Patents by Inventor Mamoru Yoshimoto

Mamoru Yoshimoto 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: 20210372939
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a user interface which facilitates confirmation of an area in an image and associated data corresponding to the area without requiring user's complicated operations. To achieve the object, an information processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image including a plurality of objects, and information related to respective positions of the plurality of objects in the first image; and a determining unit configured to determine a position in case of shifting and displaying a second image indicating the plurality of objects with respect to the first image, based on the obtained positions of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Nogami, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Nobuaki Kuwabara, Yusuke Mitarai, Yasuhiro Komori, Masakazu Matsugu
  • Patent number: 11105749
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a user interface which facilitates confirmation of an area in an image and associated data corresponding to the area without requiring user's complicated operations. To achieve the object, an information processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image including a plurality of objects, and information related to respective positions of the plurality of objects in the first image; and a determining unit configured to determine a position in case of shifting and displaying a second image indicating the plurality of objects with respect to the first image, based on the obtained positions of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Nogami, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Nobuaki Kuwabara, Yusuke Mitarai, Yasuhiro Komori, Masakazu Matsugu
  • Publication number: 20190137409
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a user interface which facilitates confirmation of an area in an image and associated data corresponding to the area without requiring user's complicated operations. To achieve the object, an information processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image including a plurality of objects, and information related to respective positions of the plurality of objects in the first image; and a determining unit configured to determine a position in case of shifting and displaying a second image indicating the plurality of objects with respect to the first image, based on the obtained positions of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Nogami, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Nobuaki Kuwabara, Yusuke Mitarai, Yasuhiro Komori, Masakazu Matsugu
  • Patent number: 7689737
    Abstract: There is provided the first storage unit for storing original data, and the second storage unit for storing meta-data. Under the control of a path control unit, an optimal connection process can be performed. As a result, a stream from the first storage unit for storing the original data can always be transmitted at maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 7447835
    Abstract: There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Fujiwara, Masumi Ishiwatari, Takeyuki Higashibata, Tadashi Takayama, Noriyuki Suzuki, Hiroyasu Ito, Makoto Kobayashi, Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 7213119
    Abstract: There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Fujiwara, Masumi Ishiwatari, Takeyuki Higashibata, Tadashi Takayama, Noriyuki Suzuki, Hiroyasu Ito, Makoto Kobayashi, Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20060262443
    Abstract: There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato FUJIWARA, Masumi ISHIWATARI, Takeyuki HIGASHIBATA, Tadashi TAKAYAMA, Noriyuki SUZUKI, Hiroyasu ITO, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Mamoru YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20060123155
    Abstract: There is provided the first storage unit for storing original data, and the second storage unit for storing meta-data. Under the control of a path control unit, an optimal connection process can be performed. As a result, a stream from the first storage unit for storing the original data can always be transmitted at maximum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20040165314
    Abstract: There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of writing and reading of data in and from the hard disk in a casing thereof. A main unit includes an automatic loading/ejecting mechanism that receives the hard disk cartridge into a predetermined inner position within the main unit and ejects the same out from the position, and a microprocessor that controls storage operation for storing data in the hard disk cartridge. Before the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism performs a receiving operation, it is determined whether access to contents recorded on the hard disk can be gained, and when the access cannot be gained, the receiving operation by the automatic loading/ejecting mechanism is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Masato Fujiwara, Masumi Ishiwatari, Takeyuki Higashibata, Tadashi Takayama, Noriyuki Suzuki, Hiroyasu Ito, Makoto Kobayashi, Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 6723164
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for stabilizing an oxide-semiconductor interface, which is free from the formation of an interface layer (reactive layer) between a semiconductor and an interface oxide and which thereby allows satisfactory exhibition of performance capabilities of a functional oxide and achievement of the stability of oxide-semiconductor interface, yet independent of temperature; it also provides a stabilized semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Toyohiro Chikyo, Mamoru Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 6239005
    Abstract: In a method of forming a single crystal semiconductor directly on a metal layer, a metal layer is epitaxially grown on a surface an electrically insulating substrate having a single crystal structure, and a single crystal semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the metal layer. Particularly, on a c-face of a sapphire substrate, a platinum layer is epitaxially grown in a crystal orientation of (111) by sputtering, while the sapphire substrate is heat at about 400-700° C. After annealing at 600-900° C., a buffer layer made of gallium nitride is epitaxially grown on the platinum layer with a thickness of 500-2000 Å by MOVPE, while the sapphire substrate is heated at about 600° C. Finally, a single crystal gallium nitride layer is epitaxially grown on the buffer layer by MOVPE, while the sapphire substrate is heated at about 1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Shizuoka University
    Inventors: Masatomo Sumiya, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Shunro Fuke
  • Patent number: 5976651
    Abstract: A laminate characterized by consisting of at least 4 layers and having (A) a seal layer which is a polypropylene having a melting point of at least 160.degree. C. as the first layer which is the innermost layer, (B) an adjacent layer consisting of a mixture of 20 to 90% by weight of a polypropylene and 80 to 10% by weight of a 4-methylpentene-1 resin as the second layer, (C) an intermediate layer consisting of a polypropylene having a melting point of at least 160.degree. C. and a melt index of 0.5 to 30 as the third layer and (D) a substrate layer consisting of a polypropylene having a melting point of at least 160.degree. C. and a melt index of 0.01 to 4 as the outermost layer, wherein the melt index of the seal layer (A) is at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
    Inventors: Yasuo Tatsumi, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Seigo Akazawa
  • Patent number: 4865217
    Abstract: An easily openable sealed container comprising a lid and a main body having at least a sealing layer and an adjacent layer beneath the sealing layer, wherein the main body and the lid are sealed at a part of the flange, characterized in that the sealing layer of the main body at the flange has a thickness of 10-70 .mu., the lamination strength between the sealing layer and the adjacent layer of the main body at the flange is 300-2,000 g/25 mm, and the sealing strength between the lid and sealing layer of the main body at the flange is larger than the lamination strength between the sealing layer and the adjacent layer of the main body at the flange, and further characterized in that the main body and the lid are sealed with a larger sealing pressure at least at the innermost portion of the sealed area of the flange than at the rest of the sealed area, or that the flange of the main body has double grooves and the main body and the lid are sealed between these grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company, Limited
    Inventor: Mamoru Yoshimoto