Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Arai

Toshihiko Arai 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: 20230239581
    Abstract: An electrical device includes: a camera assembly that includes an image sensor configured to capture an image of an object and to generate color image data, wherein the image sensor has the green element blocks, the blue element blocks, and the red element blocks arranged in an array of the Bayer format at each pixel position in order to generate color image data, the green element blocks, the blue element blocks, and the red element blocks includes Multiple physical pixel elements respectively, the green element block includes two green physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements, the blue element block includes two blue physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements, and the red element block includes two red physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements; and a main processor that performs image process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Toshihiko Arai
  • Publication number: 20230177654
    Abstract: A method of removing noise in an image includes calculating, for each pixel in the image, a defect weight indicating a correlation between pixel and its neighboring pixels; calculating, for a target pixel in the image, a matching weight indicating a similarity between a target block centered on the target pixel and a reference block centered on a reference pixel located within a search range from the target pixel, the matching weight being calculated by means of the defect weight; and calculating a filtered value of the target pixel based on a value of the reference pixel and the matching weight between the target block and the reference block centered on said reference pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Toshihiko ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230144286
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an embedded sparse image data for generating a target image data from an image signal processor, wherein the embedded sparse image data includes a sparse image data including pixels which include at least first color pixels, second color pixels and third color pixels; extracting a split data including first and second data parts from the sparse image data; joining the first and second data parts to obtain a compressed data; inversely converting the compressed data based on a compression curve to obtain an inversely converted residual data; adding a random value within an error range to the inversely converted residual data to obtain a reconstructed residual data; and reconstructing a dense image data based on the reconstructed residual data and the sparse image data, wherein the dense image data includes pixels including the first color pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Toshihiko ARAI
  • Patent number: 10146043
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of images of different imaging fields of view on the same subject; an image selector configured to select, from the plurality of images acquired, in which a common region of a predetermined size is set at a common position in the individual images, a plurality of image pairs that are combinations of images in which a subject image in the common region in one image corresponds to a subject image in a region other than the common region in another image; a correction gain calculating unit configured to calculate a correction gain for performing shading correction; and an image correcting unit configured to correct shading produced in a correction-target image, using the correction gain calculated by the correction gain calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko Arai
  • Publication number: 20160124209
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of images of different imaging fields of view on the same subject; an image selector configured to select, from the plurality of images acquired, in which a common region of a predetermined size is set at a common position in the individual images, a plurality of image pairs that are combinations of images in which a subject image in the common region in one image corresponds to a subject image in a region other than the common region in another image; a correction gain calculating unit configured to calculate a correction gain for performing shading correction; and an image correcting unit configured to correct shading produced in a correction-target image, using the correction gain calculated by the correction gain calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko ARAI
  • Publication number: 20120198292
    Abstract: Provided is a test apparatus that tests a memory under test, comprising a testing integrated circuit device that tests the memory under test and includes an internal memory storing test information including at least one of a test result and test data for a partial memory region of the memory under test; an external memory that stores the test information for an entire memory region of the memory under test; and a memory controller that is connected to the external memory and transmits test information for a memory region of a test target between the external memory and the internal memory. Also provided is a test method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akimasa YUZURIHARA, Daisuke MAKITA, Tsuneaki KANAZAWA, Hidekazu NAKAI, Shinichiro YUKAWA, Daisuke SAKAMAKI, Toshihiko ARAI
  • Patent number: 7675506
    Abstract: To provide a portable terminal device that can secure the same operability even when a user changes his or her portable terminal device to a new one, the portable terminal device is made to comprise a function providing unit for providing a function according to key inputs, a standard profile obtaining unit for obtaining a second standard profile from a communications destination device, etc., and a standard profile registering unit for registering the contents of the second standard profile to a first standard profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Katsuaki Akama
  • Publication number: 20080042925
    Abstract: To provide a portable terminal device that can secure the same operability even when a user changes his or her portable terminal device to a new one, the portable terminal device is made to comprise a function providing unit for providing a function according to key inputs, a standard profile obtaining unit for obtaining a second standard profile from a communications destination device, etc., and a standard profile registering unit for registering the contents of the second standard profile to a first standard profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 6672448
    Abstract: A transfer device having high productivity and is compact. The present invention uses cross bars that have a blank attachment member that are suitable for transferring large blank materials that, prior to processing, do not have rigidity. These large blank materials have a tendency to sag in the center and are difficult to transport. The present invention also jointly uses fingers that are suitable for rapid transport of blank materials that, after processing, are molded and have rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Aida Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 6604402
    Abstract: A transfer device combines an advance-return drive mechanism and a clamp-unclamp drive mechanism. The transfer device operates from only one side of a press to position both drive mechanisms above a pair of feed bars thereby greatly reducing spatial constraints and costs and enabling an increase in speed. The feed bars operate to process a work piece along a process direction. The feed bars are cantilevered from the transfer device for easy use with a press, raw materials feeder, and product gatherer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Aida Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda, Toshihiko Nobuoka
  • Patent number: 6530467
    Abstract: A plurality of shuttle bars are guided in a feed direction below a guide body. The shuttle bars are spaced to fit between a plurality of conveyor belts which transport a sheet of material suspended below them toward a press. The guide body is lowered to move the shuttle bars far enough between the conveyor belts to disengage the sheet of material from the conveyor belts. The shuttle bars each includes a device for attachment to the sheet of material, whereby the sheet of material is conveyed the remainder of the way to the press attached to the shuttle bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Aida Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20020175052
    Abstract: A transfer device having high productivity and is compact. The present invention uses cross bars that have a blank attachment member that are suitable for transferring large blank materials that, prior to processing, do not have rigidity. These large blank materials have a tendency to sag in the center and are difficult to transport. The present invention also jointly uses fingers that are suitable for rapid transport of blank materials that, after processing, are molded and have rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: AIDA ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20020141857
    Abstract: A plurality of shuttle bars are guided in a feed direction below a guide body. The shuttle bars are spaced to fit between a plurality of conveyor belts which transport a sheet of material suspended below them toward a press. The guide body is lowered to move the shuttle bars far enough between the conveyor belts to disengage the sheet of material from the conveyor belts. The shuttle bars each includes a device for attachment to the sheet of material, whereby the sheet of material is conveyed the remainder of the way to the press attached to the shuttle bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20020038606
    Abstract: A transfer device combines an advance-return drive mechanism and a clamp-unclamp drive mechanism. The transfer device operates from only one side of a press to position both drive mechanisms above a pair of feed bars thereby greatly reducing spatial constraints and costs and enabling an increase in speed. The feed bars operate to process a work piece along a process direction. The feed bars are cantilevered from the transfer device for easy use with a press, raw materials feeder, and product gatherer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda, Toshihiko Nobuoka
  • Publication number: 20010020569
    Abstract: The present invention is a transfer device for transferring large blank materials through multi-stage processing by engaging and employing both a crossbar-type and a finger-type transfer device. The cross-bar type transfer device includes a blank attachment member, adaptable to specific blank shapes, that enables transfer of large blank materials without sufficient rigidity for quicker or simpler transport methods. The finger-type transfer includes multiple fingers suitable for rapid transport of blank materials that, after initial processing, have sufficient rigidity for rapid transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Nobuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 6243748
    Abstract: In a large-scale network having a plurality of apparatuses to-be-managed, and a managing apparatus which manages the apparatuses to-be-managed; the apparatus to-be-managed comprises a number-of-times-of-status-changes information update unit which updates the cumulative number of times of status changes, and a number-of-times-of-status-changes information storage unit which stores therein the cumulative number of times of status changes as updated by the number-of-times-of-status-changes information update unit; and the managing apparatus comprises a number-of-times-of-status-changes information acquisition unit which acquires the number-of-times-of-status-changes information from the number-of-times-of-status-changes information storage unit, a status change decision unit which decides whether any status change is present or absent, in accordance with the numbers of times of status changes as acquired from the number-of-times-of-status-changes information acquisition unit, and a status information acquisitio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Toshihiko Arai
  • Patent number: 5365829
    Abstract: An apparatus for operating feed bars to move a workpiece between stages of a pressing machine includes cylinder devices. Each of the cylinder devices serves to move the feed bars linearly and each has a respective absolute encoder. The cylinder devices include a feed cylinder device which is responsive to hydraulic pressure to linearly advance and return the feed bars. First and second clamp cylinder devices are responsive to hydraulic pressure to move the feed bars linearly so as to clamp and unclamp the workpiece between the feed bars A hydraulic pressure supply circuit is connected commonly to each of the cylinder devices. Hydraulic pressure is applied to the cylinder devices through respective servo valves of a hydraulic valve arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Aida Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shozo Imanishi, Toshihiko Arai
  • Patent number: 4741195
    Abstract: In a transfer press having feed bars and a press drive, an improved feed bar driving apparatus has a vertical rod reciprocally movable in association with the press drive and having a threaded portion, a drive means to the vertical rod means for rotating the vertical rod means in opposite directions, a feed screw device connected to the threaded portion of the vertical rod for being rotated by the vertical rod in opposite directions by rotation and reciprocation of the vertical rod, a pair of feed bar receptacles slidably supporting the feed bars and connected to the feed screw device for being moved toward and away from each other when the feed screw device is rotated in respective opposite directions for moving the feed bars in a clamping and unclamping movement, a cam rotatable in assocation with the press drive, a lever mounted on a fulcrum and connected to the vertical rod and in contact with the cam for being pivoted around the fulcrum by the cam for moving the vertical rod through a stroke, and a strok
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Aida Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Arai, Masaharu Kusunoki, Tadao Odaka, Shozo Imanishi, Yoshinori Kato, Masakazu Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 4728253
    Abstract: Feed bar advance and return driving apparatus for a transfer press. An upper slider is reciprocally vertically movable in the press crown in synchronization with the operation of the press, and a pinion rotatably mounted on the upper slider is rotated alternatingly in opposite directions with the upward and downward vertical movement of the upper slider. A drive rack vertically slidably supported on the upper slider is connected to the pinion at a position on the pinion which is eccentric to the axis of rotation of the pinion and is reciprocally vertically driven by the rotation of the pinion. The lower end of the drive rack extends downwardly and engages a drive pinion for rotating the drive pinion alternatingly in opposite directions during the reciprocal vertical motion of the drive rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Aida Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Oba, Kenji Kurishima, Masaharu Kusunoki, Tadao Odaka, Toshihiko Arai