Patents by Inventor Hideo Okamoto
Hideo Okamoto 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: 11942494Abstract: An imaging device that includes a wiring substrate, an image sensor package mounted on the wiring substrate, a package frame attached to a light receiving surface side of the image sensor package, and a lens holder arranged to cover the package frame and holding a lens unit so that the lens unit faces the light receiving surface of the image sensor package. The package frame includes a material having a larger coefficient of linear expansion than a material of the lens holder, and includes a wall portion that extends in a direction perpendicular to the wiring substrate toward the wiring substrate. A gap is provided between the wall portion of the package frame and the image sensor package, and between an end of the wall portion of the package frame and the wiring substrate. The lens holder includes a wall portion facing the wall portion of the package frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Okamoto, Makoto Murai
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Publication number: 20240034050Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a printing-applied edible object by performing printing on an edible object. The method includes a conveying step of conveying an edible object, and a marking step of forming a marking pattern on the edible object that is conveyed. The marking step includes a laser printing step of performing laser printing on an edible object E to form a first print pattern P1, and an inkjet printing step of performing inkjet printing on the edible object E after the laser printing step to form a second print pattern P2, and the first print pattern P1 and the second print pattern P2 form a marking pattern P. The second print pattern P2 is formed of a material whose visually recognizable state is changed due to a change in an external environment, and information represented by the marking pattern P is changed due to a change in the visually recognizable state of the second print pattern P2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Megumu MORIKAWA, Tomokazu MATSUYAMA, Shingo TAKAYANAGI, Hideo OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11398041Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that allow to more accurately identify image processing target areas in an image. An image processing apparatus of the present technology includes a determination unit that determines, on the basis of reliability information indicating reliability of depth information, whether to make a determination on the basis of the depth information, the determination being as to whether an area is a target area for predetermined image processing, and the depth information indicating a depth of an image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus that captures a subject, a server that processes a captured image, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Rio Yamasaki, Hiromasa Doi, Takaaki Nakagawa, Hideo Okamoto, Kazuhiro Kondo
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Publication number: 20210297839Abstract: An information processing device (10) according to an embodiment includes: a detection unit (206) that detects an event. The information processing device further includes a determination unit (207) that determines the level of the event detected by the detection unit. The information processing device further includes a transmission unit (208) that transmits information according to the level determined by the determination unit to a first communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: EIJI OBA, HIDEO OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210028210Abstract: An imaging device includes: a wiring substrate; an image sensor package mounted on the wiring substrate; a package frame attached to a light receiving surface side of the image sensor package; and a lens holder arranged to cover the package frame and holding a lens unit so that the lens unit faces the light receiving surface of the image sensor package. The package frame includes a material having a larger coefficient of linear expansion than a material of the lens holder, and includes a wall portion that extends in a direction perpendicular to the wiring substrate toward the wiring substrate. A gap is provided between the wall portion of the package frame and the image sensor package, and between an end of the wall portion of the package frame and the wiring substrate. The lens holder includes a wall portion facing the wall portion of the package frame. An end of the wall portion of the lens holder is fixed to the end of the wall portion of the package frame while being separated from the wiring substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: HIDEO OKAMOTO, MAKOTO MURAI
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Patent number: 10701281Abstract: Image processing device and method for processing images captured at different times. The method may comprise determining a location of a first area in a first image, determining in a second image captured at a different time than the first image, a location of a second area, wherein the first area and the second area include a same object, and determining a new background area in the second image based on the location of the first area and the location of the second area, wherein the new background area includes a portion of the second image included in the first area but not included in the second area.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki Nakagawa, Hiromasa Doi, Rio Yamasaki, Hideo Okamoto, Kazuhiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10612776Abstract: In a combustion apparatus including: a burner made up of a burner body and a sheet-metal combustion plate; and a combustion box which has a connection flange part to be coupled to a body flange part in a circumference of the burner body, the combustion box has disposed therein water passages as a cooling means, and a thermal insulation material which overlaps that portion of the combustion plate flange part which faces an inner space of the combustion box. A fixing plate for the thermal insulation material is attached to the combustion plate flange part. The fixing plate is provided with pressing claws for pressing in position the thermal insulation material so as to press and prevent the thermal insulation material from getting released away from the fixing plate. And water passages are disposed in a manner to contact the pressing claws.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takashi Ojiro, Hideo Okamoto
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Patent number: 10600169Abstract: Provided is an image processing system including at least one information processing apparatus and a distribution server. The information processing apparatus includes a clipping unit that performs image processing of clipping a predetermined object from a moving image in which the object is imaged and generates a clipped moving image of the object, and an operation content acquisition unit that obtains operation content of operation performed on the clipped moving image of the object. The distribution server includes an image processing unit that performs, individually for each of the objects, image processing that corresponds to operation content on a clipped moving image of a plurality of objects, and a combining unit that generates a combined moving image in which the plurality of objects is arranged by combining the clipped moving images of the plurality of objects that has undergone image processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Rio Yamasaki, Takaaki Nakagawa, Hideo Okamoto
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Patent number: 10264194Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable easy generation of a motion picture in which performers imaged at different locations have been composited in a balanced manner. Processing of performing an image analysis on a second motion picture to set, as an analysis result, a position of a second subject appearing in the second motion picture, and on the basis of the analysis result, adjusting, as a compositing condition, a composited position at which a first motion picture is composited into the second motion picture avoiding a first subject from overlapping the second subject is performed. Moreover, processing of setting, as an analysis result, a face size of a first person appearing in the first motion picture as the first subject and a face size of a second person appearing in the second motion picture as the second subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki Nakagawa, Rio Yamasaki, Hideo Okamoto
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Patent number: 10254053Abstract: A heat transfer fin (31) made of stainless steel-based metal for a heat exchanger, has a plurality of upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611), a plurality of lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes formed (612), upper end cut portions (651) formed between the adjacent upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611), and lower end cut portions (652) formed between the adjacent lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612), wherein the upper end cut portions (651) are formed so as to extend from a fin upper end portion (311) beyond lower ends of the upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611) to positions in the vicinity of upper ends of the lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612), and the lower end cut portions (652) are formed so as to extend from a fin lower end portion (312) to positions above the lower ends of the lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Rinnai CorporationInventors: Hideo Okamoto, Akifumi Nishino
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Patent number: 10184658Abstract: A combustion apparatus has a plurality of longitudinally elongated gas burners, each having a burner port on an upper end thereof. A damper is disposed to cover gas inlet ports on an upstream end of an air-fuel mixing tube portion of each of the gas burners. The damper has formed therein ventilation holes for limiting primary air. The ventilation holes overlap, and are smaller than, the gas inlet ports. The damper has #1 ventilation holes having obstacles against which the fuel gas to be ejected from the gas nozzles strike, and #2 ventilation holes without obstacles. Poor combustion such as flame lifting is restricted and combustion noises are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Sugioka, Takahiro Ono, Hideo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20190012796Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that allow to more accurately identify image processing target areas in an image. An image processing apparatus of the present technology includes a determination unit that determines, on the basis of reliability information indicating reliability of depth information, whether to make a determination on the basis of the depth information, the determination being as to whether an area is a target area for predetermined image processing, and the depth information indicating a depth of an image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus that captures a subject, a server that processes a captured image, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: RIO YAMASAKI, HIROMASA DOI, TAKAAKI NAKAGAWA, HIDEO OKAMOTO, KAZUHIRO KONDO
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Publication number: 20180372311Abstract: In a combustion apparatus including: a burner made up of a burner body and a sheet-metal combustion plate; and a combustion box which has a connection flange part to be coupled to a body flange part in a circumference of the burner body, the combustion box has disposed therein water passages as a cooling means, and a thermal insulation material which overlaps that portion of the combustion plate flange part which faces an inner space of the combustion box. A fixing plate for the thermal insulation material is attached to the combustion plate flange part. The fixing plate is provided with pressing claws for pressing in position the thermal insulation material so as to press and prevent the thermal insulation material from getting released away from the fixing plate. And water passages are disposed in a manner to contact the pressing claws.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: RINNAI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ono, Takashi Ojiro, Hideo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20180249090Abstract: Image processing device and method for processing images captured at different times. The method may comprise determining a location of a first area in a first image, determining in a second image captured at a different time than the first image, a location of a second area, wherein the first area and the second area include a same object, and determining a new background area in the second image based on the location of the first area and the location of the second area, wherein the new background area includes a portion of the second image included in the first area but not included in the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: TAKAAKI NAKAGAWA, HIROMASA DOI, RIO YAMASAKI, HIDEO OKAMOTO, KAZUHIRO KONDO
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Publication number: 20180217671Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a remote control apparatus, a remote control method, a remote control system, and a program that are capable of achieving remote control by an intuitive motion using only a hand and an eye. A plurality of imaging units capture images of a space in which an eye and a hand of a user and an operation target device are present. Positions of the eye and the hand of the user and the operation target device are specified on the basis of the captured images. A line of sight of the user is specified on the basis of a positional relationship between the eye of the user and the operation target device. A motion of the user that is made while the hand is located on a straight line being the line of sight is assumed as an operation instruction given to the operation target device. The operation instruction is transmitted to the operation target device to cause the operation target device to operate. The present disclosure can be applied to a remote control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Okamoto, Takaaki Nakagawa, Hiromasa Doi, Kazuhiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10024536Abstract: A combined combustion device comprises: a plurality of combustion units (2) each having a burner (4) and an air supply fan (5); an exhaust collecting pipe (10) connecting the plurality of the combustion units (2) to each other; and a check valve (7) which opens by rotation of the air supply fan (5) and prevents backflow of combustion exhaust gas from the exhaust collecting pipe (10) into each of the combustion units (2), wherein when one or more of the combustion units (2) among the plurality of the combustion units (2) are in a combustion operation state and the other one or more of the combustion units (2) are continuously maintained in a non-combustion operation state for a predetermined reference stoppage time or longer, the air supply fans (5) of the other one or more of the combustion units (2) are rotated for a certain time.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Rinnai CorporationInventor: Hideo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20180164895Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a remote control apparatus, a remote control method, a remote control system, and a program that are capable of achieving remote control by an intuitive motion using only a hand and an eye. A plurality of imaging units capture images of a space in which an eye and a hand of a user and an operation target device are present. Positions of the eye and the hand of the user and the operation target device are specified on the basis of the captured images. A line of sight of the user is specified on the basis of a positional relationship between the eye of the user and the operation target device. A motion of the user that is made while the hand is located on a straight line being the line of sight is assumed as an operation instruction given to the operation target device. The operation instruction is transmitted to the operation target device to cause the operation target device to operate. The present disclosure can be applied to a remote control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Okamoto, Takaaki Nakagawa, Hiromasa Doi, Kazuhio Kondo
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Publication number: 20180075590Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of achieving better communication. An information processing apparatus includes a clipping unit configured to perform image processing of clipping a predetermined object from a moving image in which the object is imaged and generate a clipped moving image of the object, and an operation content acquisition unit configured to obtain operation content of operation performed on the clipped moving image of the object. A distribution server includes an image processing unit configured to perform, individually for each of the objects, image processing that corresponds to operation content on a clipped moving image of a plurality of objects, and a combining unit configured to generate a combined moving image in which the plurality of objects is arranged by combining the clipped moving images of the plurality of objects that has undergone image processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: RIO YAMASAKI, TAKAAKI NAKAGAWA, HIDEO OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180070025Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable easy generation of a motion picture in which performers imaged at different locations have been composited in a balanced manner. Processing of performing an image analysis on a second motion picture to set, as an analysis result, a position of a second subject appearing in the second motion picture, and on the basis of the analysis result, adjusting, as a compositing condition, a composited position at which a first motion picture is composited into the second motion picture avoiding a first subject from overlapping the second subject is performed. Moreover, processing of setting, as an analysis result, a face size of a first person appearing in the first motion picture as the first subject and a face size of a second person appearing in the second motion picture as the second subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki NAKAGAWA, Rio YAMASAKI, Hideo OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9905880Abstract: A fuel cell stack is comprised of a plurality of power generating units which are stacked along the horizontal direction. An oxidant gas inlet port and a fuel gas inlet port are provided in an upper portion of one of the power generating units, and an oxidant gas outlet port and a fuel gas outlet port are provided in the lower portion of the power generating unit. A refrigerant inlet port and a refrigerant outlet port are formed in each of the left and right portions of the power generating unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Mohri, Yasunori Kotani, Masaru Oda, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Akihiro Matsui, Keiko Yamazaki, Chikara Iwasawa, Hideo Okamoto, Masahiro Ise, Hiroaki Ohta