Patents by Inventor Mamoru Kubota
Mamoru Kubota 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: 11657624Abstract: An image processor includes a line extraction portion configured to extract a line from an image generated from a vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing, a tracking determination portion configured to determine whether the extracted line fulfills a predetermined condition or not, a comparing portion configured to compare the line that is determined as fulfilling the predetermined condition with a line that is extracted by the line extraction portion from another image generated from another vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing in the past to obtain degrees of similarity and coincidence thereof, a parking area line determination portion configured to determine the line as a parking area line when the degrees of similarity and coincidence are equal to or more than a given value, and a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame using the line determined as the parking area line.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11620908Abstract: An image processor includes a parking area line detection portion configured to detect a parking area line from an image acquired by an imaging device, a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame based on the detected parking area line, a parking frame selection portion configured to calculate a length ratio of adjacent first and second sides of the set parking frame, determine the parking frame as a display target when the length ratio falls within a predetermined range, and not to determine the parking frame as the display target when the length ratio falls outside the predetermined range, and a display control portion configured to control a display portion for displaying a parking frame image showing the parking frame determined as the display target by the parking frame selection portion so as to keep superimposing the parking frame image onto the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11610317Abstract: An image processor includes an imaging device that captures an image of a road surface around a vehicle V, and a control portion that detects a marker drawn on the road surface from the captured image. The control portion connects a plurality of broken markers to create a single marker when the detected marker is broken into plural.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11462026Abstract: An image processing device includes an edge detector to detect a portion in which a luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that increases equal to or more than a first predetermined value as a positive edge and a portion in which the luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that decreases equal to or more than a second predetermined value as a negative edge, a grouping portion configured to group the positive edges that have been detected into a positive edge group and the negative edges that have been detected into a negative edge group, and a boundary line setting portion configured to set, as a boundary line: (i) a line connecting end points between the positive edges in the positive edge group; or (ii) a line connecting end points between the negative edges in the negative edge group.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Mamoru Kubota
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Publication number: 20210271903Abstract: An image processor includes a line extraction portion configured to extract a line from an image generated from a vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing, a tracking determination portion configured to determine whether the extracted line fulfills a predetermined condition or not, a comparing portion configured to compare the line that is determined as fulfilling the predetermined condition with a line that is extracted by the line extraction portion from an image generated from a vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing in past to obtain degrees of similarity and coincidence thereof, a parking area line determination portion configured to determine the line as a parking area line when the obtained degrees of similarity and coincidence are equal to or more than a given value, and a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame by using the line determined as the parking area line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Takayuki KANEKO, Shunsuke KONDO, Mamoru KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20210248909Abstract: An image processor includes a parking area line detection portion configured to detect a parking area line from an image acquired by an imaging device, a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame based on the detected parking area line, a parking frame selection portion configured to calculate a length ratio of adjacent first and second sides of the set parking frame, determine the parking frame as a display target when the length ratio falls within a predetermined range, and not to determine the parking frame as the display target when the length ratio falls outside the predetermined range, and a display control portion configured to control a display portion for displaying a parking frame image showing the parking frame determined as the display target by the parking frame selection portion so as to keep superimposing the parking frame image onto the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Takayuki KANEKO, Shunsuke KONDO, Mamoru KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20210248753Abstract: An image processor includes an imaging device that captures an image of a road surface around a vehicle V, and a control portion that detects a marker drawn on the road surface from the captured image. The control portion connects a plurality of broken markers to create a single marker when the detected marker is broken into plural.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Takayuki KANEKO, Shunsuke KONDO, Mamoru KUBOTA
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Patent number: 11017246Abstract: An image processing device includes a sideline detector configured to detect sidelines of boundary lines of parking sections next to each other in a vehicle width direction by an edge detection process to an image, each of the sidelines being a pair of a rising edge and a falling edge, and to acquire an end point of each of the sidelines at which the pair is not detected, a rear-end edge identifying part configured to identify a rear-end edge of the parking section based on an end point away from the vehicle among the end points acquired by the sideline detector, and a parking frame setting portion configured to identify the parking section based on the two sidelines detected by the sideline detector and the rear-end edge identified by the rear-end edge identifying part, and to set a parking frame based on the parking section.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Mamoru Kubota, Shunsuke Kondo
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Publication number: 20200380276Abstract: An image processing device includes a camera to capture an image around the vehicle, an edge detector to detect a portion in which a luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that increases equal to or more than a first predetermined value as a positive edge and a portion in which the luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that decreases equal to or more than a second predetermined value as a negative edge, a grouping portion to group the detected positive and negative edges into positive and negative edge groups respectively by predetermined angular intervals, and a boundary line setting portion to set, as a boundary line, a line connecting end points between the positive edges in the positive edge group or to set, as a boundary line, a line connecting end points between the negative edges in the negative edge group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Takayuki KANEKO, Mamoru KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20200344448Abstract: An image processing device includes a camera mounted on a vehicle to capture an image around the vehicle, a marker detector to carry out an edge detection process on the image to detect corner markers on one end of a parking frame, a provisional parking frame setting part to set a provisional parking frame based on the detected corner markers on the one end, and a parking frame identifying part to identify the parking frame. The marker detector detects corner markers on the other end of the parking frame in directions along sidelines of the provisional parking frame, and the parking frame identifying part identifies the parking frame based on the corner markers on the one end and the corner markers on the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Takayuki KANEKO, Mamoru KUBOTA, Shunsuke KONDO
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Publication number: 20200334474Abstract: An image processing device includes a sideline detector configured to detect sidelines of boundary lines of parking sections next to each other in a vehicle width direction by an edge detection process to an image, each of the sidelines being a pair of a rising edge and a falling edge, and to acquire an end point of each of the sidelines at which the pair is not detected, a rear-end edge identifying part configured to identify a rear-end edge of the parking section based on an end point away from the vehicle among the end points acquired by the sideline detector, and a parking frame setting portion configured to identify the parking section based on the two sidelines detected by the sideline detector and the rear-end edge identified by the rear-end edge identifying part, and to set a parking frame based on the parking section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Mamoru Kubota, Shunsuke Kondo
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Patent number: 10293409Abstract: In an embodiment, a machine tool includes two fixed modules and two movable modules each of which having a main spindle, a headstock, and a tool post being integrally formed, and a bed on which these are installed. The movable modules are provided on the bed to be movable in the Y-axis direction, the fixed modules are fixed on the bed on the opposite sides of the these movable modules, and a recess is provided next to the fixed module, the recess being formed by cutting out the bed. The movable modules are movable such that the axis lines of the main spindles of the movable modules are aligned with the axis line of the main spindle of the fixed module or the fixed module. The movable module is movable to the opposite position of the recess.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaichi Nakaya, Mamoru Kubota, Sakae Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Sannomiya
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Publication number: 20170136547Abstract: In an embodiment, a machine tool includes two fixed modules and two movable modules each of which having a main spindle, a headstock, and a tool post being integrally formed, and a bed on which these are installed. The movable modules are provided on the bed to be movable in the Y-axis direction, the fixed modules are fixed on the bed on the opposite sides of the these movable modules, and a recess is provided next to the fixed module, the recess being formed by cutting out the bed. The movable modules are movable such that the axis lines of the main spindles of the movable modules are aligned with the axis line of the main spindle of the fixed module or the fixed module. The movable module is movable to the opposite position of the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Takaichi NAKAYA, Mamoru KUBOTA, Sakae NAKAZAWA, Kazuhiko SANNOMIYA
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Patent number: 9110087Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer of the compound represented by formula [1]: and the compound represented by formula [2]: to a glycidyl group of which an anion exchanging group is introduced; a filler for measuring an acidic group binding to a perfluoro compound at a terminal, which comprises the polymer; a column filled with the filler; a method for measuring said perfluoro compound having an acidic group at a terminal by using the column; a filler or a column filled with the filler comprising the polymer for measuring a drug; and a method for measuring a drug by using the column.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignees: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Kimiko Yoshida, Mamoru Kubota, Hitoshi Uemori
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Publication number: 20130309775Abstract: It is a subject of the present invention to provide a novel polymer; a filler for measuring a perfluoro compound having an acidic group at terminal which comprises said polymer; a column filled with said filler; and a measuring method for a perfluoro compound having an acidic group at terminal by using said column; as well as a filler for measuring a drug comprising the above-described polymer; a column filled with said filler; and a measuring method for a drug by using said column.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicants: Nippon Filcon Co., Ltd., Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Kimiko Yoshida, Mamoru Kubota, Hitoshi Uemori
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Publication number: 20110138935Abstract: It is a subject of the present invention to provide a novel polymer; a filler for measuring a perfluoro compound having an acidic group at terminal which comprises said polymer; a column filled with said filler; and a measuring method for a perfluoro compound having an acidic group at terminal by using said column; as well as a filler for measuring a drug comprising the above-described polymer; a column filled with said filler; and a measuring method for a drug by using said column.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicants: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Kimiko Yoshida, Mamoru Kubota, Hitoshi Uemori
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Patent number: 7736612Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a silica gel supporting a derivatizing agent for a carbonyl compound that hardly collects carbonyl compounds during production thereof, and a silica gel supporting a derivatizing agent for a carbonyl compound produced by said production method, in order to lower a blank value in measurement of carbonyl compounds.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Kubota, Hitoshi Uemori
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Publication number: 20080015106Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a silica gel supporting a derivatizing agent for a carbonyl compound that hardly collects carbonyl compounds during production thereof, and a silica gel supporting a derivatizing agent for a carbonyl compound produced by said production method, in order to lower a blank value in measurement of carbonyl compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2005Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: WAKO PURE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mamoru Kubota, Hitoshi Uemori
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Patent number: 4937416Abstract: An electrocontact discharge dressing for a grinding wheel is performed by contacting a grinding surface of the grinding wheel, which is formed by bonding super hard diamond grains with a metal-based bond, with a pair of electrodes made of steels for general structure, rotating the grinding wheel for grinding a contact surface of each of the pair of electrodes with the rotating grinding wheel to form flow type chips in the contact surface, and applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes to generate an electric discharge from the flow type chips toward the metal-based bond of the rotating grinding wheel whereby the metal-based bond is molten due to heat of the electric discharge, and removed from the grinding wheel to enable dressing of the grinding wheel with excellent dressing efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1989Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignees: Mamoru Kubota, Toyoda Van Moppes LimitedInventors: Mamoru Kubota, Kinio Takahashi, Kenji Suzuki