Patents by Inventor Kenichi Asano
Kenichi Asano 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).
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Publication number: 20240136034Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an endoscope system, and a report creation support device which can efficiently input information on a treatment name. The information processing apparatus includes a first processor. The first processor acquires an image captured using an endoscope, displays the acquired image in a first region on a screen of a first display unit, detects a treatment tool from the acquired image, chooses a plurality of treatment names corresponding to the detected treatment tool, displays the plurality of chosen treatment names in a second region on the screen of the first display unit, and accepts selection of one treatment name from among the plurality of displayed treatment names.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuma HORI, Yuya KIMURA, Tatsuya KOBAYASHI, Kenichi HARADA, Goro MIURA, Shungo ASANO, Hiromu SHIMPO
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Patent number: 11940347Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NAGANO KEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kodama, Naoki Yoshida, Kaori Miyashita, Eiji Takeda, Nobuaki Yamada, Yoshihiro Tomomatsu, Yasushi Yanagisawa, Yusuke Midorikawa, Shirou Kamanaru, Kenichi Yokoyama, Inao Toyoda, Hisayuki Takeuchi, Naohisa Niimi, Masao Takahashi, Yasutake Ura, Kouji Asano, Yukihiro Kamada
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Publication number: 20180251653Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a readily thermally degradable resin binder that is an organic resin binder for use as a binder component in a high-concentration inorganic microparticle dispersion, and that enables firing in a firing process to be carried out at lower temperatures and can inhibit the production of carbon residues, while maintaining the printing characteristics. This object can be achieved by a mixture formed of a specific (meth)acrylic resin and an ethyl cellulose resin in a weight ratio of 5:95 to 50:50. This specific (meth)acrylic resin is a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 250,000 and having a monomer unit given by the following general formula (1) [in the formula, R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group and R2 represents hydrogen or a C1-12 straight-chain hydrocarbon group, branched-chain hydrocarbon group or hydroxyl group-bearing hydrocarbon group, or a polyalkylene oxide-containing group].Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke SHIMIZU, Kenichi ASANO, Takuro MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9464208Abstract: This invention provides a viscosity modifier for high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles which can reduce, by giving excellent viscosity modifying function to a high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles (e.g., printing ink composition, functional paste composition or paint composition, of high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles), the occurrence of inconvenience in a printing step or coating step for the manufacture of components or substrates, and also provides a high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles which contains said viscosity modifier.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Shimizu, Junpei Suetou, Chihiro Hamazaki, Kenichi Asano, Hideki Satake, Eiichi Sato
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Publication number: 20160130457Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a readily thermally degradable resin binder that is an organic resin binder for use as a binder component in a high-concentration inorganic microparticle dispersion, and that enables firing in a firing process to be carried out at lower temperatures and can inhibit the production of carbon residues, while maintaining the printing characteristics. This object can be achieved by a mixture formed of a specific (meth)acrylic resin and an ethyl cellulose resin in a weight ratio of 5:95 to 50:50. This specific (meth)acrylic resin is a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 250,000 and having a monomer unit given by the following general formula (1) [in the formula, R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group and R2 represents hydrogen or a C1-12 straight-chain hydrocarbon group, branched-chain hydrocarbon group or hydroxyl group-bearing hydrocarbon group, or a polyalkylene oxide-containing group].Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke SHIMIZU, Kenichi ASANO, Takuro MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20140251178Abstract: This invention provides a viscosity modifier for high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles which can reduce, by giving excellent viscosity modifying function to a high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles (e.g., printing ink composition, functional paste composition or paint composition, of high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles), the occurrence of inconvenience in a printing step or coating step for the manufacture of components or substrates, and also provides a high concentration dispersion of inorganic fine particles which contains said viscosity modifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: KUSUMOTO CHEMICALS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke SHIMIZU, Junpei SUETOU, Chihiro HAMAZAKI, Kenichi ASANO, Hideki SATAKE, Eiichi SATO
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Patent number: 7878529Abstract: An occupant protection device is applied to a vehicle including a front seat and a rear seat, and includes a first protection device and a second protection device. The first protection device includes a first gas generator and a first side airbag, which is inflated and deployed between an occupant seated in the front seat and a side portion of the vehicle by gas generated by the first gas generator. The second protection device includes a second gas generator and a second side airbag, which is inflated and deployed between an occupant seated in the rear seat and a side portion of the vehicle by gas generated by the second gas generator. The thickness of the inflated second side airbag in the vehicle width direction is set greater than the thickness of the inflated first side airbag in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Sato, Toshinori Tanase, Tomonori Miyatake, Kenichi Asano, Naomi Fukushima
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Patent number: 7593462Abstract: A moving picture encoding system includes an encoding control unit for setting a target quantiser step size used to encode each of different types of pictures included in a unit group to be encoded, and for performing a control operation to generate and furnish a quantiser step size to an encoding unit so that a ratio among the target quantiser step sizes set for the different types of pictures is a predetermined one.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1998Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiaki Shimada, Hideo Ohira, Kenichi Asano
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Publication number: 20090108571Abstract: An occupant protection device is applied to a vehicle including a front seat and a rear seat, and includes a first protection device and a second protection device. The first protection device includes a first gas generator and a first side airbag, which is inflated and deployed between an occupant seated in the front seat and a side portion of the vehicle by gas generated by the first gas generator. The second protection device includes a second gas generator and a second side airbag, which is inflated and deployed between an occupant seated in the rear seat and a side portion of the vehicle by gas generated by the second gas generator. The thickness of the inflated second side airbag in the vehicle width direction is set greater than the thickness of the inflated first side airbag in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Inventors: Yuji Sato, Toshinori Tanase, Tomonori Miyatake, Kenichi Asano, Naomi Fukushima
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Patent number: 7092575Abstract: An encoding preprocessing part 1 extracts the amount of image feature relative to image data and passes the amount of image feature to a control part 2 as image feature amount information 11 and also sends image data 10 to an encoding part 3. The control part 2 determines whether there is a dissolve image or not based on the image feature amount information 11 and if it is determined that the image data 10 is the dissolve image, an encoding parameter 12 is set so that a configuration of GOP which is normally M=3 is changed into the configuration of GOP of M=2, and the encoding part 3 performs encoding based on the encoding parameter 12. As a result of that, a prediction error of a B-picture frame in a dissolve interval becomes substantially zero and on encoding in the dissolve interval, the amount of information occurrence in frames except I-picture and P-picture frames can be reduced and thus the amount of information occurrence as a whole can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Kazayama, Tadashi Kasezawa, Kenichi Asano, Masahiko Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 7075989Abstract: The present invention provides a motion compensating apparatus which is capable of enhancing the overall coding efficiency by taking the amount of coded information used to code a motion vector as well as the sum of difference absolute values of estimated differences into consideration in order to determine an optimal vector.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tokumichi Murakami, Hideo Ohira, Hirofumi Nishikawa, Kenichi Asano, Yoshihisa Yamada, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Kohtaro Asai
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Patent number: 6912352Abstract: A digital data recording and reproducing system records only programs desired by a user. A program selector in a digital VTR or in a set-top box selects only the programs desired by the user from a plurality of programs received by a tuner in the set-top box. The programs include video, audio, data and so forth that are subjected to data compression in digital broadcasting. The program selector selects the programs in response to a user instruction sent from the user via a man-machine interface, and transfers the selected programs to a recorder. Besides, the digital data recording and reproducing system includes a decoder including a discontinuity detector for detecting discontinuity between the programs by using information specified by IEC/ISO 13818 while said decoder is decoding the compressed digital data of the programs. The discontinuity detector restarts the decoder when detecting the discontinuity between the programs.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2000Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Ohara, Kenichi Asano
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Publication number: 20040202245Abstract: The present invention provides a motion compensating apparatus which is capable of enhancing the overall coding efficiency by taking the amount of coded information used to code a motion vector as well as the sum of difference absolute values of estimated differences into consideration in order to determine an optimal vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tokumichi Murakami, Hideo Ohira, Hirofumi Nishikawa, Kenichi Asano, Yoshihisa Yamada, Shunichi Sekiguchi, Kohtaro Asai
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Publication number: 20030169770Abstract: The multiplexer device comprises a multiplexing means for multiplexing a plurality types of media information and outputting a multiplexed bit stream, a priority deciding means for deciding priority corresponding to each of the media information, and a multiplexing controller for controlling multiplexing of each of the media information according to the multiplexing means based on the priority decided by the priority deciding means. In addition the priority in each information is multiplexed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Noriyuki Minegishi, Kenichi Asano
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Patent number: 6510179Abstract: The video signal encoding device comprises an encoding frame pulse generating means for generating an encoding frame pulse on the basis of a video input frame pulse signal and a video input clock signal input thereto, as well as a video signal rearranging means for rearranging the frame order of video input signals, together with a video signal write control means and a read control means; wherein the encoding frame pulse generating means generates the encoding frame pulse first by setting a reference phase in accordance with the video input frame pulse, and thereafter dividing the frequency of the video input clock signal to a predetermined number of clock pulses. The video signal read control means controls the read operation of the video signals stored in the video signal rearranging means on the basis of the encoding pulse signal generated by said frame pulse generating means and the video input clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Kasezawa, Kenichi Asano, Masahiro Kazayama
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Patent number: 6474204Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a substrate for a photosensitive drum, comprising machining a cylindrical stock tube by a turning tool to form a cylindrical substrate having a surface roughness of 0.5 to 5 &mgr;m and being provided on the surface thereof with the streaks extending in the approximately circumferential direction thereof, said turning tool being constituted by monocrystalline diamond and having a cutting edge provided with a saw-like portion along an effective cutting length thereof, and a substrate which is suitable for the production of a photosensitive drum being free from the occurrence of interference fringes and has fine streaks uniformly formed on the surface thereof by machining without burrs, and the substrate capable of producing a higher-quality photosensitive drum.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Naito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Suzuki, Kenichi Asano
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Publication number: 20020136297Abstract: A moving picture encoding system includes an encoding control unit for setting a target quantiser step size used to encode each of different types of pictures included in a unit group to be encoded, and for performing a control operation to generate and furnish a quantiser step size to an encoding unit so that a ratio among the target quantiser step sizes set for the different types of pictures is a predetermined one.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 1998Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: TOSHIAKI SHIMADA, HIDEO OHIRA, KENICHI ASANO
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Patent number: 6380981Abstract: The frame synchronizer outputs, when reading out each of the video signals stored in a plurality of frame memories provided in a frame synchronizing circuit one by one, a read control signal from a video signal read control circuit for controlling the frame synchronizing circuit in such a manner as to read out a video signal of a frame other than that of a target frame which was to be read out otherwise, in case the input/output frame phase difference output from an input/output frame phase difference detecter comes up to an amount of one frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Kasezawa, Kenichi Asano, Masahiro Kazayama
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Publication number: 20020028023Abstract: An encoding preprocessing part 1 extracts the amount of image feature relative to image data and passes the amount of image feature to a control part 2 as image feature amount information 11 and also sends image data 10 to an encoding part 3. The control part 2 determines whether there is a dissolve image or not based on the image feature amount information 11 and if it is determined that the image data 10 is the dissolve image, an encoding parameter 12 is set so that a configuration of GOP which is normally M=3 is changed into the configuration of GOP of M=2, and the encoding part 3 performs encoding based on the encoding parameter 12. As a result of that, a prediction error of a B-picture frame in a dissolve interval becomes substantially zero and on encoding in the dissolve interval, the amount of information occurrence in frames except I-picture and P-picture frames can be reduced and thus the amount of information occurrence as a whole can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventors: Masahiro Kazayama, Tadashi Kasezawa, Kenichi Asano, Masahiko Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20010041060Abstract: A digital data recording and reproducing system records only programs desired by a user. A program select or in a digital VTR or in a set-top box selects only the programs desired by the user from a plurality of programs received by a tuner in the set-top box. The programs include video, audio, data and so forth that are subjected to data compression in digital broadcasting. The program selector selects the programs in response to a user instruction sent from the user via a man-machine interface, and transfers the selected programs to a recorder. Besides, the digital data recording and reproducing system includes a decoder including a discontinuity detector for detecting discontinuity between the programs by using information specified by IEC/ISO 13818 while said decoder is decoding the compressed digital data of the programs. The discontinuity detector restarts the decoder when detecting the discontinuity between the programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2000Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: Eiji Ohara, Kenichi Asano