Patents by Inventor Seiji Tatsuta
Seiji Tatsuta 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: 20070133949Abstract: An in-vehicle information reproducing apparatus includes a display capable of presenting plural pictures reproduced by a picture reproducing portion corresponding to seating positions of plural passengers individually. A sound distributing portion distributes plural sounds corresponding to the plural pictures reproduced by the sound reproducing portion individually corresponding to the seating position of the plural passengers. Plural seats have a head rest on which each passenger is seated. Speakers are built in the head rest of at least a seat of the plural seats and reproduce sound distributed from the sound distributing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Yoichi Iba, Ryohei Sugihara
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Publication number: 20070132663Abstract: An information display system is a head-worn information display system, and includes at least a display panel. A display mode of information displayed on the display panel is switched automatically according to an active state of a user using the information display system. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an information display system which can display information appropriate for the active state of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yoichi Iba, Ryohei Sugihara, Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20060230108Abstract: An information display system includes a sensor which measures a state of each part of a body of a user, an active state identifying section which identifies an active state of the user based on a measurement result, an information estimating section which estimates information required by the user based on the active state identified by the active state identifying section, a database which stores at least the information required by the user, an information selecting section which selects the information required by the user from a plurality of information stored in the database, and an information display section which displays the information required by the user selected by the information selecting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 12, 2006Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Ryohei Sugihara, Yoichi Iba
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Patent number: 7090129Abstract: A code reader has a predetermined guide groove and is configured to optically read an optically readable code from a predetermined side of a card type recording medium in which data is recorded as the optically readable code along the side, when the card type recording medium is abutted on the guide groove and is manually moved in a side direction along the guide groove. The code reader comprises an image input section configured to pick up an image of a moving code and process the image, and a data read section configured to read the data from the image which includes the code and is output from the image input section. A moving direction of the card type recording medium has a predetermined relation with characteristics concerning the image input section.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 6993211Abstract: A parameter setting section sets a parameter stored beforehand in a parameter storage section as a parameter in an operation in an image pick-up section or an image processing section until an image pick-up start detection section detects an image pick-up start of a code. Moreover, when the image pick-up start detection section detects the image pick-up start of the code, the parameter setting section changes the parameter extracted from image information output from the image pick-up section or image information subjected to predetermined image processing in the image processing section from the parameter stored in the parameter storage section.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Akira Matsui, Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20050179710Abstract: A geometric property analyzing system comprises: a format storage unit (9) for storing a predetermined geometric property format; a chart data creating unit (10) for creating chart data based upon the geometric property format; a printing unit (16) for creating a test chart by printing mark groups on a recording medium such as a paper sheet based upon the chart data; an image pickup unit (17) for outputting a chart image by scanning the test chart; a mark center calculating unit (12) for calculating the center of each mark based upon the chart image; and a fitting unit (13) for performing fitting calculation by making comparison between the calculation results output from the mark center calculating unit (12) and the chart based upon the geometric property format such that the squared the difference therebetween becomes minimum for each mark position, whereby the geometric properties are analyzed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Toshiyuki Ebihara, Yasuhiro Komiya, Ken Ioka
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Publication number: 20050174374Abstract: An image recording device comprises: a first and second recording heads (11, 12) formed of recording elements cyclically arrayed, which are continuously arrayed with an overlapped region; image data distributing means (2) for distributing image data to these recording heads (11, 12); image data distribution region variation means (3) for setting an image data distribution region where the image data of each pixel is distributed to both the recording heads (11, 12) by the image data distributing means 2; correction parameter storage means (5) for storing a correction parameter for correcting the difference in the image density properties between the image data distribution region and the other region due to phase difference between the recording heads (11, 12); and image data correcting means (4) for correcting the image data in the image data distribution region based upon the correction parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Ebihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Ken Ioka, Yasuhiro Komiya
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Patent number: 6843610Abstract: An image recording apparatus is provided which records an image by scanning, relatively to a recording medium, a line-type recording head unit in a direction substantially perpendicular to a predetermined direction, wherein the line-type recording head unit includes a plurality of recording heads which are disposed in a direction substantially the same as the predetermined direction and which have recording width that partially overlap each other and wherein each of the recording heads has a plurality of recording elements disposed in a direction substantially the same as the predetermined direction. The image recording apparatus includes a correction data generator for producing correction data for correcting characteristics of respective recording elements at two-dimensional positions on the recording medium, and an adjustment unit for adjusting an input image signal inputted to the recording elements at the two-dimensional positions, based on the correction data.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Ioka, Toshiyuki Ebihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Yasuhiro Komiya
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Publication number: 20040251306Abstract: A parameter setting section sets a parameter stored beforehand in a parameter storage section as a parameter in an operation in an image pick-up section or an image processing section until an image pick-up start detection section detects an image pick-up start of a code. Moreover, when the image pick-up start detection section detects the image pick-up start of the code, the parameter setting section changes the parameter extracted from image information output from the image pick-up section or image information subjected to predetermined image processing in the image processing section from the parameter stored in the parameter storage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Akira Matsui, Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20040217172Abstract: A code reader has a predetermined guide groove and is configured to optically read an optically readable code from a predetermined side of a card type recording medium in which data is recorded as the optically readable code along the side, when the card type recording medium is abutted on the guide groove and is manually moved in a side direction along the guide groove. The code reader comprises an image input section configured to pick up an image of a moving code and process the image, and a data read section configured to read the data from the image which includes the code and is output from the image input section. A moving direction of the card type recording medium has a predetermined relation with characteristics concerning the image input section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventor: Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 6811084Abstract: A code reading apparatus main body optically reads a code from a recording medium, recording it as optically readable code, and stores the outcome of the reading operation and the parameters acquired during the reading operation in the data RAM of an application program storing cartridge. When a program processing apparatus reads the outcome of the reading operation as stored in the data RAM, it provides randomness to the outcome of the reading operation according to the parameters stored in the data RAM.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., HAL Laboratory, Inc., Creatures Inc., Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Daikichi Morohashi, Hiroyuki Yamada, Masayoshi Tanimura, Hirokazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 6789872Abstract: An image recording apparatus is provided which includes a test pattern reader for reading a test pattern image recorded by respective recording heads; an image recording position error detector for detecting, from the read test pattern, an error in image recording position for each recording element of each recording head relative to a predetermined image recording position; a correction data generator for producing correction data for correcting the error in image recording position for each recording element of each recording head in accordance with the detected recording position error; a correction unit for correcting an image signal to be recorded by each recording element of each recording head, on the basis of the produced correction data; and a controller for operating the test pattern reader, the image recording position error detector, and the correction unit at a particular time.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Ioka, Yasuhiro Komiya, Toshiyuki Ebihara, Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20040090475Abstract: The invention provides an image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium in accordance with an image signal, using a line-type recording head unit including a plurality of recording heads each having a plurality of recording elements disposed in a predetermined direction, wherein the plurality of recording heads are disposed in substantially the same direction as the direction in which the recording elements are disposed, and the plurality of recording heads are disposed such that there is an overlap in recording width between adjacent recording heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Ioka, Yasuhiro Komiya, Toshiyuki Ebihara, Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 6726102Abstract: A card records data as an optically readable code. A non-interference area is provided around the code to inhibit presence of only an interference image having an attribute causing an error during reading of the code. The code reader's CPU provides a code detection area to be used when a restoration section detects a code image from an image pickup area as a frame image stored in memory. This code detection area is determined based on an alignment error between the image pickup element and the code, and a specification of the code. The alignment error may result from the bottom of a slit which specifies a positional relationship between the code and the image pickup element to pick up the code.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Akira Matsui
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Publication number: 20040022570Abstract: An image recording apparatus records an image by scanning, relatively to a recording medium, a line-type recording head unit in a direction substantially perpendicular to a predetermined direction, wherein the line-type recording head unit includes a plurality of recording heads disposed in the predetermined direction and each recording head has a plurality of recording elements disposed in a direction substantially the same as the predetermined direction and of which recording widths overlapping each other partially. The image recording apparatus includes a correction data generator for producing correction data for correcting characteristics of recording elements at two-dimensional positions on the recording medium, and an adjustment unit for adjusting an input image signal inputted to the recording elements at two-dimensional positions, on the basis of the correction data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Ioka, Toshiyuki Ebihara, Seiji Tatsuta, Yasuhiro Komiya
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Patent number: 6633526Abstract: In recording dots corresponding to the data to be recorded in the record transmission path, the dots are recorded optically readably so that the recorded data may be reproduced by using two-dimensional interference from the adjacent dots. In reproducing data, after the code image has been processed by equalization in the PR-equalization portion, and simultaneously based upon the reading point position information detected in the reading point calculation portion, the values in the reading points are judged, and in the decoding portion, these read data are judged and decoded based upon the predetermined decoding rules, and they are converted into the original data.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Imade, Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 6592045Abstract: Data is recorded on a data recording medium as a code that can be optically read by using a manual scanning process. Images to be recorded on the periphery of the code include codes, images, texts, etc., and they respectively have attributes such as the shape, color and density. Then, depending on these attributes, the images are classified into those which cause adverse effects when read together with the code and those which do not cause any adverse effects, and the former images are referred to as interference images, and the latter images are referred to as non-interference image. Here, upon recording the above-mentioned code, on the periphery of the code is placed a non-interference area from which any of interference images having attributes (shape, color, density) that cause adverse effects upon reading the code are not allowed to exist. Any image other than the interference images, that is, any non-interference image, can be recorded within the non-interference area.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
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Publication number: 20020125318Abstract: A code reading apparatus main body optically reads a code from a recording medium, recording it as optically readable code, and stores the outcome of the reading operation and the parameters acquired during the reading operation in the data RAM of an application program storing cartridge. When a program processing apparatus reads the outcome of the reading operation as stored in the data RAM, it provides randomness to the outcome of the reading operation according to the parameters stored in the data RAM.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Tatsuta, Daikichi Morohashi, Hiroyuki Yamada, Masayoshi Tanimura, Hirokazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 6446866Abstract: A representative marker sensing section senses one representative marker from a frame shot by an image input section. A pattern dot sensing section senses pattern dots on the basis of the representative marker. A data dot reading point determining section determines reading points. With this configuration, once one representative marker has been sensed from the imaging frame, pattern dots are sensed on the basis of the representative marker and data reading points are calculated. This not only avoids an adverse effect of the disappearance of markers or the occurrence of erroneous markers and prevents the block data from being partially lost but also reduces the marker sensing process, avoids code reproduction failure, and speeds up the processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta
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Patent number: RE39985Abstract: A binarizing section generates binarized data from an image signal of a dot code on an information recording medium read by a code reading section. The binarizing section has a reference dot detection section, a dot area measuring section, a threshold value modifying section and a threshold value determining section. The reference dot detection section binarizes the image signal with a predetermined threshold value prior to generating binarized data to detect a reference dot from a binarized code image. The dot area measuring section measures the area of the reference dot detected by the reference dot detection section. The threshold value modifying section modifies the threshold value for binarization in such a manner that the area measured by the dot area measuring section approaches a predetermined target value. The threshold value determining section binarizes the image signal with the threshold value modified by the threshold value modifying section.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seiji Tatsuta