Patents by Inventor Akira Shiga
Akira Shiga 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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Patent number: 9011886Abstract: A leave-on type hair cosmetic composition having the following two layers A and B: Layer A of an oil layer containing the following component (a) in an amount of 0.5-40% by mass in the hair cosmetic composition, (a) a highly polymerized silicone selected from dimethicone and dimethiconol and having a number average degree of polymerization of 1,000-20,000; and Layer B of a water layer containing the following components (b) and (c), (b) a water-soluble polymeric thickening agent, and (c) water.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Eiichi Nishizawa, Akira Shiga, Kenichi Ueyama
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Publication number: 20140363329Abstract: A rolled steel bar or wire rod having hot surface fatigue strength, wear resistance, and machinability even after hot forging has a composition containing C, Si, Mn, S, Cr, Mo (optional), Al, and N, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The chemical composition satisfies that fn1 defined by Formula (1) is 1.60 to 2.10. The structure of the rolled steel bar or wire rod for hot forging includes a ferrite-pearlite structure, a ferrite-pearlite-bainite structure, or a ferrite-bainite structure. A maximum value/a minimum value of average ferrite grain size, which is observed and measured randomly in 15 visual fields each having an area of 62500 ?m2 in a cross section, is not more than 2.0. fn1=Cr+2×Mo (1), and each symbol of elements in Formula (1) is substituted by a content (mass %) of a corresponding element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Shiga, Masayuki Horimoto, Yoshihiro Daitoh, Hideki Imataka, Yusuke Usui, Tetsuya Ohashi
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Publication number: 20140225464Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotation body driven to rotate, an accommodation body housing the rotation body, a first power-supply member electrically connected to a positive electrode of a power source, a second power-supply member electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source, an insulation layer contacting outer peripheral surfaces of the first and second power-supply members, and a conductive layer contacting the insulation layer on an opposite side of the insulation layer from the outer peripheral surfaces of the first and second power-supply members. The conductive layer is electrically connected to the accommodation body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya HONDA, Akira SHIGA, Kaname EGAWA
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Publication number: 20130243641Abstract: A rolled steel bar or a wire rod for hot forging capable of coping with both bending/surface fatigue strength of components and machinability at a high level includes: a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.1 to 0.25%, Si: 0.01 to 0.10%, Mn: 0.4 to 1.0%, S: 0.003 to 0.05%, Cr: 1.60 to 2.00%, Mo: 0.10% or less (including 0%), Al: 0.025 to 0.05%, and N: 0.010 to 0.025%, where a value of fn1 represented in a following formula (1) satisfies 1.82?fn1?2.10: fn1=Cr+2×Mo (1); impurities containing P: 0.025% or less, Ti: 0.003% or less, and O (oxygen): 0.002% or less; and a cross section in which a maximum value/a minimum value of an average ferrite grain diameter is 2.0 or less when measurement by observation is randomly carried out in 15 visual fields with an area per visual field set to be 62500 ?m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Daitoh, Hideki Imataka, Masayuki Horimoto, Akira Shiga
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Patent number: 8491709Abstract: To provide a small active oxygen generating device capable of efficiently continuously generating active oxygen while supplying oxygen in the air. In the active oxygen generating device in which water is made to exist between an anode and a cathode composed of a base material containing a conductive polymer and by turning on electricity between the anode and the cathode, the conductive polymer deoxidizes the oxygen dissolved in the water to generate active oxygen, the cathode is rotatably installed about a conductive horizontal axis with part of the surface being projected over the surface of the water.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shiro Takeuchi, Akira Shiga, Takuya Furuhashi
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Patent number: 8121404Abstract: An exposure control apparatus for controlling an exposure adjustment mechanism on the basis of a captured image signal includes the following elements. A face detecting unit detects a face of a person appearing in a captured image on the basis of the captured image signal. A histogram data determining unit determines histogram data by setting a face detection region in the captured image according to detection information and detecting at least a brightness value of the face detection region from the captured image signal. A target brightness setting unit sets a target brightness range for desired brightness of the face. An exposure control amount determining unit determines, when a face is detected, an amount of control for the exposure adjustment mechanism by comparing the target brightness range with a brightness value at a peak of the histogram data or a brightness region in the vicinity of the peak.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga
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Publication number: 20120002075Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a mode sequence control unit configured to select a control scheme for a still image recording operation in accordance with an imaging operation setting, wherein the mode sequence control unit is configured to select a first control scheme when the imaging operation setting is a normal imaging setting and a second, different control scheme when the imaging operation setting is an unconscious imaging setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shingo Yoshizumi, Akira Shiga, Tsukasa Kirisawa
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Patent number: 7925047Abstract: A face importance level determining apparatus for determining an importance level for a photographer with respect to a face of a person appearing in an image may include the following elements. A face information obtaining unit obtains face size information and position information that are detected from an input image signal. A first calculating unit calculates a first importance level factor on the basis of the size information. A second calculating unit calculates a second importance level factor on the basis of the position information. A third calculating unit calculates the importance level on the basis of the first importance level factor and the second importance level factor.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga
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Publication number: 20110017066Abstract: To provide a small active oxygen generating device capable of efficiently continuously generating active oxygen while supplying oxygen in the air. In the active oxygen generating device in which water is made to exist between an anode and a cathode composed of a base material containing a conductive polymer and by turning on electricity between the anode and the cathode, the conductive polymer deoxidizes the oxygen dissolved in the water to generate active oxygen, the cathode is rotatably installed about a conductive horizontal axis with part of the surface being projected over the surface of the water.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shiro Takeuchi, Akira Shiga, Takuya Furuhashi
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Patent number: 7742637Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to take an image of a subject; a histogram producing unit configured to produce a histogram of image data of the image; a tone correction unit configured to make a tone correction on the image data; a feature histogram table including a plurality of feature histograms respectively corresponding to a plurality of reference image patterns; an input-output characteristic table including a plurality of input-output characteristics respectively corresponding to the plurality of feature histograms; an input-output characteristic adjustment unit configured to calculate the similarity of the histogram produced by the histogram producing unit with respect to each feature histogram, to select an input-output characteristic according to the calculated similarity, and to adjust the selected input-output characteristic in accordance with the similarity, wherein the tone correction unit is configured to make the tone correction based on the input-output characteristiType: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga, Hun Koo Park, Tatsuya Deguchi
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Publication number: 20100104609Abstract: A leave-on type hair cosmetic composition having the following two layers A and B: Layer A of an oil layer containing the following component (a) in an amount of 0.5-40% by mass in the hair cosmetic composition, (a) a highly polymerized silicone selected from dimethicone and dimethiconol and having a number average degree of polymerization of 1,000-20,000; and Layer B of a water layer containing the following components (b) and (c), (b) a water-soluble polymeric thickening agent, and (c) water.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Nishizawa, Akira Shiga, Kenichi Ueyama
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Patent number: 7692694Abstract: A digital camera is disclosed to reduce shutter lag and improved accuracy in exposure. The digital camera includes an image pickup lens optical system, an iris, an image pickup device, a hold/gain control circuit, a luminance level detector, an exposure control circuit, a device control circuit and so forth. The exposure control circuit discriminates based on a luminance level supplied thereto from the luminance level detector whether or not appropriate exposure is performed. Then, based on a result of the discrimination, the exposure control circuit arithmetically operates three values of the numerical aperture of the iris, the shutter speed of an electronic shutter of the image pickup device and the gain of the hold/gain control circuit which are necessary to perform appropriate exposure.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Shiga, Toshinori Orito
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Publication number: 20100074917Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for preventing diseases in weaned piglets, which relieves the stress of postweaning piglets and enhances the immunostimulating ability in order to prevent the death due to colibacillosis such as edema disease in postweaning piglets and to increase the rate of raising. Pig diseases such as colibacillosis, particularly diarrhea, can be prevented by administering a Grifola-derived substance selected from one or more of dried Grifola, dried Grifola powder and a Grifola extract to pigs in weaning period, so as to solve the problems of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: YUKIGUNI MAITAKE CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Shiga, Akira Kamoshida, Yojiro Sasa, Shin Taniguchi, Kozo Nishibori
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Publication number: 20090324774Abstract: An object of the present invention is to maintain good conditions of mother pigs and decrease the stillborn piglets and the death rate of piglets in breast-feeding period, so as to increase the productivity in pig farming. In a method for feeding pigs, by administering a Grifola-derived substance selected from one or more of dried Grifola, dried Grifola powder and a Grifola extract to mother pigs, particularly to postpartum mother pigs, good conditions of mother pigs can be maintained and the stillborn piglets and the death rate of piglets in breast-feeding period can decrease. As a result, the productivity in pig farming can increase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: YUKIGUNI MAITAKE CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Shiga, Akira Kamoshida, Yojiro Sasa, Shin Taniguchi, Kozo Nishibori
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Patent number: 7562661Abstract: A hair warming tool is in the form of sheet and has at least one heating part in the center thereof and a margin around said heating part. It is designed to wrap tied hair in said heating part and to be held in place to keep the wrapping state by fastening the margin with a fastening means such as an elastic band, a string or a wire. A hair treating method comprises wrapping tied hair with a hair warming tool of sheet form having at least one heating part while leaving at least the part of the hair near the roots unwrapped to warm the hair.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenichi Ueyama, Akira Shiga, Michiko Tada
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Patent number: 7511740Abstract: A digital camera with reduced shutter lag and improved exposure accuracy, and including image pickup lens optics, an iris, an image pickup, a hold/gain control circuit, a luminance level detector, an exposure control circuit, and a control circuit. The exposure control circuit discriminates, based on a luminance level supplied from the luminance level detector, whether or not appropriate exposure is performed. Then, based on the discrimination result, the exposure control circuit arithmetically operates three values of numerical aperture of the iris, shutter speed of an electronic shutter of the image pickup, and gain of the hold/gain control circuit, which are necessary for appropriate exposure. The exposure control circuit arithmetically operates iris control data, electronic shutter control data, and gain control data necessary for the arithmetically operated exposure amounts to be individually reflected on the iris, the electronic shutter of the image pickup, and the hold/gain control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Shiga, Toshinori Orito
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Publication number: 20080204575Abstract: A digital camera is disclosed to reduce shutter lag and improved accuracy in exposure. The digital camera includes an image pickup lens optical system, an iris, an image pickup device, a hold/gain control circuit, a luminance level detector, an exposure control circuit, a device control circuit and so forth. The exposure control circuit discriminates based on a luminance level supplied thereto from the luminance level detector whether or not appropriate exposure is performed. Then, based on a result of the discrimination, the exposure control circuit arithmetically operates three values of the numerical aperture of the iris, the shutter speed of an electronic shutter of the image pickup device and the gain of the hold/gain control circuit which are necessary to perform appropriate exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Shiga, Toshinori Orito
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Publication number: 20070195171Abstract: A face importance level determining apparatus for determining an importance level for a photographer with respect to a face of a person appearing in an image may include the following elements. A face information obtaining unit obtains face size information and position information that are detected from an input image signal. A first calculating unit calculates a first importance level factor on the basis of the size information. A second calculating unit calculates a second importance level factor on the basis of the position information. A third calculating unit calculates the importance level on the basis of the first importance level factor and the second importance level factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga
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Publication number: 20070177050Abstract: An exposure control apparatus for controlling an exposure adjustment mechanism on the basis of a captured image signal includes the following elements. A face detecting unit detects a face of a person appearing in a captured image on the basis of the captured image signal. A histogram data determining unit determines histogram data by setting a face detection region in the captured image according to detection information and detecting at least a brightness value of the face detection region from the captured image signal. A target brightness setting unit sets a target brightness range for desired brightness of the face. An exposure control amount determining unit determines, when a face is detected, an amount of control for the exposure adjustment mechanism by comparing the target brightness range with a brightness value at a peak of the histogram data or a brightness region in the vicinity of the peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga
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Publication number: 20070081721Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to take an image of a subject; a histogram producing unit configured to produce a histogram of image data of the image; a tone correction unit configured to make a tone correction on the image data; a feature histogram table including a plurality of feature histograms respectively corresponding to a plurality of reference image patterns; an input-output characteristic table including a plurality of input-output characteristics respectively corresponding to the plurality of feature histograms; an input-output characteristic adjustment unit configured to calculate the similarity of the histogram produced by the histogram producing unit with respect to each feature histogram, to select an input-output characteristic according to the calculated similarity, and to adjust the selected input-output characteristic in accordance with the similarity, wherein the tone correction unit is configured to make the tone correction based on the input-output characteristiType: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ruihua Xiao, Akira Shiga, Hun Park, Tatsuya Deguchi