Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ichihara

Atsushi Ichihara 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: 20240085348
    Abstract: Provided are a measurement device and a measurement method that enable calibration in the event of error variations. A measurement device configured to measure an amount of moisture contained in a medium, the measurement device including: a first probe in which a first cable electrically connectable to a first connection cable is embedded; a second probe in which a second cable electrically connectable to a second connection cable is embedded; and a standard that is fixed at a predetermined positional relationship with the first probe and the second probe even during the measurement, is electrically connectable to the first connection cable and the second connection cable when the measurement is not conducted, and is used for calibration of the measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
  • Publication number: 20230401782
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a determining unit configured to determine a target object that a user is paying attention to, an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of types of information on the target object, a referring unit configured to refer to reference information associated with the target object, and a control unit configured to determine the at least one of the plurality of types of information based on the reference information and the plurality of types of information, the display unit displays the at least one of the plurality of types of information and image data stored in a memory, and the reference information is past information of each of the plurality of types of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shiozaki, Hiroshi Toriumi, Atsushi Ichihara, Hiroki Kitanosako
  • Patent number: 11553135
    Abstract: A display control apparatus comprises a first display unit capable of being viewed via an eyepiece part, a second display unit capable of being viewed without the eyepiece part, an eye approach detection unit configured to detect an eye approaching to the eyepiece part, a sight line detection unit configured to detect a sight line of the eye that is viewing the first display unit via the eyepiece part, and a control unit configured to perform control to stop display of the first display unit if a sight line is not detected by the sight line detection unit within a first time period in a state where the eye approaching is being detected by the eye approach detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 11551637
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a plurality of display devices, a designation unit that designates one of a plurality of predetermined color balances for which adjustment values of the plurality of display devices are set in advance, and an adjustment unit that adjusts color balances of the plurality of display devices. The adjustment unit performs a first adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices using adjustment values of the color balance designated by the designation unit, and a second adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices that have undergone the first adjustment, wherein resolution of the second adjustment is higher than resolution of the first adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ichihara, Tomoyuki Shiozaki
  • Publication number: 20220270342
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus a determining unit configured to determine a target object that a user is paying attention to, a detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of types of detection information on the target object, a referring unit configured to refer to reference information associated with the target object, a presenting unit configured to present at least one of the plurality of types of detection information, and a control unit configured to determine the at least one of the plurality of types of detection information presented by the presenting unit, based on the reference information and the plurality of types of detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shiozaki, Hiroshi Toriumi, Atsushi Ichihara, Hiroki Kitanosako
  • Publication number: 20210225322
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a plurality of display devices, a designation unit that designates one of a plurality of predetermined color balances for which adjustment values of the plurality of display devices are set in advance, and an adjustment unit that adjusts color balances of the plurality of display devices. The adjustment unit performs a first adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices using adjustment values of the color balance designated by the designation unit, and a second adjustment for adjusting the color balances of the plurality of display devices that have undergone the first adjustment, wherein resolution of the second adjustment is higher than resolution of the first adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Ichihara, Tomoyuki Shiozaki
  • Publication number: 20210006723
    Abstract: A display control apparatus comprises a first display unit capable of being viewed via an eyepiece part, a second display unit capable of being viewed without the eyepiece part, an eye approach detection unit configured to detect an eye approaching to the eyepiece part, a sight line detection unit configured to detect a sight line of the eye that is viewing the first display unit via the eyepiece part, and a control unit configured to perform control to stop display of the first display unit if a sight line is not detected by the sight line detection unit within a first time period in a state where the eye approaching is being detected by the eye approach detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10845613
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a shake of the image pickup apparatus, at least one processor and at least one memory functioning as an acquisition unit configured to acquire driving frequency information on an accessory attached to the image pickup apparatus, and a control unit configured to control a function using a detection result of the detection unit. The control unit controls the function based on the driving frequency information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10511784
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a shake detection unit in the main body and detects an amount of the shaking. A system control unit acquires frequency information by communication from an external device mounted on the main body. If the system control unit determines that a drive frequency of the external device mounted on the main body interferes with a drive frequency of the shake detection unit in a case where a mode that supports panning is set and panning of the imaging apparatus is performed, it corrects a shutter speed for panning and suppresses the influence caused by the interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20190285908
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a shake of the image pickup apparatus, at least one processor and at least one memory functioning as an acquisition unit configured to acquire driving frequency information on an accessory attached to the image pickup apparatus, and a control unit configured to control a function using a detection result of the detection unit. The control unit controls the function based on the driving frequency information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10345937
    Abstract: Provided an electronic device capable of suppressing the effects of noise caused by driving of a backlight, and preventing an erroneous detection of an operation on a touch panel. The electronic device includes a display, a touch panel, which is arranged on a display surface side of the display and is capable of detecting a touch operation, a backlight of the display, a backlight control unit configured to drive and control a current of the backlight based on pulse width modulation, and a CPU. The CPU is configured to cause the backlight control unit to drive and control the backlight at a current drive frequency different from a sub-scanning frequency of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 10216313
    Abstract: Provided are a touch detector capable of detecting touch, a controller effecting control so that a touch operation is invalidated in a case where the touch area detected by the touch detector is equal to or larger than a threshold value, and so that a touch operation is validated in a case where the touch area detected by the touch detector is smaller than a threshold value, and a setting unit setting the threshold value used by the controller so that the threshold value used in a case of displaying a first screen is smaller than the threshold value used by the controller in a case of displaying a second screen in accordance with an operation relating to a displayed item displayed in the first screen having been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ichihara, Toshiaki Ueguri
  • Publication number: 20180255223
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a shake detection unit in the main body and detects an amount of the shaking. A system control unit acquires frequency information by communication from an external device mounted on the main body. If the system control unit determines that a drive frequency of the external device mounted on the main body interferes with a drive frequency of the shake detection unit in a case where a mode that supports panning is set and panning of the imaging apparatus is performed, it corrects a shutter speed for panning and suppresses the influence caused by the interferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9933895
    Abstract: A touch sensor driver circuit drives a capacitive touch sensor to detect the presence of an operation performed with a conductive member and detects a position of the operation. A controller performs processing corresponding to the operation on the touch sensor with the conductive member. In a case where detection of a capacitance greater than or equal to a threshold in an edge area of a sensor area of the capacitive touch sensor and a touch operation in a central area that is the sensor area excluding the edge area occur at the same time, the controller ignores the touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20180074644
    Abstract: A backlight control unit applies to a backlight of a display a backlight current based on a pulse-width modulation signal. A touch panel control unit detects rising and falling edges of the PWM signal, applies a capacity detection signal to a touch panel during an on-period or off-period of the backlight current, and detects a touch operation on the touch panel 19. The touch panel control unit calculates the presence/absence and coordinates of a touch operation from sensor output signals from the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9638184
    Abstract: An air compression apparatus includes an air tank, an air compressor, and a governor. The air compressor delivers compressed air to the air tank by using power of an engine at the time of load running and stops the delivery of the compressed air to the air tank at the time of no-load running. The governor switches between the load running and the no-load running of the air compressor. Furthermore, the governor changes, when an engine speed is equal to or more than a threshold value, switchover timing for switching the air compressor from the no-load running to the load running in comparison with a time when the engine speed is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: UD TRUCKS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20160224179
    Abstract: Provided are a touch detector capable of detecting touch, a controller effecting control so that a touch operation is invalidated in a case where the touch area detected by the touch detector is equal to or larger than a threshold value, and so that a touch operation is validated in a case where the touch area detected by the touch detector is smaller than a threshold value, and a setting unit setting the threshold value used by the controller so that the threshold value used in a case of displaying a first screen is smaller than the threshold value used by the controller in a case of displaying a second screen in accordance with an operation relating to a displayed item displayed in the first screen having been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Atsushi Ichihara, Toshiaki Ueguri
  • Publication number: 20160202840
    Abstract: A touch sensor driver circuit drives a capacitive touch sensor to detect the presence of an operation performed with a conductive member and detects a position of the operation. A controller performs processing corresponding to the operation on the touch sensor with the conductive member. In a case where detection of a capacitance greater than or equal to a threshold in an edge area of a sensor area of the capacitive touch sensor and a touch operation in a central area that is the sensor area excluding the edge area occur at the same time, the controller ignores the touch operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20160202821
    Abstract: Provided an electronic device capable of suppressing the effects of noise caused by driving of a backlight, and preventing an erroneous detection of an operation on a touch panel. The electronic device includes a display, a touch panel, which is arranged on a display surface side of the display and is capable of detecting a touch operation, a backlight of the display, a backlight control unit configured to drive and control a current of the backlight based on pulse width modulation, and a CPU. The CPU is configured to cause the backlight control unit to drive and control the backlight at a current drive frequency different from a sub-scanning frequency of the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9030567
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an internal time information generating unit that includes an internal time source, a receiving unit configured to receive external time information generated in an external time source, and an adjusting unit configured to adjust the external time information using a first delay time information corresponding to a delay time generated in a communication path between the internal time information generating unit and a time setting unit, wherein the time setting unit is configured to perform a process for setting the external time information adjusted by the adjusting unit to the internal time source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara