Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Nakao

Tomoaki Nakao 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: 11928907
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakao, Yukie Hasegawa, Kenji Harada, Kenichi Urasawa
  • Publication number: 20230154267
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAO, Yukie HASEGAWA, Kenji HARADA, Kenichi URASAWA
  • Patent number: 11605257
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakao, Yukie Hasegawa, Kenji Harada, Kenichi Urasawa
  • Publication number: 20230041612
    Abstract: A monitoring device is configured to include an image data acquiring unit, a detecting unit, and a notifying unit. The image data acquiring unit acquires image data obtained by imaging a work area, and information relating to the position in which the image data were captured. The detecting unit detects, from the image data, at least either an unsafe behavior of a worker in the work area, or an unsafe environment around the worker, as an unsafe condition. The notifying unit notifies a terminal of the unsafe condition detected by the detecting unit, and the information relating to the position in which the unsafe condition is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAO, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Takehiko YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210304543
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAO, Yukie HASEGAWA, Kenji HARADA, Kenichi URASAWA
  • Patent number: 11062545
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakao, Yukie Hasegawa, Kenji Harada, Kenichi Urasawa
  • Publication number: 20200143612
    Abstract: Entrance and exit of a person is efficiently managed by simple authentication and registration of entrance and exit using a communication terminal carried by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAO, Yukie HASEGAWA, Kenji HARADA, Kenichi URASAWA
  • Patent number: 7659777
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an operational amplifier circuit, a switching element is closed and a switching element is opened. A latch circuit DL latches an output voltage of an operational amplifier and supplies a Q output corresponding to the output voltage. A control circuit supplies an offset adjustment signal to an offset adjustment input terminal OR of the operational amplifier, thereby adjusting an offset of the output voltage. The latch circuit DL latches again the output voltage thus adjusted and minutely adjusts the offset adjustment signal so as to adjust the remaining offset. Weighting is carried out in accordance with how many times latching has been carried out, and the offset of the output voltage of the operational amplifier is quantized, thereby obtaining a binary logical signal and storing the signal in the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujino, Tetsuya Minamiguchi, Michihiro Nakahara, Takahiro Nakai, Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 7459966
    Abstract: The present invention provides an offset adjusting circuit and an operational amplifier circuit. In the operational amplifier circuit (1), a switching element (S1) is closed and a switching element (S2) is opened. The latch circuit DL latches an output voltage of an operational amplifier (1a), and output a Q-output in accordance with the output voltage. The control circuit (2a) inputs an offset adjustment signal s1 to an offset adjustment input terminal OR of the operational amplifier (1a). Then, the latch circuit DL latches the output voltage having been subjected to the offset adjustment, and the offset adjustment signal s1 is finely adjusted for adjusting the remaining offset. In this way, the offset in the output voltage of the operational amplifier (1a) is quantized in accordance with the number of times the latching operation has been performed, and is stored in the control circuit (2a) in the form of a binary logical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Publication number: 20080246544
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an operational amplifier circuit, a switching element is closed and a switching element is opened. A latch circuit DL latches an output voltage of an operational amplifier and supplies a Q output corresponding to the output voltage. A control circuit supplies an offset adjustment signal to an offset adjustment input terminal OR of the operational amplifier, thereby adjusting an offset of the output voltage. The latch circuit DL latches again the output voltage thus adjusted and minutely adjusts the offset adjustment signal so as to adjust the remaining offset. Weighting is carried out in accordance with how many times latching has been carried out, and the offset of the output voltage of the operational amplifier is quantized, thereby obtaining a binary logical signal and storing the signal in the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujino, Tetsuya Minamiguchi, Michihiro Nakahara, Takahiro Nakai, Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 7397278
    Abstract: A P-channel MOS transistor and an N-channel MOS transistor are respectively controlled by a first control signal and a second control signal. The first control signal CTL1 and the second control signal CTL2 are independent from each other. The second control signal CTL2 is generated by a NOR circuit 2 to which a data signal DATA and a third control signal CTL3 are inputted. A load capacitor C1 which samples the first electric potential or the GND electric potential is configured by a gate capacitance of another MOS transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 7289092
    Abstract: Reference voltage generation means is constituted by including first voltage division means constituted so as to be able to generate a plurality of levels of gradation display voltages by resistance-dividing voltage differences between a plurality of reference voltages VR by a plurality of dividing resistors connected in series, second voltage division means constituted so as to be able to generate some or all of the gradation display voltages by resistance-dividing voltage differences between a plurality of reference voltages VR by a plurality of auxiliary resistors connected in series, and switching means for mutually connecting all or a part of the plurality of gradation display voltages generated by the first voltage division means and the second voltage division means. The switching means is turned on during the transient state period in which the DA conversion circuit responds and the first and second voltage division means operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shimizu, Tomoaki Nakao
  • Publication number: 20070132702
    Abstract: A display driving integrated circuit includes: a tone display reference voltage generating circuit for generating 64 tone display reference voltages by resistive division on the basis of a predetermined reference voltage; D/A conversion circuits each for performing an analog conversion with respect to display data on the basis of the 64 tone display reference voltages; and 64 reference voltage wires provided in parallel, via which the 64 tone display reference voltages are supplied to the D/A conversion circuits, respectively. The 64 reference voltage wires are provided so that a potential difference corresponds to two tones or more between adjacent two reference voltage wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kajihara, Hiroaki Fujino, Tomoaki Nakao, Yukihisa Orisaka, Eisaku Miyazaki, Michihiro Nakahara, Yasuhiro Nishida, Masahiko Monomohshi
  • Publication number: 20060255855
    Abstract: The present invention provides an offset adjusting circuit and an operational amplifier circuit. In the operational amplifier circuit (1), a switching element (S1) is closed and a switching element (S2) is opened. The latch circuit DL latches an output voltage of an operational amplifier (1a), and output a Q-output in accordance with the output voltage. The control circuit (2a) inputs an offset adjustment signal s1 to an offset adjustment input terminal OR of the operational amplifier (1a). Then, the latch circuit DL latches the output voltage having been subjected to the offset adjustment, and the offset adjustment signal s1 is finely adjusted for adjusting the remaining offset. In this way, the offset in the output voltage of the operational amplifier (1a) is quantized in accordance with the number of times the latching operation has been performed, and is stored in the control circuit (2a) in the form of a binary logical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Publication number: 20060214686
    Abstract: A P-channel MOS transistor and an N-channel MOS transistor are respectively controlled by a first control signal and a second control signal. The first control signal CTL1 and the second control signal CTL2 are independent from each other. The second control signal CTL2 is generated by a NOR circuit 2 to which a data signal DATA and a third control signal CTL3 are inputted. A load capacitor C1 which samples the first electric potential or the GND electric potential is configured by a gate capacitance of another MOS transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Publication number: 20040227775
    Abstract: Reference voltage generation means is constituted by including first voltage division means constituted so as to be able to generate a plurality of levels of gradation display voltages by resistance-dividing voltage differences between a plurality of reference voltages VR by a plurality of dividing resistors connected in series, second voltage division means constituted so as to be able to generate some or all of the gradation display voltages by resistance-dividing voltage differences between a plurality of reference voltages VR by a plurality of auxiliary resistors connected in series, and switching means for mutually connecting all or a part of the plurality of gradation display voltages generated by the first voltage division means and the second voltage division means. The switching means is turned on during the transient state period in which the DA conversion circuit responds and the first and second voltage division means operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shimizu, Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 6715378
    Abstract: A device for engaging or disengaging an end fitting of a control cable to or from a lever in a drum brake or the like is arranged to be shorter but to have a large lever ratio for the lever. A shoe is engaged with one end of a strut, and the lever is pivotally journalled to the other end of the strut while another shoe is engaged with the lever at a portion near to the journalled part. The strut has two opposed side walls and a bridge part therebetween for restraining the lever at a specified position. The lever is composed of a pair of planer members which are joined together at the proximal end, and are spaced apart from each other at the free end to form a narrow gap and at the longitudinally middle portion to form a wide gap. The narrow gap allows a cable itself of the cable to pass therethrough but to inhibit from passing therethrough and the wide gap allows a longer side of the end fitting to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Publication number: 20040004498
    Abstract: A sending LSI of a signal transmission system is provided with a synthesizing section for producing a multivalued logic signal by synthesizing a clock signal with a data signal in sync with the clock signal. In the meantime, a receiving LSI of the signal transmission system is provided with a separation section for separating the multivalued logic signal, which has been transmitted from the sending LSI, into the original clock signal and data signal. With this arrangement, it is possible to eliminate the constraint of a setup/hold period in the receiving end, without providing complicated synchronizing circuits such as a PLL circuit in the logic circuit of the receiving end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 6441763
    Abstract: A DA converter is for converting N-bit digital signals to 2N analog signals, and includes a reference voltage generating circuit for generating the reference voltages having 2A+1 voltage levels, a reference voltage selector circuit for selecting two reference voltages having adjacent voltage levels according to the A bits of a digital signal, an output voltage selector circuit for selecting one interpolation voltage from 2N-A−1 interpolation voltages predetermined between the voltage levels of the two reference voltages in accordance with the N-A bits of the digital signal, and a voltage follower circuit for producing the above interpolation voltage by linear interpolation based on the two reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 6437716
    Abstract: There is provided a gray scale display reference voltage generating circuit that can change a gamma correction characteristic in accordance with a liquid crystal material and LCD panel characteristics. Resistor elements R0 through R7 have a resistance ratio for gamma correction and generate gamma-corrected intermediate voltages on the basis of voltages across both input terminals V0 and V64. A gamma correction adjustment circuit 42 adjusts the gamma-corrected intermediate voltages upward or downward on the basis of adjustment data latched in a data latch circuit 43. By thus supplying the adjustment data corresponding to the liquid crystal material and the LCD panel characteristics to the data latch circuit 43, the gamma correction characteristic can be changed in accordance with the liquid crystal material and the LCD panel characteristics without modifying the design of a source driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakao