Patents by Inventor Shinichi Miyazaki

Shinichi Miyazaki 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: 20240317074
    Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes a first removable cover to cover a portion of a first harness exposed downward through a first opening, a second removable cover to cover a portion of a second harness exposed downward through a second opening, and a third removable cover to cover a portion of a motor exposed downward through a third opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuto OKAZAKI, Shinichi KAWABATA, Daisuke MIYAZAKI, Naoto MANTOKU
  • Patent number: 12067304
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first obtainment unit configured to obtain high dynamic range (HDR) data that represents a high-dynamic range (HDR) image, a second obtainment unit configured to obtain print information to perform printing based on the HDR data obtained by the first obtainment unit, a third obtainment unit configured to obtain display information of a display apparatus that is to perform a display based on the HDR data, and a conversion unit configured to perform dynamic range conversion based on the display information obtained by the third obtainment unit, and then to perform dynamic range conversion based on the print information obtained by the second obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20240263801
    Abstract: A thermal treatment apparatus includes: a hot plate on which a substrate is mounted and which is configured to heat the substrate; an upper cover configured to cover a treatment space above the hot plate and form an opening being a carry-in/out port for the substrate to/from the treatment space; an exhauster provided at a position opposite to the opening across the hot plate in plan view and configured to exhaust gas from the treatment space; a shutter configured to cover a lower portion of the opening; and a gas flow guide provided at a position spaced apart from the shutter, wherein the gas flow guide divides gas flowing into the treatment space due to the exhaust of gas by the exhauster from an upper portion of the opening whose lower portion is covered with the shutter, into an upper side and a lower side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya KAWAJI, Shinichiro YAMANAKA, Kei MIYAZAKI, Shinichi SAGARA
  • Publication number: 20240254911
    Abstract: A cooling device of a vehicle is provided, which includes a transmission, a first coolant circuit where a first coolant which cools the internal combustion engine circulates, a second coolant circuit independent from the first coolant circuit, where a second coolant which cools the electric drive system circulates, and a fluid circuit where fluid which lubricates and cools friction engagement elements in the transmission circulates. The fluid circuit includes a first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the first coolant, a second heat exchanger in-series with the first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the second coolant, a first adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the first heat exchanger, and a second adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Keitaro Kageyama, Shinichi Hikitani, Tomohiro Koguchi, Yukio Jo, Daisuke Shimo, Masahiro Miyazaki, Daisuke Fukuda, Akira Tsuda, Kenji Tanaka, Kazufumi Kumakura, Hiroaki Gotan, Takahiro Okazaki, Kenta Honda, Yoshie Kakuda, Toshiaki Tohoda, Kenta Kobayashi, Aki Murai, Michiyuki Miura, Yusaku Takahashi, Masaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240037895
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to maintain density as an area as compared to a conventional technology even in a case where the quantization target is an image of a high-frequency pattern, such as a hatching pattern, with a halftone value to be subjected to an error diffusion process. An embodiment of the present invention is a program for causing a computer to function as an image processing apparatus for quantizing a pixel value of each pixel in an input image, the computer being caused to function as: an adding unit configured to add at least part of a difference between an accumulated pixel value and an applied error value for a pixel of interest to a quantization error value obtained by the quantization; and an error distributing unit configured to diffuse an added error obtained by the adding unit to peripheral pixels around the pixel of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: AKITOSHI YAMADA, SHINICHI MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11797806
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus with a processor and a memory storing instructions, that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain HDR data representing a high-dynamic range (HDR) image, in an image transfer function of the HDR data, a tone of each pixel is defined based on a relative luminance value, to obtain print information to perform printing based on the obtained HDR data, to set luminance information to be a target absolute luminance value, and to perform a luminance conversion on the HDR data so that a tone of each pixel is defined based on an absolute luminance value and the target absolute luminance value being a maximum luminance, to convert a dynamic range of luminance of the HDR data, on which the luminance conversion has been performed, into a dynamic range corresponding to printing of an image on a print medium performed based on the print information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11792513
    Abstract: An apparatus can improve the accuracy of calculation of a defocus amount by determining, as a processing frequency, a frequency at which a difference between contrast values corresponding to respective defocus amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20230196519
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquiring unit configured to acquire image data generated by reading an original; a specifying unit configured to specify an object region including a predetermined object in the image data; a removing unit configured to remove, from the object region, noise with a size smaller than a size specified by a first threshold; and a setting unit configured to set the first threshold, for each object region specified by the specifying unit, in accordance with the size of the object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIMADA, YUKI OMAGARI, KAZUYA OGASAWARA, AKITOSHI YAMADA, SHINICHI MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11645774
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image and distance information concerning a distance from an in-focus plane, which corresponds to each pixel included in the image; a setting unit configured to set an image processing condition according to the distance information based on an output characteristic of an output apparatus concerning a sharpness; and a processing unit configured to perform image processing for the image using the distance information obtained by the obtaining unit and the image processing condition set by the setting unit, wherein the processing unit changes, in accordance with the distance information, a band of a spatial frequency of the image to which the image processing is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Maya Yazawa, Hidetsugu Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20230056998
    Abstract: An apparatus can improve the accuracy of calculation of a defocus amount by determining, as a processing frequency, a frequency at which a difference between contrast values corresponding to respective defocus amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11581558
    Abstract: A fuel cell system configured to enhance the life of a fuel cell is provided. The fuel cell system a fuel cell, an oxidant gas supplier configured to supply oxygen-containing oxidant gas to a cathode of the fuel cell, a fuel gas supplier configured to supply hydrogen-containing fuel gas to an anode of the fuel cell, an oxygen partial pressure estimator configured to estimate an oxygen partial pressure of the cathode of the fuel cell, a hydrogen partial pressure estimator configured to estimate a hydrogen partial pressure of the anode of the fuel cell, and a controller, wherein the controller calculates a target hydrogen partial pressure by a given equation (1), and wherein the controller controls the hydrogen partial pressure of the anode to the target hydrogen partial pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11566373
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing system includes a processing section configured to process a raw material including a fiber, a detection section configured to detect a state of the raw material, a determination section configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection section and a preset criterion of a raw material state, whether the raw material is suitable for processing in the processing section, a supply section configured to supply, to the processing section, the raw material determined to be suitable for the processing by the determination section, a reception section configured to acquire operation information indicating an occurrence state of an operation hindrance in the processing section, and a setting section configured to set the criterion based on the operation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Mikoshiba, Kenta Nomura, Yoshio Murata, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11503203
    Abstract: An apparatus can improve the accuracy of calculation of a defocus amount by determining, as a processing frequency, a frequency at which a difference between contrast values corresponding to respective defocus amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11449183
    Abstract: A touch panel display includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel regions that emit light, and a touch sensor having an electrode configuration that overlays the display panel. The electrode configuration includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are separated by an insulating region. The electrode separation distance between the first and second electrodes is in a range whereby (1) with increasing electrode separation distance a first rate of proportional decrease in mutual capacitance between the first and second electrodes is greater than a second rate of proportional decrease in signal magnitude of an output signal, and (2) a ratio (R) of the first rate to the second rate satisfies the relationship 1.0<R<2.5. With such parameters, the electrode separation distance may be from 30 ?m to 50 ?m, and/or from 0.5 to 0.75 times a pixel pitch of the pixel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Yudin, Andrew Kay, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20220190370
    Abstract: A fuel cell system configured to enhance the life of a fuel cell is provided. The fuel cell system a fuel cell, an oxidant gas supplier configured to supply oxygen-containing oxidant gas to a cathode of the fuel cell, a fuel gas supplier configured to supply hydrogen-containing fuel gas to an anode of the fuel cell, an oxygen partial pressure estimator configured to estimate an oxygen partial pressure of the cathode of the fuel cell, a hydrogen partial pressure estimator configured to estimate a hydrogen partial pressure of the anode of the fuel cell, and a controller, wherein the controller calculates a target hydrogen partial pressure by a given equation (1), and wherein the controller controls the hydrogen partial pressure of the anode to the target hydrogen partial pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Shinichi MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220166928
    Abstract: An apparatus can improve the accuracy of calculation of a defocus amount by determining, as a processing frequency, a frequency at which a difference between contrast values corresponding to respective defocus amounts is greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11205785
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell configured to be supplied with fuel and air to generate electricity, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell, a heat source device configured to heat an off-gas discharged from the fuel cell to produce a heating gas and configured to heat the reformer, a fuel cell heating device configured to heat the air to be supplied to the fuel cell using the heating gas, a fuel cell temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the fuel cell, and a reformer temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Chikugo, Shinichi Miyazaki, Tatsuya Yaguchi, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11196059
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell system (100) having a fuel supply unit (8) and fuel cells (1, 2) having a cathode (4, 4?) and an anode (3, 3?), wherein the cathode (4, 4?) features a cathode feed line (40), the anode (3, 3?) features an anode feed line (30), and the flow in the anode (3, 3?) is connected with the flow in the fuel supply unit (8) via the anode feed line (30), in which a reforming apparatus (13) is arranged, and having an anode exhaust line (6) provided with at least one burner apparatus (22, 23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: AVL List GmbH, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Reissig, Bernd Reiter, Jörg Mathé, Thomas Krauss, Stefan Planitzer, Vincent Lawlor, Jürgen Rechberger, Masanari Yanagisawa, Shinichi Miyazaki, Hayato Chikugo, Tadaki Mano, Tatsuya Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 11153552
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains a captured image including a plurality of pixels, and distance information relating to a distance from an in-focus plane and corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels; a deriving unit that derives an evaluation value that indicates an accuracy of the distance information and is based on values of the plurality of pixels; and a generation unit that newly generates, based on the distance information and the evaluation value, distance information for each of the plurality of pixels, wherein the generation unit generates distance information corresponding to an area of interest including at least one pixel, based on distance information of a surrounding area of the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuhei Ogawa, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D1034251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing, Inc., NISHIYAMA Corporation, Yamato Scale Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joshua Lawn, Shinichi Miyazaki, Shota Hattori, Masashi Fukushima, Norimichi Uemura, Hideaki Nakahora