Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Oka

Hiroyuki Oka 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: 20160356246
    Abstract: An attachment structure for a solenoid valve which can be stably attached to and removed from a carburetor unit with a single movement and without increasing the number of parts. A rod-like supporting portion is disposed a predetermined distance away from a surface of a carburetor unit and extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of and installed near an opening in the surface of the carburetor unit. A cylindrical engaging portion extends from a circumferential face of a cylindrical body fitted on the solenoid valve substantially perpendicular to an axial line of the rod-like supporting portion, and forms a groove-like engagement portion which is narrower in diameter than the rod-like supporting portion, whereby the engaging portion, via the groove-like engagement portion, is coupled to and supported by rod-like supporting portion when an insertion portion of the solenoid valve is inserted into the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Takumi Nonaka, Hideki Watanabe, Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 9422891
    Abstract: A throttle valve device ideal for small, inexpensive implements is provided. The throttle valve device having a damping member for slowly closing a throttle valve. The throttle valve device (1) has a throttle valve (4) that is fixed to a throttle shaft (5) pivotably supported in an air intake passage (2) and that is urged towards the closed direction, the throttle valve (4) adapted for adjusting the amount of air passing through the air intake passage (2). A through-bore (31) penetrating a shaft bore of the throttle shaft (5) is formed in a body, and a damping member (8) having frictional capabilities is inserted into and supported in the through-bore (31) in a state of pressing against the throttle shaft (5) inserted through the shaft bore (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ZAMA JAPAN KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20160210541
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus decides a grid point coordinate on a lookup table corresponding to a predetermined color; calculates, based on association between a signal of the predetermined color in the uniform color space designated by a first color space information and the decided grid point coordinate, a first matrix for converting each signal in the uniform color space into a grid point coordinate; calculates, based on association between the signal of the predetermined color in the uniform color space designated by a second color space information and the decided grid point coordinate, a second matrix for converting each grid point coordinate into a signal in the uniform color space; and generates a lookup table for converting each grid point coordinate into a signal in the second color space by using the second matrix and the second color space information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 9384559
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire a plurality of divided images from one image. The divided images that neighbor one another do not have an overlapping region. An extraction unit extracts a candidate region of a specific region in the divided image. In a case when candidate regions extracted by the extraction unit neighbor one another at the boundary between the divided images that neighbor one another, a combining unit combines shape information of the candidate regions that neighbor one another. A determination unit determines whether the candidate regions form the specific region by using the shape information combined by the combining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 9313366
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a position separated by a predetermined distance from an edge of an object included in image data. The position is outer side of the object. The apparatus deforms a shape of the object based on the determined position so that the determined position becomes a new edge of the object. And the apparatus performs predetermined image processing for edge, based on the determined position, on the new edge of the object after the deformation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20160044208
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a position separated by a predetermined distance from an edge of an object included in image data. The position is outer side of the object. The apparatus deforms a shape of the object based on the determined position so that the determined position becomes a new edge of the object. And the apparatus performs predetermined image processing for edge, based on the determined position, on the new edge of the object after the deformation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20150339827
    Abstract: An image process to be performed on an edge of a character or a line is not performed on pixels included in a mosaic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 9130101
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor substrate has a surface on which an abrasion trace is formed, and a dopant diffusion region includes a portion extending in the direction at an angle within the range of ?5° to +5° with respect to the direction in which the abrasion trace extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Fujita, Yasushi Funakoshi, Hiroyuki Oka, Satoshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9124343
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection control module is configured to transmit a connection request signal during a period in which a communication module is in an unconnected state, and to establish a connection between the communication module and an external device which are in a close proximity state. A halt module is configured to halt a communication control module from executing a negotiation with the external device, when the connection between the communication module and the external device is released by the connection release request signal from the external device and thereafter the connection between the communication module and the external device is re-established by the connection control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kotaro Fukui, Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20150226167
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel valve has a valve chamber, a valve element and a valve seat assigned to the valve element. The valve chamber is delimited by an electromagnetic drive which moves the valve element relative to the valve seat. The drive includes a receiving housing for a coil carrier with an electrical coil. A magnet core is inserted into the coil carrier and has an end section facing the valve element. At an open sealing end facing toward the valve chamber, a sealing element is arranged between the end section of the magnet core and the receiving housing. To achieve good sealing, that end section of the magnet core situated in the sealing element expands the sealing element and compresses the material thereof radially against the edge of the sealing end of the receiving housing to seal the valve chamber to the interior space of the receiving housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Jens Ramler, Felix Mayer, Wolfgang Layher, Georg Maier, Takumi Nonaka, Hiroyuki Oka, Hediki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150071543
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus having: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of divided images; an extraction unit configured to extract a candidate region of a specific region in each of the plurality of images; a combining unit configured, in a case where candidate regions neighbor one another at the boundary in the plurality of images, to combine shape information of the plurality of neighboring candidate regions; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the plurality of candidate regions is a specific region by using the shape information combined by the combining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20150035800
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information terminal apparatus includes: a display device equipped with a touch panel; a position detecting section configured to detect a position of a material body in a three-dimensional space opposite to a display surface of the display device; and a command generating section configured to generate a predetermined command for causing predetermined processing to be executed, on the basis of touch position information of a touch position on the touch panel by a touch operation on the touch panel and position-in-space information of the material body in the three-dimensional space detected by the position detecting section after the touch panel is touched or in a state of the touch panel being touched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Mineharu Uchiyama, Yasuhiro Shiino, Mayuko Yoshida, Junya Suzuki, Keiichiro Mori, Hiroyuki Oka, Hideki Yagi, Yoshihiro Kato, Ai Matsui
  • Publication number: 20150014873
    Abstract: A throttle valve device ideal for small, inexpensive implements is provided. The throttle valve device having a damping member for slowly closing a throttle valve. The throttle valve device (1) has a throttle valve (4) that is fixed to a throttle shaft (5) pivotably supported in an air intake passage (2) and that is urged towards the closed direction, the throttle valve (4) adapted for adjusting the amount of air passing through the air intake passage (2). A through-bore (31) penetrating a shaft bore of the throttle shaft (5) is formed in a body, and a damping member (8) having frictional capabilities is inserted into and supported in the through-bore (31) in a state of pressing against the throttle shaft (5) inserted through the shaft bore (51).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: ZAMA JAPAN KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 8775679
    Abstract: Provided is a device for issuing a synchronization message in a large-scaled computing system including an interconnect and a plurality of computing devices that is connected to the interconnect. The interconnect includes a plurality of switches that is connected to each other. The device sends a synchronization message for synchronizing computing processes on the computing devices to all the computing devices at same timing via the switches that are directly connected to any of the computing devices by using a protocol for a general-purpose interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oka, Jun Tsuiki
  • Patent number: 8733730
    Abstract: A throttle valve device ideal for small, inexpensive implements is provided. The throttle valve device having a damping member for slowly closing a throttle valve. The throttle valve device (1) has a throttle valve (4) that is fixed to a throttle shaft (5) pivotably supported in an air intake passage (2) and that is urged towards the closed direction, the throttle valve (4) adapted for adjusting the amount of air passing through the air intake passage (2). A through-bore (31) penetrating a shaft bore of the throttle shaft (5) is formed in a body, and a damping member (8) having frictional capabilities is inserted into and supported in the through-bore (31) in a state of pressing against the throttle shaft (5) inserted through the shaft bore (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Zama Japan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 8451506
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which performs processing of applying blur processing to divided image data, and compositing divided images having undergone the blur processing, the apparatus comprises an out of image boundary estimation unit which estimates a pixel out of an image boundary of image data for each of first image data subjected to the blur processing and second image data neighboring the first image data among the divided image data; and a blurring image generation unit which generates blurring image data for the first image data by performing the blur processing using a filter for the first image data while referring to the first image data, the second image data, and an estimation pixel estimated by the out of image boundary estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20130069209
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Fujita, Yasushi Funakoshi, Hiroyuki Oka, Satoshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8397094
    Abstract: A node-to-node synchronizing apparatus includes an information generating unit. Before receiving a synchronization request for synchronization, the information generating unit receives, from each process in each computing node, a mask generation request requesting to generate process location information (mask) indicating the location of processes that participate in synchronization. The information generating unit then automatically generates the process location information based on the mask generation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jun Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20120291086
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes an operation receiving module for receiving a user operation; a broadcast receiving module for receiving broadcast contents including view restriction level information; a view restricting module for restricting viewing of the broadcast contents if the view restriction level information meets preset conditions; a decoding module for decoding the broadcast contents not being subject to the view restriction; and a display control module. The display control module displays videos of the decoded broadcast contents on a display device and to display, in a first form, a predetermined object displayed on the display device if the broadcast contents are not subject to the view restriction. The display control module also displays the object in a second form if the broadcast contents are subject to the view restriction. The view restricting module releases the view restriction if the operation receiving unit receives a user operation on the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka
  • Publication number: 20120205566
    Abstract: A throttle valve device ideal for small, inexpensive implements is provided. The throttle valve device having a damping member for slowly closing a throttle valve. The throttle valve device (1) has a throttle valve (4) that is fixed to a throttle shaft (5) pivotably supported in an air intake passage (2) and that is urged towards the closed direction, the throttle valve (4) adapted for adjusting the amount of air passing through the air intake passage (2). A through-bore (31) penetrating a shaft bore of the throttle shaft (5) is formed in a body, and a damping member (8) having frictional capabilities is inserted into and supported in the through-bore (31) in a state of pressing against the throttle shaft (5) inserted through the shaft bore (51).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oka