Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Ito

Hiroaki Ito 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).

  • ROAD SURFACE GRADIENT DETECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160304098
    Abstract: A road surface gradient detection device is provided. The road surface gradient detection device includes an image area setting unit configured to divide a captured image to set a plurality of image areas, a weighting setting unit configured to set the weighting of the pixel range, a representative height calculation unit configured to calculate the representative parallax of each image area and the representative height of each image area based on the parallax of each pixel range, the coordinates of each pixel range, and a magnitude of the weighting of each pixel range, and a road surface gradient detection unit configured to detect the road surface gradient from the captured image based on the representative parallax of each image area and the representative height of each image area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITO, Fumio SUGAYA
  • BALL SEAT AND BALL JOINT
    Publication number: 20160265584
    Abstract: A ball joint includes a ball seat for slidably holding a ball part of a ball stud. In the ball seat, a stud-side holder is housed in a housing of a socket while the stud-side holder is tilted and deformed to the ball part side by a tapered part. A first groove is formed in the stud-side holder of a holder of the ball seat. The first groove has an only shape with the curvature of the inner surface of the cross-section being a finite value, in other words, has a shape in which a shape with the curvature of the inner surface being an infinite value is not included. The first groove has a shape in which the first derivation value of the distance between the central axis of the tubular holder and the inner surface of the first groove consecutively changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hisashi Ichikawa, Hiroaki Ito
  • CO2 RECOVERY UNIT
    Publication number: 20160256816
    Abstract: An absorbent regenerator includes: a rich solution supply line; a lean solution supply line; a lean-rich solution heat exchanger that is provided at an intersection of the lean solution supply line and the rich solution supply line; a branch portion that branches some of the rich solution at a downstream side of the lean-rich solution heat exchanger on the rich solution supply line; and a first mixing portion that mixes the some of the rich solution branched at the branch portion with a semi-lean solution, wherein a front end of a branch line through which the some of the branched rich solution is supplied is connected to a solution storage portion of the semi-lean solution which is located at an upper stage side of the absorbent regenerator divided into parts, and the some of the branched rich solution is mixed with the semi-lean solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Hiroaki Ito
  • TRAVELING ROAD SURFACE DETECTION DEVICE AND TRAVELING ROAD SURFACE DETECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160232413
    Abstract: A traveling road surface detection device includes: a traveling road surface determination unit that determines whether each of image areas into which a captured image is divided is on a traveling road surface based on disparity information; and a traveling road surface interpolation unit that interpolates a first image area into a detected traveling road surface based on brightness information, the first image area among image areas determined as not the traveling road surface, wherein each of the image areas is configured by a plurality of pixel ranges, and the first image area is an image area that a number of first pixel ranges adjacent to a pixel range with brightness difference that is less than or equal to a first threshold, is equal to or larger than a second threshold, or that a ratio of the first pixel ranges is equal to or larger than a third threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki ITO
  • Optical fiber ribbon
    Patent number: 9411115
    Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon according to the present invention includes a collective coating layer containing an ultraviolet curable resin containing amorphous PPG and an amorphous monomer, the collective coating layer formed around coated optical fibers. The collective coating layer has an equilibrium elastic modulus of 12 MPa to 20 MPa, both inclusive, and a yield point elongation of 5% to 9%, both inclusive, and the adhesion between the collective coating layer and the outermost layers of the coated optical fibers is 12 N/cm to 15 N/cm, both inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Minoru Saito, Hirotaka Watanabe, Hiroaki Ito, Yukio Ishii, Yoshihiro Arashitani
  • Electronic Apparatus and Display Method By Electronic Apparatus
    Publication number: 20160212477
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a genre classification unit is provided to classify a plurality of programs based on genres with reference to program information. Further, a day classification unit is provided to classify the classified programs based on broadcast days. A display form controller sorts program information description cells of the programs classified based on days into display areas based on days on a display device. When a program information description cell of a display area of a specified day is scrolled, the display form controller controls data so as to display program information description cells of display areas of days other than the specified day in a still state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Tetsuya Kitamura, Masami Tanaka
  • METHOD OF MEASURING CANCER RELATED SUBSTANCES BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
    Publication number: 20160187344
    Abstract: A method for measuring cancer related substances including cancer cell-derived free DNA by Raman spectroscopy, involving steps for preparing a biochip having a meso-crystal region of silver oxides containing a silver peroxide, adding a blood serum or a biological sample solution dropwise onto the meso-crystal region of said biochip, selectively trapping the cancer-related substances having a positive charge in the sample, irradiating the trapped cancer-related substance with an exciting laser light and detecting a surface enhanced Raman scattering therefrom, wherein cancer diseases are evaluated on the basis of the intensity of the Surface Enhance Raman Scattering (SERS). In the carbon-specific D band and G band in the Raman scattering spectrum, a characteristic peak spectrum of the cancer-related substance can be detected in the proximity of the methyl group characteristic of 2900 cm?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Yuki Hasegawa, Katsuyuki Hasegawa
  • WIRING BOARD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE INCLUDING WIRING BOARD
    Publication number: 20160190032
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a wiring board includes an insulating board including a heat transfer region made of silicon nitride and having a thickness in a range between 0.2 mm and 1 mm; and a wiring layer including a pad stacked on the heat transfer region and made of a metal material having a thickness of 1.5 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuya Kodani, Yuta Ichikura, Nobumitsu Tada, Hiroaki Ito, Toshiharu Ohbu, Taihei Koyama, Kazuaki Yuuki, Yosuke Nakazawa, Atsushi Yamamoto, Makoto Otani, Kazuhiro Ueda, Tomohiro Iguchi
  • CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION SUPPORT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160184180
    Abstract: A cardiopulmonary resuscitation support device including: a pressure sensing part configured to overlap a chest and including a flexible dielectric layer formed of an elastomer, and a flexible first and second electrodes formed of a conductive elastomer overlapped on two surfaces of the dielectric layer; a detection part provided at a facing part of the two electrodes to detect changes in electrostatic capacity; a power supply device to apply measurement voltage and a detection member to obtain the electrostatic capacity detected by the detection part connected to the electrodes; a processing member to calculate at least one piece of evaluation information among a number of compressions, a number of compressions per unit time, a pressing depth during compression, a pressing depth during release, and a ratio of a compression time, based on a detection value from the detection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ichinosuke MAEDA, Hiroaki ITO, Yota KOKUBO, Shingo HIBINO, Hiroshi YAMADA, Kouichiro MINAMI
  • Display device including seal material with improved adhesion strength for bonding two substrates together
    Patent number: 9304346
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate which are located so that inner main surfaces thereof face each other; a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate; a seal material located between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to surround the liquid crystal layer, the seal material bonding the first substrate and the second substrate to each other; an organic insulation film located in a seal formation area on the inner main surface of the second substrate, the organic insulation film having an opening section in the seal formation area; and an inorganic insulation film located to continue from an inside of the opening section to a surface of the organic insulation film through an inner wall surface of the opening section, the inorganic insulation film being directly covered with the seal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Teruhiko Ichimura, Hideaki Sakai, Shigeki Kitamura, Hiroaki Ito
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160057881
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a base plate, a semiconductor chip, and a first to a fourth terminal plates. The first terminal plate includes a first main body unit. The second terminal plate includes a second main body unit. The second main body unit opposes the first main body unit. The third terminal plate includes a third main body unit. The third main body unit opposes the first main body unit and the second main body unit. The fourth terminal plate includes a fourth main body unit. The fourth main body unit opposes the third main body unit. A thickness of the third main body unit is thinner than a thickness of the first main body unit. A thickness of the fourth main body unit is thinner than a thickness of the second main body unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Nobumitsu Tada, Kazuya Kodani, Hiroaki Ito, Toshiharu Ohbu, Hitoshi Matsumura
  • Ferroelectric capacitor
    Patent number: 9171850
    Abstract: A ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric film, a lower electrode in contact with one surface of the ferroelectric film, and an upper electrode in contact with the other surface of the ferroelectric film. At least one of the upper electrode and the lower electrode has a stacked electrode structure in which one or more oxide conductive layers and one or more metal layers are stacked alternately, and the stacked electrode structure includes at least one of two or more oxide conductive layers and two or more metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Fujimori, Hiroaki Ito, Tomohiro Date
  • OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON
    Publication number: 20150234140
    Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon according to the present invention includes a collective coating layer containing an ultraviolet curable resin containing amorphous PPG and an amorphous monomer, the collective coating layer formed around coated optical fibers. The collective coating layer has an equilibrium elastic modulus of 12 MPa to 20 MPa, both inclusive, and a yield point elongation of 5% to 9%, both inclusive, and the adhesion between the collective coating layer and the outermost layers of the coated optical fibers is 12 N/cm to 15 N/cm, both inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki TANAKA, Minoru SAITO, Hirotaka WATANABE, Hiroaki ITO, Yukio ISHII, Yoshihiro ARASHITANI
  • RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150071608
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a subtitle data acquisition module configured to acquire subtitle data from a title being reproduced, a seek instruction receiving module configured to receive an instruction to carry out a seek to an image start point which is a temporal position corresponding to the subtitle data acquired by the subtitle data acquisition module, a title type identifying module configured to identify the type of a title being reproduced at the point in time at which the seek instruction receiving module has received the seek instruction, and a display control module configured to control that the seek is carried out to the image start point corresponding to the subtitle data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Michio Yamashita, Tomoki Nakagawa
  • Electronic Apparatus, Control Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium
    Publication number: 20150071604
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and a display controller. The processor is configured to acquire a first attribute and a first keyword of content, and to extract a scene including the first keyword in a caption from stored contents having the first attribute. The display controller is configured to cause a scene image representing an extracted scene to be displayed on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Michio Yamashita, Hiroaki Ito, Tomoki Nakagawa, Masami Tanaka
  • ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150074113
    Abstract: A first database file stores scene list data includes caption data of captions and time data indicative of time to display the captions. A second database file stores keywords. The keywords indicate character strings of the caption data of a program currently being viewed. When an order to display the keywords is input, a keyword list generator reads a plurality of keywords from the second database file and generates a keyword list for display. When an optional keyword is selected, the scene list generator generates scene selection items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Michio Yamashita, Tomoki Nakagawa
  • Electronic Apparatus, Control Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium
    Publication number: 20150063782
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and a display controller. The processor is configured to acquire keywords from program information of a program being displayed on a screen. The display controller is configured to display the keywords arranged to be selectable on the screen and to display, if a first keyword is selected from the keywords, a first scene information regarding a first scene, a caption of the first scene including the first keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Michio Yamashita, Hiroaki Ito, Tomoki Nakagawa
  • FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR
    Publication number: 20140284766
    Abstract: A ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric film, a lower electrode in contact with one surface of the ferroelectric film, and an upper electrode in contact with the other surface of the ferroelectric film. At least one of the upper electrode and the lower electrode has a stacked electrode structure in which one or more oxide conductive layers and one or more metal layers are stacked alternately, and the stacked electrode structure includes at least one of two or more oxide conductive layers and two or more metal layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Fujimori, Hiroaki Ito, Tomohiro Date
  • Video decoding method
    Patent number: 8798153
    Abstract: A method of decoding videos comprises the steps of performing, in respect of a decoding objective area of decoding objective frame, a motion search by using images of plural frames finished with decoding and deciding, on the basis of the result of the motion search, whether an image of the decoding objective area is to be generated through an interpolation process or a decoded image is to be generated through motion compensation using data included in an encoding stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei Saito, Masashi Takahashi, Muneaki Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Ito, Koichi Hamada
  • Extendible structure
    Patent number: 8776451
    Abstract: An extendible structure which includes an elongated extendible member having elasticity, and a storage part that serves to store the extendible member by winding it up, wherein a tip end of the extendible member can be extended from the storage part in a one-dimensional manner, so that an extendible part thus extended becomes a hollow tubular structure. The extendible member is composed of three divided extendible members so that the extendible part of the hollow tubular structure is divided into three parts, and the individual divided extendible members are constructed such that their tip end portions are joined with one another, and at the same time, their base end portions are wound around individual storage parts, respectively, independently from each other. Surface fasteners are each provided on a side of each of the divided extendible members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sakase Adtech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Watanabe, Hiroaki Ito, Toshiyuki Hori, Nobuyoshi Kawabata