Patents by Inventor Hiroto Ishikawa

Hiroto Ishikawa 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: 20230408087
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a flow rate calculation unit that calculates a flow rate of intake air based on an output signal of a flow rate measurement device assembled to an intake pipe; a flow rate correction value calculation unit that calculates an average value, a maximum value, and a minimum value of the flow rate of the intake air, calculated by the flow rate calculation unit, during a predetermined period, and an amplitude of a signal with one or more frequencies equal to or higher than a fundamental frequency of the output signal of the flow rate measurement device and included in the output signal of the flow rate measurement device, and calculates a correction value for the flow rate of the intake air based on calculation results; and a flow rate correction unit that corrects the flow rate of the intake air based on the correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroto ISHIKAWA, Kunihiko SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230203979
    Abstract: A temperature of a catalyst (EHC) is estimated with high accuracy. An electronic control device of the present invention controls an engine system that includes: an internal combustion engine; a motor capable of motoring the internal combustion engine; a catalyst that is installed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, has a function of being heated by energization, and purifies exhaust gas; and a downstream temperature sensor installed on the downstream side of the catalyst. The electronic control device includes: a control unit that causes the motor to motor the internal combustion engine; and an estimation unit that performs a first estimation process of estimating a temperature of the catalyst based on detection information of the downstream temperature sensor when the internal combustion engine is motored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroto ISHIKAWA, Kunihiko SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11632500
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program that make it possible to implement an appropriate auto white balance (AWB) lock desired by a user. As a shutter button setting for applying the AWB lock, any one of Shutter Halfway Down, Continuous Shooting, or Off can be select and set. Furthermore, a setting is configured in which an AWBL button is assigned to a custom button so that the AEB lock can be applied by either a hold operation or a toggle operation. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi Tadano, Osamu Izuta, Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220086349
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program that make it possible to implement an appropriate auto white balance (AWB) lock desired by a user. As a shutter button setting for applying the AWB lock, any one of Shutter Halfway Down, Continuous Shooting, or Off can be select and set. Furthermore, a setting is configured in which an AWBL button is assigned to a custom button so that the AEB lock can be applied by either a hold operation or a toggle operation. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: AYUMI TADANO, OSAMU IZUTA, HIROTO ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9560237
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9476901
    Abstract: Three light emitting elements and one light receiving element are provided on a surface of a substrate. An arithmetic processing portion of a signal processing circuit separates three reflected light signals from a light detection signal from the light receiving element. The arithmetic processing portion calculates a square sum of the difference between the entire waveforms of the reflected light signals while the reflected light signal is shifted. The arithmetic processing portion calculates a phase difference between the reflected light signals on the basis of a shift amount with which the calculated value is minimum. On the basis of similar processing, the arithmetic processing portion calculates a phase difference between the reflected light signals. The arithmetic processing portion identifies a movement direction of a detection object on the basis of the phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9052390
    Abstract: Three light emitting elements and one light receiving element are provided on a surface of a substrate. The light receiving element is disposed within a first triangular region connecting the three light emitting elements. A first rectangle circumscribed around the triangular region is formed. In addition, a second rectangle circumscribed around a second triangle formed when intersections of a virtually set XY plane and optical axes of light beams emitted from the three light emitting elements are perpendicularly projected on the surface of the substrate, is formed. Directions of the light emitted from the three light emitting elements are set such that at least either one of length and breadth dimensions of the second rectangle is larger than a corresponding one of length and breadth dimensions of the first rectangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaname Hanada, Atsushi Kaji, Tsutomu Yamasaki, Hiroto Ishikawa, Tomiya Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20150156410
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroto ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8970734
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20150022092
    Abstract: Three light emitting elements and one light receiving element are provided on a surface of a substrate. The light receiving element is disposed within a first triangular region connecting the three light emitting elements. A first rectangle circumscribed around the triangular region is formed. In addition, a second rectangle circumscribed around a second triangle formed when intersections of a virtually set XY plane and optical axes of light beams emitted from the three light emitting elements are perpendicularly projected on the surface of the substrate, is formed. Directions of the light emitted from the three light emitting elements are set such that at least either one of length and breadth dimensions of the second rectangle is larger than a corresponding one of length and breadth dimensions of the first rectangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kaname Hanada, Atsushi Kaji, Tsutomu Yamasaki, Hiroto Ishikawa, Tomiya Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20150006106
    Abstract: Three light emitting elements and one light receiving element are provided on a surface of a substrate. An arithmetic processing portion of a signal processing circuit separates three reflected light signals from a light detection signal from the light receiving element. The arithmetic processing portion calculates a square sum of the difference between the entire waveforms of the reflected light signals while the reflected light signal is shifted. The arithmetic processing portion calculates a phase difference between the reflected light signals on the basis of a shift amount with which the calculated value is minimum. On the basis of similar processing, the arithmetic processing portion calculates a phase difference between the reflected light signals. The arithmetic processing portion identifies a movement direction of a detection object on the basis of the phase differences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140240538
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroto ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8736713
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130278797
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Hiroto ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8482632
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130107369
    Abstract: In a hearth liner wherein an evaporation material is adhered to a substrate to form an optical thin film thereon, the present invention is directed to prevent bumping (splashing) when the evaporation material is irradiated by an electron beam from an electron gun to melt and vaporize thereof. A hearth liner of a vacuum evaporation apparatus wherein the electron beam from the electron gun is irradiated on the evaporation material to form an optical thin film on a substrate, wherein the cross-section shape of an evaporation material storage part of the hearth liner is a shallow semicircular (spherical) shape (bowl shape).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KEN SEKI, TOSHIMASA NISHI, HIROTO ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120263872
    Abstract: Optical multilayer thin-film filters (OMTFFs) are disclosed. An exemplary filter includes a transparent substrate, a multilayer film (MF) on a surface of the substrate, and a top layer. The MF is of alternatingly laminated layers of a high-refractive-index (HRI) material and a low-refractive-index (LRI) material. The top layer is on an uppermost layer of the MF and is of a material having atoms of lower atomic weight than atoms of either the HRI or LRI materials. The OMTFFs are made in a vacuum environment by alternatingly laminating respective thin films of the HRI and LRI materials on the substrate. The top layer is formed on the MF. Between forming the MF and top layer is a suppression step in which the newly formed MF is exposed to moisture by briefly venting the vacuum to atmosphere. The moisture inhibits migration of the low-molecular-weight atoms into the HRI and LRI materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Motoo TAKADA, Shinya KIKEGAWA, Toshimasa NISHI, Hiroto ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8233219
    Abstract: Optical multilayer thin-film filters (OMTFFs) are disclosed. An exemplary filter includes a transparent substrate, a multilayer film (MF) on a surface of the substrate, and a top layer. The MF is of alternatingly laminated layers of a high-refractive-index (HRI) material and a low-refractive-index (LRI) material. The top layer is on an uppermost layer of the MF and is of a material having atoms of lower atomic weight than atoms of either the HRI or LRI materials. The OMTFFs are made in a vacuum environment by alternatingly laminating respective thin films of the HRI and LRI materials on the substrate. The top layer is formed on the MF. Between forming the MF and top layer is a suppression step in which the newly formed MF is exposed to moisture by briefly venting the vacuum to atmosphere. The moisture inhibits migration of the low-molecular-weight atoms into the HRI and LRI materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoo Takada, Shinya Kikegawa, Toshimasa Nishi, Hiroto Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110267527
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroto ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8004581
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for capturing images, a display section, a temporary memory for temporarily recording captured images, a main memory for recording the captured images and a setting mechanism for setting one of a temporary recording mode and a direct recording mode. The images temporarily recorded are displayed for the user to select images to be saved, and the selected images are recorded into the main memory and deleted from the temporary memory. All of the non-selected images remaining in the temporary memory are deleted at once at a predetermined timing instructed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroto Ishikawa