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: 20200212898
    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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI MORITA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO, MASANARI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10694196
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program which are capable of transferring information about a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a content recorded in a recording medium to a display device. A reproduction device of the present technology includes: a readout unit configured to read out, from a recording medium recording a content, a file of a video stream and a file of reproduction management information used for reproducing the video stream and including monitor information indicating at least one of a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a master monitor used for authoring the video stream; a decoding unit configured to decode the video stream; and an output unit configured to control an output of video data obtained by decoding the video stream and the monitor information included in the reproduction management information to a display device, depending on a performance of the display device to which the content is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10690732
    Abstract: A magnetic field measuring method includes: a first radial-magnetic-field measuring using a magnetic field measuring element placed at an offset position apart from the coil axis, to thereby measure, at the offset position, first radial magnetic fields along an offset axis parallel to the coil axis; a second radial-magnetic-field measuring using the magnetic field measuring element after being rotated by a set angle, to thereby measure, at the offset position, second radial magnetic fields along the offset axis; and a center-position determining the inter-coil center position, based on a first radial-magnetic-field characteristic that is a characteristic in a direction of the offset axis of the first radial magnetic fields, and a second radial-magnetic-field characteristic that is a characteristic in the direction of the offset axis of the second radial magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsuda, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200168939
    Abstract: A fuel cell monitoring device includes: an impedance measuring part measuring an impedance at each fuel cell and an impedance at a fuel cell stack as a whole; a water content estimating part calculating a water content estimated value at each fuel cell using a gas diffusion resistance obtained from a measurement result about the impedance at each fuel cell, and calculating a water content reference estimated value indicating a water content in each fuel cell using a gas diffusion resistance obtained from a measurement result about the impedance at the fuel cell stack as a whole; and a determining part detecting at least either the occurrence of deterioration of catalyst in the fuel cell or the occurrence of a distribution failure of reactive gas at the fuel cell by determining based on the magnitude of the water content estimated value relative to the water content reference estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Chiaki MIZUTANI, Ikuyasu KATO, Miho HATAZAKI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Shigeki HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10661101
    Abstract: A dose distribution calculation device of the invention is characterized by including: a beam information storing unit (a measured energy storing unit, a measured electric-charge storing unit, a measured beam-central axis storing unit), in which, when particle beam information of a particle beam generated by a particle beam therapy system is measured by a measuring device in confirmative radiation in which the particle beam is radiated to a phantom as a substitute for a treatment target, the thus-measured particle beam information is stored; and a total dose calculation unit for calculating a radiation dose distribution (a total dose distribution) on the basis of the measured particle beam information (a measured energy, a measured beam quantity (a measured number of electric charges), a measured position of beam central axis).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishizawa, Masateru Hayashi, Tetsushi Azuma, Kazuo Yamamoto, Yukiko Hirano, Natsuko Maeda, Eri Hattori, Taizo Honda, Yasuto Kishii
  • Publication number: 20200144638
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a voltage detector; a current detector; an alternating current signal supply unit; a phase difference calculation unit configured to calculate, based on detected alternating voltage and detected alternating current, a phase difference between the detected alternating current and the detected alternating voltage; and an estimation unit configured to estimate, in accordance with the phase difference, an electric power generation distribution feature amount representing an electric power generation distribution in a cell surface of the fuel cell, with use of a predetermined relationship between the electric power generation distribution feature amount and the phase difference. The electric power generation distribution feature amount includes a value indicating a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of local current density in the cell surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Chiaki MIZUTANI, Shigeki HASEGAWA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200142639
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus is capable of accessing a register of a cable satisfactorily. An inquiry about the presence or absence of a register in a cable connected between the transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus is performed. In response to the inquiry, information indicating the presence or absence of the register is received from the cable. When the information indicates the presence of the register, the register of the cable is accessed so that acquisition of storage data or writing in the storage data is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: MASANARI YAMAMOTO, HIROSHI MORITA, KAZUAKI TOBA, KAZUO YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10638085
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 10573908
    Abstract: A fuel cell system used in a vehicle equipped with a fuel cell includes: a fuel cell; a fuel gas supply portion which supplies a fuel gas to the fuel cell; a fuel gas discharge portion which discharges exhaust fuel gas from the fuel cell; and a control unit, in which, when an operation of the fuel cell is ended, the control unit performs (a) an exhaust process of discharging the exhaust fuel gas of the fuel cell to reduce a pressure, and (b) a process of increasing a partial pressure of the fuel gas in the fuel cell by supplying the fuel gas to the fuel cell after the exhaust process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Imanishi, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10549901
    Abstract: Provided is a double container in which an inner container and an outer container are difficult to be separated in a case where the inner container is attached to the outer container. It is a cup-shaped double container, having an inner container and an outer container in which a part of a cross section are non-circular, having a space provided between the inner container and the outer container, and having an open upper end portion, the container including: on an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical side surface member of the inner container, a rib extending in a vertical direction and disposed in plural numbers at predetermined intervals; and a rotation regulating unit disposed on an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical side surface member of the outer container and capable of regulating relative rotation of the inner container and the outer container by interfering with the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Atsugi Plastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshihiro Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20200018827
    Abstract: A laser illumination device includes a light source component, a micro-element lens, and a meniscus lens. The light source component emits a laser beam. The micro-element lens spreads out the laser beam. The meniscus lens has an incident face on which the laser beam from the micro-element lens is incident, and a light emission face that is provided on the opposite side from the incident surface and includes a convex shape, and the meniscus lens has a negative power for spreading out the incident laser beam from the micro-element lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200006792
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell system including: a fuel cell; a reactant gas supply section; a converter; an alternating-current superimposing unit; a phase difference deriving unit configured to derive a phase difference that is a phase lag of an alternating-current voltage relative to an alternating current in an alternating-current component output from the fuel cell; and a first inference unit. The first inference unit infers that the fuel cell is in an inappropriate wet state, when the absolute value of an amount of change in the phase difference has become equal to or larger than a predetermined criterion value immediately after the magnitude of a change in the value of at least one of parameters that are a flow rate of a reactant gas, a stoichiometric ratio, and an output current has exceeded a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chiaki MIZUTANI, Shigeki HASEGAWA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190394473
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program which are capable of transferring information about a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a content recorded in a recording medium to a display device. A reproduction device of the present technology includes: a readout unit configured to read out, from a recording medium recording a content, a file of a video stream and a file of reproduction management information used for reproducing the video stream and including monitor information indicating at least one of a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a master monitor used for authoring the video stream; a decoding unit configured to decode the video stream; and an output unit configured to control an output of video data obtained by decoding the video stream and the monitor information included in the reproduction management information to a display device, depending on a performance of the display device to which the content is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190379805
    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: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10504484
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include circuitry configured to: receive a first image (201), a second image (202) and first color space information (BT.2020) indicating a first color space of the first image; convert a second color space (BT.709) of the second image to a converted color space (BT.2020) same as the first color space, when the second color space is different from the first color space; and generate a display image (209) including the first image and the second image having the converted color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20190364293
    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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 10455240
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program which are capable of transferring information about a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a content recorded in a recording medium to a display device. A reproduction device of the present technology includes: a readout unit configured to read out, from a recording medium recording a content, a file of a video stream and a file of reproduction management information used for reproducing the video stream and including monitor information indicating at least one of a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a master monitor used for authoring the video stream; a decoding unit configured to decode the video stream; and an output unit configured to control an output of video data obtained by decoding the video stream and the monitor information included in the reproduction management information to a display device, depending on a performance of the display device to which the content is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10432830
    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: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10412401
    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: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20190257946
    Abstract: A target detecting device projects measuring light over a predetermined range in front of a vehicle, receives reflected light from a target, and detects the target or a distance to the target, based on a light reception signal output according to the light reception state. The light projecting unit includes a light emitting element emitting measuring light and light diffusion members. The light diffusion members are provided on an upper end portion and a lower end portion of a light projecting lens constituting part of a light projecting path, and diffuses, in the vertical direction, measuring light emitted from the light emitting element and traveling through the end portions in the vertical direction of the light traveling path while transmitting the measuring light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicants: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Keito Ando, Hidenori Miyazaki, Hoshibumi Ichiyanagi, Naoki Fujiwara, Kazuo Yamamoto