Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hattori
Hiroshi Hattori 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).
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Patent number: 7990566Abstract: An image forming device configured as follows. A user is allowed to select desired print data files to be printed from among print data files stored in an external storage. A file list generating unit generates a list of the desired print data files selected by the user. The list includes an order of the desired print data files. A page arrangement unit arranges each page of the desired print data files on each recording sheet based on the list of the desired print data, a print mode and a total number of pages of the desired print data files. Blank pages to be added to complete the arrangement of pages of the print data files with respect to the recording sheets are generated. Page data is retrieved based on the arrangement of pages and is converted to image data, which is printed by an image data printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Hattori
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Publication number: 20110169626Abstract: A system for aiding a user when travelling in a vehicle with a portable, handheld electronic device includes a sensor that detects an object outside the vehicle and that detects a condition regarding movement of the vehicle with respect to the object outside the vehicle. The sensor is supported in the vehicle for travel with the vehicle. The system also includes a communication system that allows the vehicle and the electronic device to communicate a signal therebetween. The signal relates to the condition detected by the sensor. Furthermore, the system includes an output device included on at least one of the vehicle and the electronic device. The output device is operable to output an alarm based on the signal communicated between the vehicle and the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Bo Sun, Hisanori Miura, Hiroshi Hattori
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Patent number: 7957556Abstract: An object such as a person is extracted from images captured by cameras (2R, 2L) to determine the degree of vertical symmetry of the object (step 33). In the case where the degree of vertical symmetry is determined to be high, the object is determined to be other than a living body (step 33a). In the case where the degree of vertical symmetry is determined to be low, the object is determined likely to be a living body (step 33b). In the case where determined likely to be a living body, the object is further determined to be a predetermined kind of living body (for example, a person) or not based on the image of the object (steps 34 and 35). This allows an extremely reliable and simple determination of whether the type of the object extracted from the image captured by the camera is a living body such as a person.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Aimura, Hiroshi Hattori, Akio Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110109739Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring device is operable to recognize with high accuracy whether or not an object is a designated quadruped animal. According to the vehicle periphery monitoring device, for determining whether or not a first object region and a second object region correspond to the designated quadruped animal according to whether or not the aspect ratio of the first object region is equal to or greater 1, a plurality of the second object regions are extracted, and it is determined whether the ratio of the vertical dimension of the second object region to the vertical dimension of the first object region lies within the range of the ratio of the leg vertical dimension to the torso vertical dimension of a common designated quadruped animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Aimura, Masakazu Saka, Hiroshi Hattori
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Publication number: 20110032555Abstract: A printer includes an input unit, a cell-size changing unit, a print data creating unit, and a printing unit. The input unit receives table data describing a table including a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of cells has a size. The cell-size changing unit is configured to be capable of changing the size of a cell that is associated with a formula. The print data creating unit creates print data for printing a cell-size changed table that includes the size changed cell in a predetermined part of a recording sheet such that the formula fits entirely within the size changed cell, if the cell-size changing unit changes the size of the cell. The printing unit prints the cell-size changed table based on the print data in the predetermined part of the recording sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norio MIZUTANI, Hiroshi HATTORI
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Patent number: 7875994Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag control IC constructed with a control signal generating circuit, a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element. Based on a signal for controlling the low-side switching element, on a signal for controlling a safety switching element and on a check mode signal, the control signal generating circuit adjusts the timing of the signal for controlling the high-side switching element so that the high-side switching element is turned on last. Therefore, the high-side switching element is turned on last. This suppresses the occurrence of an overshoot current.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Hattori, Toshihiro Nishimura
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Patent number: 7855343Abstract: A measuring device is arranged to store a block or group of a plurality of objects in a state where the objects are congested in the block, to suppress the scattering magnification of the objects when the objects are dropped off to prevent failures such as seal bite in a filling device disposed below the measuring device, to shorten the dropping length of the objects, and to reduce the contact resistance of the objects to a receiving opening of the filling device during the objects are dropped off to attain the discharging speed of the objects. The shapes and opening degrees of a gate unit can be changed so that a lower opening of a hopper is disposed inside the receiving opening of the filling device in a top plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hattori, Teruo Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20100245266Abstract: A handwriting processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate information of handwriting input by an input unit and attribute information, the attribute information indicating a type of input of the handwriting; a determining unit configured to determined a kind of the handwriting using the attribute information; a handwriting processing unit configured to perform handwriting processing corresponding to the kind of the handwriting using the coordinate information; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a result of the handwriting processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yojiro Tonouchi, Ryuzo Okada, Mieko Asano, Hiroshi Hattori, Tsukasa Ike, Akihito Seki, Hidetaka Ohira
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Publication number: 20100219002Abstract: A measuring device is arranged to store a block or group of a plurality of objects in a state where the objects are congested in the block, to suppress the scattering magnification of the objects when the objects are dropped off to prevent failures such as seal bite in a filling device disposed below the measuring device, to shorten the dropping length of the objects, and to reduce the contact resistance of the objects to a receiving opening of the filling device during the objects are dropped off to attain the discharging speed of the objects. The shapes and opening degrees of a gate unit can be changed so that a lower opening of a hopper is disposed inside the receiving opening of the filling device in a top plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hattori, Teruo Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7781933Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a winding arrangement of single star connection for a rotating electrical machine, capable of enhancing insulation performance in coils of the same phase. In such winding arrangement, a first coil U1 to a sixth coil U6 are formed respectively in coil arranging parts 1U to 6U. Next, a coil arranging part 7U is skipped and the seventh coil U7 is formed in a coil arranging part 8U. Then, a coil formed at the end of winding (eighth coil U8) is formed in the skipped coil arranging part 7U.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Koide, Yasuhiko Ishimaru, Hiroshi Hattori
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Patent number: 7770713Abstract: A storage hopper temporarily stores articles supplied from above and then discharges the articles downward. The storage hopper includes a holding member of an article holding change mechanism in a storage portion. The holding member changes a state in which the articles are held in the storage portion according to a state of the articles.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Nakagawa, Hiroshi Hattori, Teruo Hayakawa
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Patent number: 7772714Abstract: A passive safety device for vehicles to ensure the characteristics of a power source for a drive circuit and further simplify circuitry and reduce costs is provided. An airbag device includes a battery, a voltage converter, a backup power source, a FET driver circuit, a FET, and a power source for the FET driver circuit. The driver circuit power source includes capacitors, the capacitance of which are so set that, when the output voltage is interrupted, the voltage of the driver circuit power source more gently drops than that of the backup power source 4, making it unnecessary to use a charge pump circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2008Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Hattori
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Patent number: 7754984Abstract: A transportation device capable of smoothly transporting even an object having a sticky surface or the like and a weighing device including the same are provided. A transportation device is for transporting an object placed on a trough in a predetermined direction by reciprocating the trough by a parallel link mechanism, and a control unit controls the rotation driving of a rotatable motor such that the trough moves forward with respect to the transportation direction at a higher velocity than backward.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Sugioka, Hiroshi Hattori, Masaya Fujii, Takuya Iwasa, Takuyu Kubo
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Patent number: 7732718Abstract: A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, conveying units and weighing units. The dispersion unit is arranged to radially disperse product material. The conveying units are arranged around a periphery of the dispersion unit. The weighing units are arranged around a periphery of the conveying units. Each of the conveying units includes a trough. At least one of the troughs has a cross-sectional diameter that gradually increases generally from the inside end to the outside end so that the one of the troughs and an adjacent one of the troughs are kept in contact with each other from the inside ends to the outside ends. At least one of the conveying units has a spiral member disposed over a bottom surface of the trough. The spiral member is configured and arranged to convey the product material supplied from the dispersion unit toward the outside end of the trough.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Tatsuoka, Hiroshi Hattori, Mikio Kishikawa
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Patent number: 7720277Abstract: Apparatus includes unit configured to compute parallax search range in (x-y-d) three-dimensional space formed of three variables (x and y providing first point (x, y) on first image and parallax candidate d), similarity unit configured to compute degree-of-similarity C (x, y, d) between point (x, y) and second point (x?, y?) corresponding to point (x, y), using sum of products of brightness levels of corresponding pixel pairs between first window on first image and second window on second image, first window including first point (x, y) second window including second point (x?, y?) and unit configured to compute parallax D between first point (x, y) and second point (x?, y?), based on C (x, y, d), where similarity unit includes unit configured to store sum, which is used for computing C (x, y, d) between new first point on first image and new second point on second image.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Hiroshi Hattori
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Patent number: 7706572Abstract: An obstacle detection system using stereo cameras mounted on a vehicle, to detect an obstacle existing on a ground plane at a high speed and in a high precision even with the stereo cameras being uncalibrated and with a vibration during a traveling and a change in the inclination of the ground plane. The obstacle detection system comprises: a plurality of uncalibrated TV cameras for inputting stereo images; an image storage unit 2 for storing a plurality of images inputted from the TV cameras; a feature extraction unit 3 for extracting a plurality of mutually parallel lines existing on the ground plane; a parameter computation unit 4 for determining a relation to hold between the projected positions of an arbitrary point of the ground plane upon the individual images, from the plurality of lines extracted by the feature extraction unit 3; and a detection unit 5 for detecting an object having a height from the ground plane, by using the relation determined by the parameter computation unit 4.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Hattori, Kazunori Onoguchi, Nobuyuki Takeda
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Publication number: 20100060916Abstract: A controller for a printing device including a print performing unit may be provided with a data file selecting unit, an index printing data generating unit, and a providing unit. The data file selecting unit may sequentially select a data file from a plurality of data files. The index printing data generating unit may generate index printing data including plural sets of printing data corresponding to plural data files, by sequentially processing the sequentially selected data file using a memory, and by sequentially storing a set of printing data in the memory, wherein the set of printing data defines an image described by the sequentially selected data file. The providing unit may provide the index printing data to the print performing unit each time when the index printing data is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Hattori
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Publication number: 20100053659Abstract: A multi-function device may be connected with a color printer capable of printing in a communicable manner. The multi-function device may be configured to store identification information of the color printer, to color-scan an object to be scanned, to monochrome-print based on first image data representing an scanned object, to allow a user to input an instruction, and to send second image data representing a color-scanned object with the identification information of the color printer as a destination if a predetermined instruction is input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi HATTORI
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Publication number: 20100046471Abstract: A downlink data frame addressed to a terminal is copied and obtained downlink data frames are transmitted through different APs, respectively. When a plurality of same uplink data frames are received through the different APs, any one uplink data frame selected out of the uplink data frames is transmitted to its destination. An uplink data frame received from the terminal is copied and obtained uplink data frames are transmitted through different STAs, respectively. When a plurality of same downlink data frames are received through different STAs, any one downlink data frame selected out of the downlink data frames is transmitted to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hattori, Toshinori Hori, Toshiaki Tomisawa, Yoshihiko Shirokura
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Publication number: 20090277692Abstract: A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, conveying units and weighing units. The dispersion unit is arranged to radially disperse product material. The conveying units are arranged around a periphery of the dispersion unit. The weighing units are arranged around a periphery of the conveying units. Each of the conveying units includes a trough. At least one of the troughs has a cross-sectional diameter that gradually increases generally from the inside end to the outside end so that the one of the troughs and an adjacent one of the troughs are kept in contact with each other from the inside ends to the outside ends. At least one of the conveying units has a spiral member disposed over a bottom surface of the trough. The spiral member is configured and arranged to convey the product material supplied from the dispersion unit toward the outside end of the trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiko TATSUOKA, Hiroshi HATTORI, Mikio KISHIKAWA