Patents by Inventor Hideaki Yamamoto

Hideaki Yamamoto 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: 20200288059
    Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Yoichi ITO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA, Shusaku TAKASU
  • Patent number: 10738195
    Abstract: Provided is a translucent resin member including: an acrylic hard coat layer, a SiOX layer (1.2<X<2), and a Si(1-Y)CYOX layer (0<Y<1, 1.2<X<2) sequentially provided on a polycarbonate (PC) substrate. The acrylic hard coat layer may be UV-cured in the absence of oxygen. The SiOX layer may be formed by deposition. The Si(1-Y)CYOX layer may be formed by plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Yamamoto, Aya Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10725838
    Abstract: In some examples, application startup control may include determining a relationship between a first page and a second page of an application, and generating a first code file for the first page based upon the determined relationship. Application startup control may further include generating a second code file for the second page. The first code file may include code to load the second code file in response to the first code file being loaded and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mariyan Fransazov, Hemanth Kumar, Radu Bogdan Gruian, Michael Hideaki Yamamoto, Muralidhar Sathsahayaraman
  • Patent number: 10681268
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging unit, a detecting unit, a recording unit, a correcting unit, and a video generating unit. The imaging unit captures images of a plurality frames. The detecting unit detects a tilt of the imaging unit with respect to a reference direction. The recording unit records time-series data of the tilt detected by the detecting unit. The correcting unit applies tilt correction to an image of each of the frames captured by the imaging unit, based on the time-series data of the tilt recorded by the recording unit and additional information unique to the imaging unit. The video generating unit generates video data based on the image of each of the frames corrected by the correcting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10666860
    Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takenaka, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara, Shusaku Takasu
  • Patent number: 10649185
    Abstract: An optical system includes a central portion having a magnification per unit angle of view which increases from a center to an outside at an increase rate and a circumferential portion being outside the central portion and having a magnification per unit of view which increases from the central portion to an outside at an increase rate smaller than the increase rate of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 10585755
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes a plurality of cores and restarting means. The plurality of cores includes at least a first core and a second core. The first core includes active monitoring means for actively monitoring an abnormality of the second core. The second core includes passive monitoring means for passively monitoring an abnormality of the first core. The restarting means restarts the CPU in response to detection of the abnormality of the first core or the second core by one of the active monitoring means and the passive monitoring means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200036887
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of correcting an in-focus position even if a state of an optical system changes. A focus detecting unit receives an incident light beam from an object. The focus detecting unit includes a focus detecting sensor that converts a light amount distribution of an object image into an electrical signal, an image forming lens that makes the incident light beam form object images on the sensor, a field mask arranged at the object side of the lens and having an opening for defining an image field of the object images, a storage unit that stores an initial value about the opening that is comparable with the output signal, and a correction unit that sets a correction value for detecting a focusing state to an object based on a value about the opening calculated from the output signal and the initial value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hirohito Kai, Takuya Izumi, Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10525563
    Abstract: An abnormality-detecting device for detecting abnormalities of a tool of a machine tool comprises: an acquiring unit for acquiring multiple measured values relating to the tool as measurement data (vibration information, cutting force information, sound information, main shaft load, motor current, power value); a normal model unit for learning the measurement data acquired during normal machining by one class machine learning and creating a normal model; an abnormality-diagnosing unit for acquiring measurement data during machining after creation of the normal model while diagnosing whether said measurement data is normal or abnormal on the basis of the normal model; and a re-diagnosing unit for re-diagnosing measurement data, which has been diagnosed to be abnormal by the abnormality-diagnosing unit, by a method different from the abnormality-diagnosing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190306423
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
  • Patent number: 10382681
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
  • Publication number: 20190243110
    Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke MASUDA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA
  • Publication number: 20190219605
    Abstract: There is provided a receptacle carrier unit and automated analyzer capable of suppressing generation of temperature nonuniformities among liquid aliquots received in plural receptacles without increasing the parts count. The receptacle carrier unit has a turntable, a turntable drive, a cool box, a cooling portion, and a control section. The control section controls the turntable drive, based on the number and installation locations of the receptacles installed in the cool box and on temperature distribution information, to homogenize the effects that the individual receptacles receive from the cool box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190210176
    Abstract: An abnormality-detecting device for detecting abnormalities of a tool of a machine tool comprises: an acquiring unit for acquiring multiple measured values relating to the tool as measurement data (vibration information, cutting force information, sound information, main shaft load, motor current, power value); a normal model unit for learning the measurement data acquired during normal machining by one class machine learning and creating a normal model; an abnormality-diagnosing unit for acquiring measurement data during machining after creation of the normal model while diagnosing whether said measurement data is normal or abnormal on the basis of the normal model; and a re-diagnosing unit for re-diagnosing measurement data, which has been diagnosed to be abnormal by the abnormality-diagnosing unit, by a method different from the abnormality-diagnosing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10295797
    Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
  • Publication number: 20190095138
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a RAM; a non-volatile memory storing setting information in which a compression method is set for each of a plurality of RAM disks, the setting information including a plurality of compression methods; and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to create each of the plurality of RAM disks with the compression method mounted, in the RAM, according to the setting information; request writing and reading of data from an application; write the data into a corresponding RAM disk of the plurality of RAM disks corresponding to the application, in response to a writing request of the data from the application; and compress the data in the compression method mounted on the corresponding RAM disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Sakurada, Hideaki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Tomoe Kitaguchi, Ryuta Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190086649
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SATOH, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Makoto SHOHARA, Yoichi ITO, Shusaku TAKASU
  • Patent number: 10151905
    Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
  • Publication number: 20180343380
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus to which a lens unit is attachable includes at least one processor and a memory holding a program which makes the processor function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about the attached lens unit; a setting unit capable of setting an adjustment value for setting, from a plurality of values, an adjustment amount for adjusting a focal point shift amount of the lens unit; and a control unit configured to acquire the adjustment amount based on the adjustment value set by the setting unit and information about the lens unit acquired by the acquisition unit, and adjust the focal point shift amount of the lens unit by using the adjustment amount. The setting unit changes a first range according to the information about the lens unit acquired by the acquisition unit, the first range being a range of settable adjustment values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Hideaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10105807
    Abstract: Provided is an abnormality diagnosis device for a machine tool, and an abnormality diagnosis method, whereby it is possible to diagnose the degree of damage to a spindle system due to a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamamoto, Koji Iwata