Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kojima
Yasuhiro Kojima 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: 20230132456Abstract: To implement an image processing device capable of improving rear visibility of a mobile object, the image processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a video from an imaging device that generates images of a rear of a mobile object; a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a first range in the video acquired by the acquisition unit; and a detection unit configured to detect a predetermined target based on the video acquired by the acquisition unit. When the detection unit detects the predetermined target, the display control unit causes the display unit to display the video in a second range different from the first range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventor: Yasuhiro Kojima
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Patent number: 11415774Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that is made compact in the size of an apparatus body, particularly the lateral size thereof, without impairing operability thereof. The image capturing apparatus includes connection terminals for connecting external devices thereto, an air inlet port via which air is drawn in for cooling heat sources of an apparatus body, and an air outlet port via which the air is discharged. A connection terminal arrangement surface and an air outlet port arrangement surface form different surfaces and are inclined at predetermined angles with respect to an optical axis, respectively. The connection terminal arrangement surface and the air outlet port arrangement surface are arranged to be displaced in a left-right direction, as viewed from the side of the image capturing apparatus, and are arranged to overlap each other, as viewed from the front of the image capturing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kojima, Yuko Teruya
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Patent number: 11415866Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a forced air cooling function and capable of having an accessory attached thereto includes an image capturing apparatus body. A lens mount is provided on the apparatus body and can have a shooting lens removably attached thereto. An attachment portion is provided on the apparatus body and can have the accessory removably attached thereto. A built-in microphone is arranged on a side of a surface of the apparatus body, different from any of a surface where an air outlet port for discharging air used for forced cooling is arranged, a surface where the lens mount is arranged, and a surface where the attachment portion is arranged. The built-in microphone is arranged at a location closer to a top surface of the image capturing apparatus body than a bottom surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Hideki Toichi, Hayato Mano, Yusuke Mogi
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Patent number: 11367583Abstract: A seesaw type operation unit having a new configuration is provided. A swinging member is capable of swinging in a predetermined direction with a rotation axis at a center. An urging member urges the swinging member to a neutral position. A detector includes a rotating portion which is arranged coaxially with the rotation axis and rotates integrally with the swinging member, and outputs a signal depending on a rotation amount of the rotating portion. An operating member receives an operation from an outside and causes the swinging member to rotate in the predetermined direction by the operation. A supporting member rotatably and coaxially supports the swinging member and the operating member. In a case where the operating member is rotated in the predetermined direction, the operating member pushes an end of the swinging member to rotate the operating member, the swinging member, and the rotating portion integrally with one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuko Iritani, Yoshinobu Shibayama, Yasuhiro Kojima, Shigeharu Aoki
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Publication number: 20210257171Abstract: A seesaw type operation unit having a new configuration is provided. A swinging member is capable of swinging in a predetermined direction with a rotation axis at a center. An urging member urges the swinging member to a neutral position. A detector includes a rotating portion which is arranged coaxially with the rotation axis and rotates integrally with the swinging member, and outputs a signal depending on a rotation amount of the rotating portion. An operating member receives an operation from an outside and causes the swinging member to rotate in the predetermined direction by the operation. A supporting member rotatably and coaxially supports the swinging member and the operating member. In a case where the operating member is rotated in the predetermined direction, the operating member pushes an end of the swinging member to rotate the operating member, the swinging member, and the rotating portion integrally with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Yuko IRITANI, Yoshinobu SHIBAYAMA, Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Shigeharu AOKI
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Publication number: 20210255527Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a forced air cooling function and capable of having an accessory attached thereto includes an image capturing apparatus body. A lens mount is provided on the apparatus body and can have a shooting lens removably attached thereto. An attachment portion is provided on the apparatus body and can have the accessory removably attached thereto. A built-in microphone is arranged on a side of a surface of the apparatus body, different from any of a surface where an air outlet port for discharging air used for forced cooling is arranged, a surface where the lens mount is arranged, and a surface where the attachment portion is arranged. The built-in microphone is arranged at a location closer to a top surface of the image capturing apparatus body than a bottom surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Hideki Toichi, Hayato Mano, Yusuke Mogi
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Patent number: 11029582Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a forced air cooling function and capable of having an accessory attached thereto includes an image capturing apparatus body. A lens mount is provided on the apparatus body and can have a shooting lens removably attached thereto. An attachment portion is provided on the apparatus body and can have the accessory removably attached thereto. A built-in microphone is arranged on a side of a surface of the apparatus body, different from any of a surface where an air outlet port for discharging air used for forced cooling is arranged, a surface where the lens mount is arranged, and a surface where the attachment portion is arranged. The built-in microphone is arranged at a location closer to a top surface of the image capturing apparatus body than a bottom surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Hideki Toichi, Hayato Mano, Yusuke Mogi
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Patent number: 11016372Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an accessory is removably attached. One of a grip and an image capture apparatus body includes a first attachment part formed by a first screw, a first electrical connection part disposed outside the first screw, and a first engagement part formed outside the first electrical connection part. The other of them includes a second attachment part formed by a second screw and screwed with the first screw, a second electrical connection part disposed outside the second screw, and electrically connected to the first electrical connection part, and a second engagement part formed outside the second electrical connection part, and engaged with the first engagement part. When the first and second screws are screwed, the first and second engagement parts are engaged, and the first and second electrical connection parts are electrically connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosaku Endo, Yusuke Mogi, Yasuhiro Kojima, Yuko Teruya, Hideki Toichi, Shigeshi Maekawa
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Publication number: 20210055632Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a forced air cooling function and capable of having an accessory attached thereto includes an image capturing apparatus body. A lens mount is provided on the apparatus body and can have a shooting lens removably attached thereto. An attachment portion is provided on the apparatus body and can have the accessory removably attached thereto. A built-in microphone is arranged on a side of a surface of the apparatus body, different from any of a surface where an air outlet port for discharging air used for forced cooling is arranged, a surface where the lens mount is arranged, and a surface where the attachment portion is arranged. The built-in microphone is arranged at a location closer to a top surface of the image capturing apparatus body than a bottom surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Hideki Toichi, Hayato Mano, Yusuke Mogi
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Publication number: 20210055512Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that is made compact in the size of an apparatus body, particularly the lateral size thereof, without impairing operability thereof. The image capturing apparatus includes connection terminals for connecting external devices thereto, an air inlet port via which air is drawn in for cooling heat sources of an apparatus body, and an air outlet port via which the air is discharged. A connection terminal arrangement surface and an air outlet port arrangement surface form different surfaces and are inclined at predetermined angles with respect to an optical axis, respectively. The connection terminal arrangement surface and the air outlet port arrangement surface are arranged to be displaced in a left-right direction, as viewed from the side of the image capturing apparatus, and are arranged to overlap each other, as viewed from the front of the image capturing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kojima, Yuko Teruya
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Publication number: 20200355990Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an accessory is removably attached. One of a grip and an image capture apparatus body includes a first attachment part formed by a first screw, a first electrical connection part disposed outside the first screw, and a first engagement part formed outside the first electrical connection part. The other of them includes a second attachment part formed by a second screw and screwed with the first screw, a second electrical connection part disposed outside the second screw, and electrically connected to the first electrical connection part, and a second engagement part formed outside the second electrical connection part, and engaged with the first engagement part. When the first and second screws are screwed, the first and second engagement parts are engaged, and the first and second electrical connection pans are electrically connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Yosaku Endo, Yusuke Mogi, Yasuhiro Kojima, Yuko Teruya, Hideki Toichi, Shigeshi Maekawa
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Patent number: 10785389Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of efficiently cooling itself using a general-purpose ice pack so as to be able to shoot without heating an exterior surface thereof to a high temperature even under a high temperature environment. A cooling unit of the image pickup apparatus has a first duct having an inlet, a second duct connected to the first duct, and a third duct having an outlet and connected to the second duct. The second duct is thermally connected to a first heat source, the third duct is thermally connected to a second heat source that generates a larger amount of heat than the first heat source, and air taken in through the inlet passes through the first duct, the second duct, and the third duct in this order and is discharged through the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Kojima
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Patent number: 10556521Abstract: A shaft housing hole has a shaft insertion hole into which the rotating shaft section of an engagement member is inserted. Also, the shaft housing hole has slits extending from the lower end of the shaft insertion hole along the side surface of the shaft insertion hole toward an upper connection wall section. The upper side wall section of an upper rail has shaft restriction sections formed by the shaft housing hole. The shaft restriction sections have front ends with which the side surfaces of the rotating shaft section are in contact.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoaki Hoshihara, Yasuhiro Kojima, Katsuya Nozue, Takanori Sato
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Publication number: 20200010445Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a compound represented by formula (4), which is useful as, for example, an agrochemical or an intermediate for agrochemical production, the method including the step of reacting a compound represented by formula (2) with an organic oxidant. [In the formulae, Q represents a pyridyl group, etc.; R1 represents a C1-6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms; R2 represents, for example, a C1-6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms; R3, R4, and R5 each represent a hydrogen atom, etc.; and n is 0, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takahiro KIMURA, Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Yumi HAYASHI, Ryota MAEHATA
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Patent number: 10414300Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes an upper rail that supports a seat at an upper side, a lower rail that supports the upper rail to be relatively movable manner in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail, and a lock mechanism configured to restrain the upper rail from moving relative to the lower rail. The upper rail includes two side walls that are opposed in a width direction of the upper rail and an upper wall that connects the two side walls. The upper wall has a plurality of seat fasteners. The upper rail has at least one hole between a longitudinal end of the upper rail and one of the seat fasteners closest to the longitudinal end. The hole is a cutout formed in each of the two side walls and the upper wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanori Sato, Yasuhiro Kojima
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Publication number: 20190174030Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of efficiently cooling itself using a general-purpose ice pack so as to be able to shoot without heating an exterior surface thereof to a high temperature even under a high temperature environment. A cooling unit of the image pickup apparatus has a first duct having an inlet, a second duct connected to the first duct, and a third duct having an outlet and connected to the second duct. The second duct is thermally connected to a first heat source, the third duct is thermally connected to a second heat source that generates a larger amount of heat than the first heat source, and air taken in through the inlet passes through the first duct, the second duct, and the third duct in this order and is discharged through the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventor: Yasuhiro Kojima
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Patent number: 10160351Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Makoto Sakai, Naoaki Hoshihara, Yasuhiro Kojima, Satoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 10118509Abstract: When a first memory member rotates relative to a second rotating member to a predetermined relative rotation position at which a second memory member sliding on a sliding surface is capable of entering an engagement slot, the slide-trailing end of the second memory member, which leaves the sliding surface last, is a corner having no round shape. Further, the boundary between the sliding surface and the engagement slot is also a corner having no round shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Kojima, Mikihito Nagura, Shinya Isobe
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Publication number: 20180251046Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki SUGIMOTO, Makoto SAKAI, Naoaki HOSHIHARA, Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Satoshi KIMURA
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Patent number: 10065537Abstract: A seat reclining device includes: a reclining unit that includes a fixing member fixed to a seat cushion side and a rotating member fixed to the seat cushion side and supported by the fixing member to rotate freely, and that switches freely between a locked state and an unlocked state; a transmission lever supported by the fixing member to rotate freely on the same center as the fixing member; a release operation lever supported on the seat cushion side to rotate freely between lock operation and unlocking operation positions; a link which includes a protruding portion, in which each end portion of the link is supported by one of the transmission and release operation levers to rotate freely, and which switches the reclining unit from the locked state to the unlocked state; and a holding plate that includes an unlock holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Noguchi, Hideo Nihommatsu, Yasuhiro Kojima