Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kobayashi

Hirokazu Kobayashi 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: 9674468
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a solid-state image sensor including a plurality of unit pixels, and a driving unit. Each unit pixel includes a photo-electric converter that converts incident light into a signal charge, a holding unit that temporarily holds the signal charge obtained by the photo-electric converter, a first transfer gate arranged between the photo-electric converter and the holding unit, that transfers the signal charge to the holding unit, a charge-voltage converter that converts the signal charge into a voltage signal, and a second transfer gate arranged between the holding unit and the charge-voltage converter, that transfers the signal charge to the charge-voltage converter, and that is in a non-conductive state in the case where an image capturing operation is performed in the photo-electric converter. The driving unit drives the solid-state image sensor so as to supply three or more mutually different electric potentials to the first transfer gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170126967
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing a picked-up image which is output from an image pickup element in which a microlens array for obtaining the picked-up image including ray directional information of an object image formed by a photographing optical system has been arranged has: a refocus processing unit for executing a refocus processing of the obtained picked-up image on the basis of the ray directional information and generating a reconstruction image; and a defect pixel detection unit for detecting a defect pixel from the obtained picked-up image. When the picked-up image is obtained, the detection of the defect pixel of the obtained picked-up image is performed. When a refocus processing is instructed, the refocus processing is executed to the picked-up image in which the detection of the defect pixel is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9642097
    Abstract: A mobile station device is provided with a communication unit for simultaneously executing a first communication with a first base station device executed over a first frequency band, and a second communication with a second base station that differs from the first base station apparatus over a second frequency band that differs from the first frequency band, and a control unit for adjusting individual ones of a first transmission power and second transmission power on the basis of both the first transmission power, which is used for the first communication, and the second transmission power, which is used for the second communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ishikura, Hiroyuki Saga, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Fumiyo Satoh, Shigeto Suzuki, Yuhsuke Takagi
  • Publication number: 20170094201
    Abstract: There is provided an image sensor comprising: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels; an A/D converter which converts an image signal from the pixel into a digital image signal; a gradation converter which performs a gradation conversion to the digital image signal; and a selector which selects gradation converting characteristics of the gradation conversion to the digital image signal performed by the gradation converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20170071911
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for external use, including: i) luliconazole represented by the following structural formula (1) and/or a salt thereof; and ii) N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Akira Nozawa, Katsumasa Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 9586196
    Abstract: Provided is a composite, including a metal nanoparticle inside a porous coordination polymer (PCP), in which the PCP is formed of a metal ion and an organic ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitagawa, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170064226
    Abstract: A control apparatus (106) includes an acquirer (106a) which acquires a first imaging signal that is read in a first mode from a first pixel area of an image sensor and a second imaging signal that is read in a second mode from a second pixel area of the image sensor, the image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric converters corresponding to a single microlens, and an image processor (106b) which performs noise reduction processing on the first and second imaging signals, the first mode is a mode in which pixel signals of photoelectric converters are added to each other to he read from the image sensor, and the second mode is a mode in which a pixel signal of at least one of the photoelectric converters is read independently as a predetermined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Mie Ishii, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Koji Oshima
  • Patent number: 9571718
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing a picked-up image which is output from an image pickup element in which a microlens array for obtaining the picked-up image including ray directional information of an object image formed by a photographing optical system has been arranged has: a refocus processing unit for executing a refocus processing of the obtained picked-up image on the basis of the ray directional information and generating a reconstruction image; and a defect pixel detection unit for detecting a defect pixel from the obtained picked-up image. When the picked-up image is obtained, the detection of the defect pixel of the obtained picked-up image is performed. When a refocus processing is instructed, the refocus processing is executed to the picked-up image in which the detection of the defect pixel is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170024101
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device (100) is provided with touch panels (10, 20) on which applications (6,7) are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit (50) detects that an application (7) object (4) has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area (5) of the touch panel (20) when the object (4) is being dragged. An application control unit (60) and a display control unit (70) move the display of the application (6) to a position that allows the object (4) to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object (4) in the defined area (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuo KOHASHI, Kazushige YAMADA, Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170019583
    Abstract: An image sensor comprising: a plurality of unit pixels, arranged in matrix, each having a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions for accumulating charge corresponding to a quantity of incident light; color filters, arranged for the plurality of unit pixels, respectively, that mainly pass light of wavelengths corresponding to different colors; first control signal lines arranged between every predetermined number of rows and connected to the unit pixels, included in the predetermined number of rows, corresponding to the color filters of a first color; and second control signal lines arranged between the every predetermined number of rows and connected to the unit pixels, included in the same predetermined number of rows that include the unit pixels corresponding to the color filters of the first color, corresponding to the color filters of a second color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Takafumi Kishi
  • Publication number: 20170006555
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a transmission power setting unit configured to set transmission powers of two or a greater number of uplink component carriers connecting one or a greater number of base stations; a transmission power control unit configured to control the transmission powers based on information from the transmission power setting unit; and a transmission power summing unit configured to determine a sum of the transmission powers of the uplink component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Shigeto SUZUKI, Hiroyuki SAGA, Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Katsutoshi ISHIKURA, Yuhsuke TAKAGI, Fumiyo SATOH
  • Patent number: 9529518
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9489120
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9480746
    Abstract: Provided is a means for stably storing a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) below and/or a salt thereof, and for providing the pharmaceutical composition to the market. A resin container colored with a color having a hue (H) within the range of 7.0Y to 9.99Y or 7.0YR to 9.99YR, value (V) within the range of 1.0 to 6.0, and chroma (C) within the range of 0.5 to 7.5, according to Munsell color coordinates, is filled with a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by the General Formula (I) and/or a salt thereof, to store the pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: POLA PHARMA INC., NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Madoka Ito, Azuma Nishio
  • Patent number: 9456155
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains a picked-up image which is output from an image pickup element which includes a microlens array for obtaining the picked-up image including ray directional information of an object image formed by a photographing optical system, generates a reconstruction image by reconstructing the obtained picked-up image on the basis of the ray directional information, and detects a defect pixel of the generated reconstruction image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9405299
    Abstract: A control device configured with a torque/current computation section, an actual current computation section, a current feedback control section, and a voltage control section. A two-axis rotating coordinate system has a first axis defined in a direction of field magnetic flux of a magnet provided in the rotor, and a second axis defined in a direction that is shifted by an electrical angle of 90 degrees with respect to the first axis. In the case where a torque command includes periodic torque vibration, the torque/current computation section executes first-axis command fixation control in which a first-axis current command, which is a first-axis component of the two-phase current command, is fixed at a predetermined value and a second-axis current command, which is a second-axis component of the two-phase current command, is vibrated in accordance with the torque vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yomei Hakumura, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160219237
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises a unit pixel including a plurality of light receiving elements, a plurality of column output lines provided, for each column, at a number greater than or equal to at least a number of the light receiving elements of each unit pixel, and a switching unit configured to switch between a first readout mode for reading out signals from the plurality of light receiving elements via respectively different column output lines and a second readout mode for reading out signals from the plurality of light receiving elements via the same column output line for each unit pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Mie Ishii
  • Patent number: 9387641
    Abstract: A solid-liquid separation device includes a plurality of fixed members and movable members that are movably disposed between the adjacent fixed members, and a screw extending through the fixed members and the movable members in a state where the screw is not in contact with the fixed members and the movable members. The screw is rotationally driven about a center axis line thereof. A filtrate separated from an object is discharged to the outside of the solid-liquid separation portion through filtrate discharge gaps, and the object that has a reduced liquid content ratio is discharged from the outlet to the outside. In order to increase significantly a dewatering ratio, the movable members are formed to move while penetrating closer to the center axis line of the screw than an outer circumferential edge of the blade of the screw, without coming into contact with the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: AMUKON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AMCON NA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kaneko, Yusuke Tezuka, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Yuki Kadowaki, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160198418
    Abstract: A mobile station device is provided with a communication unit for simultaneously executing a first communication with a first base station device executed over a first frequency band, and a second communication with a second base station that differs from the first base station apparatus over a second frequency band that differs from the first frequency band, and a control unit for adjusting individual ones of a first transmission power and second transmission power on the basis of both the first transmission power, which is used for the first communication, and the second transmission power, which is used for the second communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Katsutoshi ISHIKURA, Hiroyuki SAGA, Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Fumiyo SATOH, Shigeto SUZUKI, Yuhsuke TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20160198109
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of unit pixels that each have a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of column output lines arranged for each column of the unit pixels; and a switching unit configured to switch between a first read out mode where signals that have been accumulated in the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions of a unit pixel are read out from respectively different column output lines, and a second read out mode where signals that have been accumulated in the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions of a unit pixel are combined and then read out from a single column output line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Mie Ishii, Hirokazu Kobayashi