Patents by Inventor Shinji Matsuda
Shinji Matsuda 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: 20240140132Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Michitaka SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Makoto HIDAKA, Akira KUNIEDA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA, Takahiro MATSUDA, Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Shinji ASAMI, Kazuyoshi MATSUO
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Publication number: 20240075627Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring apparatus includes a projection unit that projects a pattern onto a subject, a plurality of image capturing units that capture images of the subject from mutually different points of view, and a processing unit that calculates a distance value to the subject by performing association using image groups captured of the subject by the plurality of image capturing units, wherein the processing unit integrates information based on a first image group that was captured by projecting the pattern onto the subject, and information based on a second image group that was captured without projecting the pattern onto the subject, into integrated images or evaluation values to be used during the association such that features of the images from both the first image group and the second image group remain, and calculates the distance value using the integrated images that have been integrated or the evaluation values.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: YUTAKA NIWAYAMA, TAKUMI TOKIMITSU, SHINJI UCHIYAMA, DAISUKE WATANABE, TAKAMASA SASAKI, HIDEKI MATSUDA
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Patent number: 11919325Abstract: An enclosing-sealing apparatus includes a flap opener that opens a flap of an envelope while the envelope is conveyed to an enclosing position. A first envelope detector is disposed upstream from the flap opener in an envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction. A second envelope detector is disposed downstream from the flap opener in the envelope conveyance direction and detects both ends of the envelope in the envelope conveyance direction in an open state in which the flap opens. A controller determines the open state of the flap based on a first detection result sent from the first envelope detector and a second detection result sent from the second envelope detector. The controller performs troubleshooting for enclosing the enclosure into the envelope if the controller determines that the open state of the flap is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kunieda, Michitaka Suzuki, Shinji Asami, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takahiro Matsuda, Makoto Hidaka, Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga
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Patent number: 10976648Abstract: A technology that allows a user to view image information more comfortably has been demanded. The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls a person detection unit on the basis of an irradiation direction in which an irradiation unit capable of irradiating various image information irradiates the image information, the person detection unit forming a detection area in a direction opposite to the irradiation direction. According to the present disclosure, the person detection unit is controlled on the basis of the irradiation direction, whereby an operation unintended by a user is less likely to be performed. The user can thus view the image information more comfortably.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Yuichiro Saito, Shinji Matsuda, Tomoki Hamajima
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Patent number: 10955960Abstract: There is provided a control device including: a projection control unit configured to control projection of an image on a projection plane by a projector; and a UI control unit configured to switch a mode of a user interface (UI) related to the projected image between two or more UI modes based on a positional relationship of the projector with respect to the projection plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Saito, Tomoki Hamajima, Hirotsugu Kitamori, Shinji Matsuda, Hiroya Kudo
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Patent number: 10785854Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting system that can control lighting using a PLC communications while reducing an increase in cost for equipment. The lighting system includes a controller configured to communicate through a PLC communications, and a lighting apparatus group having a plurality of lighting apparatuses. The plurality of lighting apparatuses includes a master configured to communicate through the PLC communications, and a slave capable of communicating with the master. The master communicates with the slave through a communications that is different from the PLC communications.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhito Hirauchi, Shinji Matsuda
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Publication number: 20190310538Abstract: A technology that allows a user to view image information more comfortably has been demanded. The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls a person detection unit on the basis of an irradiation direction in which an irradiation unit capable of irradiating various image information irradiates the image information, the person detection unit forming a detection area in a direction opposite to the irradiation direction. According to the present disclosure, the person detection unit is controlled on the basis of the irradiation direction, whereby an operation unintended by a user is less likely to be performed. The user can thus view the image information more comfortably.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Yuichiro SAITO, Shinji MATSUDA, Tomoki HAMAJIMA
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Publication number: 20190297709Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting system that can control lighting using a PLC communications while reducing an increase in cost for equipment. The lighting system includes a controller configured to communicate through a PLC communications, and a lighting apparatus group having a plurality of lighting apparatuses. The plurality of lighting apparatuses includes a master configured to communicate through the PLC communications, and a slave capable of communicating with the master. The master communicates with the slave through a communications that is different from the PLC communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Yasuhito HIRAUCHI, Shinji MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20170244943Abstract: There is provided a control device including: a projection control unit configured to control projection of an image on a projection plane by a projector; and a UI control unit configured to switch a mode of a user interface (UI) related to the projected image between two or more UI modes based on a positional relationship of the projector with respect to the projection plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Yuichiro SAITO, Tomoki Hamajima, Hirotsugu Kitamori, Shinji Matsuda, Hiroya Kudo
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Patent number: 9480128Abstract: An illumination control system includes a first type illumination controller which detects presence of a person in an illumination space to be illuminated by an illumination apparatus, the illumination apparatus being connectable to the first type illumination controller, and a second type illumination controller which detects brightness in the illumination space, the second type illumination controller being connected to the first type illumination controller. The second type illumination controller derives a degree of dimming based on the detected brightness, and notifies the degree of dimming to the first type illumination controller. Upon detecting the presence of a person, the first type illumination controller controls dimming of the illumination apparatus according to the degree of dimming notified from the second type illumination controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryosuke Nakamura, Shinji Matsuda
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Patent number: 9451676Abstract: A detector detects first information which represents sensing presence or absence of a person in an illuminated space and represents a position of the person in the illuminated space when sensing the presence, and second information representing brightness of the illuminated space. When external light enters the illuminated space, a controller receives both detected results of first information and second information and controls lighting fixtures in a lump so that the second information becomes a prescribed target value when the presence is sensed. When no external light enters the illuminated space, the controller receives a detected result of the first information and individually controls respective lighting fixtures in accordance with the first information regardless of the second information.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuto Hidaka, Shinji Matsuda
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Patent number: 9366164Abstract: A DPF system for an engine generator that performing a recovery process on a filter (DPF) provided to remove particulate matter generated by combustion of fuel when an amount of the particulate matter in the DPF exceeds a predetermined value, the engine generator performing the recovery process by carrying out an automatic recovery operation to raise a temperature of exhaust gas to combust the particulate matter, the system comprising: a dummy load connected to the engine generator when necessary; and control device for allowing the engine to perform a recovery preparation operation in such a manner that, once the amount of the particulate matter exceeds the predetermined value, the recovery operation is performed when the temperature of exhaust gas reaches a reference temperature, and the dummy load is connected to the generator to raise the temperature of exhaust gas when the temperature thereof fails to reach the reference temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: DENYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Matsuo, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Shinji Matsuda, Tadahiro Fujita
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Publication number: 20160128161Abstract: An illumination control system includes a first type illumination controller which detects presence of a person in an illumination space to be illuminated by an illumination apparatus, the illumination apparatus being connectable to the first type illumination controller, and a second type illumination controller which detects brightness in the illumination space, the second type illumination controller being connected to the first type illumination controller. The second type illumination controller derives a degree of dimming based on the detected brightness, and notifies the degree of dimming to the first type illumination controller. Upon detecting the presence of a person, the first type illumination controller controls dimming of the illumination apparatus according to the degree of dimming notified from the second type illumination controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Ryosuke NAKAMURA, Shinji MATSUDA
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Patent number: 9226365Abstract: The lighting system includes a plurality of controllers each configured to control one or more lighting apparatuses. Each controller is configured to associate a set of coordinates of a position in an image taken by an image sensor thereof with an address of the lighting apparatus selected as a control object of a particular controller out of the other controllers. Each controller is configured to, when a person is detected by the image processing unit thereof, determine the set of coordinates of a position of the detected person; and, when the lighting apparatus associated with the determined set of coordinates is the control object of the particular controller, send a control signal to the particular controller. The particular controller is configured to, upon receiving the control signal, light the lighting apparatus corresponding to the determined set of coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Tanigawa, Atsuo Nanahara, Shinji Matsuda
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Publication number: 20150305119Abstract: A detector detects first information which represents sensing presence or absence of a person in an illuminated space and represents a position of the person in the illuminated space when sensing the presence, and second information representing brightness of the illuminated space. When external light enters the illuminated space, a controller receives both detected results of first information and second information and controls lighting fixtures in a lump so that the second information becomes a prescribed target value when the presence is sensed. When no external light enters the illuminated space, the controller receives a detected result of the first information and individually controls respective lighting fixtures in accordance with the first information regardless of the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Yuto HIDAKA, Shinji MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20150033716Abstract: A DPF system for an engine generator that performing a recovery process on a filter (DPF) provided to remove particulate matter generated by combustion of fuel when an amount of the particulate matter in the DPF exceeds a predetermined value, the engine generator performing the recovery process by carrying out an automatic recovery operation to raise a temperature of exhaust gas to combust the particulate matter, the system comprising: a dummy load connected to the engine generator when necessary; and control device for allowing the engine to perform a recovery preparation operation in such a manner that, once the amount of the particulate matter exceeds the predetermined value, the recovery operation is performed when the temperature of exhaust gas reaches a reference temperature, and the dummy load is connected to the generator to raise the temperature of exhaust gas when the temperature thereof fails to reach the reference temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: DENYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji MATSUO, Yasuhiro KOBAYASHI, Shinji MATSUDA, Tadahiro FUJITA
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Patent number: 8779667Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light source; a sensor which has an image sensor and detects an illuminance and a presence of a human based on a captured image while setting a range overlapping a range illuminated by the light source as a visual field; an illuminance determining unit for varying a light output from the light source based on the illuminance and the presence of a human; and a dimming control unit. The illuminance determining unit obtains an illuminance of an illuminance maintaining area included in the visual field based on the captured image, and when the sensor detects no human, the illuminance determining unit reduces the light output while maintaining the illuminance of the illuminance maintaining area to be equal to or greater than a threshold that is set in advance as a lower limit illuminance, which makes it feasible for the image sensor to capture an image.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Atuo Nanahara, Shinji Matsuda
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Patent number: 8659230Abstract: An illumination control system includes: illumination apparatuses having respective addresses and perform a dimming control in response to a dimming signal inputted from an outside, and an illumination control terminal which has an imaging device, a capturing range of which is set to include illumination ranges of the illumination apparatuses. The illumination control terminal segments an image captured by the imaging device into a plurality of areas so that the areas correspond to the illumination ranges, detects a person based on the captured image, determines a segmented area in which the person is present if the person has been detected and performs dimming control on an illumination apparatus corresponding to the determined segmented area.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Atuo Nanahara, Shinji Matsuda
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Publication number: 20130342113Abstract: The lighting system includes a plurality of controllers each configured to control one or more lighting apparatuses. Each controller is configured to associate a set of coordinates of a position in an image taken by an image sensor thereof with an address of the lighting apparatus selected as a control object of a particular controller out of the other controllers. Each controller is configured to, when a person is detected by the image processing unit thereof, determine the set of coordinates of a position of the detected person; and, when the lighting apparatus associated with the determined set of coordinates is the control object of the particular controller, send a control signal to the particular controller. The particular controller is configured to, upon receiving the control signal, light the lighting apparatus corresponding to the determined set of coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Tetsuya TANIGAWA, Atsuo NANAHARA, Shinji MATSUDA
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Patent number: 8490839Abstract: In a filtering dispenser container which includes a plug attached to a mouth portion of a bottle thereof and having a liquid discharge passage, and a filter and a check valve provided in the discharge passage, air lock is prevented, even if the container contains a highly percolative liquid, by preventing a very small amount of liquid percolating the check valve from reaching the filter. In the filtering dispenser container, a dam (14) is provided between the check valve (23) and the filter (25) for retaining a very small amount of the liquid percolating the check valve (23) when the check valve is closed. Thus, the filter (25) is prevented from being wetted with the liquid percolating the closed check valve (23) during storage or delivery of the container before the first use of the container.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignees: Taisei Kako Co., Ltd., Nihon Tenganyaku Kenkyusyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu Mihashi, Seiji Yoshimura, Kazuko Suzuki, Yorihisa Uetake, Norio Hoshi, Shinji Matsuda, Hidetoshi Kondo