Patents by Inventor Norio Ishikawa

Norio Ishikawa 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: 5704367
    Abstract: A respiration monitor of the invention includes: an infrared camera for forming an image of a face; an operation section for selecting an imaging temperature to be set for the infrared camera out of a predetermined temperature range and setting the selected imaging temperature; an image memory for storing a facial image signal outputted from the infrared camera; a control section for defining a facial region in the facial image signal, binarizing the facial image signal within the facial region, calculating and outputting a respiratory waveform signal from a change in an area of the facial region every inspiration, and outputting an alarm by judging an apnea when a condition in which there is no change in the area of the facial region lasts for a predetermined time; an alarm section for generating an alarm out of the alarm signal; a synthesis section For synthesizing the facial image signal with the respiratory waveform signal; and a display apparatus for inputting the facial image signal and the respiratory
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Hidehiro Hosaka, Ryoichi Ochiai
  • Patent number: 5640221
    Abstract: A housing has a hollow section, and openings are formed at both ends of the hollow section so as to communicate with the outside. An aperture is formed in the internal wall of the housing so as to oppose the opening, and a video camera is fitted into the opening. A half mirror, a mirror, an optical lens, and light sources are disposed within the hollow section. The light sources are alternately illuminated while a patient wears equipment having such a construction. Light reflected from one eye passes through the half mirror and enters a light receiving surface of the video camera. On the other hand, light reflected from the other eye is reflected from the mirror and a half mirror and, then, enters the light receiving surface of the video camera. The optical lens corrects an error arising from a difference in length between two optical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Hidehiro Hosaka, Katsumi Nakaichi
  • Patent number: 5614967
    Abstract: An eye movement analysis system illuminates the surface of each eye, and calculates the movement of the eye from the image of the eye including the pupil and iris striation. The eye movement analysis system is made up of an image signal processor including a controller which calculates the movement of the eye as well as the respective positions of the center of the eye and the iris striation from the image of the eye and a RAM which holds the respective positions of the center of the eye and the iris striation, a display which displays the iris striation in different states before and after the positional analysis, and an operating section which stops changing the frame if the currently displayed iris striation is different from the previously specified iris striation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Hidehiro Hosaka
  • Patent number: 5580847
    Abstract: An aqueous ammonia composition having low surface tension is disclosed, which comprises ammonia water and a fluoroalkylsulfonamide compound having the following general formula:R.sup.1 SO.sub.2 NR.sup.2 --X--H (I)wherein R.sup.1 represents a fluoroalkyl group, R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, X represents a grouping selected from CH.sub.2 COO and (CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n, wherein n is a positive integer from 1 to 20. This aqueous ammonia composition may be mixed with an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution and water so that it can be used for cleaning a semiconductor substrate. The cleaning solution has outstanding stability, and exhibits improved efficacy in removing microparticles of impurities and excellent surface-protecting effect on the semiconductor substrate that is useful in the manufacture of high density integrated circuit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignees: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumihiro Morikawa, Akihisa Yoshikawa, Norio Ishikawa, Takao Shihoya
  • Patent number: 5260735
    Abstract: A camera system being comprised of a camera and an external device is disclosed. The external device is detachably mounted on the camera which memorizes a program or data necessary for executing a program therein.When the external device is mounted on the camera, they are connected electrically with each other and communicate therebetween in order to read a program or data memorized in the external device into a memory means provided in the camera. The camera is controlled according to the program designated by the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Masaaki Nakai, Masayasu Hirano, Akihiko Fujino, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Takeshi Egawa, Kunio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5249012
    Abstract: An auto-focusing system includes a focus condition detector which detects focus condition based on the infrared light. A data producer is provided for producing a deflection signal indicating a difference between an image forming distance for the infrared light and that for the visible light, due to aberration. In accordance with the detected focus condition and deflection signal, an objective lens is shifted to a position for properly focusing an image of visible light on an image forming plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Takeshi Egawa, Tohru Matsui, Takanobu Omaki, Norio Ishikawa, Akiyoshi Nakamura, Shuzo Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5247326
    Abstract: A camera system with an auto-focusing system includes a camera body and an interchangeable zoom lens. The interchangeable objective lens stores various data to be sent to the camera body for improving automatic focus adjustment, such as an information necessary to convert the detected defocus information into a movement of the driving power source to carry out the automatic focus adjustment. The driving power source in the camera body is controlled in response to the data from the interchangeable objective lens and the detected focus information, the driving power being transmitted to the interchangeable objective lens. The camera body is further capable of inhibiting the focus adjustment or focus indication in response to a data from the interchangeable objective lens under an unfavorable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Norio Ishikawa, Yasuaki Akada, Takeshi Egawa, Kunio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5245379
    Abstract: A camera system including interchangeable lenses each having a switch to control many functions provided to the camera system. By simply operating one lens switch, the working mode of auto-focusing (AF) functions of the camera system can be changed: single-spot AF/multi-spot AF modes, one-shot AF/continuous AF modes, and focus-locing/non-locking modes. When used with an IC card also attached to the camera body, the lens switch can further control the functions of the camera system added or selected by the IC card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Azuma, Takehiro Katoh, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Toshihiko Ishimura, Masataka Hamada, Katsumi Kozakai, Norio Ishikawa, Masayuki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 5214464
    Abstract: According to this invention, a camera system has a camera body and a first and second lenses exchangeable to the camera body. The first lens comprises a device for outputting first data which indicates the first lens belongs to a first lens type. The second lens comprises a device for outputting second data which indicates the second lens belongs to a second lens type and third data with respect to the characteristic of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Karasaki, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Norio Ishikawa, Toshihiko Ishimura, Masataka Hamada, Tokuji Ishida, Masayuki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 5196873
    Abstract: An eye movement analysis system projects imaging light to an eyeball for a time duration short enough so as not to create blurring. Image data is then recorded onto a recording medium. The image data is then read out of the recording medium and used to calculate positional data concerning the eyeball's present location. At a later time, image data of the eyeball is again recorded in the recording medium and read out to calculate positional data concerning the eyeball's new location. The two sets of positional data are used to calculate eye movement data for use in diagnosing the causes of vertigo and/or disequilibrium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignees: Nihon Kohden Corporation, Toshiaki Yagi
    Inventors: Shigeharu Yamanobe, Norio Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5142318
    Abstract: A camera system with an auto-focusing system includes a camera body and an interchangeable zoom lens. The interchangeable objective lens stores various data to be sent to the camera body for improving automatic focus adjustment, such as an information necessary to convert the detected defocus information into a movement of the driving power source to carry out the automatic focus adjustment. The driving power source in the camera body is controlled in responses to the data from the interchangeable objective lens and the detected focus information, the driving power being transmitted to the interchangeable objective lens. The camera body is further capable of inhibiting the focus adjustment or focus indication in response to a data from the interchangeable objective lens under an unfavorable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Norio Ishikawa, Yasuaki Akada, Takeshi Egawa, Kunio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5140361
    Abstract: A camera system being comprised of a camera and an external device is disclosed. The external device is detachably mounted on the camera which memorizes a program or data necessary for executing a program therein.When the external device is mounted on the camera, they are connected electrically with each other and communicate therebetween in order to read a program or data memorized in the external device into a memory means provided in the camera. The camera is controlled according to the program designated by the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Masaaki Nakai, Masayasu Hirano, Akihiko Fujino, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Takeshi Egawa, Kunio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5134431
    Abstract: A photographic camera having a photographic operating device including a focus detecting circuit, a shutter control circuit, a light measuring circuit and a light emission control circuit, an adjustment data memory for storing adjustment data based on functional characteristics of the respective circuits of the photographic operating device and an adjustment circuit for adjusting the respective circuits by using adjustment data read from the adjustment data memory. The adjustment data memory is consituted by an EEPROM for making it possible to conveniently and readily rewrite the adjustment data. The adjustment data is calculated from a linear function expression established between a design value and an actual value for avoiding trial-and-error preparatory operations for the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ishimura, Yasuaki Akada, Hiroshi Ootsuka, Norio Ishikawa, Masaaki Nakai, Manabu Inoue
  • Patent number: 5130734
    Abstract: In an interchangeable lens including an optical system adjustable for focusing and adapted to be detachably mounted on a camera body which is provided with focus detection means for detecting an amount of defocus of an object image formed by the optical system, and drive means for driving the optical system for the focus adjustment thereof in accordance with the detected amount of defocus. The interchangeable lens comprises, inter alia, a code plate for producing a plurality of digital photographic distance signals representing given discrete photographic distances of the optical system in accordance with the adjustment of the optical system for focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Takeshi Egawa, Tohru Matsui, Takanobu Omaki, Norio Ishikawa, Akiyoshi Nakamura, Shuzo Matsushita
  • Patent number: 5089834
    Abstract: A mounting device on a camera has a mounting member to fit with an accessory so as to mount the accessory on the camera by sliding it. The mounting member which is molded out of plastic in one piece has eaves-like portions overhanging from an upper portion thereof in opposite directions intersecting perpendicularly to a mounting direction of the accessory, thus having a generally T-shaped cross section. The mounting member has a groove running in the mounting direction at a top central portion for receiving a projecting portion of the accessory so as to determine a horizontal (lateral) position of the accessory relative to the camera. The eaves-like portions receive mating members of the accessory thereunder so as to determine a vertical position of the accessory relative to the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakasa, Norio Ishikawa, Hiroshi Hosomizu, Tatsuro Izumi, Keiji Yamazaki, Yukio Miki, Mamoru Katsuragi
  • Patent number: 5081483
    Abstract: A camera control system is provided having a plurality of microcomputers, each microcomputer operating in conjunction with a respective clock which generates clock pulses at a respective frequency. A first microcomputer controls a second microcomputer after the second microcomputer has stabilized after initial start up. The first microcomputer controls the overall camera operation, and the second microcomputer controls the camera display operation. When a battery is loaded into the camera, both microcomputers are reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ishimura, Yasuaki Akada, Reiji Seki, Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Norio Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5065176
    Abstract: A camera system with an auto-focusing system includes a camera body and an interchangeable zoom lens. The interchangeable objective lens stores various data to be sent to the camera body for improving automatic focus adjustment, such as an information necessary to convert the detected defocus information into a movement of the driving power source to carry out the automatic focus adjustment. The driving power source in the camera body is controlled in response to the data from the interchangeable objective lens and the detected focus information, the driving power being transmitted to the interchangeable objective lens. The camera body is further capable of inhibiting the focus adjustment or focus indication in response to a data from the interchangeable objective lens under an unfavorable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Norio Ishikawa, Yasuaki Akada, Takeshi Egawa, Kunio Kawamura
  • Patent number: 5054212
    Abstract: A gas-sealing device for a web passage section through the wall of a treatment chamber which enables effective sealing to be achieved not only in a small space but also with a small volume of gas, thereby contributing to a reduction of both equipment and operating costs. First and second gas jetting devices facing opposite sides of a web at the wall of the treatment chamber. Each of the first and second gas jetting devices includes a first slot for jetting a pressurized inert gas toward the treatment chamber, a second slot for jetting a gas containing a low-content gas, the second slot being on the treatment-chamber side of the first slot, and a third slot for sucking air and other gases, the third slot being on the outside side of the first slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norio Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5049909
    Abstract: A photographic camera having an electrically film driving function is provided with an electric motor for driving a film loaded in the camera, a motor driving circuit for driving the electric motor in either one of a high speed mode in which the film is driven at a high speed and a silence mode in which the film is driven relatively quietly at a low speed, a manually operable switch to be operated manually when the high speed mode is switched to the silence mode or vice versa, and a control unit for switching between the high speed mode and the silence mode in compliance with operation of the aforementioned switch in a specific camera sequence. Any photographer can select either one of the high speed mode and the silence mode in accordance with photographing situations, using such a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Ishikawa, Takeshi Egawa
  • Patent number: RE35515
    Abstract: A photo signal processing apparatus which comprises a light receiving unit of charge accumulation type for outputting a data corresponding to a condition of light received thereby, a data processor for applying a predetermined processing to the data outputted from the light receiving unit, an accumulation initiating device for causing the light receiving unit to initiate a charge accumulating operation, an accumulation interrupting device for interrupting the charge accumulating operation of the light receiving unit, a counter for counting a time passed during a period subsequent to the start of the charge accumulating operation of the light receiving unit and until the termination of the charge accumulating operation of the light receiving unit, and a control unit for activating the accumulation initiating device at a timing required to interrupt the charge accumulating operation of the light receiving unit at the time of termination of the data processing performed by the data processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Taniguchi, Toshihiko Ishimura, Norio Ishikawa, Reiji Seki, Yasuaki Akada