Patents by Inventor Keiichi Saito

Keiichi Saito 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: 20190073934
    Abstract: A display device includes an electroluminescent panel including first light-emitting elements to emit red (first color), second light-emitting elements to emit green (second color), and third light-emitting elements to emit blue (third color); an image analyzer that obtains, in displaying of a received video signal, first power serving as a total of power required for displaying red (first color), power required for displaying green (second color), and power required for displaying blue (third color), and that calculates second power by multiplying the first power by a predetermined coefficient according to the video signal, and calculates threshold power by multiplying, by the coefficient, maximum allowable power that is allowed when the electroluminescent panel performs image display; and a luminance adjuster that multiplies the video signal by a ratio between the threshold power and the second power when the second power is equal to or greater than the threshold power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Keiichi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20180240310
    Abstract: A self-service point-of-sale terminal including a cover section having an inverted U-shape open in a front side and a bottom side, a casing that is movable with respect to the cover section and includes a lock configured to fix a relative position of the casing with respect to the cover section, and a coin and bill depositing and dispensing machine housed within the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Osamu WATANABE, Keiichi SAITO
  • Patent number: 9994124
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pair of left and right slide rails each having a lower rail extending in a front and rear direction of a vehicle and an upper rail slidably mounted to the lower rail. The lower rail is fixed to a floor F via brackets and so as to be spaced apart from the floor F. A reinforcing member extending in a left and right direction is disposed so as to span between rear end portions of the lower rails, and the reinforcing member is formed such that a bending strength about an axis in an up and down direction of a seat main body is lower than a bending strength about an axis in a front and rear direction of the seat main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagata, Tetsuya Tanaka, Shogo Ishii, Kazuhisa Isshiki, Yuichi Okazaki, Keiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20180130413
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels including light-emitting elements, a video signal driver that applies a video voltage or an initialization voltage to the pixels based on a video signal, a scan signal driver that applies a scan voltage to the pixels based on the video signal, and a controller that controls an initialization period in which the initialization voltage is applied to the pixels and a video voltage writing period in which the video voltage is applied to the pixels, in accordance with the tone of the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: Keiichi SAITO
  • Patent number: 9540019
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a train control device. The train control device sets an emergency brake pattern and a regular brake pattern as patterns of maximum speed according to the distance to a stopping point, and outputs a braking command when the train speed exceeds the maximum speed. Then, when the maximum speed defined in the regular brake pattern falls below a set speed, the maximum speed of the regular brake pattern is kept constant for a predetermined distance. After that, the maximum speed is gradually reduced toward a stopping point of the emergency brake pattern. This allows a train to make an approach to a fixed stopping position in an automatic train operation even when the fixed stopping position is located farther than a stopping point of the regular brake pattern, and excessive output of an emergency braking command based on the emergency brake pattern can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Nippon Signal Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20160137109
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pair of left and right slide rails each having a lower rail extending in a front and rear direction of a vehicle and an upper rail slidably mounted to the lower rail. The lower rail is fixed to a floor F via brackets and so as to be spaced apart from the floor F. A reinforcing member extending in a left and right direction is disposed so as to span between rear end portions of the lower rails, and the reinforcing member is formed such that a bending strength about an axis in an up and down direction of a seat main body is lower than a bending strength about an axis in a front and rear direction of the seat main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki NAGATA, Tetsuya TANAKA, Shogo ISHII, Kazuhisa ISSHIKI, Yuichi OKAZAKI, Keiichi SAITO
  • Patent number: 9335856
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi Saito, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takashi Okada, Yoshiro Aoki, Takanori Tsunashima
  • Patent number: 9296318
    Abstract: An actuating mechanism (release mechanism) includes an operating pin (operating mechanism) that is operated by an operating lever, a first link that is operated by the operating pin to release a lock of a longitudinal slide mechanism, and a second link that is operated to release a lock of a lateral slide mechanism. A transmitting portion that receives operating force of the lever transmitted from the operating pin and transmits the operating force to a lock portion of each slide mechanism, and an escape portion that allows the operating force transmitted from the operating pin to escape are formed side by side on each of the links, and power transmitted from the lever to each of the links via the operating pin is allowed to escape during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiyou Ootsuka, Tomokazu Igarashi, Eiji Mizutani, Keiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20160073856
    Abstract: A bending control mechanism for an endoscope, provided with a control body and a bendable section including an insertion section, the bending control mechanism includes a pulley which is rotatably provided in the control body, and a wire connected between the pulley and the bendable section. An outer peripheral profile of the pulley, onto which the wire is wound, includes a non-circular section including a small-radius section having a small radius from a rotational axis of the pulley, and a large-radius section having a radius from the rotational axis that is larger than the small radius. The wire is wound onto the large-radius section at an initial winding stage at which the bendable section is at a non-bending position. The wire is wound onto the small-radius section at a stage where the bendable section is bent by a maximum amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi SAITO
  • Patent number: 9285911
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi Saito, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takashi Okada, Yoshiro Aoki, Takanori Tsunashima
  • Patent number: 9201289
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image capture apparatus in which an arrangement relationship between an image sensor and a microlens array that is arranged in front of the image sensor can be varied, and a method for controlling the same. In a state in which a photographic lens including the microlens array is attached, information on the photographic lens and information on the image sensor are used to control a distance between the microlens array and the image sensor, and an aperture value. The microlens array or the image sensor is shifted so that they are arranged at this distance, and the aperture value is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Tanaka, Takayuki Komatsu, Keiichi Saito
  • Patent number: 9176616
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device having a touch function includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of pixels formed on the insulating substrate and arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The pixels form a plurality of pixel blocks formed of a plurality of rows and columns of the pixels. A sensor circuit is arranged in a space between adjacent pixels on the insulating substrate and includes a coupling electrode, a detection electrode arranged adjacent to the coupling electrode for forming a coupling capacitance therebetween, and a reading-out circuit to read out a potential of the detection electrode. At least one sensor circuit is arranged in each pixel block. The contact or non-contact by a fingertip or a nib is detected by a potential difference of the detection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masayoshi Fuchi, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takayuki Imai, Takashi Okada, Takahiko Endo, Miyuki Ishikawa, Masahiro Tada, Yasuo Saruhashi, Keiichi Saito, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150014488
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a train control device. The train control device sets an emergency brake pattern and a regular brake pattern as patterns of maximum speed according to the distance to a stopping point, and outputs a braking command when the train speed exceeds the maximum speed. Then, when the maximum speed defined in the regular brake pattern falls below a set speed, the maximum speed of the regular brake pattern is kept constant for a predetermined distance. After that, the maximum speed is gradually reduced toward a stopping point of the emergency brake pattern. This allows a train to make an approach to a fixed stopping position in an automatic train operation even when the fixed stopping position is located farther than a stopping point of the regular brake pattern, and excessive output of an emergency braking command based on the emergency brake pattern can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Keiichi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20140360301
    Abstract: An actuating mechanism (release mechanism) includes an operating pin (operating mechanism) that is operated by an operating lever, a first link that is operated by the operating pin to release a lock of a longitudinal slide mechanism, and a second link that is operated to release a lock of a lateral slide mechanism. A transmitting portion that receives operating force of the lever transmitted from the operating pin and transmits the operating force to a lock portion of each slide mechanism, and an escape portion that allows the operating force transmitted from the operating pin to escape are formed side by side on each of the links, and power transmitted from the lever to each of the links via the operating pin is allowed to escape during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Taiyou OOTSUKA, Tomokazu IGARASHI, Eiji MIZUTANI, Keiichi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20140210777
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi SAITO, Hideyuki Takahashi, Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takashi Okada, Yoshiro Aoki, Takanori Tsunashima
  • Publication number: 20140184885
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image capture apparatus in which an arrangement relationship between an image sensor and a microlens array that is arranged in front of the image sensor can be varied, and a method for controlling the same. In a state in which a photographic lens including the microlens array is attached, information on the photographic lens and information on the image sensor are used to control a distance between the microlens array and the image sensor, and an aperture value. The microlens array or the image sensor is shifted so that they are arranged at this distance, and the aperture value is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichi Tanaka, Takayuki Komatsu, Keiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20120044176
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device having a touch function includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of pixels formed on the insulating substrate and arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The pixels form a plurality of pixel blocks formed of a plurality of rows and columns of the pixels. A sensor circuit is arranged in a space between adjacent pixels on the insulating substrate and includes a coupling electrode, a detection electrode arranged adjacent to the coupling electrode for forming a coupling capacitance therebetween, and a reading-out circuit to read out a potential of the detection electrode. At least one sensor circuit is arranged in each pixel block. The contact or non-contact by a fingertip or a nib is detected by a potential difference of the detection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Toshiba Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Satoru Tomita, Masayoshi Fuchi, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takayuki Imai, Takashi Okada, Takahiko Endo, Miyuki Ishikawa, Masahiro Tada, Yasuo Saruhashi, Keiichi Saito, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6301019
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus has an automatic document feeder and a flat bed, wherein a backing part which is read so as to ensure that a leading edge of an original is read is configured to have a white area and a gray area, either the white area or the gray area being read depending on a type of the original, and the original being read subsequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Keiichi Saito, Norio Kanemitsu, Minoru Wada
  • Patent number: D798354
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Somic Ishikawa
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kitada, Keiichi Saito
  • Patent number: D802038
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Somic Ishikawa
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kitada, Keiichi Saito