Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Ito

Yoshinori Ito 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: 20230251875
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that temporarily stores a program of operating system (OS); and a processor capable of supplying imaging data captured by an imaging unit based on the program of OS to only one of applications running on the OS, and of performing image processing on the imaging data based on an image processing program running on the OS. The processor is configured to when the imaging data is supplied to a first application, pass setting parameters used for the image processing from a second application other than the first application to the image processing via a registry of the OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Nishiyama, Wah Tung Jimmy Wan, Kyoko Kawamura, Yoshinori Ito
  • Patent number: 11710463
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable display; a memory which temporarily stores display data to be displayed on the display; and a processor which performs control when displaying the display data stored in the memory on the display. The processor performs folding angle detection processing to detect a folding angle of the display, and luminance correction processing to correct luminance of at least any one of plural areas preset inside a screen area of the display based on the folding angle detected by the folding angle detection processing and a user's viewpoint position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Masato Sugiyama, Raymond Chen
  • Patent number: 11699067
    Abstract: To allow arithmetic processing using a plurality of processing nodes to be executed with a smaller memory size, an arithmetic processing apparatus for executing processing using a hierarchical type network formed by the plurality of processing nodes, comprises: a storage unit configured to store a parameter used by each of the plurality of processing nodes for arithmetic processing and a calculation result of the arithmetic processing in each of the plurality of processing nodes; and a buffer control unit configured to switch, based on a configuration of the hierarchical type network, a buffer system of the parameter and the calculation result in the storage unit in at least one layer of the hierarchical type network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Yachide, Masami Kato, Yoshinori Ito, Takahisa Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230206687
    Abstract: A facial image acquisition system 10 comprises a camera 11, a light guide plate 12, an LED 13, and a control device 20. The camera 11 is installed to photograph a person, and captures images over a specific capturing range. The light guide plate 12 is provided at a position adjacent to the capturing side of the camera 11, internally reflects light incident from a specific direction, emits the reflected light from a second surface 12c on the opposite side from a first surface 12b facing the camera 11 to perform the desired display, and is optically transmissive. The LED 13 irradiates the light guide plate 12 with light from a specific direction. The control device 20 controls the LED 13 so that light is emitted from the LED 13 according to information obtained by the camera 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru YABE, Junya FUJITA, Yoshinori ITO, Mitsunori SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20230176420
    Abstract: An object is to promote a reduction in thickness of a light guide plate and to provide a technique for suppressing brightness non-uniformity in the light guide plate. A light guide plate includes: a depressed portion provided on an opposite side of a light exit surface from which light is emitted; a first direction changing portion which is provided inside the depressed portion and above a light emitting element in a direction oriented toward the light exit surface, the light emitting element being provided on the opposite side of the light exit surface, and which changes a direction of travel of at least a part of light of the light emitting element; and a second direction changing portion which is provided above the light emitting element and higher than the light exit surface and which changes a direction of travel of at least a part of light of the light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro WATANABE, Naoki ISHIMI, Yoshinori ITO, Tomokazu SHIMODA
  • Patent number: 11624865
    Abstract: To provide a technique for suppressing brightness non-uniformity of an area illuminated by a light source and also suppressing a decline in contrast between areas caused by incidence of a luminous flux of the area to another area. Provided is a light guide plate including: a diverging portion which is provided on an opposite side of a light exit surface from which light is emitted, the diverging portion causing a luminous flux emitted from a light emitting element to diverge; and a restricting portion which is provided, when a prescribed range from the light emitting element on the light exit surface is defined as an illuminated area illuminated by the light emitting element, in at least a periphery of the illuminated area on the light exit surface and which deflects or shields light traveling from inside toward outside of the illuminated area to restrict traveling, toward a side of the light exit surface, of light traveling toward the outside of the illuminated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Watanabe, Naoki Ishimi, Yoshinori Ito, Tomokazu Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20230075510
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first chassis and a second chassis connected to be rotatable relative to each other; a foldable one display provided over the first chassis and the second chassis; a camera provided in the first chassis; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode in which display is controlled by setting a screen area of the display as one display area, and a second display mode in which display is controlled by splitting the screen area of the display into two display areas of a first display area corresponding to the first chassis and a second display area corresponding to the second chassis, orientation detection processing to detect an orientation of the screen area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Publication number: 20230070839
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs display mode switching processing to switch among a first display mode to control display in such a manner that a screen area of the display is set as one display area, a second display mode to control display in such a manner that the screen area of the display is split into two display areas of a first display area and a second display area with the first display area set as a primary screen and the second display area set as a secondary screen, and a third display mode to control display in such a manner that the second display area is set as the primary screen and the first display area is set as the secondary screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Publication number: 20230076721
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode in which display of a screen area of the display is controlled as one display area, and a second display mode in which the screen area of the display is split into two display areas of a first display area and a second display area to control the display; information holding processing to hold window information about position and size, in the screen area, of a window of each application running in the first display mode; and display control processing to display the window of the running application in the screen area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Publication number: 20230070598
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; a processor which executes the program stored in the memory; and a sensor which detects orientation of the own information processing device. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: orientation detection processing to detect orientation of a screen area of the display based on the detection result of the sensor; and display control processing in which the screen area is split into a plurality of display areas to display display-data in each of the plurality of display areas, respectively, and display orientation of each of the plurality of display areas is changed according to a change in the orientation of the screen area without replacing pieces of display data to be displayed respectively in the plurality of display areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Publication number: 20230076731
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: operating state switching processing to switch an operating state of a system among a first operating state, a second operating state in which processing of the system is more limited than that in the first operating state and at least the display is hidden, and a third operating state in which the processing of the system is shut down, display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode to control display by setting a screen area of the display as one display area, and a second display mode to control display by splitting the screen area into plural display areas, and setting switching processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Kyoko Kawamura, Noritoshi Yoshiyama
  • Patent number: 11507768
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on a feature of a person of interest contained in an image captured in each of a plurality of regions and a feature of a previously set registered person, a certainty that the person of interest is the registered person, and an updating unit configured to, with respect to a first person of interest subjected to image capturing in a first region out of the plurality of regions, in a case where a period for which a state in which a certainty that a second person of interest contained in an image captured in a second region different from the first region is the registered person is larger than a threshold value is kept is longer than a predetermined period, perform updating in such a way as to lower a certainty that the first person of interest in the first region is the registered person, and, in a case where the period for which the state in which the certainty that the second person of interest is the registered per
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Noro, Yoshinori Ito
  • Publication number: 20220349444
    Abstract: A sintered bearing 1 is formed by sintering a raw material powder containing aluminum fluoride. The sintered bearing 1 has a structure obtained by sintering an aluminum-copper alloy and contains 3 to 13 mass % aluminum and 0.05 to 0.6 mass % phosphorus, copper as a main component of the remainder, and inevitable impurities. The sintered bearing 1 is manufactured by performing sintering in a closed space 23, and by, under the assumption that all aluminum fluoride contained in the raw material powder is gasified in the closed space 23, controlling the concentration of the aluminum fluoride gas to be 5 ppm or more, thus performing the sintering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori ITO, Hajime ASADA
  • Patent number: 11454282
    Abstract: A sintered bearing includes, on an inner peripheral surface, a cylindrical portion and a one-side increased-diameter portion, which are provided so as to be continuous in the axial direction. An end portion of one side in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion and an end portion of another side in the axial direction of the increased-diameter portion coincide, and the cylindrical portion and the increased-diameter portion are molded by performing sizing on a sintered compact having a tubular shape, which is introduced into a die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori Yamashita, Yoshinori Ito, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11433455
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered bearing that is capable of reducing cost through reduction in usage amount of copper, excellent in initial running-in characteristics and quietness, and is high in durability. Raw material powders including iron powder, flat copper powder, low-melting point metal powder, and graphite are loaded into a mold, and a green compact is formed under a state in which the flat copper powder is caused to adhere onto a molding surface. Subsequently, sintering is carried out without causing iron in the green compact to react with carbon so that an iron structure is formed of a ferrite phase. In this manner, a sintered bearing (1) including a base part (S2) including copper at a uniform content, and a surface layer (S1) covering a surface of the base part (S2) and including copper at a larger content than the base part (S2) can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ito, Sunao Shimizu, Eiichirou Shimazu, Takahiro Okuno
  • Patent number: 11404749
    Abstract: A protector includes a plurality of lead-out openings through which electric cables are configured to be led out, and an electric cable attachment part which is provided in a projecting manner at an opening edge part of the lead-out opening and to which the electric cables are configured to be attached through a hinge part with flexibility. The electric cable attachment part is bent toward the lead-out opening by the hinge part, and a bent state thereof is configured to be held by a holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Yanagida, Hiroki Shimoda, Yoshinori Ito, Yoshihiro Maeda, Fumihiko Ichikawa, Kazuya Tsuchiya, Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11380596
    Abstract: A semiconductor test apparatus includes: a power supply; a high-voltage wire connecting high-voltage terminals of a plurality of semiconductor devices which are objects to be tested to a high-voltage side of the power supply; a low-voltage wire connecting low-voltage terminals of the semiconductor devices to a low-voltage side of the power supply; first switches connected in series to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the first switches having one end connected to the low-voltage side of the power supply via the low-voltage wire and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; second switches connected to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the second switches having one end connected to the high-voltage terminal and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; and a control circuit controlling the first switches and the second switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Ebiike, Takaya Noguchi, Yoshinori Ito, Yoshikazu Ikuta, Koichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 11351608
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered bearing (1), including 3 to 12% by mass of aluminum, 0.05 to 0.5% by mass of phosphorus, and the balance including copper as a main component, and inevitable impurities, the sintered bearing (1) having a structure in which an aluminum-copper alloy is sintered with a sintering aid added to raw material powder, a pore (db, do) in a surface layer portion of the sintered bearing (1) being formed smaller than an internal pore (di).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinnou, Natsuhiko Mori, Yoshinori Ito
  • Patent number: 11349179
    Abstract: A plurality of sets of power storage devices each formed by connecting a plurality of power storage devices in parallel are connected in series. A wiring module that is arranged on a plurality of power storage devices each having electrode terminals, the wiring module including: a plurality of connection bus bars each connected to a corresponding electrode terminal and each having 2n (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) electrode connection portions; and an insulating protector that houses the plurality of connection bus bars. In each of the plurality of connection bus bars, the cross-sectional areas of the second electrode connection portion from the right of the connection bus bar and the third electrode connection portion from the right of the connection bus bar are set to be larger than the cross-sectional areas of the other electrode connection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taiji Yanagida, Hiroki Shimoda, Yoshinori Ito
  • Publication number: 20220146734
    Abstract: To provide a technique for suppressing brightness non-uniformity of an area illuminated by a light source and also suppressing a decline in contrast between areas caused by incidence of a luminous flux of the area to another area. Provided is a light guide plate including: a diverging portion which is provided on an opposite side of a light exit surface from which light is emitted, the diverging portion causing a luminous flux emitted from a light emitting element to diverge; and a restricting portion which is provided, when a prescribed range from the light emitting element on the light exit surface is defined as an illuminated area illuminated by the light emitting element, in at least a periphery of the illuminated area on the light exit surface and which deflects or shields light traveling from inside toward outside of the illuminated area to restrict traveling, toward a side of the light exit surface, of light traveling toward the outside of the illuminated area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro WATANABE, Naoki ISHIMI, Yoshinori ITO, Tomokazu SHIMODA