Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Ono

Hiroaki Ono 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: 11210720
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a proposal condition for proposing a product pertaining to a usage of an object and product information indicating the product. The proposal condition is stored in association to the product information. The server apparatus further includes a determination unit that determines whether one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition based on a first collection information including information pertaining to the one or more target management objects, and an output unit that outputs information indicating the one or more target management objects and the product information stored in association to the proposal condition when the one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Masaaki Horikoshi, Shukoh Chin
  • Patent number: 11198944
    Abstract: A black plated resin part includes a resin substrate, an underlying plating layer formed on the resin substrate, and a black chromium plating layer formed of trivalent chromium and having a thickness of 0.15 ?m or more. The black chromium plating layer is formed on the underlying plating layer. The chromium in the black chromium plating layer is present in the form of metallic chromium, chromium oxide, and chromium hydroxide, and the black chromium plating layer exhibits a b* value of 3.0 or less based on the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Hotta, Koji Nakatani, Hiroaki Ono, Shiho Fujii, Noritake Isomura
  • Publication number: 20210347150
    Abstract: A method for producing a black plated resin part includes the steps of electroplating a resin substrate provided with an underlying plating layer in a trivalent chromium plating bath containing thiocyanic acid, to thereby form, on the underlying plating layer, a black chromium plating layer composed of trivalent chromium and having a thickness of 0.15 ?m or more; and immersing the resin substrate provided with the black chromium plating layer in warm water at 30° C. or higher for a predetermined time. In the method, the amount of thiocyanic acid contained in the trivalent chromium plating bath, the temperature of the warm water, and the time of immersion of the resin substrate in the warm water are adjusted so that the black chromium plating layer exhibits a b* value of ?1.7 or less based on the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji HOTTA, Koji NAKATANI, Hiroaki ONO, Shiho FUJII, Noritake ISOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210334517
    Abstract: [Object] To provide the identification device that performs identification accurately without being affected by variations in ambient light and an electronic device. [Solution] Provided is an identification device including: a direct reflected light information calculation unit configured to calculate, on the basis of sensing data by a TOF sensor that applies light to an object to detect the light, direct reflected light information about direct reflected light from the object; an object detection unit configured to detect the object on the basis of the direct reflected light information; and an object identification unit configured to identify the object on the basis of the direct reflected light information about the object detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20210304256
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: KYOKO ISHIDA, NAOKI KUZUYA, TAKESHI MASUURA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO, MITSUHARU OHKI, HIROAKI ONO, HIDESHI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210273374
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal metal fitting; a housing storing therein the terminal metal fitting and including an engaging portion inserted into a hole-shaped counterpart engaging portion from a front end and engaged with the counterpart engaging portion; and a tubular watertight member that is mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion to fill a tubular gap between the engaging portion and the counterpart engaging portion in an inserting and engaging state and that includes a ring-shaped outer circumferential lip on an outer circumferential side, the outer circumferential lip being elastically deformed to come into close contact with an inner circumferential surface of the counterpart engaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Hiroaki Ono, Toru Suzuki, Tatsuya Hosono, Kazuya Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210256329
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs acquiring measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium a plurality of times; inputting information corresponding to a type of the recording medium; acquiring an extraction range of the type indicated by the information, among extraction ranges set to respective types of recording media for determination of a type; setting, based on the measurement results and the type, a parameter for correcting the measurement results to reduce difference between the measurement results and the extraction range; correcting, by using the parameter, measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium to be recorded; and extracting a candidate type of the recording media, the measurement results, based on the corrected measurement results and the extraction range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ayuko Ishii, Hiroaki Ono, Ryosuke Uemura, Ryutaro Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20210218589
    Abstract: When a first user makes a video call with a second user of the other side by using the video call function, a first state is set as a state in which the enclosure is flatly placed on a first surface of an object, and in which a face of the first user is included within a range of an angle of view AV1 of the front camera C1. In the first state, the mobile information terminal 1 detects a first region including the face of the first user from a wide angle image that is captured by the front camera C1, trims a first image corresponding to the first region, creates a transmission image to be transmitted to a terminal of the other side on the basis of the first image, and transmits the transmission image to the terminal of the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Hiroaki ONO, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA
  • Patent number: 10964045
    Abstract: It is desired to provide technology that enables automatic measurement of the size of a subject with a reduced number of frames of images required, relaxed restrictions on the coverage and light projection, and no limitation on the shape of the subject. Provided is an information processing device including: a depth information acquiring unit configured to acquire depth information; a data conversion unit configured to convert the depth information into three-dimensional data; a subject extraction unit configured to extract a subject area where a subject is present on the basis of the three-dimensional data; and a size measurement unit configured to measure a size of the subject on the basis of the subject area, in which the size measurement unit detects six planes circumscribing the subject area and measures the size of the subject on the basis of the six planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Tomonori Masuno, Shun Li
  • Publication number: 20210091385
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet-type cell with excellent reliability. The sheet-type cell of the present invention includes power generation elements, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution, and a sheet-type outer case made of a resin film in which the power generation elements are contained. The electrolyte solution is an aqueous electrolyte solution. The resin film has an electrically insulating moisture barrier layer. The sheet-type cell is a primary cell. The moisture barrier layer of the resin film is preferably composed of at least an inorganic oxide. The pH of the electrolyte solution is preferably 3 or more and less than 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Maxell Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro FURUTANI, Yasuhiro NAKA, Hiroaki ONO, Mitsutoshi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10953763
    Abstract: A battery module, a power storage device, a power storage system, an electronic appliance, an electric vehicle, and a power system that can detect the voltage of a plurality of battery cells more accurately are provided. The power storage device includes a connection terminal portion which is coupled with terminal planes of a plurality of battery cells constituting battery columns. The connection terminal portion includes a coupling portion including a first coupling portion configured to couple at least with a first battery column and a second coupling portion configured to couple at least with a second battery column adjacent to the first battery column, and an extension portion extended from an end of the coupling portion in a longitudinal direction. The extension portion is provided at a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotake Yoshida, Tsutomu Aoyama, Tatsuya Adachi, Hiroaki Ono, Munenori Inden
  • Patent number: 10950910
    Abstract: Provided are an air cell that has a reduced environmental impact and has favorable discharge characteristics as well as a patch equipped with the air cell. An air cell of the present invention includes, an outer case, which contains a positive electrode having a catalyst layer containing a catalyst and a binder, a negative electrode containing a metal material, a separator, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is an aqueous solution with a pH of 3 or more and less than 12. The separator has an air permeability of 10 sec/100 ml or more, or the positive electrode has a porous sheet made of carbon as a current collector. A patch of the present invention includes the air cell of the present invention as a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Maxell Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Furutani, Kunihiko Koyama, Mitsutoshi Watanabe, Hiroaki Ono
  • Patent number: 10705027
    Abstract: A detecting method of optically detecting a surface defect of a moving steel material includes an irradiation step of irradiating an examination target part with illumination light beams from different directions by two or more distinguishable light sources whose light emission durations are set based on at least an allowable positional displacement of an image, the two or more distinguishable light sources repeatedly emitting light such that their light emission timings thereof do not overlap each other; and a detection step of obtaining images by reflected light beams of the respective illumination light beams and detecting a surface defect in the examination target part by executing subtraction processing between the obtained images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Toshifumi Kodama, Takahiro Koshihara, Akihiro Ogawa, Yukinori Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20200167944
    Abstract: It is desired to provide technology that enables automatic measurement of the size of a subject with a reduced number of frames of images required, relaxed restrictions on the coverage and light projection, and no limitation on the shape of the subject. Provided is an information processing device including: a depth information acquiring unit configured to acquire depth information; a data conversion unit configured to convert the depth information into three-dimensional data; a subject extraction unit configured to extract a subject area where a subject is present on the basis of the three-dimensional data; and a size measurement unit configured to measure a size of the subject on the basis of the subject area, in which the size measurement unit detects six planes circumscribing the subject area and measures the size of the subject on the basis of the six planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: HIROAKI ONO, TOMONORI MASUNO, SHUN LI
  • Patent number: 10643108
    Abstract: In the image processing device, the image processing method and the recording medium, the image analyzer carries out image analysis on an image. The tag information assignor assigns the image with tag information corresponding to objects present in the image based on the result of the image analysis. The first assignment ratio calculator calculates an assignment ratio of common tag information assigned to images owned by users as the first assignment ratio. The second assignment ratio calculator calculates an assignment ratio of the common tag information assigned to images owned by each user as the second assignment ratio. And the tag ranking determiner ranks the common tag information assigned to images owned by the user based on the difference between the first assignment ratio and the second assignment ratio of the common tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20200128203
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a solid state imaging device that makes it possible to quickly set optimal imaging conditions for the iris authentication. [Solution] Provided is a solid state imaging device including: a pixel array in which pixels are disposed on a matrix; an iris authenticator that extracts iris information to be used in an iris authentication process, from image data obtained from the pixel array through photoelectric conversion; and an imaging condition controller that performs control to set an imaging condition in obtaining the image data for the iris authentication process, by using information obtained in a process of extracting the iris information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo Hirono, Yasushi Saito, Tomoya Takeda, Hiroaki Ono
  • Publication number: 20200094526
    Abstract: A black plated resin part includes a resin substrate, an underlying plating layer formed on the resin substrate, and a black chromium plating layer formed of trivalent chromium and having a thickness of 0.15 ?m or more. The black chromium plating layer is formed on the underlying plating layer. The chromium in the black chromium plating layer is present in the form of metallic chromium, chromium oxide, and chromium hydroxide, and the black chromium plating layer exhibits a b* value of 3.0 or less based on the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji HOTTA, Koji NAKATANI, Hiroaki ONO, Shiho FUJII, Noritake ISOMURA
  • Patent number: 10505319
    Abstract: A device direct-mounting shield connector configured to be installed in an opening section in a metal casing, includes a nonconductive connector housing and a metal shield shell. The connector housing has a cylindrical hood section which includes a terminal housing section. The metal shield shell is installed in the connector housing and covers a circumference of the terminal housing section. The shield shell integrally has an exposed section and a fastening section. The exposed section is configured to contact to a shield shell of the mating connector when the mating connector is fitted with the connector housing. The fastening section has a through hole at a rear end side of the connector housing. The shield shell is fastened to the casing by passing a bolt into the through hole and a bolt hole in the casing and by tightening the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Hayasaka, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Ono, Toru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190363412
    Abstract: Provided are an air cell that has a reduced environmental impact and has favorable discharge characteristics as well as a patch equipped with the air cell. An air cell of the present invention includes, an outer case, which contains a positive electrode having a catalyst layer containing a catalyst and a binder, a negative electrode containing a metal material, a separator, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is an aqueous solution with a pH of 3 or more and less than 12. The separator has an air permeability of 10 sec/100 ml or more, or the positive electrode has a porous sheet made of carbon as a current collector. A patch of the present invention includes the air cell of the present invention as a power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro FURUTANI, Kunihiko KOYAMA, Mitsutoshi WATANABE, Hiroaki ONO
  • Patent number: 10490789
    Abstract: An electric storage device is provided. The electric storage device includes a case, first and second terminals, a conduction state switch, an electronic component and a cover member including a connecting portion. The case has a first opening and a second opening on a first surface of the case and is configured to house a battery unit including a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion. The conduction state switch is provided between the first terminal portion of the battery unit and the first terminal of the case. The conduction state switch is in a conducting state when the connecting portion of the cover member is connected with the conduction state switch and the cover member is attached to the first surface of the case and covers the first opening, the second opening, the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotake Yoshida, Tatsuya Adachi, Hiroaki Ono, Yasuhiro Watanabe