Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sasaki

Hiroshi Sasaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20170308827
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process including displaying a screen on which it is possible to set an area affected by a characteristic of a road around a specific facility, which is the area set based on the facility; and displaying, on a graphic, information specifying a section of road that is contained in the area affected by the characteristic relating to the specific facility on the displayed screen and that is affected by a possible selected type of repair work on the road according to the fact that the section belongs to the affected area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi SASAKI, Hiroyuki Tani, Sei Masuda, Shinichi Tani
  • Publication number: 20170308625
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process including: receiving specification of a line; receiving specification of a type of road repair construction for each of plural sections included in a road corresponding to the specified line; and executing control of displaying a mark corresponding to the received type, in association with each of the plural sections on the road corresponding to the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi SASAKI, Hiroyuki TANI, Sei MASUDA, Shinichi TANI
  • Publication number: 20170296034
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus interpolates a signal of a missing color component based on first, second, and third color signals respectively generated by first, second, and third pixels of an image sensor, to generate color signals. These pixels are arranged in a matrix. The first pixels generate the first color signal of a first luminance component of white light. The second pixels generate the second color signal of a second luminance component of narrow band light. Density of the first pixels being higher than density of the second pixels and density of the third pixels. The apparatus extracts a specific frequency component signal from a color signal of the first luminance component among the color signals generated by interpolation, and adds the specific frequency component signal to a color signal of a color component different from the first luminance component depending on white light imaging or narrow band imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170243325
    Abstract: An image sensor includes first and second pixels to generate a first electric signal from white illumination light and second electric signals from narrow band illumination light, respectively. Density of the first pixels is higher than density of each color components of the second pixels. An image processing apparatus is configured to: interpolate the first electric signal based on the first pixels surrounding the second pixels to generate an interpolated electric signal; calculate a difference between the interpolated electric signal and the second electric signals to generate a color difference signal; discriminate an interpolation direction based on the color difference signal to interpolate a missing color difference signal at each pixel position, thereby generating an interpolated color difference signal; and generate the second electric signals to be generated by the second pixels, based on the interpolated color difference signal and the interpolated electric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170221016
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a work managing program that causes a computer to execute a process including: specifying, with reference to a memory that memorizes implementation plans of works for maintenances of a road and/or implementation plans of works for maintenances of objects buried in undergrounds of the road in association with places in which the respective works are to be implemented, a place for which both one of the works for maintenances of the road and one of the works for maintenances of objects are planned; and displaying implementation plans of the one of the works for maintenances of the road and the one of the works for maintenances of objects buried in undergrounds of the road corresponding to the specified place so that the implementation plans of both the works are able to be distinguished from implementation plans of other works.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi SASAKI, Takashi SHIMADA, Hiroyuki TANI
  • Patent number: 9713984
    Abstract: A lens provided on a surface of a vehicle-mounted camera has a problem that a field of view becomes undesirable because small water droplets caused by fog, light rain and others adhere and scatter incident light. In the vehicle-mounted camera provided on a periphery of a vehicle, a hydrophilic film made of silicon dioxide particles and binder is provided on the lens surface, a mean particle diameter of silicon dioxide particles dispersed on the lens side of the hydrophilic film is larger than a mean particle diameter of silicon dioxide particles on the side in contact with air space outside the vehicle-mounted camera. The mean particle diameter on the side affixed to the lens side out of the silicon dioxide particles is 40 to 100 nm, and the mean particle diameter on the side in contact with air space is 10 to 15 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Kota Irie, Hayato Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 9705044
    Abstract: To suppress or prevent erosion (decrease in film thickness), water absorption, or cracking of a DBR film surface in washing or etching treatment in a downstream process. The DBR film structure of a DBR film 7D includes a pair of or a plurality of pairs of a deposited SiO2 film and a deposited TiO2 film. Such a top layer of DBR film structures has hitherto been a deposited SiO2 film that provides high reflectance. In order to prevent erosion while maintaining high reflectance, the top layer herein is a high-refractive-index thin film (for example, a deposited TiO2 film) having a thickness in the range of 1 to 13 nm, and a tapered DBR end portion (a slope having a taper angle in the range of 15 to 45 degrees) is formed by vapor deposition in a lift-off process. The high-refractive-index thin film is overlaid with a reflective metal film 8D serving as a first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9658153
    Abstract: To prevent lowering of sensitivity of a flow cell based on total reflection of light at an outer face of a glass capillary at a joint part with a pipe, the flow cell includes, at joint parts with a pipe 605 to introduce solution to a glass capillary 601 and with a pipe to discharge solution from the capillary, an inorganic material layer 602 that reflects measurement light to modify the outer face of the glass capillary as well as a reinforcement layer 711 to modify the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Goto, Masao Kamahori, Yu Ishige, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hideyuki Akiyama, Shintaro Kubo
  • Patent number: 9610629
    Abstract: Provided is a rolling machine including a plurality of cylindrical round dies disposed centering on a cylindrical raw material to roll the raw material from the outer circumference of the raw material. In order to adjust the turning angle in the inclined shaft (the A shaft) turned around the push-in direction (the X axis) of the round die (3), an inclined-shaft control motor is started to turn a round die table (21) on the A shaft. A B-shaft control motor (71) is driven in order to adjust the turning angle on the taper shaft (the B shaft) turned around the Y axis orthogonal to the push-in direction and orthogonal to the axis of the raw material. According to the adjustment of the A shaft and the B shaft, it is possible to correct a tooth trace and a tooth shape of a gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: NISSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshinaka Shinbutsu, Shuichi Amano, Shinya Hasegawa, Hiroshi Sasaki, Shoichi Usunami
  • Patent number: 9570717
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic light-emitting device which can emit white light by easily controlling dopant concentrations. The organic light-emitting device has a first electrode (112) and second electrode (111) which hold a light-emitting layer (113) in-between, wherein the light-emitting layer contains a host material (104), red-light-emitting dopant (105), green-light-emitting dopant (106) and blue-light-emitting dopant (107), the red-light-emitting dopant containing a first functional group for transferring the dopant toward the first electrode and the green-light-emitting dopant containing a second functional group for transferring the dopant toward the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sakuma, Sukekazu Aratani, Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20170036535
    Abstract: A fuel filling aperture opening and closing device includes a closing member turned to an open position to open a fuel filling aperture by an introduction of a fuel filling nozzle. The closing member is provided with a flap member having a ring-shaped seal member, and an urging device urging the flap member to be positioned at a closed position. The seal member is provided with seal portions respectively inside and outside, and one of the inner and outer seal portions is a plate-shaped portion pressed by the urging against a projection piece bordering an opening edge portion of a pass-through opening of the fuel filling nozzle, and the other of the inner and outer seal portions is formed by an inside circumferential projecting portion and an outside circumferential projecting portion respectively pressed against the flap member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SASAKI, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170028841
    Abstract: Disclosed is an opening and closing device including a closing member which is turned to an opening position by inserting a fuel-filling nozzle to open a fuel-filling aperture. The closing member includes a pair of flap bodies and a biasing device which positions each of the flap bodies in a closing position by a biasing force. The pair of flap bodies each includes a turning assembly portion as the center of the turning and an abutment portion with respect to the other flap body and is each configured to press its front surface portion against a hole edge portion of a passage hole of the fuel-filling nozzle by the biasing force and presses the abutment portion against the abutment portion of the other flap body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9554097
    Abstract: An endoscope image processing device includes an image acquisition section and a boundary region correction section. The image acquisition section acquires image signals that form a front image corresponding to a front field of view and a side image corresponding to a side field of view as a single acquired image. A region within the acquired image that corresponds to the front field of view is referred to as a front region, and a region within the acquired image that corresponds to the side field of view is referred to as a side region. The boundary area correction section performs a process that causes at least one of an image of the front region and an image of the side region to overlap a boundary region that is a region that defines a boundary between the front region and the side region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Kazuki Honda
  • Patent number: 9524901
    Abstract: A method of making multi-level contacts includes providing an in-process multilevel device having a device region and a contact region including a stack of alternating sacrificial layers and insulating layers located over a major surface of a substrate. A contact mask having contact mask openings is provided over the stack, and a first over mask having first over mask openings is provided over the contact mask. A subset of the contact mask openings is substantially aligned with the first over mask openings. Contact openings are formed through the stack, wherein each of the contact openings extends substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate to a respective one of the sacrificial layers. A plurality of electrically conductive via contacts is formed in the plurality of the contact openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Keisuke Izumi, Michiaki Sano, Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9492059
    Abstract: The endoscope apparatus includes an image acquisition section (image composition processing section) that acquires a captured image in a zoom observation state in time series, the zoom observation state being an observation state in which a magnification of an optical system is higher than that in a normal observation state, a defocus amount information extraction section (texture extraction section) that extracts defocus amount information from the captured image in the zoom observation state, and a defocus amount correction section (texture correction amount calculation section, texture correction section, and blending section) that corrects the captured image based on the extracted defocus amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20160327689
    Abstract: A method which may be used for forming an optical effect coating for a light transmission element configured to form a part of a cover of a device is disclosed. The method comprises: printing a first coating layer having a plurality of adjacent first elongated micro openings extending in a first direction in an aperture area, and printing a second coating layer having a plurality of adjacent second elongated micro openings extending in a second direction, the second direction differing from the first direction, in the aperture area. Thereby, an optical effect coating is formed, comprising micro holes formed at intersections of the first and the second elongated micro openings, the micro holes producing locally increased effective light transmittance through the optical effect coating in the aperture area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Joni Arola
  • Publication number: 20160324398
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor implements a focus control process that is implemented by controlling the position of a focus lens included in an optical system that is included in an imaging device, and a mist detection process that detects whether or not mist has occurred. The processor implements the focus control process that stops a focus operation that is performed during the focus control process when the mist detection process has detected that mist has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9483262
    Abstract: An apparatus specifies, for each of interfaces described in a source code, an installed program associated with the each interface, based on a description of the source code including a relevant source code corresponding to the installed program, and stores an identifier of the specified installed program in the memory in association with an interface associated with the installed program. The apparatus specifies an interface to be executed upon execution of a program based on the source code, according to contents defined in the source code. The apparatus, upon execution of the program based on the source code, outputs information on the installed program whose identifier is stored in the memory in association with the specified interface, so that the installed program is identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Nobuo Shiba, Shinya Suematsu
  • Publication number: 20160270643
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source unit that emits white illumination light or narrow band illumination light; an image sensor having pixels; a filter unit arranged corresponding to the pixels and including filters having a filter for passing blue light, and a filter for passing the blue light and one of green light and red light, the number of the filters for passing the green light being not less than half of the number of all the filters of the filter unit, and the number of the filters for passing the blue light being not less than the number of the filters for passing the green light; a selecting unit that selects, from the pixels, a luminance component pixel depending on types of illumination light; and a demosaicing processing unit that generates a color image signal having color components based on the luminance component pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9412753
    Abstract: A method of making multi-level contacts includes providing an in-process multilevel device having a device region and a contact region including a stack of a plurality of alternating sacrificial layers and insulator layers located over a major surface of a substrate. A contact mask with at least one contact mask opening and at least one first terrace mask opening is provided over the stack, where the at least one first terrace mask opening is larger than the at least one contact mask opening. At least one first contact opening and at least one first terrace opening are simultaneously formed extending substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate through the stack to a first sacrificial layer by etching a portion of the stack through the at least one contact mask opening and the at least one first terrace mask opening. A first electrically conductive via contact is deposited in the at least one first contact opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Keisuke Izumi, Michiaki Sano, Hiroshi Sasaki