Patents Represented by Attorney Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
  • Patent number: 8205318
    Abstract: When surface grinding finish for decoration or other purposes is performed by applying a film to the front surface of a metal plate that is welded linearly with penetration from the rear surface side thereof, a plurality of the films are applied so as not to cover weld lines. In this manner, the metal plate can be subjected to the surface grinding finish such that an appearance similar to weld marks is not created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Sumikawa, Katsuji Nishitani
  • Patent number: 8208537
    Abstract: A bit rate transcoding method includes: (a) receiving a motion vector of a current macroblock (MB); (b) retrieving an error count of a referenced previous MB for setting it as the error count of the current MB; (c) calculating a weight value; (d) calculating a new quantization parameter, and multiplying the same by the weight value so as to obtain a weighted new quantization parameter falling into a continuous distribution; (e) selectively using a transformation technique to transform the weighted new quantization parameter into one falling into a discrete distribution; (f) if the weighted new quantization parameter exhibits the continuous distribution, and if the weighted new quantization parameter is within a predetermined range, incrementing the error count by a predetermined value; and (g) if the weighted new quantization parameter exhibits the discrete distribution, and if the weighted new quantization parameter does not belong to a smallest quantization parameter cluster, incrementing the error count by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ju-Yun Cheng, Hon-Wen Pon, Wei-Fu Chen
  • Patent number: 8208032
    Abstract: An image shake correction apparatus of a camera in which an object image is formed on an image sensor that is driven to move in first and second directions, which are orthogonal to each other, in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis to compensate for camera shake. The image shake correction apparatus includes a first table provided in a camera body to be movable in the first direction, and a second table which supports the image sensor and is movable in the second direction on the first table. At least one of the first table and the second table is supported by one guide bar and supported by a linear actuator which moves the one of the first table and the second table along the one guide bar, the one guide bar extending in a corresponding one of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 8208056
    Abstract: A digital camera has a display and a shifting device. The display has display areas and simultaneously displays images in each display areas. The shifting device simultaneously shifts the images in the display area in the same direction in lockstep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Fujio, Teppei Okamoto, Tomohiko Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 8209723
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus makes it possible to select a desired television program quickly by channel-surfing. The broadcast receiving apparatus outputs information of the received broadcast content as television program information of a channel for which the broadcast content is received, includes an operation detector that detects a channel that selects operation, an operation speed calculator that calculates a channel selecting operation speed from the detected channel selecting operation, a list item count determiner that determines, according to the calculated channel selecting operation speed, the number of channels for which the television program information is displayed, a channel determiner that determines channels to be listed so that the television program information is displayed for the determined number of channels, and a display that outputs the television program information of the determined channels to be listed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Aoki, Takahiro Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8206318
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a means of easily removing a portion of blood bleeding from pierced skin, which has not been taken into a blood sensor but remained on the skin, in a blood test with the use of a blood test apparatus. By using this means, it becomes unnecessary in the blood test to separately prepare a paper sheet, etc. for wiping off. More specifically speaking, a blood test apparatus wherein a blood sensor is provided within a blood sensor unit detachable to the blood test apparatus body and the blood sensor unit has a part to be in contact with the skin in the test and an absorption means. It is favorable that the part to be in contact with the skin in the test serves as the absorption means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Motonori Uchiyama, Masaki Fujiwara, Toshihiro Akiyama, Yoshinori Amano
  • Patent number: 8209212
    Abstract: Wasteful repetitive tasks are easily reduced in processes to develop complex products. A product development process support system is a system which analyzes dependencies between a plurality of requirements in product development processes belonging to a plurality of layers, and comprises an input reception portion for receiving input of information indicating the dependency between two requirements belonging to adjacent layers and of information indicating the degree of influence of requirements on product development, and dependency derivation portion for deriving the dependency between two arbitrary requirements belonging to the same layer from information indicating the dependencies between the two requirements in question and other requirements received by the input reception portion and from information indicating the degree of influence of the two requirements in question, based on dependency derivation rules established in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: iTiD Consulting, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsufumi Araki, Atau Shihota, Isao Nagatomi, Takeo Karasawa
  • Patent number: 8207322
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel fluorescent protein and a novel chromoprotein. The present invention provides a novel fluorescent protein derived from Montipora sp., Acropora sp. and Lobophytum crassum, and a novel chromoprotein derived from Actinia equine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Riken, Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Miyawaki, Hidekazu Tsutsui, Satoshi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 8202241
    Abstract: Provision of a blood purification system comprising a blood purification tubing and a blood purification apparatus particularly suitable for use in continuous hemofiltration in which in the treatment of a patient with renal disease, multiple organ failure, and the like, the amount of water removed from the patient and the amount of supply to the patient can be more accurately controlled, and in which preparation operation is easy. A blood purification system comprising a blood purification tubing and a blood purification apparatus wherein the soft tubes of flow paths connecting a first planar panel and a second planar panel, and the location of the soft tubes are selected to satisfy a formula of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Karakama, Soichiro Okazaki
  • Patent number: 8204652
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for compensating steering of a motor drive power steering (MDPS) system. In this method, the MDPS system determines a slip of a vehicle, calculates a steering compensation value and controls a gain based on moment input from an electronic stability program (ESP) system under coordinate control between the MDPS system and the ESP system, so that stability of the vehicle can be enhanced by reducing heterogeneous steering and preventing over steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 8201455
    Abstract: A diaphragm section has a mesh-like beam section which partitions the diaphragm section into a plurality of rectangular regions, and a thin film section formed in the region partitioned by the beam section, and the thickness of the thin film section is less than that of the beam section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Enomoto, Katsumi Kakimoto
  • Patent number: 8202710
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lactic acid bacterium which can produce ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) even under a coexisting condition of lactic acid and common salt in a medium at time of commencement of culturing, and a method for producing a culture mixture comprising GABA. Specifically, a culture mixture comprising GABA can be obtained by isolating from unrefined soy a lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus rennini which can produce GABA even under a coexisting condition of lactic acid and common salt in a medium at time of commencement of culturing, and culturing the lactic acid bacterium after inoculating it into a medium containing L-glutamic acid and/or salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Kikkoman Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Hanya, Itsuo Sato, Ryo Shimojo
  • Patent number: 8201881
    Abstract: A clutch mechanism for a vehicle seat is provided. The clutch mechanism includes a pressure-receiving member rotatably assembled to a frame of a seatback, a connecting arm having a weight and provided rotatably to the pressure-receiving member, a first swinging member provided rotatably to the frame, wherein while inertia force occurring due to a crash of a vehicle from behind acts on the weight, when the pressure-receiving member rotates upon receipt of a seatback load of a passenger, the connecting arm causes the first swinging member to rotate; and a second swinging member provided rotatably to the frame of the seatback, and configured to rotate along with the rotation of the first swinging member. The second swinging member is held in a state achieved when the first swinging member rotates by a predetermined angle even when the first swinging member rotates by an angle larger than the predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taiyo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 8201845
    Abstract: An assembly including a plate, a base, and a device for removably attaching the plate to the base. The plate is adapted to be associated with a device for removably retaining a boot, the base is adapted to be associated with a gliding board, such as a ski, the device for removably attaching the plate to the base including an arrangement for longitudinally guiding the plate with respect to the base. An immobilization mechanism is manually actuated to immobilize the plate with respect to the base along the longitudinal guiding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Salomon S.A.S.
    Inventors: François Girard, Eddy Yelovina
  • Patent number: 8203158
    Abstract: An organic EL display panel comprising a substrate and an organic light-emitting element R emitting red light, an organic light-emitting element G emitting green light and an organic light-emitting element B emitting blue light which are arranged on the substrate, wherein each of the organic light-emitting element has a concavely curved pixel electrode which is a reflective electrode, a functional layer formed with coating over the pixel electrode, an organic light emitting layer arranged on the functional layer, a counter electrode which is a transparent electrode arranged over the organic light emitting layer and a bank defining the functional layer formed with coating, the element R, the element G and the element B have different amount of the functional layer and the element R, the element G and the element B have different curvature radius of the concavely curved pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiro Yoshida, Kenji Okumoto
  • Patent number: 8203347
    Abstract: A reflection element determination device derives error factors in a first signal source and a second signal source based on measurement results of a signal in respective states in which reflection elements are respectively connected to the first signal source and the second signal source, and measurement results of a signal in a state in which the first signal source and the second signal source are connected with each other via a transmission element, derives transmission characteristics of the transmission element based on the measurement results of a signal in the state in which the first signal source and the second signal source are connected with each other via the transmission element and the derived error factors, and determines whether the reflection elements realize predetermined reflection states based on the derived transmission characteristics of the transmission element and transmission characteristics of the transmission element which have been known before the derivation, where the transmissi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nakayama, Takao Kawahara, Masato Haruta
  • Patent number: 8203270
    Abstract: A start assisting light source is configured such that it can be mounted simply and reliably at a position capable of efficiently radiating UV-light for enhancing the starting performance of a high pressure discharge lamp to discharge chamber without being heated to a high temperature during lighting of the lamp and also adopted to a simple constitution of not increasing the manufacturing cost. A start assisting light source includes an airtight vessel filled with a rare gas and a pipe member that penetrates through the vessel is mounted to an electrode lead which protrudes from the end face of an electrode seal portion secured to a bottom hole of the concave reflector by inserting the electrode lead through the pipe member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohkahara, Yosuke Kano
  • Patent number: 8201585
    Abstract: According to the present invention, even though the paint is filled or discharged repetitively to or from the paint bag (5), so that bursting of a coating bag (5) or lack of coating material during coating are not caused by accumulation of error between the filling amount and the using amount. That is, before a predetermined amount of the coating material is supplied to the coating material bag (5), the remaining coating material in the coating material bag (5) is extruded to empty it, since the coating material bag (5) is squashed by the pressure of fluid which was supplied to the hydraulic fluid chamber (6) outside of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Trinity Industrial Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Noriyuki Achiwa, Takanobu Mori, Kengo Honma, Akira Kato, Yasushi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8201880
    Abstract: A seat cushion covering structure includes a fabric seat cushion cover into which conductive fibers, electrically connected at one end to a conductive member, are woven, and a groove, which is formed in the seat cushion and into which the fabric seat cushion cover is tucked. The conductive member is provided in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Kato, Fumitoshi Akaike, Seiya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8204745
    Abstract: An encoding apparatus and method for generating low-frequency-band encoding information and high-frequency-band encoding information from an original signal. The encoding apparatus includes a first spectrum calculator that calculates a first spectrum of a low frequency band from a decoded signal of the low-frequency-band encoding information, a second spectrum calculator that calculates a second spectrum from the original signal, an estimator that divides a high frequency band of the second spectrum into a plurality of bands and estimates the second spectrum included in each band, using the first spectrum, and a first error component encoder that encodes a first error component between the high frequency band of the second spectrum and an estimated spectrum. A corresponding decoding apparatus and method provides decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Oshikiri, Hiroyuki Ehara, Koji Yoshida