Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Matsuo
Yasuhiro Matsuo 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: 20240133834Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gas sensor that includes a sensor part configured to generate a gas detection signal in accordance with a concentration of a gas to be measured, and a control circuit configured to generate an output signal indicating the concentration of the gas to be measured based on the gas detection signal. The control circuit is configured to correct the output signal so that the output signal indicates a concentration of the gas to be measured higher than that indicated by the gas detection signal when a level of the gas detection signal output from the sensor part is less than a reference value corresponding to a level of the gas detection signal which is normally obtained when a concentration of the gas to be measured is a concentration value in normal time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Yoshio KAITA, Yasuhiro INUI, Yutaka MATSUO
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Patent number: 11962734Abstract: In an image processing system, when a user logs in to an image processing apparatus to use a scanning service, the image processing apparatus transmits login information to a relay server, and the relay server transmits scan setup data and destination address data to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus prescans a document to identify a document format, and automatically sets scan setup data (properties), based on the identified format and according to the sent scan setup data, so as to execute scanning.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohichi Murakami, Yasuhiro Nakai, Yasutomo Hayano, Emiko Matsuo, Masao Saeda
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Publication number: 20240112909Abstract: A nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate includes: a Si substrate; a nitride semiconductor epitaxial layer disposed above the Si substrate; and a mixed crystal layer disposed between the Si substrate and the nitride semiconductor epitaxial layer, and containing Si and a group III metal element, the mixed crystal layer containing a high concentration of C. The mixed crystal layer has a concentration of at least 1.0×10+21 cm?3, and a transition metal element concentration of at most 5.0×10+16 cm?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Hisayoshi MATSUO, Hideyuki OKITA, Masahiro HIKITA, Yasuhiro UEMOTO, Manabu YANAGIHARA
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Patent number: 11935905Abstract: An imaging device comprises pixels. The pixel includes first semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type provided in a surface part of a semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided in the surface part of the semiconductor substrate between the first semiconductor regions. The pixel includes: a light-receiving unit in which photodiodes each configured between the second semiconductor region and one of the first semiconductor regions; quenching circuits, each connected to a corresponding one of the first semiconductor regions; and a counter unit connected to each of connection nodes between the first semiconductor regions and the quenching circuits and counts a pulse generated in response to a photon being incident on the light-receiving unit. The second semiconductor region is provided across a deeper part of the semiconductor substrate than the first semiconductor regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Hisataka Hirose, Satoshi Kumaki, Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20230042807Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information relating to a line of sight of a user; a display control unit configured to execute control to display a captured image on a display surface; a tracking unit configured to detect an object in the image so as to track the object; and a setting unit configured to set a tracking target of the tracking unit, wherein the setting unit resets the tracking target based on the line-of-sight information and a tracking history of an object that is the tracking target in a case where the object stops being detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Patent number: 11450131Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information relating to a line of sight of a user; a display control unit configured to execute control to display a captured image on a display surface; a tracking unit configured to detect an object in the image so as to track the object; and a setting unit configured to set a tracking target of the tracking unit, wherein the setting unit resets the tracking target based on the line-of-sight information and a tracking history of an object that is the tracking target in a case where the object stops being detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Patent number: 11388331Abstract: An image capture apparatus that detects a position of a gazed point in an image based on a line of sight of a user is disclosed. The image capture apparatus also detects at least one characteristic area from the image and sets a determination area to each characteristic area having a size that is greater than or equal to a predetermined lower limit value. Then the image capture apparatus selects the characteristic area corresponding to a determination area including the position of the gazed point.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20210248361Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information relating to a line of sight of a user; a display control unit configured to execute control to display a captured image on a display surface; a tracking unit configured to detect an object in the image so as to track the object; and a setting unit configured to set a tracking target of the tracking unit, wherein the setting unit resets the tracking target based on the line-of-sight information and a tracking history of an object that is the tracking target in a case where the object stops being detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Patent number: 11046546Abstract: A medium discharge device includes: a discharge unit that discharges a medium; a first medium receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the discharge unit; and a second medium receiving tray that is provided above the first medium receiving tray in a vertical direction and receives the medium discharged by the discharge unit. The second medium receiving tray is capable of changing a position between an advance position for receiving a medium, which is discharged, by causing at least an upstream zone of the tray including an upstream side end portion in a medium discharge direction to advance to a passing route of the medium from the discharge unit toward the first medium receiving tray and a retraction position to which the upstream zone retracts from the passing route.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Imae, Soichiro Kii, Takafumi Ogimura, Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20210051266Abstract: An image capture apparatus that detects a position of a gazed point in an image based on a line of sight of a user is disclosed. The image capture apparatus also detects at least one characteristic area from the image and sets a determination area to each characteristic area having a size that is greater than or equal to a predetermined lower limit value. Then the image capture apparatus selects the characteristic area corresponding to a determination area including the position of the gazed point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo
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Publication number: 20210036036Abstract: An imaging device comprises pixels. The pixel includes first semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type provided in a surface part of a semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided in the surface part of the semiconductor substrate between the first semiconductor regions. The pixel includes: a light-receiving unit in which photodiodes each configured between the second semiconductor region and one of the first semiconductor regions; quenching circuits, each connected to a corresponding one of the first semiconductor regions; and a counter unit connected to each of connection nodes between the first semiconductor regions and the quenching circuits and counts a pulse generated in response to a photon being incident on the light-receiving unit. The second semiconductor region is provided across a deeper part of the semiconductor substrate than the first semiconductor regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Hisataka HIROSE, Satoshi KUMAKI, Yasuhiro MATSUO
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Patent number: 10859951Abstract: An electrophotographic belt that, despite long-term usage, is not susceptible to unevenness in cleaning by a cleaning blade in a width direction. The electrophotographic belt has an endless shape and has grooves on an outer circumferential surface thereof, the grooves each extending in a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic belt, when equally dividing a groove-formed area of the outer circumferential surface into three areas in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the electrophotographic belt, and calculating average values of depths of the grooves contained in the three areas respectively to obtain Dm, De1 and De2, where Dm is an average value of depths of the grooves in a central area, De1 and De2 are average values of depths of the grooves contained in both ends areas, Dm, De1 and De2 satisfy equations (1) and (2): Dm<De1??(1) Dm<De2??(2).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuo, Kouichi Uchida, Masatsugu Toyonori
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Publication number: 20200341408Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic belt that, despite long-term usage, is not susceptible to unevenness in cleaning by a cleaning blade in a width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuo, Kouichi Uchida, Masatsugu Toyonori
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Patent number: 10551771Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt sustainably excellent in toner removal performance. The electrophotographic belt has an endless shape and has grooves on an outer surface thereof, each of the grooves extending in a circumferential direction and being in non-parallel with the circumferential direction, and the outer surface is composed only of a first region in which the number of the grooves in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction is “n” and a second region in which the number of the grooves in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction is larger than the “n”, the first region and the second region being arranged alternately in the circumferential direction, and the “n” being an integer of 1 or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSKIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouichi Uchida, Koujirou Izumidate, Noriaki Egawa, Masatsugu Toyonori, Shuji Saito, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Takashi Endo, Kosuke Saito
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Publication number: 20190324386Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt sustainably excellent in toner removal performance. The electrophotographic belt has an endless shape and has grooves on an outer surface thereof, each of the grooves extending in a circumferential direction and being in non-parallel with the circumferential direction, and the outer surface is composed only of a first region in which the number of the grooves in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction is “n” and a second region in which the number of the grooves in the direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction is larger than the “n”, the first region and the second region being arranged alternately in the circumferential direction, and the “n” being an integer of 1 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Kouichi Uchida, Koujirou Izumidate, Noriaki Egawa, Masatsugu Toyonori, Shuji Saito, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Takashi Endo, Kosuke Saito
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Publication number: 20190233245Abstract: A medium discharge device includes: a discharge unit that discharges a medium; a first medium receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the discharge unit; and a second medium receiving tray that is provided above the first medium receiving tray in a vertical direction and receives the medium discharged by the discharge unit. The second medium receiving tray is capable of changing a position between an advance position for receiving a medium, which is discharged, by causing at least an upstream zone of the tray including an upstream side end portion in a medium discharge direction to advance to a passing route of the medium from the discharge unit toward the first medium receiving tray and a retraction position to which the upstream zone retracts from the passing route.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Toshihiro IMAE, Soichiro KII, Takafumi OGIMURA, Yasuhiro MATSUO
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Patent number: 9834001Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Takaichi Wada, Tetsuya Takamoto, Katsumi Okamoto, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Isao Momose, Yoshisada Aoki, Tomohiro Yasufuku
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Patent number: 9150023Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head capable of ejecting ink to a sheet; a sheet cassette that holds the sheet; a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head; a chassis which contains the recording head and the transport unit and into which the sheet cassette is inserted; an insertion port which is formed in a side surface of the chassis and through which the sheet cassette is inserted; an ink container that contains the ink; a case which is mounted on at least one side surface adjacent to the side surface in which the insertion port of the chassis is formed and accommodates the ink container; and a supply unit (connection tube) that supplies the ink from the ink container to an inside of the chassis. A guard portion with higher rigidity than the case is formed on a lower side of the case.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsumi Okamoto, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Masaki Shimomura, Satoshi Iwaya, Atsushi Takei
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Publication number: 20150258800Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: Yoshiyuki TANAKA, Takaichi WADA, Tetsuya TAKAMOTO, Katsumi OKAMOTO, Yasuhiro MATSUO, Isao MOMOSE, Yoshisada AOKI, Tomohiro YASUFUKU
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Patent number: 9067419Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Takaichi Wada, Tetsuya Takamoto, Katsumi Okamoto, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Isao Momose, Yoshisada Aoki, Tomohiro Yasufuku