Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Kikuchi

Yasunobu Kikuchi 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: 20110243397
    Abstract: A method for searching a collection of digital images on a display screen, comprising: entering an image review mode and displaying on the display screen a first digital image from the collection of digital images; designating a face contained in the first digital image by using an interactive user interface to indicate a region of the displayed first digital image containing the face; using a processor to execute an automatic face recognition algorithm to identify one or more additional digital images from the collection of digital images that contain the designated face; and displaying the identified one or more additional digital images on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher Watkins, Timothy J. White, Yasunobu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20090058810
    Abstract: In a keyboard displayed on a display, a desired character or symbol is efficiently input. A string field section, a key section, and an option section are displayed on a rear LCD, or the like, of a digital camera. A neutral key is provided in the option section. When a cursor is moved from the option section to the key section, operation means is operated with the cursor being situated at the neutral key, whereby the cursor is moved to the key section. After a character or a symbol has been selected by the option section, the cursor is automatically return to the neutral key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4658769
    Abstract: This V-type engine has first and second banks of cylinders, each odd in number, with first intake and exhaust cam shafts provided along the first cylinder head and second intake and exhaust cam shafts provided along the second cylinder head. One of the first intake and exhaust cam shafts, and one of the second intake and exhaust cam shafts, is rotationally driven from the crank shaft. A first intake cam shaft gear wheel is provided on the first intake cam shaft at a longitudinal position between the middle cylinder of the first bank of cylinders and the next cylinder to the rear from the middle cylinder, and a first exhaust cam shaft gear wheel, meshed with this first intake cam shaft gear wheel, is provided on the first exhaust cam shaft at a similar longitudinal position between the middle cylinder of the first bank of cylinders and the next cylinder to the rear therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihide Horio, Yasunobu Kikuchi, Hiroya Fujita
  • Patent number: 4142701
    Abstract: Support devices for automobile engine comprising attaching two buffers each comprising connecting the exterior surface of a metal shaft with the interior surface of a metal hollow cylinder arranged so as to surround the shaft in spaced relation by means of an elastic rubber member to provide higher and lower directions of the rigidities between the shaft and the metal cylinder at a plane perpendicular to the coextensive axes of the shaft and the metal cylinder in horizontal relation with respect to the coextensive direction of the shaft and the metal cylinder and connecting one end of either the shaft or the metal cylinder with the car body and another end thereof with the engine so that the coextensive line of the direction having higher rigidity intersects with a vertical plane through the center of gravity of the engine at a position below the intersection of the coextensive line directed to the direction having lower rigidity with the above-mentioned vertical plane to support symmetrically the engine on t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignees: Tokai Rubber Industries Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Fujii, Yasuo Suzuki, Rikizo Yoshikawa, Kiyokazu Seo, Katsunori Mori, Yasunobu Kikuchi, Kazuo Yoshida