Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Mori

Hiroshi Mori 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).

  • Color processing apparatus and method and image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7365890
    Abstract: As a method of calibrating colors other than primary colors such as secondary colors, the contents of an ink color-separation table are reconstructed. However, it is difficult to reconstruct the ink color-separation table within the limitation of total ink amount permissible for a print sheet. Accordingly, a color patch corresponding to a signal value of a color to be calibrated is formed in a printer, then the signal value is calibrated based on a measured color value of the formed color patch and a target value corresponding to the signal value of the color to be calibrated, and calibration multidimensional table data is generated based on the measured color value of the formed color patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saito, Hiroshi Mori, Mitsuru Uratani
  • Steering lock
    Patent number: 7362006
    Abstract: A steering lock for ensuring an unlock state when it is imperative that the steering lock remain in the unlock state. The steering lock includes a motor for generating drive force that engages and locks a lock bar with a steering shaft. The steering lock includes an ECU. When shifting the steering lock to the unlock state from a lock state, the ECU controls the motor to generate drive force acting in a direction to urge the lock bar to disengage from the steering shaft. The ECU continuously controls the motor to generate drive force acting in the direction to urge the lock bar to disengage from the steering shaft even after the lock bar has moved to the unlock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuya Otani, Hiroshi Mori, Daisuke Someda, Tomoo Kakegawa, Masachika Kamiya, Noriyasu Onishi
  • Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program
    Patent number: 7355750
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus in which an appropriate color separation table is selected for an unexpected print medium. In plural color separation tables 108, maximum total color-material color discharge amounts are set to be stepwisely different. A ? correction table 109 is used upon correction of ? characteristics of the respective color-material colors regarding a print medium. A maximum total ink-amount calculation unit 110 calculates a maximum value of total ink amount for each color separation table 108 by using the ? correction table 109. A color separation table selector 107 determines a maximum value approximate to a value set by a maximum total ink-amount setting unit 106 from the calculated maximum values, and selects a color separation table corresponding to the determined maximum value. A color separation processor 102 performs processing based on the selected color separation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saito, Hiroshi Mori, Mitsuru Uratani
  • Waveguide Type Optical Control Element and Process for Its Fabrication
    Publication number: 20080069490
    Abstract: A waveguide type optical control element which has an optical waveguide made of an insulating material having an electro-optic effect or a thermo-optic effect, and a control electrode provided in contact with or proximity to the optical waveguide; the optical waveguide having a propagation loss which is 1 dB/cm or less at wavelengths of from 1.3 ?m to 1.6 ?m. The control electrode is constituted of a conductive oxide film having a carrier electron concentration of 5.5×1020/cm3 or less and a resistivity of 9.5×10?4 ?cm or less, and the conductive oxide film has a coefficient of extinction of light waves, of 0.240 or less at a wavelength of 1.55 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Abe, Hiroshi Mori, Akira Terashima
  • Variant Amyloid Protein
    Publication number: 20080063636
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel amyloid protein (human variant amyloid protein) useful as an antigen molecule or the like for improving a vaccine therapy. This human variant amyloid protein is a protein with deletion of Glu at 22nd, Ala at 21st, or Asp at 23rd in a normal (wildtype) amyloid protein (A?1-40, A?1-42, or A?1-43) consisting of 40, 42, or 43 amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Takami Tomiyama, Hiroyuki Shimada
  • Vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 7311742
    Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner includes an inlet port through which a suctioned air stream including dirt particles pass and a centrifugal separation member having a substantially circular space therein. The centrifugal separation member has a swirl portion to swirl the dust-laden suction air stream along an inner surface of the centrifugal separation member. By forming swirl passageway between the swirl portion and the inner surface of the centrifugal separation member, the high velocity swirling air stream can be made and consequently an efficiency of separating the dirt particles from the suction air and collecting the dirt particles can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Toru Odachi, Kenichiro Sunaba, Tetsuo Imai
  • Solid-state image pick-up apparatus and video camera loaded with the apparatus
    Patent number: 7312823
    Abstract: A solid-state image pick-up apparatus that is capable of suppressing luminance flicker and chroma flicker occurring under a florescent lamp. The apparatus has a CCD solid-state image pick-up device. The image pick-up device further includes an accumulation region that is able to temporarily accumulate signal charges that have been photoelectrically converted in a sensor unit. The device is able to exercise exposure control with the use of an electronic shutter. The apparatus also has a timing generating circuit that generates a shutter pulse XSUB and a read pulse XSG. The shutter pulse XSUB is used for determining a plurality of (for example, three) exposure periods during one field for the image pick-up device. The read pulse XSG is used for reading to the accumulation region the signal charges that have been accumulated in the sensor unit during a plurality of exposure periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mori
  • Vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 7306640
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a first dirt separation unit and a second dirt separation unit. The first dirt separation unit has a first inlet port through which a suction air stream including dirt particles is introduced thereinto, and the second dirt separation unit has a second inlet port through which the air stream introduced into the first dirt separation unit is introduced into the second dirt separation. The first and the second inlet port are disposed such that they are not registered with each other. Accordingly, the dirt particles suctioned are separated in two stages, thereby decreasing the possibility of occlusion of a filter and rapid deterioration of a suction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kuroki, Seiji Yamaguchi, Tomonori Kato, Masashi Okushima, Yuichi Shimizu, Tomomi Mitani, Hiroshi Mori, Toru Odachi, Yoshiaki Onishi, Hidenori Kitamura, Toshifumi Miyahara, Takaaki Ogawa, Hirokazu Nagaoka
  • Facsimile apparatus
    Patent number: 7292362
    Abstract: When a facsimile data is received, a control unit causes the content of the facsimile data to be displayed on a display. The control unit causes a recording unit to print the content of the facsimile data on a recording sheet when a “Print” key is pressed down with the facsimile data displayed on the display while causing a forwarding method selection screen to be displayed on the display when a “To Forward” key is pressed down. The control unit causes a display urging the selection of the E-mail transmission of the received facsimile data, the transmission thereof to another computer and the transmission thereof to another facsimile apparatus to be displayed in the forwarding method selection screen on the display, and the facsimile data is forwarded by a forwarding method corresponding to the instruction given from an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Matsuda, Junji Matsui, Hiroshi Mori, Ken Imai, Yuki Shibahara, Yuichiro Iwase, Yoshihisa Kuramae
  • Bone Densifying Agent Characterized By Use Of Cathepsin K Inhibitor With Pth
    Publication number: 20070238769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for increasing BMD characterized by use of a cathepsin K inhibitor as a bone resorption inhibitor in combination with a type of PTH as a bone formation stimulator. This agent for increasing BMD is useful for the treatment of osteoporosis, bone fracture, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, hypercalcemia, osteometastasis of carcinoma, periodontal disease, bone Paget's disease and other bone metabolic diseases. For example, as the cathepsin K inhibitor, there can be mentioned a compound of formula (W) and a salt thereof, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Ochi, Makoto Tanaka, Naoki Kawada, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Mori, Ryouji Kayasuga
  • Field device managing system and field device managing method
    Publication number: 20070234373
    Abstract: A field device managing system for managing the field device performs communication with a field device by using application software. A virtual application mechanism obtains information for specifying an object application to start the object application and obtains information for specifying an object HART (highway addressable remote transducer) device to perform communication. A virtual driver mechanism receives the information for specifying the object HART device obtained by the virtual application mechanism to perform communication with the object HART device by the object application on the basis of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozaki, Hiroshi Mori
  • Engine start controller
    Patent number: 7254466
    Abstract: An engine start controller shortens the time required from when an operation switch is operated to when an engine is started. The engine start controller controls starting of the engine of a vehicle and power supply to an electric device system. A control unit selectively locks the steering shaft of the vehicle and performs authentication with a portable device, which is carried by a user of the vehicle, for permitting use of the vehicle. An operation switch is connected to the control unit and generates an operation signal when operated by the user. The control unit unlocks the steering shaft in parallel with supplying power to the electric device system when the operation signal is generated and use of the vehicle is permitted through the authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Toru Maeda, Yuji Fukano, Tomoo Kakegawa, Tomoyuki Funayama, Takashi Yanatsubo
  • Process for laser welding
    Publication number: 20070137779
    Abstract: A process for laser welding objects wherein a polymeric film having an absorptivity of 5 percent or less at the wavelength of the laser used is placed between the objects welded prior to welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mori, Mitsunobu Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sumi, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hideo Nakamura, Toshio Watanabe
  • Process for laser welding
    Publication number: 20070131348
    Abstract: A process for laser welding objects comprising the thermoplastic polymer compositions comprising a material having voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hideo Nakamura, Toshio Watanabe, Hiroshi Mori, Mitsunobu Nakatani, Makiko Ueda
  • PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF
    Publication number: 20070127085
    Abstract: A printing system, a printing method, and a program capable of preventing data embedded in an electronic document to be printed from increasing even if the amount of information relating to the electronic document to print become huge. To accomplish this, when a host computer 1200 issues a print command for printing an electronic document, the system is searched for the original electronic document and the electronic document found is printed on a printer (MFP 100). Information relating to the electronic document is obtained and written in a file. The file in which the information has been written is stored in a predetermined location in the system. Then, print image of the electronic document to which an image of the storage location of the file is added is generated and the print image is printed out on a printing medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventor: Hiroshi MORI
  • Oscillator and data processing equipment using the same and voltage control oscillator and data processing equipment using voltage control oscillator
    Publication number: 20070103248
    Abstract: An LC resonant circuit of an oscillator includes a parallel circuit of an inductor, a first fine adjustable capacitor and a first capacitor bank, and a series circuit of a second fine adjustable capacitor and a second capacitor bank. A frequency conversion gain of the oscillator is the sum of a frequency conversion gain of the oscillator based upon the first fine adjustable capacitor which decreases according to increase of a capacitance value of the capacitor bank and a frequency conversion gain based upon the second fine adjustable capacitor which increases according to increase of a capacitance value of the second capacitor bank. Accordingly, an LC resonant circuit for an oscillator with reduced fluctuation of a frequency conversion gain, and an oscillator and a data processing equipment using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakamura, Toru Masuda, Tomomitsu Kitamura, Norio Hayashi, Hiroshi Mori
  • Method and apparatus for laser welding thermoplastic resin members
    Publication number: 20070084551
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laser welding two members made of thermoplastic resin material whereby high welding strength can be achieved and strength variations can be reduced. A first member 2 comprised of a transmissive thermoplastic resin that transmits a laser beam is brought into contact with a second member 3 comprised of an absorptive thermoplastic resin that absorbs a laser beam. Contact surfaces 4 are melted with a laser beam so as to join the two members. At least the contact surfaces 4 of the two members are pre-heated by a pre-heating means 20 at a temperature lower than the melting temperature of the contact surfaces. The contact surfaces 4 are then irradiated with a laser beam R generated by a laser beam generator 10 that is shone from the side of the first member so as to melt at least one of the contact surfaces of the two members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hideo Nakamura, Hiroshi Mori, Susumu Fujita, Mitsunobu Nakatani
  • Method and apparatus for laser welding thermoplastic resin members
    Publication number: 20070084553
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laser welding, whereby high welding strength, a low degree of variation in strength, and lack of occurrence of burrs can be achieved when two members formed of thermoplastic resin material are welded, are provided. In a laser welding apparatus 1, contact surfaces 4 of a first member 2 formed of transmissive thermoplastic resin that transmits a laser beam and a second member 3 formed of absorptive thermoplastic resin that absorbs a laser beam are joined by melting via laser beam R. The apparatus is equipped with a casing 5 that accommodates the first member and the second member, a vacuum pump 6 that reduces the pressure inside the casing, and a laser beam generator 10, whereby at least one of the contact surfaces of the first member and the second member becomes melted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Toshio Watanabe, Hideo Nakamura, Hiroshi Mori, Susumu Fujita, Mitsunobu Nakatani
  • Method and apparatus for laser welding thermoplastic resin members
    Publication number: 20070084552
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for welding members formed of thermoplastic resin material, with high welding strength and small strength variations. A laser welding apparatus 1 brings a first member 2 formed of a transmissive thermoplastic resin that transmits a laser beam into contact with a second member 3 formed of an absorptive thermoplastic resin that absorbs the laser beam, and joins the thermoplastic resin members by melting their contact surfaces 4 with the laser beam. The laser welding apparatus 1 further comprises a laser beam generator 10 for irradiating the contact surfaces with the laser beam shone from the side of the first member 3 so as to melt at least one of the contact surfaces of the first member and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hideo Nakamura, Hiroshi Mori, Susumu Fujita, Mitsunobu Nakatani
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20070076247
    Abstract: This invention makes it possible to provide an image forming apparatus capable of causing an information processing apparatus to install a driver desired by a user by selecting an appropriate PDL and presenting device information to the information processing apparatus, and increasing the convenience for the user, a control method for the apparatus, and a program. To accomplish this, image forming unit-specific log information associated with a plurality of image forming units of the image forming apparatus is stored in a storage device. On the basis of the log information, a priority image forming unit is decided from the plurality of image forming units. Identification information containing an identifier of the decided image forming unit is transmitted in response to an information request transmitted from the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventor: Hiroshi MORI