Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Aoki

Hiroshi Aoki 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: 8676146
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having a data transfer function of transferring the beforehand acquired adjustment data read out from the nonvolatile memory to the outside and a data storage function of storing actual use adjustment data sent thereto from the outside and supplying the stored actual use adjustment data to the internal component section; and a second integrated circuit including a signal processor, to which the interface section of the first integrated circuit is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naruhiro Yoshida, Hiroshi Aoki, Takahiro Okada, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Nobuo Kato, Taiwa Okanobu
  • Publication number: 20140063460
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first fundus image of an eye and a second fundus image of the eye; a first generation unit configured to generate, by performing processing of enhancing contrast of a first, characteristic region of a part of the first fundus image, an image which corresponds to the first characteristic region; a second generation unit configured to generate, by performing processing of enhancing contrast of a second characteristic region of a part of the second fundus image which corresponds to the first characteristic region, an image which corresponds to the second characteristic region; and a correction unit configured to correct an acquisition position of a tomographic image of the eye based, on a positional displacement between the images which respectively correspond to the first and second characteristic regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Dawid Borycki, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20140063452
    Abstract: This invention provides an ophthalmologic apparatus that requires no fixation line control instruction by an operator to a patient even when executing an inspection set including a plurality of scanning conditions. In an ophthalmologic apparatus including a scanning unit configured to scan measuring light on an eye to be inspected and execute measurement of the eye to be inspected, and a fixation unit configured to fixate the eye to be inspected to a desired measurement position, a determination unit configured to determine whether to cause the scanning unit to continue the measurement of the eye to be inspected in accordance with an inspection set, and a fixation target control unit configured to change the on state of the fixation unit when the determination unit has determined to continue the measurement are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8663577
    Abstract: A spotter that includes a plurality of spotting heads, each of the plurality of spotting heads having a discharging portion at a tip portion, the plurality of spotting heads form an m×n array (m, n>1) with m spotting heads arranged lengthwise and n spotting heads arranged crosswise; and a pitch varying mechanism configured to vary an array pitch of the plurality of spotting heads arrayed in a lengthwise direction and an array pitch of the plurality of spotting heads arrayed in a crosswise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Masaki Torimura, Hiroaki Tao, Takashi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140051289
    Abstract: A lance which protrudes from the outside surface of a terminal body to prevent falling out of a cavity of a connector housing includes a lance body of an inclined plate shape whose protruding length from the outer surface of the terminal body towards the outside gradually increases from the front end side of the terminal body to the back end side, and a shielding plate which extends from the back end edge of the lance body towards the outer surface of the terminal body so that an opening which opens towards a terminal back end is not formed between the back end edge of the lance body and the outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOKI, Osamu OSHITA
  • Publication number: 20140051307
    Abstract: In a terminal fitting, a lance engaged in a retaining recess in a cavity of a connector housing is arranged to protrude from the outside surface of a terminal body, and the lance is prevented from falling out of the cavity by the engagement of the lance and the retaining recess. The lance is a free end of a belt-form piece which is overlapped on the inner surface of a first outside wall of the terminal body which is raised up along an elastic displacement direction when the lance is engaged in the retaining recess, and which has a predetermined width in the elastic displacement direction and extends in parallel to an insertion direction in which the terminal fitting is inserted into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOKI, Osamu OSHITA
  • Publication number: 20140026406
    Abstract: A lever jig and a connector device includes: an opening/closing door configured to be displaced between an open position where the opening/closing door allows a connector to be attached to the lever jig and a close position where the opening/closing door prevents the connector positioned at an attachment position from being detached from the lever jig; a door holding portion configured to hold the opening/closing door at the close position; and an automatic door opening portion configured to move the opening/closing door at the close position to the open position against a holding force of the door holding portion at a point in time when a manipulation from a fitting manipulation start position to a fitting manipulation completion position is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOKI, Osamu OSHITA, Akihiro TSURUTA
  • Patent number: 8626396
    Abstract: A vehicular collision detection apparatus mounted to a vehicle comprises: a door beam that is arranged in a partitioned region partitioned between a door outer panel of a vehicle door, and a door inner panel of the vehicle door, and is displaced in accordance with a deformation of the door outer panel at the time of a vehicular collision; a cylindrical member that is arranged in the partitioned region and is compressed by the door beam at the time of the displacement of the door beam; a sealed cavity provided to the cylindrical member; a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure fluctuation of the cavity; a deriving portion configured to derive a displacement amount and displacement velocity of the door beam, based on the pressure fluctuation detected by the pressure sensor; and a determining portion configured to determine collision particulars of the vehicle based on the displacement amount and displacement velocity of the door beam derived by the deriving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Kazuya Oi
  • Patent number: 8610253
    Abstract: A lead frame includes a die stage; an inner lead provided near the die stage; and a bus bar provided between the die stage and the inner lead and supported by a hanging lead, wherein the hanging lead is inclined with respect to the inner lead, and a wire connection face of the bus bar is displaced with respect to a wire connection face of the inner lead in a direction of a frame thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Yurino, Hiroshi Aoki, Tatsuya Takaku
  • Publication number: 20130330125
    Abstract: A connector fitting jig for attaching and detaching a first housing and a second housing to and from each other by a low insertion and separation force, includes a cylindrical-shaped jig body, an inner cylinder member and a screw shaft. The inner cylinder member is inserted in the jig body and is held to be relatively movable only in an axial direction. The screw shaft is screwed with a threaded portion formed on an inner cylinder inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder member, and is held to be rotatable relative to a body other end of the jig body, but not to be relatively movable in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Osamu Oshita
  • Patent number: 8596784
    Abstract: A fundus camera includes an illumination unit to illuminate an ocular fundus of a subject's eye, an autofluorescent exciter filter insertable into and retractable from an illumination optical path of the illumination unit, an observation and photographing unit to receive reflection light from the ocular fundus illuminated by the illumination unit and form an ocular fundus image, an autofluorescent barrier filter insertable into and retractable from an observation and photographing optical path, an image capturing unit to capture an ocular fundus image, and a calculation unit to calculate image data, wherein the calculation unit converts the ocular fundus image which is illuminated using the autofluorescent exciter filter and captured by a color image capturing unit as a color image, in a state that no autofluorescent barrier filter is inserted into the observation and photographing unit, into a monochromatic image from specific color data of each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Okumura, Yasuhiro Dobashi, Yasuhiro Nakahara, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8576697
    Abstract: A mobile radio system comprises first through N-th radio base stations, where N represents a positive integer which is greater than one. On a start-up sequence of an n-th radio base station, a base station control apparatus transmits an n-th individual identifier as a station identifier, to the n-th radio base station to allocate the n-th individual identifier to the n-th radio base station, where n is a variable between one and N, both inclusive. The base station control apparatus transmits a transmission message signal having the n-th individual identifier as a transmission individual identifier to the n-th radio base station to carry out a link connection between the base station control apparatus and the n-th radio base station. In the n-th radio base station, an ATM reception section compares the transmission individual identifier with the n-th station identifier to abandon the transmission message signal when the transmission individual identifier is not coincident with the n-th station identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130267107
    Abstract: A connector includes a pair of male and female connector housings to be fitted and connected with each other, and one of the pair of male and female connector housings includes a protrusion protruding in the fitting direction such that a distal end thereof is protruded more toward a rear side of other of the pair of male and female connector housings than a rear end of the other connector housing when the one connector housing is positioned at a fitting start position with the other connector housing, and a rod supporting hole as defined herein; the other connector housing includes a raised portion as defined herein and an inclined surface as defined herein; and after the connector housings are positioned at the fitting start positions, the rod-shaped member is pressed from the rod supporting hole onto the inclined surface, thereby fitting and connecting the connector housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Osamu Oshita
  • Publication number: 20130267114
    Abstract: A male connector housing has a first projection whose leading end projects backward beyond a rear end of a female connector housing when the male connector housing is placed at a location where the male connector housing starts to fit into the female connector housing, and a first recess that is formed in a leading end of the first projection so that a tip of another rod-shaped member can be inserted; wherein the female connector housing has a second projection that is provided so as to oppose the leading end of the first projection, and a first contact surface that an exterior surface of the middle portion of the rod-shaped member whose tip is inserted into the first recess can contact. The rod-shaped member is utilized as a lever for bringing the male connector housing and the female connector housing into a fit connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Osamu Oshita
  • Publication number: 20130261029
    Abstract: A spotter that includes a plurality of spotting heads, each of the plurality of spotting heads having a discharging portion at a tip portion, the plurality of spotting heads form an m×n array (m, n>1) with m spotting heads arranged lengthwise and n spotting heads arranged crosswise; and a pitch varying mechanism configured to vary an array pitch of the plurality of spotting heads arrayed in a lengthwise direction and an array pitch of the plurality of spotting heads arrayed in a crosswise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOKI, Masaki TORIMURA, Hiroaki TAO, Takashi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 8534836
    Abstract: When pattern recognition of a fundus image is started in step S1, output from a fundus image sensing unit is compared with a regional pattern of stored fundus image specific regions in step S2, and it is decided whether to proceed to pattern recognition. If pattern recognition is possible, based on an AF evaluation value, the lens is driven, with which automatic focusing is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Shinya Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8514389
    Abstract: An aspect of an inspecting apparatus includes a profile measuring part measuring a profile of an object surface and an image detecting part detecting a light intensity distribution of the object surface by illuminating the object surface from mutually different plurality of directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130194542
    Abstract: In order to change a size of an imaging area of a tomographic image of an object to be inspected easily, provided is an optical tomographic apparatus for acquiring a tomographic image of an object to be inspected, the optical tomographic apparatus including a control unit for controlling a measuring light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of measuring light in a case where the size of the imaging area of the tomographic image is changed, and for controlling a reference light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of reference light in association with the change in the optical path length of the measuring light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Hirofumi Yoshida, Yukio Sakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130194541
    Abstract: In order to change a size of an imaging area of a tomographic image of an object to be inspected easily, provided is an optical tomographic apparatus for acquiring a tomographic image of an object to be inspected, the optical tomographic apparatus including a control unit for controlling a measuring light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of measuring light in a case where the size of the imaging area of the tomographic image is changed, and for controlling a movable unit for moving a focus lens for focusing the measuring light to the object to be inspected along an optical path to move the focus lens in association with the change in the optical path length of the measuring light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Hirofumi Yoshida, Yukio Sakagawa
  • Patent number: 8454820
    Abstract: Constitute a molecular recognition probe comprising: an electrochemically active group; an activity suppression group that suppresses an electrochemical activity of the electrochemically active group; a receptor area where a molecule of a target substance is specifically recognized; and a molecule area where a steric structure is changed as a result of molecular recognition; wherein the electrochemically active group is suppressed of its activity by the activity suppression group before the molecule is recognized and restores its activity after the molecule is recognized; or constitute a molecular recognition sensor by providing an anchor area on the molecular recognition probe and fixing it on a surface of an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Hiroaki Tao, Akiko Kitajima