Patents by Inventor Seiji Kimura

Seiji Kimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240076472
    Abstract: Provided is a biodegradable resin composition having a high degradation rate. The biodegradable resin composition is a biodegradable resin composition having water holding properties. The biodegradable resin composition preferably contains a biodegradable resin and is preferably capable of holding 0.007 g or more and 15.0 g or less of water relative to 1 g of the biodegradable resin. The biodegradable resin composition preferably contains a seaweed-derived polysaccharide as a hydrolysis accelerator that improves the water holding properties and accelerates hydrolysis of the biodegradable resin. The seaweed-derived polysaccharide is preferably, for example, fucoidan, laminarin, alginic acid, or an alginate. The biodegradable resin composition preferably contains a photocatalytically active substance that degrades the biodegradable resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Asuka KIMURA, Hideaki IWAMOTO, Seiji FURUYA
  • Patent number: 11838461
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; and a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, in which a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Koyauchi, Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 11792340
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen including information on a remaining amount of the recording material; and a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, in which a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a power supply operation portion installation surface provided with the power supply operation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Koyauchi, Seiji Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230008759
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen including information on a remaining amount of the recording material; and a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, in which the home operation portion is closer to the capacitive touch panel than the power supply operation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Seiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230011638
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; and a transport operation portion including a mechanical key for operating a transport position of a print medium for printing, in which a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a transport operation portion installation surface provided with the transport operation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Seiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230010458
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device that performs printing using a recording material, the printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen including information on a remaining amount of the recording material; and a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, in which a panel installation surface provided with the capacitive touch panel is a surface different from a power supply operation portion installation surface provided with the power supply operation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Seiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230009600
    Abstract: Provided is a printing device including: an capacitive touch panel; a home operation portion including a mechanical key for transitioning from a screen displayed on the capacitive touch panel to a basic screen; and a power supply operation portion including a mechanical key for shifting a power state of the printing device, in which the home operation portion is located in a first direction of the capacitive touch panel, and the power supply operation portion is located in a second direction of the capacitive touch panel, and the first direction and the second direction are orthogonal or opposite directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Seiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220292751
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method that enable highly accurate and efficient three-dimensional model generation processing. The device includes: a facial feature information detection unit that analyzes a facial image of a subject shot by an image capturing unit and detects facial feature information; an input data selection unit that selects, from a plurality of facial images shot by the image capturing unit and a plurality of pieces of facial feature information corresponding to the plurality of facial images, a set of a facial image and feature information optimal for generating a 3D model; and a facial expression 3D model generation unit that generates a 3D model using the facial image and the feature information selected by the input data selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: SEIJI KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11068699
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a telecommunication system including a high fidelity display region setting unit for setting a predetermined region as a high fidelity display region, a high fidelity image generation unit for generating a high fidelity image in which the first user looks are captured from a virtual capture position that is obtained by setting a viewpoint position of a second user as the virtual capture image, a low fidelity image generation unit for generating a low fidelity image in which the first user looks are captured from the virtual capture position and having lower fidelity than the high fidelity image, and an image superimposing unit for superimposing the high fidelity image on the high fidelity display region of the low fidelity image to generate an output image to be output as an image processing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200151427
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a telecommunication system enabling achievement of more realistic telecommunication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: SEIJI KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10540791
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes a center generation section, a periphery generation section, and an image combination section. The center generation section is configured to generate an image of a central part on a screen by performing scaling processing on an image based on characteristics thereof. The periphery generation section is configured to generate an image of a peripheral part by extrapolation of the image of the central part, the peripheral part being a part peripheral to the central part on the screen. The image combination section is configured to generate a combined image by combining the image of the central part and the image of the peripheral part, the image of the central part being generated by the center generation section, the image of the peripheral part being generated by the periphery generation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 10531040
    Abstract: An information processing device including: a quality analyzer that generates video viewing quality information indicating a favorability degree of a video viewing condition of a viewer; a gaze target region information generation unit that generates gaze target region information indicating a gaze target region to be gazed at by the viewer in a video to be viewed; and a quality improvement processing unit that improves viewing quality of the gaze target region based on the video viewing quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 10486386
    Abstract: A slide lock device for a press machine in which a plurality of entry holes are formed in a flange portion of a flange member fixed on a shaft member, and that locks the shaft member not to rotate by a plurality of pin members inserted into and engaged with the plurality of entry holes, including an annular main body member fixed to a main body frame, a plurality of arcuate entry holes formed in the flange portion, an annular piston member installed within an annular cylinder bore formed in the main body member and shiftable along the axial direction, an annular first and second fluid pressure working chambers for driving the annular piston member, and adapted so that the plurality of pin members can be inserted into and through the entry holes and put into inserted positions by fluid pressure, and also can be backed out of the entry holes and changed over to retracted positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 10412374
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of changing an imaging method of an image by using a depth image in a pseudo manner. A pseudo image generation unit generates, as a pseudo image, a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an image on the basis of a value of a parameter determined in accordance with a characteristic of the image, and a depth image indicating a position of the subject in the input image in a depth direction. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus which generates a pseudo image corresponding to a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an input image, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180115745
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device that makes it possible to view comfortably a wide-field video at high image quality on a large screen at a wide viewing angle. [Solution] There is provided an information processing device including: a quality analyzer configured to generate video viewing quality information indicating a favorability degree of a video viewing condition of a viewer; a gaze target region information generation unit configured to generate gaze target region information indicating a gaze target region to be gazed at by the viewer in a video to be viewed; and a quality improvement processing unit configured to improve viewing quality of the gaze target region on the basis of the video viewing quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: SEIJI KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170313014
    Abstract: A slide lock device for a press machine in which a plurality of entry holes are formed in a flange portion of a flange member fixed on a shaft member, and that locks the shaft member not to rotate by a plurality of pin members inserted into and engaged with the plurality of entry holes, including an annular main body member fixed to a main body frame, a plurality of arcuate entry holes formed in the flange portion, an annular piston member installed within an annular cylinder bore formed in the main body member and shiftable along the axial direction, an annular first and second fluid pressure working chambers for driving the annular piston member, and adapted so that the plurality of pin members can be inserted into and through the entry holes and put into inserted positions by fluid pressure, and also can be backed out of the entry holes and changed over to retracted positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Seiji KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9789659
    Abstract: A slide lock apparatus for a press machine includes: a flange member fixed over the shaft member for driving the slide, and having a flange portion; an annular main member fixed to the main frame, and having an annular member facing the flange portion; a plurality of reception holes formed in the annular member; a plurality of pin members installed in the plurality of reception holes so as to be shiftable therein; a plurality of actuators for driving the plurality of pin members between retracted positions and advanced positions penetrating into admission holes in the flange portion; a first locking member for locking the plurality of pin members in retracted positions; a first drive device for rotationally driving the first locking member; a second locking member for locking the plurality of pin members in their advanced positions; and a second drive device for rotationally driving the second locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Kitaura, Akitake Hashidate, Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 9687991
    Abstract: A microscopic geometry cutting device includes: a controller that outputs a timer count start command in starting a driving program which controls a drive of an X-axis or a Y-axis moving mechanism; an arrival time calculator that calculates an arrival time from when the timer count start command is output till when the cutter arrives at a machining start position in accordance with relative moving speed information of the moving mechanisms and machining start position information of a workpiece W; an elapsed time determiner that determines whether an elapsed time from when the timer count start command is output is coincident with the arrival time and outputs a trigger signal when the elapsed time is coincident with the arrival time; and a reciprocating stage driver that drives the reciprocating stage in a manner that the cutter advances and retracts in a predetermined cutting depth in response to the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji Kimura, Sumihisa Kondo
  • Publication number: 20170150130
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of changing an imaging method of an image by using a depth image in a pseudo manner. A pseudo image generation unit generates, as a pseudo image, a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an image on the basis of a value of a parameter determined in accordance with a characteristic of the image, and a depth image indicating a position of the subject in the input image in a depth direction. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus which generates a pseudo image corresponding to a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an input image, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: SEIJI KIMURA
  • Patent number: D830451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Makino, Seiji Kimura, Yusuke Yamashita, Genta Kawabe, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Etsuo Tsuji, Soichiro Kii