Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Tsuchiya

Hitoshi Tsuchiya 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).

  • Interpolation apparatus for encoder, controlling method of interpolation apparatus for encoder, non-transitory storage medium storing controlling program of interpolation apparatus for encoder and encoder
    Patent number: 9960758
    Abstract: An AD converter acquires first and second input values. A first multiplication unit multiplies a first tangent value, which is based on a first boundary angle based on a phase range of a reference value, by the reference value to calculate a first threshold value. A second multiplication unit multiplies a second tangent value, which is based on a second boundary angle based on the phase range, by the reference value to calculate a second threshold. A comparison unit determines whether the comparison value is within a particular phase range specified by the first and the second thresholds. The comparison unit determines magnitude of the comparison value when the comparison value is not within the particular phase range. A phase estimation unit updates the particular phase range to a phase range adjacent to a direction corresponding to the result of determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • ATTACHMENT
    Publication number: 20180099218
    Abstract: An example attachment is attachable to a game controller including a controller-side slide portion on which a controller-side operation button is provided. The attachment includes a strap and an attachment-side slide portion, the attachment-side slide portion having a first side and a second side opposite to each other in a predetermined slide direction. The attachment-side slide portion is provided on a first surface of the attachment, wherein the attachment-side slide portion is configured to slidably engage with the controller-side slide portion in the predetermined slide direction. The controller-side slide portion is insertable into the attachment-side slide portion from the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroki IKUTA, Hironori FURUIKE, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA
  • ATTACHMENT AND GAME SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180043248
    Abstract: An attachment configured to be attached to a game controller with a camera is provided. The attachment includes a housing and an operation portion in the housing. The housing includes a support portion which supports the game controller such that a direction of shooting of the camera is oriented to the inside of the housing. The operation portion has a movable portion in the housing, a position of the movable portion being changed in accordance with a pressing operation onto the operation portion, and at least one of a shape of and a pattern on the movable portion viewed from the camera being changed in accordance with a rotation operation onto the operation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Fumihiko INOUE, Yoshitaka TAMURA, Shinta MINAGAWA, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Shinichi KINUWAKI, Naoki HATTA, Takeshi NISHIKAWA, Kazuyoshi OSAWA
  • Controller device and controller system
    Patent number: 9889384
    Abstract: An example terminal device includes a generally plate-shaped housing, an LCD provided on the front side of the housing, analog sticks, and first and second buttons. The analog sticks are provided respectively in left and right portions of the LCD above the center of the housing. The first and second buttons are provided on the back side of the housing so as to generally correspond to the analog sticks on the front side of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ashida, Yositomo Goto, Takanori Okamura, Junji Takamoto, Masato Ibuki, Shinji Yamamoto, Hitoshi Tsuchiya, Fumiyoshi Suetake, Akiko Suga, Naoya Yamamoto, Daisuke Kumazaki
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CASE, AND CARDBOARD MEMBER
    Publication number: 20180028913
    Abstract: A data transmission device that includes an image capturing unit and transmits data generated based on an image captured by the image capturing unit is allowed to be located at a case while at least a part of the data transmission device is accommodated in the case, such that an image capturing direction of the image capturing unit is directed toward an inner space of a case main body. An image capturing target member movable in the inner space of the case main body in accordance with an operation made from outside of the case main body is located at a position where an image of the image capturing target member is allowed to be captured by the image capturing unit. Based on the transmitted data, an information process is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yuki ONOZAWA, Shinichi KASUNO, Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Kochi KAWAI
  • IMAGE RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET INK COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170369724
    Abstract: An image recording method according to this invention is an image recording method using an ink jet ink composition containing a pigment, in which the maximum particle size of the pigment is 2.5 ?m or less and recording is performed with continuous scanning time of 10 minutes or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Toru SAITO, Keitaro NAKANO, Toshiyuki YODA, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Tsuyoshi SANO
  • GAME CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20170361222
    Abstract: An example game controller includes a housing main body formed by connecting a housing member on a front surface side and a housing member on a back surface side. On the left and right of the housing main body, holding portions are provided. To the left and right holding portions, a pair of grip portions covering the entirety of the holding portions are connected. A boundary portion between two housing members is covered with a grip portion. Thus, when a user grips the grip portion, the grip portion is likely to fit the hand well. Thus, it is possible to improve the operability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Fumiyoshi SUETAKE, Takanori OKAMURA
  • GAME CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20170354869
    Abstract: An example game controller includes L and R buttons provided in both left and right end portions on an upper surface of a housing and ZL and ZR buttons provided to sides of the L and R buttons closer to a back surface of the game controller. The ZL/ZR button includes a protruding portion protruding in the direction of the back surface of the game controller and the direction of a side surface of the game controller. This makes it possible to increase the area of an upper surface of a key top of the ZL/ZR button and improve the operability of the ZL/ZR button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi SUETAKE, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Takanori OKAMURA
  • GAME CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20170354872
    Abstract: An example game controller includes L and R buttons provided in both left and right end portions on an upper surface of a housing and ZL and ZR buttons provided to sides of the L and R buttons closer to a back surface of the game controller. The ZL/ZR button includes a protruding portion protruding in the direction of the back surface of the game controller and the direction of a side surface of the game controller. This makes it possible to increase the area of an upper surface of a key top of the ZL/ZR button and improve the operability of the ZL/ZR button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi SUETAKE, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Takanori OKAMURA
  • IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD
    Publication number: 20170353665
    Abstract: Image pickup apparatus includes imaging control circuit, keystone correction circuit, and composite circuit. Imaging control circuit acquires plurality of first images corresponding to subject image formed on imaging plane by image pickup optical system by causing imaging element to execute exposure plurality of times in accordance with imaging instruction. Keystone correction circuit corrects keystone distortion occurring in each first image due to change of attitude of body, by keystone correction based on tilt angle corresponding to each first image, and the optical characteristic, thereby generating plurality second images. Composite circuit generates third image by compositing second images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SATO, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Takanori FUKUDA
  • IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE, BIO-INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170352695
    Abstract: An image acquisition device includes an imager including a light receiver, a light shield, a light condenser, and a light emitter. The light shield includes a light transmitting substrate, a light shielding layer, and an opening in the light shielding layer. A light transmitting layer having a refractive index smaller than that of the substrate is between the light condenser and the light shield. When a diameter of a light receiving surface of the light reception element is d, a diameter of the opening is a, a pitch of the light reception elements is p, a refractive index of the light transmitting layer is n1, a refractive index of the substrate is n2, and a distance between the light reception element and the light shielding layer is h, Arctan((p-a/2-d/2)/h)?Arcsin(n1/n2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Hitoshi TSUCHIYA
  • Camera system
    Patent number: 9838605
    Abstract: In a camera system that includes a lens unit and a camera body, the camera body includes a blur correcting unit that performs blur correction in a plurality of directions, and a determining unit that determines whether the lens unit mounted onto the camera body is a lens unit that performs the blur correction in the plurality of directions. When the determining unit determines that the mounted lens unit is the lens unit that performs the blur correction in the plurality of directions, the camera body performs the blur correction in the plurality of directions at a camera body side blur correction ratio, and the lens unit performs the blur correction in the plurality of directions at a lens unit side blur correction ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Imaging apparatus, and control method of imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 9813686
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to one embodiment comprises an imaging element, a photographing optical system, an imaging control section, a first projection converting section, composing section, and a second projection converting section. The first projection converting section converts a first projection images into second projection images, respectively, each of which is an image of a second projection system in which a variation of a change amount of an image height on an imaging plane to a change amount of an entrance angle of the light into the photographing optical system is smaller than that of the first projection image. The composing section composes the second projection images to acquire a composed image. The second projection converting section converts the composed image into an image of a projection system different from the second projection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuchiya, Tomoyuki Sato
  • Camera system with image blur correction
    Patent number: 9800789
    Abstract: In a camera system that includes a lens unit and a camera body, the camera body includes: an image blur detecting unit that detects image blur in a plurality of directions; an image blur correcting unit that performs image blur correction in the plurality of directions; a determining unit that determines whether a mounted lens unit is a lens unit that performs the image blur correction; and an image blur correction control unit that performs control in such a way that, when a determination result of the determining unit is true (Yes), the image blur correcting unit performs the image blur correction only in specific directions from among the plurality of directions, and that performs control in such a way that, when the determination result of the determining unit is false (No), the image blur correcting unit performs the image blur correction in the plurality of directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20170283586
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal polymer composition whose fluidity during molding is improved without degrading the mechanical properties thereof. A liquid crystal polymer composition which contains 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polymer, 1 to 200 parts by weight of an inorganic filler and/or an organic filler, and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of a melamine compound as a flow modifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: UENO FINE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Masahiro KIHARA, Masahiro FUKAZAWA
  • Accessory of controller for computer
    Patent number: D815696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama, Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Controller for computer
    Patent number: D819641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuchiya, Fumiyoshi Suetake, Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama
  • Controller for computer
    Patent number: D819642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama, Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Computer
    Patent number: D819696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama, Hitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Case for electronic device
    Patent number: D822996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama, Hitoshi Tsuchiya