Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Hagiwara

Yasuaki Hagiwara 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: 20130335830
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, a positive third lens unit, a negative fourth lens unit, and a rear lens unit including, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens subunit, a negative second lens subunit, and a positive third lens subunit. The relationship between the combined focal length of the first and second lens units at wide-angle end, the combined focal length of the third lens unit and the lens units on the image side of the third lens unit at wide-angle end, the focal length of the second lens subunit, and the focal length of the rear lens unit at telephoto end is appropriately set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Tashiro, Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20130250435
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming, the first lens unit and the aperture stop do not move and the second, third, and fourth lens units move along different loci. Lateral magnifications of the second lens unit at a wide angle end and at a telephoto end and lateral magnifications of the third lens unit at the wide angle end and at the telephoto end are each appropriately set based on predetermined mathematical conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8345139
    Abstract: An eyepiece lens includes, in order from an image display surface side to an observer side, a positive first lens, a negative second lens, and a positive third lens. A surface on the image display surface side of the positive first lens has a refractive power stronger than a refractive power of an opposite surface thereof. The negative second lens has a meniscus shape, and a surface on the image display surface side of the negative second lens has a convex shape. Both surfaces of the positive third lens have a convex shape. In the eyepiece lens, during diopter adjustment, the first through the third lenses move along an optical axis. A focal length (f) of the entire eyepiece lens and a diagonal length (H) of the image display surface satisfy the following conditions: 0.45<H/f<0.70, and 21.0 (mm)<f<29.0 (mm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Miyazawa, Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8228616
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. At least the second and fourth lens groups are moved along the optical axis during zooming. The second lens group includes, from the object side to the image side, three negative lenses and one positive lens and satisfies 0.54<|f2|/?(fw·ft)<0.66 where f2 is the focal length of the second lens group, and fw and ft are the focal lengths of the entire optical system at the wide-angle end and at the telephoto end, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8218246
    Abstract: The zoom lens with a wide angle of view, a high zoom ratio and high optical performance includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The second and fourth lens units are moved on an optical axis for zooming. The second lens unit is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side, three negative lens elements and one positive lens element. The zoom lens satisfies 0.54<|f2|/?(fw·ft)<0.66, where f2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit, fw and ft represent focal lengths of the entire zoom lens at a wide-angle end and at a telephoto end, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8218238
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, the second and fourth lens units move on an optical axis during zooming. The third lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a third A lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a third B lens unit having a positive refractive power, the third B lens unit including a positive lens and a negative lens being joined together. When curvature radii of surfaces of the cemented lens on the object side and the image side are R3A and R3B, respectively, the following condition is satisfied: 5<|(R3A+R3B)/(R3A?R3B)|<30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20120105708
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit is configured to remain stationary, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit are configured to move separately from one another, and the aperture stop is configured to move along a locus convex towards the object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20110242397
    Abstract: An eyepiece lens includes, in order from an image display surface side to an observer side, a positive first lens, a negative second lens, and a positive third lens. A surface on the image display surface side of the positive first lens has a refractive power stronger than a refractive power of an opposite surface thereof. The negative second lens has a meniscus shape, and a surface on the image display surface side of the negative second lens has a convex shape. Both surfaces of the positive third lens have a convex shape. In the eyepiece lens, during diopter adjustment, the first through the third lenses move along an optical axis. A focal length (f) of the entire eyepiece lens and a diagonal length (H) of the image display surface satisfy the following conditions: 0.45<H/f<0.70, and 21.0 (mm)<f<29.0 (mm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Miyazawa, Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8019975
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for managing load and store operations necessary for reading from and writing to memory or I/O in a superscalar RISC architecture environment. To perform this task, a load store unit is provided whose main purpose is to make load requests out of order whenever possible to get the load data back for use by an instruction execution unit as quickly as possible. A load operation can only be performed out of order if there are no address collisions and no write pendings. An address collision occurs when a read is requested at a memory location where an older instruction will be writing. Write pending refers to the case where an older instruction requests a store operation, but the store address has not yet been calculated. The data cache unit returns 8 bytes of unaligned data. The load/store unit aligns this data properly before it is returned to the instruction execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko-Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Cheryl Senter Brashears, Johannes Wang, Le Trong Nguyen, Derek J. Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H. Trang
  • Patent number: 7941635
    Abstract: The high-performance, RISC core based microprocessor architecture includes an instruction fetch unit for fetching instruction sets from an instruction store and an execution unit that implements the concurrent execution of a plurality of instructions through a parallel array of functional units. The fetch unit generally maintains a predetermined number of instructions in an instruction buffer. The execution unit includes an instruction selection unit, coupled to the instruction buffer, for selecting instructions for execution, and a plurality of functional units for performing instruction specified functional operations. A unified instruction scheduler, within the instruction selection unit, initiates the processing of instructions through the functional units when instructions are determined to be available for execution and for which at least one of the functional units implementing a necessary computational function is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko-Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Le Trong Nguyen, Derek J. Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Johannes Wang, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H. Trang
  • Publication number: 20110085250
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. At least the second and fourth lens groups are moved along the optical axis during zooming. The second lens group includes, from the object side to the image side, three negative lenses and one positive lens and satisfies 0.54<|f2|/?(fw·ft)<0.66 where f2 is the focal length of the second lens group, and fw and ft are the focal lengths of the entire optical system at the wide-angle end and at the telephoto end, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7830612
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first to fifth lens units are arranged in order from the object side to the image side. All of the lens units are moved during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end such that the distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is increased and the distance between the third lens unit and the fifth lens unit is increased. The refractive power of the fourth lens unit and the refractive power of the fifth lens unit are adequately set with respect to the zoom ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kanushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20100254024
    Abstract: The zoom lens with a wide angle of view, a high zoom ratio and high optical performance includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The second and fourth lens units are moved on an optical axis for zooming. The second lens unit is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side, three negative lens elements and one positive lens element. The zoom lens satisfies 0.54<|f2|/?(fw·ft)<0.66, where f2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit, fw and ft represent focal lengths of the entire zoom lens at a wide-angle end and at a telephoto end, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20100246002
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, the second and fourth lens units move on an optical axis during zooming. The third lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a third A lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a third B lens unit having a positive refractive power, the third B lens unit including a positive lens and a negative lens being joined together. When curvature radii of surfaces of the cemented lens on the object side and the image side are R3A and R3B, respectively, the following condition is satisfied: 5<|(R3A+R3B)/(R3A?R3B)|<30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7739482
    Abstract: A high-performance, superscalar-based computer system with out-of-order instruction execution for enhanced resource utilization and performance throughput. The computer system fetches a plurality of fixed length instructions with a specified, sequential program order (in-order). The computer system includes an instruction execution unit including a register file, a plurality of functional units, and an instruction control unit for examining the instructions and scheduling the instructions for out-of-order execution by the functional units. The register file includes a set of temporary data registers that are utilized by the instruction execution control unit to receive data results generated by the functional units. The data results of each executed instruction are stored in the temporary data registers until all prior instructions have been executed, thereby retiring the executed instruction in-order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Le Trong Nguyen, Derek J. Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Johannes Wang, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H. Trang
  • Patent number: 7721070
    Abstract: A high-performance, superscalar-based computer system with out-of-order instruction execution for enhanced resource utilization and performance throughput. The computer system fetches a plurality of fixed length instructions with a specified, sequential program order (in-order). The computer system includes an instruction execution unit including a register file, a plurality of functional units, and an instruction control unit for examining the instructions and scheduling the instructions for out-of-order execution by the functional units. The register file includes a set of temporary data registers that are utilized by the instruction execution control unit to receive data results generated by the functional units. The data results of each executed instruction are stored in the temporary data registers until all prior instructions have been executed, thereby retiring the executed instruction in-order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventors: Le Trong Nguyen, Derek J. Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Johannes Wang, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H. Trang
  • Patent number: 7657712
    Abstract: A memory control unit for controlling access, by one or more devices within a processor, to a memory array unit external to the processor via one or more memory ports of the processor. The memory control unit includes a switch network to transfer data between the one or more devices of the processor and the one or more memory ports of the processor. The memory control unit also includes a switch arbitration unit to arbitrate for the switch network, and a port arbitration unit to arbitrate for the one or more memory ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Derek J. Lentz, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Te-Li Lau, Cheng-Long Tang, Le Trong Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20090290232
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first to fifth lens units are arranged in order from the object side to the image side. All of the lens units are moved during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end such that the distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is increased and the distance between the third lens unit and the fifth lens unit is increased. The refractive power of the fourth lens unit and the refractive power of the fifth lens unit are adequately set with respect to the zoom ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7555632
    Abstract: The high-performance, RISC core based microprocessor architecture includes an instruction fetch unit for fetching instruction sets from an instruction store and an execution unit that implements the concurrent execution of a plurality of instructions through a parallel array of functional units. The fetch unit generally maintains a predetermined number of instructions in an instruction buffer. The execution unit includes an instruction selection unit, coupled to the instruction buffer, for selecting instructions for execution, and a plurality of functional units for performing instruction specified functional operations. A unified instruction scheduler, within the instruction selection unit, initiates the processing of instructions through the functional units when instructions are determined to be available for execution and for which at least one of the functional units implementing a necessary computational function is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Le Trong Nguyen, Derek J. Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Johannes Wang, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H. Trang
  • Patent number: 7487333
    Abstract: A high-performance, superscalar-based computer system with out-of-order instruction execution for enhanced resource utilization and performance throughput. The computer system fetches a plurality of fixed length instructions with a specified, sequential program order (in-order). The computer system includes an instruction execution unit including a register file, a plurality of functional units, and an instruction control unit for examining the instructions and scheduling the instructions for out-of-order execution by the functional units. The register file includes a set of temporary data registers that are utilized by the instruction execution control unit to receive data results generated by the functional units. The data results of each executed instruction are stored in the temporary data registers until all prior instructions have been executed, thereby retiring the executed instruction in-order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Le-Trong Nguyen, Derek J Lentz, Yoshiyuki Miyayama, Sanjiv Garg, Yasuaki Hagiwara, Johannes Wang, Te-Li Lau, Sze-Shun Wang, Quang H Trang