Patents by Inventor Mieko Nakano
Mieko Nakano 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: 20230238784Abstract: A switch includes a fixed contact, a movable contact, a motor to drive the movable contact via a drive mechanism that converts rotational motion into linear motion, and a drive controller to control driving of the motor. The drive controller controls a rotation speed of the motor such that during an opening operation of the switch, a moving speed of the movable contact in a part of an entire moving range of the movable contact is lower than a moving speed of the movable contact during a closing operation of the switch. The part of the entire moving range includes an interrupting point at which an arc current is extinguished.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mieko NAKANO, Shinichiro NAKAUCHI, Yasunori NAKAMURA, Takahiro EDO
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Patent number: 8395673Abstract: An image shot by a shooting unit is stored in a shot image storing unit. An expected shooting state storing unit stores expected shooting state information which represents an expected shooting state of an object to be shot. A guide direction determining unit references the image stored in the shot image storing unit and the expected shooting state information, and determines in which direction the object to be shot, which is shot by the shooting unit, is to be guided. A guide direction instruction outputting unit notifies a user of a result of the determination made by the guide direction determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2004Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Mitsuaki Fukuda, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Masaki Watanabe, Takayuki Sugiura, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Satoshi Fukui, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh
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Patent number: 7522824Abstract: An image taking device (1), which takes an image of an object by focusing reflected light from the object on an image sensor (212), is provided with a distance measuring sensor (27) for measuring a distance between the object and the image taking device (1), and means for controlling exposure time of the image sensor (212) upon taking an image in accordance with a measurement result.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Satoshi Fukui, Takayuki Sugiura, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Patent number: 7415202Abstract: An image taking device with a lighting device includes a light irradiating portion for irradiating light to a subject and a light receiving portion for receiving reflected light from the subject that is irradiated by the light. The light irradiating portion is structured to have a plurality of light sources that are arranged so as to surround the light receiving portion. Each of the light sources is adjusted to emit light of an intensity corresponding to an arrangement position.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Naoyuki Fujimoto, Takayuki Sugiura, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Satoshi Fukui, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Patent number: 7406198Abstract: An image capture apparatus is placed on a desk and an object to be captured is presented above the apparatus. An illumination device can emit light of a plurality of wavelengths, and a camera captures an image of an object to be captured using different wavelengths. By processing an image using different wavelengths, the material of the object to be captured can be obtained. The captured image is compared with a recorded image stored in the image capture apparatus and used in image determination.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takahiro Aoki, Toshio Endoh, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Takayuki Sugiura, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Satoshi Fukui, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Makoto Goto
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Patent number: 7340159Abstract: In order to perform personal identification by matching a first body image that is obtained in advance by an image taking process with a second body image that is obtained when the identification is performed, an image taking device (1) for obtaining the second body image includes a shooting condition storage portion (203) for storing a shooting condition for each person in connection with an ID given to the person, the shooting condition being used when a body image of the person is taken for obtaining the first body image, an interface (24) for entering the ID of a person to be an object of the identification, and a shooting control portion (201) for controlling to take the body image under the shooting condition corresponding to the entered ID for obtaining the second body image of the person to be an object of the identification.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takayuki Sugiura, Shuji Kimura, Atsushi Miki, Satoshi Fukui, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20060210256Abstract: An image taking device (1), which takes an image of an object by focusing reflected light from the object on an image sensor (212), is provided with a distance measuring sensor (27) for measuring a distance between the object and the image taking device (1), and means for controlling exposure time of the image sensor (212) upon taking an image in accordance with a measurement result.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2003Publication date: September 21, 2006Inventors: Satoshi Fukui, Takayuki Sigiura, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20060110145Abstract: An image taking device with a lighting device includes a light irradiating portion for irradiating light to a subject and a light receiving portion for receiving reflected light from the subject that is irradiated by the light. The light irradiating portion is structured to have a plurality of light sources that are arranged so as to surround the light receiving portion. Each of the light sources is adjusted to emit light of an intensity corresponding to an arrangement position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Naoyuki Fujimoto, Takayuki Sugiura, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Satoshi Fukui, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20060018652Abstract: In order to perform personal identification by matching a first body image that is obtained in advance by an image taking process with a second body image that is obtained when the identification is performed, an image taking device (1) for obtaining the second body image includes a shooting condition storage portion (203) for storing a shooting condition for each person in connection with an ID given to the person, the shooting condition being used when a body image of the person is taken for obtaining the first body image, an interface (24) for entering the ID of a person to be an object of the identification, and a shooting control portion (201) for controlling to take the body image under the shooting condition corresponding to the entered ID for obtaining the second body image of the person to be an object of the identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takayuki Sugiura, Shuji Kimura, Atsushi Miki, Satoshi Fukui, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20040208373Abstract: An image capture apparatus is placed on a desk, etc., and an object to be captured is presented above the apparatus. An illumination device can emit light of a plurality of wavelengths, and a camera captures an image of an object to be captured using different wavelengths. By processing an image using different wavelengths, the material of the object to be captured can be obtained. The captured image is compared with a recorded image stored in the image capture apparatus, etc., and used in image determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Takahiro Aoki, Toshio Endoh, Mitsuaki Fukuda, Masaki Watanabe, Takayuki Sugiura, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Satoshi Fukui, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh, Makoto Goto
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Publication number: 20040189829Abstract: An image shot by a shooting unit is stored in a shot image storing unit. An expected shooting state storing unit stores expected shooting state information which represents an expected shooting state of an object to be shot. A guide direction determining unit references the image stored in the shot image storing unit and the expected shooting state information, and determines in which direction the object to be shot, which is shot by the shooting unit, is to be guided. A guide direction instruction outputting unit notifies a user of a result of the determination made by the guide direction determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Mitsuaki Fukuda, Toshio Endoh, Takahiro Aoki, Masaki Watanabe, Takayuki Sugiura, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano, Satoshi Fukui, Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Mitsuhiro Gotoh
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Publication number: 20040029552Abstract: It is determined whether or not a connection is established between the communication section of an image transmitter and a mobile phone. If it is determined that the connection is established, a request command is transmitted to the mobile phone to obtain the model information of the mobile phone. When the mobile phone receives the request command, it reads the model information from an internal memory, and transmits the model information to the image transmitter. When the image transmitter obtains the model information in response to the request for the model information, it reads conversion information corresponding to the obtained model information with reference to a conversion table. Then, the image transmitter converts the image data stored in a storage unit, based on the read conversion information, and transmits the converted image data to the mobile phone of the image transmitter through the communication section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Keiji Fujiwara, Satoshi Fukui, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano
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Publication number: 20040029526Abstract: When an image transmitter and a mobile phone are connected, it is determined whether or not a connection (communication) is established between a communication section and the mobile phone. If it is determined that the connection is established, the image transmitter transmits to the mobile phone a signal to request the mobile phone to obtain identification information given to the mobile phone. The image transmitter determines whether or not pre-stored identification information in the storage unit and the obtained identification information match. If it is determined that the identification information matches, the image transmitter reads image data stored in the storage unit and transmits the image data to the mobile phone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Atsushi Miki, Shuji Kimura, Keiji Fujiwara, Satoshi Fukui, Kiyoshi Chinzei, Mieko Nakano