Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Tasaka

Hirokazu Tasaka 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: 11846874
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a disk-shaped base portion having a hook portion and fixed to a fixed surface and, an apparatus main body mounting a camera portion and a connector, having a base hinge to be locked to the hook portion, and suspended from the base portion by locking the base hinge to the hook portion, an engagement mechanism engaging the apparatus main body and the base portion such that the apparatus main body and the base portion are not able to be separated from each other in a state that the apparatus main body is rotated in a direction approaching the base portion with the hook portion locking the base hinge as a fulcrum and the apparatus main body is parallel to the base portion, and a dome cover assembly watertightly covering the camera portion and the connector and attached to the apparatus main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Satoshi Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20230114363
    Abstract: A monitoring camera includes a plurality of camera units mounted in a circumferential direction of a device body, and a dome cover assembly including a dome cover collectively covering the plurality of camera units. The dome cover includes a water droplet guide surface continuous with an R surface and tilted downward as approaching an axis of the dome cover, and a water droplet receiving portion continuous with the water droplet guide surface. The camera unit includes a camera rotating a lens center axis on the virtual plane about a tilt rotation center in a direction perpendicular to the virtual plane. The water droplet receiving portion is provided outside of a field angle boundary of a field angle of the camera close to the axis in a state where the camera is tilted toward the axis side at a maximum tilt angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: i-PRO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Satoshi KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230098781
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a disk-shaped base portion having a hook portion and fixed to a fixed surface and, an apparatus main body mounting a camera portion and a connector, having a base hinge to be locked to the hook portion, and suspended from the base portion by locking the base hinge to the hook portion, an engagement mechanism engaging the apparatus main body and the base portion such that the apparatus main body and the base portion are not able to be separated from each other in a state that the apparatus main body is rotated in a direction approaching the base portion with the hook portion locking the base hinge as a fulcrum and the apparatus main body is parallel to the base portion, and a dome cover assembly watertightly covering the camera portion and the connector and attached to the apparatus main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Satoshi KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 11423749
    Abstract: A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yusuke Mamiya, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210272432
    Abstract: A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Yusuke MAMIYA, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180115759
    Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display that displays a video image captured by the camera; a sound collector that collects sound; an input device that receives designation of at least one designated location in the video image displayed on the display. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to the at least one designated location. The processor displays at least one identification shape at the at least one designated location. In response to receiving re-designation of one of the at least one designated location by the input device, the processor outputs audio data in which emphasis of sound stops in a direction from the position of the sound collector toward the position corresponding to the re-designated location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
  • Publication number: 20180115760
    Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display, having a rectangular display region, that displays a video image in a circular video-image display region smaller than the rectangular display region; and a sound collector that collects sound. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to at least one designated location in the video image. In response to receiving designation outside the video-image display region, the processor displays a state display area or an adjustment operation area for the sound to be output from the speaker in a rectangular region which has a diagonal line extending from one of four corners of the rectangular display region to a center of the video-image display region and intersecting with a boundary line of the video-image display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
  • Patent number: 9826211
    Abstract: A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sawa, Shinichi Shigenaga, Toshimichi Tokuda, Shintaro Yoshikuni, Shuichi Watanabe, Tadashi Maki, Hirokazu Tasaka, Susumu Ono, Keisuke Fujimoto, Shojiro Matsuo, Teppei Fukuda, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Akitoshi Izumi, Hisashi Tsuji, Kazunori Hayashi, Ryoichi Yuge
  • Patent number: 9716816
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a dome cover whose inside is a housing space for housing a lens module, an apparatus main body that is attached with the dome cover, a first support member that is supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member that is supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, an illumination mount that is provided with an illumination member and is supported at the second support member, and a ring-shaped light shielding cover that is provided on the illumination mount, surrounds the illumination member, and comes into close contact with an inner surface of the dome cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Urano, Hirokazu Tasaka, Akito Omata
  • Patent number: 9699359
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Urano, Hirokazu Tasaka, Akito Omata
  • Publication number: 20160255251
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji URANO, Hirokazu TASAKA, Akito OMATA
  • Publication number: 20160255255
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a dome cover whose inside is a housing space for housing a lens module, an apparatus main body that is attached with the dome cover, a first support member that is supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member that is supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, an illumination mount that is provided with an illumination member and is supported at the second support member, and a ring-shaped light shielding cover that is provided on the illumination mount, surrounds the illumination member, and comes into close contact with an inner surface of the dome cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji URANO, Hirokazu TASAKA, Akito OMATA
  • Publication number: 20150350621
    Abstract: A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
  • Patent number: 6842597
    Abstract: A color image formation apparatus includes a plurality of stages of photosensitive drums provided for respective developing agents, the photosensitive drums arranged in a predetermined direction; and developer units which are provided for respective photosensitive drums and which develop electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive drums, wherein an overlap exists in the predetermined direction between a portion of each photosensitive drum and a portion of the developer unit provided so as to correspond to an adjacent photosensitive drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Yuzo Kawano, Masakazu Aoki, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20030165346
    Abstract: A color image formation apparatus includes a plurality of stages of photosensitive drums provided for respective developing agents, the photosensitive drums arranged in a predetermined direction; and developer units which are provided for respective photosensitive drums and which develop electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive drums, wherein an overlap exists in the predetermined direction between a portion of each photosensitive drum and a portion of the developer unit provided so as to correspond to an adjacent photosensitive drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yamaguchi, Yuzo Kawano, Masakazu Aoki, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: D973120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Katori, Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yusuke Mamiya