Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kato
Yoshiyuki Kato 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: 20150207992Abstract: In the present invention, when a user operation (shutter button depression) for instructing to start still image recording or a user operation (REC button depression) for instructing to start moving image recording is performed and detected at recording timing in interval shooting, a CPU records a still image or a moving image by an imaging section based on the user operation, without temporarily stopping the recording for the interval shooting. In addition, the CPU stores, in an external memory, a still image or a moving image recorded by the interval shooting and the still image or the moving image recorded by the detection of the user's instruction operation such that they can be managed to be usable as material for the interval shooting.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20150187044Abstract: Graphic form data of a rendering graphic form and a rendering list for defining the specifics of rendering out of an external memory, where the graphic form data and the rendering list are stored in advance, to generate intermediate data and store the intermediate data in the external memory with the use of intermediate data generation means. Intermediate data scanning means detects a graphic form from the intermediate data stored in the external memory. Graphic form rendering means generates pixels of the detected graphic form from the graphic form data stored in the external memory to render an image. The rendering image is written and held in a buffer that has a multi-buffer configuration. Display output means reads the rendering image stored in the buffer and outputs the read rendering image to a display device. The writing in the buffer and the reading out of the buffer are executed alternatingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akira Torii, Yoshiyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20150170709Abstract: An imaging device includes a video acquisition unit, a tilt information acquisition unit, and an extraction period determination unit. The video acquisition unit obtains videos. The tilt information acquisition unit obtains information about shifts in posture, which are changes in angles of view or the like, during obtaining of the videos by the video acquisition unit. The extraction period determination unit determines periods to extract in the respective videos in accordance with the information obtained by the tilt information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20150137496Abstract: An airbag apparatus that prevents a reverse flow of a gas between chambers to allow internal pressures of the chambers to be maintained. The airbag apparatus includes: a cushion portion with a divided internal space including a first chamber and a second chamber; a deflector surrounds a periphery of an inflator with a first gap therebetween to cover a gas ejection port of the inflator. The deflector has a first end portion projecting in a longitudinal direction and forming a space between the first end portions of the deflector and the inflator. A cloth cylindrical member surrounds a periphery of the deflector with a second gap therebetween. The cylindrical member projects from the first end portion of the deflector by a predetermined length so as to allow the first gap and the second gap to be covered in the first end portion side of the deflector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Koichi Miyagi
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Publication number: 20140375831Abstract: A digital camera of the present invention constructs pairing (wireless connection recognition) with an information terminal such as a smartphone or tablet terminal and a pairing device such as a Bluetooth key, by using wireless communications usable by the respective devices. When pairing with the pairing device is established, the digital camera reads photographing conditions according to the paired pairing device from a photographing conditions table, and sets the photographing conditions as an imaging condition of the digital camera. The information terminal and the pairing device such as the Bluetooth key perform a remote operation on the digital camera via the respective wireless communications, by using an application (program) dedicated for camera operation started in the respective devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20140362489Abstract: An electronic apparatus has an operation unit, a switchover unit, a state detector, and a control unit. The operation unit is disposed on an apparatus main body. The switchover unit connects or disconnects an output route that is a route for an output signal from the operation unit. The state detector detects a moving body. Based on a detection result by the state detector, the control unit controls the switchover unit to connect or disconnect the output route.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Patent number: 8896699Abstract: Disclosed is an image synthesis device including an area determining unit 3 for selecting a vehicle-mounted camera 1 used for generation of a bird's-eye view image viewed from an arbitrary point of view from vehicle-mounted cameras 1a to 1d mounted at different positions, and for determining an area corresponding to the bird's-eye view image in an image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, and an input video signal control unit 4 for receiving image data about the area determined by the area determining unit 3, the image data being included in image data showing the image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, to store the image data in an input frame buffer 5, in which an image processing device 6 generates a bird's-eye view image from the image data stored in the input frame buffer 5.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takafumi Kasuga, Yoshiyuki Kato, Kiyotaka Kato, Akira Torii, Masaki Hamada, Eisuke Yonezawa
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Publication number: 20140286627Abstract: A CPU of an imaging device of the present invention causes an interval moving image to be captured for each interval photographing, selects frames to be stored as still images from among a plurality of frames constituting the interval moving image based on a face image, blurring, and the presence or absence of a change, and causes these selected still images to be stored in association with the interval moving image. When an amount of data exceeding that for a preset storage time length is recorded, the CPU first deletes low-grade interval moving images. Then, if this is not enough, the CPU deletes low-grade still images, and thereby retains an image file (a mixture of moving images and still images) within the desired time length.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Publication number: 20140285699Abstract: An image-capture unit 22 of an image-capture apparatus 1 captures an image of a subject. A display unit 21 can be disposed in a range where emission light reaches the subject whose image is captured by the image-capture unit 22 and displays the image using the emission light. An emission light control unit 75 executes control for changing at least one of a display content and a display state of an image displayed in the display unit 21 at the photographing time in consideration of an influence of the emission light (irradiation light) from the display unit 21 on a photographing state of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
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Patent number: 8815106Abstract: A method of supplying an etching gas includes: supplying a first etching gas used in an etching process into a processing container; and supplying a second etching gas used in the etching process into the processing container, in which, when the first etching gas and the second etching gas are switched therebetween, only a small amount of a gas, which is needed as an etching gas before the switching and is not needed as an etching gas after the switching, is continuously supplied into the processing container.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Masahiro Ogasawara, Yoshiyuki Kato, Hideki Mizuno, Yoshinobu Hayakawa
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Patent number: 8804004Abstract: A setting unit selects and sets one of a plurality of commercial power frequencies. A frame rate setting unit sets a frame rate corresponding to the commercial power frequency set by the setting unit. A control unit controls an imaging unit such that imaging is carried out at the frame rate set by the frame rate setting unit to thereby acquire image data successively. A detection unit detects a scanning line part at which luminance changes to differ between image data items successively acquired by the control unit. A changing unit changes the commercial power frequency set by the setting unit in accordance with a detection result obtained by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami, Rie Komiya
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Publication number: 20140092123Abstract: When receiving register setting information about a graphic on which a drawing process is carried out, a drawing control unit 10 determines whether or not a dedicated drawing unit 30 or a common drawing unit 40 is in a busy state, and, when the dedicated drawing unit or the common drawing unit is in the busy state, compares data in a register 31a or 32a or a register 40a with the register setting information. When the result of the comparison shows that an update is needed, the register setting information is stored in a command buffer 12. When the busy state is released, the register 31a or 32a or the register 40a is updated on the basis of the register setting information stored in the command buffer 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaki Hamada, Yoshiyuki Kato, Akira Torii
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Publication number: 20130335584Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a communication unit, a process unit, a transmission control unit, an obtaining unit and a process control unit. The communication unit is connected to an external device via a predetermined communication line so as to establish communication with the external device. The process unit successively processes images picked up by an image pickup unit. The transmission control unit makes the communication unit send the images to the external device via the communication line. The obtaining unit obtains communication quality information on quality of the communication with the external device. The process control unit controls at least one of (i) an action content of the image pickup unit and (ii) a process content of the process unit on the basis of the communication quality information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Yoshiyuki KATO, Toshiya KISO, Hiroshi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20130321449Abstract: A window combining device includes a window control unit for adding one window number to pixels on a window-by-window basis, a two-dimensional drawing engine for combining a drawn window including the pixels to which the window number is added by the window control unit into a display window, and a display control unit for displaying the display window into which the drawn window is combined by the two-dimensional drawing engine. When an update occurs in one of a plurality of drawn windows which construct the display window, the two-dimensional drawing engine computes an original background color from a pixel to which a blend flag showing that the pixel is a target for an antialiasing process is added, the pixel being included in pixels of the window for which the update occurs, and carries out the antialiasing process and recombines pixels into the display window.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takafumi Kasuga, Takaaki Kase, Yoshiyuki Kato, Kiyotaka Kato, Akira Torii, Masaki Hamada, Eisuke Yonezawa
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Patent number: 8520007Abstract: A distance information generating unit 4 for rasterizing minute line segments divided by a curved line dividing unit 2 through a combination of straight line cells and corner cells to generate distance information corresponding to a pixel 12 of a display and an edge rasterizing unit 7 for rasterizing edge information about the minute line segments divided by the curved line dividing unit 2 are disposed, and a mapping unit 10 determines whether the pixel 12 is located inside or outside by using the edge information rasterized by the edge rasterizing unit 7, and maps the distance information generated by the distance information generating unit 4 onto the antialiasing intensity 11 of a component 13 included in the pixel 12 according to the results of the inside or outside determination.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electronic CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Akira Torii, Hiroyasu Negishi, Ryohei Ishida, Masaki Hamada
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Publication number: 20130107055Abstract: Disclosed is an image synthesis device including an area determining unit 3 for selecting a vehicle-mounted camera 1 used for generation of a bird's-eye view image viewed from an arbitrary point of view from vehicle-mounted cameras 1a to 1d mounted at different positions, and for determining an area corresponding to the bird's-eye view image in an image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, and an input video signal control unit 4 for receiving image data about the area determined by the area determining unit 3, the image data being included in image data showing the image captured by the vehicle-mounted camera 1, to store the image data in an input frame buffer 5, in which an image processing device 6 generates a bird's-eye view image from the image data stored in the input frame buffer 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takafumi Kasuga, Yoshiyuki Kato, Kiyotaka Kato, Akira Torii, Masaki Hamada, Eisuke Yonezawa
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Publication number: 20130055909Abstract: A powder granulation method affords greater operation efficiency and working efficiency and enhanced product recovery rate by preventing powder from being adhered to a container inner wall while suppressing variability in particle size of product to the utmost. A plurality of scrapers are disposed so as to abut or come close to the inner face of a bottomed cylindrical container that accommodates powder so that the powder in the container is granulated by causing an inner bottom surface of the container to rotate on a horizontal plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: NARA MACHINERY CO LTDInventors: Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Yoshiyuki Kato, Katsunobu Yoshimoto, Tsutomu Kurita, Masahiro Suzuki, Katsunori Ishii, Yoshiyuki Kihara
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Publication number: 20130009965Abstract: A converter 1 converts a plurality of animation data 101a, 102a, and 103a into a plurality of motion data 201, 202, and 203 which can be processed by an animation drawing engine 2, respectively. The converter also generates motion control information 204 for specifying the size, the position, and the number of display frames of each animation at a time of displaying the plurality of motion data 201, 202, and 203 on a screen as parts. An animation drawing engine 2 carries out animation drawing of the plurality of motion data using vector graphics in accordance with the motion control information 204.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Akira Torii
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Publication number: 20120305188Abstract: It is possible to prevent processing gases from being mixed when alternately supplying the processing gases while alternately switching the processing gases and to suppressed a transient phenomenon more efficiently as compared to conventional cases. When supplying at least two kinds of processing gases (e.g., a C4F6 gas and a C4F8 gas) into a processing chamber while alternately switching the at least two kinds of processing gases during a plasma process on a wafer, the supply of each processing gas can be alternately turned on and off by alternately setting an instruction flow rate of a mass flow controller to be a predetermined flow rate and a zero flow rate while a downstream opening/closing valve provided at a downstream side of the mass flow controller is open.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiyuki KATO, Norihiko AMIKURA, Risako MIYOSHI, Kimihiro FUKASAWA
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Patent number: 8302960Abstract: A banknote processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a banknote separating and feeding portion which separates, from banknotes, one feed-out banknote closest to a banknote holding portion, and feeds out the feed-out banknote. The banknote separating and feeding portion includes a feed roller, a separating roller, a kick-on roller, and auxiliary rollers. The auxiliary rollers are positioned on an opposite side of the kick-on roller from the feed roller, protrude onto the banknote pressing portion side beyond the banknote holding surface, and contact with the feed-out banknote. Each of the auxiliary rollers has a plurality of large diameter portions formed intermittently in a circumferential direction of the auxiliary roller. The auxiliary rollers are positioned on the same axis and apart from each other such that phases of mutually adjacent auxiliary rollers in a rotation direction of the auxiliary rollers are offset from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohisa Oe