Patents by Inventor Akihiro Miwa

Akihiro Miwa 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: 20120062861
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes an immersion space forming member (70) which fills an optical path space (K1) for exposure light (EL) with a first liquid (LQ) to form an immersion space, and a temperature regulating mechanism (60) which suppresses a change in the temperature of the immersion space forming member (70) accompanying deactivation of formation of the immersion space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAGASAKA, Kenichi SHIRAISHI, Tomoharu FUJIWARA, Soichi OWA, Akihiro MIWA
  • Patent number: 8135483
    Abstract: An editing device that edits a configuration of signal processing to be performed in a mixer engine having a programmable signal processor stores, for each of a plurality of mixer engines, resource data indicating a signal processing resource of a DSP of the mixer engine, accepts a selection of mixer engine which executes signal processing based on the edited configuration, assigns a resource of the DSP to a component and wire in the signal processing to be executed in accordance with the resource data of the mixer engine, with respect to each of all the selected mixer engines, and adds data indicating that the assignment is performed in accordance with the resource data of which model and data indicating an assignment result regarding each model to data indicating the configuration of signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 8089608
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes an immersion space forming member (70) which fills an optical path space (K1) for exposure light (EL) with a first liquid (LQ) to form an immersion space, and a temperature regulating mechanism (60) which suppresses a change in the temperature of the immersion space forming member (70) accompanying deactivation of formation of the immersion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagasaka, Kenichi Shiraishi, Tomoharu Fujiwara, Soichi Owa, Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 8046686
    Abstract: In a method of setting a function to an operation control provided in a signal processing apparatus, a display step is carried out to display a block diagram that depicts functions of the signal processing apparatus used for processing or mixing of a plurality of input signals. Then, a selection step is carried out to select a specific function out of the functions depicted in the block diagram. Thereafter, an assignment step is carried out to assign the selected specific function to an operation control of the signal processing apparatus. Practically, an operation control display step is carried out to display a plurality of operation controls of various types provided in the signal processing apparatus for selection of one operation control, so that the assignment step assigns the selected specific function to the operation control selected from the plurality of the operation controls displayed by the operation control display step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 7738980
    Abstract: A digital mixer has a custom component specified by a configuration ID. Further, the same configuration ID is provided to another custom component for ensuring compatibility of scene data which is used for operating the custom component. When a custom component of the mixer configuration is edited, the edited custom component is provided with the same configuration ID as the initial custom component before the editing. Scene data of the initial custom component can be copied to scene data of the edited custom component or vice versa provided that their configuration IDs match with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Makoto Hiroi, Akihiro Miwa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinori Kawase
  • Publication number: 20090310800
    Abstract: A digital mixer has a custom component specified by a configuration ID. Further, the same configuration ID is provided to another custom component for ensuring compatibility of scene data which is used for operating the custom component. When a custom component of the mixer configuration is edited, the edited custom component is provided with the same configuration ID as the initial custom component before the editing. Scene data of the initial custom component can be copied to scene data of the edited custom component or vice versa provided that their configuration IDs match with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Makoto Hiroi, Akihiro Miwa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinori Kawase
  • Publication number: 20090248183
    Abstract: An editing device that edits a configuration of signal processing to be performed in a mixer engine having a programmable signal processor stores, for each of a plurality of mixer engines, resource data indicating a signal processing resource of a DSP of the mixer engine, accepts a selection of mixer engine which executes signal processing based on the edited configuration, assigns a resource of the DSP to a component and wire in the signal processing to be executed in accordance with the resource data of the mixer engine, with respect to each of all the selected mixer engines, and adds data indicating that the assignment is performed in accordance with the resource data of which model and data indicating an assignment result regarding each model to data indicating the configuration of signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Publication number: 20090115977
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes an immersion space forming member (70) which fills an optical path space (K1) for exposure light (EL) with a first liquid (LQ) to form an immersion space, and a temperature regulating mechanism (60) which suppresses a change in the temperature of the immersion space forming member (70) accompanying deactivation of formation of the immersion space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagasaka, Kenichi Shiraishi, Tomoharu Fujiwara, Soichi Owa, Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 7414634
    Abstract: In a mixer system including a mixer engine wherein contents of signal processing can be programmed and a PC that edits the configuration of signal processing, the PC is provided with a display controller that graphically displays the edited configuration of signal processing using components for the signal processing and wires connecting nodes of the components; an accepting device that accepts designation of a node or wire whose signal is desired to be monitored, in a screen thereof; and a directing device that directs the mixer engine to output the signal from the designated node or wire to a monitoring analog signal output in accordance with the designation, and the mixer engine is provided with an outputting device that outputs a signal to the monitoring analog signal output in accordance with the direction separately from the signal processing relating to the edited signal processing configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Akihiro Miwa, Makoto Hiroi
  • Patent number: 7348481
    Abstract: A cursor movement controlling apparatus for an electronic musical apparatus comprises a display that displays a plurality of choices for controlling parameters of the electronic music apparatus, each of which is categorized into one of groups, and a cursor for selecting the choices, an instructor that instruct a movement of the displayed cursor, a movement storage device that stores a content of the movement of the cursor when the movement of the cursor within the group is instructed, and a cursor moving device that moves, when the movement of the cursor to other group is instructed, the cursor to the choice that is in the other group and corresponding to the content of the movement storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Publication number: 20060030957
    Abstract: In a method of setting a function to an operation control provided in a signal processing apparatus, a display step is carried out to display a block diagram that depicts functions of the signal processing apparatus used for processing or mixing of a plurality of input signals. Then, a selection step is carried out to select a specific function out of the functions depicted in the block diagram. Thereafter, an assignment step is carried out to assign the selected specific function to an operation control of the signal processing apparatus. Practically, an operation control display step is carried out to display a plurality of operation controls of various types provided in the signal processing apparatus for selection of one operation control, so that the assignment step assigns the selected specific function to the operation control selected from the plurality of the operation controls displayed by the operation control display step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Publication number: 20050195678
    Abstract: A digital mixer has a custom component specified by a configuration ID. Further, the same configuration ID is provided to another custom component for ensuring compatibility of scene data which is used for operating the custom component. When a custom component of the mixer configuration is edited, the edited custom component is provided with the same configuration ID as the initial custom component before the editing. Scene data of the initial custom component can be copied to scene data of the edited custom component or vice versa provided that their configuration IDs match with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Makoto Hiroi, Akihiro Miwa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinori Kawase
  • Publication number: 20050182633
    Abstract: In a mixer system including a mixer engine wherein contents of signal processing can be programmed and a PC that edits the configuration of signal processing, the PC is provided with a display controller that graphically displays the edited configuration of signal processing using components for the signal processing and wires connecting nodes of the components; an accepting device that accepts designation of a node or wire whose signal is desired to be monitored, in a screen thereof; and a directing device that directs the mixer engine to output the signal from the designated node or wire to a monitoring analog signal output in accordance with the designation, and the mixer engine is provided with an outputting device that outputs a signal to the monitoring analog signal output in accordance with the direction separately from the signal processing relating to the edited signal processing configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Akihiro Miwa, Makoto Hiroi
  • Patent number: 6835439
    Abstract: A panel for an airbag of an automobile is formed by integrally molding a cover body, which is made of a synthetic resin, with a main body, made of another synthetic resin. The panel includes a joint portion, joined with the cover body, and provided around an opening portion formed in the main body. The joint portion constitutes an overlapping portion in which an outer peripheral edge of the cover body is overlapped as being arranged on the inner side of an opening edge of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Kondo, Nobuo Inomata, Takashi Ueda, Isao Hayashi, Tsutomu Okano, Haruo Fukuda, Yusaku Furukawa, Torao Kanayama, Akihiro Miwa, Hirofumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20040094022
    Abstract: A cursor movement controlling apparatus for an electronic musical apparatus comprises a display that displays a plurality of choices for controlling parameters of the electronic music apparatus, each of which is categorized into one of groups, and a cursor for selecting the choices, an instructor that instruct a movement of the displayed cursor, a movement storage device that stores a content of the movement of the cursor when the movement of the cursor within the group is instructed, and a cursor moving device that moves, when the movement of the cursor to other group is instructed, the cursor to the choice that is in the other group and corresponding to the content of the movement storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 3998312
    Abstract: A printing or stamping device for marking checks and similar documents comprises a rotatable type ring having a plurality of types around its periphery and a keyboard having a plurality of manual key-switches each corresponding to one type on the type ring. An angular position detector detects the angular position of the type ring and includes a coded disc which rotates in synchronism with the type ring and develops successive position signals indicative of the successive angular positions of the type ring. Control circuitry including a memory stores data typed-in on the keyboard and transmits successive typed-in signals to a coincidence detector which detects the coincidence of a typed-in signal and the corresponding position signal and provides a coincident signal. The coincident signal activates a stopper mechanism to stop the rotation of the type ring at a position where the typed-in type faces the check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Daini Seikosha
    Inventors: Yukio Fujimi, Akihiro Miwa