Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sato

Hiroshi Sato 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: 12147045
    Abstract: Provided are: a light guide element in which deterioration in image sharpness can be prevented and the entire area of a display image can be suitably observed irrespective of the visual line of a user, the position of eyes of the user, and the like; and an image display apparatus including the light guide element. The light guide element includes: a light guide plate that includes a first light guide layer and a second light guide layer; and an incidence diffraction element and an emission diffraction element that are laminated on the second light guide layer, in which in a case where a refractive index of the first light guide layer is represented by n1 and a refractive index of the second light guide layer is represented by n2 in the light guide plate, n1<n2 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12141224
    Abstract: In a case of causing an Ising machine to execute a process of solving an optimization problem by obtaining a value of an unknown variable using a first objective function, the value of the unknown variable being correlated with the number of quantum bits used in solving the optimization problem using the Ising machine, an information processing apparatus derives a smallest value for the unknown variable within a range in which a feasible solution of the optimization problem is obtained by using a second objective function different from the first objective function, and performs control of causing the Ising machine to execute a process of solving the optimization problem defined by a mathematical model including the derived value for the unknown variable and the first objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Sato, Hiroshi Yonekubo, Takuya Osugi
  • Publication number: 20240370794
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus executes a first process of generating a work shift table in which a constraint condition regarding a work shift of an employee is satisfied, and an output value of an objective function regarding a desire of the employee for the work shift is minimized, the constraint condition being based on a possession skill assigned to each of a plurality of the employees and representing an ability to implement work on a work target, and the number of employees required in a predetermined period, and outputs whether or not a feasible solution exists in the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya OSUGI, Hiroshi YONEKUBO, Masashi SATO
  • Publication number: 20240369743
    Abstract: Provided are an optical element, including a plurality of optically anisotropic layers, each of which has an in-plane alignment pattern in which orientations of optical axes derived from a liquid crystal compound change continuously and rotationally along at least one in-plane direction, in a thickness direction, in which the optically anisotropic layers each have regions where lengths over which the orientations of the optical axes rotate by 180° in the one direction are different from each other, and at least one of the plurality of optically anisotropic layers is an inclined optically anisotropic layer having a region where a plurality of pairs of bright lines and dark lines in a cross-sectional image are present and the pairs of the bright lines and the dark lines are inclined at inclination angles which are different from each other with respect to a normal line of an interface of the optically anisotropic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi SATO, Yukito SAITOH, Katsumi SASATA
  • Patent number: 12135842
    Abstract: A pen-type controller includes a pen portion having a pen shape, a grip portion that intersects an axis direction of the pen portion, and a first light emitting part disposed at an end part of the grip portion, wherein the end part is closer to the axis of the pen portion than another end part of the grip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Jun Hasegawa, Futa Imata, Hiroshi Fujioka, Yuta Sato, Kiyokazu Sakai, Ryoichi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12135022
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a fluid control apparatus having a diaphragm structure and small flow path resistance. [Solving Means] A fluid control apparatus according to the present technology includes a first space, two flat plate members, a drive mechanism, a second space, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The first space has an inlet and an outlet. The two flat plate members face each other via the first space, and at least one of the flat plate members is an elastic body having flexibility. The drive mechanism bends the elastic body. The second space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the inlet, and has a suction port. The first check valve allows fluid to flow from the suction port to the first space via the inlet. The third space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the outlet, and has a discharge port. The second check valve allows the fluid to flow from the first space to the discharge port via the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Masahiro Sato, Koji Fukumoto, Yuya Horiuchi, Hironobu Abe, Hiroto Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro Hongo, Takuma Matsushita, Daisuke Mizuta, Kentaro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12137288
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Kikkawa, Satoru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihiko Sato, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20240361670
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a fixed member including a fixed base; a movable member that is movable relative to the fixed member, the movable member including a lens holder configured to hold a lens body so as to face an imaging element; a first shape memory alloy wire; a second shape memory alloy wire; a first conductive path; a second conductive path; a common conductive path; and a driver configured to be electrically connected to the first conductive path, the second conductive path, and the common conductive path, and supply a current to the first shape memory alloy wire and the second shape memory alloy wire and drive the first shape memory alloy wire and the second shape memory alloy wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Touichi OKUNO, Kiyoto SATO, Hiroshi OSADA
  • Publication number: 20240363307
    Abstract: A mark-position-measurement-apparatus includes a stage with an object having plural marks thereon, a sensor including an irradiator irradiating beams to the object, and a photoreceiver receiving a reflected light from the object and outputting a height-position distribution of the object surface, a position-calculation-circuit to calculate, for each mark, a position of a mark-candidate-signal acquired in a scanned region, by using the height-position distribution, for each mark, obtained by scanning the beam over the plural marks to be intersected with one of the plural marks, a combination-generation-circuit to generate plural combinations by combining mark-candidate-signals selected from the plural marks when plural mark-candidate-signals are acquired, in a scanning direction, for at least one mark, and a selection-circuit to select a combination of mark-candidate-signals, being mark signals of the plural marks, from the plural combinations, by comparing, with a predetermined reference value, relative posit
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SATO
  • Patent number: 12130437
    Abstract: Provided are: an image display apparatus that can display augmented reality in a virtual image is superimposed on a bright real scene; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes: a display element; and a reflective polarization diffraction element that reflects an image displayed by the display element, in which the polarization diffraction element has a region where a period of a diffraction structure decreases in a direction away from the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12130435
    Abstract: Provided are a light guide element and an image display apparatus capable of suppressing the occurrence of multiple images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20240355665
    Abstract: A production method for an adhesive sheet for semiconductor device production including: preparing a backing material-attached laminated body including a laminated body and a backing material; a laminated body cutting step of making an incision in the laminated body along any cut-out shape; and a backing material peeling step of peeling the backing material from the laminated body, wherein in the backing material peeling step, a portion of the laminated body existing in a region surrounded by the incision is attached to the backing material and removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Kenta KIKUCHI, Hiroyuki IZAWA, Takashi TATSUZAWA, Mayumi SATO, Yasuo MAEHARA, Hiroshi TAKAIRA, Takahiro FUKUI, Katsuhiko TOMISAKA, Toshiaki MATSUZAKI
  • Patent number: 12126137
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes: a laminated structure body 20 which is formed from a GaN-based compound semiconductor and in which a first compound semiconductor layer 21 including a first surface 21a and a second surface 21b that is opposed to the first surface 21a, an active layer 23 that faces the second surface 21b of the first compound semiconductor layer 21, and a second compound semiconductor layer 22 including a first surface 22a that faces the active layer 23 and a second surface 22b that is opposed to the first surface 22a are laminated; a first light reflection layer 41 that is provided on the first surface 21a side of the first compound semiconductor layer 21; and a second light reflection layer 42 that is provided on the second surface 22b side of the second compound semiconductor layer 22. The first light reflection layer 41 includes a concave mirror portion 43, and the second light reflection layer 42 has a flat shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Sato, Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Shoichiro Izumi, Noriyuki Futagawa, Masamichi Ito, Jugo Mitomo, Hiroshi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12122628
    Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Chihara, Genki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Sato
  • Patent number: 12124061
    Abstract: Provided are a method of forming a photo-alignment film having a large size that can appropriately align a liquid crystal compound can be formed and a method of forming a liquid crystal layer having a large size in which alignment defects of a liquid crystal compound can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitake Mitobe, Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Akiko Watano
  • Patent number: 12125650
    Abstract: A switch to be attached to a panel having an opening in a surface includes: a stationary member to be attached to the panel; a movable member to be placed at a distance from the panel, the movable member having a manipulation surface separated from the panel in the opening with a gap intervening between the manipulation surface and the panel, the manipulation surface being exposed from the opening; and a vibration element disposed between the stationary member and the movable member, the vibration element vibrating the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Suzuki, Hiroshi Wakuda, Ko Owada, Tetsu Numata, Kunio Sato
  • Publication number: 20240345672
    Abstract: A switch simulation device attachable to a touch panel includes a volume switch including a main body having first and second contact points, a head rotatable around a central axis of the main body and movable in the central axis direction, and an internal opening-and-closing unit electrically coupling and uncoupling the first and second contact points in response to movement of the head in the central axis direction, an operation member including a conductive material and coupled to the head to be rotatable and movable integrally with the head, a contact terminal that includes a conductive material, and is electrically coupled to the first contact point and in continuous contact with the operation member regardless of rotation and movement of the operation member, and a first coupler that electrically couples a first region of the touch panel to the second contact point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJISAWA, Yasunori SATO
  • Patent number: 12117711
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light deflection device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The object can be achieved with a light deflection device including: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one direct to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection from the light deflection element toward an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240340532
    Abstract: A focusing adjustment method of a camera module predicts, before completion of securing of a camera board to an optical system, a shrinkage deviation amount by which the optical system and the camera board will approach one another. The focusing adjustment method adjusts a position and an angle of the camera board to separate, by the predicted shrinkage deviation amount, the camera board from the optical system as compared with a focusing attitude of the image sensor with respect to the optical system where the optical system is in focus on the image sensor to accordingly offset the predicted shrinkage deviation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Ryohei OKAMOTO, Noboru KAWASAKI, Toshiki YASUE, Yasuki FURUTAKE, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Shunta SATO
  • Publication number: 20240337966
    Abstract: A toner container includes a toner storage unit, a container base portion including a discharge port provided on an outer surface of the container base portion, the outer surface extending in a first direction, the discharge port communicating with the toner storage unit, and a container shutter configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a direction along the first direction between a shielding position and an open position. The container base portion includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion of the image forming apparatus so that rotation of the container base portion with respect to the image forming apparatus about the rotation axis is restricted. At least a part of the engaging portion of the container base portion is exposed from the container shutter in a case where the container shutter is in the shielding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Isao Koishi, Hiroshi Takarada, Shohei Katsuya, Shunsuke Hijikata, Goshi Ozaki, Mitsuhiro Sato