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: 20200019009
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can improve the detection sensitivity for detecting the approach of a user's face, hand, or the like. The display device 10 includes a display substrate D and a bezel 4 that covers side surfaces and a rear surface of the display substrate D. The bezel 4 includes a conductive section 4a and an insulating section 4b. The insulating section 4b covers the side surfaces and the rear surface of the display substrate D and has insulating properties. The conductive section 4a is provided on a surface of the insulating section 4b covering the side surfaces of the display substrate D and has conductivity. The conductive section 4a is configured such that a predetermined voltage is applied thereto and a capacitance is formed between the conductive section 4a and a dielectric object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: Shinichi MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200012908
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, an image processing apparatus for acquiring image data edited after obtained by image-capturing an object performs the following processing. More specifically, the apparatus obtains information, equivalent to a distance from a focal plane in image-capturing, corresponding to image data before editing, obtained when image-capturing the object, and generates information, equivalent to a distance from a focal plane, corresponding to the edited image data, based on the edited image data, and the information, equivalent to the distance from the focal plane, corresponding to the image data before editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Shuhei Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200013178
    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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Maya Yazawa, Hidetsugu Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20200007854
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shuhei Ogawa, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20190379069
    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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicants: 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
  • Publication number: 20190353947
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that can correctly detect the approach of an object to be detected. A display device (10) includes conductors (40a) and (40b) arranged outside a display region (R) on a display substrate so as to extend along the outer periphery of the display region (R). The conductors (40a) and (40b) are configured such that a predetermined voltage is applied thereto and capacitances are formed between the conductors and an object to be detected. The outer periphery of the display region (R) has a corner portion (C) that is at least partially bent. The conductors (40a) and (40b) are adapted such that the capacitance formed between the conductors and the object to be detected at the corner portion (C) is adjusted so as to be approximately equal to the capacitances formed between the conductors and the object to be detected in regions other than the corner portion (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Shinichi MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10469710
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a determination unit that determines a print operation to be performed and a generation unit that generates quantized data for printing a dot by comparing a threshold value and the multi-valued data. In a case of performing a first print operation, dot arrangement of the multiple types of inks printed on the print medium by the print unit on a basis of pieces of quantized data generated by the generation unit is higher in exclusiveness and dispersibility between or among dots of the multiple types of inks and lower in an overlap rate between or among the dots of the multiple types of inks than dot arrangement of the multiple types of inks printed on the print medium by the print unit on a basis of the pieces of quantized data generated by the generation unit in the case of performing the second print operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akitoshi Yamada, Shinichi Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20190302958
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention makes it possible to carry out stable inspection on performance of a touch panel. An inspection device for inspecting a touch panel on a basis of a resistance value of a transparent film of the touch panel, which includes at least the transparent film, a dielectric member, and a sensor stacked on top of each other, includes: an integrating circuit configured to obtain a background capacitance of the touch panel by applying a first pulsed voltage to the sensor; and a switch configured to connect the transparent film to a ground or to a generator configured to generate a second pulsed voltage which is opposite in phase to the first pulsed voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Noriyuki HOSHIAI, Shinichi MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190286281
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of preventing a decrease in touch detection sensitivity even in the case where an air layer is present between electrodes for touch detection in a mutual capacitance touch panel-equipped display device. A touch panel-equipped display device 1 includes: a substrate 11; a plurality of first electrodes Rx spaced from each other on the substrate 11; a second electrode Tx located around or inside the plurality of first electrodes Rx on the substrate 11, to form a capacitance with each of the first electrodes; and a translucent cover portion C facing the substrate 11. Each of the first electrodes Tx or the second electrode Rx is in contact with the cover portion C, and an air layer AG is interposed between the substrate 11 and the cover portion C in a region in which an electrode not in contact with the cover portion C is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi AOKI, Shinichi MIYAZAKI, Takatoshi KIRA, Mikihiro NOMA
  • Publication number: 20190253690
    Abstract: A resolution conversion of image data of a photographic image is performed, and based on information related to a distance from a focal plane in the photographic image and the resolution conversion, processing to control the sharpness of an image that the image data resulting from the resolution conversion represents is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yumi Yanai, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yuji Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20190253609
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image processing apparatus capable of properly controlling sharpness of an output image and outputting the image is provided. More specifically, the image processing apparatus comprises: a setting unit configured to set an image processing condition for performing image processing to image data of an input photographic image based on an output characteristic of an output apparatus that influences sharpness of an image output from the output apparatus; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information equivalent to a distance from a focal plane in the photographic image; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing to the image data based on the information obtained by the obtaining unit and the image processing condition set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Yumi Yanai, Yuji Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20190253689
    Abstract: Image data of a photographic image is inputted, and based on information related to a distance from a focal plane when capture is performed, the sharpness of an image that the inputted image data represents is controlled. Image data resulting from the sharpness control being performed is outputted. In the sharpness control, the sharpness control amount is set in accordance with the luminance of a peripheral region that neighbors an in-focus region that is determined to be in-focus in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yumi Yanai, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yuji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 10379689
    Abstract: A touch panel includes an insulating substrate; a plurality of touch drive electrodes 61Xn+1, 61Xn, and 61Xn?1 arranged on the insulating substrate so as to be arrayed in a first direction, each of the touch drive electrodes extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction; touch detection electrodes arranged on the insulating substrate so as to be arrayed in the second direction, each of the touch detection electrodes extending in the first direction; and a dummy electrode 63 that is arranged between adjacent ones of the touch detection electrodes, in which a slit extending substantially in the first direction is provided. The dummy electrode 63 is segmented by the slit into a plurality of electrode portions 631 arrayed in the second direction, and two adjacent ones of the electrode portions 631 with the slit being interposed therebetween are divided at positions different in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10352990
    Abstract: A failure diagnosis circuit configured to diagnose an open-circuit failure in a reverse connection protection transistor includes a power supply unit having a switching transistor electrically connected to a power source and the reverse connection protection transistor and is brought into an on state or an off state in response to a control signal, and in which power is supplied from the power source to the reverse connection protection transistor when the switching transistor is in the on state; a power supply control unit that controls power supply to the reverse connection protection transistor and stop of the power supply by outputting the control signal to the switching transistor; and a diagnosis unit that diagnoses an open-circuit failure in the reverse connection protection transistor on the basis of an output state of the control signal and a detection result of voltage between the switching transistor and the reverse connection protection transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Tatsuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10308184
    Abstract: A door mirror control device supplies drive voltages to respective lock detection sections in left and right door mirrors. If motors are driven in accordance with the drive voltages, the door mirrors are operated from one of a retracted position or a deployed position toward the other of the retracted position or the deployed position, and the motors stop after the door mirrors reach either the retracted position or the deployed position. Operating time determination sections determine operating times of the door mirrors from changes in values of operating currents. Voltage setting sections change settings for the drive voltages supplied to lock detection circuits of the door mirrors based on the operating times of the left and right door mirrors such that the operating times of the left and right door mirrors match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Hasegawa, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20190122594
    Abstract: In a viewing object display set, it is possible to prevent a reduction in a sense of reality when a viewing object is seen. Specifically, the display set for viewing the viewing object includes the viewing object that is attached to a display surface and an object for visual effect that is provided on a viewing position side with respect to the viewing object and shields at least a portion of the viewing object. The object for visual effect is arranged so as to shield the boundary between the viewing object and the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yumi Yanai, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yuji Akiyama
  • Patent number: 10256476
    Abstract: A fuel cell electrode structure includes a membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane between a pair or electrodes, and a frame being integrally formed with the membrane electrode assembly supporting the membrane electrode assembly from the peripheral side. The membrane electrode assembly includes a gas diffusion layer on the surface, and a sealing member for sealing the periphery of the membrane electrode assembly is provided on the frame. The sealing member includes a lip portion, and at least partly includes extended portion that extends to the membrane electrode assembly. The extended portion is thinner than the lip portion of the sealing member, and the end face of the extended portion is in contact with the end face of the gas diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Oku, Shinichi Miyazaki, Ryan Blunt
  • Publication number: 20190087036
    Abstract: A pen-input surface material has a surface on which an input is to be performed with a pen. The surface has ten-point average roughness (Rzjis) ranging from 0.1 ?m to 6 ?m inclusive, an average space between asperities (RSm) ranging from 30 ?m to 500 ?m inclusive, and skewness (Rsk) of zero or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Masaomi KUWABARA, Takayuki NATSUME, Masaaki SAITOH, Kenji FUJITA, Shinichi MIYAZAKI, Noriyuki HOSHIAI
  • Patent number: 10227043
    Abstract: An in-out motor changes a field of view of vehicle surroundings for a vehicle occupant. When a predetermined condition is satisfied before a predetermined change condition for changing the field of view is satisfied, an ECU controls the in-out motor via a mirror surface operation driver so as to change the field of view to a predetermined preparatory field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Juntaro Kondo, Takashi Nagao, Shinichi Miyazaki, Fumikazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10225490
    Abstract: A mobile studio and a method for using the mobile studio are disclosed. The mobile studio is provided with lower and upper frameworks. A lower framework includes a planar upper-tier frame and a planar lower-tier frame, the planar upper-tier frame has a connecting tab to secure the mobile studio to a vehicle. An upper framework is secured to the lower framework. The upper framework supports at least a production area. Preferably, the upper framework supports a storage area including a rack assembly. Preferably, the rack assembly faces a rear door, at least part of the rack assembly having a sound insulating material. The method for using the mobile studio is provided with securing a bracket onto the chassis of the vehicle, loading the mobile studio onto the bracket, and securing the mobile studio to the vehicle using the connecting tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Ahmet Üstün, Kiyoshi Funada, Shinichi Miyazaki