Patents by Inventor Ichiro Ueno
Ichiro Ueno 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).
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Patent number: 9387736Abstract: A system for detecting deflated tires by making a relative comparison among rotation speeds of tires attached to a vehicle. The system includes a rotation speed information detection means for detecting rotation speed information of the tires; a rotation speed calculation means for calculating rotation speeds of the tires; and a determination means for determining deflated tires by comparing a decreased pressure determination value using the calculated rotation speeds with a predetermined threshold value. The determination means determines that the vehicle is going straight when it is found, with regard to factors composed of a lateral G, a yaw rate, and a steering angle of the vehicle, at least two of the factors including the yaw rate show that a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value at a predetermined time is lower than a predetermined value, thereby detecting deflated tires.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignees: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Minao Yanase, Seigou Sakagami, Yuji Oshiro, Tomonori Sakai, Shinya Notomi, Kazutaka Saito, Kazunari Okada, Ichiro Ueno
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Patent number: 9268790Abstract: A search apparatus includes the following elements. A provisional search condition inputting unit inputs character string information as a provisional search condition. A character string/position correspondence information holding unit holds character string/position correspondence information including a correspondence between character string information and position information. A position information obtaining unit obtains position information corresponding to the character string information input as the provisional search condition from the character string/position correspondence information. A search object information storage unit stores search object information with additional information including at least position information.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
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Patent number: 8798465Abstract: An optical path switching type optical signal transmission/reception apparatus includes a one-to-seven compatible optically controlled optical path switching apparatus 100 that is connected to a host optical signal transmission/reception apparatus 1 via an optical fiber, a total of seven subordinate optical communication adapters 110 connected via optical fibers, user side devices 160 connected to respective subordinate optical communication adapters via an electric circuit, an optical transmission/reception control circuit provided in each of the total of seven subordinate user side optical communication adapters 110, and including an uplink optical signal transmission mechanism, a downlink optical signal reception mechanism, a control light source that can generate control light to drive the optical path switching apparatus 100, in which a wavelength of the generated control light is different from a wavelength of signal light, and an optical communication oriented transmission/reception mechanism using theType: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignees: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd., Inter Energy Co., Ltd., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Norio Tanaka, Shigeru Takarada, Hirobumi Watanabe, Shiro Futaki, Ichiro Ueno, Takashi Hiraga, Noritaka Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140156701Abstract: A search apparatus includes the following elements. A provisional search condition inputting unit inputs character string information as a provisional search condition. A character string/position correspondence information holding unit holds character string/position correspondence information including a correspondence between character string information and position information. A position information obtaining unit obtains position information corresponding to the character string information input as the provisional search condition from the character string/position correspondence information. A search object information storage unit stores search object information with additional information including at least position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
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Patent number: 8688672Abstract: A search apparatus may include the following elements. A provisional search condition inputting unit inputs character string information as a provisional search condition. A character string/position correspondence information holding unit holds character string/position correspondence information including a correspondence between character string information and position information. A position information obtaining unit obtains position information corresponding to the character string information input as the provisional search condition from the character string/position correspondence information. A search object information storage unit stores search object information with additional information including at least position information.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
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Patent number: 8659818Abstract: An optical-path-switching apparatus according to the present invention includes a reducing optical system capable of guiding signal light and control light along the direction of gravity into a thermal-lens-forming optical element having an incidence plane positioned to be perpendicular to the direction of gravity in such a way as to differentiate respective convergence points in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The apparatus further includes a light-receiving unit configured to converge or condense straight-traveling signal light in the absence of irradiation with the control light and signal light whose optical path has been switched due to irradiation with the control light using the same optical element. Further, the apparatus includes a wedge-type prism provided at a passing position of the optical-path-switched signal light to increase the distance between the optical axis of the optical-path-changed signal light and the optical axis of the straight-traveling signal light.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Inter Energy Co., Ltd., Dainichiseika Color & ChemicalInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Takashi Hiraga, Noritaka Yamamoto, Hirobumi Watanabe, Shiro Futaki, Noriyasu Shiga, Norio Tanaka, Shigeru Takarada
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Patent number: 8625956Abstract: Position information of image pickup positions included in a designated moving image file is read out from position of point of change information, and map information covering all the positions of the position information is obtained from a map information database by a map information obtaining portion. A map is drawn by a map drawing portion based on the position information and the map information. The drawn map is overlapped with a moving image, which is replayed by a moving image replay portion, by an overlapping portion and displayed on a display portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Baiping Liao, Ichiro Ueno
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Publication number: 20130057945Abstract: An optical-path-switching apparatus according to the present invention includes a reducing optical system capable of guiding signal light and control light along the direction of gravity into a thermal-lens-forming optical element having an incidence plane positioned to be perpendicular to the direction of gravity in such a way as to differentiate respective convergence points in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The apparatus further includes a light-receiving unit configured to converge or condense straight-traveling signal light in the absence of irradiation with the control light and signal light whose optical path has been switched due to irradiation with the control light using the same optical element. Further, the apparatus includes a wedge-type prism provided at a passing position of the optical-path-switched signal light to increase the distance between the optical axis of the optical-path-changed signal light and the optical axis of the straight-traveling signal light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicants: INTER ENERGY CO., LTD., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science, DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Takashi Hiraga, Noritaka Yamamoto, Hirobumi Watanabe, Shiro Futaki, Noriyasu Shiga, Norio Tanaka, Shigeru Takarada
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Publication number: 20120310590Abstract: A system for detecting deflated tires by making a relative comparison among rotation speeds of tires attached to a vehicle. The system includes a rotation speed information detection means for detecting rotation speed information of the tires; a rotation speed calculation means for calculating rotation speeds of the tires; and a determination means for determining deflated tires by comparing a decreased pressure determination value using the calculated rotation speeds with a predetermined threshold value. The determination means determines that the vehicle is going straight when it is found, with regard to factors composed of a lateral G, a yaw rate, and a steering angle of the vehicle, at least two of the factors including the yaw rate show that a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value at a predetermined time is lower than a predetermined value, thereby detecting deflated tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Minao YANASE, Seigou Sakagami, Yuji Oshiro, Tomonori Sakai, Shinya Notomi, Kazutaka Saito, Kazunari Okada, Ichiro Ueno
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Patent number: 8295650Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include the following elements: an image information obtaining unit which obtains image information having at least position information added thereto as additional information, a map information storage unit which stores map information, a template information storage unit which stores template information including a template of content information, a map information obtaining unit which obtains map information corresponding to the position information added to the image information obtained by the image information obtaining unit from the map information stored in the map information storage unit, and a content information creating unit which creates content information using at least the map information obtained by the map information obtaining unit on the basis of the template information.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao, Hiroyuki Tominaga
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Patent number: 8279320Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture an image; a GPS (Global Positioning System) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite; a power-supply control unit configured to control power supply to the GPS device; an apparatus control unit configured to monitor a state of photographing by a user to calculate a frequency of use of the imaging unit per unit time, and to cause the power-supply control unit to intermittently supply power to the GPS device when the calculated use frequency is lower than a predetermined threshold; and a data-recording control unit configured to generate photographed data attribute information in which positional information acquired in the GPS device is set as attribute information of an acquired image in the imaging unit, and to execute processing to store the photographed data attribute information in a storing unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Baiping Liao
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Patent number: 8208770Abstract: An optical deflection apparatus includes a signal light source configured to emit signal light having one or more wavelengths, a control light source configured to emit control light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the signal light, a thermal lens forming optical element including a light absorption layer configured to transmit the signal light and selectively absorb the control light, and a beam-condensing unit configured to cause beam-condensation of the control light and the signal light at different convergence points in the light absorption layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Ueno, Nobutaka Tanigaki, Noritaka Yamamoto, Toshiko Mizokuro, Takashi Hiraga, Norio Tanaka, Hiroshi Nagaeda, Noriyasu Shiga
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Publication number: 20120063777Abstract: An optical path switching type optical signal transmission/reception apparatus includes a one-to-seven compatible optically controlled optical path switching apparatus 100 that is connected to a host optical signal transmission/reception apparatus 1 via an optical fiber, a total of seven subordinate optical communication adapters 110 connected via optical fibers, user side devices 160 connected to respective subordinate optical communication adapters via an electric circuit, an optical transmission/reception control circuit provided in each of the total of seven subordinate user side optical communication adapters 110, and including an uplink optical signal transmission mechanism, a downlink optical signal reception mechanism, a control light source that can generate control light to drive the optical path switching apparatus 100, in which a wavelength of the generated control light is different from a wavelength of signal light, and an optical communication oriented transmission/reception mechanism using theType: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicants: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INTER ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Norio Tanaka, Shigeru Takarada, Hirofumi Watanabe, Shiro Futaki, Ichiro Ueno, Takashi Hiraga, Noritaka Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8098324Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture image data, a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite, and a main controller configured to measure an imaging frequency of the imaging unit, to determine or update a control parameter as a condition for a transition of an operation state of the GPS device based on the measured imaging frequency, and to cause a transition of the operation state of the GPS device based on the determined or updated control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Hitoshi Mitani, Baiping Liao
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Patent number: 8073265Abstract: An image managing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes image information storage means that stores image information corresponding to captured image data, and cluster managing means that manages the image information by hierarchical clusters that include a plurality of layers of clusters and whose structure is fixed from an uppermost layer to a predetermined layer on the way to a lowermost layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Baiping Liao, Ichiro Ueno, Chao Xu, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh
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Patent number: 8009919Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: an image information storage that stores image information including locations where images are captured as information corresponding to captured image data; a cluster managing section that manages the image information with hierarchical clusters including a plurality of clusters configured in a plurality of layers; a display layer designation section that designates a layer to be displayed as a display layer among from an uppermost layer through a lowermost layer in the plurality of layers; a display condition designation section that designates a display condition of the image data; a conditional filtering section that selects such image data in the display layer that the image information thereof exists within a predetermined range based on the display condition; and a drawing section that draws in the display layer, as an image location display, the image captured locations of the image data selected based on the image information.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Liao Baiping, Ichiro Ueno
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Patent number: 8004748Abstract: A thermal lens forming element includes a first chamber serving as a control light absorbing region, which is configured as a columnar body or an N prismatic body (wherein N is an integer equal to or greater than 4) circumscribing the columnar body and filled with a control light absorbing dyestuff solution containing a solvent having a viscosity of 0 to 3 mPa·s at 160° C. or above and a ratio of the viscosity of the solvent at 160° C. to a viscosity of the solvent at 40° C. not less than 1 and not greater than 6, wherein the columnar body or the N prismatic body circumscribing the columnar body has a central axis coinciding with an optical axis of incident signal light. The first chamber is connected to a second chamber via a solution channel and a dam. The dyestuff solution and a bubble of an inert gas are confined in the second chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norio Tanaka, Shigeru Takarada, Takashi Hiraga, Ichiro Ueno, Nobutaka Tanigaki, Noritaka Yamamoto, Toshiko Mizokuro
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Patent number: 7961221Abstract: An image pickup position information acquisition unit acquires, from a position fixing unit, position information of an image pickup location of a moving image being picked up. A preceding image pickup position information storage unit stores position information of a preceding image pickup location as preceding image pickup position information. A change point detector compares the image pickup position information and the preceding image pickup position information. If the position indicated by the image pickup position information is spaced apart from the position indicated by the preceding image pickup position information by a predetermined distance, the change point detector detects the current position as a change point. The change point is recorded onto a change point position information. Thumbnail data generated by a thumbnail generator is recorded as a change point thumbnail.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Baiping Liao, Ichiro Ueno
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Publication number: 20110050891Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture image data, a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite, and a main controller configured to measure an imaging frequency of the imaging unit, to determine or update a control parameter as a condition for a transition of an operation state of the GPS device based on the measured imaging frequency, and to cause a transition of the operation state of the GPS device based on the determined or updated control parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Hitoshi Mitani, Baiping Liao
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Patent number: 7843506Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to execute processing to capture image data, a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to execute position calculation processing based on data received from a satellite, and a main controller configured to measure an imaging frequency of the imaging unit, to determine or update a control parameter as a condition for a transition of an operation state of the GPS device based on the measured imaging frequency, and to cause a transition of the operation state of the GPS device based on the determined or updated control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ichiro Ueno, Hitoshi Mitani, Baiping Liao