Patents by Inventor Ryo Hasegawa

Ryo Hasegawa 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: 20220166923
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a storage portion that stores image data obtained by imaging, and a processing portion that processes the image data, in which the processing portion performs processing of reducing the image data, performs first detection processing of detecting a specific subject image showing a specific subject from a reduced image indicated by reduced image data obtained by reducing the image data, and in a case where the specific subject image is not detected by the first detection processing, performs second detection processing on pre-reduction image data that is the image data before reduction stored in the storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20220141415
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, and a processing portion that generates single image data by combining a plurality of pieces of image data output from the imaging element and outputs the generated single image data, in which the plurality of pieces of image data are image data generated by performing imaging accompanying A/D conversion of different reference levels, and the number of bits, in units of pixels, of the single image data output from the processing portion is greater than the number of bits of each of the plurality of pieces of image data in units of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20220141420
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a storage portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging, a control portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and controls storage of the image data in the storage portion and stores attribute information of the image data in the storage portion, an output portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs the image data stored in the storage portion, and a reception portion that receives an instruction related to the attribute information, in which the output portion outputs the attribute information corresponding to the instruction received by the reception portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 11300024
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger installed on an intake path or exhaust path of an internal combustion engine and configured to cool gas by transferring heat between the gas containing exhaust and refrigerant, a water-repellent portion is formed at part of a portion that contacts the gas in a gas path through which the gas flows, and a hydrophilic portion is formed at another part of the portion. The water-repellent portion is a portion provided with water-repellent treatment. The hydrophilic portion is a portion provided with hydrophilic treatment. The hydrophilic portion is formed at a part having a temperature lower than the temperature of the part at which the water-repellent portion is formed while the heat exchanger is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11277570
    Abstract: An imaging element incorporates a processing circuit and a memory. The memory stores captured image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate. The processing circuit performs processing based on the captured image data stored in the memory. An output circuit outputs output image data based on the captured image data to an outside of the imaging element at a second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate higher than the second frame rate and is determined in accordance with an occurrence cycle of a flicker, and the processing circuit detects a flicker effect avoidance timing at which an effect of the flicker on imaging by the imaging element is avoided, based on the captured image data of a plurality of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakurabu, Ryo Hasegawa, Tomoyuki Kawai
  • Publication number: 20220038631
    Abstract: An imaging element incorporates a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data obtained by performing imaging at a first frame rate. The processor is configured to output the image data at a second frame rate. In addition, the processor derives shake degree information indicating a degree of shake included in an image indicated by the image data, using the image data, and outputs the derived shake degree information at a rate greater than or equal to the second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate greater than or equal to the second frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kazufumi SUGAWARA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220011514
    Abstract: A fusion splicer includes: a device main body including a heater that heats a pair of optical fibers that each include a glass part and a coated part; a pair of glass holders each including a groove on which the respective glass part is disposed; a pair of first clamps that each clamp the respective glass part against the respective glass holder; a pair of second clamps that each clamp the respective coated part from above; a third clamp that is fixed to the device main body and that restricts movement of at least one of the optical fibers in a closed state; and a windproof cover that covers the heater, the glass holders, the first clamps, the second clamps, and the third clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11215938
    Abstract: An optical writing device includes: an image carrier; an exposer that exposes a curved surface of the image carrier; and a control circuit that controls the exposer, wherein the exposer includes a plurality of light-emitting element groups having different positional relationships from one another with the image carrier, and has a configuration that is adjusted in accordance with at least one of an angle at which light reaching the curved surface of the image carrier from each light-emitting element group enters the image carrier, and a distance of each light-emitting element group from the image carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Hasegawa, Takahiro Matsuo, Hajime Taniguchi, Atsushi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 11205315
    Abstract: A magnetism detection device capable of improving the ability to detect magnetic features of coins and reducing a change in outputs due to a change in transport positions of coins, a coin recognition device, and a method for detecting magnetism using the magnetism detection device. The magnetism detection device includes a transport path on which a coin is to be transported, detection coils arranged on at least one side of a transport surface of the transport path and along a direction crossing a transport direction of the coin, and a controller configured to detect a magnetic feature of the coin based on an output signal from at least one but not all of the detection coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Chikamori, Seiji Morikawa, Daiki Yokoie, Ryo Hasegawa, Hidekazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210377479
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a reading circuit that reads out pixel data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate, a memory that stores the read pixel data, and an output circuit that outputs image data based on the stored pixel data at a second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate higher than the second frame rate. The pixel data includes phase difference pixel data and non-phase difference pixel data different from the phase difference pixel data. The reading circuit reads out the pixel data of each of a plurality of frames in parallel within an output period defined by the second frame rate as a period in which the image data of one frame is output, and performs reading of the non-phase difference pixel data and a plurality of reading of the phase difference pixel data within the output period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20210377430
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of imaging elements, at least one signal processing circuit, and a transfer path, in which each of the plurality of imaging elements includes a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging a subject, and a communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs output image data based on the image data stored in the memory, the transfer path connects the plurality of imaging elements and a single signal processing circuit in series, and the communication interface of each of the plurality of imaging elements outputs the output image data to an imaging element in a rear stage or the signal processing circuit through the transfer path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20210368072
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging element including a reception interface that receives an imaging synchronization signal related to a timing of imaging and at least one output synchronization signal related to a timing of output of image data obtained by imaging from an outside of the imaging element, a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores the image data obtained by imaging at a first frame rate in accordance with the imaging synchronization signal received by the reception interface, and an output circuit that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs the image data stored in the memory at a second frame rate in accordance with the output synchronization signal received by the reception interface, in which the first frame rate is greater than or equal to the second frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20210368126
    Abstract: An imaging element comprises a first communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs first image data based on image data obtained by imaging a subject to an external processor, a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores the image data, and a second communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs second image data based on the image data stored in the memory to the external processor, in which an output method of the first communication interface and an output method of the second communication interface are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Makoto KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA, Kazufumi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 11184535
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a memory that stores captured image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate and is incorporated in the imaging element, a imaging processing circuit that performs processing on the captured image data, and an output circuit that outputs at least one of the captured image data or processed image data to an outside of the imaging element, and is incorporated in the imaging element, in which the imaging processing circuit generates, in accordance with a degree of difference between first captured image data obtained by imaging and second captured image data stored in the memory, compressed image data obtained by compressing the first captured image data by dividing the first captured image data into a plurality of bit ranges, and the output circuit outputs the compressed image data to the outside as the processed image data at a second frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kawai, Ryo Hasegawa, Hitoshi Sakurabu
  • Publication number: 20210359923
    Abstract: A packet flow monitoring device, a packet data extraction device, an extraction data aggregation device, and a program for efficiently and highly accurately monitoring a packet flow in a video or audio communication system constructed by an Ethernet (registered trademark) frame or IP packet network. This packet flow monitoring device includes: a packet data extraction device that replicates all passing packets that pass through one or a plurality of specific network switches on the network and extracts and aggregates some predetermined pieces of information in the replicated passing packets to form and output an extraction data report packet; and an extraction data aggregation device that receives the extraction data report packet, analyzes the extraction data report packet so as to aggregate the predetermined pieces of information in the replicated passing packets included in the extraction data report packet for each packet flow, and records the aggregated information as aggregation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: INTELLIGENT WAVE INC.
    Inventors: Tomofumi KOYAMA, Masahiro KAWARAGI, Takuya KURAKAKE, Masaki TSUJI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Keiichiro KATSUTA, Naoya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210344853
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a reading circuit, a memory that is capable of storing read captured image data, and an output circuit that outputs output image data based on the captured image data to an outside, in which the reading circuit reads out the captured image data using a first reading method or a second reading method having a smaller read data amount than the first reading method, in a case of the first reading method, a first frame rate corresponds to a second frame rate, in a case of the second reading method, the first frame rate is a frame rate lower than in the case of the first reading method, and the first and second reading methods are switched in accordance with a motion of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU
  • Patent number: 11150590
    Abstract: An exposure device includes: a first lens array unit and a second lens array unit each including a plurality of optical elements formed in a formation surface with respective optical axes parallel to each other, the formation surface of the first lens array unit being not perpendicular to the optical axes; a first lens array holder and a second lens array holder that hold the first lens array unit and the second lens array unit with the respective optical axes of the plurality of optical elements parallel to each other; and a light source assembly in which optical element groups each including a plurality of light-emitting devices aligned in a direction perpendicular to the optical axes are disposed at different positions in a direction parallel to the optical axes, wherein the first lens array unit is provided with a first seating surface and a second seating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsuo, Atsushi Nagaoka, Hajime Taniguchi, Ryo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210314486
    Abstract: An imaging element incorporates a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate. The processor is configured to derive a degree of difference between first image data obtained as the image data by performing imaging and second image data that is obtained as the image data earlier than the first image data and stored in the storage portion, and perform processing of deciding at least one of the first image data or the second image data as the output image data in a case where the derived degree of difference is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The processor is configured to output the decided output image data at a second frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210314495
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a storage portion that stores image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate and is incorporated in the imaging element, a processing portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and configured to perform processing using the image data, and an output portion that outputs output image data based on the image data at a second frame rate depending on a processing result of the processing portion and is incorporated in the imaging element, in which the first frame rate is greater than or equal to the second frame rate, and the processing portion performs processing of deriving an evaluation value indicating a degree of focusing for the image data stored in the storage portion and changing the second frame rate based on the derived evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210314487
    Abstract: An imaging element incorporates a reading portion that reads out captured image data at a first frame rate, a storage portion that stores the image data, a processing portion that processes the image data, and an output portion that outputs the processed image data at a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate. The reading portion reads out the image data of each of a plurality of frames in parallel. The storage portion stores, in parallel, each image data read out in parallel by the reading portion. The processing portion performs generation processing of generating output image data of one frame using the image data of each of the plurality of frames stored in the storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI