Patents by Inventor Masashi Uchida
Masashi Uchida 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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Publication number: 20160126973Abstract: This D/A converter includes a plurality of D/A converter elements, each comprising current sources configured to supply output currents to output nodes, and first switches configured to control the output currents. The output nodes are connected to a capacitor section having second switches and a capacitive load. The D/A converter further includes a switch control circuit configured to control the first switches responsive to digital signals, and also control the second switches in accordance with the control of the ON/OFF state of the first switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Yosuke Mitani, Takashi Morie, Kazuo Matsukawa, Masashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20150380863Abstract: A connector includes a housing (40) with a terminal accommodating chamber (50) and a terminal fitting (10) connected to an end of a wire (W) is inserted therein from behind. A sleeve (20) surrounds a part (15) of the terminal fitting (10) connected to the wire (W) and includes a locking portion (23) for the terminal fitting (10). A holder (60) is mounted on a rear of the housing (40) to retain the sleeve (20) by contacting a contact portion (36) on a rear end of the sleeve (20). The wire (W) is inserted through a rubber plug (70) that close contacts an inner peripheral surface of the terminal accommodating chamber (50). The rubber plug (70) is formed separately from the sleeve (20) and mounted on the sleeve (20) so that the contact portion (36) is exposed for contact by the holder (60).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventor: Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 9218816Abstract: In a DAC device, a distortion correction function g1(x) of a harmonic obtained from a result of a frequency analysis on an analog output signal of a DAC circuit is obtained. A correction value is determined based on the correction function g1(x) in accordance with an input digital signal, and is previously stored in a memory. A nonlinear correction circuit reads a corresponding correction value from the memory in accordance with the value of a digital signal output from a digital filter, and transmits the correction value to a subtractor. The subtractor subtracts the correction value from the digital signal output from the digital filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Torii, Yoshihiro Horii, Masashi Uchida, Junji Nakatsuka, Takaaki Sato
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Patent number: 9210338Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a characteristic estimation portion that, from one of image information obtained from an image sensor and information attached to the image information, estimates a characteristic of the image sensor that is used to generate the image information, and a processing portion that processes the image information in accordance with the characteristic of the image sensor estimated by the characteristic estimation portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Hosokawa, Masashi Uchida, Takahiro Nagano, Yasuhiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 9065198Abstract: A connector includes a first housing (30) and a second housing (50) with an accommodating portion (52) fittable to a fitting (31) on the first housing (30). Terminals (56) cross first and second connecting surfaces (34, 60) facing in a connecting direction in a connected state of the housings (30, 50). A lock arm (36) on the first housing (30) locks the housings (30, 50) in the connected state. A projection (63) is provided on the second connecting surface (60) at a position of projection of the lock arm (36) and has a second blocking surface (64) facing a first blocking surface (40) of the fitting (31). Foreign substance entrance projecting projections (65) on the second connecting surface (60) cover the intermediate terminals (56) crossing the first and second connecting surfaces (34, 60) and engage in foreign substance entrance preventing recesses (41) of the first connecting surface (34).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8913822Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a model-based processing unit that executes model-based processing for converting resolution and converting an image on the basis of a camera model and a predetermined model having aligning, with respect to a high-resolution image output one frame before, and a prediction operation unit that performs a prediction operation on a pixel value of a high-resolution image to be output, on the basis of parameters stored in advance, an observed low-resolution image that is an input low-resolution image, and an image obtained by executing the model-based processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Takahiro Nagano, Masashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20140307200Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a direct-type first backlight and a direct-type second backlight that each intermittently irradiate light toward a back surface of the display panel and is disposed adjacently in a sub-scanning direction of the display panel. A display area of the display panel comprises a first area provided in a position facing the first backlight and a second area provided in a position facing the second backlight, the first backlight is disposed in a position where the light emitted from the first backlight reaches the first area and the second area, and the second backlight is disposed in a position where the light emitted from the second backlight reaches the first area and the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamashita, Masashi Uchida, Makoto Nameda
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Publication number: 20140195225Abstract: In a DAC device, a distortion correction function g1(x) of a harmonic obtained from a result of a frequency analysis on an analog output signal of a DAC circuit is obtained. A correction value is determined based on the correction function g1(x) in accordance with an input digital signal, and is previously stored in a memory. A nonlinear correction circuit reads a corresponding correction value from the memory in accordance with the value of a digital signal output from a digital filter, and transmits the correction value to a subtractor. The subtractor subtracts the correction value from the digital signal output from the digital filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro TORII, Yoshihiro HORII, Masashi UCHIDA, Junji NAKATSUKA, Takaaki SATO
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Publication number: 20140011383Abstract: A connector includes a first housing (30) and a second housing (50) with an accommodating portion (52) fittable to a fitting (31) on the first housing (30). Terminals (56) cross first and second connecting surfaces (34, 60) facing in a connecting direction in a connected state of the housings (30, 50). A lock arm (36) on the first housing (30) locks the housings (30, 50) in the connected state. A projection (63) is provided on the second connecting surface (60) at a position of projection of the lock arm (36) and has a second blocking surface (64) facing a first blocking surface (40) of the fitting (31). Foreign substance entrance projecting projections (65) on the second connecting surface (60) cover the intermediate terminals (56) crossing the first and second connecting surfaces (34, 60) and engage in foreign substance entrance preventing recesses (41) of the first connecting surface (34).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventor: Masashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20130308025Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a characteristic estimation portion that, from one of image information obtained from an image sensor and information attached to the image information, estimates a characteristic of the image sensor that is used to generate the image information, and a processing portion that processes the image information in accordance with the characteristic of the image sensor estimated by the characteristic estimation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro HOSOKAWA, Masashi UCHIDA, Takahiro NAGANO, Yasuhiro MATSUDA
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Patent number: 8582823Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a motion detection unit detecting a motion of a subject to be evaluated by using an image of the subject to be evaluated; a correlation calculation unit calculating a temporal change correlation between motion amounts of a plurality of portions of the subject to be evaluated, by using a motion vector indicating the motion of the subject to be evaluated, which is detected by the motion detection unit; and an evaluation value calculation unit calculating an evaluation value to evaluate cooperativity of the motion of the subject to be evaluated, by using the correlation calculated by the correlation calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Kunihiro, Tomohiro Hayakawa, Masashi Uchida, Eriko Matsui
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Patent number: 8582655Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a modeling unit, in video image data composed of frame images having an X direction and a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction, separating a motion from a standard image, which is one frame before a reference image subjected to a process, until the reference image into motions in the X and Y directions and representing the motions in the X and Y directions respectively as vector fields composed of a translation component composed of identical magnitude and direction regardless of positions in the X and Y directions, an X dependent component primarily changing with the position in the X direction, and a Y dependent component primarily changing with the position in the Y direction; and a calculation unit respectively calculating the translation component and the X and Y dependent components corresponding to the X and Y directions represented by the modeling unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takamasa Yamano, Tomoyuki Otsuki, Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8568791Abstract: The present invention herein provides antibacterial zeolite particles whose ion-exchangeable ions have completely or partially been replaced with silver ions and zinc ions, wherein the ratio (A/B) of the silver ion concentration (A) to the zinc ion concentration (B) in the antibacterial zeolite particles increases in the direction along the depth of each zeolite particle. The antibacterial zeolite particles show excellent discoloration-resistant characteristics, while maintaining their excellent antibacterial activities. Accordingly, the antibacterial zeolite particles can suitably be applied to all sorts of products that are required to have antibacterial properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Sinanen Zeomic Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Kurihara, Kumiko Miyake, Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8537212Abstract: Disclosed is a recording apparatus including: a movement cycle determining section which receives moving image data including image contents of an object which performs a movement in which a movement state and a non-movement state are alternately and periodically repeated, and determines an operating period which corresponds to the movement state and a static period which corresponds to the non-movement state; and a recording control section which records the number of frame image data, per unit time, for forming the moving image data in the static period to be smaller than in the operating period, when the moving image data is recorded.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Kunihiro, Masashi Uchida, Eriko Matsui, Tomohiro Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20130070971Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method capable of generating evaluation index data for performing accurate and detailed evaluation of cultured cardiomyocytes. A motion detecting unit divides frame image data obtained by photographing the cultured cardiomyocytes for a predetermined time into blocks and obtains motion detection data in units of blocks per each frame period. A feature amount calculating unit calculates a feature amount for each block at the same position in a frame image using the motion detection data. A classification processing unit classifies each of the blocks into any one of a plurality of classification categories using the calculated feature amount. On the basis of the classification result, evaluation index data made of individual classification result data that represent correspondences between the blocks and the classification categories is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Kunihiro, Masashi Uchida, Eriko Matsui, Tomohiro Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20130016920Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a model-based processing portion that generates an estimated low resolution image from a high resolution image, using an observation model that performs motion compensation processing and down-sampling processing, a feature amount calculation portion that calculates a feature amount of at least one of a spatial feature amount and a temporal feature amount from one of an observed low resolution image, which is a low resolution image that is actually observed, and the high resolution image, and a prediction operation portion that predicts and generates an image with higher image quality based on the high resolution image, using a parameter which corresponds to the calculated feature amount and which is obtained from the observed low resolution image, from the estimated low resolution image and from learning that is performed in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Takahiro Nagano, Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8331687Abstract: An image processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect an external light reflection region from an input image, and a determining unit configured to determine the glossiness of said external light reflection region, and determines whether or not the reflection of the external reflection region is specular reflection, and extracts a gloss region based on the determination result.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Inoue, Masashi Uchida, Tetsujiro Kondo
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Publication number: 20120294512Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a model-based processing unit that executes model-based processing for converting resolution and converting an image on the basis of a camera model and a predetermined model having aligning, with respect to a high-resolution image output one frame before, and a prediction operation unit that performs a prediction operation on a pixel value of a high-resolution image to be output, on the basis of parameters stored in advance, an observed low-resolution image that is an input low-resolution image, and an image obtained by executing the model-based processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Takahiro Nagano, Masashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8314890Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a min-max pixel difference value computing unit computes the difference between the maximum and minimum pixel values in a first image portion including a target pixel and neighbor pixels. A maximum adjacent pixel difference value computing unit computes the maximum value among the difference values between adjacent pixels in the first image portion. An image change feature value computing unit computes a feature value corresponding to the suddenness of image change in the first image portion. A filter coefficient computing unit computes filter coefficients. A sharpen filter accepts, as input, pixels forming a second image portion including the same target pixel as the first image portion and neighbor pixels, and computes an output pixel value for the target pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Hosokawa, Masashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20120288209Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an encoding processing unit carrying out a compression encoding process on input image data to obtain encoded data; an additional information generating unit generating, based on additional information generating information relating to the input image data, additional information to be used when specified image processing is carried out on image data obtained by carrying out a compression decoding process on the encoded data; and a data output unit outputting the encoded data obtained by the encoding processing unit and the additional information generated by the additional information generating unit in association with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi MIYAI, Masashi Uchida