Patents by Inventor Sayako Yamamoto

Sayako Yamamoto 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: 20150095179
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an information offering unit that offers information on joint purchase of a commodity to a plurality of candidates; and an adjuster that performs adjustment about the commodity. Alternatively, an electronic device includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on a purchase commodity or a purchase scheduled commodity of a first group; and an information offering unit that offers information on a commodity relevant to the purchase commodity or the purchase scheduled commodity of the first group to a second group, based on the information obtained by the information obtainer, the second group being different from the first group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150084984
    Abstract: To improve the usability of an electronic device, the electronic device includes: a first camera provided to a main unit, a second camera provided to the main unit at a different location form the first camera, a first orientation detection sensor configured to detect an orientation of the main unit, and a control unit configured to carry out image capturing by the first and second cameras depending on a detection result of the first orientation detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150018023
    Abstract: To acquire information related to contents of word-of-mouth information, an electronic device includes: an input unit that accepts an input of a text from a user; an information acquiring unit that acquires information of the user in relation to the input of the text when allowed to acquire the information by the user; and a transmitting unit that transmits the text and the information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150018979
    Abstract: In order to acquire suitable information related to an apparatus, an electronic apparatus has a first acquisition unit that acquires usage status of a first apparatus that belongs to a given category, and a second acquisition unit that acquires information about a second apparatus that belongs to the given category and is different from the first apparatus on the basis of the usage status of the first apparatus acquired by the first acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 8427763
    Abstract: A lens system comprises, on a side closest to an object, a first lens component having a positive refractive power and a second lens component having a positive refractive power in order from the object; and on a side closest to an image, a cemented lens constructed by cementing together a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object; wherein the lens system satisfies the following conditional expressions: (n1+n2)/2>1.49 (?1+?2)/2>60 where n1 and ?1 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the first lens component at d-line, respectively, and n2 and ?2 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the second lens component at d-line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Sayako Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8284497
    Abstract: The present invention provides a zoom lens ZL comprising a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power, the first lens group G1 including a negative meniscus lens L11 and a positive meniscus lens L12, the second lens group G2 including a negative meniscus lens L21, a biconcave negative lens L22 and a positive meniscus lens L23, and the fourth lens group G4 including one positive lens L41, and the refractive indexes of at least three lenses in the zoom lens ZL being greater than 1.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Murayama, Sayako Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8089708
    Abstract: A lens system has the following components in order from an object side: one negative lens component; a positive lens component; a negative lens component having a concave surface of a large curvature on an image side; an aperture stop; a negative lens component having a concave surface of a large curvature on the object side; and a positive lens component; the lens system satisfies a condition of the following expression: 0.75<SF1<1.60, where SF1=(R1+R2)/(R1?R2), and where R1 is a radius of curvature of an object-side lens surface of the negative lens component located nearest to the object side, R2 is a radius of curvature of an image-side lens surface thereof, and SF1 is a shape factor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Sayako Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20110170203
    Abstract: The present invention provides a zoom lens ZL comprising a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power, the first lens group G1 including a negative meniscus lens L11 and a positive meniscus lens L12, the second lens group G2 including a negative meniscus lens L21, a biconcave negative lens L22 and a positive meniscus lens L23, and the fourth lens group G4 including one positive lens L41, and the refractive indexes of at least three lenses in the zoom lens ZL being greater than 1.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Norio MURAYAMA, Sayako Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090273851
    Abstract: A lens system comprises, on a side closest to an object, a first lens component having a positive refractive power and a second lens component having a positive refractive power in order from the object; and on a side closest to an image, a cemented lens constructed by cementing together a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object; wherein the lens system satisfies the following conditional expressions: (n1+n2)/2>1.49 (?1+?2)/2>60 where n1 and ?1 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the first lens component at d-line, respectively, and n2 and ?2 denote a refractive index and an Abbe number of the second lens component at d-line, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Take, Sayako Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7599127
    Abstract: Providing a zoom lens system having excellently correcting various aberrations with accomplishing to be compact, lightweight, and slim upon being retracted. The system is composed of, in order from an object, a first group having negative refractive power, and a second group having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first group and the second group varies. The first group is composed of two lens elements which are, in order from the object, a negative lens having a concave surface facing an image, and a positive lens. The second group consists of three lens elements or less and includes, in order from the object, a positive lens, an aperture stop for defining an f-number, and a negative lens component including a negative lens and disposed to the image side of the aperture stop. Given conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Mami Muratani, Sayako Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090225444
    Abstract: A lens system has the following components in order from an object side: one negative lens component; a positive lens component; a negative lens component having a concave surface of a large curvature on an image side; an aperture stop; a negative lens component having a concave surface of a large curvature on the object side; and a positive lens component; the lens system satisfies a condition of the following expression: 0.75<SF1<1.60, where SF1=(R1+R2)/(R1?R2), and where R1 is a radius of curvature of an object-side lens surface of the negative lens component located nearest to the object side, R2 is a radius of curvature of an image-side lens surface thereof, and SF1 is a shape factor thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: SAYAKO YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20070070518
    Abstract: Providing a zoom lens system having excellently correcting various aberrations with accomplishing to be compact, lightweight, and slim upon being retracted. The system is composed of, in order from an object, a first group having negative refractive power, and a second group having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first group and the second group varies. The first group is composed of two lens elements which are, in order from the object, a negative lens having a concave surface facing an image, and a positive lens. The second group consists of three lens elements or less and includes, in order from the object, a positive lens, an aperture stop for defining an f-number, and a negative lens component including a negative lens and disposed to the image side of the aperture stop. Given conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Mami Muratani, Sayako Yamamoto