Patents by Inventor Takahisa Endo

Takahisa Endo 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: 11316627
    Abstract: A communication system including a transmission device and a reception device is provided. A processor of the transmission device is configured to store image data on a transmission buffer after deleting all the stored image data in a case in which a first condition and a second condition are met. The processor is configured to store the image data without deleting the stored image data in a case in which at least one of the first condition and the second condition is not met. The first condition indicates that a second transmission-completion frame this time is after a previous first transmission-completion frame. The second condition indicates that a third transmission-completion frame is not the next frame of the transmission-completion second frame. The third transmission-completion frame is a frame of the image data to be stored after confirming the transmission-completion frame this time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Publication number: 20210135798
    Abstract: A communication system including a transmission device and a reception device is provided. A processor of the transmission device is configured to store image data on a transmission buffer after deleting all the stored image data in a case in which a first condition and a second condition are met. The processor is configured to store the image data without deleting the stored image data in a case in which at least one of the first condition and the second condition is not met. The first condition indicates that a second transmission-completion frame this time is after a previous first transmission-completion frame. The second condition indicates that a third transmission-completion frame is not the next frame of the transmission-completion second frame. The third transmission-completion frame is a frame of the image data to be stored after confirming the transmission-completion frame this time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 10764616
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus includes an imaging device, wireless communication equipment and at least one processor. The processor determines whether the wireless communication equipment is able to complete transmission of a first frame image within a transmission period corresponding to a first imaging cycle. The processor controls the wireless communication equipment to continue transmission of the first frame image in a transmission period of a second frame image output from the imaging device in a second imaging cycle when the processor determines that the wireless communication equipment is not able to complete transmission of the first frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 10645726
    Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal, a controller wirelessly receives communication channel information from a first terminal by using a communicator. The communication channel information transmitted from the first terminal to the wireless communication terminal includes first information and second information. The communication channel information transmitted from the second terminal to the first terminal includes the second information. The first information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the first terminal. The second information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the second terminal. The controller determines a communication channel used for wireless communication by the wireless communication terminal on the basis of the communication channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Endo, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10542522
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use continuation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Endo, Shinya Kawasaki, Tetsuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10524635
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject and output image data, a moving-image generation unit configured to generate moving-image data from the image data output from the imaging unit, a still-image generation unit configured to generate still-image data from the image data output from the imaging unit, a release instruction unit configured to receive an image-recording instruction from a user, a first wireless communication unit configured to sequentially change a wireless channel to transmit test data and transmit the still-image data to the reception device when the release instruction unit receives the image-recording instruction, a second wireless communication unit configured to transmit the moving-image data to the reception device using a wireless channel different from the wireless channel currently used by the first wireless communication unit, and a first setting unit configured to set a wireless channel determined from communication quality information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 10477408
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use confirmation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Kawasaki, Takahisa Endo, Tetsuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10425827
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit configured to transmit image data by radio waves. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit configured to receive the image data transmitted by the transmission-side wireless communication unit by radio waves. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Shinya Kawasaki, Takahisa Endo
  • Publication number: 20190256955
    Abstract: Provided is a hard particle powder for a sintered body, consisting of: 0.01?C?3.5 mass %, 0.5?Si?4.0 mass %, 0.1?Mn?10.0 mass %, 0.1?Ni?35.0 mass %, 0.1?Cr?40.0 mass %, 5.0?Mo?50.0 mass %, 0.1?Fe?30.0 mass %, and 0.01?REM?0.5 mass %, with a balance being Co and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Iwane NAGASE, Tomomi YAMAMOTO, Takahisa ENDO, Syunsuke KONO, Hiroki HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20190069273
    Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal, a controller wirelessly receives communication channel information from a first terminal by using a communicator. The communication channel information transmitted from the first terminal to the wireless communication terminal includes first information and second information. The communication channel information transmitted from the second terminal to the first terminal includes the second information. The first information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the first terminal. The second information represents a communication channel used for wireless communication by the second terminal. The controller determines a communication channel used for wireless communication by the wireless communication terminal on the basis of the communication channel information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Endo, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20180324471
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus includes an imaging device, wireless communication equipment and at least one processor. The processor determines whether the wireless communication equipment is able to complete transmission of a first frame image within a transmission period corresponding to a first imaging cycle. The processor controls the wireless communication equipment to continue transmission of the first frame image in a transmission period of a second frame image output from the imaging device in a second imaging cycle when the processor determines that the wireless communication equipment is not able to complete transmission of the first frame image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Publication number: 20180027420
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit configured to transmit image data by radio waves. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit configured to receive the image data transmitted by the transmission-side wireless communication unit by radio waves. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Takahashi, Shinya Kawasaki, Takahisa Endo
  • Publication number: 20180020427
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use continuation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Endo, Shinya Kawasaki, Tetsuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180020362
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use confirmation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Kawasaki, Takahisa Endo, Tetsuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9769727
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal includes: an antenna unit, a processing unit configured to process the video data transmitted or received through the directional antenna, and a control unit. The control unit sets the communication path as a first communication path, and causes the antenna unit to transmit or receive the video data of the one frame or the one field through the first communication path, and the control unit sets the communication path as a second communication path different from the first communication path in the same frame period or the same field period as a frame period or a field period in which the video data is transmitted or received through the first communication path, and causes the antenna unit to transmit or receive same video data as all or some of the video data transmitted or received through the first communication path, through the second communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 9596519
    Abstract: A wireless transmission terminal wirelessly transmits data in a multicast manner to wireless receiving terminals that set whether to wirelessly transmit responses for wirelessly received data, wirelessly transmit priority information representing a priority of a reception side terminal, and serve as any one of response-enabled terminals for which wireless transmission of the responses is enabled and response-disabled terminals for which wireless transmission of the responses is disabled. The wireless transmission terminal includes: a wireless communication unit; a storage unit; and a control unit configured to store the priority information in the storage unit in correlation with identification information for identifying the wireless receiving terminal having wirelessly transmitted a connection request for receiving data wirelessly transmitted in a multicast manner when the connection request and the priority information have been wirelessly received in the wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Publication number: 20170035272
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject and output image data, a moving-image generation unit configured to generate moving-image data from the image data output from the imaging unit, a still-image generation unit configured to generate still-image data from the image data output from the imaging unit, a release instruction unit configured to receive an image-recording instruction from a user, a first wireless communication unit configured to sequentially change a wireless channel to transmit test data and transmit the still-image data to the reception device when the release instruction unit receives the image-recording instruction, a second wireless communication unit configured to transmit the moving-image data to the reception device using a wireless channel different from the wireless channel currently used by the first wireless communication unit, and a first setting unit configured to set a wireless channel determined from communication quality information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 9438784
    Abstract: A display control section causes a display section to display an image corresponding to imaging data generated by an imaging element before the wireless reception of imaging data which is wirelessly transmitted from a camera is started, and causes the display section to display an image corresponding to imaging data which is wirelessly received after the wireless reception of the imaging data which is wirelessly transmitted from the camera is started. A parameter generating section generates imaging parameters when an instruction for the imaging parameters is input in a state where the image corresponding to the imaging data generated by the imaging element is displayed on the display section. A communication control section causes a wireless communication circuit section to wirelessly transmit the imaging parameters generated by the parameter generating section to the camera, and to wirelessly receive the imaging data wirelessly transmitted from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 9395107
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a housing, two high-temperature-side refrigeration circuits and two low-temperature-side refrigeration circuits. Each of the high-temperature-side refrigeration circuits is configured to exchange heat with both of the two low-temperature-side refrigeration circuits by cascade heat exchangers. A hot-water pipe letting water or hot water through water-refrigerant heat exchangers of the high-temperature-side refrigeration circuits is provided. When the low-temperature-side refrigeration circuit conducts a defrosting operation of the evaporator, the low-temperature-side refrigeration circuits are controlled in such a way that the low-temperature-side refrigerant circuit releases heat in the cascade heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Asari, Takahiro Zushi, Takahisa Endo
  • Patent number: 9369637
    Abstract: A wireless terminal may include: a communication unit that transmits/receives information; a recognition unit that recognizes whether a wireless terminal having transmitted the information is an opposite attribute wireless terminal based on the information received in the communication unit, when a wireless terminal having an attribute opposite to an attribute of its own terminal between the video transmission attribute and the video reception attribute is defined as the opposite attribute wireless terminal and a wireless terminal having the instruction attribute is defined as an instruction attribute wireless terminal; and a communication control unit that controls the communication unit to transmit information on a wireless terminal recognized as the opposite attribute wireless terminal to the instruction attribute wireless terminal when the recognition unit recognizes that the wireless terminal having transmitted the information is the opposite attribute wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Endo