Patents by Inventor Koji Aoki

Koji Aoki 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: 11709504
    Abstract: A platooning system for causing multiple vehicles to travel in a platoon includes: a management device configured to set an order of the vehicles in the platoon; a transmission device mounted on each vehicle and configured to transmit driving information regarding a driving state of the vehicle; a reception device mounted on each vehicle and configured to receive the driving information of at least one of the vehicles; and a control device mounted on each vehicle and configured to control an operation of the vehicle based on the driving information, wherein the management device is configured to arrange the vehicles from a front end to a rear end with respect to a travel direction in an ascending order of driving performances of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Yoshimitsu Ishida, Koji Aoki, Yuichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11681311
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first circuit connected to a power supply line, a determination portion configured to determine whether a voltage drop in the power supply line affects an operation of the first circuit, and a power supply voltage control portion configured to control change of a power supply voltage value on the basis of a determination result of the determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Inagaki, Koji Aoki, Eiki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11249290
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power. In the zoom lens, an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, and the first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. Further, a total length DT of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, a focal length fT of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, a distance BW of a back focus at a wide-angle end, a total length DW of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end, and a focal length f3 of the third lens unit are each appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210311511
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first circuit connected to a power supply line, a determination portion configured to determine whether a voltage drop in the power supply line affects an operation of the first circuit, and a power supply voltage control portion configured to control change of a power supply voltage value on the basis of a determination result of the determination portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Inagaki, Koji Aoki, Eiki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11050718
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first cryptographic communication control unit, a second cryptographic communication control unit, and a timeout control unit. The first cryptographic communication control unit issues an encrypted connection request to a communication destination node and performs cryptographic communication. The second cryptographic communication control unit issues, concurrently with the connection request by the first cryptographic communication control unit, a connection request by plain text to the communication destination node, establishes connection, and then performs cryptographic communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210118082
    Abstract: A shared vehicle managing system includes a plurality of user terminals configured to generate use application information, and a managing server connected to the user terminals via a network. The use application information includes information about a departure station, an arrival station, a scheduled departure time, and a scheduled arrival time. The managing server includes a reservation processing unit configured to allocate at least one shared vehicle to a use applicant based on the use application information, and a station information acquiring unit configured to acquire a remaining number of the shared vehicles in each station at a freely-selected time. The reservation processing unit executes a ride-sharing vehicle allocation process by determining a reservation confirmation person with whom the use applicant should share a ride based on the use application information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Toru KIMURA, Koji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20210041893
    Abstract: A platooning system for causing multiple vehicles to travel in a platoon includes: a management device configured to set an order of the vehicles in the platoon; a transmission device mounted on each vehicle and configured to transmit driving information regarding a driving state of the vehicle; a reception device mounted on each vehicle and configured to receive the driving information of at least one of the vehicles; and a control device mounted on each vehicle and configured to control an operation of the vehicle based on the driving information, wherein the management device is configured to arrange the vehicles from a front end to a rear end with respect to a travel direction in an ascending order of driving performances of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tadashi Matsumoto, Yoshimitsu Ishida, Koji Aoki, Yuichi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200310089
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power. In the zoom lens, an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, and the first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. Further, a total length DT of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, a focal length fT of the zoom lens at the telephoto end, a distance BW of a back focus at a wide-angle end, a total length DW of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end, and a focal length f3 of the third lens unit are each appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200272965
    Abstract: The vehicle share ride support system is configured to acquire a moving schedule of the user, indicating the destination, the boarding operating vehicle, and the alighting departure/arrival place, estimate the arrival time of the user at the departure/arrival place from the operation information of the operating vehicle, and generate and output the user group information indicating a user group by the destination, which includes the users who arrive at the departure/arrival place within the predetermined period including the arrival time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tanabe, Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 10701251
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a first mirror as a convex mirror, a first lens unit, a second mirror as a concave mirror, a third mirror as a concave mirror, and a second lens unit. The imaging optical system is configured to form a first intermediate real image and a second intermediate real image located at a position different from that of the first intermediate real image between the first mirror and a reduction side conjugate plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200106751
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first cryptographic communication control unit, a second cryptographic communication control unit, and a timeout control unit. The first cryptographic communication control unit issues an encrypted connection request to a communication destination node and performs cryptographic communication. The second cryptographic communication control unit issues, concurrently with the connection request by the first cryptographic communication control unit, a connection request by plain text to the communication destination node, establishes connection, and then performs cryptographic communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 10539785
    Abstract: An optical system includes an aperture stop, and an optical member that is removably insertable in an optical path defined by an object side and an image side of the optical system, the optical member is disposed on the image side of the aperture stop. In a first focus range between infinity and a first finite distance, the optical member is removed from the optical path. In a second focus range between a second finite distance shorter than the first finite distance and a third finite distance shorter than the second finite distance, the optical member is inserted in the optical path. The thickness of the optical member on the optical axis and the focal length of the optical member are suitably determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190222728
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a first mirror as a convex mirror, a first lens unit, a second mirror as a concave mirror, a third mirror as a concave mirror, and a second lens unit. The imaging optical system is configured to form a first intermediate real image and a second intermediate real image located at a position different from that of the first intermediate real image between the first mirror and a reduction side conjugate plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 10288855
    Abstract: An attachment optical system detachably attached to an image capturing optical system, includes a first lens provided with a first aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to an optical system, and a second lens provided with a second aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to the optical axis, and a distance between the first aspherical surface and the second aspherical surface in an optical axis direction changes by relatively rotating the first lens and the second lens around the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180373343
    Abstract: A vehicle operation device (13) for enabling a vehicle operator to operate a vehicle (1), includes a switch unit (17) provided at a side of a vehicle operator's seat (21), and configured to accept an input operation for automatic drive of the vehicle. A first switch included in the switch unit (42) and configured to produce a signal relating to a control action for vehicle travel is provided with an inadvertent operation prevention feature configured to prevent an unintended contact to the first switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki HASHIMOTO, Tomoyuki SAKURAI, Koji AOKI
  • Patent number: 9939634
    Abstract: To obtain a zoom lens easily performing image blur correction and maintaining optical performance while performing image blur correction while restricting an increase in size of the lens. A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first unit; a negative second unit; a positive third unit; and a rear group that has one or more units. Spacings between adjacent units change during zooming. First and second correction systems rotatable about first and second centers on or in the vicinity of an optical axis during blur correction are respectively constituted by at least a part of the second unit and at least a part of an optical system disposed on image side of the second unit. The first and second centers are on image side of a surface vertex of the respective first and second correction systems closest to the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9921409
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup optical system including a protection lens, which is arranged closest to a light incident side and has a convex-shaped surface on light incident side; and a housing houses the image pickup optical system, in which the image pickup optical system includes an aperture stop, and an optical systems A and B, which are arranged on an image side of aperture stop to be selectively placed in an optical path of image pickup optical system, the optical systems A and B having mutually different optical characteristics, and in which the housing separates a medium outside of housing and an inside of housing, and in which the image pickup apparatus further includes a switching unit selectively places one of optical systems A and B in optical path of image pickup optical system depending on a medium outside housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180003929
    Abstract: An attachment optical system detachably attached to an image capturing optical system, includes a first lens provided with a first aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to an optical system, and a second lens provided with a second aspherical surface including a plurality of concave portions and convex portions that are formed in a rotation direction with respect to the optical axis, and a distance between the first aspherical surface and the second aspherical surface in an optical axis direction changes by relatively rotating the first lens and the second lens around the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170352319
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a display unit, a driving unit, a reset unit, a data unit, and a storage unit. The display unit is electrically coupled to a first supply voltage source. The driving unit has one end electrically coupled to the display unit and has another end electrically coupled to a second supply voltage source. The driving unit charges the display unit. The reset unit is electrically coupled to the driving unit and the display unit, and provides a reset voltage to an operating node between the driving unit and the display unit. The data unit is electrically coupled to the driving unit and provides a data voltage to the driving unit. The storage unit stores a voltage difference between the operating node and a data node between the data unit and the driving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Tokuro OZAWA, Koji AOKI, Chia-Che HUNG, Chia-Wei KUO, Chia-Ting HSIEH, Bo-Shiang TZENG
  • Patent number: 9828057
    Abstract: A cushion member is swingable with respect to a main frame about a fourth rotation axis to be expanded and compressed according to a movement of a front wheel. A first arm is swingable with respect to a front fork supporting member about a fifth rotation axis and with respect to the main frame about a sixth rotation axis. A second arm is swingable with respect to the front fork supporting member about a seventh rotation axis, with respect to the cushion member about an eighth rotation axis, and with respect to the main frame about a ninth rotation axis. The fourth to ninth rotation axes are substantially parallel to one another. The fourth rotation axis is provided to be substantially perpendicular to a plane including a second rotation axis about which the front fork is turnable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Aoki