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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20180274915
    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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Tsurumi, Masashi Eshima, Takaaki Kato, Tatsuki Kashitani, Akihiko Kaino, Masaki Fukuchi, Takuto Motoyama, Suguru Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180272231
    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: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katoh, Tetsugo Inada, Tatsuki Kashitani, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20180269366
    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: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao OKU, Toshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Mitsuhiro ISONO, Takao ISHIHARA, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20180269137
    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: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao OKU, Toshiyuki HASHIMOTO, Mitsuhiro ISONO, Takao ISHIHARA, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20180266830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program 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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KATO, SHINGO TSURUMI, MASASHI ESHIMA, AKIHIKO KAINO, MASAKI FUKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10079201
    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: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironao Oku, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Isono, Takao Ishihara, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20180259353
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable enhancement of the accuracy in the recognition of locations of a moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: SHINGO TSURUMI, MASASHI ESHIMA, AKIHIKO KAINO, TAKAAKI KATO, MASAKI FUKUCHI, SUGURU AOKI, TAKUTO MOTOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180226544
    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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro ISONO, Kensuke MAEHARA, Kazuya MATSUDA, Takaaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20180115711
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a program 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAAKI KATO, AKIHIKO KAINO, TATSUKI KASHITANI, MASASHI ESHIMA, MASAKI FUKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9902448
    Abstract: In a utility vehicle having a body and driven wheels rotatably fastened to the body, auxiliary driven wheels, having an outer diameter smaller than that of the driven wheels and a width equal to or smaller than that of the driven wheels, are coaxially fixed to the driven wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kato, Tomoki Ito, Susumu Okubo
  • Patent number: 9855546
    Abstract: A method for producing a complex oxide catalyst containing a complex oxide represented by the formula: Mo1VaSbbNbcWdZeOn (wherein a component Z represents an element such as La, Ce, Pr, Yb, Y, Sc, Sr, and Ba; a, b, c, d, e, and n each represent an atomic ratio of an element to one Mo atom; 0.1?a?0.4, 0.1?b?0.4, 0.01?c?0.3, 0?d?0.2, and 0?e?0.1; an atomic ratio a/b is 0.85?a/b<1.0, and an atomic ratio a/c is 1.4<a/c<2.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 9827538
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a mixed solution, comprising a mixing vessel for preparing an aqueous mixed solution containing a dicarboxylic acid and an Nb compound and a filter for the aqueous mixed solution connected to the mixing vessel via a pipe, the mixing vessel being anticorrosive and equipped with a stirring unit, a heating unit and a cooling unit for the aqueous mixed solution, wherein the aqueous mixed solution prepared in the mixing vessel is fed to the filter via the pipe and filtered in the filter under increased pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20170298514
    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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro Hirano, Toshihiko Iwao, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20170193679
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jianing WU, Masaki FUKUCHI, Akihiko KAINO, Tatsuki KASHITANI, Shunichi HOMMA, Shinichiro ABE, Yuya HANAI, Takaaki KATO
  • Patent number: 9561479
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a mixed solution, comprising a mixing vessel for preparing an aqueous mixed solution containing a dicarboxylic acid and a Nb compound and a filter for the aqueous mixed solution connected to the mixing vessel via a pipe, the mixing vessel being anticorrosive and equipped with a stirring unit, a heating unit and a cooling unit for the aqueous mixed solution, wherein the aqueous mixed solution prepared in the mixing vessel is fed to the filter via the pipe and filtered in the filter under increased pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishii, Takaaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20160340295
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a mixed solution, comprising a mixing vessel for preparing an aqueous mixed solution containing a dicarboxylic acid and an Nb compound and a filter for the aqueous mixed solution connected to the mixing vessel via a pipe, the mixing vessel being anticorrosive and equipped with a stirring unit, a heating unit and a cooling unit for the aqueous mixed solution, wherein the aqueous mixed solution prepared in the mixing vessel is fed to the filter via the pipe and filtered in the filter under increased pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke ISHII, Takaaki KATO
  • Patent number: 9427727
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing an oxide catalyst for use in the gas-phase catalytic oxidation reaction or the like of propane or the like, the process comprising the steps of: (I) obtaining a preparation containing compounds of Mo, V, Nb, and Sb or Te at the predetermined atomic ratios; (II) drying the preparation to obtain a dry powder; and (III) calcining the dry powder, wherein the step (III) comprises the step of calcining the dry powder in the presence of a compound containing W in the form of a solid to obtain a pre-stage calcined powder or a mainly calcined powder, or the step of calcining the dry powder and calcining the obtained pre-stage calcined powder in the presence of the solid to obtain a mainly calcined powder, the solid satisfies the predetermined conditions, and the oxide catalyst comprises a catalytic component having the predetermined composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eri Tateno, Takeo Ichihara, Takaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 9327356
    Abstract: A tooth flank machining device includes a helical teeth grinding wheel, a position adjusting unit] capable of moving a relative position of a rotational axis of the helical teeth grinding wheel to a rotational axis of a work gear, and a controlling unit having a relative position controller activating the position adjusting unit to adjust the relative position of the rotational axis of the helical teeth grinding wheel to the rotational axis of the work gear so that the helical teeth grinding wheel engages the work gear with a grinding wheel tooth flank of the helical teeth grinding wheel abutting on only one of work tooth flanks forming a tooth of the work gear, a grinding wheel rotating unit controller activating a grinding wheel rotating unit, and a torque controlling unit controller activating a rotational torque controlling unit to adjust rotational torque within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: AISIN AI CO., LTD, AI MACHINE TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumio Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Muramatsu, Daisuke Tanaka, Takaaki Kato, Futoshi Okada, Hiromasa Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20160052575
    Abstract: In a utility vehicle having a body and driven wheels rotatably fastened to the body, auxiliary driven wheels, having an outer diameter smaller than that of the driven wheels and a width equal to or smaller than that of the driven wheels, are coaxially fixed to the driven wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Takaaki Kato, Tomoki Ito, Susumu Okubo