Patents by Inventor Ryo Ono

Ryo Ono 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: 10622148
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a multi-layer unit including a capacitance forming unit including internal electrodes laminated in a first direction, a drawn portion extending from the capacitance forming unit in a second direction, and a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit and the drawn portion in the first direction, the multi-layer unit having a main surface facing in the first direction, an end surface facing in the second direction, and a side surface facing in a third direction; and a side margin provided to the side surface, the side surface including a first straight portion including an outer edge of the main surface and extending in the second direction, a second straight portion including an outer edge of the end surface and extending in the first direction, and a corner portion that connects the first and second straight portions with each other, the corner portion being curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka, Shoji Kusumoto, Akihiko Kono
  • Publication number: 20200098519
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, a main surface that faces in the first direction, and a side surface that faces in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the internal electrodes being exposed from the side surface. The side margin includes a side-surface-covering portion that is disposed on the side surface, and an end portion that includes an extended portion extending from the side surface to the main surface and having a first dimension of 0.1 ?m or more in the first direction and a second dimension of 0.1 ?m or more in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Shoji KUSUMOTO, Ryo ONO, Tetsuhiko FUKUOKA, Akihiko KONO, Shota TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10460876
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a multi-layer unit and a side margin, and an external electrode. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed between the ceramic layers, an end surface oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first internal electrode being drawn from the end surface, an end margin disposed between the end surface and the second internal electrode, and a side surface oriented in a third direction orthogonal to the former directions, the internal electrodes being exposed to the side surface. The side margin covers the side surface. The external electrode includes an entry portion and covers the body from the side of the end surface, the entry portion being disposed on the end margin and entering a gap between the side surface and the side margin from the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka, Shoji Kusumoto, Akihiko Kono
  • Patent number: 10452945
    Abstract: The present disclosure can obtain a high-quality composite image by determining a suitable boundary when input images are sequentially stitched together to generate the composite image. An image generating apparatus 1 generates a composite image by stitching sequentially input images together. A difference value calculating section 15 calculates difference values by using the pixel values of a reference image and the pixel values of a target image that partly overlap the reference image. The difference values represent the relative relationship between the reference image and the target image. A boundary determining section 16 determines a boundary for stitching the reference image and the target image together by using the difference values calculated by the difference value calculating section 15. Then, an image compositing section 18 generates the composite image by stitching the reference image and the target image together based on the boundary determined by the boundary determining section 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Morpho, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Hiraga, Shun Hirai, Shogo Sawai, Ryo Ono
  • Patent number: 10440277
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to enable displaying information on unused area of an input image while displaying an enlarged image of the input image An image processing device includes a specified area setting part configured to set a specified area in an input image, an additional information setting part configured to set additional information on at least a part of non-specified area which is an area in the input image other than the specified area, and a display control part configured to display the specified area and the additional information on the display as an output image. The user can view the image of the specified area and the additional information at the same time. Therefore, the device can utilize the information of the input image more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Shun Hirai, Jaesung Lee, Zhengyu Chen, Masaki Satoh, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20190221368
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a multi-layer unit including a capacitance forming unit including internal electrodes laminated in a first direction, a drawn portion extending from the capacitance forming unit in a second direction, and a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit and the drawn portion in the first direction, the multi-layer unit having a main surface facing in the first direction, an end surface facing in the second direction, and a side surface facing in a third direction; and a side margin provided to the side surface, the side surface including a first straight portion including an outer edge of the main surface and extending in the second direction, a second straight portion including an outer edge of the end surface and extending in the first direction, and a corner portion that connects the first and second straight portions with each other, the corner portion being curved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: RYO ONO, TETSUHIKO FUKUOKA, SHOJI KUSUMOTO, AKIHIKO KONO
  • Patent number: 10319097
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes: a tracking area setting section that sets a tracking area in a frame image of an original motion picture; a color information obtaining section that obtains color information of the tracking area set by the tracking area setting section; a tracking position estimating section that estimates a tracking position with reference to the tracking area with respect to each frame image of the original motion picture by using the color information obtained by the color information obtaining section; an output frame setting section that sets an output frame enclosing the tracking area set by the tracking area setting section and that updates the output frame based on the estimated tracking position; and a lock-on motion picture generating section that generates a motion picture that is based on the output frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Morpho, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kuroda, Akito Hyakutake, Naruo Takizawa, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20190164693
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a multi-layer unit, a side margin, and ridges. The multi-layer unit includes a capacitance forming unit including ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit in the first direction, and a side surface facing in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The side margin covers the side surface. The ridges are rounded and extend in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions. The capacitance forming unit includes a first region disposed at a center portion in the first direction, and a second region disposed between the cover and the first region, end portions of the internal electrodes in the second direction in the second region being positioned inward in the second direction relative to those in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: RYO ONO, TETSUHIKO FUKUOKA, SHOJI KUSUMOTO, AKIHIKO KONO
  • Patent number: 10141114
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a body, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The body includes a first end surface and a second end surface that face each other, a side surface that extends between the first end surface and the second end surface, a first recess that extends along a first ridge of the first end surface and the side surface, a second recess that extends along a second ridge of the second end surface and the side surface, a first internal electrode that is drawn to the first end surface and the first recess, and a second internal electrode that faces the first internal electrode and is drawn to the second end surface and the second recess. The first external electrode covers the body from the first end surface. The second external electrode covers the body from the second end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 10127639
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device and the like that can generate a composite image in a desired focusing condition. In a smartphone 1, an edge detecting section 107 detects an edge as a feature from a plurality of input images taken with different focusing distances, and detects the intensity of the edge as a feature value. A depth estimating section 111 then estimates the depth of a target pixel, which is information representing which of the plurality of input images is in focus at the target pixel, by using the edge intensity detected by the edge detecting section 107. A depth map generating section 113 then generates a depth map based on the estimation results by the depth estimating section 111.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Miura, Shogo Sawai, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Hiroshi Koyama, Kazuhiro Hiramoto, Kosuke Ishiguro, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20180294097
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, a main surface oriented in the first direction, a surface layer portion in a range from the main surface to a predetermined depth, and a center portion adjacent to the surface layer portion in the first direction. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The ceramic layers have an average dimension in the first direction that is 0.4 ?m or less. Each of the internal electrodes includes an oxidized region adjacent to the side margin. The oxidized region in the surface layer portion has a dimension in the second direction that is equal to or more than two times the average dimension of the ceramic layers in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: RYO ONO, TETSUHIKO FUKUOKA, SHOJI KUSUMOTO, AKIHIKO KONO
  • Patent number: 10074165
    Abstract: An image composition device composites a no-flash image including a subject captured under ambient light and a flash image including the subject captured by emitting flash light to generate a composite image including the subject. The image composition device includes an input unit that enables the no-flash image and the flash image to be input, a correction unit that corrects the no-flash image and the flash image input from the input unit, and a composition unit that composites the no-flash image and the flash image output from the correction unit to generate a composite image. The correction unit corrects a color temperature of the no-flash image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Michihiro Kobayashi, Kouta Kurihara, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20180167558
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to enable displaying information on unused area of an input image while displaying an enlarged image of the input image An image processing device includes a specified area setting part configured to set a specified area in an input image, an additional information setting part configured to set additional information on at least a part of non-specified area which is an area in the input image other than the specified area, and a display control part configured to display the specified area and the additional information on the display as an output image. The user can view the image of the specified area and the additional information at the same time. Therefore, the device can utilize the information of the input image more effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Shun Hirai, Jaesung Lee, Zhengyu Chen, Masaki Satoh, Ryo ONO
  • Patent number: 9959649
    Abstract: It is an object to generate a desired composite image in which a motion area of a subject is correctly composited. A difference image between a base target and an aligned swap target is generated (S1021), and an extracted contour in the difference image is determined according to the active contour model (S1022). The inner area of the contour and the outer area of the contour are painted with different colors to be color-coded so as to generate a mask image for alpha blending (S1023). Using the mask image thus generated, the swap target that is aligned with respect to the base target is composited with the base target of the base image by alpha blending (S1024).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Teppei Inomata, Kojiro Kato, Masaki Satoh, Kouta Kurihara, Kazuki Kimura, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20180114645
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a multi-layer unit and a side margin, and an external electrode. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed between the ceramic layers, an end surface oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first internal electrode being drawn from the end surface, an end margin disposed between the end surface and the second internal electrode, and a side surface oriented in a third direction orthogonal to the former directions, the internal electrodes being exposed to the side surface. The side margin covers the side surface. The external electrode includes an entry portion and covers the body from the side of the end surface, the entry portion being disposed on the end margin and entering a gap between the side surface and the side margin from the end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka, Shoji Kusumoto, Akihiko Kono
  • Publication number: 20180108482
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and has a porosity of 1% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Kogure, Joji Kobayashi, Yasunari Kato, Yosuke Sato, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka, Ryo Ono
  • Publication number: 20170330052
    Abstract: The present disclosure can obtain a high-quality composite image by determining a suitable boundary when input images are sequentially stitched together to generate the composite image. An image generating apparatus 1 generates a composite image by stitching sequentially input images together. A difference value calculating section 15 calculates difference values by using the pixel values of a reference image and the pixel values of a target image that partly overlap the reference image. The difference values represent the relative relationship between the reference image and the target image. A boundary determining section 16 determines a boundary for stitching the reference image and the target image together by using the difference values calculated by the difference value calculating section 15. Then, an image compositing section 18 generates the composite image by stitching the reference image and the target image together based on the boundary determined by the boundary determining section 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Morpho, Inc.
    Inventors: MASAKI HIRAGA, SHUN HIRAI, SHOGO SAWAI, RYO ONO
  • Publication number: 20170301471
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a body, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The body includes a first end surface and a second end surface that face each other, a side surface that extends between the first end surface and the second end surface, a first recess that extends along a first ridge of the first end surface and the side surface, a second recess that extends along a second ridge of the second end surface and the side surface, a first internal electrode that is drawn to the first end surface and the first recess, and a second internal electrode that faces the first internal electrode and is drawn to the second end surface and the second recess. The first external electrode covers the body from the first end surface. The second external electrode covers the body from the second end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Ryo Ono, Tetsuhiko Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20170287642
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor, including a multi-layer including internal electrodes and dielectric layers alternately laminated, the internal electrodes having ends protruding beyond the dielectric layers in surface directions thereof; and side protective layers configured of a dielectric and disposed to cover side faces of the multi-layer, the side protective layers each having spacing sections formed between the ends of the internal electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo ONO, Tetsuhiko FUKUOKA
  • Patent number: 9754179
    Abstract: The present disclosure can obtain a high-quality composite image by determining a suitable boundary when input images are sequentially stitched together to generate the composite image. An image generating apparatus 1 generates a composite image by stitching sequentially input images together. A difference value calculating section 15 calculates difference values by using the pixel values of a reference image and the pixel values of a target image that partly overlap the reference image. The difference values represent the relative relationship between the reference image and the target image. A boundary determining section 16 determines a boundary for stitching the reference image and the target image together by using the difference values calculated by the difference value calculating section 15. Then, an image compositing section 18 generates the composite image by stitching the reference image and the target image together based on the boundary determined by the boundary determining section 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Morpho, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Hiraga, Shun Hirai, Shogo Sawai, Ryo Ono