Patents by Inventor Shigeru Kato
Shigeru Kato 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: 20150325463Abstract: An attaching apparatus, a substrate and a support that can be uniformly attached through an adhesive layer. The attaching apparatus is equipped with a set plate and a press plate formed of ceramics. The set plate and the press plate have a flatness of 1.0 ?m or less when not pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Junichi KATSURAGAWA, Yoshihiro INAO, Shigeru KATO
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Publication number: 20150262858Abstract: An attaching device configured to attach a substrate and a support via an adhesive layer is provided with support holding members. Holding tools of the support holding members are configured to hold the support with oblique surface parts (contact members) of the holding tools without coming into contact with a surface of the support, which is to be attached to the substrate. The attaching device attaches, to the substrate, the support of which the surface is held not to be contacted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Shugo Tsushima, Junichi Katsuragawa, Satoshi Kobari, Akihiko Nakamura
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Publication number: 20150165741Abstract: A bonding method which includes a pressing step of bonding a substrate and a support plate for supporting the substrate to each other through an adhesive layer and pressing the bonded substrate and support plate using a plate member; and, after the pressing step, a pressure adjusting step of placing the substrate and the support plate bonded to each other through the adhesive layer in an environment having higher pressure than pressure of an environment in which the pressing step is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Atsushi Kubo, Takahiro Yoshioka, Kimihiro Nakada, Shigeru Kato, Yasumasa Iwata
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Patent number: 8922693Abstract: An imaging apparatus is capable of concurrently shooting an image displayed by a display and a determined sub-area designated in the image. The imaging apparatus includes an optical system that collects light from a subject for image formation, an imaging device that generates image data by photoelectrically converting the light, a display that can display an image corresponding to the image data, an input unit, an effective region determination unit that determines an effective region in which the determined sub-area can be set through input of a signal from the input unit, based on characteristic information of the optical system corresponding to a shooting condition, and a display control unit that causes the display to display information indicating the effective region in accordance with a result of determination by the effective region determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20140374017Abstract: A bonding method including an adhesive layer forming process in which a thermoplastic adhesive is applied to a substrate or a support plate and an adhesive layer is formed; a heating process in which the adhesive layer that is formed on the substrate or the support plate is heated; and a bonding process in which the substrate and the support plate are pressed against each other via the heated adhesive layer, thereby bonding the substrate and the support plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Atsushi Miyanari, Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato, Takahiro Setaka, Shingo Ishida
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Patent number: 8907866Abstract: A displaying unit displaying an image, a recognizing unit recognizing use history of the displaying unit, and a decision unit deciding a permissible viewing time of the image for a user, based on the use history are provided, and the display of the image by the displaying unit is stopped according to the permissible viewing time. Alternatively, the user is encouraged to finish watching the image according to the permissible viewing time. In a head mount display including a displaying unit and mountable on the head of a user, it is possible to realize a fatigue countermeasure appropriate for a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Shigeru Kato
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Publication number: 20140332147Abstract: A sticking apparatus including a pair of plate members sandwiching a laminate between the pair of plate members, and supporting members supporting the plate members. The supporting members supporting at least one of the plate members are located in a form of multiple dots or lines adjacent to each other at regular intervals on the plate member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Nakamura, Yoshihiro Inao, Shigeru Kato
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Patent number: 8593374Abstract: A headphone includes a pad which is brought into contact with a human head, an enclosure which outputs an audio, and a dome as means for adjusting quality of the audio output by resonating or absorbing the sound wave emitted from the enclosure. The dome has no parts other than those used for absorbing and reflecting audio and is almost hollow. In the dome is arranged a circuit substrate by using a circuit support part having a shape not blocking the air flowing in the dome. Such a circuit substrate is also built in the other headphone. The circuit substrates arranged in the dome of the headphone are connected by a cable arranged inside a head band or an FPC for transmission of a signal and power supply. Thus, it is possible to provide an output device which can solve the problem of the dimensions for containing operation processing devices and the problem of heat dissipation.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Kazuou Isagi, Masaki Otsuki, Kenzo Chiaki
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Publication number: 20130265212Abstract: A head-mounted display has a rear arm, an accommodating part attached to the rear arm, a display arm that is held in the accommodating part, a display part which is pivotably attached to a tip end of the display arm, and headphones which are disposed on both end parts of the rear arm. A flat cable which supplies a power source and signals to the image display device is led into the accommodating part via a wiring attachment part, and is fastened to the accommodating part by the wiring attachment part. In the accommodating part, the intermediate part of the flat cable is fastened by a wiring retainer. The flat cable enters the display arm from the rear end part of the display arm, and is further conducted to the image display device inside the display part via a spherical-surface coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeru KATO, Nobuyuki MIYAKE, Masaki OOTSUKI
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Patent number: 8433173Abstract: An object is to provide a content reproduction system in which matching of a content reproduction apparatus and a device is performed flexibly and efficiently. For this purpose, the content reproduction system includes a content reproduction apparatus which reproduces a content including at least one of audio and an image, and a device connected to the content reproduction apparatus, in which the content reproduction apparatus is provided with acknowledging unit which acknowledges a driving condition of the device and a controlling unit which operates according to the acknowledged driving condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Masaki Otsuki
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Patent number: 8400371Abstract: The head mounted display of the present invention has a display part for displaying images to the wearer, a supporting part which supports the display part, which is fed out into a position in front of as eye from a position that is not located in front of the face, and which is moved from this position in front of as eye into this position that is not located in front of the face, and a mounting part which holds this supporting part, and which is mounted on the wearer in a position that is not located in front of the face, and is constructed so that the supporting part can move past the side of the head along the contour of the head. As a result, a display device is produced which is relatively free of unsightliness with respect to the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kato, Masaki Otsuki, Nobuyuki Miyake, Kenzo Chiaki
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Patent number: 8362974Abstract: Inclination of an image display unit is prevented at the time of using a wearable display unit in which the image display unit can move between a projection position where the image display unit comes in front of a user's eye and a retracted position where the image display unit has been retracted from the front of the user's eye. A display support member 27 is prevented from rotating in relation to a display support member housing part 31 in a direction included in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the display support member 27, even in a state that the display support member can move. To that end, grooves 28a, 28b extending in the longitudinal direction are formed in the display support member 27, while guide rollers 34a, 34a in contact with these grooves are provided within the display support member housing part 31.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Miyake, Shigeru Kato, Masaki Ootsuki
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Patent number: 8362972Abstract: A headphone (3) has LEDs indicating whether a head-mounted display is used for the left eye or for the right eye. In the case shown in the attached figure, the LED of L showing that the display is used for the left eye is lit. Whether the head-mounted display is used for the left eye or for the right eye is indicated by the LEDs, and depending on whether it is used for the left eye or for the right eye, audio outputted from the headphone (3) is switched over between the left and the right. Independent of whether the head-mounted display is used for the left eye or for the right eye, audio for the right ear is outputted for the right ear and audio for the left ear is outputted for the left ear.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Miyakawa, Shigeru Kato
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Patent number: 8325263Abstract: A camera operates in cooperation with a wearable image display apparatus configured to be wearable on an eye region of a user. The camera includes an imaging unit, a vibration detection unit, a transmission availability judgment unit and a communication unit. The imaging unit acquires an image of a subject. The vibration detection unit detects vibration of the camera. The transmission availability judgment unit permits transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when the vibration detection unit does not detect the vibration of the camera, and prohibits transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when the vibration detection unit detects the vibration of the camera. The communication unit transmits the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit is permitted.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 8264558Abstract: Video display apparatus, remote controller for reproduction apparatus, and reproduction apparatus meeting user's usage conditions with high operability have structure including: remote controller for video display apparatus, the remote controller having connection section connected to video display section, operation members receiving operations by user to the video display section, and control section having at least two action modes for operating the video display section responding to operations to the operation members; attachment member attaching the remote controller for video display apparatus to user's clothes etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Masaki Ootsuki, Nobuyuki Miyake, Shigeru Kato
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Patent number: 7975826Abstract: A stacker is composed of a bottom plate, a containing section for storing a plurality of cards by stacking it on the bottom plate and a guiding section for guiding each card entering into the containing section. The guiding section is composed of a sidewall for restricting movement of an entering card when entering into the stacker in a first moving direction and a slanted section for slanting the card against the first moving direction. The slanted card moves in a second moving direction intersecting with the first moving direction at approximately a right angle by the gravitational force.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Masato Mihara
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Patent number: 7941196Abstract: A waterproof structure for a casing has a first casing, a second casing to be put together with the first casing, and a waterproof member formed of an elastic material to prevent water from penetrating between the first casing and the second casing. The second casing has a recess. The waterproof member has a peripheral part which, when fitted into the recess, prevents penetration of water. The peripheral part is provided at the periphery of the waterproof member, which is laid out all around space between the first casing and the second casing. A projection engages with a dent. A restriction part of the first casing, provided at a position facing the peripheral part and protruding toward the second casing, prevents the peripheral part from coming out.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiko Kawasaki, Takeru Baba, Toshiyuki Murakami, Shigeru Kato, Tsutomu Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20100219579Abstract: A stacker is composed of a bottom plate, a containing section for storing a plurality of cards by stacking it on the bottom plate and a guiding section for guiding each card entering into the containing section. The guiding section is composed of a sidewall for restricting movement of an entering card when entering into the stacker in a first moving direction and a slanted section for slanting the card against the first moving direction. The slanted card moves in a second moving direction intersecting with the first moving direction at approximately a right angle by the gravitational force.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Masato Mihara
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Publication number: 20100208121Abstract: A camera operates in cooperation with a wearable image display apparatus configured to be wearable on an eye region of a user. The camera includes an imaging unit, a vibration detection unit, a transmission availability judgment unit and a communication unit. The imaging unit acquires an image of a subject. The vibration detection unit detects vibration of the camera. The transmission availability judgment unit permits transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when the vibration detection unit does not detect the vibration of the camera, and prohibits transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when the vibration detection unit detects the vibration of the camera. The communication unit transmits the image acquired by the imaging unit to the wearable image display apparatus when transmission of the image acquired by the imaging unit is permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20100188314Abstract: Inclination of an image display unit is prevented at the time of using a wearable display unit in which the image display unit can move between a projection position where the image display unit comes in front of a user's eye and a retracted position where the image display unit has been retracted from the front of the user's eye. A display support member 27 is prevented from rotating in relation to a display support member housing part 31 in a direction included in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the display support member 27, even in a state that the display support member can move. To that end, grooves 28a, 28b extending in the longitudinal direction are formed in the display support member 27, while guide rollers 34a, 34a in contact with these grooves are provided within the display support member housing part 31.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Nobuyuki Miyake, Shigeru Kato, Masaki Ootsuki