Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ueda

Atsushi Ueda 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: 8948505
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus, including an extraction color region determination unit which performs a process of determining an extraction color region including at least a partial region in an image using color information of an input image signal, and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the extraction color region of the input image signal determined by the extraction color region determination unit and/or the remaining region of the input image signal excluding the extraction color region, to obtain an output image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Daisuke Satou, Jun Minakuti
  • Patent number: 8848098
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image analysis unit obtaining brightness information for respective hue regions from an image signal of a picked-up image and an exposure control unit carrying out exposure control based on the brightness information obtained in the image analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Satou, Atsushi Ueda, Jun Minakuti
  • Patent number: 8801960
    Abstract: Because of the composition represented by General Formula: Li1+x+?Ni(1?x?y+?)/2Mn(1?x?y??)/2MyO2 (where 0?x?0.05, ?0.05?x+??0.05, 0?y?0.4; ?0.1???0.1 (when 0?y?0.2) or ?0.24???0.24 (when 0.2<y?0.4); and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Al, Ge and Sn), a high-density lithium-containing complex oxide with high stability of a layered crystal structure and excellent reversibility of charging/discharging can be provided, and a high-capacity non-aqueous secondary battery excellent in durability is realized by using such an oxide for a positive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Kazutaka Uchitomi, Shigeo Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8736916
    Abstract: An optical scanner contains in a casing made of thermoplastic material a light source that emits an image light based on image data, and at least one optical element that is disposed in an optical path for the image light. The optical element is held through a holding member by the casing. The holding member is uprightly held at one edge portion thereof on an inside surface of the casing, and secures the optical element at the other edge portion thereof. The holding member has a shape that causes a thermal deformation in which a leaning direction of the other edge portion is opposite to a leaning direction of the one edge portion due to a thermal deformation of the inside surface of the casing when a temperature of the casing rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20140024989
    Abstract: As a wound dressing that includes a perforated material having through-holes, in which the perforated material can be coated with a low-adhesive resin without closing the through-holes, and that has excellent adhesion prevention properties to wounds, provided is a wound dressing 1 that includes a sheet-shaped perforated material 11 having through-holes 111 and a low-adhesive resin 12 with which at least one face of the perforated material 11 is coated without closing the through-holes 111, the perforated material 11 is a knitted fabric or a woven fabric formed of a multifilament, and the perforated material 11 has an average opening area of the through-holes 111 of 0.02 to 1.2 mm2 and an average number of through-holes of 40 to 220 cm?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: ALCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Ueda
  • Patent number: 8629925
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit which obtains an image signal; an extraction position information obtaining unit which obtains information about an extraction position, where an image is extracted, from the image signal; a correction target value calculating unit which calculates a correction target value for correcting the image signal in accordance with the position information from an image center based on the extraction position information; an image correcting unit which corrects the image signal based on the correction target value; and an image extracting unit which extracts the image based on the extraction position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Satou, Atsushi Ueda, Jun Minakuti
  • Patent number: 8553062
    Abstract: An optical scanner includes a third f-theta lens, an eccentric cam, an attaching portion, a first supporting member, a second supporting member and a spring. A distance between a face opposed to the first side-face of the third f-theta lens in the first supporting member and a face opposed to the second side-face of the third f-theta lens in the second supporting member is set to be longer than a distance of the third f-theta lens in its lateral direction. The spring is disposed opposed to the first side-face or the second side-face, and presses the third f-theta lens so that the third f-theta lens is in contact with the eccentric cam and either of the first supporting member and the second supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ueda
  • Patent number: 8483452
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a conversion section converting a moving object image being an image in a region corresponding to a moving object included in a reference image and other images constituting images generated under different exposure conditions. The image processing apparatus also includes a substitution section substituting the generated exposure level converted moving object image with a region corresponding to an exposure level converted moving object image of each of the other images corresponding to an exposure level as a reference exposure level at the time of generating the exposure level converted moving object image to generate a substitute image for each of the other images. A combination section combines the substitute image and the reference image to generate a combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Jun Minakuti
  • Patent number: 8421882
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus, an imaging unit generates an acquired image of a subject. A luminance information acquirer acquires the subject's luminance information. A detector detects the subject's luminance range on the basis of the acquired luminance information. An imaging controller sets a range of exposure control values having a step that corresponds to a value obtained by multiplying the detected luminance range by a predetermined coefficient k (where 0<k<1), and then uses the imaging unit to take multiple shots (i.e., multiple imagings) set with respectively different exposure control values within the range of exposure control values. An image compositor generates a composite image by compositing image portions extracted from the plurality of images obtained via the multiple shots. When just one shot is taken, the single exposure control value set for the one shot is contained within the range of the exposure control values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Jun Minakuti
  • Patent number: 8418650
    Abstract: An inner electrode for barrier film formation is an inner electrode for barrier film formation that is inserted inside a plastic container having an opening, supplies a medium gas to the inside of the plastic container, and supplies high frequency power to an outer electrode arranged outside the plastic container, thereby generating discharge plasma on the inner surface of the plastic container to form a barrier film on the inner surface of the plastic container, and that is provided with a gas supply pipe having a gas flow path to supply a medium gas and an insulating member screwed into an end portion of the gas supply pipe to be flush therewith and having a gas outlet communicated with the gas flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Food & Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Goto, Hideo Yamakoshi, Atsushi Ueda, Kenichi Okamoto, Yuji Asahara, Minoru Danno
  • Publication number: 20130083237
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image analysis unit obtaining brightness information for respective hue regions from an image signal of a picked-up image and an exposure control unit carrying out exposure control based on the brightness information obtained in the image analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Satou, Atsushi Ueda, Jun Minakuti
  • Publication number: 20130071042
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an attention region determining unit and a blurring unit. The attention region determining unit is configured to determine an attention region of an image that includes an intended subject of the image. The blurring unit is configured to blur all of the image regions outside of the attention region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi UEDA, Jun MINAKUTI
  • Patent number: 8389161
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode 4 including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer including a positive electrode active material and a binder, the positive electrode mixture layer being provided on the positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode 5, a porous insulating layer 6 interposed between the positive electrode 4 and the negative electrode 5, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The tensile extension of the positive electrode 4 is equal to or higher than 3.0%. The charge end voltage in normal operation of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is equal to or higher than 4.3 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Yoshiyuki Muraoka
  • Patent number: 8377015
    Abstract: To provide a wound dressing having absorbability and improved so as not to be adhere to wounds, a wound dressing 10 is provided, which includes a perforated material 20 having a top face and a bottom face and having plural through-holes 21, and an absorbent material 30 disposed on the top face of the perforated material, and in which at least the bottom face of the perforated material 20 is coated with a silicone resin 40 except leaving at least a part of the through-holes so as not to block up all the through-holes, and at least a part 31 of the absorbent material facing the through-holes of the perforated material is coated with the silicone resin 40, and to allow fluid penetration from the bottom face side of the perforated material into the inside of the absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Alcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Toshimichi Matsuzaka
  • Patent number: 8367252
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent, a solute dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, and hydrogenated terphenyl, the solute includes a boron-containing alkali salt and a boron-free alkali salt, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material comprising a randomly oriented carbon composite (A), and the carbon composite (A) contains a graphitic carbon substance (B) and a carbon substance (C) that is different from the graphitic carbon substance (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Takaharu Morikawa, Atsushi Ueda, Takafumi Oura, Shinichi Kinoshita, Minoru Kotato, Hideharu Satou, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120294522
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus, including an extraction color region determination unit which performs a process of determining an extraction color region including at least a partial region in an image using color information of an input image signal, and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the extraction color region of the input image signal determined by the extraction color region determination unit and/or the remaining region of the input image signal excluding the extraction color region, to obtain an output image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Daisuke Satou, Jun Minakuti
  • Publication number: 20120257076
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit which obtains an image signal; an extraction position information obtaining unit which obtains information about an extraction position, where an image is extracted, from the image signal; a correction target value calculating unit which calculates a correction target value for correcting the image signal in accordance with the position information from an image center based on the extraction position information; an image correcting unit which corrects the image signal based on the correction target value; and an image extracting unit which extracts the image based on the extraction position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke SATOU, Atsushi UEDA, Jun MINAKUTI
  • Publication number: 20120247676
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a microwave introduction device which introduces a microwave into a process chamber. The microwave introduction device includes a plurality of microwave transmitting plates which is fitted into a plurality of openings of a ceiling. The microwave transmitting plates are arranged on one virtual plane parallel to a mounting surface of a mounting table, with the microwave transmitting plates fitted into the respective openings. The microwave transmitting plates includes first to third microwave transmitting plates. The first to third microwave transmitting plates are arranged in such a manner that a distance between the center point of the first microwave transmitting window and the center point of the second microwave transmitting window becomes equal or approximately equal to a distance between the center point of the first microwave transmitting window and the center point of the third microwave transmitting window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yutaka FUJINO, Atsushi UEDA, Shigenori OZAKI, Junichi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20120218439
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a color temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a color temperature of a light source in imaging, a white balance adjusting unit configured to perform first white balance adjustment in which white balance of an image signal is adjusted on the basis of the estimated color temperature when the estimated color temperature is within a predetermined color temperature range, and perform second white balance adjustment in which the white balance of the image signal is adjusted on the basis of the estimated color temperature even when the estimated color temperature is not within the predetermined color temperature range, and a color region extracting unit configured to extract a color region of a specific color by using the image signal to which the second white balance adjustment is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: ATSUSHI UEDA, JUN MINAKUTI, DAISUKE SATOU
  • Publication number: 20120206783
    Abstract: An optical scanning device has an incident optical system in which optical path lengths from laser diodes to a polygon mirror become longer in the order of the optical path length of the laser beam associated with black, that of the laser beam associated with cyan, that of the laser beam associated with magenta and that of the laser beam associated with yellow. The optical scanning device has an outgoing optical system in which optical path lengths from the polygon mirror to mirrors at which laser beam eclipse occurs become shorter in the order of the optical path length of the laser beam associated with black, that of the laser beam associated with cyan, that of the laser beam associated with magenta and that of the laser beam associated with yellow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Atsushi UEDA