Patents by Inventor Akira Fukuda

Akira Fukuda 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: 11939322
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for manufacturing 9-ethyl-6,6-dimethyl-8-[4-(morpholin-4-yl)piperidin-1-yl]-11-oxo-6,11-dihydro-5H-benzo[b]carbazole-3-carbonitrile, and is industrially preferable, allowing an objective substance to be obtained in high yield more safely and easily than the conventional method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Serizawa, Akira Kawase, Hiroshi Fukuda, Naoto Hama
  • Publication number: 20240064402
    Abstract: The technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging control method, and a program for resuming tracking from an appropriate position at an end of tracking. The imaging apparatus includes a focus control section configured to control a tracking function of tracking a tracking target and keeping the tracking target in focus, and a setting section configured to move a tracking start position during tracking on the basis of a predetermined condition. The technology may be applied, for example, to the imaging apparatus having the tracking function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Yu Kimishima, Yohei Takada, Takayuki Hosokawa, Akira Fukuda, Eiji Nakamura, Terutoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kurahashi, Akiko Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20230269471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: AKIRA FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11659277
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that sets a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor that acquires an image, and an operation unit that selects a type of the subject as the focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as the focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220127838
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar joint includes: cylindrical bodies each including an inner surface including a female thread part; joint members each including one end portion including a joint male thread part; and a connecting member configured to connect a pair of the joint members which face each other, such that the pair of the joint members are allowed to move in the longitudinal direction and in an orthogonal direction to the longitudinal direction. Each of the cylindrical bodies includes one end portion configured to threadedly engage with a reinforcing bar male thread part at an end portion of one of reinforcing bars, and the other end portion configured to threadedly engage with the joint male thread part at the one end portion of a corresponding one of the joint members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11274446
    Abstract: A threaded reinforcing bar coupling structure comprises a pair of reinforcing bars and a tubular coupler connecting the pair of reinforcing bars. Each of the reinforcing bars is a deformed reinforcing bar having spiral node portions on an outer periphery of a reinforcing bar main body having a round shaft shape. A cylindrical portion with node portions removed is formed on an end portion of the reinforcing bar, and a male threaded portion is formed on the cylindrical portion. The male threaded portion has hardness or tensile strength greater than that of a remaining portion of the reinforcing bar. The pair of reinforcing bars is connected by the screw tubular coupler that is screwed onto the male threaded portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210227148
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: AKIRA FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10972652
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that sets a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor that acquires an image, and an operation unit that selects a type of the subject as the focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as the focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200014841
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: AKIRA FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10440252
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20190177976
    Abstract: A threaded reinforcing bar coupling structure comprises a pair of reinforcing bars and a tubular coupler connecting the pair of reinforcing bars. Each of the reinforcing bars is a deformed reinforcing bar having spiral node portions on an outer periphery of a reinforcing bar main body having a round shaft shape. A cylindrical portion with node portions removed is formed on an end portion of the reinforcing bar, and a male threaded portion is formed on the cylindrical portion. The male threaded portion has hardness or tensile strength greater than that of a remaining portion of the reinforcing bar. The pair of reinforcing bars is connected by the screw tubular coupler that is screwed onto the male threaded portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10218910
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: an element that receives subject light from a subject to generate image data; a section that generates a recording image to be recorded on a recording medium from the image data when a first mode is set; a section that generates a second display image, which allows display of a live-view image, from the image data when a second mode is set, and that generates a first display image, which allows display of an image identical to the recording image, from the image data when the first mode is set; a section that sequentially displays the first display image or the second display image; a section that detects a specific state of the apparatus that obstructs recording of an imaging object onto the recording image; and a section that controls switching between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of the detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hirai, Akira Fukuda, Takuya Higuchi, Satoshi Takada, Tsuyoshi Harata
  • Patent number: 10212357
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject, a photometry unit, an exposure compensation unit, an exposure control unit configured to control exposure for a captured image and a display control unit configured to control display of the captured image on a display unit. The photometry unit is configured to perform photometry, based the imaging unit's output, to obtain an exposure value. The exposure compensation unit is configured to compensate the obtained exposure value to an exposure value that would be used for exposure control, if photometry of the photometry unit is not fixed. The exposure control unit is configured to allow exposure control at an exposure value within wider range than a range of available exposure values of the cases where photometry of the photometry unit was not fixed, if photometry of the photometry unit is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20180091721
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject, a photometry unit, an exposure compensation unit, an exposure control unit configured to control exposure for a captured image and a display control unit configured to control display of the captured image on a display unit. The photometry unit is configured to perform photometry, based the imaging unit's output, to obtain an exposure value. The exposure compensation unit is configured to compensate the obtained exposure value to an exposure value that would be used for exposure control, if photometry of the photometry unit is not fixed. The exposure control unit is configured to allow exposure control at an exposure value within wider range than a range of available exposure values of the cases where photometry of the photometry unit was not fixed, if photometry of the photometry unit is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: AKIRA FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 9871973
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject, a photometry unit, an exposure compensation unit, an exposure control unit configured to control exposure for a captured image and a display control unit configured to control display of the captured image on a display unit. The photometry unit is configured to perform photometry, based the imaging unit's output, to obtain an exposure value. The exposure compensation unit is configured to compensate the obtained exposure value to an exposure value that would be used for exposure control, if photometry of the photometry unit is not fixed. The exposure control unit is configured to allow exposure control at an exposure value within wider range than a range of available exposure values of the cases where photometry of the photometry unit was not fixed, if photometry of the photometry unit is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160241775
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: Akira FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20150085161
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: an element that receives subject light from a subject to generate image data; a section that generates a recording image to be recorded on a recording medium from the image data when a first mode is set; a section that generates a second display image, which allows display of a live-view image, from the image data when a second mode is set, and that generates a first display image, which allows display of an image identical to the recording image, from the image data when the first mode is set; a section that sequentially displays the first display image or the second display image; a section that detects a specific state of the apparatus that obstructs recording of an imaging object onto the recording image; and a section that controls switching between the first mode and the second mode on the basis of the detection results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: AKIRA HIRAI, AKIRA FUKUDA, TAKUYA HIGUCHI, SATOSHI TAKADA, TSUYOSHI HARATA
  • Patent number: 8965555
    Abstract: A method dresses a polishing member with a diamond dresser having diamond particles arranged on a surface thereof. The method includes determining dressing conditions by performing a simulation of a distribution of a sliding distance of the diamond dresser on a surface of the polishing member, and dressing the polishing member with the diamond dresser under the determined dressing conditions. The simulation includes calculating the sliding distance corrected in accordance with a depth of the diamond particles thrusting into the polishing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Fukuda, Yoshihiro Mochizuki, Yutaka Wada, Yoichi Shiokawa, Hirokuni Hiyama
  • Publication number: 20150037090
    Abstract: A threaded reinforcing bar coupling for a deformed reinforcing bar according to the present invention connects a pair of reinforcing bars (1, 1), which are deformed reinforcing bars, with male threaded portions (1c) provided at end portions of the reinforcing bars and a threaded cylinder (2). In each reinforcing bar (1), by roll forming on an iron wire rod which is a raw material, a projection (1b) on an outer peripheral surface is formed and a diameter enlarged portion which is larger in diameter than another portion is formed in a portion in a longitudinal direction. An outer diameter of the diameter enlarged portion is not larger than a reinforcing bar outermost diameter (D1) including the projection (1a) of the reinforcing bar (1). The male threaded portion (1c) is formed in the diameter enlarged portion by rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda
  • Patent number: D743581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Akira Fukuda