Patents by Inventor Takeshi Imai
Takeshi Imai 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).
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Publication number: 20240147049Abstract: An information processing system includes a camera, a face detection unit that detects faces included in an image acquired by the camera, a parameter setting unit that sets a reaction parameter for framing according to the number of the detected faces, and a framing unit that performs framing of the image using the set reaction parameter. The parameter setting unit sets the reaction parameter, for example, so that the framing reaction is slower as the number of faces included in the image increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Upendra Baveja, Shigefumi Odaohhara, Takumi Imai, Takeshi Komuro
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Publication number: 20240114096Abstract: The present invention provides an inspection system comprising a printing apparatus and an inspection apparatus that inspects a printed matter printed by the printing apparatus. The inspection apparatus obtains a scanned image by reading an image formed on the printed matter, diagnose the printing apparatus based on the scanned image, and in a case in which the printing apparatus is diagnosed as having a defect by the diagnosis, the inspection apparatus presents a countermeasure to be executed in the printing apparatus to resolve the defect. Then, in response to the execution of the countermeasure in the printing apparatus, the inspection apparatus allows an instruction to re-diagnose the printing apparatus to be accepted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: SEIJIRO IMAI, TAKESHI OKADA
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Patent number: 11929721Abstract: A power amplifier module includes a first amplifier, a power splitter, a second amplifier, a third amplifier, a phase shifter, a combining unit, and a controller. The first amplifier amplifies a first signal and outputs a second signal. The power splitter splits the second signal into a third signal and a fourth signal. The second amplifier amplifies the third signal and outputs a fifth signal. The third amplifier amplifies the fourth signal and outputs a sixth signal. The phase shifter receives the fifth signal and shifts a phase of the fifth signal. The combining unit combines the fifth signal having the phase shifted by the phase shifter and the sixth signal and outputs an amplified signal of the second signal. The controller outputs a first control signal for controlling a power level of the sixth signal output from the third amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshiaki Sukemori, Takeshi Kogure, Shohei Imai
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Patent number: 11921333Abstract: A wavelength-selective optical reception device includes a photoreceptor (21) that converts optical signals (201) into electric signals and outputs the electric signals, a base (31) on which the photoreceptor (21) is provided, a housing (41) that is mounted on the base (31) and surrounds the photoreceptor (21) along with the base (31), and that is provided with a window (51) to pass optical signals (203) including the optical signals (201) and including optical signals (202) of a wavelength different from a first wavelength of the optical signals (201) and a window (52) to pass the optical signals (202), and an optical filter (61) that is disposed inside the housing between the window (51) and the photoreceptor (21) along the optical axis (205) of the optical signals (203), and that outputs, out of the optical signals (203) that enter thereto, the optical signals (201) toward the photoreceptor (21), and reflects the optical signals (202) toward a near side in a direction of travel of the optical signals (203)Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Kanai, Takeshi Imai, Yumiko Senoo, Kota Asaka
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Publication number: 20240066420Abstract: The present technology relates to an autonomous moving object and an information processing method that make it possible to improve the ability in expression of the autonomous moving object. The autonomous moving object is an autonomous moving object that operates autonomously, and includes a light emission section that changes a color and brightness of a surface of the autonomous moving object, and a motion controlling section that controls a light emission pattern that is a pattern of the color and brightness of the light emission section, on the basis of a state of the autonomous moving object. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an autonomously movable robot that imitates a creature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: YUSUKE KAWABE, JUNNA IMAI, HITOSHI HASHIMOTO, TAKESHI KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230421257Abstract: An optical transmitter (3) tracks a moving body (1) and irradiates the moving body (1) with a laser beam (4). An optical receiver (5) is mounted on the moving body (1), receives the laser beam (4), and performs optical space communication with the optical transmitter (3). The optical transmitter (3) extends an irradiation range (6) of the laser beam (4) into an elliptical shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IMAI, Junichi KANI, Shin KANEKO, Naotaka SHIBATA, Rintaro HARADA
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Patent number: 11848701Abstract: A station-side telescope included in a station-side optical antenna unit is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a guide light source is configured to emit guide light in a direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, a node-side telescope is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a node-side control unit included in a node-side optical antenna unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for moving a node-side base based on a position of the guide light included in an image obtained by a camera capturing the guide light emitted by the guide light source so that a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope faces the direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, an antenna drive unit is configured to receive the control signal and generate and output a drive signal based on the control signal, and the node-side base included in the node-side optical antenna unit is configured to support the node-side telescope and receive the drive sigType: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takeshi Imai, Kota Asaka, Takuya Kanai
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Patent number: 11782155Abstract: A distance measurement device includes a light emitting unit; a light receiving unit; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance to an object; and a controller that controls the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit to determine whether or not there is interference from another distance measurement device, from a distance calculation result from the distance calculation unit. The controller includes a light emission and exposure period-setting unit that sets a light emission and exposure period of the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit, a distance variation measurement unit that measures a variation of distance values repeatedly obtained in a predetermined duration by the distance calculation unit, and an interference determination unit that compares a distance variation value to a threshold value which is determined in advance, to determine whether or not there is interference.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.Inventor: Takeshi Imai
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Publication number: 20230208111Abstract: A light-emitting device includes semiconductor laser elements including first color-light-emitting laser elements that emit red light, arrayed in a matrix of M rows and N columns (where M?2 and N?3). The first color-light-emitting laser elements include two or more first semiconductor laser elements each having an emission peak wavelength of smaller than 647 nm±2 nm, two or more second semiconductor laser elements each having an emission peak wavelength of smaller than 643 nm±2 nm, and two or more third semiconductor laser elements each having an emission peak wavelength of smaller than 639 nm±2 nm. In the M rows and the N columns, in whole or in part, a semiconductor laser element other than the two or more first semiconductor laser elements is adjacent to any one of the two or more first semiconductor laser elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Takeshi IMAI, Koji YUASA
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Publication number: 20230208518Abstract: An optical wireless communication system (1) for wirelessly transmitting a signal beam (L) between optical communication units (2) and (3) located at two points apart from each other includes an aiming mechanism (4) that is provided in each of the optical communication units (2) and (3) located at the two points and has an aiming line (S), which is parallel to an optical axis (O) and has a predetermined interval from the optical axis (O), with the optical axis (O) of the signal beam (L) of each of the optical communication units (2) and (3) located at the two points aligned in a straight line, and a first front sight that is provided in each of the optical communication units (2) and (3) and provided at a position that is off the optical axis (O) and the aiming line (S) and has a predetermined interval from the optical axis (O) and a predetermined interval from the aiming line (S).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IMAI, Yushi KOYASAKO, Keita NISHIMOTO, Takashi YAMADA
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Patent number: 11506883Abstract: An optical wavelength selecting filter-module into which light is incident from a prescribed direction determined in advance, the optical wavelength-selective filter module including: an optical filter of which an orientation can be changed; a frequency information acquiring unit which acquires frequency information that is information indicating a frequency of light to be transmitted through the optical filter; a temperature information acquiring unit which acquires temperature information that indicates a temperature of the optical filter; a determining unit which determines an orientation of the optical filter based on relationship information that is information associating, for each prescribed frequency, the temperature and an orientation of the optical filter at which light of the frequency is transmitted through the optical filter at transmittance equal to or higher than prescribed transmittance at the temperature, a temperature indicated by the temperature information, and a frequency indicated by theType: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Imai, Takuya Kanai, Yumiko Senoo, Kota Asaka
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Publication number: 20220368417Abstract: A station-side telescope included in a station-side optical antenna unit is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a guide light source is configured to emit guide light in a direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, a node-side telescope is configured to transmit and receive an optical signal, a node-side control unit included in a node-side optical antenna unit is configured to generate and output a control signal for moving a node-side base based on a position of the guide light included in an image obtained by a camera capturing the guide light emitted by the guide light source so that a direction of orientation of the node-side telescope faces the direction of orientation of the station-side telescope, an antenna drive unit is configured to receive the control signal and generate and output a drive signal based on the control signal, and the node-side base included in the node-side optical antenna unit is configured to support the node-side telescope and receive the drive sigType: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Takeshi IMAI, Kota ASAKA, Takuya KANAI
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Publication number: 20220334233Abstract: In a distance measurement device that measures a distance to an object based on a time of flight taken until irradiation light is reflected by the object and returns to the distance measurement device, a brightness measurement unit measures an exposed electric charge amount as a brightness while a shift amount of an exposure gate is changed by an exposure gate shift control unit, and a light emission and exposure timing of another distance measurement device is set to a shift amount of the exposure gate where the brightness is maximized. The brightness measurement unit calculates a variation in the brightness of the exposed electric charge amount while the cycle of the exposure gate is changed, and it is determined that ½ of a value of the cycle of the exposure gate when the variation is minimized is a light emission cycle of the another distance measurement device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventor: Takeshi IMAI
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Publication number: 20220231484Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a base having a mounting face including a disposition region, a plurality of first wirings, and a plurality of second wirings; a plurality of light emitting elements, including one or more first light emitting elements, one or more second light emitting elements, and one or more third light emitting elements, disposed in two rows and N columns (N?2) in the disposition region; one or more relay members, including one or more first relay members disposed in the region between the two rows of the light emitting elements; a plurality of first light emitting element wirings for electrically serially connecting the one or more first light emitting elements; a plurality of second light emitting element wirings for electrically serially connecting the one or more second light emitting elements; and a plurality of third light emitting element wirings for electrically serially connecting the one or more third light emitting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiya IGATA, Eiichiro OKAHISA, Takeshi IMAI
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Publication number: 20220113478Abstract: A wavelength-selective optical reception device includes a photoreceptor (21) that converts optical signals (201) into electric signals and outputs the electric signals, a base (31) on which the photoreceptor (21) is provided, a housing (41) that is mounted on the base (31) and surrounds the photoreceptor (21) along with the base (31), and that is provided with a window (51) to pass optical signals (203) including the optical signals (201) and including optical signals (202) of a wavelength different from a first wavelength of the optical signals (201) and a window (52) to pass the optical signals (202), and an optical filter (61) that is disposed inside the housing between the window (51) and the photoreceptor (21) along the optical axis (205) of the optical signals (203), and that outputs, out of the optical signals (203) that enter thereto, the optical signals (201) toward the photoreceptor (21), and reflects the optical signals (202) toward a near side in a direction of travel of the optical signals (203)Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya KANAI, Takeshi IMAI, Yumiko SENOO, Kota ASAKA
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Publication number: 20220102332Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements, first and second support members bonded to the first and second light-emitting elements, respectively, first and second protective elements, and a plurality of wirings including: a first wiring with one end being bonded to the first light-emitting element or the first support member; a second wiring with one end being bonded to the first light-emitting element or the first support member and the other end being bonded to the second light-emitting element or the second support member; a third wiring with one end being bonded to the first protective element or a support member equipped with the first protective element; and a fourth wiring with one end being bonded to the second protective element or a support member equipped with the second protective element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Takeshi IMAI, Masatoshi NAKAGAKI
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Publication number: 20220090226Abstract: A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which has an intermediate layer containing silicon oxide as a main component on a surface of a base steel sheet in which a forsterite film is substantially absent and has an insulation coating on a surface of the intermediate layer includes: a decarburization annealing process of obtaining a decarburization-annealed steel sheet which has the oxygen content or 320 ppm or less and the carbon content of 25 ppm or less by subjecting a cold rolled steel sheet containing Si to decarburization annealing; a final annealing process of heating the decarburization-annealed steel sheet in a state in which a surface of the decarburization-annealed steel sheet is coated with an annealing separator to subject a steel sheet to secondary recrystallization; a removal process of obtaining a finally-annealed steel sheet by removing the annealing separator on the steel sheet which has been subjected to the final annealing process; an intermediate layer forming processType: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IMAI, Shunsuke OKUMURA
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Patent number: 11258510Abstract: A wavelength-tunable optical filter control apparatus in an optical access system that uses wavelength-multiplexed optical signal of a plurality of wavelength channels includes a wavelength-tunable optical filter configured to pass an optical signal of a specific wavelength channel among the plurality of wavelength channels; a light receiving element configured to convert the optical signal that has passed through the wavelength-tunable optical filter into an electrical signal; a signal quality determining unit configured to determine a quality of the electrical signal; and a wavelength-tunable optical filter control unit configured to acquire a light intensity of the electrical signal and control a wavelength of the wavelength-tunable optical filter based on the acquired light intensity and a determination result of the quality of the electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takeshi Imai, Takuya Kanai, Kota Asaka
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Publication number: 20220043253Abstract: An optical wavelength selecting filter-module into which light is incident from a prescribed direction determined in advance, the optical wavelength-selective filter module including: an optical filter of which an orientation can be changed; a frequency information acquiring unit which acquires frequency information that is information indicating a frequency of light to be transmitted through the optical filter; a temperature information acquiring unit which acquires temperature information that indicates a temperature of the optical filter; a determining unit which determines an orientation of the optical filter based on relationship information that is information associating, for each prescribed frequency, the temperature and an orientation of the optical filter at which light of the frequency is transmitted through the optical filter at transmittance equal to or higher than prescribed transmittance at the temperature, a temperature indicated by the temperature information, and a frequency indicated by theType: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IMAI, Takuya KANAI, Yumiko SENOO, Kota ASAKA
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Publication number: 20220025498Abstract: This aluminum-plated steel sheet has a steel sheet and a plating layer formed on a surface of the steel sheet, the plating layer contains one or more A group elements selected from a group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, a remainder of Al, Fe, and impurities, a thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m, and an average grain size is 2t/3 or less and 15 ?m or less in a thickness range from an outermost surface of the plating layer to a ? thickness t position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki SUZUKI, Soshi FUJITA, Masahiro FUDA, Hideaki IRIKAWA, Takeshi IMAI, Fumio EIHARA