Patents by Inventor Takashi Onoda
Takashi Onoda 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: 8026973Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises a focusing unit configured to focus an object to be shot by an imaging unit, a first shooting control unit configured to control the imaging unit in order to continuously shooting at first time intervals upon detecting a shooting instruction, a determining unit configured to determine whether the object moves in a distance direction during a control operation of the first shooting control unit, and a second shooting control unit configured to control the imaging unit in order to continuously shoot at second time intervals and to control the focusing unit in order to focus the object when the determining unit determines that the object moves in the distance direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Onoda
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Patent number: 8023798Abstract: A recording apparatus receives, with respect to an identical program, high image quality digital broadcasting data and low image quality digital broadcasting data, records the high image quality program data and the low image quality program data in a recording medium. When a cellular phone device is connected to the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus transfers the recorded low image quality program data to the cellular phone device via a communication interface. The recording apparatus transmits, to the portable cellular phone device, management information of the end of playback and deletion of the first program data whose program is identical to that of the transferred second program data.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda
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Publication number: 20110193996Abstract: In a digital camera 1, when a lagged-timing is recorded (Yes at Step S9), from the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed, a frame image picked up at a timing equivalent to the lagged-timing is displayed (Step S10). When the cross-shaped key is operated before the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is changed based on the operation (Step S12 and Step S13). Next, when the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is recorded. In addition, a lag between the timing at which the recorded frame image is picked up and the timing at which the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed is picked up is recorded (Step S15).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi ONODA, Osamu Nojima
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Patent number: 7948526Abstract: In a digital camera 1, when a lagged-timing is recorded (Yes at Step S9), from the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed, a frame image picked up at a timing equivalent to the lagged-timing is displayed (Step S10). When the cross-shaped key is operated before the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is changed based on the operation (Step S12 and Step S13). Next, when the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is recorded. In addition, a lag between the timing at which the recorded frame image is picked up and the timing at which the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed is picked up is recorded (Step S15).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Onoda, Osamu Nojima
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Publication number: 20100201835Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises a focusing unit configured to focus an object to be shot by an imaging unit, a first shooting control unit configured to control the imaging unit in order to continuously shooting at first time intervals upon detecting a shooting instruction, a determining unit configured to determine whether the object moves in a distance direction during a control operation of the first shooting control unit, and a second shooting control unit configured to control the imaging unit in order to continuously shoot at second time intervals and to control the focusing unit in order to focus the object when the determining unit determines that the object moves in the distance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi ONODA
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Publication number: 20090167890Abstract: An image capture device sets a central vicinity of a frame of a predetermined area as a focus region upon detecting a half-press operation of a shutter button in a through-the-lens image displaying, designates a central vicinity pixel region of the region as a pixel region to be tracked, and determines whether or not the designated pixel region is adequate as an object of tracking. If the pixel region is adequate, the pixel region is tracked until the shutter button is detected as pressed down fully. When a fully-press operation of the shutter button is detected, the frame of a predetermined area is displayed in a fixed manner on a display unit. Upon a detection that a change of the pixel region has occurred, or the pixel region has contacted or exceeded the frame of a predetermined area, a recording processing is started immediately by a high speed consecutive capture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD.Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOMI, Shinichi Matsui, Yutaka Onodera, Takashi Onoda
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Patent number: 7505671Abstract: Program data included in a digital television broadcast received from a broadcast station is recorded. A program keyword list that has stored keywords on program sections of the program data corresponding to broadcast time zones is received from a service company's server. Videos and voices on a program section involving a keyword that meets predetermined conditions selected from the keywords stored in the received program keyword list are reproduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda, Kazuo Ura
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Publication number: 20080309793Abstract: Herein disclosed is an imaging apparatus, carrying out a step of calculating an exposure value based on image data obtained by the imaging section, a step of computing a shutter speed by mean of, for example, a program AE control in accordance with the exposure value calculated in the calculation step; a step of determining, in accordance with the shutter speed computed in the computation step, a continuous shooting speed indicative of the number of photographs per unit time; and a step of driving the imaging section so that a photographing operation is carried out with the continuous shooting speed thus determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi ONODA, Akira Miyata
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Publication number: 20080129854Abstract: In a digital camera 1, when a lagged-timing is recorded (Yes at Step S9), from the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed, a frame image picked up at a timing equivalent to the lagged-timing is displayed (Step S10). When the cross-shaped key is operated before the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is changed based on the operation (Step S12 and Step S13). Next, when the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is recorded. In addition, a lag between the timing at which the recorded frame image is picked up and the timing at which the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed is picked up is recorded (Step S15).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Onoda, Osamu Nojima
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Publication number: 20080079817Abstract: An image apparatus records images of a subject corresponding to a photo opportunity without intensifying complex operations after the imaging. When a SLOW button is depressed, a process is started in which frame image data that is obtained at an imaging frame rate is stored sequentially in a buffer memory. The frame image data is read out from the buffer memory at a display frame rate that is set in advance, and images are displayed on a display device based on this frame image data. When a shutter key is depressed, the frame image data read out from the buffer memory is recorded to storage memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Murata, Takashi Onoda, Osamu Nojima
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Publication number: 20070047906Abstract: A recording apparatus receives, with respect to an identical program, high image quality digital broadcasting data and low image quality digital broadcasting data, records the high image quality program data and the low image quality program data in a recording medium. When a cellular phone device is connected to the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus transfers the recorded low image quality program data to the cellular phone device via a communication interface. The recording apparatus transmits, to the portable cellular phone device, management information of the end of playback and deletion of the first program data whose program is identical to that of the transferred second program data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda
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Publication number: 20050185924Abstract: Program data included in a digital television broadcast received from a broadcast station is recorded. A program keyword list that has stored keywords on program sections of the program data corresponding to broadcast time zones is received from a service company's server. Videos and voices on a program section involving a keyword that meets predetermined conditions selected from the keywords stored in the received program keyword list are reproduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda, Kazuo Ura
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Publication number: 20040252205Abstract: In a digital camera as an image pickup apparatus, a plurality of frame group data, each comprising data on a plurality of frames of an object as viewed from a like number of angles for obtaining a 3-D pseudoimage are stored beforehand in a flash ROM. In image pickup, an image of an object to be picked up from an angle is displayed along with a corresponding frame on a display. A user aligns the image of the object with the frame on the display. When the user depresses the shutter button, the image of the object is picked up. Such image pickup is repeated for a respective one of the remaining images of the object as viewed from other angles, thereby providing the respective still images for forming a 3-D pseudoimage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Onoda
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Patent number: 6816078Abstract: A method and a system for estimating electricity consumption of electric appliances and an abnormality alarm system, enabling estimation of individual electricity consumption of electric appliances in operation in a building or the like by a non-intrusive method, and comprising a measuring sensor (11), data extracting means (12), and estimating means (13) such as an LMC. The estimating means (13) learns based on a training set in advance, and is able to estimate individual electricity consumption of electric appliances in operation. Fundamental and higher harmonics of total load current and their phase differences from voltage are obtained by the data extracting means (12) from measurement data VA, VB, IA, IB detected by an instrument transformer (111) and an instrument current transformer (112) provided in the vicinity of a service entrance 6 of a feeder 4 to a user 2. They are inputted to the estimating means (13) as inputs, thereby estimating individual electricity consumption of the electric appliances.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Central Research Institute of Electric Power IndustryInventors: Takashi Onoda, Yukio Nakano, Katsuhisa Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20030093390Abstract: A method and a system for estimating electricity consumption of electric appliances and an abnormality alarm system, enabling estimation of individual electricity consumption of electric appliances in operation in a building or the like by a non-intrusive method, and comprising a measuring sensor (11), data extracting means (12), and estimating means (13) such as an LMC. The estimating means (13) learns based on a training set in advance, and is able to estimate individual electricity consumption of electric appliances in operation. Fundamental and higher harmonics of total load current and their phase differences from voltage are obtained by the data extracting means (12) from measurement data VA, VB, IA, IB detected by an instrument transformer (111) and an instrument current transformer (112) provided in the vicinity of a service entrance 6 of a feeder 4 to a user 2. They are inputted to the estimating means (13) as inputs, thereby estimating individual electricity consumption of the electric appliances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: Takashi Onoda, Yukio Nakano, Katsuhisa Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 6214108Abstract: Micropipe defects existing in a silicon carbide single crystal are closed within the single crystal. At least a portion of the micropipe defects opened on the surface of the silicon carbide single crystal (SiC substrate) is sealed up with a coating material. Then heat treatment is performed so as to saturate the inside of the micropipe defects with silicon carbide vapors. By this, the micropipe defects existing in the SiC substrate can be closed within the SiC substrate, not in a newly grown layer. Further, the micropipe defects can be efficiently closed by filling the micropipe defects with a silicon carbide material by preliminarily using super critical fluid and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho, Denso CorporationInventors: Atsuto Okamoto, Naohiro Sugiyama, Toshihiko Tani, Nobuo Kamiya, Hiroaki Wakayama, Yoshiaki Fukushima, Kazukuni Hara, Fusao Hirose, Shoichi Onda, Kunihiko Hara, Takashi Onoda, Haruyoshi Kuriyama, Takeshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 5921744Abstract: A device is provided for carrying a thin plate-like substrate such as a semiconductor wafer and for controlling the position of the wafer by floating it with an inert gas of low impurity concentration. A transferring unit and a control unit are both respectively provided with gas nozzles for floating a wafer and with a gas exhausting and circulating system. A plurality of transferring and control units are sealingly interconnected. Each control unit has a vacuum suction hole at its control center, and is provided with nozzles for controlling the wafer in the radial and circumferential directions, respectively, and with nozzles for stopping the wafer and for transporting the wafer to the next unit. On the bottom of a control space defined by each control unit, grooves which extend from the vacuum suction hole are formed for improving the positional accuracy of stopping the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki-Kaisha Watanabe ShokoInventors: Masayuki Toda, Takashi Onoda, Tadahiro Ohmi, Masaru Umeda, Yoichi Kanno
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Patent number: 5518360Abstract: A device for carrying a thin plate-like substrate such as a semiconductor wafer and controlling its position by floating it with an inert gas of low impurity concentration. A transferring unit and a controlling unit are respectively provided with gas nozzles for floating a thin plate-like substrate and with a gas exhausting and circulating system, and a plurality of them are in combination with each other in a sealing state. The controlling unit, further, has a vacuum suction hole at its controlling center, and is provided with nozzles for controlling the thin plate-like substrate in its radial and circumferential direction respectively and with nozzles for stopping the thin plate-like substrate or sending out it to the next unit too.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1993Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki-Kaisha Watanabe ShokoInventors: Masayuki Toda, Takashi Onoda, Tadahiro Ohmi, Masaru Umeda, Yoichi Kanno
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Patent number: 4742612Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wire harness with nipped connectors uses a work table having connector holding tools and wiring/nipping tools in a predetermined pattern thereon and a robot with a hand which can be freely moved on the work table. The hand can selectively hold at least a connector holding head for loading connectors in the connector holding tools and a wiring/nipping head for performing wiring between the connectors to prepare a wire harness.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1987Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenjiro Dokan, Seiji Inano, Takashi Onoda, Yuji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Hiramatsu, Yoshihiro Umeda, Shinichi Kamo
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Patent number: 4044239Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adjusting the vibration frequency of vibrating objects such as piano strings, by stepwise adjustment of the vibration frequency of a vibrating object. The amount of the required adjusting operation in each of the adjustment steps is calculated by the equation:.DELTA..theta..sub.i = K.sub.i (f.sub.s - f.sub.pi-1)wherein:i represents an integer such as 1, 2, 3, ...;.DELTA..theta..sub.i represents the amount of adjustment in the i-th adjusting step;f.sub.pi -1 represents the vibration frequency after the (i-1)th adjusting step;K.sub.i represents the constant employed in the calculation of the i-th adjusting step;The constant (K.sub.1) for the initial (i=1) adjusting step is predetermined; andThe constant K.sub.i (i=2, 3, ...) for the second and subsequent adjusting steps is calculated by the equation: ##EQU1## WHEREIN: .DELTA..theta..sub.I-1 REPRESENTS THE AMOUNT OF ADJUSTMENT IN THE (I-1)TH ADJUSTING STEP;f.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1976Date of Patent: August 23, 1977Assignee: Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Shimauchi, Takashi Onoda