Patents by Inventor Masashige Kimura
Masashige Kimura 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).
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Publication number: 20240092568Abstract: An overturning prevention device includes a shaking occurrence information acquisition section configured to acquire shaking occurrence information indicating that shaking of a travel face where a moving body travels is equal to or more than a predetermined reference value; a support arm supported by the moving body; and an arm driving device configured to drive the support arm. The support arm is configured to be changeable between a projecting state where the support arm projects outwardly in a vehicle-body width direction from the moving body to be grounded on a travel face outside the moving body in the vehicle-body width direction and a retracted state where the support arm is retracted inside a width dimension of the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Yuichi Ueda, Masashige Iwata, Kazunari Kimura, Satoshi Horie
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Patent number: 11857150Abstract: A signal processing apparatus relays communication of control signals between a controller and a plurality of processing modules, and includes: a communication device configured to perform communication of the control signals with the plurality of processing modules; a plurality of first storages provided respectively to correspond to the plurality of processing modules, the plurality of first storages being configured to store the control signals written by the controller; a second storage configured to store: address information indicating each communication address assigned to each of the plurality of processing modules; and correspondence information indicating correspondence relationships between the plurality of first storages and a plurality of module-side storages respectively included in the plurality of processing modules; and a synchronization processor configured to synchronize the plurality of first storages with the plurality of corresponding module-side storages via the communication device basType: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Takenouchi, Aki Mizukami, Masashige Kimura, Satoshi Taira, Keisuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 11314869Abstract: A processor including hardware and performing control in accordance with an input signal is configured to: read, after the processor is booted, firmware information including an encrypted authentication file and an execution program to be executed by the processor; decrypt the encrypted authentication file with reference to the read encrypted authentication file and key information for decrypting the encrypted authentication file; execute the execution program in the processor when the encrypted authentication file is decrypted; and stop the execution of the execution program in the processor when the decryption of the encrypted authentication file fails.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Masashige Kimura
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Patent number: 11147647Abstract: To reduce more load related to the correction of deformation of an observation image that is caused by an error between a plurality of imaging sections. A medical stereoscopic observation device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an imaging unit including a first imaging section configured to capture a left-eye image and a second imaging section configured to capture a right-eye image, correction data for correcting an error related to capturing of an image between the first imaging section and the second imaging section, the imaging unit being rotatably held by a support section; and a correction section configured to correct a difference of parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image on a basis of the correction data, using a position corresponding to a rotation axis of the imaging unit as a reference position.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MRDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Masataka Kado, Tomonori Ishikawa, Gakuji Higuchi, Hiroshi Ushiroda, Takahiro Yamamoto, Masashige Kimura
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Publication number: 20210059504Abstract: A signal processing apparatus relays communication of control signals between a controller and a plurality of processing modules, and includes: a communication device configured to perform communication of the control signals with the plurality of processing modules; a plurality of first storages provided respectively to correspond to the plurality of processing modules, the plurality of first storages being configured to store the control signals written by the controller; a second storage configured to store: address information indicating each communication address assigned to each of the plurality of processing modules; and correspondence information indicating correspondence relationships between the plurality of first storages and a plurality of module-side storages respectively included in the plurality of processing modules; and a synchronization processor configured to synchronize the plurality of first storages with the plurality of corresponding module-side storages via the communication device basType: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yusuke TAKENOUCHI, Aki MIZUKAMI, Masashige KIMURA, Satoshi TAIRA, Keisuke TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20200265142Abstract: A processor including hardware and performing control in accordance with an input signal is configured to: read, after the processor is booted, firmware information including an encrypted authentication file and an execution program to be executed by the processor; decrypt the encrypted authentication file with reference to the read encrypted authentication file and key information for decrypting the encrypted authentication file; execute the execution program in the processor when the encrypted authentication file is decrypted; and stop the execution of the execution program in the processor when the decryption of the encrypted authentication file fails.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masashige KIMURA
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Patent number: 10567706Abstract: An interface module 61 relays control signal communication between a main CPU 621 and a light source control CPU 651 and between the main CPU 621 and a camera head CPU 242. The interface module 61 includes an FPGA 610 having CPU I/Fs 611 to 613 that correspond to communication schemes of CPUs 621, 651, and 242, respectively, and first and second storage units 615 (617) and 616 (618). The FPGA 610 relays a control signal between the main CPU 621 and the light source control CPU 651 and between the main CPU 621 and the camera head CPU 242, while temporarily storing the control signal in the first and the second storage units 615 (617) and 616 (618). Moreover, a first communication timing and second and third communication timings are set at timings shifted from one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Aki Mizukami, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Masashige Kimura
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Publication number: 20190192251Abstract: To reduce more load related to the correction of deformation of an observation image that is caused by an error between a plurality of imaging sections. A medical stereoscopic observation device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an imaging unit including a first imaging section configured to capture a left-eye image and a second imaging section configured to capture a right-eye image, correction data for correcting an error related to capturing of an image between the first imaging section and the second imaging section, the imaging unit being rotatably held by a support section; and a correction section configured to correct a difference of parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image on a basis of the correction data, using a position corresponding to a rotation axis of the imaging unit as a reference position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masataka KADO, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Gakuji HIGUCHI, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Masashige KIMURA
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Publication number: 20180048856Abstract: An interface module 61 relays control signal communication between a main CPU 621 and a light source control CPU 651 and between the main CPU 621 and a camera head CPU 242. The interface module 61 includes an FPGA 610 having CPU I/Fs 611 to 613 that correspond to communication schemes of CPUs 621, 651, and 242, respectively, and first and second storage units 615 (617) and 616 (618). The FPGA 610 relays a control signal between the main CPU 621 and the light source control CPU 651 and between the main CPU 621 and the camera head CPU 242, while temporarily storing the control signal in the first and the second storage units 615 (617) and 616 (618). Moreover, a first communication timing and second and third communication timings are set at timings shifted from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Aki MIZUKAMI, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Masashige KIMURA
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Publication number: 20070296826Abstract: An imaging apparatus which images pictures using a solid-state imaging device includes a picture conversion unit converting pictures imaged at a high-speed screen rate by the solid-state imaging device into a picture in which n-pieces (ānā is an integer of 2 or more) of continuous imaged pictures are arranged in one screen and outputting the converted picture at a low-speed screen rate which is 1/n of the high-speed screen rate, a signal processing unit performing predetermined picture-quality compensation processing to the picture from the picture conversion unit, a display picture cutting unit cutting one of n-pieces of imaged pictures from pictures processed by the signal processing unit and outputting the picture at the low-speed screen rate, and a display processing unit generating picture signals for displaying the picture outputted from the display picture cutting unit at a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Masashige KIMURA
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Patent number: 6661461Abstract: A light-incorporated video camera incorporating a video light integrally in a video camera, includes: a video light input switch for instructing turn-on of the video light; and a timer; wherein the video light turned on by instruction from the video light input switch is automatically turned off after the elapse of a time set on the timer. If a switch key of the video camera is operated before the time set on the timer expires, the timer is initialized to continue the turn-on state of the video light. In this video camera, preferably, the switch key is a record/stop switch key of the video camera, the video light is a tungsten halogen lamp, and the timer is a five-minute timer.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1996Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hajime Watanabe, Masashige Kimura