Patents by Inventor Makoto Yamada

Makoto Yamada 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).

  • Publication number: 20110218675
    Abstract: A robot system (10) includes: a processing section (32) that calculates positional information of a workpiece with respect to a visual sensor (13); a clock (35) to which a robot controlling section (31) and the processing section access to check a present time; a first storing section (33) that sequentially stores first times at a predetermined cycle in combination with positional information items of an arm tip at the first times, respectively; a second storing section (34) that stores a second time when the visual sensor measures the workpiece; an arm tip position calculating section (41) that calculates positional information of the arm tip when the visual sensor measures the workpiece based on the second time, at least two of the first times before and after the second time among the first times and the positional information items of the arm tip corresponding to the respective first times; and a workpiece position calculating section (42) that calculates positional information of the grasped workpiece wi
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori BAN, Fumikazu Warashina, Makoto Yamada, Yuuta Namiki
  • Publication number: 20110170707
    Abstract: A noise suppressing device is provided for suppressing noise of a first audio signal to generate a second audio signal. In the noise suppressing device, a noise acquisition unit acquires a plurality of noise components which are different from each other. A noise suppression unit generates each suppression component by suppressing each noise component from the first audio signal, thereby providing a plurality of suppression components different from each other in correspondence to the plurality of the noise components. A signal generation unit generates the second audio signal by summing the plurality of the suppression components that are provided from the noise suppression unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto YAMADA, Kazunobu Kondo
  • Publication number: 20110163246
    Abstract: A lighting system for preventing a plant disease damage is provided with an ultraviolet light source which emits ultraviolet ray including UV-B in a wavelength region of 255 to 340 nm, a visible light source which emits visible light, and controllers which control a lighting of the ultraviolet light source and the visible light source. The controller controls the lighting of the ultraviolet light source so that a horizontal irradiance on a canopy surface of a plant is 50 ?W/cm2 or less during a predetermined daytime period. The controller controls the lighting of the visible light source so that a horizontal illuminance on a canopy surface of a plant is 10 lux or less during a predetermined nighttime period. The lighting system promotes a component change of the plant effectively by a stimulation by the UV-B irradiation and the prolonged irradiation time of the visible light which is associated with a vegetative growth, so that a nutritional component of the plant can stably be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishiwata, Makoto Yamada
  • Patent number: 7974954
    Abstract: The present invention is a recording method for recording, data to a disc shaped record medium 10 corresponding to a hierarchical file system, the method comprising the steps of recording management information for managing a hierarchical structure of the file system to a particular area 16 of the disc shaped record medium, treating an unused area of the particular area 16 as a particular file, and recording information with respect to an initial location and an initial length of the particular file and information with respect to a current location and a current length of the particular file to the particular area 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aridome, Makoto Yamada, Hirofumi Todo
  • Patent number: 7913315
    Abstract: A recording apparatus according to the present invention comprises converting means 15, 18, and 19 and recording means 23, 24, 32, and 33. The converting means 15, 18, and 19 convert the data structure of data into a file structure handled by software. The recording means 23, 24, 32, and 33 record data on a record medium. The file structure has a first data unit as entity data, a second data unit as a set of a plurality of first data units, and a data portion describing management information for managing the relation of the plurality of first data units and attributes of entity data of the first data units. The data portion contains security information for protecting intangible property rights of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ishizaka, Makoto Yamada, Ryuji Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 7911643
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus is capable of storing image data in a storage. The imaging apparatus is provided with an image obtaining system that obtains image data, and an image data writing system that stores the image data obtained by the image obtaining system in the storage. The image data writing system stores the image data in a format which is determined in accordance with the number of pages of images represented by the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7903947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and a method, a playback apparatus and a method, a recording medium, and a program capable of quickly playing back a picture associated with a unit in which a moving image is encoded. An extraction section 51 extracts one picture from each GOP. A number-of-pixels conversion section 40 reduces the amount of information of the extracted picture by thinning out pixels. A static-image compression section 41 encodes the picture whose amount of information has been reduced by a JPEG technique. A microcomputer 31 associates the encoded picture with the GOP from which the picture has been extracted and controls recording of the picture associated with the GOP onto a disk 45 on which the moving image is to be recorded. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus for recording a moving image onto a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Hideo Obata, Eiji Tadokoro, Manabu Ukai, Takayuki Sato, Seigo Fukushima, Kenichi Okamura
  • Publication number: 20110055766
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may control display of a GUI image including indexes that allow a user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece. The information processing apparatus may include a controller configured to control display of a first GUI image including an index of each of at least one image content piece, and to control a display of a second GUI image including face thumbnail images, which serve as indexes that allow the user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece corresponding to an index selected from the first GUI image by the user, the face thumbnail images corresponding to faces detected from the entirety or part of the image content piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaname Ogawa, Keiji Kanota, Makoto Yamada, Hiroshi Jinno
  • Publication number: 20110042997
    Abstract: The invention relates to a door sash having a cross-sectional shape including a design portion and a hollow portion formed on an inboard side with respect to the design portion and connected to the design portion, and is intended to provide a door sash which achieves weight reduction. The hollow portion is an extrusion mold of light metal, the design portion is a product having a variable cross-sectional shape in which the shape in the direction of the width of a vehicle is increased in length as it gets close to a waist line of a door, and the hollow portion is integrated with the design portion. The door sash further includes: a glass run holder positioned on an outboard side with respect to the hollow portion and configured to hold a glass run which a window glass comes into abutment with, the glass run holder being adjacent to the design portion, and a bracket which connects the glass run holder and the hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Takayuki Okada
  • Publication number: 20110016785
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for controlling a plant disease is provided to reliably inhibit a spore formation and a hyphal growth of a filamentous fungi, reliably induce a disease resistance, prevent a leaf scorch, and promote a growth of a plant. A UV light source repeats a light irradiation which has an irradiation pattern of combining a light irradiation, in which UV-C and UV-B and a visible light are superimposed, with a visible light irradiation alone at least twice a day. The emission of UV-B and UV-C enables the reliable inhibition of the spore formation of the filamentous fungi, for example. Its intermittent emission prevents a plant from getting too used to ultraviolet rays, promotes a generation of an antibacterial substance, for example, and prevents a leaf scorch. The continuous emission of the visible light enables a promotion of a growth of the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Masaki Ishiwata, Akinobu Oichi, Kanetake Furihata, Takashi Omi
  • Patent number: 7856459
    Abstract: A digital recording apparatus using a disc shaped record medium is disclosed, that comprises a means for extracting outlined information of each of a plurality of files recorded on the disc shaped record medium, a means for correlating the extracted outlined information and the plurality of files and generating an index file, and a means for recording the index file to a predetermined position of the disc shaped record medium, wherein when a predetermined operation mode is performed, a plurality of types of data of the plurality of files are output in a predetermined format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Satoshi Tsujii, Toshihiro Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 7853897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may control display of a GUI image including indexes that allow a user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece. The information processing apparatus may include a controller configured to control display of a first GUI image including an index of each of at least one image content piece, and to control a display of a second GUI image including face thumbnail images, which serve as indexes that allow the user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece corresponding to an index selected from the first GUI image by the user, the face thumbnail images corresponding to faces detected from the entirety or part of the image content piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kaname Ogawa, Keiji Kanota, Makoto Yamada, Hiroshi Jinno
  • Patent number: 7853116
    Abstract: A recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. An encoding section encodes the data corresponding to a predetermined compressing and encoding system. A converting section converts a data structure of encoded data that is output from the encoding section into a file structure that a computer software program that synchronously reproduces a moving picture and so forth can handle without need to use a special hardware device. A recording section records data having the file structure to the record medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Makoto Yamada, Toshihiro Ishizaka, Satoshi Tsujii
  • Patent number: 7840566
    Abstract: A digital recording apparatus using a disc shaped record medium including an extracting unit that extracts outlined information of each of a plurality of files recorded on the disc shaped record medium. A correlating unit correlates the extracted outlined information and the plurality of files and generates an index file. A recording unit records the index file to a predetermined position of the disc shaped record medium. When a predetermined operation mode is performed, a plurality of types of data of the plurality of files are output in a predetermined format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Satoshi Tsujii, Toshihiro Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 7830566
    Abstract: The image processing method and device photograph a subject or transparent image to acquire calorimetric values of a subject image, acquire chromaticity information and illuminance information of a light source illuminating the subject and the transparent image, perform on the calorimetric values of the subject image chromatic adaptation correction based on the chromaticity information and the acquired illuminance information and contrast correction based on the illuminance, and correct the corrected calorimetric values to be output by an amount of flare in outputting the subject image, thereby enabling faithful reproduction of appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Takao Uchiyama, Hideyasu Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 7792411
    Abstract: The present invention is applied to an imaging device for recording, for example, a result of imaging on an optical disc by a QuickTime file format and forms an real data block by allocating management information for managing a specific region recorded by interleave processing, and the specific region is managed by the management information and a management information block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi, Makoto Yamada, Fumitaka Kawate
  • Publication number: 20100193707
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device for use in the control of a plant disease, which has a light source capable of emitting light containing ultraviolet ray. The light source can emit both of UV-B having a wavelength component with a wavelength of about 280 to 340 um and UV-C in which a wavelength component with a wavelength of about 255 nm or less is cut off from wavelength components with wavelengths of about 100 to 280 nm to plant in a superimposed manner. The irradiation of a plant with the UV-C and the UV-B ensures to further inhibit the spore formation or the hypha growth of a filamentous fungus that causes a disease or the like, and to induce a resistance against a disease in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Osamu Kuramitsu, Masaki Ishiwata
  • Publication number: 20100125352
    Abstract: A signal processing device processes a plurality of observed signals at a plurality of frequencies. The plurality of the observed signals are produced by a plurality of sound receiving devices which receive a mixture of a plurality of sounds. In the signal processing device, a storage stores observed data of the plurality of the observed signals. The observed data represents a time series of magnitude of each frequency in each of the plurality of the observed signals. An index calculator calculates an index value from the observed data for each of the plurality of the frequencies. The index value indicates significance of learning of a separation matrix using the observed data of each frequency. The separation matrix is used for separation of the plurality of the sounds from each other at each frequency. A frequency selector selects one or more frequency according to the index value of each frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto YAMADA, Kazunobu Kondo
  • Patent number: 7720573
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a control apparatus body fixedly installed and connected to a robot and a portable teaching pendant connected to the control apparatus body to operate the robot through the teaching pendant. The teaching pendant includes an imaging device connector for connecting an imaging device to the teaching pendant so as to enable the image picked up by the imaging device to be directly input to the teaching pendant through the imaging device connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Kazunori Ban, Katsutoshi Takizawa
  • Patent number: 7703672
    Abstract: An internet N is connected to an electronic money management server 10 so that communications can be performed with a deposit money terminal device 30 replenishing an electronic money for an user card comprised by recording a card ID and an issuer ID, a member shop terminal device 50 reducing the electronic money utilized from the user card, and the like. The electronic money management server 10 acquires the deposit money amount and the issuer ID from a deposit money terminal device 30 at the replenishment time of the electronic money, and totalizes the deposit money amount for each issuer, and performs the delivery of the cash for the totalized deposit money amount to the issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Umeya, Aritomo Sakamoto, Kazumasa Miyazawa, Koji Ito, Makoto Yamada, Nobumitsu Ukai, Takashi Nakamura