Patents by Inventor Kenji Hatori
Kenji Hatori 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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Patent number: 8390059Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, in which a current flows in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a resistance control structure configured so that a resistance to the current becomes higher in a central portion of the semiconductor substrate than a peripheral portion of the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 8379054Abstract: An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Hideo Takiguchi, Kataro Yano, Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20120151392Abstract: A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is arranged to be connected to an arbitrary number of peripheral devices selected from among the plurality of peripheral devices, read control information stored in the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line into a predetermined memory area of the controller in a predetermined format so that the controller can control the arbitrary number of peripheral devices. The controller is also arranged to issue a command and transmit the command to each of the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Akira Suga, Hideaki Kawamura, Takashi Aizawa, Akira Mamiya, Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 8146008Abstract: A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is arranged to be connected to an arbitrary number of peripheral devices selected from among the plurality of peripheral devices, read control information stored in the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line into a predetermined memory area of the controller in a predetermined format so that the controller can control the arbitrary number of peripheral devices. The controller is also arranged to issue a command and transmit the command to each of the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Akira Suga, Hideaki Kawamura, Takashi Aizawa, Akira Mamiya, Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20110316071Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, in which a current flows in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a resistance control structure configured so that a resistance to the current becomes higher in a central portion of the semiconductor substrate than a peripheral portion of the semiconductor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji HATORI
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Publication number: 20110292223Abstract: A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventor: Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20110291105Abstract: A semiconductor module according to the present invention includes: an insulating substrate (4); a plurality of semiconductor chips (1) disposed on a surface of the insulating substrate (4) so as to be apart from each other; solder layers (9) formed, on a back surface side of the insulating substrate (4), only at positions corresponding to positions at which the respective semiconductor chips (1) are disposed; and a base plate (6) connected to the insulating substrate (4) through the solder layers (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji HATORI, Shigeru Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8013893Abstract: A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20110173606Abstract: An information processing apparatus is arranged to determine whether or not the software is installed from any one of the updater from the recording medium and the downloaded updater, in accordance with a type of the updater determined by a server based on version information of the software stored in the external recording medium and is also arranged to operate such that when the updater type includes a full updater, the software in the external recording medium is not installed but the full updater is downloaded from the server apparatus and installed, and when the updater type does not include the full updater, the software in the external recording medium is installed and a difference data is downloaded from the server and installed concurrently with it.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20110019011Abstract: A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 7821536Abstract: A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20100223451Abstract: A boot control method of a program in an information processing apparatus to which a device can be connected, the method including a search step of searching for a running program that is running on the information processing apparatus when the device is connected, a determination step of determining whether the running program found in the search step includes a program unfit for concurrent running that is unsuited for concurrent running with preset device-corresponding software that is booted in response to connection of the device, and a boot step of booting the device-corresponding software if the running program does not include the program unfit for concurrent running and performing control so as not to boot the device-corresponding software if the running program includes the software unfit for concurrent running.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 7741655Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a semiconductor element having an insulated gate field effect portion formed in the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor element includes an n? region, an n-type source region, a p-type base region, an n+ region, and a gate electrode. The n? region and the n-type source region are formed in the main surface. The p-type base region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the n-type source region. The n+ region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the p-type base region and opposed to the n-type source region with the p-type base region being interposed, and has an impurity concentration higher than the n? region. The n? region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the p-type base region and to the n+ region.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenji Hatori, Atsushi Narazaki
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Patent number: 7689915Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a determination unit which determines the type of information designated by an input unit, and a display control unit which controls, in accordance with the type of information determined by the determination unit, the display form of an information presentation portion presenting explanatory information on the designated information. When the information designated by the input unit is an image in a folder, the explanatory information contains explanatory information on the image, and when the input unit designates an object other than an image in a folder, contains explanatory information on the folder.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinobu Kitamaru, Atsushi Kumagai, Kenji Hatori, Keiichiro Yuasa
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Publication number: 20090193347Abstract: A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is arranged to be connected to an arbitrary number of peripheral devices selected from among the plurality of peripheral devices, read control information stored in the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line into a predetermined memory area of the controller in a predetermined format so that the controller can control the arbitrary number of peripheral devices. The controller is also arranged to issue a command and transmit the command to each of the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Akira Suga, Hideaki Kawamura, Takashi Aizawa, Akira Mamiya, Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 7530024Abstract: A control system comprises a plurality of peripheral devices represented as objects, and a controller connectable to the plurality of peripheral devices via a common communication line for unitarily controlling the plurality of peripheral devices. The controller is arranged to be connected to an arbitrary number of peripheral devices selected from among the plurality of peripheral devices, read control information stored in the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line into a predetermined memory area of the controller in a predetermined format so that the controller can control the arbitrary number of peripheral devices. The controller is also arranged to issue a command and transmit the command to each of the arbitrary number of peripheral devices via the communication line.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Akira Suga, Hideaki Kawamura, Takashi Aizawa, Akira Mamiya, Kenji Hatori
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Publication number: 20090072268Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a semiconductor element having an insulated gate field effect portion formed in the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor element includes an n? region, an n-type source region, a p-type base region, an n+ region, and a gate electrode. The n? region and the n-type source region are formed in the main surface. The p-type base region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the n-type source region. The n+ region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the p-type base region and opposed to the n-type source region with the p-type base region being interposed, and has an impurity concentration higher than the n? region. The n? region is formed in the main surface adjacent to the p-type base region and to the n+ region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Hatori, Atsushi Narazaki
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Patent number: 7366360Abstract: An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the plurality of images that are input, and of determining whether or not an image in the partially overlapping image area of each of images that are indicated by the plurality of image data sets includes mainly characters an image processing step of performing, for the plurality of image data sets that are input, image processing in consonance with a result of a determination performed at the determination step and an image synthesization step of synthesizing images that are indicated by the resultant plurality of image data, for which the image processing has been performed at the image processing step. With this arrangement, a plurality of images can be easily and effectively synthesized.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Takiguchi, Kotaro Yano, Tatsushi Katayama, Fumiaki Takahashi, Kenji Hatori, Koji Hatanaka
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Publication number: 20060238536Abstract: An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Hideo Takiquchi, Kotaro Yano, Kenji Hatori
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Patent number: 7098914Abstract: An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2000Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Hideo Takiguchi, Kotaro Yano, Kenji Hatori