Patents by Inventor Miyuki Kono
Miyuki Kono 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: 20100135539Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Patent number: 7671977Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Patent number: 7612875Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Publication number: 20090252388Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Akio NAGASAKA, Takafumi MIYATAKE, Naoto MIURA, Yoshiaki AMANO, Yoshimi KASAI, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Patent number: 7561257Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Patent number: 7468787Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Publication number: 20080306383Abstract: The dynamic property of a blood flow in a superficial blood vessel of a living body are constructed. A physical stimulus is given to the blood flow, and an ultrasonic response from the blood flow to the physical stimulus is measured and evaluated, which allows the blood property to be evaluated noninvasively and dynamically. Therefore, a medical check and a lifestyle-related diseases prevention effect are promising.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Takashi Azuma, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Hiroki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080158546Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Publication number: 20080117410Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventors: Akio NAGASAKA, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Publication number: 20080117409Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Patent number: 7352448Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Publication number: 20080068591Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Publication number: 20080007714Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Patent number: 7310133Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Patent number: 7277163Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki
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Patent number: 7184576Abstract: In a place where the personal authentication is requested, if there occurs an emergency, e.g., an authenticatee is forced to unlock a key under threat against the authenticatee's will, there is provided an urgency report system that has lowered both a danger of an authentication apparatus's false operation and a risk of being detected from those around the authenticatee. In the personal authentication technology based on a finger-vein authentication, the employment of the following methods makes it possible to enter a rescue mode and to issue an urgency report: Actively deforming the finger-vein pattern in captured image, pushing a switch, which becomes a trigger for starting the authentication, longer than a predetermined time, or using a rotational motion of the finger.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Masao Kamahori, Hitoshi Matsuo, Hiroshi Masuzawa
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Publication number: 20060068693Abstract: The invention detects the state where a vehicle cabin is or the individual occupants are short of oxygen and eliminates this shortage of oxygen. Further, the invention prevents the occupant from developing high-altitude sickness when a vehicle runs in highlands. Still further, the invention constructs a system tough to the failure of sensors. There is provided an apparatus in which a system is constructed in such a way as to provide a vehicle with a function of measuring oxygen saturation in blood, a function of measuring oxygen concentration or carbon dioxide concentration, and a function of measuring altitude and can condition air in a vehicle cabin by use of a remaining function even in the event of a failure of the respective functions. With this, it is possible to eliminate a shortage of oxygen in individual occupants according to their states and hence to prevent the occupants from developing high-altitude sickness when the vehicle runs in highlands and hence to secure the safe running of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Yuichi Kashimura, Takafumi Matsumura, Takafumi Miyatake, Akio Nagasaka, Hiroshi Masuzawa, Naoto Miura
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Patent number: 6970234Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Publication number: 20050254695Abstract: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member such as a button switch is preferably located at a position in the guide member at which a fingertip is to be positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with a position at which a portion of a finger to be imaged for identification should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Inventors: Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake, Naoto Miura, Yoshiaki Amano, Yoshimi Kasai, Shinichiro Umemura, Miyuki Kono
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Publication number: 20050185827Abstract: A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Miyuki Kono, Shin-ichiro Umemura, Takafumi Miyatake, Kunio Harada, Yoshitoshi Ito, Hironori Ueki