Patents by Inventor Kazuo Yamamoto

Kazuo Yamamoto 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: 20210082601
    Abstract: It is made possible to perform data transmission through a cable satisfactorily. A cable is connected between first electronic equipment and second electronic equipment. The cable includes a current consumption unit that receives supply of current from the first electronic equipment through a power supply line, a current monitor unit that observes a current amount the first electronic equipment is capable of supplying to the power supply line, and an information transmission unit that transmits control information according to the observed current amount to the first electronic equipment. The first electronic equipment controls the state of data to be supplied to the cable, on the basis of the control information transmitted thereto from the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MORITA, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Masanari YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10951909
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of an aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20210075043
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a supply flow passage and a discharge flow passage for anode gas, a gas-liquid separator, a discharge valve, a differential pressure detection unit configured to detect a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of the discharge valve, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate an effective cross-sectional area of the discharge valve for the anode off-gas, which is decreased by an amount of water flowing into the gas-liquid separator and flowing out from the discharge valve, based on the differential pressure, and to estimate a discharge amount of the anode off-gas based on the estimated effective cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Miho HATAZAKI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Shigeki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210075036
    Abstract: A control unit of a fuel cell (i) performs, when an estimated value of a storage amount in a storage portion of a gas-liquid separator is larger than a threshold storage amount, a first calculation process of calculating an estimated value of a discharge amount after a drain valve is opened, based on a drain speed which is determined with respect to a differential pressure in a first relationship; and (ii) performs, when the estimated value of the storage amount is equal to or smaller than the threshold storage amount, a second calculation process of calculating the estimated value of the discharge amount, based on a current drain speed determined with respect to an estimated value of a current storage amount in a second relationship that is prepared in advance and in which the drain speed decreases as the estimated value of the storage amount decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Miho Hatazaki, Kazuo Yamamoto, Shigeki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210055637
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a high operability irrespective of whether an accessory is attached to an apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a first connection section connected to the accessory, a first operation member disposed in a surface different from a surface where the first connection section is provided, and a second operation member disposed in the surface where the first connection section is provided. The accessory includes a second connection section which can be connected to the first connection section, and a third operation section disposed in a surface different from the surface where the second connection section is provided and is located in the vicinity of the second operation member in a state in which the accessory is attached to the apparatus body. The second operation member and the third operation member have at least one same function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Hideki Toichi, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210052156
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gaze detector with which it is possible to detect a gaze (start point and gaze direction) by a simple configuration. The gaze detector detects a person's gaze, wherein the gaze detector is provided with a camera unit 10 for imaging the face of the person, a projector unit 20 for projecting a prescribed pattern light to the face of the person, a control unit 30 for controlling the presence of projection of the pattern light by the camera unit 10 and the projector unit 20, and a gaze detection processing unit 40 for detecting a gaze from the image of the face of the person imaged by the camera unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi MUKAI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Masaki SUWA, Koichi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20210055512
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that is made compact in the size of an apparatus body, particularly the lateral size thereof, without impairing operability thereof. The image capturing apparatus includes connection terminals for connecting external devices thereto, an air inlet port via which air is drawn in for cooling heat sources of an apparatus body, and an air outlet port via which the air is discharged. A connection terminal arrangement surface and an air outlet port arrangement surface form different surfaces and are inclined at predetermined angles with respect to an optical axis, respectively. The connection terminal arrangement surface and the air outlet port arrangement surface are arranged to be displaced in a left-right direction, as viewed from the side of the image capturing apparatus, and are arranged to overlap each other, as viewed from the front of the image capturing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kojima, Yuko Teruya
  • Patent number: 10910017
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium, which are capable of reproducing an appropriate HDR video. The reproducing device of the present technology acquires reproduction management information in which a first flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a first HDR video which is mandatory when a video of a luminance range wider than a standard luminance range is included in content is included in the content and a second flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a second HDR video that is likely to be included in the content is included in the content are described. Further, the reproducing device reproduces the encoded data of the first HDR video or the encoded data of the second HDR video on the basis of the details of the first flag and the second flag and performance of a display serving as an output destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10897243
    Abstract: A transmission device is enabled to satisfactorily detecting whether or not a reception device is in the operating state even in a case where an element that adjusts signal quality is interposed in a data line. A cable is connected between the transmission device and the reception device. The element that adjusts signal quality is interposed in the data line. A detection unit detects that the reception device is in the operating state. An information supply unit supplies detection information to the transmission device through a predetermined line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Kazuaki Toba, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masanari Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200400791
    Abstract: A light detection device includes a light projector, a light receiver, a detector, and a controller. The light projector projects light to a predetermined range. The light receiver has a light receiving region in which light is received. The detector detects light by comparing a light reception result by the light receiver with a predetermined threshold. The controller controls the threshold. The controller shifts in turn a range where light is projected from the light projector. The controller, causes the detector to detect light per a portion of the light receiving region, the portion corresponding to a range with light being projected from the light projector, and sets the threshold based on a light reception result by the light receiver in a different portion of the light receiving region from the portion corresponding to the range with light being projected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki FUJIWARA, Yuki MATSUI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200398210
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas refining apparatus which can produce a product gas with high purity and high yield at low cost and can produce a plurality of types of gas as a product gas without changing an adsorbent, and the present invention provides a gas refining apparatus (10) including a first derivation line (L3) connected to the second adsorption towers (2a, 2b) and through which the first gas flows, a second derivation line (L4) connected to the second adsorption towers (2a and 2b) and through which the second gas flows, a regeneration line (L5) connected to the first adsorption towers (1a, 1b), through which a regeneration gas for regenerating a first adsorbent in the first adsorption towers (1a, 1b) flows, and a pump (P) provided in the second derivation line (L4) and configured to desorb the second gas from a second adsorbent in the second adsorption towers (2a and 2b), and the regeneration line (L5) is connected to each of the first derivation line (L3) and the second deri
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ONO, Takafumi TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20200336625
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that prevents hooking of a cable, coming-off of a connector, or the like without lowering insertion and extraction performance of a cable even when external connection terminals are arranged on inclined faces formed on a side surface of an apparatus main body in its width direction while reducing a size of the apparatus main body in the width direction. The inclined faces inclines such that ends of the respective inclined faces on a back side of the apparatus main body are inclined in a direction to come close to the optical axis. The inclined faces are arranged at positions so as not to overlap to each other when viewed from the width direction of the apparatus main body, and are arranged such that a part of the inclined faces overlap to each other when viewed from a direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10811708
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell system including: a pressure measurement unit that acquires a measured pressure value of an anode gas at an anode gas inlet or an anode gas outlet of a fuel cell; and a water amount estimation unit. The water amount estimation unit obtains, from a plurality of circumstantial parameters including an open time of an injector provided in the anode gas supply passage and the measured pressure value measured before the injector is opened, an assumed pressure rise that is assumed based on the water amount being equal to the water amount threshold value. When a measured pressure rise of the measured pressure value resulting from opening the injector is larger than the assumed pressure rise, the water amount estimation unit estimates that the water amount is larger than the water amount threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Shigeki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200322692
    Abstract: It is possible to preferably transmit a command received from an external network to a corresponding device in an internal network. A command transmitted from a device on a first network is received. Transmitter information and receiver information are added to the received command, and the command is sent to a command transmission path of a second network. The transmitter information added to the command is rewritten from information regarding a proxy device to information regarding a device capable of transmitting the command when the proxy device is a device incapable of transmitting the received command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: SATOSHI MIYAZAKI, GEN ICHIMURA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200296475
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first communication section, a second communication section, and a processing section. The first communication section is configured to perform communication using an IP. The second communication section is configured to perform communication using a non-IP wired interface. The processing section is configured to communicate a control command using one of the first communication section and the second communication section according to a specified condition, the first communication section being used to communicate an IP control command that is the control command using the IP, the second communication section being used to communicate a wire control command that is the control command with respect to a communication using the wired interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: SATOSHI MIYAZAKI, GEN ICHIMURA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200280757
    Abstract: A cable may be satisfactorily used that has a specific function such as a register that holds specification data and a current consumption unit such as an element for adjusting signal quality. The cable is connected between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A determination unit determines whether or not the first electronic device is a compatible electronic device. A control unit performs control to operate in a compatible mode when the first electronic device is a compatible electronic device and operate in a non-compatible mode when the first electronic device is not a compatible electronic device on the basis of the determination result by the determination unit. Furthermore, an electronic device is connected to an external device via the cable. The determination unit determines whether or not the cable is a compatible cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI MORITA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO, MASANARI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10735633
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that prevents hooking of a cable, coming-off of a connector, or the like without lowering insertion and extraction performance of a cable even when external connection terminals are arranged on inclined faces formed on a side surface of an apparatus main body in its width direction while reducing a size of the apparatus main body in the width direction. The inclined faces inclines such that ends of the respective inclined faces on a back side of the apparatus main body are inclined in a direction to come close to the optical axis. The inclined faces are arranged at positions so as not to overlap to each other when viewed from the width direction of the apparatus main body, and are arranged such that a part of the inclined faces overlap to each other when viewed from a direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10721379
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus capable of separating and dissipating heat generated by a plurality of heat sources. The electronic apparatus includes a main circuit board and an image pickup device unit, as heat sources. A first duct unit is disposed between the main circuit board and the image pickup device unit, and dissipates heat from the image pickup device unit to an outside. A second duct unit is disposed at a position where the second duct unit and the first duct unit sandwich the main circuit board, and dissipates heat from the main circuit board to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hayato Mano, Yuta Nakamura, Futoshi Iinuma, Hiroshi Yano
  • Publication number: 20200228749
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20200209942
    Abstract: It is made possible to consume current without adversely affecting the others. A cable is connected between a first device and a second device. A power line that supplies a current from the first device to the second device, and a current consumption unit that receives supply of a current from the first device through the power line, are included. A detection unit that detects that the second device is in the operating state, and a control unit that cancels a stop state of current consumption of the current consumption unit in response to the detection information, are further included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI MORITA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO, MASANARI YAMAMOTO