Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Wakabayashi
Tsutomu Wakabayashi 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: 20070291136Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image-capturing element; a recording device that records image data constituted of image capturing signals output from the image-capturing element into a data recording medium; a frame number calculating device that calculates a number of frames of image data that have been recorded or can be recorded into the data recording medium; a display device at which the number of frames is displayed; and a control device that controls the display device so as to display at least the number of frames when a main switch is in an OFF state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20070274702Abstract: An electronic camera includes: an imaging device that captures a subject image through a photographic lens; a luminance detection device that detects subject luminance; a first arithmetic operation circuit that executes exposure calculation by using at least exposure sensitivity set at the imaging device and the subject luminance detected by the luminance detection device among the exposure sensitivity set at the imaging device, an exposure time period set at the imaging device, an aperture value set at the photographic lens and the subject luminance detected by the luminance detection device and determines through arithmetic operation a first control exposure by adjusting at least one of the exposure time period and the aperture value so as to achieve optimal exposure if the optimal exposure is not achieved through the initial exposure calculation; a second arithmetic operation circuit that determines through arithmetic operation a second control exposure with regard to the aperture value and the exposure tiType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 7277131Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image-capturing element; a recording device that records image data constituted of image capturing signals output from the image-capturing element into a data recording medium; a frame number calculating device that calculates a number of frames of image data that have been recorded or can be recorded into the data recording medium; a display device at which the number of frames is displayed; and a control device that controls the display device so as to display at least the number of frames when a main switch is in an OFF state.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 7274392Abstract: An electronic camera according to the present invention includes: an image-capturing element that outputs image-capturing signals; a shutter device that allows subject light pass through to the image-capturing element or shields the image-capturing element from the subject light; an image-capturing circuit that engages the image-capturing element in an image-capturing operations over a predetermined length of time to output to a first image-capturing signal while the subject light is allowed to pass through to the image-capturing element and also engages the image-capturing element in an image-capturing operation over a predetermined length of time while the image-capturing element is shielded from the subject light; a signal correction circuit that executes a signal correction by subtracting the second image-capturing signal from the first image-capturing signal; and a control circuit that controls the image-capturing circuit so as to set an upper limit to the length of the image-capturing operation executedType: GrantFiled: January 27, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignees: Nikon Corporation, Nikon Systems Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Naoisa Nomura
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Publication number: 20070115386Abstract: If an electronic camera is set in an image-capturing, sensitivity automatic control mode, a program autoexposure calculation is executed based upon the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine a control aperture value and a control shutter speed. If the correct exposure is not achieved, a control exposure sensitivity is calculated based upon the exposure deviation and the image-capturing sensitivity setting is adjusted accordingly. If an internal flash unit or an external flash unit is utilized, an autoexposure calculation is executed by using the flash unit synchronizing speed, the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine the control aperture value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2007Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 7218353Abstract: If an electronic camera is set in an image-capturing sensitivity automatic control mode, a program autoexposure calculation is executed based upon the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine a control aperture value and a control shutter speed. If the correct exposure is not achieved, a control exposure sensitivity is calculated based upon the exposure deviation and the image-capturing sensitivity setting is adjusted accordingly. If an internal flash unit or an external flash unit is utilized, an autoexposure calculation is executed by using the flash unit synchronizing speed, the subject brightness and the image-capturing sensitivity setting to determine the control aperture value.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2002Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20050219381Abstract: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit with variable image-capturing sensitivity, which captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens; a brightness detection unit that detects subject brightness; an exposure calculation unit that executes an exposure calculation by using, at least, the image-capturing sensitivity set at the image-capturing unit and the subject brightness having been detected; a flash quantity calculation unit that calculates a main flash quantity for a flash unit that illuminates the subject when capturing an image thereof; and a sensitivity adjusting unit that adjusts the image-capturing sensitivity so as to achieve optimal exposure with a main flash quantity within a flash quantity control range of the flash unit when the main flash quantity having been calculated by the flash quantity calculation unit is outside the flash quantity control range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takeuchi, Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 6951097Abstract: Disclosed is a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube defining a second channel and an outer tube defining a first channel surrounding the inner tube, air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel and the second channel, and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas to the first channel and the second channel, either the first channel or the second channel being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas for combusting it. A plurality of first supply openings for supplying the fuel gas into the main combustion channel are distributed in the main combustion channel in a direction away from the pilot combustion channel. Discharging resistance of the fuel gas from each first supply opening due to passage of the oxygen-containing gas is set so as to increase as being distant from the pilot combustion channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuo Shimodaira
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Publication number: 20050110897Abstract: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image formed with subject light; a shielding member that allows the subject light to pass through to the image-capturing element or blocks the subject light; a first electromagnetic actuator used for opening/closing drive of the shielding member; a holding member that holds the shielding member at least either an open state in which the shielding member allows the subject light to pass through or a closed state in which the shielding member blocks the subject light; a second electromagnetic actuator used for holding drive and hold release drive of the holding member; and a control device that controls driving of the first electromagnetic actuator and the second electromagnetic actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20050110896Abstract: An electronic camera includes: an electrical charge storage-type image-capturing element that stores an electrical charge by receiving subject light; a shielding member that allows the subject light to pass to the image-capturing element or blocks the subject light to the image-capturing element; an electromagnetic actuator used to drive the shielding member at least in a closing direction; a storage control device that starts an electrical charge storage at the image-capturing element after a time point at which the shielding member is detected to be in an open state allowing the subject light to pass and ends the electrical charge storage once a preset length of exposure time elapses; and a shield control device that outputs an instruction for driving the shielding member in the closing direction to the electromagnetic actuator before the electrical charge storage ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2004Publication date: May 26, 2005Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20050037305Abstract: In the present invention, in a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube (2) defining a second channel (A2) and an outer tube (3) defining a first channel (A1) surrounding the inner tube (2), air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas G to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), either the first channel (A1) or the second channel (A2) being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas (G) for combusting it, said gas supplying means includes a plurality of fluid distributors (4) arranged in dispersion in a peripheral direction of the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel, each fluid distributor (4) including a first supply opening (5) for supplying the fuel gas G into the main combustion channel, a supply line (6) for supplying the fuel gas G preseType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito, Kazuo Suzuki, Kazuo Shimodaira
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Patent number: 6854258Abstract: Disclosed is a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube defining a second channel and an outer tube defining a first channel surrounding the inner tube air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel and the second channel, and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas to the first channel and the second channel, either the first channel or the second channel being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas for combusting it. The burner apparatus including a common channel formed at one end of the inner tube and the outer tube for supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Patent number: 6832483Abstract: Disclosed is a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube defining a second channel and an outer tube defining a first channel surrounding the inner tube, air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel and the second channel, and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas to the first channel and the second channel, either the first channel or the second channel being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas for combusting it. The main combustion channel includes a mixing promoting member against which the fuel gas discharged from the first supply opening into the main combustion channel is collided to be diffused in the main combustion channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Osaka, Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Patent number: 6829897Abstract: Disclosed is a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube defining a second channel and an outer tube defining a first channel surrounding the inner tube, air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel and the second channel, and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas to the first channel and the second channel, either the first channel or the second channel being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas for combusting it. A first supply opening supplies the fuel gas into the main combustion channel. The first supply opening is disposed in the main combustion channel with an orientation for discharging the fuel gas toward a more upstream side of the flow direction of the fuel gas than the direction normal to the flow direction of the fuel gas.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Publication number: 20040212693Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image-capturing element; a recording device that records image data constituted of image capturing signals output from the image-capturing element into a data recording medium; a frame number calculating device that calculates a number of frames of image data that have been recorded or can be recorded into the data recording medium; a display device at which the number of frames is displayed; and a control device that controls the display device so as to display at least the number of frames when a main switch is in an OFF state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20040162588Abstract: A plurality of electrodes are adapted to be attached on a living body. An electric pulse is output through the electrodes as an electric stimulation to the living body. An analyzer is operable to detect a waveform of the electric pulse and to analyze a parameter of the waveform. A display displays the parameter together with one of the waveform and a model waveform which is an invariable waveform representative of the electric pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Watanabe, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Naoto Akiyama, Masahiko Inomata
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Publication number: 20040148936Abstract: In the present invention, in a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube (2) defining a second channel (A2) and an outer tube (3) defining a first channel (A1) surrounding the inner tube (2), air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas G to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), either the first channel (A1) or the second channel (A2) being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas (G) for combusting it, said gas supplying means includes a plurality of fluid distributors (4) arranged in dispersion in a peripheral direction of the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel, each fluid distributor (4) including a first supply opening (5) for supplying the fuel gas G into the main combustion channel, a supply line (6) for supplying the fuel gas G preseType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Publication number: 20040144095Abstract: In the present invention, in a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube (2) defining a second channel (A2) and an outer tube (3) defining a first channel (A1) surrounding the inner tube (2), air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas G to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), either the first channel (A1) or the second channel (A2) being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas (G) for combusting it, said gas supplying means includes a plurality of fluid distributors (4) arranged in dispersion in a peripheral direction of the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel, each fluid distributor (4) including a first supply opening (5) for supplying the fuel gas G into the main combustion channel, a supply line (6) for supplying the fuel gas G preseType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Publication number: 20040144094Abstract: In the present invention, in a burner apparatus comprising an inner tube (2) defining a second channel (A2) and an outer tube (3) defining a first channel (A1) surrounding the inner tube (2), air supplying means for supplying air to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), and gas supplying means for supplying fuel gas G to the first channel (A1) and the second channel (A2), either the first channel (A1) or the second channel (A2) being used as a main combustion channel and the other being used as a pilot combustion channel, the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel receiving the supply of fuel gas (G) for combusting it, said gas supplying means includes a plurality of fluid distributors (4) arranged in dispersion in a peripheral direction of the main combustion channel and the pilot combustion channel, each fluid distributor (4) including a first supply opening (5) for supplying the fuel gas G into the main combustion channel, a supply line (6) for supplying the fuel gas G preseType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Koji Moriya, Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Takahiro Sako, Yuji Nakamura, Shonosuke Koga, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Seiichi Ito
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Publication number: 20040068973Abstract: A burner apparatus relating to the present invention comprises a burner apparatus including a plurality of combustion channels (A1, A2) in which fuel (G) is supplied to air (A) communicated therein and the resultant fuel-air mixture is supplied to a combusting section (15) to be combusted therein. Each combustion channel (A1, A2) includes a supplying portion (5, 7) for supplying the fuel. A supplying passage (6) is provided between the respective combustion channels (A1, A2), the passage (6) being configured for receiving a portion of the fuel (G) supplied through the supplying portion (7) to the one fuel combustion channel (A2) and then supplying this to the supplying portion of the next-stage combustion channel (A1) only when the flow amount of the fuel from the supplying portion (7) is above a predetermined critical flow amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventors: Tsutomu Wakabayashi, Koji Moriya