Patents by Inventor Junichi Saito

Junichi Saito 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: 11974432
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of electrode films on a substrate, spaced from one another in a first direction. A charge storage film is provided on a side face the electrode films via a first insulating film. A semiconductor film is provided on a side face of the charge storage film via a second insulating film. The charge storage film includes a plurality of insulator regions contacting the first insulating film, a plurality of semiconductor or conductor regions provided between the insulator regions and another insulator region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yuta Saito, Keiichi Sawa, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Yuta Kamiya, Shinji Mori, Kota Takahashi, Junichi Kaneyama, Tomoki Ishimaru, Kenichiro Toratani, Ha Hoang, Shouji Honda, Takafumi Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11929049
    Abstract: An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihide Saito, Yumiko Matsuura, Kiyoshi Nakahama, Masahiro Watanabe, Junichi Sawase, Sayaka Teranaka
  • Patent number: 11924558
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, a control method thereof, and a storage medium, the image pickup apparatus being capable of shooting a plurality of still images under an appropriate exposure condition when the image pickup apparatus including a camera system performs alignment composition of the still images shot in a time continuous manner. An exposure time for each of the still images and a total number of the still images are set based on the focal length information, the optical image blur correction angle information, and the response characteristic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20240071087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma Oami, Kenichiro IDA, Mika Saito, Shohzoh Nagahama, Akinari Furukawa, Yasumasa Ohtsuka, Junichi Fukuda, Fumi Ikeda, Manabu Moriyama, Fumie Einaga, Tatsunori Yamagami, Keisuke Hirayama, Yoshitsugu Kumano, Hiroki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20240071086
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma OAMI, Kenichiro IDA, Mika SAITO, Shohzoh NAGAHAMA, Akinari FURUKAWA, Yasumasa OHTSUKA, Junichi FUKUDA, Fumi IKEDA, Manabu MORIYAMA, Fumie EINAGA, Tatsunori YAMAGAMI, Keisuke ` HIRAYAMA, Yoshitsugu KUMANO, Hiroki ADACHI
  • Patent number: 11902488
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires N-valued image data corresponding to an image including at least one object, and edge data indicating an edge area of the object, an image processing unit that generates M-valued (N>M?2) quantized data where each of a plurality of pixels is associated with one of a value indicating that no dot is to be recorded and a value indicating that a dot is to be recorded, based on the acquired image data, using an image processing parameter, and a changing unit that changes at least one pixel among pixels that indicate the edge area of the object in the edge data and have the value indicating that no dot is to be recorded in the quantized data so that the at least one pixel has the value indicating that the dot is to be recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Nagai, Satoshi Wada, Yoshinori Nakajima, Hidehiko Kanda, Takeshi Yazawa, Shingo Nishioka, Keiji Kuriyama, Junichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20240009768
    Abstract: A head attachment is attached to a welding head of a laser welding machine. The head attachment includes an opening through which a laser beam emitted from the welding head for irradiation to a weld position passes. A gas blow nozzle is attached to the side of the head attachment and blows shielding gas to the weld position. The gas blow nozzle includes a main nozzle that is disposed closer to the head attachment and is supplied with the shielding gas by a first gas pipe, and a sub-nozzle that is disposed so as to be adjacent to the main nozzle and farther away from the head attachment than the main nozzle and is supplied with the shielding gas by a second gas pipe. The sub-nozzle is removable from the main nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide KATO, Junichi SAITO, Daisuke KANZAKI, Tatsuya AMANO
  • Publication number: 20230421901
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a first detector that detects a subject area of a predetermined subject from each of a plurality of images; a second detector that detects a partial area of a predetermined size that includes the subject area from each of the plurality of images; a feature point detector that detects a feature point of an image; and a synthesizer that synthesizes the partial areas of the plurality of images so that the feature points in the subject areas match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Junichi SAITO
  • Patent number: 11831987
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a drive mode for first and second correction units based on a focal length, and a control unit that drives the correction units in the selected mode. The first correction unit moves an optical element. The second correction unit moves a sensor. The selection unit selects a first mode if the focal length is a first value, and selects a second mode if the focal length is a second value larger than the first value. With the first mode selected, if a shake amount is a threshold or less, the first correction unit is driven based on the shake amount, and if the shake amount is larger than the threshold, the correction units are driven based on the shake amount. With the second mode selected, the correction units are driven based on the shake amount and a drive ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Saito, Masafumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11813853
    Abstract: To provide a technology capable of appropriately suppressing deterioration in cutting accuracy of a slitter although the rigidity of a print medium changes, a printing apparatus is equipped with: a first conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium; a printing unit configured to print an image by applying ink to the print medium conveyed by the first conveyance unit; a cutting unit disposed on a downstream side in a conveyance direction in which the print medium is conveyed by the first conveyance unit and configured to cut the print medium, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction; and a second conveyance unit disposed on the cutting unit, and the printing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct a parameter related to conveyance of at least one of the first conveyance unit and the second conveyance unit, based on information about the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawafuji, Hiroshi Taira, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Akiko Aichi, Satoshi Azuma, Sae Mogi, Kei Yoshizawa, Shingo Nishioka, Junichi Saito, Hajime Nagai, Naoko Baba, Yuji Konno, Serena Yoshikawa, Satoshi Wada
  • Publication number: 20230317245
    Abstract: The present invention is a medical treatment system using an information processing terminal and an information processing network, and a method using said system, wherein the objective of the invention is to provide: a system that performs optimal medical treatment to a patient on the basis of a diagnostic cross-sectional assessment and/or a disease-specific assessment, such that treatment using process-based CBT is possible; and a method using said system. Toward this end, this system (100) has: a block (10A1: diagnostic cross-sectional assessment part) having a function for, while using normal lifestyle date, assessing the degree to which a patient is adaptively behaving, or non-adaptively behaving, in response to psychosocial issue, lifestyle adaptation, stress, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, LOGOS SCIENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki KUMANO, Junichi SAITO, Naoki URUSHIHATA, Hideki TANEMURA, Mohammad GHAZIZADEH, Chigusa SHIMOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11773161
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of enabling efficient structural analysis of a target protein that has been impossible or difficult to analyze so far, by stabilizing the target protein. The present invention provides an anti-BRIL antibody which specifically binds to BRIL or a BRIL fusion protein and an antigen-binding fragment thereof, a nucleic acid encoding the anti-BRIL antibody and the antigen-binding fragment thereof, a vector containing the nucleic acid, an antibody producing cell containing the vector, a method of producing the antibody, and a method of using the antibody in a protein structural analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KYOWA KIRIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Miyagi, Michihiko Suzuki, Junichi Saito, Hidetsugu Asada, So Iwata
  • Patent number: 11766882
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image processing unit and generates a product by performing printing on a print medium conveyed in a conveyance direction intersecting a width direction, based on data for printing, and then cutting a width-direction end portion of a printed image, wherein the image processing unit calculates a first ink application amount of a first area formed at one end portion in the width direction on a leading edge side of the image which is located on a downstream side in the conveyance direction during printing and a second ink application amount of a second area formed at the other end in the width direction on the leading edge and enlarges the image data at a predetermined ratio to obtain the data for printing in a case where at least one of the first ink application amount and the second ink application amount exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Konno, Satoshi Wada, Naoko Baba, Hajime Nagai, Shingo Nishioka, Kei Yoshizawa, Junichi Saito, Serena Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20230224581
    Abstract: An evaluation method for an image stabilization effect of an imaging apparatus comprising: acquiring a first image obtained by imaging an object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is vibrated; acquiring a second image obtained by imaging the object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is stationary; and calculating an evaluation value indicating an image stabilization effect in a peripheral region of the imaging apparatus, based on a difference in blur amounts between the first image and the second image in the peripheral region deviated from the center of an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Ryuichiro YASUDA, Junichi SAITO, Mitsuhiro SAITO, Shimpei ITAGAKI, Go NAITO, Kyosuke SATO, Tomomi UESUGI, Naoki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230217112
    Abstract: A control apparatus, which controls an image pickup system including a first apparatus that is one of an image pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus and a second apparatus that is the other, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information on a first image stabilizing remaining amount at an off-axis image height according to correction by a first image shake corrector provided in the first apparatus and second information on a second image stabilizing remaining amount at the off-axis image height according to correction by a second image shake corrector provided in the second apparatus, and a control unit configured to control at least one of the first image shake corrector and the second image shake corrector on the basis of correction ratios of the first image shake corrector and the second image shake corrector determined using the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ino, Satoshi Maetaki, Yuki Shinzato, Tomoki Tokita, Junichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20230209789
    Abstract: A module includes a substrate having main surfaces; components mounted on at least one main surface of the substrate; a sealing resin on a surface of the substrate to embed the components; and a shielding film containing Cu as a main component and covering a top surface and at least one side surface of the sealing resin, wherein a surface of the shielding film is directly covered by a first Ni layer containing Ni—B or Ni—N as a main component, and a surface of the first Ni layer is covered by a second Ni layer containing Ni—P as a main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Junichi SAITO, Masaaki MIZUSHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230203664
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a substrate having main surfaces and an electrode containing Cu or Ag as a main component on at least one main surface of the substrate, wherein the electrode protrudes from the substrate, a surface of the electrode is covered by a first Ni film containing crystalline Ni as a main component, a surface of the first Ni film is covered by a second Ni film containing amorphous Ni as a main component, and the first Ni film covers a part of a first corner where a side surface of the electrode is in contact with the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Junichi SAITO, Masaaki MIZUSHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230064923
    Abstract: A digital camera includes a first battery, a power supply circuit, and a power supply management unit, and an accessory having second batteries and a communication unit is connectable to the digital camera. The power supply management unit performs control to supply power to the communication unit from the first battery and to supply power to the power supply circuit from any one of the second batteries, in a state in which the accessory is connected, and performs control to supply power to the power supply circuit from the first battery in a state in which the accessory is not connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220394169
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, a control method thereof, and a storage medium, the image pickup apparatus being capable of shooting a plurality of still images under an appropriate exposure condition when the image pickup apparatus including a camera system performs alignment composition of the still images shot in a time continuous manner. An exposure time for each of the still images and a total number of the still images are set based on the focal length information, the optical image blur correction angle information, and the response characteristic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Junichi Saito
  • Patent number: 11496665
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, wherein the plurality of pixels output focus detection signals based on light flux that has passed through an imaging optical system, a shifting unit that shifts an incident position of the light flux on the image sensor; and a focus detection unit that performs focus detection using the focus detection signals. The shifting unit shifts the incident position by a predetermined distance which is equal to or less than a distance between the pixels of the image sensor corresponding to the focus detection signals during a charge accumulation period in the image sensor for acquiring the focus detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Saito