Patents by Inventor Takaaki Kato

Takaaki Kato 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).

  • Patent number: 10731994
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that are capable of estimating the self-position by accurately and continuously estimating the self-movement. The information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a downward imaging section and a movement estimation section. The downward imaging section is disposed on the bottom of a moving object traveling on a road surface and captures an image of the road surface. The movement estimation section estimates the movement of the moving object in accordance with a plurality of images representing the road surface and captured at different time points by the downward imaging section. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a position sensor mounted in an automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Masaki Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 10636185
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianing Wu, Masaki Fukuchi, Akihiko Kaino, Tatsuki Kashitani, Shunichi Homma, Shinichiro Abe, Yuya Hanai, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20200113317
    Abstract: A backpack type device may include a body, a shoulder belt configured to be strapped on a shoulder of a user, and a waist belt configured to be wrapped around a waist of the user. The waist belt may be configured to switch between a state in which a lower end of the waist belt is below a lower surface of the body and a state in which the lower end of the waist belt is above the lower surface of the body. The backpack type device may be configured capable of being placed on a horizontal plane with the lower surface of the body in contact with the horizontal plane on which the backpack type device is placed in the state in which the lower end of the waist belt is above the lower surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi OKUMI, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200119318
    Abstract: A battery mount device may include a housing to which a battery pack is detachably attached, and a cover attached to the housing so as to cover the battery pack and configured to open and close by rotating around a rotation axis. Force in a direction closing the cover may act on the cover in a state where the battery mount device is placed on a horizontal plane. The battery-mounted device may further comprise a cover holding mechanism capable of holding the cover in an open state. The cover holding mechanism may include a cover holder configured to move, in response to an operation by a user, between a holding position where the cover holder interferes with a rotating motion of the cover and a released position where the cover holder does not interfere with the rotating motion of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu OKUOKA, Masayoshi OKUMI, Takaaki KATO
  • Patent number: 10622528
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a resin package including: a lead part including a first lead and a second lead, each including a main body portion and a raised portion connected to the main body portion, wherein an upper surface of each of the first lead and the second lead includes a first primary surface portion in the main body portion and a curved portion in the raised portion in a cross-sectional view taken in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the lead part, and wherein the curved portion is continuous with and curved upward from an end portion of the first primary surface portion, a resin portion, and a recess defined by a portion of the upper surface of the lead part and the resin portion; and a light-emitting element mounted in the resin package. The curved portion is buried in the resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao Oku, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Isono, Takao Ishihara, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10615586
    Abstract: There is provided an overcurrent protection device configured to protect a load from an overcurrent. A first overcurrent detector configured to detect the overcurrent, based on a value of a current flowing through the load, time for which the current flows through the load, and an overcurrent cutoff characteristic upon non-operation of the load. An overcurrent breaker that cuts off the overcurrent to the load when the first overcurrent detector detects the overcurrent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasunori Kozuki, Kosuke Urashima, Nobuhiro Shingo, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10587863
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit decision as to whether or not calibration of images is necessary. A decision section decides, using a current image captured by a camera and a past image captured by the camera, whether or not it is necessary to calibrate images captured by the camera. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a vehicle-mounted camera system that includes an automobile vehicle, two cameras, mounted to a front roof of the automobile vehicle such that imaging regions overlap, and an image processing apparatus, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 10542212
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device and a control method that make it possible to estimate a self-position reliably with lower power consumption. An activation determination unit selects some of a plurality of cameras as activation cameras to be used for self-position estimation, and on the basis of the selection result of the activation cameras, an activation switching unit sets cameras taken as the activation cameras among the plurality of cameras to an activation state and causes the cameras to photograph images, and suspends the activation of the other cameras. A self-position estimation unit performs self-position estimation on the basis of images photographed by the activation cameras. Further, the activation determination unit selects the activation cameras again at a predetermined timing. The present technology can be applied to a self-position estimation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kato, Akihiko Kaino, Tatsuki Kashitani, Masashi Eshima, Masaki Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 10508911
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for measurement, and a program each of which enables distance estimation to be more simply carried out with higher accuracy. A three-dimensional measurement apparatus has a rotation control portion controlling rotation of a photographing portion by a rotation mechanism in such a way that the photographing portion is rotated with a center of rotation as an axis in a state in which a distance from the center of rotation of the rotation mechanism portion to a focal point position of the photographing portion is a constant distance; and a distance calculating portion calculating a distance to an object on a space on the basis of a plurality of photographed images obtained through photographing in positions different from one another by the photographing portion in a state in which the photographing portion is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Takaaki Kato, Tatsuki Kashitani, Akihiko Kaino, Masaki Fukuchi, Takuto Motoyama, Suguru Aoki
  • Patent number: 10507381
    Abstract: A first estimating unit estimates at least one of a position and an attitude of a predetermined object on the basis of an image of a periphery of the object, the image being obtained from an imaging device, and generates an estimation result not including an accumulated error. A second estimating unit estimates at least one of the position and the attitude of the object on the basis of the image, and generates an estimation result including an accumulated error. A correcting unit compares the estimation result of the first estimating unit and the estimation result of the second estimating unit with each other, and corrects, on the basis of a result of the comparison, a subsequent estimation result of the second estimating unit, the subsequent estimation result being subsequent to the estimation result of the second estimating unit which estimation result is used for the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katoh, Tetsugo Inada, Tatsuki Kashitani, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10411169
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a resin package including: a first lead including: at least one notch extending from an upper surface of the first lead to a lower surface of the first lead, a first groove formed in the upper surface of the first lead, and at least one second groove connecting the first groove with the at least one notch, and a second lead, and a resin body including: a first resin portion, a second resin portion, a part of the second resin portion being disposed in the first groove, a third resin portion disposed between the first lead and the second lead, and a first resin connecting portion connecting the first resin portion with the second resin portion, at least a part of the first resin connecting portion being disposed in the at least one second groove; a light emitting element; and a light reflecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Isono, Kensuke Maehara, Kazuya Matsuda, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10370763
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus that processes a processing target substrate using microwave plasma within a processing container. The plasma processing apparatus includes a placing table provided in the processing container, and configured to place the processing target substrate thereon; and an antenna provided above the placing table to face the placing table, and including a dielectric plate, the antenna being configured to radiate microwaves into the processing container through the dielectric plate to generate plasma of a processing gas supplied into the processing container. The dielectric plate includes a flat plate portion provided on a bottom surface of the antenna, and formed in a flat shape at least on a surface facing the placing table; and a rib formed on a surface of the flat plate portion that is opposite to the surface facing the placing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirano, Toshihiko Iwao, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10343146
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a composite oxide catalyst which can suppress the generation of CO2 and CO and improve the yield of an unsaturated nitrile in a method for subjecting propane or isobutane to a vapor-phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction to produce a corresponding unsaturated nitrile, and a method for producing the composite oxide catalyst, and a method for producing an unsaturated nitrile using the composite oxide catalyst. A composite oxide catalyst used for a vapor-phase catalytic oxidation reaction or vapor-phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction of propane or isobutane, the composite oxide catalyst comprising a composite oxide represented by the following composition formula (1): Mo1VaSbbNbcWdZeOn??(1), wherein the component Z is one or more element selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Yb, Y, Sc, Sr, and Ba; a, b, c, d, e, and n represent atomic ratios of the elements; and 0.1?a<0.2, 0.15?b?0.5, 0.01?c ?0.5, 0?d?0.4, 0?e?0.2, and 0.60<a/b<1.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Minoru Kadowaki, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 10332824
    Abstract: A lead frame includes: a plurality of units each including a first lead portion and a second lead portion arranged in a first direction, wherein the units are arranged in the first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first lead portion and the second lead portion of each unit are adjacent, in the second direction, to the first lead portion and the second lead portion of an adjacent one of the units that is adjacent in the second direction; a plurality of first suspension portions; and a plurality of connecting portions. Each of the first suspension portions connects, in the second direction, the first lead portions of units that are adjacent to each other in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao Oku, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Isono, Takao Ishihara, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20180374782
    Abstract: A lead frame includes: a plurality of units each including a first lead portion and a second lead portion arranged in a first direction, wherein the units are arranged in the first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first lead portion and the second lead portion of each unit are adjacent, in the second direction, to the first lead portion and the second lead portion of an adjacent one of the units that is adjacent in the second direction; a plurality of first suspension portions; and a plurality of connecting portions. Each of the first suspension portions connects, in the second direction, the first lead portions of units that are adjacent to each other in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao OKU, Toshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Mitsuhiro ISONO, Takao ISHIHARA, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20180300898
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit camera calibration with high accuracy by using a known object in images captured by a plurality of imaging sections. An estimation section estimates a 3D position of a road sign included in each of images captured by a plurality of cameras with respect to each of the imaging sections. A recognition section recognizes a positional relationship between the plurality of cameras on the basis of the 3D position of the road sign with respect to each of the cameras estimated by the estimation section. The positional relationship between the plurality of cameras recognized by the recognition section is used to correct the images captured by the plurality of cameras. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to image processing apparatuses and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20180294635
    Abstract: There is provided an overcurrent protection device configured to protect a load from an overcurrent. A first overcurrent detector configured to detect the overcurrent, based on a value of a current flowing through the load, time for which the current flows through the load, and an overcurrent cutoff characteristic upon non-operation of the load. An overcurrent breaker that cuts off the overcurrent to the load when the first overcurrent detector detects the overcurrent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasunori KOZUKI, Kosuke URASHIMA, Nobuhiro SHINGO, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20180286056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing continuous estimation of a self-position. An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a main imaging unit that includes a stereo camera mounted on a moving body, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate to output a pair of stereo main images as time-series images; a plurality of sub imaging units each of which is so mounted on the moving body as to have an imaging direction different from an imaging direction of the main imaging unit, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate; and a final pose determination unit that estimates a pose of the moving body on the basis of the pair of stereo main images captured by the main imaging unit, and sub images captured by the sub imaging units. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to a self-position sensor for in-vehicle use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kaino, Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Takaaki Kato, Masaki Fukuchi, Tatsuki Kashitani, Shunichi Homma
  • Publication number: 20180288401
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit decision as to whether or not calibration of images is necessary. A decision section decides, using a current image captured by a camera and a past image captured by the camera, whether or not it is necessary to calibrate images captured by the camera. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a vehicle-mounted camera system that includes an automobile vehicle, two cameras, mounted to a front roof of the automobile vehicle such that imaging regions overlap, and an image processing apparatus, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Akihiko Kaino, Takaaki Kato, Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: D858644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumu Tsuji, Hirofumi Yaegashi, Takaaki Kato, Hisato Saito