Patents by Inventor Yu Kikuchi

Yu 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).

  • Patent number: 11947070
    Abstract: A housing device (20) includes a housing portion (22), a light source (200), and an optical sensor (300). The housing portion (22) includes a holding body (100). An article is housed in the housing portion (22). The holding body (100) extends in one direction. The light source (200) is attached to the holding body (100) along the one direction. The light source (200) applies light toward at least a part of a space (S) located on a side of the holding body (100) with respect to the one direction of the holding body (100), a front of the space (S), and a back of the space (S). The optical sensor (300) is attached to the holding body (100). At least a part of a visual field of the optical sensor (300) faces in at least a part of the space (S), the front of the space (S), and the back of the space (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma Shiraishi, Katsumi Kikuchi, Takami Sato, Yu Nabeto
  • Publication number: 20240103425
    Abstract: A collecting device includes a collecting path for a developer, at least one transport member that is disposed in the collecting path and that transports the developer by rotating, a driving unit that drives, by receiving electric power, the transport member in such a manner that the transport member rotates, a detecting unit that detects a load applied to the driving unit due to transportation of the developer, and a control unit that controls the driving unit based on the load detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya MAKIURA, Yuji Kikuchi, Yu Tsuda, Yusuke Kitagawa, Shun Ida, Takaki Saiki
  • Patent number: 11941858
    Abstract: An object recognition device (10) includes a holding body (100), a light source (200), and an optical sensor (300). The holding body (100) extends in one direction. The light source (200) is attached to the holding body (100) along the one direction. The light source (200) applies light toward at least a part of a space (S) located on a side of the holding body (100) with respect to the one direction of the holding body (100), a front of the space (S), and a back of the space (S). The optical sensor (300) is attached to the holding body (100). At least a part of a visual field of the optical sensor (300) faces in at least a part of the space (S), the front of the space (S), and the back of the space (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma Shiraishi, Katsumi Kikuchi, Takami Sato, Yu Nabeto
  • Patent number: 11935971
    Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. At least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode has a light-transmitting property. The photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound composed of a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, and a halogen anion. The electron transport layer contains a metal oxynitride having electron conductivity. The metal oxynitride has an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to 1×10?7 S/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yokoyama, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Yu Nishitani
  • Patent number: 11935373
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit (11) acquires a recognition processing image. A recognition unit (12) recognizes a product in the recognition processing image based on an estimation model. A registration unit (13) registers a result of the recognition in recognized product information. An output unit (14) outputs a result of the recognition. A correction reception unit (16) receives an input for correcting a result of the recognition. A correction unit (17) changes a result of the recognition to a result of the recognition after a correction, and also stores correction information in which a result of the recognition after a correction and the recognition processing image are associated with each other. A learning unit (18) performs relearning by using the recognition processing image stored as the correction information and updates the estimation model, when a number of the recognition processing image stored exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Nabeto, Soma Shiraishi, Takami Sato, Katsumi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10018819
    Abstract: A light sheet illumination microscope includes an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a sample from a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of a detection optical system. The illumination optical system includes a first optical element configured to convert light emitted from a light source into a light sheet that forms an illumination area having a sheet shape substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the detection optical system when the sample is irradiated with the light sheet. The illumination optical system further includes a second optical element that configured to act on the light emitted from the light source such that the light sheet is converged, diverged or diffracted in a width direction of the light sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Iguchi, Yu Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10007100
    Abstract: A light sheet illumination microscope includes a detection optical system and an illumination optical system. The illumination optical system includes a first optical element for forming a sheet-shaped illumination beam that travels in a first direction and that has a width in a second direction that is perpendicular to both the optical axis of the detection optical system and the first direction in a specimen, and a scanner that relatively scans the specimen with the sheet-shaped illumination beam in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9841591
    Abstract: A microscope is a microscope that switches an observation method between the bright-field observation and the fluorescence observation. The microscope includes an objective that irradiates a sample with excitation light and converts fluorescence from the sample into a parallel light flux, a beam splitter that splits fluorescence and excitation light from each other, and a collective lens that is arranged in such a manner that it is freely set in and removed from an optical path between the beam splitter and the objective, that has a positive power, and that is set in the optical path for fluorescence observation and is removed from the optical path for bright-field observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20160306154
    Abstract: A light sheet illumination microscope includes an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a sample from a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of a detection optical system. The illumination optical system includes a first optical element configured to convert light emitted from a light source into a light sheet that forms an illumination area having a sheet shape substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the detection optical system when the sample is irradiated with the light sheet. The illumination optical system further includes a second optical element that configured to act on the light emitted from the light source such that the light sheet is converged, diverged or diffracted in a width direction of the light sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito IGUCHI, Yu KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160241758
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain clear images when observing a specimen at different positions in the optical-axis direction of a detection optical system, using the sheet illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito DOHI, Yu KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160124201
    Abstract: A light sheet illumination microscope includes a detection optical system and an illumination optical system. The illumination optical system includes a first optical element for forming a sheet-shaped illumination beam that travels in a first direction and that has a width in a second direction that is perpendicular to both the optical axis of the detection optical system and the first direction in a specimen, and a scanner that relatively scans the specimen with the sheet-shaped illumination beam in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150198796
    Abstract: A microscope is a microscope that switches an observation method between the bright-field observation and the fluorescence observation. The microscope includes an objective that irradiates a sample with excitation light and converts fluorescence from the sample into a parallel light flux, a beam splitter that splits fluorescence and excitation light from each other, and a collecting lens that is arranged in such a manner that it is freely set in and removed from an optical path between the beam splitter and the objective, that has a positive power, and that is set in the optical path for fluorescence observation and is removed from the optical path for bright-field observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 8170363
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a image processing apparatus comprising: at least one memory which stores data of each of at least a first image and a second image having no dependence upon each other's data; a memory access unit which reads out the data from and writes the data in said memory; and a filtering processing unit which receives the data read out by said memory access unit, performs a deblocking filtering process on the received data, and supplies the processed data to said memory access unit, wherein said filtering processing unit alternately performs a deblocking filtering process on at least one block boundary of the first image, and a deblocking filtering process on at least one block boundary of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20120012842
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit formed in an area enclosed by dicing lines formed in a matrix manner, and a signal wiring formed on at least one of the dicing lines. The integrated circuit includes a transmitter circuit having a signal output pad, a receiver circuit having a signal input pad and an internal circuit to process data inputted to the transmitter circuit and outputted from the receiver circuit. The signal wiring electrically connects the signal output pad and the signal input pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yu Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20080013855
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a image processing apparatus comprising: at least one memory which stores data of each of at least a first image and a second image having no dependence upon each other's data; a memory access unit which reads out the data from and writes the data in said memory; and a filtering processing unit which receives the data read out by said memory access unit, performs a deblocking filtering process on the received data, and supplies the processed data to said memory access unit, wherein said filtering processing unit alternately performs a deblocking filtering process on at least one block boundary of the first image, and a deblocking filtering process on at least one block boundary of the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventor: Yu Kikuchi