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: 20190182419
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an image capture unit having a first image capture region that performs image capture under first image capture conditions, and a second image capture region that performs image capture under second image capture conditions that are different from the first image capture conditions; and a generation unit that generates an image of a photographic subject captured in the first image capture region according to image data based on light captured under the second image capture conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki SEKIGUCHI, Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA
  • Publication number: 20190101731
    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 an optical axis direction of the lens barrel; and an elastic supporter for supporting the lens carrier so as to move freely along the optical axis direction of the lens barrel; wherein the lens carrier has an opening which opens toward a direction intersecting the optical axis direction of the lens barrel and through which opening the lens barrel is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20190066271
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an image capture unit having a first image capture region that performs image capture under first image capture conditions, and a second image capture region that performs image capture under second image capture conditions that are different from the first image capture conditions; and a generation unit that generates an image of a photographic subject captured in the first image capture region according to image data for a photographic subject captured in the second image capture region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KANBARA, Takashi SHIONOYA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190057495
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal, for employment in interpolation of the first signal; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10175450
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: New Shicoh Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20180302552
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having an image capturing area that captures an image of a photographic subject, in which a first pixel that outputs a signal of charges generated by photoelectric conversion and a second pixel, different from the first pixel, that outputs a signal of charges generated by photoelectric conversion of charge are disposed; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for a first region of the image capturing area in which the first pixel is disposed and an image capture condition for a second region of the image capturing area, different from the first region, in which the second pixel is disposed; a selection unit that selects a pixel to be employed for interpolation of the first pixel of the first region to which a first image capture condition is set by the setting unit, from the second pixel of the second region to which a second image capture condition that is different from the first image capture condition is set by the setting unit, an
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
  • 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
  • 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