Patents by Inventor Takashi Seki

Takashi Seki 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: 20240179395
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image recording unit configured to record an image captured and obtained by an imaging unit, a storage unit configured to store an imaging setting when the image recording unit records the image as an imaging setting history, the storage unit being configured to store a plurality of imaging setting histories, an operation member, and an assignment unit configured to assign the operation member a function of calling the imaging setting of one of the imaging setting histories stored in the storage unit based on a user operation. The assignment unit is configured to assign the operation member a function of calling the imaging setting of a latest imaging setting history upon operation of the operation member among the imaging setting histories stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventor: TAKASHI SEKI
  • Patent number: 11950030
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus enables a user to suitably select sound to be collected in connection with moving image capturing. The electronic apparatus is communicable with a plurality of sound collection devices, and includes a display control unit that displays, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, a display item corresponding to the each sound collection device, based on positional information for the respective each sound collection device, acquired by a position acquisition unit, and displays, with the plurality of displayed display items, an image acquired by an image acquisition unit, wherein the display control unit displays, for the each sound collection device, the corresponding display item, even if the display item corresponds to a sound collection device not located within a range of image capturing of the acquired image, and a control unit associates and records the acquired image and sound information in a recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20240094370
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radar device comprises a panel including clusters and a controller. The controller is configured to cause a first cluster of the clusters to transmit an electromagnetic wave to a target, cause the first cluster and at least one second cluster adjacent to the first cluster to receive a reflected wave from the target, and cause the first cluster and the at least one second cluster to output a reception signal. At least one cluster other than the first cluster and other than the at least one second cluster does not output the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi SEKI, Akira MORIYA, Kazuhiro TSUJIMURA, Ryota SEKIYA, Hiroki MORI
  • Publication number: 20240093864
    Abstract: A system for a room with a ceiling is provided. Air supply equipment forms a laminar flow of clean air around a target by supplying the clean air downward from an outlet provided in a first area of the ceiling located directly above the target. Operating light equipment illuminates a working area on the target in a shadowless manner by multiple light sources provided in a second area around the first area. Surface light emitting equipment controls a surface light emitting member provided in a third area around the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: OBAYASHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei OSHIMA, Atsuya YUASA, Sadayoshi NOMIZO, Takashi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20230300453
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention acquires a captured image, performs control such that an indicator is displayed so as to be superimposed on the acquired image, wherein in a case where an image in which a first image area captured via a first optical system and a second image area captured via a second optical system are arranged side by side is acquired, control is performed such that a first indicator is displayed so as to be superimposed on the first image area and a second indicator is displayed so as to be superimposed on the second image area, control is performed such that one indicator is moved in response to execution of an operation of moving the one indicator by a user, and control is performed such that another one indicator is moved in synchronization with the movement of the one indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: TAKASHI SEKI
  • Patent number: 11667817
    Abstract: A conductive film includes an elongated release film and a plurality of conductive adhesive film pieces provided on the release film. Then, the plurality of adhesive film pieces are arranged in a longitudinal direction X of the release film. For this reason, the adhesive film piece can be set to an arbitrary shape. Accordingly, it is possible to attach the adhesive film piece to adhesive surfaces having various shapes and to efficiently use the adhesive film piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Tatsuzawa, Kazuya Matsuda, Yutaka Tsuchida, Takashi Seki, Mitsuyoshi Shimamura, Kengo Shinohara, Tetsuyuki Shirakawa, Yasunori Kawabata, Satoru Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230137299
    Abstract: A conductive film includes an elongated release film and a plurality of conductive adhesive film pieces provided on the release film. Then, the plurality of adhesive film pieces are arranged in a longitudinal direction X of the release film. For this reason, the adhesive film piece can be set to an arbitrary shape. Accordingly, it is possible to attach the adhesive film piece to adhesive surfaces having various shapes and to efficiently use the adhesive film piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi TATSUZAWA, Kazuya MATSUDA, Yutaka TSUCHIDA, Takashi SEKI, Mitsuyoshi SHIMAMURA, Kengo SHINOHARA, Tetsuyuki SHIRAKAWA, Yasunori KAWABATA, Satoru MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11549461
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy having excellent high temperature strength and thermal conductivity; and an internal combustion engine piston including the alloy. The aluminum alloy includes 11.0-13.0% Si, ?0.3% Fe, 0.3-2.0% Mg, 2.0-5.0% Cu, 3.0-4.0% Ni, 0.2-1.0% Mn, 0.05-0.4% Cr, and 0.05-0.4% V, with the remainder including aluminum and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., ART METAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Izumi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Oda, Hiroshi Horikawa, Katsumi Fukaya, Takashi Seki, Tadashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220321853
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus enables a user to suitably select sound to be collected in connection with moving image capturing. The electronic apparatus is communicable with a plurality of sound collection devices, and includes a display control unit that displays, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, a display item corresponding to the each sound collection device, based on positional information for the respective each sound collection device, acquired by a position acquisition unit, and displays, with the plurality of displayed display items, an image acquired by an image acquisition unit, wherein the display control unit displays, for the each sound collection device, the corresponding display item, even if the display item corresponds to a sound collection device not located within a range of image capturing of the acquired image, and a control unit associates and records the acquired image and sound information in a recording device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20220321827
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a selection unit configured to select a moving image or a sound included in at least any of a plurality of second contents respectively photographed by a plurality of second cameras different from a first camera; and an acquisition unit configured to in a case where a moving image included in at least any of the plurality of second contents is selected, acquire a third content including the selected moving image and a sound included in a first content photographed by the first camera, and in a case where a sound included in at least any of the plurality of second contents is selected, acquire a fourth content including the selected sound and a moving image included in the first content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Seki, Akio Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20220236704
    Abstract: A cloud server includes a history information acquirer that acquires history information including operation history information expressing a history of a device setting parameter of an air conditioner or a water heater, environment history information expressing the environment in which the air conditioner or the water heater operates, and user information expressing a user of the air conditioner or the water heater, a coefficient determiner that determines, based on the history information, a neural network coefficient of the neural network, and a schedule generator that uses the neural network, in which the neural network coefficient is determined by the coefficient determiner, to generate schedule information expressing a future operation schedule of the air conditioner or the water heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Masato NAGASAWA, Satoko MIKI, Junko KIJIMA, Takashi SEKI, Takashi ARAI
  • Patent number: 11383751
    Abstract: A collar member formed as a hollow cylinder having an opening at one end into which a mounting pin member of the damper unit is inserted, and which is secured to a cored bar member, a seat part provided at the other end of the collar member in which the insertion side tip of the pin is seated, a positioning groove part formed on the collar member between the seat part and the opening, a locking groove part formed on the pin that is positioned in the positioning groove part when the insertion side tip is seated in the seat part, and a spring member provided on the cored bar member inserted through the positioning groove part that is elastically locked by the locking groove part when the insertion side tip is seated in the seat part and retains the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Jinkeun Kim, Toshiaki Ebana, Takashi Seki
  • Patent number: 11368626
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, in which a user can easily recognize “taste of bokeh” of a captured image before the image is recorded, is disclosed. The display control apparatus controls so as to display, together with a first item that indicates either one of a setting value of an F-number or a T-number, a second item that indicates information that relates to an F-number and an amount of variance of a T-number that correspond to a current setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Mashimo, Takashi Kobayashi, Takashi Seki
  • Patent number: 11336829
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an obtainment unit capable of obtaining a captured image, and a control unit that performs control to display the captured image on a display device, wherein the control unit performs control to, when the orientation of the display device is horizontal, display the captured image in a first size on the display device, display a first item in a first region located along a first side of the display device, and display a second item in a second region located along a second side of the display device, and when the orientation of the display device is vertical, display the captured image in the first size on the display device, and display the first item and the second item nearer than when the orientation of the display device is horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
  • Patent number: 11112540
    Abstract: An antifogging member has an concave-convex surface defined by convex portions and concave portions, a Fourier-transformed image obtained by applying two-dimensional fast-Fourier transform processing to an observation image of the concave-convex surface exhibits a circular or annular pattern having an origin for which the absolute value of the wave number is 0 ?m?1 as the substantial center thereof, the convex portions and the concave portions extend in random directions in plan view, the average pitch of the concave portions and convex portions of the concave-convex surface is in the range of 50-250 nm, and the water contact angle on a smooth surface formed from the material constituting the concave-convex surface is 90 degrees or less. The antifogging member has high abrasion resistance, minimal haze, and a small difference in chromaticity and transmittance when viewed from oblique and perpendicular directions, and the transmittance and chromaticity thereof are not azimuth dependent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayano Takeshita, Kaori Takano, Madoka Takahashi, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20210269080
    Abstract: A collar member formed as a hollow cylinder having an opening at one end into which a mounting pin member of the damper unit is inserted, and which is secured to a cored bar member, a seat part provided at the other end of the collar member in which the insertion side tip of the pin is seated, a positioning groove part formed on the collar member between the seat part and the opening, a locking groove part formed on the pin that is positioned in the positioning groove part when the insertion side tip is seated in the seat part, and a spring member provided on the cored bar member inserted through the positioning groove part that is elastically locked by the locking groove part when the insertion side tip is seated in the seat part and retains the pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jinkeun KIM, Toshiaki EBANA, Takashi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20210250517
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, in which a user can easily recognize “taste of bokeh” of a captured image before the image is recorded, is disclosed. The display control apparatus controls so as to display, together with a first item that indicates either one of a setting value of an F-number or a T-number, a second item that indicates information that relates to an F-number and an amount of variance of a T-number that correspond to a current setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Taiki Mashimo, Takashi Kobayashi, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20210243381
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an obtainment unit capable of obtaining a captured image, and a control unit that performs control to display the captured image on a display device, wherein the control unit performs control to, when the orientation of the display device is horizontal, display the captured image in a first size on the display device, display a first item in a first region located along a first side of the display device, and display a second item in a second region located along a second side of the display device, and when the orientation of the display device is vertical, display the captured image in the first size on the display device, and display the first item and the second item nearer than when the orientation of the display device is horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20210206916
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a curable composition comprising: an epoxy compound represented by the following Formula (1); and one selected from the group consisting of: a thermal cationic polymerization initiator, an acid anhydride-based curing agent and a curing accelerator, and a photo-cationic polymerization initiator as well as the cured product therefrom. The above described curable composition is useful in that it allows for the production of a cured product having a high heat resistance. (In the Formula (1), A represents CR17R18; B represents CR19R20; R1 to R20 each independently represents a substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and an alkoxy group; and n represents 0 or 1, with the proviso that when n is 0, m represents 1, and when n is 1, m represents 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi KAMEYAMA, Ryuichi UENO, Hisashi SONE, Shohei TAKATA, Takashi SEKI
  • Patent number: 10995079
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a monoepoxy compound represented by the following Formula (1), a curable composition containing the same, a cured product therefrom, a method of producing the monoepoxy compound, and a reactive diluent containing the monoepoxy compound. The monoepoxy compound represented by the Formula (1) is useful in that it is capable of reducing the viscosity of a curable composition containing the monoepoxy compound, while preventing a reduction in the heat resistance of the curable composition as well as a reduction in the weight of the curable composition upon curing. (In the Formula (1), R1 to R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, and an alkoxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kameyama, Ryuichi Ueno, Hisashi Sone, Hiroaki Suzuki, Shohei Takata, Takashi Seki