Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Yamaguchi 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: 10877189
    Abstract: A mirror panel includes a semitransmissive diffusion part and a reflecting surface. The semitransmissive diffusion part is configured to diffuse first part of incident light via an incident surface and linearly transmit second part of the incident light. The reflecting surface is disposed in contact with or adjacent to the semitransmissive diffusion part, and reflects light transmitted through the semitransmissive diffusion part toward the semitransmissive diffusion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10879561
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte that contains lithium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and bromine, wherein in powder X-ray diffraction analysis using CuK? rays, it has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 2?=29.7±0.5 deg, the diffraction peak A and the diffraction peak B satisfy the following formula (A), and a molar ratio of the chlorine to the phosphorus “c (Cl/P)” and a molar ratio of the bromine to the phosphorus “d (Br/P)” satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2<c+d<1.9??(1) 0.845<SA/SB<1.200??(A) where SA is an area of the diffraction peak A and SB is an area of the diffraction peak B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Utsuno, Kota Terai, Takashi Umeki, Masaru Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10852537
    Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Takuro Yasuda, Kazuhiro Fujita, Keita Katagiri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10845592
    Abstract: A head-up display (HUD) mountable on a vehicle includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain a detection result indicating a position of an object relative to the vehicle, as the vehicle travels; and control a display system to display, based on a detection result, an indicator indicating the position of the object as a virtual image within a display area, while changing an orientation of the indicator according to the position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Katagiri, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200333608
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device for displaying a virtual image so as to be visually perceived by an occupant of a moving body through a transparent member. The display device includes an image generator configured to generate an image to be displayed as a virtual image; an orientation information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an orientation of the moving body; and a display change processor configured to change the display of the virtual image in accordance with the information on the orientation acquired by the orientation information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Keita KATAGIRI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Masato KUSANAGI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Kazuhiro TAKAZAWA, Tomoyuki TSUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10732497
    Abstract: A transparent screen is a transparent screen for diffusing image light projected from a projector and displaying an image by transmitting part of incident light rectilinearly and diffusing the other part of the incident light. The transparent screen includes a first base material that is transparent, a diffusion member, a second base material that is transparent, and a plurality of light absorption materials. The diffusion member is disposed within a first base material and diffuses the image light. The second base material is disposed on an opposite side of the first base material from the projector. The plurality of light absorption materials is disposed within the second base material and is arranged parallel to each other along an arrangement direction parallel to a principal plane of the second base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Daizaburo Matsuki
  • Patent number: 10712650
    Abstract: A screen that diffuses and reflects image light projected by a projector, includes an uneven half mirror structure body which includes a first transparent substrate and a semitransparent reflective layer, and a second transparent substrate bonded to the uneven half mirror structure body on the surface of the uneven shape with a transparent material. The first transparent substrate has an uneven shape on one surface of the first transparent substrate. The semitransparent reflective layer is provided on the surface of the uneven shape and configured to reflect a part of light and transmit the remaining light. One of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate disposed closer to a projection side than the semitransparent reflective layer is made of a material exhibiting birefringence of less than or equal to 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10710829
    Abstract: A paper conveyance device includes: an upstream roller and a downstream roller being arranged at an interval in a paper conveyance path; paper conveyance guides being arranged between the upstream and downstream roller in the paper conveyance path to guide both surfaces of paper along the paper conveyance path during paper conveyance; drivers that drive the upstream and downstream roller independently; and a processor that measures the load torques on the upstream and downstream roller, that judges whether or not the paper is rubbing against one of the paper conveyance guides with reference to the load torques on the upstream and downstream roller, the load torques being obtained by the processor, and that performs controlled paper conveyance with reference to the load torques on the upstream and downstream roller depending on the result of the judgment being obtained by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Asano, Toshikazu Higashi, Tomonobu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20200210066
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a plurality of first sensor electrodes disposed side by side in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a plurality of second sensor electrodes disposed side by side in the first direction and the second direction. One of the second sensor electrodes overlaps a plurality of first sensor electrodes out of the first sensor electrodes in planar view. Each of the second sensor electrodes has a plurality of electric-field transmission regions. One of the electric-field transmission regions overlaps a corresponding one of the first sensor electrodes in planar view and does not straddle two first sensor electrodes in planar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kisho YAMAMOTO, Naoki TAKADA, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10696159
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processors, cause the processors to acquire, by a display unit, information on a predetermined position outside a moving body to display an information providing image for providing information associated with the predetermined position as a virtual image; and control the display unit to change a display position of the information providing image according to movement of the moving body. The display position of the information providing image is changed such that a deviation amount between the predetermined position and a position at which a straight line passing through a reference point within the moving body and the display position of the information providing image reaches a surface on which the moving body is moving decreases as a distance between the moving body and the predetermined position decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Saisho, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20200195789
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a damaged file determiner, a response unit, and a file restoration unit. The damaged file determiner determines whether or not a file used in the image processing apparatus is damaged. The response unit requests another device to provide a recovery file to be used to restore the damaged file and obtain the recovery file from another image processing apparatus, when it is determined that the file is damaged. The file restoration unit restores the damaged file by using the recovery file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunobu Takahashi, Yoji Matsuda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Makoto Hibino
  • Publication number: 20200183157
    Abstract: An HUD apparatus is configured to irradiate light for forming an image on a transmissive reflector provided in a movable body, and to display a virtual image in a display area to overlap the virtual image with scenery outside the movable body. A given distance range in the scenery from a reference point that is set in the movable body is included in the display area, and a difference between a first convergence angle to a target object (e.g., road surface) that is present in the given distance range and a second convergence angle to the virtual image displayed in the display area is at most one degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki SUZUKI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Masato KUSANAGI, Takuro YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA, Keita KATAGIRI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10679496
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus installed in a moving body includes one or more processors, and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to display, by a display unit, an information providing image as a virtual image, and control the display unit to change a display position of the information providing image. The information providing image includes a first information providing image and a second information providing image, and the display unit is controlled such that a changing rate of a display position of the first information providing image differs from that of a display position of the second information providing image, and the changing rates of the display positions of the first and the second information providing images both increase as a moving velocity of the moving body increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20200142190
    Abstract: (Object) It is possible to make a display area less perceivable to a user. (Means of Achieving the Object) An HUD device (i.e., the HUD device of the practical example 1) is a display device for displaying in a display area a virtual image of at least a part of a sign that moves. The display device includes a displaying system configured to form an image of the sign that moves with light in a region including an image region (i.e., a predetermined region), and to irradiate a front windshield (i.e., transparent/reflective member) with light that forms at least a part of the image, the part of which is in the image region, such that the virtual image of the at least a part of the image is displayed in the display area. The displaying system includes an FPGA 600 (i.e., control device) that is capable of controlling a characteristic of the image in accordance with position of the virtual image relative to the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki SUZUKI, Masato KUSANAGI, Kenichiroh SAISHO, Keita KATAGIRI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200138342
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes an imaging sensor that images a sutured portion, a display device, and a processor configured to generate an oxygen saturation image imaging an oxygen saturation of the sutured portion based on image information obtained by the imaging sensor, determine a fusion state of the sutured portion, and display the oxygen saturation image and a determination result obtained by determining the fusion state of the sutured portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshinori MORIMOTO, Takumi DEJIMA
  • Patent number: 10639013
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus performs transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves for forming focal points used to set sound velocities at predetermined timing such that sound velocities having been set for all of respective segment regions established by diving a subject are all reset every predetermined number of frames. Owing to this configuration, it becomes possible for the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to suitably reset sound velocities of ultrasonic waves in the subject and also reduce the amount of calculation for resetting sound velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Tsuyoshi Tanabe, Noriaki Ida, Shin Nakata, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10634989
    Abstract: A transparent screen is a transparent screen for diffusing image light projected from a projector and displaying an image by transmitting part of incident light rectilinearly and diffusing the other part of the incident light, and includes a base material that is transparent, a diffusion member, and an antireflection layer. The diffusion member is disposed within the base material and diffuses the image light. The antireflection layer is disposed on a projector side of the base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10621776
    Abstract: An information display apparatus irradiates a transmissive reflection member with light for forming an image so as to make a virtual image of the image visible on the transmissive reflection member. The information display apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to control, upon a change in depth of a scene position at which to superimpose the virtual image, a degree of change in a part or an entirety of the virtual image to be displayed, differently from a degree of the change in depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Katagiri, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10617339
    Abstract: The invention provides an endoscope system for generating an oxygen saturation image that can be used for various medical applications, such as oxygen saturation monitoring during surgery. A clip 141 is attached to the surrounding tissue of a tumor CN from the luminal side. The tissue to which the clip 141 is attached becomes an ischemic part CL. An oxygen saturation image is generated from image information obtained by imaging the tissue on the abdominal cavity side. In the oxygen saturation image, the ischemic part CL is displayed as a low oxygen region. Accordingly, it becomes easy to find the location of the tumor CN even from the abdominal cavity side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Morimoto, Takumi Dejima
  • Patent number: 10602006
    Abstract: An operation terminal is held by and detachable from a holder on an MFP. The operation terminal includes a touch panel with a display region for an operation screen for the MFP. The touch panel senses an external object touching the display region. A vibrator unit applies vibration to the display region. In response to the touch panel sensing the object, a response controller unit instructs the vibrator unit to apply to the display region vibration responsive to the object. The response controller unit checks whether the operation terminal is held by or detached from the holder at the time the touch panel senses the object, and when the operation terminal is held by the holder, sets the responsive vibration to a level lower than when the operation terminal is detached from the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Mineo Yamamoto, Isao Watanabe, Toshikazu Higashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi