Patents by Inventor Kenichi Horie

Kenichi Horie 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: 9790405
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel employing a photocurable adhesive composition which causes no damage to adherends during bonding and which, when used in bonding rugged adherends, can bond the adherends without forming a gap therebetween. The photocurable adhesive composition of the inventive method comprises (A) 100 parts by mass of a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 100,000, (B) 5 parts to 70 parts by mass of a phenoxy resin, and (C) 0.1 parts to 10 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator. The uncured composition has a loss tangent (loss modulus/storage modulus) of less than 1 at 25° C. and the temperature at which the loss tangent of the uncured composition reaches 1 or more is 80° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Threebond Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nemoto, Yoshihide Arai, Kenichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20150166842
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel employing a photocurable adhesive composition which causes no damage to adherends during bonding and which, when used in bonding rugged adherends, can bond the adherends without forming a gap therebetween. The photocurable adhesive composition of the inventive method comprises (A) 100 parts by mass of a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 100,000, (B) 5 parts to 70 parts by mass of a phenoxy resin, and (C) 0.1 parts to 10 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator. The uncured composition has a loss tangent (loss modulus/storage modulus) of less than 1 at 25° C. and the temperature at which the loss tangent of the uncured composition reaches 1 or more is 80° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi NEMOTO, Yoshihide ARAI, Kenichi HORIE
  • Patent number: 8976255
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first and a second imaging unit, a clipping unit, an image processing control unit. The first imaging unit is provided on a front face of an apparatus main body. The second imaging unit is provided on a back face of the apparatus main body. The clipping unit clips image data of the second main subject from the second acquired image data. The image processing control unit combines the first acquired image data with the image data of the second main subject clipped by the clipping unit to meet combining conditions determined by the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Osamu Nonaka, Kenichi Horie, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya
  • Patent number: 8828500
    Abstract: A photocurable resin composition for sealing an organic EL device is provided, which can seal the organic EL device without exerting any bad influence on the device, thereby suppress the formation and growth of dark spots positively, and which can ensure a high transmittance of light, thereby maintain a stable light emitting characteristic over a long period of time. The composition comprises (A) an epoxy resin containing at least two glycidyl groups in each molecule thereof and having a molecular weight of 200 to 7000, (B) an epoxy resin containing at least one glycidyl group in each molecule thereof and having a molecular weight of 20000 to 100000, (C) a latent acid photo catalyst adapted to be activated and produce an acid upon being irradiated with energy beam, and (D) a silane coupling agent containing a glycidyl group in each molecule thereof, the composition exhibiting non-fluidity at 25° C., but exhibiting fluidity in a temperature range of 50° to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Three Bond Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Arai, Hiromasa Kitazawa, Kenichi Horie
  • Patent number: 8797484
    Abstract: A display apparatus, in which the entrapment of air bubbles on the inside of the sealing is suppressed, is provided. In a display apparatus including an element member (L) having an adhesion surface on which a display area (1a) is provided, and a sealing member (U) having an adhesion and which is adhered with a resin layer (m) between this adhesion surface and the adhesion surface of the element member (L), it is one in which the resin layer (m) is formed by combining a resin material (M), which is dispersed and applied in a plurality of places on an adhesion surface of at least one of the element member (L) and the sealing member (U), by pressing the element member (L) and the sealing member (U) against each other with the resin material (M) in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Toshimasa Sakayori, Kenichi Horie, Takashi Sugio, Takehito Miura
  • Publication number: 20140167021
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sealing member for organic EL elements that enables organic EL elements, in particular, organic EL elements for illumination devices to maintain stable luminescence over a long period and that can be fabricated at reduced cost. The sealing member for organic EL elements of the present invention includes a barrier film including a plastic film and at least one thin metal layer, and a curable resin composition layer on the barrier film. The curable resin composition layer has a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m and the curable resin composition exhibits nonfluidity at 25° C. in an uncured state and gains fluidity at an elevated temperature in the range of 40 to 80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: THREEBOND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Arai, Hiromasa Kitazawa, Kenichi Horie
  • Patent number: 8259811
    Abstract: Methods are provided for an apparatus which encodes items of data by variable-length coding and which stores the encoded items of data in a memory, wherein a size of one of the items of encoded data is variable by varying a value of a control parameter of the variable-length coding. One method includes: determining an amount of available memory space in the memory; determining a value of the control parameter for the variable-length coding of the items of data; and determining a number of items of encoded data that can be stored in the available memory space, based on an upper limit of the size of one of the items of encoded data at the determined value of the control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp
    Inventor: Kenichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20120218431
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first and a second imaging unit, a clipping unit, an image processing control unit. The first imaging unit is provided on a front face of an apparatus main body. The second imaging unit is provided on a back face of the apparatus main body. The clipping unit clips image data of the second main subject from the second acquired image data. The image processing control unit combines the first acquired image data with the image data of the second main subject clipped by the clipping unit to meet combining conditions determined by the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUOTO, Osamu Nonaka, Kenichi Horie, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya
  • Publication number: 20120207991
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sealing member for organic EL elements that enables organic EL elements, in particular, organic EL elements for illumination devices to maintain stable luminescence over a long period and that can be fabricated at reduced cost. The sealing member for organic EL elements of the present invention includes a barrier film including a plastic film and at least one thin metal layer, and a curable resin composition layer on the barrier film. The curable resin composition layer has a thickness of 5 to 100 ?m and the curable resin composition exhibits nonfluidity at 25° C. in an uncured state and gains fluidity at an elevated temperature in the range of 40 to 80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: THREEBOND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Arai, Hiromasa Kitazawa, Kenichi Horie
  • Patent number: 8103111
    Abstract: In a method of coding light ray information including information about a position on a predetermined surface and information about an incident angle to the surface when a ray of light from a subject enters the surface, the light ray information is divided into two or more processing unit blocks. In a first coding process, coding are executed for each of the two or more processing unit blocks, and first block unit information composing first image information about the subject is obtained. In a second coding process, coding are executed for each of the two or more processing unit block, and second block unit information composing second image information different types from the first image information is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Kenichi Horie, Seiichiro Sakata
  • Patent number: 8103112
    Abstract: In a decoding method for decoding coded light ray information, coded first image information and coded second image information different from the first image information are decoded. The first image information and the second image information are obtained in taking a subject. The light ray information is generated based on the decoded first and second image information. Image information corresponding to a first focus value is generated and stored in a storage medium, based on the generated light ray information. An image is displayed based on the image information corresponding to the first focus value. Image information corresponding to a second focus value different from the first focus value is generated and stored in the storage medium, based on the generated light ray information. The image information corresponding to the second focus value is generated and stored, while the image is displayed or before the image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Kenichi Horie, Seiichiro Sakata
  • Patent number: 8040420
    Abstract: The camera according to this invention comprises an L-shaped frame that is capable of changing the size or aspect ratio of the viewfinder by relative movement, a back-face image-pickup device for photographing an image of the eye of the photographer, and a photographing optical system for forming the image of the subject image to the internal CCD, analyzes the image captured by the back-face image-pickup device and calculates the distance and direction to the eye of the photographer from the center of the viewfinder, and based on the calculated information and the size or aspect ratio information of the viewfinder, the photographer performs optical zooming or shifting of the photographing optical system, or performs electronic zooming or shifting by cropping the taken image by use of the CCD, in order for the range that the photographer observed via the viewfinder to become the photographing range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20110206869
    Abstract: Provided is a photocurable adhesive composition which causes no damage to adherends during bonding and which, when used in bonding rugged adherends, can bond the adherends without forming a gap therebetween. The photocurable adhesive composition of the present invention comprises (A) 100 parts by mass of a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 100,000, (B) 5 parts to 70 parts by mass of a phenoxy resin, and (C) 0.1 parts to 10 parts by mass of a photopolymerization initiator. The uncured composition has a loss tangent (loss modulus/storage modulus) of less than 1 at 25° C. and the temperature at which the loss tangent of the uncured composition reaches 1 or more is 80° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Takashi Nemoto, Yoshihide Arai, Kenichi Horie
  • Patent number: 7848580
    Abstract: The present image encoding method and the like represents a pixel block prior to performing spatial frequency transformation in processing such as JPEG or the like as a matrix, calculates sum data sc (i) of pixel values in a column i in the matrix and sum data sr (j) of pixel values in a row j in the matrix, calculates nc (i) and nr (j) such that the sc (i) and sc (j) are arrayed in descending order respectively, and when a predetermined condition that permutation is considered reasonable is satisfied, performs permutation of the matrix, generates header information Ph (n) including the nc (i) and nr (j) necessary for subjecting the matrix to permutation in the original state, and adds this to the header of a compressed image file such as JPEG or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Horie, Seiichiro Sakata
  • Publication number: 20100253825
    Abstract: The camera according to this invention comprises an L-shaped frame that is capable of changing the size or aspect ratio of the viewfinder by relative movement, a back-face image-pickup device for photographing an image of the eye of the photographer, and a photographing optical system for forming the image of the subject image to the internal CCD, analyzes the image captured by the back-face image-pickup device and calculates the distance and direction to the eye of the photographer from the center of the viewfinder, and based on the calculated information and the size or aspect ratio information of the viewfinder, the photographer performs optical zooming or shifting of the photographing optical system, or performs electronic zooming or shifting by cropping the taken image by use of the CCD, in order for the range that the photographer observed via the viewfinder to become the photographing range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Kenichi HORIE
  • Patent number: 7773828
    Abstract: Target pixel blocks are picked up from a target image selected from a plurality of images picked up by an imaging device, motion vectors of these target pixel blocks are calculated between two images, and affine transformation coefficients for blur correction is calculated based on the motion vectors. Weighting coefficients are set for target pixel blocks based on a confidence level of the calculated motion vectors with respect to the image blur. For example, motion vectors in peripheral portion of the image is usually large in size, so that the confidence level of these may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Sakata, Kenichi Horie
  • Patent number: 7750966
    Abstract: The camera according to this invention comprises an L-shaped frame that is capable of changing the size or aspect ratio of the viewfinder by relative movement, a back-face image-pickup device for photographing an image of the eye of the photographer, and a photographing optical system for forming the image of the subject image to the internal CCD, analyzes the image captured by the back-face image-pickup device and calculates the distance and direction to the eye of the photographer from the center of the viewfinder, and based on the calculated information and the size or aspect ratio information of the viewfinder, the photographer performs optical zooming or shifting of the photographing optical system, or performs electronic zooming or shifting by cropping the taken image by use of the CCD, in order for the range that the photographer observed via the viewfinder to become the photographing range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20100137530
    Abstract: A photocurable resin composition for sealing an organic EL device is provided, which can seal the organic EL device without exerting any bad influence on the device, thereby suppress the formation and growth of dark spots positively, and which can ensure a high transmittance of light, thereby maintain a stable light emitting characteristic over a long period of time. The composition comprises (A) an epoxy resin containing at least two glycidyl groups in each molecule thereof and having a molecular weight of 200 to 7000, (B) an epoxy resin containing at least one glycidyl group in each molecule thereof and having a molecular weight of 20000 to 100000, (C) a latent acid photo catalyst adapted to be activated and produce an acid upon being irradiated with energy beam, and (D) a silane coupling agent containing a glycidyl group in each molecule thereof, the composition exhibiting non-fluidity at 25° C., but exhibiting fluidity in a temperature range of 50° to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: THREE BOND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Arai, Hiromasa Kitazawa, Kenichi Horie
  • Publication number: 20090141795
    Abstract: Methods are provided for an apparatus which encodes items of data by variable-length coding and which stores the encoded items of data in a memory, wherein a size of one of the items of encoded data is variable by varying a value of a control parameter of the variable-length coding. One method includes: determining an amount of available memory space in the memory; determining a value of the control parameter for the variable-length coding of the items of data; and determining a number of items of encoded data that can be stored in the available memory space, based on an upper limit of the size of one of the items of encoded data at the determined value of the control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Kenichi HORIE
  • Patent number: 7425370
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a damping and soundproofing member not only excellent in an excellent damping and soundproofing effect but also excellent in easiness of forming thereof, especially capable of forming directly a damping and soundproofing layer on a substance to be adhered and further excellent in lightness, washing ability, durability, and the like. The invention relates to a structure formed by laminating cured product layers formed from plurality of fluid resin compositions on a substrate expecting a damping or soundproofing effect, wherein at least two cured product layers of the above cured product layers are different in hardness. Moreover, preferably, no part of the hardest layer in the above cured product layers is directly formed on the substrate and the hardest layer is formed on the substrate via an intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Three Bond Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Nishiyama, Yoshihide Arai, Takashi Nemoto, Manabu Inoue, Kenichi Horie