Patents by Inventor Satoru Yamanaka
Satoru Yamanaka 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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Publication number: 20220004795Abstract: A first binary image is generated by binarizing an input image based on a threshold, a second binary image is generated by changing a pixel that has predetermined high luminance in the input image into a black pixel, and whether a black pixel cluster in the second binary image is made to be an extraction target is determined based on a position of a character image identified based on a black pixel cluster in the first binary image, and a position of the black pixel cluster in the second binary image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11140282Abstract: The character line division apparatus has character line contact determination unit configured to determine whether a character line of interest comes into contact with another character line in the height direction, count value derivation unit configured to derive a count value of the number of black pixels in the width direction in the character line of interest in the character line of interest determined to come into contact with another character line, and character line division unit configured to perform character line division for the character line of interest determined to come into contact with another character line on the periphery of a reference point derived from the character line information and the character height information by taking a first position at which the count value becomes a minimum in the height direction of the character line of interest as a character line division position.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11052609Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20210192262Abstract: In the present disclosure, a candidate area is determined based on a pixel having a specific color included in an input image, and an area is determined to be a processing target from the candidate area based on a pixel having a predetermined color different from the specific color included in the candidate area. Further, a second binary image in which a pixel corresponding to the pixel having the specific color is converted into a white pixel is generated by converting, in a first binary image obtained by the input image being binarized, a pixel that is included in the area determined to be the processing target and corresponds to the pixel having the specific color, into a white pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20210122231Abstract: The disclosure provides a work vehicle in which clogging of a filter of an air cleaner with snow can be suppressed. The work vehicle includes: a radiator that cools cooling water for an engine; an air cleaner that cleans air to be fed to the engine; and an inlet hose that has an aspiration port open on a rear side of the radiator and leads the air from the aspiration port to the air cleaner. The radiator includes a shroud having an opening in which a fan of the engine is disposed and the aspiration port is disposed not to overlap with the opening of the shroud in back view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke TANAKA, Satoru YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20210073565Abstract: An image processing apparatus executes a first morphology for a first binary image, to generate a second binary image, specifies a vertical line missing region based on the second binary image, executes a second morphology under a condition different from a condition in the first morphology for the second binary image, to generate a third binary image, acquires pixel information about a region corresponding to the vertical line missing region in the third binary image, and corrects a region corresponding to the vertical line missing region in the first binary image using the acquired pixel information, to generate a fourth binary image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20200396346Abstract: The character line division apparatus has character line contact determination unit configured to determine whether a character line of interest comes into contact with another character line in the height direction, count value derivation unit configured to derive a count value of the number of black pixels in the width direction in the character line of interest in the character line of interest determined to come into contact with another character line, and character line division unit configured to perform character line division for the character line of interest determined to come into contact with another character line on the periphery of a reference point derived from the character line information and the character height information by taking a first position at which the count value becomes a minimum in the height direction of the character line of interest as a character line division position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventor: Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20200338978Abstract: The straightening plate mounting structure includes: a support member including a bottom plate portion in which a first elongated hole and second elongated holes are formed; a left straightening plate which is formed in a plate shape having a convex portion engageable with the first elongated hole and adjusts an air flow in a hood; and a right straightening plate which is formed in a plate shape having convex portions engageable with the second elongated holes and adjusts the air flow in the hood.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Koji MASUMOTO, Satoru YAMANAKA, Masafumi OSHITA
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Patent number: 10695988Abstract: A method of producing a three-dimensional shaped article includes a step of forming particle layers by arranging particles containing a material for forming a shaped article and particles containing a material having higher solubility in fluid than the material for forming the shaped article, a step of forming a stack by melting and stacking the particle layers, and a step of removing the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article from the stack by dissolving the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article in the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio Hanyu, Akira Sugiyama, Naotake Sato, Tatsuya Tada, Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20200198712Abstract: An operating mechanism of a work vehicle includes: an operating portion that is provided to a side console disposed beside a seat and can be operated by an operator; and a switching portion capable of switching between a used state in which the operating portion can be used and a non-used state in which the operating portion cannot be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Norita TOTTORI, Hironobu NOGAMI, Satoru YAMANAKA, Tadashi NAKAMURA, Hideaki EZAKI, Masafumi OSHITA
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Publication number: 20190315052Abstract: A method of producing a three-dimensional shaped article includes a step of forming particle layers by arranging particles containing a material for forming a shaped article and particles containing a material having higher solubility in fluid than the material for forming the shaped article, a step of forming a stack by melting and stacking the particle layers, and a step of removing the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article from the stack by dissolving the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article in the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Yukio Hanyu, Akira Sugiyama, Naotake Sato, Tatsuya Tada, Satoru Yamanaka
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Patent number: 10357956Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 10283692Abstract: A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoru Yamanaka, Yoonho Kim, Takashi Ogawa, Akira Nakajima, Juyoung Kim, Hirohisa Tanaka, Tadachika Nakayama, Masatoshi Takeda, Noboru Yamada, Koichi Niihara
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Publication number: 20190056688Abstract: Occurrence of layering defects is suppressed in a layering forming method where material layers on a conveyance member are heated and layered. A forming apparatus 1 configured to sequentially layer a plurality of material layers and form a three-dimensional object includes a stage having a forming face on which the material layers are layered, a conveyance member configured to support and convey the material layers to a layering position facing the forming face, and a heating member configured to nip the material layers between itself and the forming face of the stage at the layering position, and pressurize and heat the material layer. When a heating region of the heating member is perpendicularly projected onto a plane where a supporting face at which the conveyance member supports the material layer exists, a projection plane of the heating region has extending regions that extend further to the outer side from both edges of the supporting face, on both edges of the projection plane of the heating region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Yuji Wakabayashi, Tatsuya Tada, Hirokazu Usami, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20190001578Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9979325Abstract: A power-generating system includes a heat source which is able to produce temporal temperature variation; a first device which is able to produce temporal temperature variation based on the temperature change of the heat source and in which polarization occurs; a second device for taking out a net generating power from the first device; a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the first device; a voltage application device that applies a voltage to the first device; and a control unit for activating the voltage application device on detecting an increase in temperature of the first device and for stopping the voltage application device on detecting a decrease in temperature of the first device by the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignees: DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTD., National University Corporation Nagaoka University of TechnologyInventors: Yoonho Kim, Satoru Yamanaka, Juyoung Kim, Hirohisa Tanaka, Tadachika Nakayama, Masatoshi Takeda, Noboru Yamada, Koichi Niihara
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Publication number: 20170232673Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9627997Abstract: A power-generating system includes a heat source which is able to produce temporal temperature variation, a first device in which polarization occurs based on the temperature change of the heat source, and a second device for taking out a net generating power from the first device, wherein 80% or higher of the total surface area of the first device is heated and/or cooled with the heat source.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: DAIHATU MOTOR CO., LTD, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COORORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yoonho Kim, Juyoung Kim, Satoru Yamanaka, Takeshi Serizawa, Hirohisa Tanaka, Tadachika Nakayama, Masatoshi Takeda, Noboru Yamada, Koichi Niihara
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Publication number: 20170015063Abstract: A method of producing a three-dimensional shaped article includes a step of forming particle layers by arranging particles containing a material for forming a shaped article and particles containing a material having higher solubility in fluid than the material for forming the shaped article, a step of forming a stack by melting and stacking the particle layers, and a step of removing the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article from the stack by dissolving the material having higher solubility in the fluid than the material for forming the shaped article in the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Yukio Hanyu, Akira Sugiyama, Naotake Sato, Tatsuya Tada, Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20160284964Abstract: A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicants: DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoru YAMANAKA, Yoonho KIM, Takashi OGAWA, Akira NAKAJIMA, Juyoung KIM, Hirohisa TANAKA, Tadachika NAKAYAMA, Masatoshi TAKEDA, Noboru YAMADA, Koichi NIIHARA