Patents by Inventor Akihiro Takeuchi
Akihiro Takeuchi 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: 20140174202Abstract: A torque detector includes: a magnetic flux collecting unit including a magnetic flux collecting holder formed in an annular shape by resin molding and a magnetic shield formed by bending a metal plate and attached to an outer peripheral face of the magnetic flux collecting holder; and a sensor housing formed integrally with the magnetic flux collecting unit. The magnetic shield has a shield body, a shield end portion, and a bent portion. A second angle formed between an outer side face of the shield end portion and a radial direction is smaller than a first angle formed between an outer peripheral face of the shield body and the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro YUKIMURA, Akihiro TAKEUCHI, Yoji YAMASHITA, Toshio IIDA, Takeshi OISHI
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Publication number: 20130342641Abstract: A stereoscopic shooting device includes: a first shooting section that obtains a first image; a second shooting section that outputs a second image; an angle of view matching section that cuts image portions to have the same angle of view from the first and second images; a parallax information generating section that generates parallax information indicating parallax between the two image portions; a reliability information generating section that generates reliability information indicating the degree of reliability of the parallax information based on at least one of the first and second images and the parallax information; and an image generating section that generates, based on the parallax information and the first image, a third image that forms, with the first image, stereoscopic images. The parallax information generating section corrects the parallax information based on the reliability information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MORIOKA, Akihiro TAKEUCHI, Kenji MATSUURA
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Patent number: 8542246Abstract: A color conversion device generates color data in a second color gamut based on first converted color data and input color data, which are obtained from input color data in a first color gamut, and outputs the color data in the second color gamut. The color conversion device includes a first color mapping unit which generates the first converted color data by mapping the input color data into the second color gamut; a color mixing unit which generates color data by mixing the first converted color data and second converted color data at a ratio corresponding to the first color gamut and the second color gamut; and a color data output unit which outputs the color data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Katsuo Saigo, Hiroshi Miyai, Hisakazu Hitomi, Masanobu Inoe, Masahiro Kawashima, Akihiro Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8208792Abstract: In a content shooting apparatus (Acc) for recording content data (Sav) containing video, audio, or data onto an information recording medium (214), in combination with first metadata (Di, Dm) containing a parameter representing scene information (SI), and allowing access to a specific portion of the content (Sav) with reference to the scene information (SI), a camera microcomputer (206) detects movement of a camera (101) to generate the first metadata (Di, Dm) by comparing the detected movement with a predetermined value (Th), and also generates second meta data (Di, Dm) by filtering out the first metadata (Di, Dm) generated within a predetermined specific window period (W) via a predetermined function.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Morioka, Kenji Matsuura, Masaaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Takeuchi, Takashi Kurama, Hisashi Inoue, Takeshi Hamasaki, Michifumi Inai, Masakazu Mimura
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Publication number: 20110012920Abstract: A color conversion device (100) according to the present invention generates color data (24) in a second color gamut based on first converted color data (22) and input color data (21), which are obtained from input color data (20) in a first color gamut, and outputs the color data (24) in the second color gamut, the color conversion device (100) including: a first color mapping unit (11) which generates the first converted color data (22) by mapping the input color data (21) into the second color gamut; a color mixing unit (12) which generates color data (23) by mixing the first converted color data (22) and second converted color data (25) at a ratio corresponding to the first color gamut and the second color gamut; and a color data output unit (13) which outputs the color data (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuo Saigo, Hiroshi Miyai, Hisakazu Hitomi, Masanobu Inoe, Masahiro Kawashima, Akihiro Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20090103898Abstract: In a content shooting apparatus (Acc) for recording content data (Sav) containing video, audio, or data onto an information recording medium (214), in combination with first metadata (Di, Dm) containing a parameter representing scene information (SI), and allowing access to a specific portion of the content (Sav) with reference to the scene information (SI), a camera microcomputer (206) detects movement of a camera (101) to generate the first metadata (Di, Dm) by comparing the detected movement with a predetermined value (Th), and also generates second meta data (Di, Dm) by filtering out the first metadata (Di, Dm) generated within a predetermined specific window period (W) via a predetermined function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Yoshihiro Morioka, Kenji Matsuura, Masaaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Takeuchi, Takashi Kurama, Hisashi Inoue, Takeshi Hamasaki, Michifumi Inai, Masakazu Mimura
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Patent number: 7463295Abstract: The present invention includes a film or video image pickup signal recording/reproduction system having an image pickup apparatus outputting an image pickup signal, a recording apparatus recording the image pickup signal, a reproduction apparatus reproducing the recorded signal, a characteristic conversion apparatus switching the characteristic of the reproduced signal, and a display apparatus displaying the signal output from the characteristic conversion apparatus. The image pickup apparatus has two kinds of gamma curve characteristics. The gamma curve characteristic data is recorded by the recording apparatus and extracted by the reproduction apparatus. The gamma curve characteristic of a reproduction image is switched by the characteristic conversion apparatus depending on the data. The image is output on a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ryoji Asada, Akihiro Takeuchi, Akira Usui, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Takayuki Kimoto, Tamotsu Akeyama
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Publication number: 20050104987Abstract: The present invention includes a film or video image pickup signal recording/reproduction system having an image pickup apparatus outputting an image pickup signal, a recording apparatus recording the image pickup signal, a reproduction apparatus reproducing the recorded signal, a characteristic conversion apparatus switching the characteristic of the reproduced signal, and a display apparatus displaying the signal output from the characteristic conversion apparatus. The image pickup apparatus has two kinds of gamma curve characteristics. The gamma curve characteristic data is recorded by the recording apparatus and extracted by the reproduction apparatus. The gamma curve characteristic of a reproduction image is switched by the characteristic conversion apparatus depending on the data. The image is output on a display apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2003Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Ryoji Asada, Akihiro Takeuchi, Akira Usui, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Takayuki Kimoto, Tamotsu Akeyama
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Patent number: 6858115Abstract: Sputtering particles are deposited immediately after activating a surface of a substrate composed of a carbon-containing material. Accordingly, a process for reforming a surface of a substrate, a substrate with a reformed surface, and an apparatus therefor are provided in which the depositability and adhesiveness of the sputtering particles are improved. A vacuum ultraviolet light is generated by a laser beam. A surface of a substrate composed of a carbon-containing material is exposed to the generated vacuum ultraviolet light. As a result, the surface of the substrate is activated. Simultaneously therewith, a sputtering particles-generating device generates sputtering particles, such as neutral atoms, ions and clusters. The resultant sputtering particles are deposited on the activated surface of the substrate. Since the sputtering particles are deposited immediately after the surface of the substrate is activated, they are adhered firmly on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo KenkyushoInventors: Hirozumi Azuma, Akihiro Takeuchi, Takaaki Matsuoka, Kazuyuki Tachi, Nobuo Kamiya
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Publication number: 20030196891Abstract: Sputtering particles are deposited immediately after activating a surface of a substrate composed of a carbon-containing material. Accordingly, a process for reforming a surface of a substrate, a substrate with a reformed surface, and an apparatus therefor are provided in which the depositability and adhesiveness of the sputtering particles are improved. A vacuum ultraviolet light is generated by a laser beam. A surface of a substrate composed of a carbon-containing material is exposed to the generated vacuum ultraviolet light. As a result, the surface of the substrate is activated. Simultaneously therewith, a sputtering particles-generating device generates sputtering particles, such as neutral atoms, ions and clusters. The resultant sputtering particles are deposited on the activated surface of the substrate. Since the sputtering particles are deposited immediately after the surface of the substrate is activated, they are adhered firmly on the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventors: Hirozumi Azuma, Akihiro Takeuchi, Takaaki Matsuoka, Kazuyuki Tachi, Nobuo Kamiya
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Patent number: 6424482Abstract: At least three heads are mounted on a rotary drum. Between the first and third heads which are located in close proximity to each other and have different azimuth angles, a minute height difference is formed in the rotation shaft direction of the rotary drum. Signals of a plurality of data rates are recorded and reproduced by using the first and second heads or the first and third heads. Two heads having the same azimuth angle are disposed on the rotary drum so as to be opposed each other at a central angle of 180°. In search speed reproduction, search data are reproduced by the two heads. Tracks are divided in the unit of plural tracks so as to form track sets. Search data areas of each track set are disposed at a position of each track which is separated from the edge of a tape by a predetermined distance. In search speed reproduction, the phases of the tracks and the heads are controlled, and all effective data of the search data areas are reproduced by plural scans of the heads.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1998Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Tadashi Kunihira, Masahiro Motosugi, Akihiro Takeuchi, Masaaki Kobayashi, Katsumi Gotoh, Kenji Matsuura, Masafumi Shimotashiro
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Publication number: 20010013987Abstract: At least three heads are mounted on a rotary drum. Between the first and third heads which are located in close proximity to each other and have different azimuth angles, a minute height difference is formed in the rotation shaft direction of the rotary drum. Signals of a plurality of data rates are recorded and reproduced by using the first and second heads or the first and third heads. Two heads having the same azimuth angle are disposed on the rotary drum so as to be opposed each other at a central angle of 180°. In search speed reproduction, search data are reproduced by the two heads. Tracks are divided in the unit of plural tracks so as to form track sets. Search data areas of each track set are disposed at a position of each track which is separated from the edge of a tape by a predetermined distance. In search speed reproduction, the phases of the tracks and the heads are controlled, and all effective data of the search data areas are reproduced by plural scans of the heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 1998Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: YOSHIFUMI YANAGAWA, TADASHI KUNIHIRA, MASAHIRO MOTOSUGI, AKIHIRO TAKEUCHI, MASAAKI KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 6141487Abstract: A data recording/reproducing apparatus of the invention records data in a plurality of tracks on a tape like recording medium by using a head unit mounted on a rotational cylinder and reproduces recorded data from the tracks, the tracks having at least two azimuth angles different from one another, and the tracks of the different azimuth angles being alternately located on the recording medium, the apparatus including: a formatter for providing, to each of the tracks, a normal data region to be used in normal reproduction and at least one search data region to be used in reproduction at a standard variable reproduction speed; for grouping the plurality of tracks into track sets each having a predetermined number of tracks, each search data region being located in the same position on a corresponding track included in the track set, and for placing identical search data in the search data region of each track included in the track set.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1995Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Tadashi Kunihira, Makoto Goto, Akira Iketani, Akihiro Takeuchi, Masazumi Yamada, Yasuo Hamamoto, Chiyoko Matsumi
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Patent number: 6115537Abstract: In a digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus, digital input data is transmitted in a transmission packet format and is recorded in a recording packet format. In a recording stage, an auxiliary signal generator (3) generates an auxiliary signal for special reproduction in the transmission packet format, and the digital and auxiliary signals are converted into respective recording packets by means of recording signal converters (5, 6). Recording means (9, 10) performs a specific recording process on the recording packets and an identification signal for identifying between the recording packets of the digital signal and of the auxiliary signal. While in a reproducing stage, reproduction signal processing means (14, 15) performs a specific reproduction process on the reproduction signal to thereby reconstruct the recording packets and the identification signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masazumi Yamada, Yukio Kurano, Kenji Kunitake, Yuzo Murakami, Akira Iketani, Chiyoko Matsumi, Yasuo Hamamoto, Akihiro Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5953486Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording digital signals to plural tracks formed sequentially on a tape using plural heads includes a first selector for selecting the first through n track sets, continuous tracks within the plural tracks formed on the tape. A disposer disposes the first through k separated high speed reproduction data areas to the same positions in each of the m tracks comprising the first through n track sets. A first recording unit records the same high speed reproduction data to the same track position in at least the tracks having the same azimuth within the m*k high speed reproduction data areas belonging to the same track set. A second selector selects the n+1 through n+N, each track set comprising M tracks selected from among the tracks to which the high speed reproduction data areas are not disposed. A second disposer disposes a continuous very-high speed reproduction data area to the same position in each of the M tracks forming the n+1 through n+N track sets.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1997Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Hamamoto, Kenji Morimoto, Akihiro Takeuchi, Mutsuyuki Okayama, Katsufumi Kohno, Masazumi Yamada, Tadashi Kunihira
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Patent number: 5864647Abstract: Recording apparatus for recording video signal on a tape by helical scan heads has a special frame data detector for detecting a special frame data that can be processed during a reproducing operation, without any additional data, to reproduce an image, a memory for storing the special frame data, and inserting arrangement for inserting a selected track after a predetermined number of tracks. One selected track is written with a portion of the special frame data repeatedly, and another selected track is written with another portion of the special frame data repeatedly, and so on. During the high speed reproducing mode, various portions of the special frame data as obtained from a number of selected tracks are gathered to form an image.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1997Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Takeuchi, Yasuo Hamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 5841941Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus for an input encoded data stream having two different bit rates N.sub.1 and N.sub.2, where N.sub.1 <N.sub.2. The recording and reproducing apparatus includes: an input interface for outputting the input encoded data stream to two channels; recording processors, connected to the outputs of the input interface, for converting the input encoded data stream into a signal suitable for writing onto a magnetic tape by a recording head; a tape speed controller for varying the speed of the magnetic tape in accordance with the bit rates of the input encoded data stream; a reproducing head for reading the signal from the magnetic tape; reproducing processors for processing a reproduced signal; and an output interface. The input interface divides and outputs the input encoded data stream to both of the two channels when the bit rate of the input encoded data stream is N.sub.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1995Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Indstrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Morimoto, Tadashi Kunihira, Akihiro Takeuchi, Yasuo Hamamoto, Masazumi Yamada, Mutsuyuki Okayama, Atsuo Ochi, Masaaki Kobayashi, Akira Iketani
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Patent number: 5517311Abstract: A 3D volume measuring apparatus using an optical measuring technique performs an accurate measurement by using a common master clock signal to move a slit beam and to perform a measuring operation using the slit beam. An optical sensor has a slit beam source which projects the slit beam onto a surface of an object. A video camera receives an image of the optical cutting line. A master clock pulse generating unit is provided for generating master clock pulses. The slit beam is scanned on the object in synchronization with the master clock pulses. Information of the image of the optical cutting line is obtained in synchronization with the master clock pulses, so that the contour of the vertical section corresponding to the optical cutting line is obtained. A chamber volume correcting method using the 3D volume measuring apparatus is provided in which method an exact cutting depth for a cylinder head can be calculated so that a chamber of the cylinder head has an exact target volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1994Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Takeuchi, Tetsuhiko Nomura, Kazuhito Shibata, Toshihiko Tsukada, Osamu Ozeki, Shin Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5319467Abstract: An apparatus for recording a video signal onto tracks of a recording tape includes circuitry for producing a first time-base reference signal which is a color burst signal composed of a first predetermined number of sinewave cycles and a second time-base reference signal which is a burst signal composed of a second predetermined number of sinewave signals. The second predetermined number of cycles is larger than the first predetermined number of cycles. The apparatus further includes superimposing circuitry for superimposing the first time base reference signal on an input video signal at intervals of a horizontal scanning period of the video signal and for superimposing the second time base reference signal on the input video signal at intervals of a predetermined number of horizontal scanning periods of the video signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1991Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Takeuchi, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: D468010Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Toshiba Carrier CorporationInventors: Mitsuyoshi Ishijima, Akihiro Takeuchi