Patents by Inventor Ikuo Watanabe

Ikuo Watanabe 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: 5544176
    Abstract: An information recording apparatus records data, which is in the format of packets received by broadcast, on a recording medium having a write/read capability. If the received data contains any unnecessary items of data that can be reproduced later, these items of data are eliminated at the time of recording on the recording medium. At playback, the eliminated items of data are restored and appended to the data read in from the recording medium. The resulting data, which is substantially the same as that in the packets received by broadcast, is outputted to a playback apparatus capable of reproducing the broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Fujii, Motokazu Kashida, Ikuo Watanabe, Shinichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5501194
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus in which the state of vaporization of the fuel in the internal combustion engine is improved by making the fuel spray injected from the fuel injector not strike the umbrella portion of the intake valve from the front, but be oriented to a position shifted to the right or left of the stem so that the majority of the spray flows in to a valve seat clearance of an annular groove shape formed between the valve face and the valve seat and causes a swirl in the same. The wet amount of the fuel depositing as a liquid film on the umbrella portion and the inner surface of the intake port, which is difficult to evaporate, is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignees: Nippon Soken Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kanehara, Toshihiko Igashira, Ikuo Watanabe, Masanori Okada, Jun-ichi Matsudaira
  • Patent number: 5502570
    Abstract: A reproducing method for reproducing an image from a recording medium on which are recorded (i) a plurality of basic frame image data representing a whole image, and (ii) a plurality of collateral image data representing a partial image of the whole image. The reproducing method includes the steps of discriminating a plurality of recording locations at which a plurality of basic frame image data are recorded on the recording medium, storing into a memory, the plurality of recording locations of the plurality of basic frame image data discriminated in the discriminating step, without storing a plurality of recording locations of the plurality of collateral image data, and reading a basic frame image data recorded on the recording medium in accordance with the plurality of recording locations of the plurality of basic frame image data stored in the memory to reproduce an image from the read basic frame image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Shikakura, Motokazu Kashida, Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5438376
    Abstract: An image reception/reproduction apparatus for reproducing an image from image information received from a transmission medium or a recording medium, comprises at least two frame memory means consisting of serial port random access memories, and memory control means for writing, in the other frame memory means, a signal read out from one frame memory means through a serial port at a video rate, wherein all contents of one frame memory can be copied to the other frame memory within a one-frame period. Even if the reception image is partially updated, an image updated within a period obtained by adding a one-frame intermemory copy period to a period required for transmitting the updated portion can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5353063
    Abstract: In an image display method and apparatus for displaying image data, it is determined, based upon a control code contained in received image data, whether the image data is whole image data in one frame or partial image data in one frame. When it is determined that the image data is partial image data, the content of a memory being displayed is transferred to another memory, and the partial image data is stored in the memory which is the destination of the transfer. When the transfer of the data to the memory which is the destination of the transfer ends, the content of this memory is read and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yagisawa, Ikuo Watanabe, Motokazu Kashida, Nobuhiro Hoshi
  • Patent number: 5317399
    Abstract: Successively transmitted images are stored in frame memories the contents of which are displayed. The user can freeze a desired image in order to view it for a prolonged period of time. When the image thus frozen is released from the freeze mode, the content of the frame memory storing it continues to be displayed until anew image is stored in this frame memory. When a new image has been written in the frame memory and a stage is reached in which the image is to be displayed, display-setting information pertaining to this image is read out and the image is displayed in accordance with this information. In a case where the display-setting information indicates that the image is to be displayed in combination with a designated image transmitted earlier and it is determined that the storage destination of the designated image had previously been placed in the freeze mode, this means that an unrelated image is presently being stored at this storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Satake, Ikuo Watanabe, Motokazu Kashida, Akihiro Shikakura
  • Patent number: 5291306
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus has a memory for storing compressed image data; a unit for supplying the stored data to a reproducing unit for reproducing the stored data as a visual image; and a unit for causing the memory to retain the compressed image data irrespective of the operation of the supplying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Watanabe, Yasutomo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5283800
    Abstract: A metal vapor laser apparatus has a gas supply device. The device supplies at least two kinds of gases to a container of the laser apparatus controlled individually. One of the gases is selected from the group of the molecular gas such as hydrogen gas, the other is selected from the group of rare gas such as neon gas. By adjusting the mixture ratio of these gases, the laser beam output is obtained efficiently. The molecular gas should be supplied when a metal lump, such as copper, arranged in the container is melting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki KaishaToshiba
    Inventors: Setsuo Suzuki, Yasushi Iseki, Ikuo Watanabe, Kazuo Hayashi, Etsuo Noda, Tomoko Ogawa, Hironobu Kimura, Nobutada Aoki
  • Patent number: 5220425
    Abstract: Image data is stored in a plurality of image memories each capable of storing at least one picture of image information, and the plurality of image memories are successively read and their stored images displayed. Ordinarily, the received image data is stored in whichever of the image memories has been designated by a memory number information contained in control data provided along with the received image data. However, when the memory number designated by the control data and the memory number information of an image memory whose stored data is currently being read out and displayed coincide, the writing of the image data in the image memory information whose number has been designated is prohibited. Instead, the image data is written in an image memory whose memory number differs from that of an image memory from which the data is currently being read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Enari, Ikuo Watanabe, Motokazu Kashida
  • Patent number: 5178913
    Abstract: A mask for covering part of the surface of the material to be coated comprises an aluminum foil, and a film of a resin provided on one surface of the foil and having a high power of adhering to the foil and any film of paint formed on the resin film. The film of paint which is formed on the resin film when the paint applied to the material to be coated is baked in an oven does not peel off and contaminate the interior of the oven. No such paint film peels off and adheres to the coated surface of the coated product, either, but the mask ensures the improved quality of the coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gen Kusunoki, Toshio Kai, Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5045224
    Abstract: A washing solution for a color-change washing which contains a medium-boiling and/or high-boiling true solvent having a boiling point of 100.degree. C. or more, and a color-change washing method using that washing solution. In rotary type electrostatic spray coating devices in which a non-aqueous dispersion paint and a titanium dioxide pigment-incorporated paint are used in combination, the washing solution and method are advantageously used as they remove contamination and clogging of the coating device and reduce fire hazards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuo Watanabe, Toshio Kai, Gen Kusunoki, Shiro Oota
  • Patent number: 4970385
    Abstract: A temperature measuring device intended to use the photoelastic effect of a transparent element. The present invention employs as the temperature sensing element a thermal expansion photoelastic cell comprising a photoelastic element and a stress generating element which are closely contacted with each other for yielding stress of anisotropy in the photoelastic element, which changes in response to changing ambient temperature, as the stress generating element is quite remarkably different in thermal expansion coefficient from the photoelastic element. An element is further provided to detect phase difference between two orthogonal light components passed through the photoelastic element which are one polarized component in a stress direction and the other component polarized in a direction perpendicular to the above stress direction when linearly polarized light is passed through the photoelastic element of the thermal expansion photoelastic cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kyoichi Tatsuno, Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4875711
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a connector for connecting a slender tube, which comprises: a connector body and a socket member. The connector body has: a connecting portion formed at its leading end to be connected to a base; a small hole formed at its leading end; a stepped connecting bore extending therethrough and expanded from the small hole; and an annular groove formed in the inner circumference of the connecting bore. The socket member is adapted to be removably inserted into the connecting bore of the connector body at its leading end and has: a cylindrical wall for engaging with a bulging wall of the connected end of a slender tube; and a plurality of free walls arranged at a spacing at the trailing end of the cylindrical wall elastically in an expanded manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Ltd.
    Inventor: Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4787395
    Abstract: A blood flow measuring apparatus provides a two-dimensional blood stream flow velocity distribution diagram which displays a two-dimensional blood stream flow velocity distribution in a region of a living body to be examined and a one-dimensional blood stream flow velocity distribution diagram which displays a one-dimensional blood stream flow velocity distribution in a linear region specified by a line on the examined region with a measuring condition different from the measurement of the two-dimensional blood stream flow velocity distribution. In the present invention, the two-dimensional blood stream flow velocity diagram and the one-dimensional blood stream flow velocity diagram are simultaneously displayed in such a manner that the corresponding portions can be clearly read, and thus the blood stream flow velocity in each portion can be correctly and easily determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadahiko Yanashima, Shinichi Amemiya, Ikuo Watanabe, Hirohide Miwa
  • Patent number: 4251497
    Abstract: Reaction heat values of basic aluminum sulfate solution with acid such as sulfuric acid are correlative with an amount of base contained in said solution. The difference of temperatures of said solution before and after its reaction with said acid is utilized as an indication for the calibration of the basic amount in the solution. This calibration is effectively utilized for the control of the basic amount of said solution which is employed in the removal of SO.sub.2 gas from a waste gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1981
    Assignees: Dowa Mining Co. Ltd., Dowa Engineering Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tezuka, Seiichi Hisano, Hyoichi Sasaki, Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: D259565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Godo Kigyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ikuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: D259789
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Inventor: Ikuo Watanabe