Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Yamamoto

Kazutaka 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: 20170168490
    Abstract: A travel route automatic selection system for a work machine includes a travel route search unit that searches a travel route satisfying a condition that the work machine can enter from a current position for preparing entry only by forward movement along an entry route formed so that the work machine enters at an entry position in a same direction as a traveling direction when the work machine travels the travel route, at an entry position positioned between a travel route start position and a work start position, from a predetermined travel route corresponding to each of the one or a plurality of work target zones, by determining whether the condition is satisfied based on at least the travel route part of the predetermined distance from the travel route start position at least between the travel route start position and the work start position of the predetermined travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro ISHIJIMA, Tadashi OSHIMI, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Noboru YAZAKI, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 9674379
    Abstract: A relay apparatus to be connected through a network to a server apparatus configured to store image data and a communication apparatus configured to acquire the image data from the server and output an image based on the acquired image data, the relay apparatus includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request for acquiring location information from the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the location information for acquiring the image data from the server apparatus upon receipt of the request; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the acquired location information to the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Nogawa, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9648360
    Abstract: A relay apparatus configured to communicate with a server which transmits contents corresponding to identification information received by the server, and a terminal which acquires the contents corresponding to the identification information, the relay apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with the server and the terminal; and a processor configured to: receive first identification information from the server through the communication unit; determine whether first contents corresponding to the received first identification information complies with a first format or a second format; transmit the first identification information to the terminal through the communication unit if the processor determines that the first contents complies with the first format; and transmits, to the terminal through the communication unit, second identification information corresponding to second contents which is acquired by converting the first contents if the processor determines that the first con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sasaki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki, Katsuaki Ito, Satoshi Watanabe, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hirokazu Banno
  • Patent number: 9648228
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus performs at least one exposure adjusting operation on the image captured by the camera. While the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, the touch panel has a first region with a width, in a peripheral portion of the display, and a second region which is disposed at an inner side of the first region in the display. While the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, when the touch panel detects a touch in the second region, at least an exposure adjusting operation starts to be performed. After the exposure adjusting operation has started, and while the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, when the touch panel detects a touch in the first region, any operation relating to the exposure adjusting operation is not performed, and the started exposure adjusting operation is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20170102702
    Abstract: An entry availability determination system including a detector that detects a current position of a work machine that performs predetermined work while traveling a work target zone along a predetermined travel route; and a determination information generation unit that generates determination information indicating whether entry is possible by determining whether the work machine can enter from a current position for preparing entry of the work machine only by forward movement along an entry route formed so that the work machine enters at an entry position in a same direction as a traveling direction when the work machine travels the travel route, at the entry position positioned on an opposite side of the traveling direction of the work machine with respect to a work complete position or a work incomplete position on the travel route, when the work machine gets out of the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro ISHIJIMA, Tadashi OSHIMI, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Noboru YAZAKI, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 9607554
    Abstract: An image pickup device, having first, second and third imaging modes, includes: a camera; a display that displays a video image obtained by the camera in the first, second and third imaging modes; and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least left and right directions. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the right direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the right direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the left direction in the third imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the left direction in the second imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20170048452
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus performs at least one exposure adjusting operation on the image captured by the camera. While the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, the touch panel has a first region with a width, in a peripheral portion of the display, and a second region which is disposed at an inner side of the first region in the display. While the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, when the touch panel detects a touch in the second region, at least an exposure adjusting operation starts to be performed. After the exposure adjusting operation has started, and while the display is displaying the image which the camera is capturing, when the touch panel detects a touch in the first region, any operation relating to the exposure adjusting operation is not performed, and the started exposure adjusting operation is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 9547434
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display that displays an image captured by the camera; and a touch panel that overlaps the display. While the display is displaying the image, when a predetermined single operation is detected on the touch panel, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness brighter than the first brightness. The display displays, over the image, an indication that the brightness has increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 9500858
    Abstract: Provided is an image recording system for recording an image on a thermally reversible recording medium held by a conveyed article conveyed on a predetermined conveying path in a predetermined conveying direction, including: a recording device provided on at least one side of the conveying path in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and configured to record an image on the thermally reversible recording medium of the conveyed article conveyed to a position facing the recording device by heating the thermally reversible recording medium. The image includes a scan image to be read by a reading device when the conveyed article is conveyed downstream in the conveying direction from the position facing the recording device. The recording device records the scan image on the thermally reversible recording medium within a former half of a recording time of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Ohi, Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi
  • Publication number: 20160276047
    Abstract: To provide a protection barrier, which includes an inlet from which laser light emitted from a laser device enters; an outlet from which the laser light is output towards an irradiation target; and a unit configured to prevent a leakage, where the unit is configured to reduce an intensity of the laser light leaked from the protection barrier, wherein the protection barrier is configured to surround a light path of the laser light emitted from the laser device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutaka YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9443476
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display; a touch panel that overlaps the display, and a vertical sensor that detects a vertical direction. When a flick operation from down to up along the vertical direction is performed, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness that is brighter than the first brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 9375944
    Abstract: A laser erasing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to move a reversible thermal recording medium having display information thereon at a predetermined moving speed, the reversible thermal recording medium reversibly changing a color tone thereof depending on a temperature; and a laser erasing unit configured to erase the display information by irradiating the reversible thermal recording medium with a laser beam while the reversible thermal recording medium is moving and by deflecting the laser beam at a predetermined scanning speed lower than the predetermined moving speed in a same direction as a moving direction of the reversible thermal recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160179330
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a camera; a display capable of displaying an image captured by the camera; and a touch panel overlapping the display. The image pickup device has at least a first mode in which the display is displaying an image being captured by the camera. At least in the first mode, the touch panel has an unresponsive region having a predetermined width in a peripheral portion of the display, and an input is not received in the unresponsive region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 9319454
    Abstract: A communication apparatus system includes a relay apparatus and a communication apparatus which are connected to a network, to which a service providing apparatus for an electronic-file storing service is connected. The communication apparatus includes: an address-get-request transmitting unit that transmits a request for getting an upload destination address to the relay apparatus; a receiving unit that receives the upload destination address and a template for an upload message from the relay apparatus; an upload-message generating unit that generates the upload message including the electronic file and the upload destination address according to the received template; and an upload-message transmitting unit that transmits the generated upload message to the service providing apparatus to upload the electronic file in the electronic-file storing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Nagasaki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9302524
    Abstract: A disclosed marking control device controls a marking device to mark a target image on a thermoreversible recording medium by applying a laser beam includes a marking position determination unit dividing the image into plural marking lines, and determining their marking positions; a marking order determination unit determining a marking order to mark the marking lines in mutually opposite directions; an adjusting unit adjusting a distance between a first ending point and a second starting point to be longer than a distance between a first starting point and a second ending point, or adjusting laser power applied to a second starting point side of the second marking line to be lower than the laser power applied to a second ending point side of the second marking line; and a marking instruction generator unit generating marking instructions including the marking positions of the marking lines and the marking order thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Shinya Kawahara, Toshiaki Asai, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 9272533
    Abstract: To provide an image processing method, including: image recording, wherein an image composed of a plurality of laser drawn lines is recorded by heating by irradiating parallel laser lights on a recording medium spaced by a predetermined distance, wherein, in the image recording, among the plurality of laser drawn lines constituting the image, at least two units of lines drawn with different energy, each composed of a pair of laser drawn lines adjacent to each other and with different irradiation energy, are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asai, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tomomi Ishimi, Yoshihiko Hotta
  • Patent number: 9171506
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display; and a touch panel that overlaps the display. The display has at least a first mode in which an image captured by the camera is displayed, and a second mode in which a predetermined image is displayed. In the first mode, the touch panel has an unresponsive region with a predetermined width in a peripheral portion of the display. In the second mode, the touch panel does not have the unresponsive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20150304548
    Abstract: An image pickup device, having first, second and third imaging modes, includes: a camera; a display that displays a video image obtained by the camera in the first, second and third imaging modes; and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least left and right directions. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the right direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the right direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the left direction in the third imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the left direction in the second imaging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 9167026
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a communication apparatus; and a relay apparatus. The communication apparatus includes: a contents-summary-information address request unit; a contents-summary-information display unit; a selection-information transmission unit; a selection-completion notification unit; and a contents get unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Shimada, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hirokazu Banno, Takeshi Nagasaki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20150229836
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display that displays an image captured by the camera; and a touch panel that overlaps the display. While the display is displaying the image, when a predetermined single operation is detected on the touch panel, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness brighter than the first brightness. The display displays, over the image, an indication that the brightness has increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO