Patents by Inventor Naoki Sekiguchi

Naoki Sekiguchi 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: 20180288316
    Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an image-capturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets image-capturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9784611
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes a light source unit that emits a linear light beam elongate in a primary scanning direction to an object to be read, and a lens unit including an incidence surface and an output surface oriented opposite to each other. The lens unit is configured to receive light from the object through the incidence surface and output the light through the output surface. The module also includes a sensor IC that receives the light outputted from the output surface, a housing that holds the light source unit and the lens unit, and a support member that supports the lens unit such that the incidence surface is located more distant from the sensor IC than the output surface in a secondary scanning direction. The support member includes a reflection surface that reflects the light from the object toward the incidence surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadatoshi Miwa, Takumi Yamade, Yasuyuki Aritaki, Kuniaki Nakamura, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20170235093
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes: a lens carrier for fixing a lens barrel to the inside thereof; a driving Unit for moving the lens carrier along the optical axis direction of the lens barrel; and an upper leaf spring and a lower leaf spring attached to the lens carrier in a manner that a surface of the each upper leaf spring and lower leaf spring is oriented orthogonal to the optical axis direction at an upper part and a lower part of the lens carrier and so that the lens carrier is supported in a manner to move freely in the optical axis direction of the lens barrel; wherein the lens carrier has an opening through which the lens barrel can be inserted from the direction intersecting the optical axis direction of the lens barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9523835
    Abstract: A lens driving device including: a lens holder; a coil mounted on the lens holder; at least one magnet disposed around the coil; a first and second spring members which support the lens holder at the both sides thereof in the optical axis direction so that the lens holder can move freely in the both directions of the optical axis of the lens in an initial state of no electric current to the coil; and an abutment surface to which the lens holder abuts when the lens holder moves toward one spring member against a biasing force of the one spring member; wherein the lens holder is exhorted a biasing force by the other spring member from the side of the other spring member to the side of the one spring member in the optical axis direction when the lens holder abuts against the abutment surface. Thus the lens driving device can support a lens holder in a stable fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: New Shicoh Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20160313533
    Abstract: The lens driving device includes: a housing, a lens holder, and first and second spring members that support the lens holder at both sides of the lens holder in an optical axis direction; wherein the first and second spring member each has a housing side fixing member fixed to the housing, a lens holder side fixing member fixed to the lens holder, and elastic arms therebetween. A first connecting point connecting the elastic arm with the housing side fixing member and a second connecting point connecting the elastic arm with the lens holder side fixing member are arranged offset to each other in a circumferential direction and an offset direction of the second connecting point to the first connecting point in the first spring member and an offset direction of the second connecting point to the first connecting point in the second spring member are opposite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20160227011
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information on a program being executed in an external device; a first display unit that displays a first image according to the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that executes a program associated with the first image in response to an operation on the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Aiko NAMIKAWA, Takuya SATO, Noriaki MOCHIMIZO, Wataru MIYAZAKI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150319346
    Abstract: A lens driving device including: a lens holder; a coil mounted on the lens holder; at least one magnet disposed around the coil; a first and second spring members which support the lens holder at the both sides thereof in the optical axis direction so that the lens holder can move freely in the both directions of the optical axis of the lens in an initial state of no electric current to the coil; and an abutment surface to which the lens holder abuts when the lens holder moves toward one spring member against a biasing force of the one spring member; wherein the lens holder is exhorted a biasing force by the other spring member from the side of the other spring member to the side of the one spring member in the optical axis direction when the lens holder abuts against the abutment surface. Thus the lens driving device can support a lens holder in a stable fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150253186
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes a light source unit that emits a linear light beam elongate in a primary scanning direction to an object to be read, and a lens unit including an incidence surface and an output surface oriented opposite to each other. The lens unit is configured to receive light from the object through the incidence surface and output the light through the output surface. The module also includes a sensor IC that receives the light outputted from the output surface, a housing that holds the light source unit and the lens unit, and a support member that supports the lens unit such that the incidence surface is located more distant from the sensor IC than the output surface in a secondary scanning direction. The support member includes a reflection surface that reflects the light from the object toward the incidence surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Tadatoshi MIWA, Takumi YAMADE, Yasuyuki ARITAKI, Kuniaki NAKAMURA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9060092
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes a light source unit that emits a linear light beam elongate in a primary scanning direction to an object to be read, and a lens unit including an incidence surface and an output surface oriented opposite to each other. The lens unit is configured to receive light from the object through the incidence surface and output the light through the output surface. The module also includes a sensor IC that receives the light outputted from the output surface, a housing that holds the light source unit and the lens unit, and a support member that supports the lens unit such that the incidence surface is located more distant from the sensor IC than the output surface in a secondary scanning direction. The support member includes a reflection surface that reflects the light from the object toward the incidence surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadatoshi Miwa, Takumi Yamade, Yasuyuki Aritaki, Kuniaki Nakamura, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140198355
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes a light source unit that emits a linear light beam elongate in a primary scanning direction to an object to be read, and a lens unit including an incidence surface and an output surface oriented opposite to each other. The lens unit is configured to receive light from the object through the incidence surface and output the light through the output surface. The module also includes a sensor IC that receives the light outputted from the output surface, a housing that holds the light source unit and the lens unit, and a support member that supports the lens unit such that the incidence surface is located more distant from the sensor IC than the output surface in a secondary scanning direction. The support member includes a reflection surface that reflects the light from the object toward the incidence surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadatoshi MIWA, Takumi YAMADE, Yasuyuki ARITAKI, Kuniaki NAKAMURA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130131940
    Abstract: A drive control device for a vehicle drives an engine at a desired fuel consumption. The drive control device includes a map which correlates each engine rotation speed with an evaluation value indicating a fuel consumption when driving the engine at that engine rotation speed. The drive control device calculates a targeted evaluation value Etg between a first evaluation value Elim1 indicating a fuel consumption when driving the engine in the fuel economy mode and a second evaluation value Elim2 indicating a fuel consumption when driving the engine in the acceleration responsive mode. The drive control device calculates a target engine rotation speed Stg correlated to the targeted evaluation value Etg by referring to the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Arai, Kazutoshi Ishioka, Hiroyuki Aoki, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20110187741
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an image as an input image, the image being recorded in correlation with information related to ground point of photography; an image selection unit that selects, as selected images, a plurality of images from among the input images input by the input section; a region extraction unit that extracts a map region on the basis of a number of the selected images included in a predetermined region upon the map, the predetermined region including the ground points of the selected images selected by the image selection unit; and a display unit that displays the map region extracted by the region extraction unit with photographic ground point signs, the photographic ground point manifesting the ground point of the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki AKIYA, Shutaro TERAMOTO, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 7649703
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped as viewed from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, and a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignees: Shicoh Engineering Co., Ltd., Shicoh Motor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 7619684
    Abstract: An optical structure is disposed on a surface of a device substrate, and a lens system for introducing external light into a solid-state image pickup device is placed in the center of the optical structure. The outer shape of the optical structure seen from the light incident side of the lens system is rectangular, and its plane shape forms a rectangular frame section. An intermediate structure is disposed between the device substrate and the optical structure. The intermediate structure has a fitting section for fitting the optical structure in a part of side faces of the frame section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Shicoh Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuitsu Nishida, Tohru Shigeta, Hidetoshi Nishimura, Yoshinori Tanida, Naoki Sekiguchi, Morimasa Yoshie
  • Patent number: 7394603
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus includes: a first yoke having an inner peripheral wall and an outer peripheral wall placed to be concentric with each other and forming a rectangular U-shape cross section and a cylindrical shape; a second yoke placed at an outer side of the first yoke to be concentric with the first yoke and forming a rectangular U-shape cross section and a cylindrical shape; a base; a first magnet and a first coil arranged in a rectangular U-shape interior of the first yoke; a second magnet and a second coil arranged in a rectangular U-shape interior of the second yoke; a first lens support member; and a second lens support member. The second lens support member is placed at an inner peripheral side of the second yoke and has the second coil fixed onto an outer periphery thereof. The first lens support member is linearly moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by an electromagnetic force caused by passing current through the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Shicoh Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Satoshi Asakawa, Naoki Sekiguchi, Morimasa Yoshie
  • Publication number: 20070091199
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped seeing from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20050180275
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus includes a first yoke 7 having an inner peripheral wall 7a and an outer peripheral wall 7b placed to be concentric with each other and forming a rectangular U-shape cross section and a cylindrical shape; a second yoke 12 placed at an outer side of the first yoke 7 be concentric with the first yoke 7 and forming a rectangular U-shape cross section and a cylindrical shape; a base 2; a first magnet 6 and a first coil 4 arranged in a rectangular U-shape interior of the first yoke 7; a second magnet 11 and a second coil 9 arranged in a rectangular U-shape interior of the second yoke 12; a first lens support member 5; and a second lens support member 10. The second lens support member 10 is placed at an inner peripheral side of the second yoke 12 and having the second coil 9 fixed onto an outer periphery. The first lens support member 5 is linearly moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by an electromagnetic force caused by passing current through the first coil 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Satoshi Asakawa, Naoki Sekiguchi, Morimasa Yoshie
  • Patent number: RE43465
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped as viewed from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, and a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignees: Shicoh Co., Ltd., Shicoh Motor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: RE43644
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped as viewed from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, and a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignees: Shicoh Co., Ltd., Shicoh Motor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: RE44117
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped as viewed from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, and a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Shicoh Co., Ltd., Shicoh Motor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Naoki Sekiguchi