Patents by Inventor Kenji Tanaka

Kenji Tanaka 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: 9529506
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts containing that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160349493
    Abstract: There is provided a scanning unit including a first base provided with a scanning mechanism at least having a laser light source that emits laser light of a predetermined wavelength and a scanner that scans a scanned body by using the laser light, a second base that is located at a surface of the first base opposite a surface thereof provided with the scanning mechanism and that is thermally separated from the first base; and a temperature adjustment mechanism that is provided between the first base and the second base and that adjusts a temperature of the scanning mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi MATSUI, Masaaki HARA, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Kenji TANAKA, Fumisada MAEDA, Koichiro KISHIMA
  • Patent number: 9509861
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present invention include a communication terminal, a communication method, and a communication control program stored on a non-transitory recording medium, each of which is capable of communicating with a counterpart terminal via a network. While communicating with a counterpart communication terminal being a first counterpart terminal, the communication terminal displays, on a display, second-terminal-specific information regarding an image forming apparatus as a candidate of a second counterpart terminal. In response to a user instruction that selects the image forming apparatus as the second counterpart terminal, the communication terminal communicates with the selected image forming apparatus to transmit image data to the selected image forming apparatus through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Hiroyuki Kanda, Kenji Tanaka, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9503893
    Abstract: A relay device is communicable with a communication management system that stores relay device identification information for identifying a relay device capable of communicating with a communication terminal using a first communications protocol, in association with configuration data that allows the communication terminal to communicate using a second communications protocol. In response to a configuration data request received from a communication terminal using the first communications protocol, the relay device transmits relay device identification information to the communication management system to obtain configuration data associated with the relay device identification information, and transmits the configuration data to the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Negishi, Takahiro Asai, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshinaga Kato, Katsuyuki Kaji
  • Patent number: 9496685
    Abstract: There is provided a laser emitting apparatus including a semiconductor laser, a grating positioned relative to the semiconductor laser to form a resonator structure therebetween, and an optical system positioned between the semiconductor laser and the grating. The optical system is configured and arranged so that confocal points are formed on both a light emitting surface of the semiconductor laser and a reflection surface of the grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Fujita, Michio Oka, Hiroshi Yoshida, Fumisada Maeda, Mitsunori Ueda, Kenji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160328089
    Abstract: A projector includes an imaging unit which images a screen SC, and a position detection unit which detects an indication position of an indicator based on a captured image of the imaging unit. The position detection unit detects reflected light of detection light reflected by the indicator from the captured image of the imaging unit and obtains the indication position of the indicator based on the position of the reflected light detected from the captured image and the distance between the screen SC and the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hieu NGUYEN, Tormod NJOLSTAD, Babak MOUSSAKHANI, Karol Marcin PAWLAK, Kenji TANAKA, Shinji KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 9489594
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an evaluation unit which acquires a search pattern which is an appearance pattern of a person in a scene of a video content containing the scene, where a similar scene is to be searched, and a search target pattern which is an appearance pattern of a person in a video content which is to be a search target of the similar scene, calculates a degree of similarity between the search pattern and the search target pattern, and determines the similar scene on a basis of the calculated degree of similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyosuke Yoshida, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160316173
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Alain VOLMAT, Masaki NAKAGAWA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20160294154
    Abstract: A light source device according to the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor laser unit configured to emit excitation light of a prescribed wavelength; a wavelength conversion unit configured to amplify the excitation light by causing the excitation light to resonate and generate output light of a different wavelength from the excitation light using a prescribed non-linear crystal, the wavelength conversion unit including a first optical path for amplifying the excitation light, and a second optical path for generating the output light; a first optical path length control mechanism configured to control an optical path length of the first optical path; and a second optical path length control mechanism configured to control an optical path length of the second optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Goro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20160286191
    Abstract: An interactive projector includes a projection section, a detection light irradiation section, an imaging section, and a position detection section adapted to detect a position of the pointing element with respect to the projected screen based on an image, which is taken by the imaging section and includes the pointing element. The detection light irradiation section is disposed so that (i) first contrast in an image taken in the state in which the tip of the pointing element has contact with one position outside the projected screen is lower than a threshold value set in advance, and (ii) second contrast in an image taken in the state in which the tip of the pointing element has contact with an arbitrary position in the projected screen is higher than a threshold value set in advance for distinguishing the pointing element from the projected screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Svein Henninen, Kenji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160282968
    Abstract: An interactive projector includes a projection section, a first detection light irradiation section and a second detection light irradiation section, an imaging section, and a position detection section adapted to detect a position of the pointing element based on an image, which is taken by the imaging section and includes the pointing element. The first and second detection light irradiation sections are disposed so that at least one of the following (i) and (ii) becomes higher than a threshold value: (i) a first contrast between the pointing element in a first image in a case in which the detection light is emitted only from the first detection light irradiation section and the projected screen, and (ii) a second contrast between the pointing element in a second image in a case in which the detection light is emitted only from the second detection light irradiation section and the projected screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Svein Henninen, Tormod Njolstad, Kenji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9450236
    Abstract: An electricity-storing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode of opposite polarity as the first electrode, and a separator. The first electrode includes a current collector foil, an active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector foil, and an electrical resistance layer formed on the at least one surface of the current collector foil so as to be adjacent to and in direct contact with the active material layer, at least a portion of an interface between the active material layer and the electrical resistance layer including a mixed phase where constituents from the active material layer and the electrical resistance layer intermingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Kazuaki Matsuo, Kazuhide Tozuka, Kazuya Okabe
  • Publication number: 20160259269
    Abstract: Disclosed is a developing apparatus including a first auger and a second auger for respectively conveying a developer in a first direction and a second direction, an opening for delivering the developer from the first auger to the second auger, a discharger located in the first direction from the opening to discharge the developer conveyed by the first auger, and a retention means provided on at least one of the first auger and the second auger to retain the developer circulated by the first and second augers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Naoya IWATA
  • Patent number: 9412148
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20160180875
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium of the present invention is a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic substrate; a non-magnetic layer that is formed on one of principal surfaces of the non-magnetic substrate and contains a non-magnetic powder, a binder, and a lubricant; and a magnetic layer that is formed on a principal surface of the non-magnetic layer opposite to the non-magnetic substrate and contains a magnetic powder and a binder. The magnetic powder has an average particle size between 10 nm and 35 nm inclusive. The lubricant is migratable to the magnetic layer and forms a lubricant layer on a surface of the magnetic layer when a pressure is applied to the magnetic layer. When spacing of the surface of the magnetic layer before and after washing the lubricant with n-hexane is measured with a TSA (Tape Spacing Analyzer), the value of the spacing after washing is 3 to 10 nm, and the value of the spacing before washing is 1 to 5 nm smaller than the value of the spacing after washing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Masao FUJITA, Sadamu KUSE
  • Patent number: 9369499
    Abstract: A communication management system includes a storage unit, a receiving unit, and a first transmitting unit. The storage unit stores therein: an address of a first terminal that establishes a first session with a relaying apparatus; an address of a conversion system that establishes a second session with the relaying apparatus, the conversion system mutually converting a first communication scheme and a second communication scheme; information for identifying the second terminal that establishes a third session with the conversion system; and a host name of another communication management system managing an address of the second terminal. When the receiving unit receives, from the first terminal, a request to start communication between the first terminal and the second terminal, the first transmitting unit transmits, to the relaying apparatus, the address of the first terminal, the address of the conversion system, the terminal identifying information, and the host name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9361511
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a grouping unit that detects a part of an object from contents and performs grouping of each object, a correlation degree calculating unit that calculates a correlation degree between the objects of which the grouping is performed by the grouping unit, and a display control unit that controls a display of a diagram of a correlation between the objects indicating the correlation between the objects, based on the correlation degree between the objects which is calculated by the correlation degree calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kyosuke Yoshida, Kazumasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9361660
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus for generating images from a plurality of viewpoints comprises a supplementation section that receives images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices arranged on a predetermined plane and generates supplemental images at a plurality of supplemental camera positions on the predetermined plane, each supplemental image being generated based on images captured by a predetermined number of the image capturing devices on the predetermined plane; and a viewpoint image generation section that generates a viewpoint image from a viewpoint by selecting pixels from the plurality of supplemental images and captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160116901
    Abstract: A numerical control device has function of detecting setting location of a machine to be controlled and restricting usage or function of the machine when the setting location is not a predetermined location. The numerical control device includes a machine operation locking unit, a current location information acquisition unit configured to acquire global IP address to be used when the numerical control device is connected to internet, and generate current location information including information of region, address region of the global IP address allocated thereto, a setting location information storage unit, a location information comparison unit, a machine operation locking release unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Kazuhiko MORISAKI, Koichi MURATA, Masahiko HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 9325946
    Abstract: Metadata including information identifying scene change points is extracted from a moving image. Representative images, which are still images corresponding to the identified scene change points of the content, are extracted from the moving image. A timeline of the content is displayed, and indications of the locations and durations of scenes identified by the scene change points are displayed. Thumbnails of the representative images are displayed at time positions associated with the content timeline; and the location in a scene of a representative image is displayed with an identifying characteristic that identifies the corresponding thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshihiro Takahashi