Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kodama

Akihiro Kodama 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: 11926740
    Abstract: Provided are a resin composition including a compound represented by Formula (1) and a resin, a film and a filter including the resin composition, a liquid crystal display device and a solid-state imaging element including the filter, and a compound suitable as a light absorbing component of the resin composition and the filter. In Formula (1), Dye represents a colorant structural part obtained by removing n1 hydrogen atoms from a squarylium compound having a specific structure. Q1 is a structural part in which energy levels of a highest occupied molecular orbital and a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital satisfy a specific condition. L1 represents a divalent linking group and n1 represents an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Sasaki, Akihiro Hara, Kunihiko Kodama, Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Hiroki Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11057563
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a camera, a control section, and a storage section. The control section determines favorability of a composition of a target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image. Then, in accordance with a result of determining the favorability of the composition of the target frame, the control section stores, in the storage section, a still image which corresponds to the target frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaiji Nabetani, Akihiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 10798295
    Abstract: An electronic device (1) includes a control device (10) configured to carry out: image capture operation determination processing in which a first subject is determined without a user operation and image capture timing is determined; and autofocus processing in which a second subject is determined without a user operation and an image capture device is controlled to focus on the second subject, the autofocus processing being commenced before the image capture operation determination processing finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Koichi Yamaguchi, Mitsuhiro Haneda, Akihiro Kodama
  • Publication number: 20190342490
    Abstract: An electronic device (1) includes a control device (10) configured to carry out: image capture operation determination processing in which a first subject is determined without a user operation and image capture timing is determined; and autofocus processing in which a second subject is determined without a user operation and an image capture device is controlled to focus on the second subject, the autofocus processing being commenced before the image capture operation determination processing finishes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: KENJI KIMURA, KOICHI YAMAGUCHI, MITSUHIRO HANEDA, AKIHIRO KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20190320116
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a camera, a control section, and a storage section. The control section determines favorability of a composition of a target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image. Then, in accordance with a result of determining the favorability of the composition of the target frame, the control section stores, in the storage section, a still image which corresponds to the target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: KAIJI NABETANI, AKIHIRO KODAMA
  • Patent number: 9195352
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor panel which can increase the detection sensitivity of a touch relatively readily. The touch sensor panel controller supplies drive electrodes of a touch sensor panel with a high-voltage AC drive signal with its low level set to a negative voltage and drives them. The time of change of a drive waveform supplied to the drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel is shifted relative to the time of change of a drive waveform supplied to a display scan electrode. The touch sensor panel controller uses a charge pump in synchronization with clock signals of more than one phase to produce a high drive voltage to activate drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel, and the clock signals of more than one phase are initialized each time the drive electrode is subjected to AC pulse driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
    Inventors: Akihito Akai, Tatsuya Ishii, Kazuya Endo, Shinobu Notomi, Akihiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 9039452
    Abstract: A connecting device is configured to be fitted into twp mating electrode connectors having power source electrodes, so that the power source electrodes are electrically connected. The connecting device for connecting the power source electrodes includes a housing member having an engaging portion having a recessed shape capable of engaging with the mating electrode connector. The connecting device includes a flat terminal with a flat plate shape being held with the housing member and a flexible braided wiring member connected to the flat terminal. The flexible braided wiring member is connected to a rear end portion of another flat terminal at both end portions thereof. The flat terminals at the both end portions of the flexible braided wiring member are held at middle portions thereof with separate housing members. Both surfaces of a front end portion of the flat terminal are exposed in the engaging portion of the housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sakaizawa, Akihiro Kodama
  • Publication number: 20130288528
    Abstract: A connecting device is configured to be fitted into twp mating electrode connectors having power source electrodes, so that the power source electrodes are electrically connected. The connecting device for connecting the power source electrodes includes a housing member having an engaging portion having a recessed shape capable of engaging with the mating electrode connector. The connecting device includes a flat terminal with a flat plate shape being held with the housing member and a flexible braided wiring member connected to the flat terminal. The flexible braided wiring member is connected to a rear end portion of another flat terminal at both end portions thereof. The flat terminals at the both end portions of the flexible braided wiring member are held at middle portions thereof with separate housing members. Both surfaces of a front end portion of the flat terminal are exposed in the engaging portion of the housing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi SAKAIZAWA, Akihiro KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20120287081
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor panel which can increase the detection sensitivity of a touch relatively readily. The touch sensor panel controller supplies drive electrodes of a touch sensor panel with a high-voltage AC drive signal with its low level set to a negative voltage and drives them. The time of change of a drive waveform supplied to the drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel is shifted relative to the time of change of a drive waveform supplied to a display scan electrode. The touch sensor panel controller uses a charge pump in synchronization with clock signals of more than one phase to produce a high drive voltage to activate drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel, and the clock signals of more than one phase are initialized each time the drive electrode is subjected to AC pulse driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Akihito AKAI, Tatsuya ISHII, Kazuya ENDO, Shinobu NOTOMI, Akihiro KODAMA
  • Patent number: 8105105
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a terminal. The terminal is disposed in the housing. The terminal includes a pressing portion for receiving a wire and a connecting portion extending from the pressing portion. The pressing portion includes two elastic arm portions and a pressing groove portion between the elastic arm portions. The elastic arm portions includes a base portion extending from a connecting portion, a first arm portion extending from the base portion toward an opening portion of the pressing groove portion, a transition portion in a curved shape at a distal end portion of the first arm portion, and a second arm portion extending toward the base portion in parallel to the first arm portion. The elastic arm portions contact with the wire at inner edge portions of the second arm portions when the wire is inserted into the pressing groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Taniguchi, Akihiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 8090868
    Abstract: A load balancer includes a configuration information receiving unit that receives configuration information having address information of all the servers to which a request is directed and the type of service provided by each server, a load balance setting unit that configures so that a request transmitted from a client is transmitted to one of the servers corresponding to a service type specified in a message in accordance with the configuration information, and a band setting unit that calculates the number of the servers for each service type in accordance with the configuration information and assigns a band of a line to each service in accordance with the calculated number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Kodama, Tomoyuki Uekado, Masataka Mukaihara, Yuji Ito
  • Publication number: 20110076898
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a terminal. The terminal is disposed in the housing. The terminal includes a pressing portion for receiving a wire and a connecting portion extending from the pressing portion. The pressing portion includes two elastic arm portions and a pressing groove portion between the elastic arm portions. The elastic arm portions includes a base portion extending from a connecting portion, a first arm portion extending from the base portion toward an opening portion of the pressing groove portion, a transition portion in a curved shape at a distal end portion of the first arm portion, and a second arm portion extending toward the base portion in parallel to the first arm portion. The elastic arm portions contact with the wire at inner edge portions of the second arm portions when the wire is inserted into the pressing groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Taro TANIGUCHI, Akihiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 7873733
    Abstract: A load distribution device that receives processing requests from terminals and that allocates and transfers the processing requests to at least one of a plurality of servers. The load distribution device includes a monitoring unit, a request receiving unit, an update server determining unit, a distribution ratio setting unit, a load distribution unit, a notification unit and an update completion detecting unit, whereupon receipt of a notification that the update of the server to be updated is completed, the update server determining unit determines that the update to the server to be updated is completed, determines a new server to be updated and a new server to be updated next, and instructs the distribution ratio setting unit to set the distribution ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Kodama, Tomoyuki Uekado, Masataka Mukaihara, Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: 7850477
    Abstract: A connector is capable of fitting a plurality of mating connectors having various widths. The connector includes a housing including a plurality of fitting openings for receiving the mating connectors and a middle portion disposed between the fitting openings. The middle portion includes a sloped surface facing one of the fitting portions. The connector further includes an abutting portion disposed on the middle portion and protruding into the one of the fitting portions for abutting against one of the mating connectors when the one of the mating connectors is inserted into the one of the fitting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryozo Koyama, Akihiro Kodama, Tadashi Sakaizawa
  • Publication number: 20100229182
    Abstract: A log information issuing device includes a priority information manager in which priority information is stored, a priority of a log message being defined in the priority information, a message queue that has a plurality of queues for storing the log message according to the priority, a message sorting processor that refers to the priority information to store the log message in the message queue, an internal resource information collector that determines a load state of an internal resource from operating information on the internal resource, a log message queue processor that takes out the log message from the message queue, the log obtaining condition defining a condition of the log message is taken out from the message queue according to the load state, and a log processor supplies the log message as the log information, the log message being taken out by the log message queue processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuji Ito, Akihiro Kodama, Takeshi Miyaura
  • Patent number: 7788934
    Abstract: A control device for an auger type ice making machine according to the present invention includes a driver circuit that drives a geared motor for rotating an auger; a voltage detector that detects an input voltage applied to the geared motor; a current detector that detects a motor current flowing in the geared motor; and a control circuit in which a plurality of current threshold values that differ according to the input voltage are set in advance, the control circuit controlling the driver circuit so as to stop the geared motor when a value of the motor current detected by the current detector exceeds a current threshold value that corresponds to the value of the input voltage detected by the voltage detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Kodama, Tomohito Nomura, Yasuki Mizutani, Hiroyuki Sugie, Shigeaki Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20090326716
    Abstract: A control device for an auger type ice making machine according to the present invention includes a driver circuit that drives a geared motor for rotating an auger; a voltage detector that detects an input voltage applied to the geared motor; a current detector that detects a motor current flowing in the geared motor; and a control circuit in which a plurality of current threshold values that differ according to the input voltage are set in advance, the control circuit controlling the driver circuit so as to stop the geared motor when a value of the motor current detected by the current detector exceeds a current threshold value that corresponds to the value of the input voltage detected by the voltage detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Akihiro Kodama, Tomohito Nomura, Yasuki Mizutani, Hiroyuki Sugie, Shigeaki Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20090286419
    Abstract: A connector is capable of fitting a plurality of mating connectors having various widths. The connector includes a housing including a plurality of fitting openings for receiving the mating connectors and a middle portion disposed between the fitting openings. The middle portion includes a sloped surface facing one of the fitting portions. The connector further includes an abutting portion disposed on the middle portion and protruding into the one of the fitting portions for abutting against one of the mating connectors when the one of the mating connectors is inserted into the one of the fitting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Ryozo Koyama, Akihiro Kodama, Tadashi Sakaizawa
  • Publication number: 20090248865
    Abstract: A load distribution device that receives processing requests from terminals and that allocates and transfers the processing requests to at least one of a plurality of servers. The load distribution device includes a monitoring unit, a request receiving unit, an update server determining unit, a distribution ratio setting unit, a load distribution unit, a notification unit and an update completion detecting unit, whereupon receipt of a notification that the update of the server to be updated is completed, the update server determining unit determines that the update to the server to be updated is completed, determines a new server to be updated and a new server to be updated next, and instructs the distribution ratio setting unit to set the distribution ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro KODAMA, Tomoyuki Uekado, Masataka Mukaihara, Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: D607823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryozo Koyama, Akihiro Kodama, Tadashi Sakaizawa