Patents by Inventor Naoki Saito

Naoki Saito 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: 10564827
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to control combining of a captured image and an operation target image so as to generate a combined image for feeding back gesture recognition to a user. A degree of visualization of the captured image appears to be changed in the combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Okumura, Yoshihito Ohki, Takuo Ikeda, Kenichi Okada, Junki Ohmura, Michinari Kohno, Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20200049538
    Abstract: An air flow rate measurement device capable of suppressing disturbance of a flow of measured gas and reducing a characteristic influence due to water droplets flowing with intake air is realized. An edge 800 of the upstream side where air flows in a circuit board 400 on which a flow rate detection portion 602 is mounted is provided with a segmentation portion 801 to be a semicircular notch structure to segment the edge 800. Water droplets flowing with measured gas 30 can be captured by the segmentation portion 801 to inhibit the water droplets from arriving at the flow rate detection portion 602.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YOGO, Naoki SAITO, Hiroaki HOSHIKA, Takahiro MIKI
  • Patent number: 10558112
    Abstract: A lens apparatus is mounted to a camera body by moving in a first direction as to the camera body. The camera body has a DGND terminal and multiple electric contacts, used for communication with an accessory mounted thereto, that are arrayed in order in a first direction. Contact portions of the multiple electric contacts at the lens apparatus include contact portions that are lower from an accessory-side contact holding member than a contact portion of the DGND terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 10532906
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has: an apparatus main body whose external appearance is configured from an upper casing, a lower casing, and a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing and that has a paper discharge opening for discharging paper on one side face; a paper discharge portion that is formed as a space between the upper casing and the lower casing and that is to store paper discharged from the paper discharge opening; and an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the upper casing. When viewing the apparatus main body from the front side, an open space that allows paper discharged to the paper discharge portion to be viewed is provided between the operation panel portion and the link casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawano, Takashi Matsuda, Naoki Saito, Kenji Ohta
  • Patent number: 10520343
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal flowmeter having good measurement accuracy by reducing deviation in the flow velocity distribution of a gas under measurement flowing through an auxiliary passage. An auxiliary passage 330 for taking in a portion of a gas under measurement IA flowing through a main passage 124 has a curved passage 32a that bends toward a flowrate measurement element 602. The curved passage 32a has a resistance portion 50 formed therein that applies resistance to the flow of the gas under measurement IA flowing through the outer peripheral side CO of the curved passage 32a so that the pressure loss of the gas under measurement IA flowing through the outer peripheral side CO is high compared to that of the gas flowing through the inner peripheral side CI of the curved passage 32a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morino, Shinobu Tashiro, Masashi Fukaya, Atsushi Inoue, Masanobu Ino, Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20190362895
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes external electrodes having conductive resin layers thereinside on respective two ends opposed to each other in a rectangular parallelepiped ceramic component body. Each of the external electrodes includes an underlying metal layer, an intermediate metal layer, a conductive resin layer, an external metal layer. A tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the underlying metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller, and a tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the intermediate metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: SATOSHI KOBAYASHI, TAKAHISA FUKUDA, TOMOAKI NAKAMURA, MIKIO TAHARA, NAOKI SAITO, KIYOSHIRO YATAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190354258
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Naoki Saito, Kazuto Nishizawa, Masao Kondo
  • Publication number: 20190335242
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: REIKO MIYAZAKI, TAKAYUKI KANEKO, YUKIHITO ONO, NAOKI SAITO, SEIJI SUZUKI, OSAMU SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 10395831
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, an electronic component with metal terminals includes a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 having a pair of external electrodes 12, and a pair of metal terminals 20 each having, integrally, a plate-like supporting part 21 and a plate-like connecting part 22, and is constituted so that the supporting part 21 of each of the metal terminals 20 is joined to each of the external electrodes 12 in a manner allowing the connecting parts 22 to face each other, wherein two projecting parts 23 are provided on the connecting face of the connecting part 22 of each of the metal terminals 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20190220163
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Naoki Saito, Kazuto Nishizawa, Masao Kondo
  • Patent number: 10331328
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Naoki Saito, Kazuto Nishizawa, Masao Kondo
  • Publication number: 20190162570
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal flowmeter capable of reducing a measurement error during pulsation of a fluid as compared with that in the related art. The thermal flowmeter includes: a sub-passage 307 that takes a part of a gas 30 to be measured flowing through a main passage; and a flow measurement unit 451 disposed inside the sub-passage 307. The sub-passage 307 includes: a first passage 351 provided on a measurement surface 451a side of the flow measurement unit 451; a second passage 352 provided on a back surface 451b side of the flow measurement unit 451; and an inclined passage 361 provided on an upstream side of an inlet 351a of the first passage 351 in a forward flow direction F of the gas 30 to be measured in the first passage 351. The inclined passage 361 includes a first inclined surface 371, which is inclined from the second passage 352 side toward the first passage 351 side with respect to the forward flow direction F, to be closer to the second passage 352 side than the flow measurement unit 451.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira UENODAN, Tomoaki SAITO, Naoki SAITO, Masashi FUKAYA, Shinobu TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20190137311
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to obtain a thermal flowmeter which effectively causes water droplets to be directed to a discharge port when the water droplets adhered to a wall surface of a first passage are drawn into a third passage portion. A thermal flowmeter of the present invention includes a sub-passage that takes a measurement gas flowing through a main passage; and a flow detection unit that measures a flow rate of the measurement gas by performing heat transfer with the measurement gas flowing through a sub-passage. Further, the sub-passage includes a first passage, a second passage portion branching in the middle of the first passage portion to be directed toward the flow detection unit; and a third passage portion branching in the middle of the second passage portion to be directed toward a third outlet, and a pressure loss generation means is provided between a third inlet and the third outlet of the third passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoaki SAITO, Shinobu TASHIRO, Naoki SAITO, Masashi FUKAYA, Akira UENODAN
  • Publication number: 20190128416
    Abstract: A shift device of a transmission includes: a cylindrical or columnar shift cam that is formed, at an outer circumferential surface of the shift cam, with a cam groove for operating a shift fork; a drive plate that oscillates by rotation of a shift pedal shaft; a shift cam plate that is fixed to one end portion of the shift cam and rotates the shift cam according to the oscillation of the drive plate; a shift cam sensor that detects a rotation angle of the shift cam; and a transmission shaft that transmits the rotation of the shift cam to the shift cam sensor, as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Publication number: 20190096582
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, an electronic component with metal terminals includes a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 having a pair of external electrodes 12, and a pair of metal terminals 20 each having, integrally, a plate-like supporting part 21 and a plate-like connecting part 22, and is constituted so that the supporting part 21 of each of the metal terminals 20 is joined to each of the external electrodes 12 in a manner allowing the connecting parts 22 to face each other, wherein two projecting parts 23 are provided on the connecting face of the connecting part 22 of each of the metal terminals 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Naoki SAITO
  • Patent number: 10230893
    Abstract: A lens apparatus is attachable to and detachable from an image capturing apparatus and configured to communicate with the image capturing apparatus. An accessory is attachable to and detachable from the lens apparatus and configured to communicate with the lens apparatus. The lens apparatus includes a determiner configured to determine whether update data is used for the lens apparatus or the accessory, the update data being transmittable from the image capturing apparatus and used to update stored data stored in the lens apparatus or the accessory, and a controller configured to transmit the update data to the accessory received from the image capturing apparatus when the determiner determines that the update data is used for the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 10225608
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a client apparatus, control method, system and program capable of presenting emotion expression data showing viewing reactions of other users or a user himself or herself. [Solution] There is provided a client apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires a reaction of a viewing user to a content; an emotion estimation unit which estimates an emotion of a viewing user based on reaction information of the viewing user acquired by the acquisition unit; a determination unit that determines emotion expression data representing an emotion estimated by the emotion estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs emotion expression data determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shigeta, Naoki Saito, Reiko Miyazaki, Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10191644
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Naoki Saito, Kazuto Nishizawa, Masao Kondo
  • Publication number: 20190002229
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has: an apparatus main body whose external appearance is configured from an upper casing, a lower casing, and a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing and that has a paper discharge opening for discharging paper on one side face; a paper discharge portion that is formed as a space between the upper casing and the lower casing and that is to store paper discharged from the paper discharge opening; and an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the upper casing. When viewing the apparatus main body from the front side, an open space that allows paper discharged to the paper discharge portion to be viewed is provided between the operation panel portion and the link casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro KAWANO, Takashi MATSUDA, Naoki SAITO, Kenji OHTA
  • Publication number: 20180352141
    Abstract: In a lens apparatus, a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal. The terminals on the accessory correspond to terminals on an imaging apparatus where a CS terminal is disposed adjacent to a DGND terminal, and a DCA terminal is disposed on the other side of the CS terminal from the DGND terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Yasuyuki Watazawa, Naoto Fujihashi