Patents by Inventor Hiroki Miura

Hiroki Miura 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: 20070247270
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transformer apparatus configured by integrating an inverter transformer and balance transformer to be a downsized form, and a drive circuit using the transformer apparatus. The transformer apparatus comprises an inverter transformer having a core potion on which a primary coil and a secondary coil are wound, and a balance transformer having a core portion on which a primary coil and a secondary coil are wound, wherein the inverter transformer and the balance transformer are integrally formed by sharing a part of the core portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: SUMIDA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki Fushimi, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Hiroki Miura
  • Publication number: 20070172797
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed of constructing a computer-based musculoskeletal model physically representing bones and muscles of a human body. These techniques include: defining as a first pivot-axis-direction for a selected joint, a direction of an axis about which selected bone models are pivoted relative to each other in response to expansion/contraction of a selected muscle model; defining as a second pivot-axis-direction, a direction of an axis about which the selected bone models are pivoted relative to each other in response to a specified motion imparted to the human body; and redefining the first pivot-axis-direction, as a function of a relative angle of the first pivot-axis-direction to the second pivot-axis-direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Masatoshi HADA, Daisuke Yamada, Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 7113213
    Abstract: An image system uses an amplification-type MOS sensor for receiving an optical image through a photoelectric conversion element, converting the image into an electrical signal, and outputting the signal. This system includes an optical system for guiding this optical image to a predetermined position, an image processing means having a sensor for photoelectrically converting the optical image guided to the predetermined position by the optical system into an electrical signal in units of pixels, and a signal process device for processing an output from the image processing means, and outputting the resultant data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Keiji Mabuchi, Shinji Ohsawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hiroki Miura, Nagataka Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20060023114
    Abstract: A camera apparatus is disclosed, including a connector, an image capturing section, and a communication section. The connector is detachably fit to an elongated opening portion of a duct member in which a pair of elongated conductors are disposed along the elongated opening portion. The connector has a pair of terminals that are brought into contact with the pair of conductors. The image capturing section is held by the connector and captures an image of an object and obtains video data. The communication section is held by the connector and wirelessly transmits the video data obtained by the image capturing section. A power supply is connected to the pair of conductors of the duct member. When the connector is fit to the opening portion, the pair of terminals are brought into contact with the pair of conductors and power is supplied to the image capturing section and the communication section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Shibuya, Hiroki Miura, Hiroki Oka
  • Publication number: 20050012839
    Abstract: An MOS-type solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging region formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit cells serving as photoelectric conversion portions on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of vertical address lines arranged in a row direction of the imaging region to select a row of unit cells to be addressed, a plurality of vertical signal lines arranged in a column direction of the imaging region to read out signals from the unit cells in each column, a plurality of load transistors each connected to one end of each of the vertical signal lines, and a plurality of horizontal selection transistors each connected to the other end of each of the vertical signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Shinji Ohsawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6840104
    Abstract: Measurement is made of centrifugal force produced on a crankshaft to be tested that is being rotated about its rotation axis, to provide centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft. Also, measurement is made of errors in respective rotational phases of crankpins of the crankshaft about rotation axes of the crankpins. Dummy information, comprising rotational unbalance data representative of rotational unbalance components to be removed from the centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft, is created using the measured errors in the respective rotational phases. Then, an initial rotational unbalance value of the crankshaft is determined, using the dummy information and the centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiji Tamura, Yasunori Yamazaki, Joseph Makin, Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6795121
    Abstract: An MOS-type solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging region formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit cells serving as photoelectric conversion portions on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of vertical address lines arranged in a row direction of the imaging region to select a row of unit cells to be addressed, a plurality of vertical signal lines arranged in a column direction of the imaging region to read out signals from the unit cells in each column, a plurality of load transistors each connected to one end of each of the vertical signal lines, and a plurality of horizontal selection transistors each connected to the other end of each of the vertical signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Shinji Ohsawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6786093
    Abstract: Balancing apparatus that supports and rotates a body to be measured with a rotating mechanism so that the body vibrates due to the dynamic imbalance thereof. The vibration of the body is transmitted to a vibration member and then detected by a sensor. A vibrator is connected to the vibration member. The vibrator applies to the vibration member a vibration that is an inverse of a vibration that will be generated in the vibration member by an ideal body having an ideal dynamic imbalance. By detecting the vibration remaining in the vibration member, the balancing apparatus measures the deviation of the dynamic imbalance of the body from the ideal dynamic imbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Kokusai Keisokuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Miura
  • Publication number: 20040140971
    Abstract: In a captured image outputting system, an image shot by an image capturing device is, upon shooting the image thereby, instantaneously transmitted to a display control device of a display system via wireless communication. The display system instantaneously projects the received image on a projection screen. The display system is comprised of a display device and a display control device. A liquid crystal projector may serve as the display device whereas an optional device, for use in wireless communication, connected to image input terminals of the liquid crystal projector may serve as the display control device. A digital still camera may serve as the image capturing device capable of carrying out wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Yasuaki Inoue, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Hiroki Miura
  • Publication number: 20040109066
    Abstract: Digital cameras which improve operability in checking, storing, and editing shot images have not been satisfactory. A digital camera and a user terminal including a file server are connected over a network. When the digital camera is powered on, it automatically establishes a network connection with the file server in an activation process. When the digital camera shoots an image, this image is transmitted to the file server automatically upon completion of the encoding and compression of the image. When image reproduction is instructed from the digital camera, the image is downloaded from the file sever over the network and displayed on the digital camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Inoue, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Kyoichi Takano, Hiroki Miura
  • Publication number: 20030230142
    Abstract: Measurement is made of centrifugal force produced on a crankshaft to be tested that is being rotated about its rotation axis, to provide centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft. Also, measurement is made of errors in respective rotational phases of crankpins of the crankshaft about rotation axes of the crankpins. Dummy information, comprising rotational unbalance data representative of rotational unbalance components to be removed from the centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft, is created using the measured errors in the respective rotational phases. Then, an initial rotational unbalance value of the crankshaft is determined, using the dummy information and the centrifugal force variation information of the crankshaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicants: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kokusai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Tamura, Yasunori Yamazaki, Joseph Makin, Hiroki Miura
  • Publication number: 20030213302
    Abstract: Balancing apparatus that supports and rotates a body to be measured with a rotating mechanism so that the body vibrates due to the dynamic imbalance thereof. The vibration of the body is transmitted to a vibration member and then detected by a sensor. A vibrator is connected to the vibration member. The vibrator applies to the vibration member a vibration that is an inverse of a vibration that will be generated in the vibration member by an ideal body having an ideal dynamic imbalance. By detecting the vibration remaining in the vibration member, the balancing apparatus measures the deviation of the dynamic imbalance of the body from the ideal dynamic imbalance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventor: Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6631640
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for accurately measuring an initial imbalance deviating from a predetermined imbalance, when the predetermined imbalance is to be left in a body of rotation. In the method and apparatus, data relating to the predetermined imbalance is stored in a memory 27 as dummy value information. The vibration of a crank shaft 1 during rotation is detected by vibration sensors 6L, 6R to obtain analogue vibration signals WDL, WDR. The rotational angle position of the crank shaft 1 is detected by a photo sensor 8 and, in response, the above described dummy value information is converted to analogue dummy signals DLX, DLY, DRX and DRY by multi D/A converters 12L, 12R, 13L and 13R. These analogue dummy signals are removed from the analogue vibration signals to obtain analogue initial imbalance signals WL, WR, which are converted by D/A converter to obtain the digital initial imbalance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Kokusai Keisokuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6507365
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device with a variable (continuous) electronic shutter function comprises an imaging area where unit cells with photodiodes acting as pixels are arranged two-dimensionally, read lines for driving the read transistors in each pixel row, vertical selection lines for driving the vertical selection transistors in each pixel row, a vertical driving circuit for selectively driving vertical selection lines, vertical signal lines for outputting the signal from each unit cell in the pixel rows driven sequentially, and a row selection circuit for controlling the vertical driving circuit in such a manner that the vertical driving circuit drives the read transistors in each pixel row with the desired signal storage timing and signal read timing twice in that order and thereby drives the vertical selection transistors in the pixel row in synchronization with the signal read timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Nobuo Nakamura, Yoshitaka Egawa, Shinji Ohsawa, Yukio Endo, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Yoriko Tanaka, Fumio Izawa, Hiroki Miura, Ryohei Miyagawa, Ikuko Inoue, Tsuyoshi Arakawa, Yoshiyuki Tomizawa, Makoto Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6501506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid image pick-up unit which can restrict a variation in the leakage charge quantity at the light emitting time and non-emitting time of the LED and in which a signal charge quantity can be increased and adjusted without increasing the number of LED. A photodiode is connected to two sample-hold transistors for transferring charges to two sample-hold capacitors respectively through a transfer transistor, and is also connected to a reset transistor and an amplification transistor through the transfer transistor. Further, the amplification transistor is connected with an address transistor. The two sample-hold capacitors are disposed at positions symmetrical with the center of the n-diffusion layer of the photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6477596
    Abstract: With respect to design regarding a bus cycle, it has been necessary to consider a data conflict, if an output disable time of a device is long. A bus controlling unit is installed in a processor. In the bus controlling unit, parameters regarding output disable times of external devices such as a first device are utilized. When a device with a long output disable time is read in a bus cycle, an idle state is forcibly inserted before a following bus cycle activation to avoid a data conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Miura, Yasuhito Koumura, Kenshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20020149688
    Abstract: An MOS-type solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging region formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit cells serving as photoelectric conversion portions on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of vertical address lines arranged in a row direction of the imaging region to select a row of unit cells to be addressed, a plurality of vertical signal lines arranged in a column direction of the imaging region to read out signals from the unit cells in each column, a plurality of load transistors each connected to one end of each of the vertical signal lines, and a plurality of horizontal selection transistors each connected to the other end of each of the vertical signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Shinji Ohsawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hiroki Miura
  • Patent number: 6385714
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus uses a stored-program method to execute an operation instructed by an instruction word that includes a register designation code as an operand. A plurality of work registers are identifiable by register numbers, each of a typical number of bits. A correspondence table holds at least one of the register numbers in a state corresponding to register designation codes. The codes are stored in a readable condition, and have fewer bits than the register numbers. The data processing apparatus refers to the correspondence table when executing the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Koumura, Hiroki Miura, Kenshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20020002668
    Abstract: When a process branches to an interrupt processing routine, the value stored in a return address holding register ERP is transferred to a register R2 via the initial MOVS instruction. Upon the next SETPR instruction (an acceptable interrupt level setting instruction), an EA (interrupt allowance) flag is automatically set at 1, whereby multiple interrupts are allowed. For process returning, the value saved in the register R2 is transferred to the ERP register via a data transfer instruction MOVS, upon which the EA flag is automatically set at 0 to thereby inhibit receipt of interrupt requests. Upon execution of the last RETI instruction, receipt of interrupt requests is again allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: HIROKI MIURA, YASUHITO KOUMURA, KENSHI MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20010052941
    Abstract: An image system uses an amplification-type MOS sensor for receiving an optical image through a photoelectric conversion element, converting the image into an electrical signal, and outputting the signal. This system includes an optical system for guiding this optical image to a predetermined position, an image processing means having a sensor for photoelectrically converting the optical image guided to the predetermined position by the optical system into an electrical signal in units of pixels, and a signal process device for processing an output from the image processing means, and outputting the resultant data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Keiji Mabuchi, Shinji Ohsawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Hirofumi Yamashita, Hiroki Miura, Nagataka Tanaka