Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Suzuki

Shunsuke Suzuki 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: 20130305176
    Abstract: In order to adjust an amount of information to be simultaneously displayed on a display with identity of information to be displayed on a user interface (UI) screen guaranteed and to design a UI screen suitable for an assumed user, a UI creation support system (1) is provided which supports creating a UI screen for a predetermined service in which a plurality of user interface (UI) components are arranged, the UI creation support system (1) including a UI configuration determining unit (10) configured to determine a configuration of the UI screen, which includes all the plurality of UI components, for an assumed user using the UI screen according to the assumed user by adjusting the number of the UI components to be simultaneously displayed on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Okubo, Shunsuke Suzuki, Yukiko Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 8548200
    Abstract: In a lane-marker recognition system installed in a vehicle, an image pickup unit picks up an image of a target region including a road ahead of the vehicle, and a light-intensity detecting unit detects a change in a light intensity of the target region in the picked-up image. A lane-marker recognizing unit compares the change in the light intensity of the target region in the picked-up image with a predetermined threshold value, and recognizes a region of at least one lane marker in the target region based on a result of the comparison, the at least one lane marker being formed on the road. A re-determining unit re-determines the threshold value based on a light intensity of the recognized region of the at least one lane marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Naoki Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20130251242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a 3D data analysis apparatus and a 3D data analysis method. A 3D data analysis apparatus including a data storage unit that stores measurement data of microparticles, an input unit that selects three kinds of variables independent of the measurement data, a data processing unit that calculates positions and graphics in a coordinate space with the three kinds of variables being coordinate axes and creates a 3D stereoscopic image that represents a characteristic distribution of the microparticles, and a display unit that displays the 3D stereoscopic image, and the 3D data analysis apparatus variably sets a separate area in the coordinate space on the basis of an input signal from the input unit and displays the area in the 3D stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Atsuo Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 8531537
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a readout unit that reads still picture signals from first pixels among a plurality of pixels disposed on an imaging device and reads motion picture signals from second pixels among the plurality of pixels at predetermined frame cycles, and a readout control unit that controls the readout timings of the still picture signals based on the length of a still picture exposure period for accumulating the still picture signals and the length of a motion picture frame cycle period which is the period of the frame cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Hideki Kato
  • Publication number: 20130229412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a 3D data analysis apparatus, a 3D data analysis method, and a 3D data analysis program capable of easily and instinctively specifying microparticles and microparticle small populations to be analyzed without referring to a large number of histograms or cytograms or imaging a 3D distribution chart. Provided is a 3D data analysis apparatus including a data storage unit that stores measurement data of microparticles, an input unit that selects three kinds of variables independent of the measurement data, a data processing unit that calculates positions and graphics in a coordinate space with the three kinds of variables being coordinate axes and creates a 3D stereoscopic image that represents a characteristic distribution of the microparticles, and a display unit that displays the 3D stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Atsuo Fujimaki, Kenji Shoda
  • Publication number: 20130220511
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an image display device. The method includes providing a translucent sheet, a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, an image display unit and a liquid adhesive. The translucent sheet has a first principal surface, a second principal surface opposite the first principal surface, a first edge part and a second edge part opposite the first edge part. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite the first principal surface. The image display unit has a display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Hikaru Takeda, Nami Kobori, Sotaro Endo
  • Patent number: 8520954
    Abstract: The image processing ECU periodically acquires road-surface images and extracts edge points in the acquired road-surface image. Subsequently, the ECU determines the operating mode and extracts the edge line when the operating mode is either a dotted mode or a frame-accumulation mode. The edge points are transformed e.g. Hough transform, to extract an edge line that most frequently passes through the edge points. The extracted edge line denotes the lane marking. The ECU outputs a signal to activate a buzzer alert when determining the vehicle may depart from the lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8520071
    Abstract: In a boundary line detection system installed in a vehicle, an edge-point extracting unit extracts a plurality of edge points from an image of a road. A noise determining unit determines whether a number of edge points in the plurality of edge points are aligned in a direction corresponding to a vertical direction of the road. The number of edge points have an interval therebetween equal to or smaller than a preset interval. When it is determined that the number of edge points are aligned in the direction corresponding to the vertical direction of the road with the interval of the number of edge points being equal to or smaller than the preset interval, the noise determining unit determines that the number of edge points as noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130080974
    Abstract: A region recommendation device 100 includes a visibility analysis unit 101 which identifies a region where a viewing order satisfies a set criterion as a frequent viewing region, a selection possibility analysis unit 102 which identifies a object which the selection possibility satisfies a set criterion as a frequent selection object, and a recommended-region identification unit 103 which recommends a suitable region from among regions besides the region in which the placed frequent selection object in the frequent viewing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8385601
    Abstract: An in-vehicle white line recognition apparatus is disclosed. Form an image captured by a camera, the apparatus extracts multiple white line candidates including a first white line candidate and a second white line candidate. The apparatus calculates a certainty factor of each white line candidate, the certainty factor indicating a degree of certainty that the each white line candidate represents the white line. When the first and second white line candidates are within a predetermined range and when a ratio of contrast of the first white line candidate to that of the second white line candidate is less than a predetermined value, the apparatus decreases the certainty factor of the first white line candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawasaki, Tetsuya Takafuji, Kazuma Hashimoto, Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130011413
    Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of intestinal disease which contains an inhibitor of inflammatory cytokine IL-1 family molecules and IL-17 family molecules, and in particular contains an IL-17F inhibitor. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of intestinal disease which contains an IL-17F inhibitor and an IL-17A (IL-17) inhibitor. Inflammatory cytokine IL-1 family molecules and IL-17 family molecules promote tumorigenesis during onset of colorectal cancer, and it has been found that tumorigenesis can be suppressed by suppressing these cytokines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Yoichiro Iwakura, Shigeru Kakuta, Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120328891
    Abstract: An ultraviolet cross-linkable pressure sensitive adhesive sheet includes a (meth)acrylic copolymer of a monomer containing a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an ultraviolet cross-linkable site. The storage modulus of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet before ultraviolet cross-linking is from 5.0×104 to 1.0×106 Pa at 30° C. and 1 Hz and 5.0×104 Pa or less at 80° C. and 1 Hz. The storage modulus of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet after ultraviolet cross-linking is 1.0×103 Pa or more at 130° C. and 1 Hz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suwa, Shogo Sakakibara, Sotaro Endo, Saori Ueda, Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120285632
    Abstract: First and second lifting and lowering units are connected to first and second shielding members hung from a head rail, and an operating cord drives the units to lift and lower the shielding members independently. An operating cord is wound around a rotating member. Between a first input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a first output shaft that can lift and lower the first shielding member, a first clutch of the first lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a first stopper is provided in the first output shaft. Between a second input shaft to which the turning force of the rotating member is transferred and a second output shaft that can lift and lower the second shielding member, a second clutch of the second lifting and lowering unit is provided, and a second stopper is provided in the second output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: TOSO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kouichi Kataoka, Shin Imai, Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8300122
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device comprises a pixel unit, an exposure control unit, a first read-out path, and a second read-out path. In the pixel unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices, in which the amount of accumulated electric charges changes in accordance with incident light, are disposed two-dimensionally. The exposure control unit controls the pixel unit such that the start and end of accumulation of electric charges are performed at the same time in the photoelectric conversion devices which belong to a plurality of rows included in the pixel unit. The first read-out path reads out captured image signals of the photoelectric conversion devices in units of one row during a unit read-out period. The second read-out path reads out reset signals of the photoelectric conversion devices which belong to the same row as the row in which the captured image signals are read out during the unit read-out period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120229644
    Abstract: An edge point extracting apparatus is provided which includes an image obtaining unit which obtains a road surface image which is picked up from a road surface ahead of a vehicle and from which a plurality of color components are separately extracted a high luminance component selecting unit which extracts a pixel group including a plurality of pixels arranged in a line on the road surface image and selects a color component from the plurality of color components in the pixel group, the selected color component having the highest average luminance which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold and an edge extracting unit which extracts an edge point in the pixel group by using a color component of the plurality of color components other than the color component selected by the high luminance component selecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicants: Nippon Soken, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Kazuhisa Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20120194677
    Abstract: In a lane marker detection system, an image capturing element captures a road image ahead of a vehicle. The road image contains a plurality of color light components individually extractable therefrom. A selecting element extracts color groups from at least one of left and right areas of the road image in front of the vehicle, and selects, from the extracted color groups, one color group. The color groups are comprised of one or more combinations of at least one of the plurality of color light components. The selected one color group has a position in the at least one of the left area and the right area with a contrast equal to or higher than a threshold. The position of the selected one color group is the closest to a boundary between the left and right areas in the extracted color groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120139917
    Abstract: A 3D data analysis apparatus includes a data storage unit configured to store measurement data of microparticles, an input unit configured to select four independent variables from the measurement data, a data processing unit configured to calculate a position in a coordinate space using three variables of the selected variables as coordinate axes, calculate a figure from one residual variable of the selected variables, and create a 3D stereoscopic image showing a characteristic distribution of the microparticles, and a display unit configured to display the 3D stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Atsuo Fujimaki, Yoshitsugu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20120088939
    Abstract: Provided is a hyaluronic acid production promoter and a melanin synthesis inhibitor. The hyaluronic acid production promoter and the melanin synthesis inhibitor of the present invention each contain soybean saponin as an active ingredient. The soybean saponin is preferably soybean saponin aglycone. The soybean saponin aglycone preferably includes soyasapogenol A and/or soyasapogenol B. The hyaluronic acid production promoter and the melanin synthesis inhibitor of the present invention are each administered transdermally or orally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: J-Oil Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kamo, Shunsuke Suzuki, Toshiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20120057038
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a readout unit that reads still picture signals from first pixels among a plurality of pixels disposed on an imaging device and reads motion picture signals from second pixels among the plurality of pixels at predetermined frame cycles, and a readout control unit that controls the readout timings of the still picture signals based on the length of a still picture exposure period for accumulating the still picture signals and the length of a motion picture frame cycle period which is the period of the frame cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Hideki Kato
  • Publication number: 20110302984
    Abstract: There are provided a bending die to be used in an apparatus and method for manufacturing an automotive suspension arm to allow the manufacturing apparatus to have a simple and low-cost structure and a reduced installation area and perform automated manufacturing, and the apparatus and method for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm using the bending die. A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji Takeuchi, Masashi Nakano, Chihiro Kitamoto, Shunsuke Suzuki, Hirotoshi Hamada