Patents by Inventor Minoru Inaba

Minoru Inaba 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: 20180047993
    Abstract: A platinum core-shell catalyst that uses palladium (Pd) as a core metal, or a platinum catalyst containing platinum and a metal besides platinum is manufactured industrially on a mass scale. The platinum catalyst is supported on carbon and has excellent oxygen reduction activity. The platinum catalyst is made for a fuel cell by bringing about the presence of a chemical species imparting higher potential than the initial oxide formation potential of the platinum of the platinum catalyst, and by bringing about the presence of a chemical species imparting lower potential than the initial oxide formation potential of the platinum of the platinum catalyst. The manufacture is carried out in a dispersion solution of the platinum catalyst dispersed in an acidic solution containing protons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Minoru INABA, Hideo DAIMON, Kosuke OKUNO, Shunya HIGUCHI, Yuki MATSUI, Naoya AOKI, Hideo INOUE, Takehito NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170331989
    Abstract: A digital camera having an airtight chamber formed by a transparent dustproof plate placed adjacent a lens and pressure compensating or mitigating means. A main camera body and a transparent plate form an airtight chamber in a digital camera. A bellows or deflectable diaphragm is placed within the airtight chamber and coupled to a vent hole open to atmosphere outside of the main camera body. In an embodiment, a position adjusting mechanism moves an image pickup element in a vertical and lateral direction providing a perspective control mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Patent number: 9781314
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a digital camera that enables, using a simple configuration, a digital display to be easily and freely rotated in the horizontal and vertical directions. [Solution] A digital camera (1) is provided with the following: a camera main body (2) having an image pickup lens; a liquid crystal display (3) that displays the images picked up by the image pickup lens; and a hinge unit (4) that connects the camera main body (2) and the electronic display (3). The camera main body (2) includes a first slit (22) that is formed by cutting out at least a portion of an inner circumferential wall (21a) of an accommodating depression (21) which accommodates the hinge unit (4), and that causes an outer circumferential surface (4a) of the hinge unit (4) to be exposed to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20170230646
    Abstract: A stereoscopic imaging display. A virtual field-of-view frame or reference window is set in a field of view of a stereo camera. Standard stereoscopic video data is sent. A stereo slide or a stereo photo print is formed with left and right images from the standard stereoscopic video data. Spacing DP2 between the left and right images is determined by the equation DP2=B(1?L2/L0), where B is a human interpupillary distance, L2 is a view distance, and L0 a distance from the human interpupillary distance to a reference dimension display screen which is equivalent to the reference window at the time of photographing being taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Publication number: 20170230645
    Abstract: A stereoscopic video imaging display. A virtual field-of-view frame or reference window is set in a field of view of a stereo camera. Standard stereoscopic video data is sent. On a display side, stereoscopic videos are alternately displayed in a time-division manner with a width in a left view angle determined by lines connecting both ends of a reference dimension display screen and a left eye of an observer and in a right view angle determined by lines connecting both the ends of the reference dimension display screen and a right eye of the observer. Thus, the left and right videos are displayed at a position where they partially overlap each other, thereby allowing the stereoscopic video equivalent to the reference dimension display screen to be viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Patent number: 9699441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic imaging device which answers the need for system compatibility over the entire range of long-distance (telescopic) imaging to close-up imaging, and which can faithfully reproduce stereoscopic images on the display side without adjustment. To that end, stereoscopic imaging device is disclosed in which the imaging lens optical axes (phi (L), (R)) in an imaging unit provided with imaging lenses and imaging elements (S) are arranged so as to be laterally parallel, and the distance between the optical axes (DL) is set to the interpupillary distance (B) of a human. One reference window (Wref) is defined as a virtual view frame in the image viewfield of said imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20170006194
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a digital camera that enables, using a simple configuration, a digital display to be easily and freely rotated in the horizontal and vertical directions. [Solution] A digital camera (1) is provided with the following: a camera main body (2) having an image pickup lens; a liquid crystal display (3) that displays the images picked up by the image pickup lens; and a hinge unit (4) that connects the camera main body (2) and the electronic display (3). The camera main body (2) includes a first slit (22) that is formed by cutting out at least a portion of an inner circumferential wall (21a) of an accommodating depression (21) which accommodates the hinge unit (4), and that causes an outer circumferential surface (4a) of the hinge unit (4) to be exposed to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Patent number: 9185399
    Abstract: To provide a stereoscopic video receiver that generates a stereoscopic video with a sense of stereoscopy and a powerful impression even when a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen are displayed on a small-sized display, a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen shot by a stereo camera to be displayed on a display having a width narrower than that of a virtual display are displayed so as to be displaced in a direction of separating these screens away from each other, and left and right fields of vision are matched with each other at a position away from the display and a distance between left and right corresponding points of an infinite distance subject image is set to be shorter than an interpupillary distance of a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20140170497
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to enhance the charge and discharge characteristics and rate characteristics of a B-type titanium oxide (TiO2(B)) powder by a simple treatment and to provide a B-type titanium oxide powder that can be suitably used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery. A B-type titanium oxide powder is allowed to undergo a reaction under a fluorine-containing gas atmosphere at 0° C. to 200° C. for 1 minute to 10 days to obtain a surface-fluorinated B-type titanium oxide powder. It is preferred that the fluorination treatment is performed at 0.01 atm to 2 atm. It is preferred that a gas containing a fluorine compound selected from a fluorine (F2) gas, a nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) gas, a perfluorotrimethylamine (N(CF3)3) gas, a chlorine trifluoride (ClF3) gas and the like is used as the fluorine-containing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicants: TOYO TANSO CO., LTD., THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Inaba, Akimasa Tasaka, Morihiro Saito, Mikihiro Takagi, Hitoshi Takebayashi, Yoshio Syodai
  • Publication number: 20140063205
    Abstract: To provide a stereoscopic video receiver that generates a stereoscopic video with a sense of stereoscopy and a powerful impression even when a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen are displayed on a small-sized display, a left-eye screen and a right-eye screen shot by a stereo camera to be displayed on a display having a width narrower than that of a virtual display are displayed so as to be displaced in a direction of separating these screens away from each other, and left and right fields of vision are matched with each other at a position away from the display and a distance between left and right corresponding points of an infinite distance subject image is set to be shorter than an interpupillary distance of a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Patent number: 8618019
    Abstract: A producing method includes a preparing step of preparing a chemical compound having at least one of elements of alkali metals and alkali earth metals along with platinum, and a reducing step of reducing the prepared chemical compound with a reducing agent to form platinum nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The Doshisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamizono, Gang Xie, Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20130182088
    Abstract: An infrared polarizing filter is attached to an infrared synchronization signal radiator of a stereoscopic image display device which alternately displays right and left images by time-division with polarized light in one direction to radiate the polarized-light infrared synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Patent number: 8451326
    Abstract: The present invention realizes stereoscopic television broadcasting which can reproduce a stereoscopic image best in state of stereoscopic viewing and a receiver for the stereoscopic television broadcasting. In stereoscopic television broadcasting, a reference size of a display of a receiver is determined, images for right and left are displayed on the display with a reference size in a superimposing manner, and transmission is performed such that a distance between the same corresponding points of an infinite subject image is reproduced and displayed to be equal to an interpupillary distance of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20120257024
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stereoscopic imaging device which answers the need for system compatibility over the entire range of long-distance (telescopic) imaging to close-up imaging, and which can faithfully reproduce stereoscopic images on the display side without adjustment. To that end, stereoscopic imaging device is disclosed in which the imaging lens optical axes (phi (L), (R)) in an imaging unit provided with imaging lenses and imaging elements (S) are arranged so as to be laterally parallel, and the distance between the optical axes (DL) is set to the interpupillary distance (B) of a human. One reference window (Wref) is defined as a virtual view frame in the image viewfield of said imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20110298900
    Abstract: In a stereoscopic video imaging display system, stereoscopic video can be reproduced without adjustment on a display side even with different models of stereoscopic video displaying apparatus. The present invention is suggested to attain the object described above. A stereoscopic video imaging display system reproducing the state of stereoscopy with high fidelity is provided. A virtual field-of-view frame (defined as a reference window) is set in a field of view of a stereo camera configured of paired imaging units each configured of a shooting lens and an imaging pickup device placed on left and right in parallel to each other, and the reference window is projected in a reduced manner by the left and right shooting lenses to form an image on each of the left and right image pickup devices. Image data of an image of the reference window (in the window) formed on the left and right image pickup devices is read, and stereoscopic video data (defined as standard stereoscopic video data) is sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20110080514
    Abstract: A digital camera having an airtight chamber formed by a transparent dustproof plate placed adjacent a lens and pressure compensating or mitigating means. A main camera body and a transparent plate form an airtight chamber in a digital camera. A bellows or deflectable diaphragm is placed within the airtight chamber and coupled to a vent hole open to atmosphere outside of the main camera body. In an embodiment, a position adjusting mechanism moves an image pickup element in a vertical and lateral direction providing a perspective control mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Minoru INABA
  • Patent number: 7898594
    Abstract: An image pickup substrate mounted with an image pickup element is pressed against the surface of a camera body frame by a plate spring, and exclusive position adjusting mechanisms that independently move the image pickup substrate to a vertical direction and a lateral direction are provided. The image pickup substrate is provided so that its position can be adjusted and a projected image by means of a photographing lens is imaged on the image pickup element. Vertical lines and lateral lines are displayed as software display on an electronic display, and their positions can be independently adjusted to the lateral direction and the vertical direction. A dustproof plate is fixed between an interchangeable lens section and a camera main body, so as to prevent dust from adhering to the surface of the image pickup element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Patent number: 7760266
    Abstract: A rack is inserted to a longitudinal rack mounting groove formed in both right and left end neighborhood on the backside of an image pickup substrate with a plate spring sandwiched therebetween. A right and left pair of racks are engaged with a horizontal pinion shaft. The rack is pressed to a pinion shaft by a spring force, there is no backlash, and the image pickup substrate is also kept in a state with no looseness. The image pickup substrate moves in parallel with a correct horizontal posture being kept up or down by turning the pinion shaft. A horizontal rack is provided at an upper part on the backside of the image pickup substrate, and performs a right and left shift by operating a vertical pinion shaft which is engaged therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20100134602
    Abstract: The present invention realizes stereoscopic television broadcasting which can reproduce a stereoscopic image best in state of stereoscopic viewing and a receiver for the stereoscopic television broadcasting. In stereoscopic television broadcasting, a reference size of a display of a receiver is determined, images for right and left are displayed on the display with a reference size in a superimposing manner, and transmission is performed such that a distance between the same corresponding points of an infinite subject image is reproduced and displayed to be equal to an interpupillary distance of a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventor: Minoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20090325795
    Abstract: A producing method includes a preparing step of preparing a chemical compound having at least one of elements of alkali metals and alkali earth metals along with platinum, and a reducing step of reducing the prepared chemical compound with a reducing agent to form platinum nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamizono, Gang Xie, Minoru Inaba