Patents by Inventor Tohru Hanaoka

Tohru Hanaoka 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: 9411338
    Abstract: A cleaning robot (1) which is an autonomous mobile system performs coordinate conversion of three-dimensional coordinate data acquired by measurement in a distance image sensor (20) which is arranged in a frontward and obliquely downward direction to generate three-dimensional coordinate data of a floor surface reference. Labels are applied to this data by judging a level difference or an obstacle according to height from a floor surface (F) to create overhead view image data seen from directly above a cleaning robot main body. The overhead view image data is scanned, and only when the labels are arranged in a specific order, processing for substituting an unspecified area with a level difference is performed. Thereby, positional deviation of an edge of the level difference, which is caused by a blind spot, is corrected and a position of the level difference is able to be grasped accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Toshihisa Matsuo, Kohhei Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20150362921
    Abstract: A cleaning robot (1) which is an autonomous mobile system performs coordinate conversion of three-dimensional coordinate data acquired by measurement in a distance image sensor (20) which is arranged in a frontward and obliquely downward direction to generate three-dimensional coordinate data of a floor surface reference. Labels are applied to this data by judging a level difference or an obstacle according to height from a floor surface (F) to create overhead view image data seen from directly above a cleaning robot main body. The overhead view image data is scanned, and only when the labels are arranged in a specific order, processing for substituting an unspecified area with a level difference is performed. Thereby, positional deviation of an edge of the level difference, which is caused by a blind spot, is corrected and a position of the level difference is able to be grasped accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Tohru HANAOKA, Toshihisa MATSUO, Kohhei MATSUO
  • Patent number: 8659709
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130250187
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a display device having excellent display quality by appropriately modifying the chromaticity of images. In this display device, a correction processing part (CPU 30) determines a first chromaticity change amount stored in memory (31) on the basis of a first cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of an LED (17) up to a present time, the cumulative value having been measured by a counter (32), and the correction processing part also determines a second chromaticity change amount stored in the memory (31) on the basis of a second cumulative usage amount, which is the cumulative usage amount of the LED (17) up to a time when the chromaticity of a pixel is adjusted by a chromaticity adjusting part (CPU 30), the cumulative value having been measured by the counter (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Fumio Kokubo, Eiji Kurimoto, Ryoji Ishimura, Shota Inoue, Fumiaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120230056
    Abstract: A light source module of the present invention includes: a plurality of light guide bodies (21) provided in parallel to one another with respect to a longitudinal direction; light sources (30) each causing light to enter each of the plurality of light guide bodies from at least one end surface in a longitudinal direction of the each of the light guide bodies (21); a light source wiring boards (32) having the light sources (30) and lines provided thereon, the lines being for electrically connecting the light sources (30) and including positive potential lines and negative potential lines; and an LED driver circuit (40) for performing a drive for turning on the light sources (30). Each of the light sources (30) provided to the light guide bodies (21) are independently driven by the LED driver circuit (40) so that each of the light sources (30) is independently turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Hanaoka, Sumito Nishioka, Takeshi Takayama