Patents by Inventor Akira Yoneda
Akira Yoneda 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: 11776489Abstract: A control device that controls a liquid crystal display device, the control device includes: an obtainer that obtains a first video signal; a determiner that determines a first backlight value as a reference luminance of a backlight of the liquid crystal display device, using a first luminance characteristic of the first video signal; a tone map processor that performs tone mapping on the first video signal based on the first backlight value and a peak luminance displayable by the liquid crystal display device, and outputs a second video signal obtained through the tone mapping; and a generator that generates a control signal for local dimming control on the liquid crystal display device based on the first backlight value and the second video signal, and outputs the control signal to the liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Maekawa, Kazuhiro Uehara, Akira Yoneda
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Publication number: 20230059318Abstract: A control device that controls a liquid crystal display device, the control device includes: an obtainer that obtains a first video signal; a determiner that determines a first backlight value as a reference luminance of a backlight of the liquid crystal display device, using a first luminance characteristic of the first video signal; a tone map processor that performs tone mapping on the first video signal based on the first backlight value and a peak luminance displayable by the liquid crystal display device, and outputs a second video signal obtained through the tone mapping; and a generator that generates a control signal for local dimming control on the liquid crystal display device based on the first backlight value and the second video signal, and outputs the control signal to the liquid crystal display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Yusuke MAEKAWA, Kazuhiro UEHARA, Akira YONEDA
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Patent number: 11228747Abstract: A video display device includes: a video receiver that receives video data including a video and dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the video; a tone mapping processor that, in the case where a luminance region having a luminance less than or equal to a first luminance is defined as a low luminance region, and a luminance region having a luminance exceeding the first luminance is defined as a high luminance region, (i) performs first tone mapping using first conversion characteristics when first luminance characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold value, and (ii) performs second tone mapping using second conversion characteristics when the first luminance characteristics are less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hirota, Susumu Miyajima, Akira Yoneda, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Toshiroh Nishio, Masayuki Kozuka
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Patent number: 10742945Abstract: A luminance characteristics generation method includes: determining, for each of frames included in a video, a value as first luminance characteristics, the value being obtained by dividing the number of pixels having luminances less than or equal to a first luminance among all pixels included in the frame by the number of all the pixels included in the frame; and outputting the first luminance characteristics determined in the determining of the value.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hirota, Susumu Miyajima, Akira Yoneda, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Toshiroh Nishio, Masayuki Kozuka
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Publication number: 20200236334Abstract: A video display device includes: a video receiver that receives video data including a video and dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the video; a tone mapping processor that, in the case where a luminance region having a luminance less than or equal to a first luminance is defined as a low luminance region, and a luminance region having a luminance exceeding the first luminance is defined as a high luminance region, (i) performs first tone mapping using first conversion characteristics when first luminance characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold value, and (ii) performs second tone mapping using second conversion characteristics when the first luminance characteristics are less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Takeshi HIROTA, Susumu MIYAJIMA, Akira YONEDA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiroh NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Patent number: 10659745Abstract: A video display device includes: a video receiver that obtains video data including a video and dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the video; a tone mapping processor that, in the case where a luminance region having a luminance less than or equal to a first luminance is defined as a low luminance region, and a luminance region having a luminance exceeding the first luminance is defined as a high luminance region, (i) performs first tone mapping using first conversion characteristics when first luminance characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold value, and (ii) performs second tone mapping using second conversion characteristics when the first luminance characteristics are less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hirota, Susumu Miyajima, Akira Yoneda, Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi, Toshiroh Nishio, Masayuki Kozuka
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Publication number: 20190342603Abstract: A luminance characteristics generation method includes: determining, for each of frames included in a video, a value as first luminance characteristics, the value being obtained by dividing the number of pixels having luminances less than or equal to a first luminance among all pixels included in the frame by the number of all the pixels included in the frame; and outputting the first luminance characteristics determined in the determining of the value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi HIROTA, Susumu MIYAJIMA, Akira YONEDA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiroh NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Publication number: 20190335149Abstract: A video display device includes: a video receiver that obtains video data including a video and dynamic luminance characteristics indicating a time-dependent change in luminance characteristics of the video; a tone mapping processor that, in the case where a luminance region having a luminance less than or equal to a first luminance is defined as a low luminance region, and a luminance region having a luminance exceeding the first luminance is defined as a high luminance region, (i) performs first tone mapping using first conversion characteristics when first luminance characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold value, and (ii) performs second tone mapping using second conversion characteristics when the first luminance characteristics are less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Takeshi HIROTA, Susumu MIYAJIMA, Akira YONEDA, Yoshiichiro KASHIWAGI, Toshiroh NISHIO, Masayuki KOZUKA
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Patent number: 10010382Abstract: A paste-type dental material is filled from an opening portion of a cartridge into a cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge along a kneading surface, on which the paste-type dental material is kneaded, with the opening portion being inclined. The piston is placed on the kneading surface with a circular end surface of the piston contacting the kneading surface. The piston is inserted into the cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge closer to the piston located on the kneading surface such that a piston-side tapered surface or the piston-side curved surface of the piston is fitted into the opening portion, and thereafter moving the one of the two ends of the cylindrical portion toward the kneading surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SHOFU INC.Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Patent number: 9975140Abstract: A cartridge fitting portion of a cylindrical syringe made of a resin includes an end surface opening portion, a continuous opening portion continuous with the end surface opening portion, opened in a radial direction, and extending in an extending direction, and a recess portion configured to communicate with the end surface opening portion, the continuous opening portion, and an internal passage in a cylindrical body. The recess portion includes a flange fitting recess to be fitted with a flange portion of a cartridge, and a cylindrical portion fitting recess that communicates with the flange fitting recess and is fitted with a part of the cylindrical portion. A wall portion surrounding the cylindrical portion fitting recess of the cartridge fitting portion is configured to warp into snap engagement with the part of the cylindrical portion when the part of the cylindrical portion is inserted from the continuous opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SHOFU INC.Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Publication number: 20170014856Abstract: A cartridge in which a pipe can be retained without increasing the number of components or suppressing pushing-out of a content. A length L over which the outer peripheral surface of a pipe and the inner peripheral surface of a through hole contact each other when the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole, an average outside diameter R of the pipe in the range of the length L over which the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole, and an average inside diameter N of the through hole in the range of the length L are determined to meet: L×R×?×(1?N/R)×3.3?W and 0.01<(1?N/R)<0.1, wherein the maximum pushing load of the piston is defined as W and a grasping force to hold the pipe as the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole is defined as 1?N/R.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Publication number: 20170014205Abstract: A paste-type dental material is filled from an opening portion of a cartridge into a cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge along a kneading surface, on which the paste-type dental material is kneaded, with the opening portion being inclined. The piston is placed on the kneading surface with a circular end surface of the piston contacting the kneading surface. The piston is inserted into the cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge closer to the piston located on the kneading surface such that a piston-side tapered surface or the piston-side curved surface of the piston is fitted into the opening portion, and thereafter moving the one of the two ends of the cylindrical portion toward the kneading surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Publication number: 20170014857Abstract: A cartridge fitting portion of a cylindrical syringe made of a resin includes an end surface opening portion, a continuous opening portion continuous with the end surface opening portion, opened in a radial direction, and extending in an extending direction, and a recess portion configured to communicate with the end surface opening portion, the continuous opening portion, and an internal passage in a cylindrical body. The recess portion includes a flange fitting recess to be fitted with a flange portion of a cartridge, and a cylindrical portion fitting recess that communicates with the flange fitting recess and is fitted with a part of the cylindrical portion. A wall portion surrounding the cylindrical portion fitting recess of the cartridge fitting portion is configured to warp into snap engagement with the part of the cylindrical portion when the part of the cylindrical portion is inserted from the continuous opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Publication number: 20170014858Abstract: An applicator that is less expensive than those according to the related art and in which a plunger does not easily slip out of a cylindrical syringe. A cylindrical syringe and a plunger are each molded from a resin material. A resistance structure is provided between the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical syringe and the outer peripheral surface of a pressing portion of the plunger. The resistance structure is configured to act as resistance to movement of the pressing portion when the pressing portion is moved toward a cartridge fitting portion beyond a predetermined position and to movement of the pressing portion when the pressing portion is moved from the side of the cartridge fitting portion toward an end of the cylindrical syringe opposite to the cartridge fitting portion beyond the predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Ryouji Takei, Akira Yoneda, Shuji Sakamoto, Yusei Kadobayashi
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Publication number: 20150010987Abstract: Provided is a method that is for producing Euglena having a high wax ester content, capable of more efficiently producing the Euglena having a high wax ester content by adding a nutrient before anaerobic fermentation to restore the efficiency of wax ester fermentation. The present invention relates to a method for producing Euglena having a high wax ester content. The main configuration of the method is that there is at least a first step of aerobically culturing microalga Euglena under nitrogen starvation conditions and a second step of holding the cells in an anaerobic state; and adding, before the second step, a nutrient source to the culture liquid which has passed through the first step.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Ryo Arashida, Yuka Marukawa, Nobuo Aoki, Hitoshi Matsuda, Hiroaki Kato, Akira Yoneda
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Publication number: 20150011784Abstract: A method for producing a fuel oil base, comprising: a first step of aerobically culturing a microalga Euglena under a nitrogen-deficient condition; a second step of adding a nutrient to a treatment solution containing the microalga Euglena cultured in the first step, adjusting the dissolved oxygen concentration of the treatment solution to 0.03 mg/L or less, and performing anaerobic fermentation of the microalga Euglena to produce a wax ester; and a third step of hydrotreating a raw material oil containing the wax ester to produce a fuel oil base.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Nobuo Aoki, Hitoshi Matsuda, Hiroaki Kato, Akira Yoneda, Ryo Arashida, Yuka Marukawa
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Patent number: 6310343Abstract: An electron impact elastic recoil hydrogen atom analyzer includes an electron gun that projects an electron beam on a surface of a specimen for electron bombardment to make hydrogen atoms contained in the specimen elastically recoil, a hydrogen detecting unit that detects hydrogen atoms emitted from the specimen, and a data processing unit that determines a depth-distribution of hydrogen in the specimen on the basis of data provided by the hydrogen detecting unit. The hydrogen detecting unit includes an ionizer for ionizing hydrogen atoms emitted from the specimen, a deflector for energy analysis of hydrogen ions, and an electron multiplying channel plate for detecting the deflected hydrogen ions.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: RikenInventors: Akio Koyama, Tsuyoshi Horiki, Akira Yoneda
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Patent number: 4929891Abstract: An exciting unit used in an internal magnet type meter, wherein a spacer, having a thickness corresponding to the length of a gap, is attached to the circumference of a permanent magnet and a screw is fitted in a yoke so that the permanent magnet may be mounted in the yoke by forcing the permanent magnet onto the inner face of the yoke through the spacer by means of the screw.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1989Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Akira Yoneda, Katsuyoshi Miura