Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kuno
Tetsuya Kuno 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: 20080043131Abstract: An image processing device includes a first calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal corresponding to an H-th interpolation color for a pixel of interest, a second calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal by multiplying a J-th capture color signal corresponding to the capture color for the pixel of interest by the ratio of the H-th two-dimensional low-pass filter output to the J-th two-dimensional low-pass filter output, and a third calculation means for calculating a non-capture color signal corresponding to the H-th interpolation color for the pixel of interest using the calculation result according to the first calculation means and the calculation result according to the second calculation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2004Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Masashi Tamura, Narihiro Matoba, Hiroaki Sugiura, Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 7324147Abstract: An imaging system controller (5) outputs a control signal (VC). The control signal (VC) gives a command to output driving clocks (?Vn, ?Hm) of an imaging element (1) in a signal transmission period, and a command to suspend output of the clocks (?Vn, ?Hm) in an idle period subsequent to the signal transmission period. The length of the idle period is a multiple of the length of the signal transmission period by a natural number. The imaging system controller (5) periodically repeats output of the control signal (VC) giving these commands a number of times corresponding to the number of horizontal lines of the imaging element (1). In response to the commands of the control signal (VC), a timing generator (2) generates and outputs the clocks (?Vn, ?Hm), and suspends generation and output of the same. An imaging device (10) thereby intermittently drives the imaging element (1), to generate and output a picked-up image signal (V2).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kozo Ishida, Tetsuya Kuno, Koichi Yamashita, Hiroaki Sugiura, Takashi Itow
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Patent number: 7291302Abstract: A manufacturing method for a synthetic resin hollow molded body includes a first injection molding process, a positioning process and a second injection molding process in which each of the contact portions of the first split assembly member, second split assembly member, and the third split assembly member is made to contact the corresponding contact portion and each of the contact portions is joined with the corresponding contact portion by a second injection between the first die and the second die.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Koyama, Tetsuya Kuno
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Publication number: 20070126896Abstract: A regression analysis is carried out (8) using pixel signals having a K-th spectral characteristic as the explanatory variable and pixel signals having an L-th spectral characteristic as the purpose variable in a plurality of pixel positions in an area neighboring a pixel of interest to obtain a pixel signal having the L-th spectral characteristic (9). Pixel signals obtained by low-pass filtering (7a-7c) of the output signals of an imaging device may be used as the explanatory variable and the purpose variable. The occurrence of false colors is thereby reduced when, in a group of pixel signals from pixels arrayed on a two-dimensional plane, each pixel having one of a plurality of spectral characteristics, the missing colors at each pixel position are obtained by interpolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2004Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junko Makita, Shoutarou Moriya, Hiroaki Sugiura, Koichi Yamashita, Takashi Itow, Tetsuya Kuno
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Publication number: 20070019087Abstract: A pixel signal having a k-th spectral characteristic at a pixel interpolation position occupied by a pixel signal having an h-th spectral characteristic is generated from a set of pixel signals arrayed in a two-dimensional plane, each having one of a plurality of spectral characteristics, by calculating a difference between low-frequency components, corresponding to a degree of correlation between pixel signals having the k-th and h-th spectral characteristics in a neighborhood of the pixel interpolation position (8r, 8g, 8b, 24k, 24h, 26), calculating a non-correlation value corresponding to a degree of non-correlation between the pixel signals having the k-th and h-th spectral characteristics in the neighborhood of the pixel interpolation position (7r, 7g, 7b, 23k, 23h, 25), and obtaining the pixel signal having the k-th spectral characteristic at the pixel interpolation position by using the calculated difference and the non-correlation value (27, 28, 29).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2005Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Junko Makita, Hiroaki Sugiura, Narihrio Matoba, Masashi Tamura
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Publication number: 20060249876Abstract: A manufacturing device for a synthetic resin hollow molded body molds a first split assembly member, a second split assembly member, and a third split assembly member by a first injection, and joints each of contact portions of the three members with a corresponding contact portion by a second injection. The manufacturing device includes an ejecting mechanism which moves the second split assembly member in a die opening/closing direction, a rotating mechanism which rotates the third split assembly member around a shaft center in the die opening/closing direction, and a sliding mechanism which slides the second split assembly member and the third split assembly member in a direction perpendicular to the die opening/closing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: November 9, 2006Applicant: TOYODA BOSHOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Koyama, Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 7133075Abstract: An image capture apparatus which is compact and structurally simple and allows for prevention of a flicker noise, a method of capturing an image which allows for prevention of a flicker noise, and a mobile terminal using the apparatus and the method, are provided. In the image capture apparatus, a vertical cycle is adjusted so as to maintain 20 fps or 20/2m (m is an integer) fps, thereby to prevent a flicker noise in an image as obtained. To this end, in the image capture apparatus, a frequency of a horizontal transfer clock, a horizontal count level and a vertical line count level may be adjusted. Further, a fraction count is provided to adjust the length of one vertical cycle. Moreover, the image capture apparatus may be incorporated in a mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kozo Ishida, Tetsuya Kuno, Koichi Yamashita, Hiroaki Sugiura, Takashi Itow
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Publication number: 20060219624Abstract: A filter has a first case member and a second case member that are mutually joined to form a filter chamber, and a filter element that is held between respective joining ends of the first case member and the second case member. The first case member has laser permeability, and the second case member has laser absorbency. An element weld is formed by laser light on a contact area between the joining end of the second case member and the filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISYAInventor: Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 7097439Abstract: A manufacturing device for a synthetic resin hollow molded body molds a first split assembly member, a second split assembly member, and a third split assembly member by a first injection, and joints each of contact portions of the three members with a corresponding contact portion by a second injection. The manufacturing device includes an ejecting mechanism which moves the second split assembly member in a die opening/closing direction, a rotating mechanism which rotates the third split assembly member around a shaft center in the die opening/closing direction, and a sliding mechanism which slides the second split assembly member and the third split assembly member in a direction perpendicular to the die opening/closing direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Koyama, Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 7034870Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device, an accumulating section, first and second imaging parameter setting sections, a calculating section, a flicker detecting section, and a switching section. The accumulating section calculates a projection output value of a predetermined line in a frame. The calculating section calculates inter-frame variations of the projection output values, and calculates a flicker index from the variations of a predetermined number of frames. The flicker detecting section detects the flicker from the index, and controls the switching section in response to the detection result of the flicker, so that the switching section selects either the setting signals from the first imaging parameter setting section or the setting signals from the second imaging parameter setting section.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidetada Nagaoka, Narihiro Matoba, Takeo Fujita, Hiroaki Sugiura, Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 7030926Abstract: The image pick-up apparatus is one in which a first image forming lens for forming as an image on a light-receiving surface a light entering from a first direction toward the light-receiving surface of an image pick-up device and a second image forming lens for forming as an image on the light-receiving surface a light entering from a second direction different from the first direction are mounted on a lens mount, and in which optical means for changing a direction of travel of at least one of the lights entering from these different directions to a direction perpendicular to the light-receiving surface is held in the lens mount.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Tetsuya Kuno, Tadashi Minobe, Noriyuki Komori, Hiroaki Sugiura
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Patent number: 7019774Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device having a square row-column pixel matrix, and having units for transferring pixel signals in the row direction and the column direction of the matrix. The rows and columns of the pixel matrix are oriented at angles of forty-five degrees with respect to the vertical axis of the imaging apparatus. After being read from the imaging apparatus in row-column order, the pixel signals are reordered to conform to a scanning sequence with horizontal or vertical scanning lines. Alternatively, the pixel signals are read from the imaging device in this scanning sequence. Improved horizontal and vertical resolution is thereby obtained from an imaging apparatus with a conventional square pixel matrix.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2002Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Hiroaki Sugiura
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Patent number: 7009654Abstract: An image pickup apparatus captures an image from a subject without a focus-adjusting mechanism. An image pickup element has opposed first and second surfaces and an image region formed in the first surface. An optical system causes the image light from the subject to form an image on the image region. A supporting member has a first abutment portion that engages the optical system with nothing sandwiched therebetween, and a second abutment portion that engages the image pickup element with nothing sandwiched therebetween, thereby accurately positioning the optical system relative to the image pickup element. The second abutment portion abuts an area on the first surface except for the image region. A circuit board is fixed to the supporting member and electrically connected to the image pickup element. The circuit board has an opening formed therein such that the image region is exposed through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Hiroaki Sugiura, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 6891962Abstract: A fingerprint sensor used for a fingerprint recognition system comprises a first prism or prism array including a first surface which a human finger is placed and a second surface; a lamp for irradiating the finger with light; a second prism or prism array for refracting the light which is reflected from the finger and subsequently passes through the second surface in such a way that the light refracted by the second prism or prism array travels along a path closer to a normal to the first surface of the first optical component than a path of light without refraction by the second prism or prism array; and an image sensor for receiving the light refracted by the second prism or prism array and converting fingerprint information for the finger into an electric signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Hiroaki Sugiura
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Patent number: 6859224Abstract: It is an object of the invention to measure the precise color characteristic of an image pickup machine and accurately reproduce a subject in an image display unit. A color characteristic measurement apparatus which has a test chart (1) as a subject of an image pickup machine (6), a hole (2) made in the test chart (1), a black box (3) placed on a rear face of the test chart (1) and formed on an inner surface in black, and a light output section (4) placed in the black box (3) at a position where the light output section (4) can be observed through the hole (2) from the outside.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Sugiura, Tetsuya Kuno, Junichiro Hayashi, Kiyotaka Yamamoto, Yoshikuni Nishimura
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Patent number: 6755489Abstract: A control device for an electric vehicle stopping at a slope road which reduces a power consumption of the electric motor when the vehicle is stopping at the slope road with the generation of a drive torque. The device judges the stopping state of the vehicle at the slope road when a condition that a throttle opening degree is not zero, that the drive torque is not zero, and that a vehicle speed is zero continues for a predetermined time, applies a hydraulic pressure P relative to wheel cylinder, and decreases the drive torque outputting to the motor to be zero. The device judges a release of the stopping state at the slope road when a condition that a throttle opening degree becomes greater than a throttle opening degree under the vehicle stopping state at the slope road, recovers the drive torque, and gradually releases an application of the hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Masahiro Inden
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Patent number: 6729698Abstract: A hydraulic brake device for applying a braking force to a wheel of a vehicle which can detect an air-containing in a hydraulic circuit. The hydraulic brake device includes a hydraulic pressure generating device for generating and outputting a hydraulic pressure in accordance with a brake operational amount, a wheel cylinder operated by the hydraulic pressure directly or indirectly supplied from the hydraulic pressure generating device for applying a braking force to a vehicle wheel, a brake operational amount detection device for detecting the brake operational amount, a pressure sensor for detecting an output hydraulic pressure outputted from the hydraulic pressure generating device, and a controller for detecting an air-containing in a hydraulic circuit by a response time relating to a rise of the output hydraulic pressure detected by the pressure sensor relative to a start of a rise of the brake operation amount detected by the brake operational amount detection device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Kusano, Satoshi Ishida, Tetsuya Kuno
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Publication number: 20040071807Abstract: A manufacturing device for a synthetic resin hollow molded body molds a first split assembly member, a second split assembly member, and a third split assembly member by a first injection, and joints each of contact portions of the three members with a corresponding contact portion by a second injection. The manufacturing device includes an ejecting mechanism which moves the second split assembly member in a die opening/closing direction, a rotating mechanism which rotates the third split assembly member around a shaft center in the die opening/closing direction, and a sliding mechanism which slides the second split assembly member and the third split assembly member in a direction perpendicular to the die opening/closing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: TOYODA BOSHOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Koyama, Tetsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 6709072Abstract: In a vehicle hydraulic brake system of a type adapted to release brake fluid discharged from the wheel cylinders into a reservoir for a master cylinder during pressure reduction phase of antilock brake control or vehicle stability control, the volume of the pressure chamber of the master cylinder can decrease until it becomes impossible to further increase pressure as a result of repeated pressure increase and reduction. An inexpensive solution to this problem is provided. The solution includes means for estimating the amount of pressure increase and/or pressure reduction of the wheel cylinders, and solenoid valves provided in a line connecting a pressure source with the master cylinder pressure chamber and adapted to be opened for a calculated time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Kusano, Tetsuya Kuno
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Publication number: 20040012250Abstract: A control device for an electric vehicle stopping at a slope road which reduces a power consumption of the electric motor when the vehicle is stopping at the slope road with the generation of a drive torque. The device judges the stopping state of the vehicle at the slope road when a condition that a throttle opening degree is not zero, that the drive torque is not zero, and that a vehicle speed is zero continues for a predetermined time, applies a hydraulic pressure P relative to wheel cylinder, and decreases the drive torque outputting to the motor to be zero. The device judges a release of the stopping state at the slope road when a condition that a throttle opening degree becomes greater than a throttle opening degree under the vehicle stopping state at the slope road, recovers the drive torque, and gradually releases an application of the hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Tetsuya Kuno, Masahiro Inden