Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kobayashi

Tadashi Kobayashi 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: 20050012750
    Abstract: A subdivision level determination unit (13) in a curved surface subdivision apparatus (10) accepts an input of information about control points that define a shape of a curved surface and determines the subdivision level for the surface. Next, it sets, for a subdivision processing operation control unit (16), a control table corresponding to the determined subdivision level. The subdivision processing operation control unit (16) executes the subdivision processing while controlling a work memory unit (14) and a subdivision processing operation unit (15) based on the set control table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Akira Uesaki, Tadashi Kobayashi, Kazutaka Nishio, Akio Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20050010779
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a generation section configured to embed a new watermark in an original content containing an original watermark to generate a new content, and a recording section configured to record the new content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hideo Ando, Tomoo Yamakage, Hisashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20040261918
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a billet for cold forging according to the present invention is characterized by the first spheroidizing annealing step of spheroidizing a carbide in a blank, the drawing step of drawing the blank at a predetermined sectional area reduction ratio after the first spheroidizing annealing step, and the second spheroidizing annealing step of promoting the dispersion of the internal carbide for an increased spheroidizing ratio after the drawing step. The drawing step has a drawing ratio of approximately 20%. The blank is cut to a desired dimension between said first spheroidizing annealing step and said second spheroidizing annealing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Ando, Hiroshi Ono, Tadashi Kobayashi, Mitsuru Kamikawa, Fumio Fukuda, Eiki Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20040255635
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a billet for cold forging according to the present invention is characterized by the first spheroidizing annealing step of spheroidizing a carbide in a blank, the drawing step of drawing the blank at a predetermined sectional area reduction ratio after the first spheroidizing annealing step, and the second spheroidizing annealing step of promoting the dispersion of the internal carbide for an increased spheroidizing ratio after the drawing step. The drawing step has a drawing ratio of approximately 20%. The blank is cut to a desired dimension between said first spheroidizing annealing step and said second spheroidizing annealing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Ando, Hiroshi Ono, Tadashi Kobayashi, Mitsuru Kamikawa, Fumio Fukuda, Eiki Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6833845
    Abstract: An image object content generation device has a key generation unit that generates a key that is a reference for distinguishing an object pixel from a background pixel per pixel of an inputted image signal, a frame size changing unit that changes a frame size of the image signal, and a low frequency component passing unit that removes high frequency components of the image signal which was processed in the frame size changing unit. The image object generation device also has a pixel compensation unit that performs a padding processing to the image signal which was processed in the low frequency component passing unit by using Low Pass Extrapolation padding algorithm, and a pixel selecting unit that selects one of the Image signal which was processed in the low frequency component passing unit and the image signal which was processed in the pixel compensation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisaku Kitagawa, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6827257
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a generation section configured to embed a new watermark in an original content containing an original watermark to generate a new content, and a recording section configured to record the new content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hideo Ando, Tomoo Yamakage, Hisashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20040234850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium ion polymer battery comprising an electrode having excellent adhesion and electrical conductivity between a current collector and an active material layer, cycle capacity maintaining characteristics being improved, wherein a bonding layer, which bonds the current collector to the active material layer, is stable to an organic solvent in an electrolytic solution and is excellent in storage stability, and also, it is made possible to suppress the corrosion of the current collector by a strong acid such as hydrofluoric acid generated in the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Yusuke Watarai, Akio Minakuchi, Akihiro Higami, Shoubin Zhang, Tadashi Kobayashi, Sawako Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6819443
    Abstract: A network printer comprises a network interface to be connected to a communication network, in addition to a parallel interface to be connected to a host computer through a dedicated cable in one to one correspondence. A CPU within the printer executes an interruption processing for receiving a received by the network interface from the host computer, a communication task for removing a header from the received packet to extract print job data and storing the print job data into a print data buffer, a language task for interpreting the print job data within the print data buffer, and a print task for generating raster image on the basis of the interpretation result of the language task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shima, Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20040206092
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6770692
    Abstract: The present invention provides, by adding an ultraviolet absorbent and a colorant having a specific chemical structure, a plastic base material capable of effectively suppressing the transmission of ultraviolet radiation and short wavelength visible radiation known harmful to eyes, which material further reduces glares.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Asahi Lite Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Tsujibata
  • Publication number: 20040090437
    Abstract: A curved surface image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention that can render an object at higher speed and in higher quality by performing image processing using NURBS data includes: a data input unit 101 for receiving NURBS data; a coordinate transformation unit 102 for performing coordinate transformation on NURBS data; an animation control unit 103 for controlling animation data of each frame to be rendered; a data transformation unit 104 for transforming NURBS data into rational Bezier data; a patch division unit 105 for subdividing a rational Bezier surface patch; a normal determination unit 106 for calculating normals of control points of a divided surface patch; a perspective transformation unit 107 for performing perspective transformation on a divided surface patch; and a rendering unit 108 for rendering a surface patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Akira Uesaki, Akio Nishimura, Tadashi Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Kazu Segawa, Makoto Yamakura, Kazutaka Nishio, Hitoshi Araki, Kenji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20040055273
    Abstract: A gas turbine control system is disclosed which operates to stabilize the system frequency in a case of transitional variations of the system frequency without making the strength of hot gas path parts of the gas turbine below a maximum stress value of the hot gas path parts. When a system frequency abnormality is detected, the output of the gas turbine is adjusted to recover the system frequency by making a gas turbine combustion gas temperature control inoperative. For this purpose, there are provided a logical circuit operative to make the gas turbine combustion gas temperature control disabled or inoperative in response to an abnormal system frequency detection signal, and a recovery circuit that operates to cancel the inoperative state of the gas turbine combustion gas temperature control. The detection of an abnormal system frequency may be carried out by an outside signal. An abnormality detection unit may be provided in a combined cycle plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kaiichirou Hirayama, Tadashi Kobayashi, Sayoko Kobayashi, Yuka Kobayashi, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Tomoo Katauri, Yasuhiko Ootsuki, Takashi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20040045294
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6679059
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6633402
    Abstract: The present invention is a printer controller furnished with a processor for exclusively executing a first task (printing task) for controlling a print engine, a second task (communication task) for controlling communication with host computers, and a third task (language task) for generating image data. These tasks are assigned priorities of execution in the order of the printing task, the communication task, and the language task. When there is a request for the execution of a task with a higher priority during the execution of a task with a lower priority, the processor executes the higher priority task whose execution has been requested instead of the lower priority task currently being executed. Therefore, the processor is able to execute the communication task, language task, and printing task with no conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shima, Kazuhiko Iida, Susumu Shiohara, Tadashi Kobayashi, Norishige Kakuno, Ryoichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6617074
    Abstract: A lithium ion polymer secondary battery is a laminate of a positive-electrode sheet of a positive-electrode collector foil provided with an active material thereon, a negative-electrode sheet of a negative-electrode collector foil provided with another active material thereon, and a polymer electrolyte layer interposed between the positive-electrode sheet and the negative-electrode sheet. One of the positive-electrode sheet and the negative-electrode sheet is a strip and is fan-folded at least one time so that the positive-electrode sheet is provided on the surface of the active material on the sheet. The other one of the positive-electrode sheet and the negative-electrode sheet consists of a plurality of sheet segments having an area which is the same as the area of each flat portion of the fan-folded sheet. The sheet segments are interposed between the flat portions of the fan-folded sheet so that the polymer electrolyte layer is in contact with the surfaces of the active materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Watarai, Akio Minakuchi, Tadashi Kobayashi, Akihiro Higami, Sawako Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20030142609
    Abstract: There is disclosed an information recording medium on which stream information including images or sound and management information of the stream information are digitally recorded, the medium comprising a first recording region in which first management information of the management information for use in common in management of each stream information divided every predetermined data amount can be recorded, and a second recording region in which a reference unit of information obtained by adding second management information of the management information for use in management of divided individual stream information to the divided stream information can be recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasufumi Tsumagari, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Kazuhiko Taira, Hideki Takahashi, Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030125854
    Abstract: A vehicle information recording system 100 includes a picture acquiring unit 101a placed in a vehicle that takes a picture of surroundings and generates picture data showing the picture, a vehicle data receiving unit 107 placed in the vehicle that receives other vehicle data concerning another vehicle shown in the picture acquired by the picture acquiring unit 101a, an acquired information sending unit 103 placed in the vehicle that sends data including the picture data and the other vehicle data outside of the vehicle, a receiving unit 104 placed outside of the vehicle that receives the data sent by the acquired information sending unit 103, an encoding unit 105 placed outside of the vehicle that encodes the other vehicle data among the data received by the receiving unit 104 and adds the encoded data to the picture data as related data, and a recording unit 106 placed outside of the vehicle that records the picture data to which the other vehicle data is added by the encoding unit 105.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Kawasaki, Tadashi Kobayashi, Keiichi Senda, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20030098345
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a generation section configured to embed a new watermark in an original content containing an original watermark to generate a new content, and a recording section configured to record the new content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Hideo Ando, Tomoo Yamakage, Hisashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030095489
    Abstract: An optical disk comprises a prepit head data recording area surrounded by non-record areas in a radial direction and a circumferential direction of the optical disk, and a data record track specified by prepit header data recorded on the prepit head data recording area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Kazuo Watabe