Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Okamura
Shinichiro Okamura 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: 20140301729Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a camera unit that is provided with a camera lens, a camera body that rotatably holds the camera unit, and a rotating mechanism that rotates the camera unit in response to an emergency signal so as to be switched from a first state where the camera lens is stored inside the camera body to a second state where the camera lens is exposed to an outside of the camera body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro OKAMURA, Hiroki YAMANAKA, Tamotsu UCHIDA, Masami ASANUMA
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Patent number: 8274561Abstract: A surveillance camera comprising an image capturing portion having a rotational drive portion for rotatingly driving an image capturing lens about a pan axis and an initial position sensor providing a reference to the pan angle of the image capturing lens, a base for the image capturing portion to be attached thereto with the pan axis positioned toward a changeable direction, a controller electrically connected to the drive portion and the initial position sensor, and restrictive portion for mechanically restricting the permissible pan angle of the image capturing lens to different angles in accordance with the direction of the image capturing portion as attached to the base. The controller detects the direction of the image capturing portion as attached to the base based on the angle of rotation of the drive portion and the position of the initial position sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Jodan, Shinichiro Okamura
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Patent number: 8249443Abstract: An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes an apparatus body including an image sensor built therein, and a lens unit, the apparatus body is provided with a back focus adjustment mechanism and a sliding member which is slidable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the image sensor, the sliding member is provided with an infrared blocking filter and a dummy glass plate arranged next to each other, the apparatus is capable of switching modes between a day photographing mode in which the infrared blocking filter is positioned on the optical axis of the image sensor and a night photographing mode in which the dummy glass plate is positioned on the optical axis of the image sensor, and the dummy glass plate has a thickness greater than a thickness with which optical path length extension equivalent to that with the infrared blocking filter is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Ito, Shinichiro Okamura
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Publication number: 20110058804Abstract: An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes an apparatus body including an image sensor built therein, and a lens unit, the apparatus body is provided with a back focus adjustment mechanism and a sliding member which is slidable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the image sensor, the sliding member is provided with an infrared blocking filter and a dummy glass plate arranged next to each other, the apparatus is capable of switching modes between a day photographing mode in which the infrared blocking filter is positioned on the optical axis of the image sensor and a night photographing mode in which the dummy glass plate is positioned on the optical axis of the image sensor, and the dummy glass plate has a thickness greater than a thickness with which optical path length extension equivalent to that with the infrared blocking filter is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki ITO, Shinichiro OKAMURA
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Patent number: 7724140Abstract: An RFID reader/writer performs a radio communication with an RFID tag. An antenna for tag communication used in the RFID reader/writer is a beam scanning antenna that can perform scanning with the beam of a transmitted radio wave. The beam has a high directivity in a certain scanning direction. The scanning with the beam is performed so that a plane including the certain scanning direction intersects with a floor surface as a reflecting surface on which the strongest reflected wave is generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Keisuke Saito, Shinichiro Okamura, Takehiro Kawai
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Publication number: 20100060524Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated antenna with an identical ground member, in which the interference between the adjacent antennas can be suppressed while the antenna is miniaturized in not only the width direction but also the height direction. In the integrated antenna with the identical ground member, plural antenna elements having two different resonance frequency bands are disposed in an identical ground member. Each antenna element includes a first radiation portion corresponding to one of the resonance frequency bands and a second radiation portion corresponding to the other resonance frequency band. At a point where the two antenna elements are adjacent to each other, a dielectric material is disposed in one of radiation portions located inside the antenna element such that the dielectric material contacts the radiation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Hisashi Ozawa, Yuzo Okano
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Publication number: 20090238260Abstract: In order to alleviate stresses on a user, a transmitter comprises a channel coding section operable to encode input data stream according to a first modulation scheme, an additional information encode section operable to receive character data and additional information having a reserve area and including a transmission parameter relative to the first modulation scheme, to store the received character data in the reserve area of the additional information, and to encode the additional information in which the character data is stored according to a second modulation scheme with a smaller number of bits, which can be represented with a single symbol, than that of bits of a symbol to be used in the first modulation scheme; a multi-carrier modulation section operable to modulate multi-carriers with the data stream encoded according to the first modulation scheme and the additional information encoded according to the second modulation scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Susumu Ibaraki, Hisaya Katou
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Patent number: 7584431Abstract: A communication system including a network and at least two terminal units connected thereto. Each terminal unit includes a session controlling unit for controlling a session for enabling transmission/receiving of voice, image, handwritten data to/from the remote terminal unit individually, and a display unit for displaying the image and the handwritten data. The image data and the handwritten data are overlapped and displayed on a display of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroi Kazushige, Nobukazu Kondo, Tsutomu Hara, Tooru Yokozawa, Kazuchika Ogiwara, Masaya Umemura, Shinichiro Okamura
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Patent number: 7573418Abstract: A direction estimating section estimates the incoming direction of a radio wave from an RFID tag in each of antennas. A position calculating section calculates the position of the RFID tag on the basis of the incoming direction of the radio wave estimated in the direction estimating section.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Takehiro Kawai, Keisuke Saito, Shinichiro Okamura
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Publication number: 20090040114Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated antenna with an identical ground member, in which the interference between the adjacent antennas can be suppressed while the antenna is miniaturized in not only the width direction but also the height direction. In the integrated antenna with the identical ground member, plural antenna elements having two different resonance frequency bands are disposed in an identical ground member. Each antenna element includes a first radiation portion corresponding to one of the resonance frequency bands and a second radiation portion corresponding to the other resonance frequency band. At a point where the two antenna elements are adjacent to each other, a dielectric material is disposed in one of radiation portions located inside the antenna element such that the dielectric material contacts the radiation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Hisashi Ozawa, Yuzo Okano
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Publication number: 20080158355Abstract: A surveillance camera comprising an image capturing portion having a rotational drive portion for rotatingly driving an image capturing lens about a pan axis and an initial position sensor providing a reference to the pan angle of the image capturing lens, a base for the image capturing portion to be attached thereto with the pan axis positioned toward a changeable direction, a controller electrically connected to the drive portion and the initial position sensor, and restrictive portion for mechanically restricting the permissible pan angle of the image capturing lens to different angles in accordance with the direction of the image capturing portion as attached to the base. The controller detects the direction of the image capturing portion as attached to the base based on the angle of rotation of the drive portion and the position of the initial position sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki JODAN, Shinichiro OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20080079637Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a radiation member and a substrate having a ground conductor. The radiation member has a plate-like shape, is made of a dielectric material, and includes a radiation conductor. The radiation member is joined to a surface of the substrate. The radiation conductor includes a feeding portion, at least a pair of notch portions, and a step. The feeding portion is exposed from a center at one end of the dielectric material and coupled to a feeding pad provided in the substrate. The notch portions are symmetrically formed. The step is formed by a bend between the feeding portion and one of the notch portions. The radiation conductor on a side of the feeding portion from the step is embedded in the dielectric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Sumifumi Oki
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Patent number: 7236202Abstract: A movement control system useful for an apparatus comprising a movable member movable between two positions, a motor and a sensor device for producing an output value which changes during the movement of the movable member. The control system drives the motor in a first amount so as to move the movable member from one of the two positions to the other position and thereafter drives the motor in a second amount to move the movable member toward said one position when the output value of the sensor device remains unchanged. When the sensor device produces a changed output value, the system drives the motor in a third amount to move the movable member toward said one position. Subsequently, the system drives the motor in a fourth amount when the output value of the sensor device is different from the output value before the motor is driven in the first amount, so as to move the movable member toward said other position.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Tetsuo Mise
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Patent number: 7084806Abstract: Provided are an intruding object detecting apparatus (a radio wave sensor) capable of setting an arbitrary detection region, an apparatus for setting the detection region and a setting processe. An intruding object detecting apparatus 51 is installed in a corner of a room 53, a coordinate system is defined in which a location of the intruding object detecting apparatus 51 is an origin thereof, and coordinates are a distance r from the intruding object detecting apparatus and a scanning angle ? of a transmission antenna/reception antenna of the intruding object detecting apparatus, and a state corresponding to the coordinate system is stored (b) in a storage means; thereby enabling the detection region 52 of the intruding object detecting apparatus can be arbitrarily set. Moreover, the setting can be performed with ease using a reflector or a transmitter, or alternatively, using a setting apparatus constituted of the reflector and the transmitter, combined.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoichi Toguchi, Yui Tada, Shinichiro Okamura
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Patent number: 7026978Abstract: A plurality of primary detection regions A to I are scanned by switching a beam width and a beam direction of an antenna. The primary detection regions A to I are formed such that one detection region overlaps at least one of other detection regions. A small region (any one of secondary detection region (1) to (14)) corresponding to a region provided by excluding a region corresponding to a sum of set of the detection regions where a detection object was not detected, from a region corresponding to a product set of the primary detection regions where the object was detected is specified as a bearing in which the object exists, based on detection results of the respective primary detection regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Okamura, Tadao Nishiguchi, Hirohisa Furukawa
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Publication number: 20060001585Abstract: An RFID reader/writer performs a radio communication with an RFID tag. An antenna for tag communication used in the RFID reader/writer is a beam scanning antenna that can perform scanning with the beam of a transmitted radio wave. The beam has a high directivity in a certain scanning direction. The scanning with the beam is performed so that a plane including the certain scanning direction intersects with a floor surface as a reflecting surface on which the strongest reflected wave is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Shinichiro Okamura, Takehiro Kawai
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Publication number: 20050280538Abstract: A direction estimating section estimates the incoming direction of a radio wave from an RFID tag in each of antennas. A position calculating section calculates the position of the RFID tag on the basis of the incoming direction of the radio wave estimated in the direction estimating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Takehiro Kawai, Keisuke Saito, Shinichiro Okamura
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Publication number: 20050213551Abstract: In a conventional method of organizing image data taken by a digital camera, only information on the date and time and position are attached to each data, without acquiring information related to the content of the data. Therefore, positional information is obtained and attached to the data of image or text, and when storing the data, information related to the position is acquired based on the positional information and stored in association with the data. Related information is also acquired when the data is viewed. The size of a data file is reduced with a decreased size of information attached to the file. Acquiring the latest information as well as previous information upon viewing the data is possible, since information related to the position of data creation is available in addition to information on the date and time and position, when storing and viewing the data. The acquired information enables detailed categorizing, searching and rendering of data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2004Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Yoshiaki Morimoto, Yoichi Nakamoto, Hiroki Miyamoto, Keitaro Okasaki, Shinichiro Okamura
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Patent number: 6937183Abstract: Beams are irradiated in three directions by switching an irradiation direction of a mainlobe of an antenna by stages, and an echo is received from a detection object obtained in the mainlobe or a sidelobe in each irradiation direction. Then, reflection power intensity in each irradiation direction is found from the received echo, and pattern of relative variation of the reflection power intensity (power intensity pattern) in each irradiation direction is generated. Meanwhile, a detection region is divided into seven bearings ācā to āiā and a power intensity pattern when an object exists in each bearing is previously stored as a reference pattern in each bearing. Then, the bearing in which the detection object exists is specified by comparing the power intensity pattern obtained from the received echo with the reference pattern in each bearing.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Tadao Nishiguchi, Shinichiro Okamura, Hirohisa Furukawa
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Patent number: D576613Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Omron CorporationInventor: Shinichiro Okamura