Patents by Inventor Shuji Uehara
Shuji Uehara 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: 11202046Abstract: An image processor according to the present disclosure includes: a multiplier that receives image data from a pixel section including pixels of a plurality of colors and multiplies the image data by an adjustment parameter that adjusts a color level in each of the pixels; an adjuster that calculates a ratio of respective colors in each of the pixels in the image data and adjusts a value of the adjustment parameter on the basis of the ratio of the respective colors; and a binarization processor that extracts a target image of a specific color on the basis of the image data multiplied by the adjustment parameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hironobu Katayama, Shuji Uehara, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Tomohiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10891706Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an arithmetic device that reduces a scale of an arithmetic processing unit which performs an arithmetic process between frames in a sensor. A frame memory stores pixel data of a frame that transitions in time sequence. An inter-frame arithmetic processing unit implements a predetermined arithmetic by column parallel in a row unit on the pixel data of a current frame and the pixel data of a past frame stored in the frame memory and updates the pixel data of the past frame stored in the frame memory on the basis of a result of the predetermined arithmetic.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Hironobu Katayama, Shuji Uehara, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10713749Abstract: To perform inter-pixel image processing with lower latency and higher speed. An image sensor includes: a pixel array unit in which pixels having a photoelectric conversion function are arranged in an array; an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion processing on pixel signals output from the pixels in parallel for each column of the pixels of the pixel array unit; a memory unit configured to hold pixel signals of any number of rows subjected to AD conversion in the AD conversion unit for each column of the pixels; an inter-pixel image processing unit configured to read pixel signals of any rows and columns from the memory unit, and perform computing between the pixel signals in parallel for each column of the pixels; and an output circuit configured to control output, to an outside, of pixel signals output from the AD conversion unit and pixel signals output from the inter-pixel image processing unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: Sony Corporation, The University of TokyoInventors: Yoshinori Muramatsu, Shuji Uehara, Hironobu Katayama, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190228497Abstract: To perform inter-pixel image processing with lower latency and higher speed. An image sensor includes: a pixel array unit in which pixels having a photoelectric conversion function are arranged in an array; an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion processing on pixel signals output from the pixels in parallel for each column of the pixels of the pixel array unit; a memory unit configured to hold pixel signals of any number of rows subjected to AD conversion in the AD conversion unit for each column of the pixels; an inter-pixel image processing unit configured to read pixel signals of any rows and columns from the memory unit, and perform computing between the pixel signals in parallel for each column of the pixels; and an output circuit configured to control output, to an outside, of pixel signals output from the AD conversion unit and pixel signals output from the inter-pixel image processing unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Yoshinori MURAMATSU, Shuji UEHARA, Hironobu KATAYAMA, Tomohiro YAMAZAKI, Masatoshi ISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro WATANABE
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Publication number: 20190206022Abstract: [Object] To reduce a scale of an arithmetic processing unit which performs an arithmetic process between frames in a sensor. [Solution] A frame memory stores pixel data of a frame that transitions in time sequence. An inter-frame arithmetic processing unit implements a predetermined arithmetic by column parallel in a row unit on the pixel data of a current frame and the pixel data of a past frame stored in the frame memory and updates the pixel data of the past frame stored in the frame memory on the basis of a result of the predetermined arithmetic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Hironobu KATAYAMA, Shuji UEHARA, Yoshinori MURAMATSU, Tomohiro YAMAZAKI, Yoshihiro WATANABE, Masatoshi ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20190166345Abstract: An image processor according to the present disclosure includes: a multiplier that receives image data from a pixel section including pixels of a plurality of colors and multiplies the image data by an adjustment parameter that adjusts a color level in each of the pixels; an adjuster that calculates a ratio of respective colors in each of the pixels in the image data and adjusts a value of the adjustment parameter on the basis of the ratio of the respective colors; and a binarization processor that extracts a target image of a specific color on the basis of the image data multiplied by the adjustment parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hironobu Katayama, Shuji Uehara, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Tomohiro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8033191Abstract: A starter that includes a motor portion that includes a motor shaft; a deceleration mechanism portion that is integrated with the motor portion, the deceleration mechanism portion includes a planetary gear that revolves around the motor shaft; and an output shaft that rotates integrally with a revolution of the planetary gear, wherein a bracket of the deceleration mechanism portion, in which a ring-shaped gear is formed at an inner circumferential surface so as to mesh with the planetary gear, is integrated with a casing of the motor portion by an intermediate bracket.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignees: Mitsuba Corporation, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Nagahara, Shuji Uehara, Kazuo Iwashita, Kazuhiko Ono, Koji Suzuki
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Patent number: 7847464Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an armature which is in good rotational balance, where the total number of the coils to be disposed in the slots of the rotary electric machine can be freely set when winding coils on the armature core. Coils are wound on an outer periphery of an armature core 3 by use of a winding device 7 which is provided with sixteen nozzles 11b movable in the axial direction to draw out the coils to thirty two slots formed on the outer periphery of the armature core 3, wherein sixteen coils 5 are simultaneously wound through a single winding operation and the winding operation with respect to the slot 3c is performed three times in such a manner that the total number of the coils 5 in the slots 3c becomes 96 (C) so that the number obtained by dividing the total number of the coils 5 C by twice the number of the slots does not become a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Kojima, Shuji Uehara, Yasuhiro Takebe, Takayuki Ishizeki, Kazuo Iwashita
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Publication number: 20080229879Abstract: A starter that includes a motor portion that includes a motor shaft; a deceleration mechanism portion that is integrated with the motor portion, the deceleration mechanism portion includes a planetary gear that revolves around the motor shaft; and an output shaft that rotates integrally with a revolution of the planetary gear, wherein a bracket of the deceleration mechanism portion, in which a ring-shaped gear is formed at an inner circumferential surface so as to mesh with the planetary gear, is integrated with a casing of the motor portion by an intermediate bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicants: MITSUBA CORPORATION, HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Nagahara, Shuji Uehara, Kazuo Iwashita, Kazuhiko Ono, Koji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080054734Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an armature which is in good rotational balance, where the total number of the coils to be disposed in the slots of the rotary electric machine can be freely set when winding coils on the armature core. Coils are wound on an outer periphery of an armature core 3 by use of a winding device 7 which is provided with sixteen nozzles 11b movable in the axial direction to draw out the coils to thirty two slots formed on the outer periphery of the armature core 3, wherein sixteen coils 5 are simultaneously wound through a single winding operation and the winding operation with respect to the slot 3c is performed three times in such a manner that the total number of the coils 5 in the slots 3c becomes 96 (C) so that the number obtained by dividing the total number of the coils 5 C by twice the number of the slots does not become a natural number.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2005Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Kojima, Shuji Uehara, Yasuhiro Takebe, Takayuki Ishizeki, Kazuo Iwashita
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Patent number: 6807724Abstract: A motor assembling apparatus is adapted to magnetize permanent magnets for the field and mount a stator 2 and an armature 3 in the same apparatus. The apparatus comprises a magnetizing unit 24 having an outer magnetizing coil 29 and an inner magnetizing coil 30, a vertically movable stator support 23 for supporting the lower end of the stator 2, an armature holder 25 to the outside of which the stator support 23 can be fitted and a stator keeping jig 22 arranged above the stator support 23. The stator 2 is placed on the stator support 23 and pinched between the stator keeping jig 22 and the stator support 23 to move it vertically and magnetize it by means of the magnetizing unit 24. After magnetizing the permanent magnets, the stator 2 is raised immediately by means of the stator support 23 and fitted to the armature 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Yuji Yasuda, Hideyuki Minami, Kazuo Iwashita, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Yoshinori Kojima, Shuji Uehara, Takayuki Ishizeki
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Publication number: 20030150103Abstract: A motor assembling apparatus is adapted to magnetize permanent magnets for the field and mount a stator 2 and an armature 3 in the same apparatus. The apparatus comprises a magnetizing unit 24 having an outer magnetizing coil 29 and an inner magnetizing coil 30, a vertically movable stator support 23 for supporting the lower end of the stator 2, an armature holder 25 to the outside of which the stator support 23 can be fitted and a stator keeping jig 22 arranged above the stator support 23. The stator 2 is placed on the stator support 23 and pinched between the stator keeping jig 22 and the stator support 23 to move it vertically and magnetize it by means of the magnetizing unit 24. After magnetizing the permanent magnets, the stator 2 is raised immediately by means of the stator support 23 and fitted to the armature 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Yuji Yasuda, Hideyuki Minami, Kazuo Iwashita, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Yoshinori Kojima, Shuji Uehara, Takayuki Ishizeki
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Patent number: 6199265Abstract: When a magnet cover 21 is press-fitted into the inner peripheral surfaces of magnets 18 annularly arranged on the inner peripheral surface of a hollow cylindrical yoke 11 having at an end thereof a closure wall 12, the magnets 18 are arranged peripherally at regular intervals on the outer peripheral surface of the magnet cover 21 that is supported by the lower die 34. The yoke 11 is held by the upper die 31 and arranged coaxially relative to the magnet cover 21 with open end 14 directed to the magnet cover 21. As the upper die 31 and the lower die 34 are closed relative to each other, the magnets 18 and the magnet cover 21 are press-fitted into the yoke 11 as the outer peripheral surfaces 19 of the magnets 18 are pressed by the inner peripheral surface of the yoke 11. Thus, the magnets 18 are rigidly secured to the yoke 11 without arranging a through hole in the closure wall 12 of the yoke.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Itou, Shuji Uehara, Hiroshi Hiruma
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Patent number: 5991257Abstract: A disk to which sectors and clusters of data can be written, wherein each of the sectors includes an arbitrary first number of data frames and each of the clusters includes an arbitrary number of sectors, wherein the disk includes a region for recording the data, wherein the region is segmented into zones, a first set of at least one of the zones is located adjacent to a second set of at least one of the zones, the second set is located closer to an outer circumferential side of the disk than is the first set, each track of the first set is segmented into a second number of data frames, and each track of the second set is segmented into a third number of data frames, where the third number is the sum of the second number and a fourth number smaller than the first number. Other aspects of the invention are a method and apparatus for recording data to or reproducing data from such a disk.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Tadaaki Nomoto, Shuji Uehara
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Patent number: 5894756Abstract: A governor system is provided for engine starter mechanisms to prevent a premature retracting movement of a single-direction rotatable clutch. The governor system is constructed with a reduced number of parts and such that a clutch does not suffer from the increased angular momentum as it rotates together with a governor weight. The governor system includes a casing or a bracket fixed to a driven gear, with the governor weight received in the casing. The governor weight is provided with a first and a second weight portion which are different in weight from each other such that the center of gravity of the governor weight is disposed radially eccentric.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Shuji Uehara, Hiroshi Hiruma, Ryuichi Toya
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Patent number: 5894463Abstract: A magneto-optical disc recording or reproducing device focusing control servo system which uses a digital signal processor (DSP) to control a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit so that if the focusing servo is to be in operation alone, such as during a focusing search or seek, fixed clocks of a fixed frequency are used for processing focusing servo signals and after engagement of the focusing servo, focusing servo is effected responsive to focusing servo signals which are formed based upon a reproduced servo pattern of the magneto-optical disc.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1997Date of Patent: April 13, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Okawa, Takayasu Muto, Shuji Uehara
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Patent number: 5754522Abstract: In a disk with a wobbling pregroove, data can be recorded in high density. A recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from a disk in which a sector is constituted by one arbitrary integer (F) of data frames, a cluster is constituted by another arbitrary integer (S) of the sectors, and data is recorded or reproduced in unit of the sector, or in unit of the cluster, is comprised of: reading means for reading a track number of an access point of the disk; storing means for storing a table about the track number and a zone, in which the following relationship is established, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1997Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shoei Kobayashi, Tadaaki Nomoto, Shuji Uehara
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Patent number: 5629912Abstract: A magneto-optical disc recording or reproducing device focusing control servo system which uses a digital signal processor (DSP) to control a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit so that if the focusing servo is to be in operation alone, such as during a focusing search or seek, fixed clocks of a fixed frequency are used for processing focusing servo signals and after engagement of the focusing servo, focusing servo is effected responsive to focusing servo signals which are formed based upon a reproduced servo pattern of the magneto-optical disc.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1996Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sumihiro Okawa, Takayasu Muto, Shuji Uehara