Patents by Inventor Satoshi Nakayama

Satoshi Nakayama 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: 11617733
    Abstract: Since a compound represented by the general formula (I) (wherein definition of each group is as described in the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof, or a prodrug thereof has strong and sustaining intraocular pressure lowering activity and, further, has no side effect on eyes such as ocular stimulating property (hyperemia, corneal clouding etc.), aqueous humor protein rise etc., it has high safety, and can be an excellent agent for preventing and/or treating glaucoma etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Kambe, Toru Maruyama, Shinsaku Yamane, Satoshi Nakayama, Kousuke Tani
  • Publication number: 20230095132
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a glass plate having holes, includes: (1) having a first surface of a glass base material irradiated with a laser, to form initial holes each having a first initial opening, wherein each initial hole is an initial through hole or non-through hole, wherein the first initial opening has a maximum dimension ?1S of 5 ?m or greater, and wherein in each initial hole, denoting a depth as d1, an aspect ratio (d1/?1S) is 15 or greater; and (2) etching the glass base material with an alkaline solution, to form processed holes from the initial holes, wherein each processed hole has a first opening on the first surface, and wherein the first opening has a diameter ?1 defined as an average of diameters of circumscribed and inscribed circles of the first opening, and a roundness P1, and a ratio P1/?1 is 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru ISOBE, Kohei HORIUCHI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11608758
    Abstract: A hydrogen/oxygen stoichiometric combustion turbine system includes: a high-pressure steam turbine (2); a low-pressure steam turbine (3); and a heater (5) disposed between the high-pressure and low-pressure steam turbines. The heater (5) has a combustion portion (53) in which stoichiometric combustion of hydrogen and oxygen is caused, and a mixing portion (55) configured to mix discharged steam (S4) from the high-pressure steam turbine (2) with combustion gas (R) from the combustion portion (53) and to supply the obtained product to the low-pressure steam turbine (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tanimura, Hikaru Sano, Satoshi Nakayama, Naoki Miyake, Akihisa Oka
  • Publication number: 20230013424
    Abstract: This information processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that detects a position of a light source in image data captured by an imaging apparatus and estimates an unnecessary light generation position in the image data on the basis of the detected position of the light source. The image processing unit detects, with respect to a plurality of pieces of image data respectively captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses having partially common fields of view, positions of light sources and estimates unnecessary light generation positions on the basis of the detected positions of the light sources and combines pieces of image data of common field-of-view portions respectively captured by the plurality of imaging apparatuses and generates image data of the unnecessary light generation position with unnecessary light removed or reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11557030
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system by which a user can easily recognize a position of a sensor having a defect from among sensors mounted on a vehicle. Position-related information about a relative position or direction with respect to a vehicle is acquired, and a combined image obtained by combining a defect image representing a position of the sensor having a defect from among the sensors mounted on the vehicle with a vehicle image reflecting the vehicle is displayed in response to the position-related information. The present technology can be applied so that a user can recognize a sensor having a defect from among the sensors mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Yonezawa, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230010640
    Abstract: A reading device and an image forming apparatus are provided. The reading device includes an image reading device configured to read an image on a recording medium being conveyed, a background device serving as a background image when the image is read by the image reading device, and a foreign-object detector configured to compare a first read image obtained as the background device is read by the image reading device with a second read image obtained as the background device and the recording medium are read by the image reading device to detect an attached foreign object. The image forming apparatus includes the reading device and an image forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio KONNO, Tatsuya ISHII, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Hideyo MAKINO, Susumu MIKAJIRI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11539894
    Abstract: Automatic exposure control of an in-vehicle camera is performed under dark driving environments such as at night. An in-vehicle camera system includes a vehicle camera mounted in a vehicle configured to capture surroundings of the vehicle, and control circuitry that controls an exposure level of an image captured by the vehicle camera, the control of the exposure level being based on brightness information of a detection area set within the image, the detection area being a portion of the captured image and configured to output the image having exposure control performed thereon to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11524513
    Abstract: A conveyance apparatus includes a plurality of conveyors and an image reader. The plurality of conveyors conveys a recording material. The image reader reads a pattern image on the recording material being conveyed. The conveyance apparatus further includes circuitry to control the image reader. The circuitry controls the image reader to read the pattern image on the recording material in a period including a timing at which a trailing edge of the recording material being conveyed by at least two of the plurality of conveyors exits an upstream conveyor among the at least two of the plurality of conveyors in a direction of conveyance of the recording material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohta Aoyagi, Hideyo Makino, Susumu Mikajiri, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Yoshinari Onuma, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11521395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of making it easier to recognize standing objects. Movement transformation of moving a subject position where a subject appears in a target image to be processed is performed, depending on a subject distance from a vanishing point in the target image to the subject position. The present technology can be applied to, for example, the image processing and the like of an image taken by a camera unit onboard a vehicle or other moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220321708
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reading device and processing circuitry. The reading device reads a recording medium. The processing circuitry outputs maintenance information based on read information read by the reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Tatsuya ISHII, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220318582
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a reading device and circuitry. The reading device reads a recording medium in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The circuitry detects a reference image for cutting processing of the recording medium, based on read information read by the reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya ISHII, Kohta AOYAGI, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220291618
    Abstract: An image reading device includes an image reader and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to obtain defective image information and defect type information based on the image on the recording medium read by the image reader, and determine an abnormality of the image on the recording medium based on the defective image information and the defect type information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Kohta AOYAGI, Tatsuya ISHII, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA
  • Publication number: 20220286572
    Abstract: An image inspector includes a recording device and circuitry. The reading device is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has a wrinkle and an edge folding based on a plurality of positions on the image on the recording medium read by the reading device satisfying a predetermined relation. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the recording medium has the wrinkle based on the predetermined relation, and then determine whether the recording medium has the edge folding based on the predetermined relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHITSUKA, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220286576
    Abstract: An image inspecting device includes an abnormality detector and circuitry. The abnormality detector is configured to detect an abnormality of an inspection object image. The circuitry is configured to set a non-detection area to be excluded from a detection object area within which the abnormality detector detects an image abnormality and set an area including an abnormality detection portion as the non-detection area when a detection result obtained by the abnormality detector satisfies a non-detection condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoh ISHITSUKA, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220263963
    Abstract: An image abnormality detecting device includes an image reader, an abnormality detector, a pattern holder, and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The abnormality detector is configured to detect abnormality of the image based on read information of the image on the recording medium, read by the image reader. The pattern holder has a check pattern and is disposed within a reading area of the image reader. The circuitry is configured to inspect a detecting operation of the abnormality detector based on read information of the check pattern read by the image reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohta AOYAGI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Ryoh ISHIZUKA, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Patent number: 11397880
    Abstract: A conveyance device includes a conveyance roller pair to convey a recording medium to an image reading position of an image reading unit. The conveyance roller pair includes a drive roller and a driven roller. The driven roller contacts the drive roller and rotates following the drive roller. The drive roller has a diameter satisfying a relation in which a detection mark on the recording medium is on a position away from a leading end of the recording medium by an integral multiple of a circumference of the drive roller in a conveyance direction of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu Yamazaki, Hideyo Makino, Susumu Mikajiri, Satoshi Nakayama, Kohta Aoyagi, Hiroki Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20220219932
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a reader, a transparent member, an opposing member, first and second conveyance rotators, and circuitry. The reader reads a sheet. The transparent member is disposed between the reader and the sheet. The opposing member is disposed facing the reader via the transparent member. The first conveyance rotator is disposed upstream from the reader in a conveyance direction of the sheet. The second conveyance rotator is disposed downstream from the reader in the conveyance direction. The circuitry cause the first conveyance rotator and the second conveyance rotator to convey a cleaning sheet at respective conveying speeds different from each other and bring the cleaning sheet into contact with at least one of the transparent member or the opposing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiharu YAMAZAKI, Hideyo MAKINO, Susumu MIKAJIRI, Tohru MATSUMOTO, Satoshi NAKAYAMA, Kohta AOYAGI, Ryosuke EBINUMA, Tatsuya ISHII
  • Patent number: 11360422
    Abstract: A position detector includes a reading device, a position reference member having a mark opposite the reading device, and circuitry. The circuitry controls the reading device to detect the contour of the processing target and the position of the image pattern on the processing target and the position of the mark and corrects a processing position for the processing target to offset distortion of the reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nikaku, Masamoto Nakazawa, Ryohma Ikemoto, Osamu Inage, Tatsuya Ishii, Satoshi Iwanami, Hideyo Makino, Kimiharu Yamazaki, Kohta Aoyagi, Satoshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220148138
    Abstract: An vehicle-mounted camera apparatus is an vehicle-mounted camera apparatus capable of imaging at least one of a front, a rear, and a side of a vehicle, and includes a lens, an image capture device unit that converts light imaged by the lens into an electrical signal to generate a captured image, and a light shielding unit that shields a light ray corresponding to a part of an image capture region of the image capture device unit on an incident surface side of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: SATOSHI NAKAYAMA, YOSHIKAZU OHNAMI
  • Publication number: 20220130024
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; a superimposition unit that generates a superimposition image in which images are superimposed on unused areas of the captured image; and a determination unit that determines a state of the captured image on the basis of characteristics of areas on which the images are superimposed in the superimposition image transmitted from the superimposition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama