Patents by Inventor Masami Fukuda

Masami Fukuda 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: 11961345
    Abstract: A vehicle (20) transmits an LF command (Wa), an electronic key (30) transmits, to the vehicle (20), an RF command responsive to the LF command (Wa), the vehicle (20) transmits, to the electronic key (30), an LF command (Wb) having a longer packet length than the LF command (Wa), and the electronic key (30) transmits, to the vehicle (20), an RF command responsive to the LF command (Wb) on the basis of the electric field strength of an LF-RSSI burst of a part of the LF command (Wb), thus turning on an interior light (501).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michihiko Fukuda, Masami Takigawa, Hitoshi Namba
  • Patent number: 9942446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a print data generation device (PC) that generates print data to be used in printing color materials onto a print medium on the basis of image data. The print data generation device includes a medium color obtainment portion that obtains color information on the print medium; a color material reduction information obtainment portion that obtains color material reduction information on the basis of predetermined color correction range information including the color information; a corrected color material level generation portion that generates a corrected color material level on the basis of the image data and the color material reduction information; and a print data generation portion that generates the print data on the basis of the corrected color material level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masami Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160309060
    Abstract: The invention relates to a print data generation device (PC) that generates print data to be used in printing color materials onto a print medium on the basis of image data. The print data generation device includes a medium color obtainment portion that obtains color information on the print medium; a color material reduction information obtainment portion that obtains color material reduction information on the basis of predetermined color correction range information including the color information; a corrected color material level generation portion that generates a corrected color material level on the basis of the image data and the color material reduction information; and a print data generation portion that generates the print data on the basis of the corrected color material level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Masami FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 8675255
    Abstract: A second chromaticity feature is corrected and approximated to a first chromaticity feature, a new limit value for an ink amount is determined based on the second chromaticity feature after the approximation, optimization is performed by designating an ink amount which is equal to or less than the newly determined limit value when an ink amount reproducing a hue value represented by a lattice point is determined by the optimization of the ink amount with the use of an object function for evaluating image quality when the designated amount of ink is made to adhere to a first print medium, the ink amount determined by the optimization is converted with a conversion relationship based on the first chromaticity feature and the second chromaticity feature, and a profile for a second print medium, for which the converted ink amount has been defined, is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Nao Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8634117
    Abstract: A second chromaticity value feature is corrected and approximated to a first chromaticity value feature, a new limit value for an ink amount is determined based on the second chromaticity value feature after the approximation, optimization is performed by designating an ink amount which is equal to or less than the newly determined limit value when an ink amount reproducing a hue value represented by a lattice point is determined by the optimization of the ink amount with the use of an object function for evaluating image quality when the designated amount of ink is made to adhere to a first print medium, the ink amount determined by the optimization is converted with a conversion relationship based on the first chromaticity value feature and the second value chromaticity feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Nao Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8610952
    Abstract: Provided is a printing control device capable of: a reception process of receiving designation of a printing medium; an adjustment process of adjusting a printing apparatus in accordance with a printing result of a first test pattern; a color conversion table generation process of generating a color conversion table for the designated printing medium; and a profile generation process of generating a device profile of the printing apparatus on the basis of a colorimetric value of a second test pattern by performing color conversion on data, which represents the second test pattern, through the color conversion table, and by causing the printing apparatus to print the second test pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Nao Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20120243011
    Abstract: A second chromaticity feature is corrected and approximated to a first chromaticity feature, a new limit value for an ink amount is determined based on the second chromaticity feature after the approximation, optimization is performed by designating an ink amount which is equal to or less than the newly determined limit value when an ink amount reproducing a hue value represented by a lattice point is determined by the optimization of the ink amount with the use of an object function for evaluating image quality when the designated amount of ink is made to adhere to a first print medium, the ink amount determined by the optimization is converted with a conversion relationship based on the first chromaticity feature and the second chromaticity feature, and a profile for a second print medium, for which the converted ink amount has been defined, is created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Nao Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20120224199
    Abstract: A second chromaticity value feature is corrected and approximated to a first chromaticity value feature, a new limit value for an ink amount is determined based on the second chromaticity value feature after the approximation, optimization is performed by designating an ink amount which is equal to or less than the newly determined limit value when an ink amount reproducing a hue value represented by a lattice point is determined by the optimization of the ink amount with the use of an object function for evaluating image quality when the designated amount of ink is made to adhere to a first print medium, the ink amount determined by the optimization is converted with a conversion relationship based on the first chromaticity value feature and the second value chromaticity feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Nao Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20120218574
    Abstract: Provided is a printing control device capable of: a reception process of receiving designation of a printing medium; an adjustment process of adjusting a printing apparatus in accordance with a printing result of a first test pattern; a color conversion table generation process of generating a color conversion table for the designated printing medium; and a profile generation process of generating a device profile of the printing apparatus on the basis of a colorimetric value of a second test pattern by performing color conversion on data, which represents the second test pattern, through the color conversion table, and by causing the printing apparatus to print the second test pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masami FUKUDA, Nao KANEKO
  • Patent number: 7436737
    Abstract: An electric watch is characterized by including a transmitting circuit 6 for generating a plurality of transmitted signals, transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 for outputting the output signals generated by the transmitting circuit 6, a signal modulating member 3 composed of a rotor arranged adjacently to the transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 in a non-contact manner for modulating the transmitted signals, a receiving electrode 4 arranged adjacently to the signal modulating member 3 in a non-contact manner for receiving the transmitted signals modulated by the signal modulating member 3, a receiving circuit 7 for amplifying received signals received by the receiving electrode 4, and a detecting circuit 8 for detecting mechanical position information of the signal modulating member 3 based on the received signal amplified by the receiving circuit 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Kiyotaka Igarashi, Shinichi Komine, Ryoji Iwakura, Shigeru Morokawa
  • Patent number: 7385876
    Abstract: A radio-controlled timepiece includes a regional-information storage unit that stores information on a target time region, a receiving circuit that receives a standard frequency that contains UTC time information, and that outputs a received signal, a regional-time calculating unit that calculates a current time of the target time region based on the information on the target time region and the received signal, a display unit that displays the current time calculated, a display-time correcting unit that corrects the current time to be displayed in DST or in standard time in timing determined based on the current time when information on a DST switching day is included in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ihara, Akinari Takada, Masaaki Namekawa, Masami Fukuda, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7372779
    Abstract: The invention is directed to obtaining a radio controlled timepiece that, in a case when the user who uses it moves from one country or one region to another where the time difference is different, has simplified an operation of correcting the time difference between the countries or regions and an operation of correcting the time difference due to daylight saving time's being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinari Takada, Takashi Ihara, Masaaki Namekawa, Masami Fukuda, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050185514
    Abstract: A radio-controlled timepiece includes a regional-information storage unit that stores information on a target time region, a receiving circuit that receives a standard frequency that contains UTC time information, and that outputs a received signal, a regional-time calculating unit that calculates a current time of the target time region based on the information on the target time region and the received signal, a display unit that displays the current time calculated, a display-time correcting unit that corrects the current time to be displayed in DST or in standard time in timing determined based on the current time when information on a DST switching day is included in the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Takashi Ihara, Akinari Takada, Masaaki Namekawa, Masami Fukuda, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6894952
    Abstract: A time keeping device of an electric timepiece comprising one motor that can rotate in the forward direction and the reverse direction, a branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism, wherein the motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display. The time keeping device further comprises a merge mechanism in addition to the branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism and are merged by the merge mechanism. The motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Morokawa, Ryoji Iwakura, Takaaki Nozaki, Takakazu Yano, Masami Fukuda, Kazuo Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20050094495
    Abstract: The invention is directed to obtaining a radio controlled timepiece that, in a case when the user who uses it moves from one country or one region to another where the time difference is different, has simplified an operation of correcting the time difference between the countries or regions and an operation of correcting the time difference due to daylight saving time's being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Akinari Takada, Takashi Ihara, Masaaki Namekawa, Masami Fukuda, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050002277
    Abstract: An electric watch is characterized by including a transmitting circuit 6 for generating a plurality of transmitted signals, transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 for outputting the output signals generated by the transmitting circuit 6, a signal modulating member 3 composed of a rotor arranged adjacently to the transmitting electrodes 1 and 2 in a non-contact manner for modulating the transmitted signals, a receiving electrode 4 arranged adjacently to the signal modulating member 3 in a non-contact manner for receiving the transmitted signals modulated by the signal modulating member 3, a receiving circuit 7 for amplifying received signals received by the receiving electrode 4, and a detecting circuit 8 for detecting mechanical position information of the signal modulating member 3 based on the received signal amplified by the receiving circuit 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Masami Fukuda, Kiyotaka Igarashi, Shinichi Komine, Ryoji Iwakura, Shigeru Morokawa
  • Publication number: 20040062147
    Abstract: A time keeping device of an electric timepiece comprising one motor that can rotate in the forward direction and the reverse direction, a branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism, wherein the motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display. The time keeping device further comprises a merge mechanism in addition to the branch mechanism, and a plurality of wheel trains that are branched by the branch mechanism and are merged by the merge mechanism. The motor is rotated in the forward direction to drive one wheel train thereby to carry out a mechanical display, and is rotated in the reverse direction to drive the other wheel train thereby to carry out another mechanical display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Shigeru Morokawa, Ryoji Iwakura, Takaaki Nozaki, Takakazu Yano, Masami Fukuda, Kazuo Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6310836
    Abstract: The present invention provides a timepiece having a light-receptive/emitting device such as a solar cell and an EL device in which a parting portion can be set freely and the timepiece can be adapted to various design requests. The timepiece has a dial for displaying a time, a timepiece movement incorporating driving units, a light-receptive/emitting device provided between the timepiece movement and the dial, and an armoring member for housing the timepiece movement, in which a portion or a whole of the dial is formed to have a light-transmitting property so as to supply outside light to the light-receptive/emitting device or to allow the light-receptive/emitting device to emit light to an outside, the light-receptive/emitting device is fixed to one side of the timepiece movement, and the dial is mounted to the armoring member by engaging a first portion formed at the dial with a second portion formed at the armoring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Fujii, Masami Fukuda, Junsuke Kashikie, Toshio Murata
  • Patent number: 5966344
    Abstract: A light transmitting metallic dial 50 is disposed above a cell 2 such as an EL device, a solar battery, or the like and the light transmitting type metallic dial 50 is secured by engaging an aligning portion 50b formed on the light transmitting type metallic dial 50 with an aligning portion 4b formed on a casing frame 4. In the light transmitting type metallic dial 50, light transmitting holes 50a and 51 constituting various characters, numerals, patterns, and the like are formed. Further, when the transparent plate is laminated on the light transmitting metallic dial 50, a clearance 7 is formed between the cell 2 and the transparent plate 5 using a spacer or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Umemoto, Masami Fukuda, Kenji Shimoda, Yasuo Kitajima, Isamu Kobayashi, Yoshio Katsuki, Yurie Udoh
  • Patent number: 5703837
    Abstract: A light transmitting type display plate 5 is arranged above a cell 2 such as an EL element or a solar cell or the like, and the display plate 5 is fixed to the support member 4 through the engagement of a positioning section 5b formed on the light transmitting type display plate 5 with a positioning section 4b formed on a support member 4. In the case where the light transmitting type display plate is a transparent plate 5, a spacer 6 or the like forms a gap 7 between the cell 2 and the transparent plate 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Umemoto, Masami Fukuda, Kenji Shimoda, Yasuo Kitajima, Isamu Kobayashi, Yurie Udou