Patents by Inventor Ryuji Nishimura
Ryuji Nishimura 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).
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Patent number: 9316196Abstract: A vehicle controller is installed in a vehicle and controls one or more operations of the vehicle. The vehicle controller includes a control unit that: (i) outputs a first code for authentication to a judging apparatus which judges whether to permit starting of a driving apparatus of the vehicle when a request for starting the driving apparatus is obtained from an information processor which is located outside the vehicle, (ii) controls locking and unlocking of doors of the vehicle when a request for door lock control is obtained from the information processor, and (iii) obtains from the judging apparatus an authentication result of whether the first code and a second code for authentication which the judging apparatus uses are identical. When obtaining the request for door lock control, the control unit controls the locking and unlocking of the doors based on the authentication result.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Ryuji Nishimura, Akira Takee, Shingo Taguchi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Tetsuya Nomura, Satoshi Harumoto
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Patent number: 9100604Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20150195468Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Takahiro NAKANO, Ryuji NISHIMURA, Toshiro KINUGASA
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Publication number: 20140232915Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 8736729Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20130261941Abstract: A vehicle controller is installed in a vehicle and controls one or more operations of the vehicle. The vehicle controller includes a control unit that: (i) outputs a first code for authentication to a judging apparatus which judges whether to permit starting of a driving apparatus of the vehicle when a request for starting the driving apparatus is obtained from an information processor which is located outside the vehicle, (ii) controls locking and unlocking of doors of the vehicle when a request for door lock control is obtained from the information processor, and (iii) obtains from the judging apparatus an authentication result of whether the first code and a second code for authentication which the judging apparatus uses are identical. When obtaining the request for door lock control, the control unit controls the locking and unlocking of the doors based on the authentication result.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Ryuji NISHIMURA, Akira TAKEE, Shingo TAGUCHI, Takeshi SAKAMOTO, Tetsuya NOMURA, Satoshi HARUMOTO
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Publication number: 20130257591Abstract: A vehicle controller installed in and controlling a vehicle includes an obtaining part that obtains identification information specific to the vehicle, a communicator that communicates with an information processor located outside the vehicle by transmitting and receiving information, a match judging part that makes a matching judgment on whether a plurality of the identification information obtained at different times are identical, and a judging part that judges whether to permit the control of the vehicle based on the matching judgment. The information processor also can make the matching judgment and only transmit a control command to the vehicle controller when there is a match.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Ryuji NISHIMURA, Akira TAKEE, Shingo TAGUCHI, Takeshi SAKAMOTO, Tetsuya NOMURA, Satoshi HARUMOTO
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Patent number: 8339493Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 8059177Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20100289907Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 7672569Abstract: To mix video signals of plural channels in time division and record these video signals onto a recording medium, as well as to select and transmit the video signal of a specific channel to a terminal device at a remote location, there is a video signal switching unit for mixing the video signals of the plural channels in time division; a first video signal compressing unit for compressing the mixed video signals from the video signal switching unit; a unit for recording the video signal compressed by the first video signal compressing unit into the recording medium; second video signal compressing units for selecting a channel from the mixed video signals and compressing the video signals with a compressibility higher than that of the first video signal compressing unit; and a unit for transmitting the video signal compressed by the second video signal compressing unit to a remote location.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2003Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadasu Horiuchi, Ryuji Nishimura, Hironori Komi, Naoki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7403226Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of every K pixels to produce a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to the number of effective scanning lines M. The image sensing device can vertically mix or cull appropriate numbers of pixels, and the driver drives the image sensing device in at least two modes. The driver changes the number of pixels to be cyclically mixed or culled according to input information from a switch provided inside or outside the camera which requests a view angle change.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 7340160Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus capable of realizing a camera shake correction function while reducing the size and power consumption of the apparatus without deteriorating the use efficiency of an image sensor thereof. An imaging device has photoelectric conversion elements arranged two-dimensionally and a transfer path for transferring electric charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element. A motion detection unit detects motion of the apparatus according to timing pulses generated by a time management circuit at shorter intervals than exposure time. A drive circuit transfers the electric charge previously read onto the transfer path for a predetermined distance according to the detected motion. Electric charge newly read out and converted by the photoelectric conversion elements at the intervals of the timing pulses is added to the previous electric charge which has been transferred on transfer path.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Junji Kamimura, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshirou Kinugasa
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Patent number: 7154539Abstract: A photoelectric sensor outputs a signal by a first signal read mode and a second signal read mode. In the first signal read mode, the sensor outputs the pixel signals accumulated in the plural while subsampling the pixel signals for every one line. In the second signal read mode, the sensor outputs sequentially the pixel signals accumulated in two the plural pixels while adding the pixel signals from two pixels adjoining each other. An interlace/non-interlace converter converts the signal output by the photoelectric sensor in the first signal read mode to a non-interlaced signal. A signal processor generates a first video signal by converting the signal converted by the interlace/non-interlace converter into a specified image format in the first signal read mode, and generates a second video signal by converting the signal output by photoelectric sensor into the specified image format, such as a 4:2:2 YUV signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ryuji Nishimura, Toshirou Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20060171694Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging apparatus capable of realizing a camera shake correction function while reducing the size and power consumption of the apparatus without deteriorating the use efficiency of an image sensor thereof. An imaging device has photoelectric conversion elements arranged two-dimensionally and a transfer path for transferring electric charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element. A motion detection unit detects motion of the apparatus according to timing pulses generated by a time management circuit at shorter intervals than exposure time. A drive circuit transfers the electric charge previously read onto the transfer path for a predetermined distance according to the detected motion. Electric charge newly read out and converted by the photoelectric conversion elements at the intervals of the timing pulses is added to the previous electric charge which has been transferred on transfer path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2005Publication date: August 3, 2006Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Junji Kamimura, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshirou Kinugasa
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Patent number: 6765616Abstract: A photography related to video cameras, camcorders, digital still cameras and others using a solid-state image sensing device, and particularly an electric camera using a solid-state image sensing device with a large number of pixels. The use of an image sensing device with a sufficient number of pixels for still image photographing ensures good performance for the moving image photographing and for the monitoring of a static image photographing. The image sensing device used has an arbitrary number of vertically arranged pixels equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines of the television system. During the moving image photographing and during the monitoring of a static image photographing, the pixels are cyclically mixed together or culled and desired television signals are generated by performing the signal reading processing during the vertical blanking periods and the interpolation processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20040105653Abstract: A subject of the invention is to mix video signals of plural channels in time division and record these video signals to a recording medium, and select and transmit the video signal of a specific channel to a terminal device of a remote place. Therefore, the invention has a video signal switching unit for mixing the video signals of the plural channels in time division; a first video signal compressing unit for compressing the mixed video signals from the video signal switching unit; a unit for recording the video signal compressed by the first video signal compressing unit to the recording medium; second video signal compressing units for selecting a channel from the mixed video signals and compressing the video signals in a compressibility higher than that of the first video signal compressing unit; and a unit for transmitting the video signal compressed by the second video signal compressing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Tadasu Horiuchi, Ryuji Nishimura, Hironori Komi, Naoki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20040046882Abstract: A photography related to video cameras, camcorders, digital still cameras and others using a solid-state image sensing device, and particularly an electric camera using a solid-state image sensing device with a large number of pixels. The use of an image sensing device with a sufficient number of pixels for still image photographing ensures good performance for the moving image photographing and for the monitoring of a static image photographing. The image sensing device used has an arbitrary number of vertically arranged pixels equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines of the television system. During the moving image photographing and during the monitoring of a static image photographing, the pixels are cyclically mixed together or culled and desired television signals are generated by performing the signal reading processing during the vertical blanking periods and the interpolation processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20040046884Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer larger than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
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Patent number: 6205286Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus for outputting a video signal encoded in order to compress information amount of a photographed image. The apparatus includes: an image pickup device for outputting a digital video signal; a control unit to control the image pickup device; and an encoding apparatus for encoding the digital video signal which is output from the image pickup device. The control unit generates control information of the image pickup device. The encoding apparatus changes encoding characteristics on the basis of the control information. Further, the encoded digital video signal is recorded and/or reproduced onto/from a recording medium and the signal reproduced from the recording medium is decoded. Moreover, a motion vector of a hand vibration or the like is detected from the photographed video signal and is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1997Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ryuji Nishimura, Iwao Aizawa, Takuya Imaide