Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kodama

Yasuhiro Kodama 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: 20230286440
    Abstract: A console box includes a box body, storage, a side table, a shaft, a shaft support arranged above the storage, and a rotation stopper. The storage is located in a side portion of the box body with respect to a widthwise direction of a vehicle seat. The side table is vertically movable between a storage position and an intermediate position. The shaft is located at a lower end of the side table when in the upright state. The shaft support rotatably supports the shaft so that the side table rotates about the shaft away from the box body in the widthwise direction from the intermediate position to a usage position. The rotation stopper restricts rotation of the side table beyond the usage position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroto WATANABE, Masanori MIZUNO, Yasuhiro KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11470263
    Abstract: A control section sets an exposure timing and an exposure period for imaging pixels for acquiring an imaging picture and light intensity detection pixels for detecting intensity of illumination light individually by an imaging section. A correction gain calculation section calculates a flicker correction gain for each of the imaging pixels on the basis of pixel signals generated by the imaging pixels and pixel signals generated by the light intensity detection pixels. A flicker correction section uses the flicker correction gain for each imaging pixel calculated by the correction gain calculation section to perform flicker correction of the imaging pixel. Accordingly, an imaging picture can be obtained on which the influence of fluctuation of the intensity of emission light is reduced irrespective of the positional relationship between an illumination apparatus and an imaging object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Iwase, Takahiro Mori, Daisuke Nakayama, Yasuhiro Kodama, Masaya Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11190702
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a camera, a lighting section, a sensor section, and an image-shooting controller. The lighting section includes a light entrance that at least a portion of external light enters, and an object for calibration that is irradiated with the external light entering the light entrance. The sensor section detects a state of the object for calibration irradiated with the external light. The image-shooting controller controls the camera according to a result of the detection performed by the sensor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Makoto Omata, Akira Iwase
  • Publication number: 20210281737
    Abstract: A control section 45 sets an exposure timing and an exposure period for imaging pixels for acquiring an imaging picture and light intensity detection pixels for detecting intensity of illumination light individually by an imaging section 21. A correction gain calculation section 32 calculates a flicker correction gain for each of the imaging pixels on the basis of pixel signals generated by the imaging pixels and pixel signals generated by the light intensity detection pixels. A flicker correction section 33 uses the flicker correction gain for each imaging pixel calculated by the correction gain calculation section 32 to perform flicker correction of the imaging pixel. Accordingly, an imaging picture can be obtained on which the influence of fluctuation of the intensity of emission light is reduced irrespective of the positional relationship between an illumination apparatus and an imaging object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: AKIRA IWASE, TAKAHIRO MORI, DAISUKE NAKAYAMA, YASUHIRO KODAMA, MASAYA KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200389580
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a camera, a lighting section, a sensor section, and an image-shooting controller. The lighting section includes a light entrance that at least a portion of external light enters, and an object for calibration that is irradiated with the external light entering the light entrance. The sensor section detects a state of the object for calibration irradiated with the external light. The image-shooting controller controls the camera according to a result of the detection performed by the sensor section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KODAMA, Makoto OMATA, Akira IWASE
  • Patent number: 9868401
    Abstract: A lid attached storage device includes: a box body having an opening; left and right lid bodies configured to cover left and right sides of the opening; and left and right opening and closing mechanisms configured to respectively cause the left and right lid bodies to be slidable in the front and rear direction and rotatable in the up and down direction with respect to the box body, each of the left and right opening and closing mechanisms including: a base member; a rotational support portion configured to support the base member so as to be rotatable in the up and down direction about a left or right side of the box body with respect to the box body; and a slide portion configured to slide the lid body in the front and rear direction with respect to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Kiyoshi Kimura, Hiroshi Zushi
  • Publication number: 20160339847
    Abstract: A lid attached storage device includes: a box body having an opening; left and right lid bodies configured to cover left and right sides of the opening; and left and right opening and closing mechanisms configured to respectively cause the left and right lid bodies to be slidable in the front and rear direction and rotatable in the up and down direction with respect to the box body, each of the left and right opening and closing mechanisms including: a base member; a rotational support portion configured to support the base member so as to be rotatable in the up and down direction about a left or right side of the box body with respect to the box body; and a slide portion configured to slide the lid body in the front and rear direction with respect to the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KODAMA, Kiyoshi KIMURA, Hiroshi ZUSHI
  • Patent number: 9276876
    Abstract: A data transfer apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a search unit, and a data transmitting/receiving unit. The first memory holds information that associates a search key with an address. The second memory holds information that associates the address with verification information which is generated by a predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the search key. The search unit generates the search key based on the received data, obtains, from the first memory, the address that is associated with the generated search key, obtains, from the second memory, the verification information that is associated with the obtained address, and verifies the verification information that is generated by the predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the generated search key with the verification information obtained from the second memory. The data transmitting/receiving unit executes processing based on a result of the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: ALAXALA NETWORKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Shinichi Akahane, Kazuo Sugai, Takao Nara
  • Patent number: 9193299
    Abstract: A storage box includes a storage unit for storing an article, a lid unit slidably attached to the storage unit and adapted to open and close an opening portion of the storage unit, a light source unit attached to the storage unit, a first light guide body attached to the inside of the storage unit, a second light guide body attached to the inside of the lid unit, and a light emitting portion disposed on an upper surface of a front end of the lid unit, the light emitting portion defining a handle portion of the lid unit, and has a rectangular shape longer in a width direction of the lid unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 9004312
    Abstract: A roller shutter type storage container includes a container body, a roller shutter accommodating portion, a pair of guide grooves, and a roller shutter. Each of the guide grooves extends linearly in an opening of the container body and is curved in the roller shutter accommodating portion. The roller shutter is configured by connecting a plurality of slats each having shafts formed in the widthwise direction at two ends of the slat in a bendable manner. As the two shafts slide in the corresponding guide grooves, the roller shutter slides between an open position and a close position. Each one of the shafts is spaced from a vertical wall surface of the corresponding one of the guide grooves. A projection formed of soft material projects outward from each shaft of each slat in the widthwise direction and contacts the corresponding vertical wall surface in an elastically deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Masataka Inoue
  • Patent number: 9004332
    Abstract: A cup holder includes one or two supporting members that support a container inserted into a receiving portion of a holder main body, and is arranged in a circumferential direction of the holder main body. A container having the protrusion and recess pattern on a side surface can smoothly be taken out from the receiving portion with a low risk of the supporting members interfering with other members around the holder main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Kojima Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Naoyuki Fukui, Daiichiro Nakano, Makoto Yokota
  • Patent number: 8826045
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a collecting unit that collects power consumption information, wherein the power consumption information shows power consumption of a connecting device, and the connecting device interconnects a plurality of communication paths in a computer network; and a display unit that displays power consumption of the computer network, based on the power consumption information and constituent units based on a virtual network which is configured virtually on the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Alaxala Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Mitsuru Nagasaka, Shinichi Akahane, Tomohiko Kouno, Teruo Kaganoi, Takeki Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20140207897
    Abstract: A data transfer apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a search unit, and a data transmitting/receiving unit. The first memory holds information that associates a search key with an address. The second memory holds information that associates the address with verification information which is generated by a predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the search key. The search unit generates the search key based on the received data, obtains, from the first memory, the address that is associated with the generated search key, obtains, from the second memory, the verification information that is associated with the obtained address, and verifies the verification information that is generated by the predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the generated search key with the verification information obtained from the second memory. The data transmitting/receiving unit executes processing based on a result of the verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: ALAXALA Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KODAMA, Shinichi AKAHANE, Kazuo SUGAI, Takao NARA
  • Publication number: 20140119043
    Abstract: A storage box with illumination includes a storage unit that stores an article, a lid unit that is slidably attached on the storage unit and adapted to open and close an opening portion of the storage unit, a light source unit that is attached and fixed on the storage unit and adapted to emit light, a first light guide body that is attached and fixed inside the storage unit, a second light guide body that is attached and fixed inside the lid unit, and a light emitting portion that is disposed on an upper surface of a front end of the lid unit, which is a handle portion of the lid unit, and has a shape whose width in a width direction of the lid unit is wider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20140042166
    Abstract: A roller shutter type storage container includes a container body, a roller shutter accommodating portion, a pair of guide grooves, and a roller shutter. Each of the guide grooves extends linearly in an opening of the container body and is curved in the roller shutter accommodating portion. The roller shutter is configured by connecting a plurality of slats each having shafts formed in the widthwise direction at two ends of the slat in a bendable manner. As the two shafts slide in the corresponding guide grooves, the roller shutter slides between an open position and a close position. Each one of the shafts is spaced from a vertical wall surface of the corresponding one of the guide grooves. A projection formed of soft material projects outward from each shaft of each slat in the widthwise direction and contacts the corresponding vertical wall surface in an elastically deformed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KODAMA, Masataka INOUE
  • Patent number: 8579151
    Abstract: A roller shutter storage container includes a container body, a roller shutter accommodating portion, a pair of guide grooves, and a roller shutter. Each of the guide grooves extends linearly in an opening formed in the container body and is curved in the roller shutter accommodating portion. The roller shutter is configured by connecting a plurality of slats each having shafts formed at two ends of the slat with respect to the widthwise direction in a bendable manner. As the two shafts of each of the slats slide in the corresponding guide grooves, the roller shutter slides between an open position for opening the opening and a close position for closing the opening. Each one of the shafts is spaced from a vertical wall surface of the corresponding one of the guide grooves. A projection formed of soft material projects outward from each shaft of each slat in the widthwise direction and contacts the corresponding vertical wall surface in an elastically deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kodama, Masataka Inoue
  • Patent number: 8556320
    Abstract: A console box placed in a vehicle passenger compartment includes a console body for storing articles, a lid located on a top surface of the body, and a storage portion formed on a back surface of the lid for storing a small item. The storage portion is opened in response to opening of the lid, and is closed in response to closing of the lid. The lid has one end attached to the body through support shafts such that the lid pivots between open and closed positions. The storage portion has one end attached to the lid through support shafts such that the storage portion pivots between open and closed positions. The lid has a free end opposite the one end thereof and the storage portion has a free end opposite the one end thereof. The free ends face in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyosuke Yamagishi, Masamitsu Shiono, Kazunari Nishio, Yasuhiro Kodama
  • Patent number: D777214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Moritaka, Yukihiro Komatsu, Hiromu Kadowaki, Koji Nakashima, Satoshi Tamura, Yasuhiro Kodama, Keiichi Baba, Toshinobu Watanabe, Kenshiro Yakushiji, Hirotaka Yato, Akira Kurisu
  • Patent number: D777215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Moritaka, Yukihiro Komatsu, Hiromu Kadowaki, Koji Nakashima, Satoshi Tamura, Yasuhiro Kodama, Keiichi Baba, Toshinobu Watanabe, Kenshiro Yakushiji, Hirotaka Yato, Akira Kurisu
  • Patent number: D920386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MAHINDRA AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Nishimoto, Keiichi Baba, Yasuhiro Kodama, Shinji Ohmi, Satoshi Tamura, Masaru Abe, Yoshiyuki Moritaka, Kenshiro Yakushiji, Hiromu Kadowaki, Eiji Harada, Hidetomo Watanabe