of the medical instrument to pass through the spatial position indicated by the retained insertion port position, outside the human body. The multiple-degree freedom arm is controlled so as to realize the determined insertion posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Jinno, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20170186923
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes an LED element, a side wall which surrounds the LED element, a phosphor layer which is fixed to the side wall with an adhesive layer therebetween, and is positioned above the LED element, and a metal pad as a heat dissipating member. The side wall includes an insulating base which surrounds the LED element and a metal layer which is formed on a side surface at the LED element side of the base, and is in contact with the metal pad and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer includes a resin layer that includes a resin containing particles which have higher thermal conductivity than the resin or a layer that includes solder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicants: KOHA CO., LTD., TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Hiroaki SANO, Seitaro YOSHIDA, Kazuo AOKI, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA