Patents by Inventor Kouji Yamamoto

Kouji Yamamoto 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: 8094213
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program in which a special effect that allows a subject to be modified so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from a reference point of an original image set on a screen is given to a captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Patent number: 8094230
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for converting an original image into an enlarged image on which enlargement processing has been performed with respect to a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Kouji Yamamoto, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Patent number: 8066315
    Abstract: An all terrain vehicle includes a pair of right and left front wheels, at least a pair of right and left rear wheels, a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left first roof supports, a pair of right and left second roof supports, a pair of right and left roof members, a seat, a front panel, a front upper cover, a meter unit and a cover. The front upper cover is connected to an upper portion of the front panel and extends forward in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The meter unit includes a display. The meter unit is disposed on the front panel such that the display is viewable from the seat. The meter unit is positioned in a transversely center portion of the vehicle. The cover extends from the front upper cover to the front panel so as to cover at least an upper portion of the meter unit. The cover is disposed in a higher position than an upper surface of the front panel in the transverse direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Motoyuki Hara, Kouji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20110130166
    Abstract: A T-SIR generation unit (106a) generates, on the basis of an actual reception quality (205) in a mobile communication terminal, a target value T-SIR to be used to control transmission power of a base station from the mobile communication terminal. When the mobile communication terminal exists in the service area of a predetermined specific communication carrier, a T-SIR correction unit (106b) adds a correction value K to the T-SIR generated by the T-SIR generation unit (106a). Even when a reception SIR abruptly deteriorates in a communication carrier with a strong reception field and a low BLER, it does not drop below the SIR limit value of the mobile communication terminal. Hence, the terminal can receive the signal from the base station and continue a service such as speech communication. When a long-term BLER measurement result is used instead of a BER, stable transmission power control can be done normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Kouji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110094819
    Abstract: An all terrain vehicle includes a pair of right and left front wheels, at least a pair of right and left rear wheels, a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left first roof supports, a pair of right and left second roof supports, a pair of right and left roof members, a seat, a front panel, a front upper cover, a meter unit and a cover. The vehicle body frame supports the front wheels and the rear wheels. The first roof supports are provided at lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in a transverse direction of the vehicle, respectively. The second roof supports are provided at the lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in the transverse direction of the vehicle, respectively. The right roof member connects an upper portion of the right first roof support and an upper portion of the right second roof support, whereas the left roof member connects an upper portion of the left first roof support and an upper portion of the left second roof support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Motoyuki HARA, Kouji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110094812
    Abstract: An all terrain vehicle includes a pair of right and left front wheels, at least a pair of right and left rear wheels, a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left first roof supports, a pair of right and left second roof supports, a pair of right and left roof members, a seat, a front panel, a front gear case, a pair of front suspensions, a vehicle body cover, a radiator and a pair of head light units. The vehicle body frame includes a pair of upper frames, a pair of lower frames and a pair of front frames. The first roof supports are provided at lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in a transverse direction of the vehicle. The second roof supports are provided at lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in the transverse direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Kouji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110094816
    Abstract: An all terrain vehicle includes a pair of right and left front wheels, at least a pair of right and left rear wheels, a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left first roof supports, a pair of right and left second roof supports, a pair of right and left roof members, a seat, a front panel, an engine unit, a pair of right and left head light units and a front carry bar. The vehicle body frame supports the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear wheels. The right and left first roof supports are provided at transversely lateral sides of the vehicle body frame. The right and left second roof supports are also provided at the transversely lateral sides of the vehicle body frame. The right/left roof member connects an upper portion of the right/left first roof support and an upper portion of the right/left second roof support. The right/left head light unit overlaps with a right/left hub of the right/left front wheel in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Takehiko ARAI, Kouji YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7931106
    Abstract: All terrain vehicle including front wheels, rear wheels, vehicle body frame, first roof supports, second roof supports, roof members, seat, front panel, front gear case, front suspensions, vehicle body cover, radiator, and head light units. The vehicle body frame includes upper frames, lower frames, and front frames. The first and second roof supports are each provided at lateral sides of the vehicle body frame. The right roof member connects upper portions of the right first and second roof supports. The left roof member connects upper portions of the left first and second roof supports. The radiator is positioned rearward of the front frames, forward of the front suspensions, and in a transverse center of the vehicle. The head light units are positioned above and longitudinally overlapping with the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Kouji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7919735
    Abstract: In fabricating a door switch for a microwave oven, two switches are incorporated in a single switch case to allow a reduction in the size and to allow common use of switch components, thereby achieving a cost reduction through a reduction in the number of components. Further, a contact switching structure tilted in conjunction with opening and closing of a door is provided to achieve high accuracy in switching the switches. There is provided a first switch whose contact portions are switched by elastically displacing a conductive contact piece in the switch case when a first tilting lever is tilted, a second switch whose contact portions are switched by elastically displacing another conductive contact piece in the switch case at timing that is slightly different from the timing for switching the contact portions of the first switch, and a third switch which is switched when a second tilting lever is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kiyono, Toshihiro Naruo, Kouji Yamamoto, Yuji Hayakawa, Isao Mizuta
  • Patent number: 7899482
    Abstract: A T-SIR generation unit (106a) generates, on the basis of an actual reception quality (205) in a mobile communication terminal, a target value T-SIR to be used to control transmission power of a base station from the mobile communication terminal. When the mobile communication terminal exists in the service area of a predetermined specific communication carrier, a T-SIR correction unit (106b) adds a correction value K to the T-SIR generated by the T-SIR generation unit (106a). Even when a reception SIR abruptly deteriorates in a communication carrier with a strong reception field and a low BLER, it does not drop below the SIR limit value of the mobile communication terminal. Hence, the terminal can receive the signal from the base station and continue a service such as speech communication. When a long-term BLER measurement result is used instead of a BER, stable transmission power control can be done normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100307027
    Abstract: A shoe comprises: an upper 7 wrapping an instep; an outsole 3 contact with a floor or a road; a front roll-up portion 32 formed as the outsole 3 is rolled up upward along a front end portion 71 of the upper 7 and fixed to the upper 7; through hole means running through the front end portion 71 and the front roll-up portion 32; and a clamper 1 running through the through hole means to clamp together the upper 7 and the outsole 3 and keep them clamped therein, thus strengthening a fixing strength between the upper 7 and the outsole 3, wherein the clamper 1 is made of a resin and includes: first flange means engaging with the front roll-up portion 32 on a front surface 31 of the front roll-up portion 32; second flange means engaging with the upper 7 on an inner surface of the front end portion of the upper 7; and pipe means connecting the first and second flange means and running through the through hole means for ventilation between an inside and an outside of the shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Keizo Nakanishi, Takayuki Ueda, Kouji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100276404
    Abstract: A laser machining method includes directing pulse laser light onto a surface of a brittle material substrate, and a laser light scanning step for scanning laser light along a scribe-scheduled line. The laser intensity of the pulse laser light is 1.0×108 W/cm2 or greater and 1.0×1010 W/cm2 or less. The value obtained by multiplying the amount of heat input (J/cm2) by the linear expansion coefficient (10?7/K) of the brittle material is in a range of 3000 or greater and 100000 or less. Furthermore, the number of pulses within a square circumscribing the condensed light diameter of the pulse laser light is two or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBOSHI DIAMOND INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji FUKUHARA, Seiji SHIMIZU, Kouji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100277409
    Abstract: A terminal which a user can easily view a display by a display control is provided. A terminal having a display capable of being controlled by a control signal, and a main terminal outputting a display signal to the display, characterized by including: a discriminant part for discriminating the usage state of the terminal; and a control part for controlling the frequency of the control signal to a predetermined first frequency when the usage state of the terminal discriminated by the discriminant part is judged as being in a specific usage state, and for controlling the frequency of the control signal to a second frequency which is lower than the first frequency when judged as being in a usage state other than the specific one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Kouji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100157101
    Abstract: The present invention includes first setting means for setting, for an original image, a first image region including a reference point and a second image region other than the first image region; reducing means for reducing the original image; second setting means for setting, for a reduced image obtained, a reference point of the reduced image corresponding to the reference point of the original image, a first reduced image region corresponding to the first image region, and a second reduced image region corresponding to the second image region; modifying means for modifying, within the reduced image, an image in the second reduced image region so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from the reference point of the reduced image; expanding means for expanding image data of the modified second reduced image region into the second image region; and combining means for combining the image data expanded into the second image region with image data of the original image constituting
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Patent number: 7687137
    Abstract: There is provided a dimensionally accurate insulating substrate in which plane direction-wise shrinkage is practically zero and shrinkage variations are small. The insulating substrate includes a laminated body composed of at least two kinds of insulating layers made of crystallizable glass ceramics. The crystallization temperature of crystallizable glass contained in the first insulating layer is lower than the softening point of crystallizable glass contained in the second insulating layer. The difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the first and second insulating layers is preferably 2×10?6/° C. or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuji Furuse, Seiichiro Hirahara, Sentarou Yamamoto, Kouji Yamamoto, Mitsugi Ogawauchi, Satoru Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20100020225
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for converting an original image into an enlarged image on which enlargement processing has been performed with respect to a reference point, as the center, including: a selection processing unit that treats, as a starting point, a coordinate point which is the farthest from the reference point and selects a processing-target pixel from among pixels constituting the enlarged image; a calculation processing unit that calculates a coordinate point of the original image which is mapped to the coordinate point of the processing-target pixel; a reading processing unit that reads the pixel value of a pixel of the original image from the recording medium in accordance with the coordinate point of the original image; an interpolation processing unit that interpolates the pixel value of the processing-target pixel using the pixel value of the pixel of the original image read by the reading processing unit; and a writing processing unit that writes the pixel value
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Kouji Yamamoto, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20090284905
    Abstract: In a method of making an electronic apparatus, electronic devices and a mold are placed in a package such that pads of electronic devices are covered with the mold. An electrical insulator is poured into the package, in which the mold is placed, to fill the package. The mold is removed from the electrical insulator to form a space where the pads are exposed. An electrical conductor is placed in the space such that the pads are electrically connected together through the electrical conductor. The electrical conductor is in the form of a liquid or a solid having both fluidity and deformability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Hirofumi Higuchi, Masaki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20090280852
    Abstract: A T-SIR generation unit (106a) generates, on the basis of an actual reception quality (205) in a mobile communication terminal, a target value T-SIR to be used to control transmission power of a base station from the mobile communication terminal. When the mobile communication terminal exists in the service area of a predetermined specific communication carrier, a T-SIR correction unit (106b) adds a correction value K to the T-SIR generated by the T-SIR generation unit (106a). Even when a reception SIR abruptly deteriorates in a communication carrier with a strong reception field and a low BLER, it does not drop below the SIR limit value of the mobile communication terminal. Hence, the terminal can receive the signal from the base station and continue a service such as speech communication. When a long-term BLER measurement result is used instead of a BER, stable transmission power control can be done normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Kouji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7605101
    Abstract: A laminate includes a first green sheet and a second green sheet. The first green sheet includes a first glass including Al and M which is at least one of Sr and Ba. A relationship between Al content and M content is so defined that a position represented by percent by mass of Al in terms of Al2O3 and percent by mass of M in terms of MO on a coordinate system are on or in a range defined by straight lines connecting point A (1, 21), point B (1, 35), point C (9, 45), point D (20, 45), point E (20, 35), and point F (9, 21) on the coordinate system. The second green sheet includes a second glass including Si and B. The first green sheet is integrally laminated with the second green sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Kawai, Tatsuji Furuse, Mieko Yashima, Kouji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D640581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Sato, Akira Omachi, Mitsuru Oonuma, Kouji Yamamoto, Takaya Sato