Patents by Inventor Yasuo Yamada

Yasuo Yamada 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: 20190335241
    Abstract: The video image display apparatus includes: a recorded video image data acquisition unit configured to acquire recorded video image data, each being captured by a plurality of vehicles, the recorded video image data being a moving image outside the vehicle; a display control unit configured to play back one of the acquired recorded video image data and have the display apparatus display it and configured to display, in the video image of the recorded video image data being played back, location information of recorded video image data other than the recorded video image data being played back so that a user can select the location information; and a playback switching processing unit configured to switch, when a user selects the location information displayed in the video image, playback from the recorded video image data being played back to the recorded video image data corresponding to the selected location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMADA, Takuji TERUUCHI, Toshitaka MURATA
  • Publication number: 20190308562
    Abstract: An on-vehicle display control device includes a video image data acquiring unit configured to acquire side rear video image data from a right/left side camera in a movable part, and rear video image data from a rear camera; and a display controller configured to clip and display, on a right/left side monitor, the side rear video image data so as to include a predetermined imaging range defined by a rearview checking range in the right/left side camera and to display, on the right/left side monitor, when the movable part is operated and the right/left side camera faces a direction in which the predetermined imaging range cannot be captured, a first video image from the right/left side camera and a second video image from the rear camera in addition to the first video image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190305615
    Abstract: A stator frame has a substantially cylindrical shape and includes a function of cooling a stator of a rotary electric machine, the stator frame including a cooling groove provided along a circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface in between one end side and another end side in an axis direction as a flow path of a refrigerant in an outer circumferential surface of the stator frame. In a section of the stator frame cut in a plain surface including an axis of the stator frame, a surface length of the cooling groove per a unit section region at one end side and another end side in the axis direction is longer than a surface length of the cooling groove per a unit section region at a vicinity of a center in the axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190299354
    Abstract: A wafer edge polishing apparatus includes a cleaning mechanism exhibiting a superb effect of cleaning slurry residue adhered on a chuck table. This edge polishing device is provided with: a chuck table which sucks/holds a wafer; a rotation drive mechanism which rotates the chuck table; an edge polishing unit which polishes an edge of the wafer while supplying slurry to the wafer, which is rotating while being sucked/held by the chuck table; and a cleaning unit which removes slurry residue on the chuck table. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning head, and cleans the chuck table through high-pressure cleaning and brush-cleaning by using the cleaning head, wherein the cleaning head is provided with a high-pressure jet nozzle and a brush surrounding the periphery of the high-pressure jet nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: SUMCO Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto ANDO, Tatsunori IZUMI, Ryuichi TANIMOTO, Yuhei MATSUNAGA, Yasuo YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10427683
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires an image around a vehicle. A distance acquisition unit acquires a distance to a first object included in the acquired image. An image processing unit processes the image such that a distance to a second object located beneath the first object included in the acquired image is reflected, in accordance with the acquired distance. A viewpoint transformation processing unit subjects the processed image to viewpoint transformation to produce an image as viewed from above the vehicle. A display processing unit causes a display unit to display the image subjected to transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Ichiro Ishida
  • Publication number: 20190230325
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus according to the present invention includes an image-data acquiring unit that sequentially acquires image data obtained by imaging a periphery of a vehicle, an event-signal acquiring unit that acquires an event signal indicating occurrence of a predetermined event to the vehicle, a condition detecting unit that detects, when the event-signal acquiring unit acquires the event signal, whether a positional relation of another vehicle with the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, and a writing controller that writes the image data in a memory in a ring buffer format, or writes, when the event-signal acquiring unit acquires the event signal, the image data including a period from when the event signal has been acquired until the condition detecting unit has detected that the condition is satisfied in the memory so that the image data is not overwritten.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMADA, Toshitaka MURATA, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190222809
    Abstract: A recording device according to an embodiment includes an imaging data acquisition unit configured to acquire imaging data including video data and audio data, an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of an event; and a recording control unit configured to record first imaging data including the video data and the audio data in a recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is caused by the event detected by the event detection unit, and record second imaging data including the video data and not including the audio data in the recording unit when recording of the imaging data in the recording unit is not caused by the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Toshitaka MURATA, Yasuo YAMADA, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190115804
    Abstract: The stator frame includes: a spiral groove which is provided as a flow path of a coolant from one end side to the other end side in an axis direction spirally along the circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface; and annular grooves which individually communicate with the end portions of the spiral groove on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and which are provided annularly along the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface. The spiral groove is formed such that a groove depth is shallow in regions on the one end side and the other end side in the axis direction and the groove depth is deep in a region around a center in the axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190092239
    Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus including: an image-pickup unit configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle; a controller configured to control the image-pickup unit; an image processor configured to process image data output from the image-pickup unit; an output unit configured to output the image processed by the image processor to a display unit; and a detection unit configured to detect information regarding a course change of the vehicle, in which at least one of the image-pickup control performed by the controller and the image processing performed by the image processor applies weighting such that the weighting becomes larger in a course change direction based on the information regarding the course change detected by the detection unit is provided. Accordingly, it is possible to present images that enable the driver to appropriately check the state of the lane after the course change during the course change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMADA, Toshitaka MURATA, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190084495
    Abstract: A device includes a video acquiring unit 42 that is arranged on a vehicle and acquires videos captured by imaging units 10, at least one of the imaging devices being mounted on a movable part that is movable with respect to a body of the vehicle, a vehicle information acquiring unit 43 that acquires detection information indicating that movement of the movable part is detected, a bird's-eye view video generating unit 44 that generates a synthesized video by synthesizing the videos that are captured by the imaging units 10 and are acquired by the video acquiring unit 42, and a display control unit 45 that displays the synthesized video generated by the bird's-eye view video generating unit 44 on the display panel 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190082150
    Abstract: A recording apparatus for a vehicle capable of recording a video image with reduced reflected glare is provided. A recording apparatus for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a main body part comprising at least a camera, a mounting part configured to mount the main body part so that the camera is oriented to photograph outside of a vehicle through a windshield provided in the vehicle, and a display unit configured to display information. The display unit is rotatably mounted at a lower part of the main body part and is positioned to block light from below the camera when the display unit rotates in a direction in which the camera photographs a video image and a display surface of the display unit faces downward, which is referred to as a first arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Toshitaka MURATA, Yasuo YAMADA, Keita HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180322655
    Abstract: An image acquiring unit that acquires periphery images in which a periphery of a vehicle is imaged by a forward-periphery imaging camera, a rearward-periphery imaging camera, a leftward-periphery imaging camera, or a rightward-periphery imaging camera, and a posture-change determining unit that determines whether a posture of the vehicle has changed based on the periphery images are included. Moreover, a bird's-eye-view-image generating unit generates a bird's-eye view image that is corrected according to a change of posture of the forward-periphery imaging camera, the rearward-periphery imaging camera, the leftward-periphery imaging camera, or the rightward-periphery imaging camera based on a determination result of the posture-change determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Nagai, Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata, Keita Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180267501
    Abstract: A motor selection apparatus includes: a mechanical condition obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to a distance between a center of mass of a workpiece and a rotation center of a motor; an operating pattern obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to an operating pattern; a motor information obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to instantaneous torque; an eccentric load torque calculation unit that calculates eccentric load torque, which is load torque acting on the motor in accordance with the rotation phase of the motor; an acceleration/deceleration torque calculation unit that calculates acceleration/deceleration torque; a required torque calculation unit that calculates a required torque from a sum of the eccentric load torque and the acceleration/deceleration torque; and a motor selection unit that determines whether a motor can be selected, based on whether the required torque is less than or equal to the instantaneous torque of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180105173
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires an image around a vehicle. A distance acquisition unit acquires a distance to a first object included in the acquired image. An image processing unit processes the image such that a distance to a second object located beneath the first object included in the acquired image is reflected, in accordance with the acquired distance. A viewpoint transformation processing unit subjects the processed image to viewpoint transformation to produce an image as viewed from above the vehicle. A display processing unit causes a display unit to display the image subjected to transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMADA, Ichiro ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170293862
    Abstract: A machine learning device which learns fault prediction of one of a main shaft of a machine tool and a motor driving the main shaft, including a state observation unit observing a state variable including at least one of data output from a motor controller controlling the motor, data output from a detector detecting a state of the motor, and data output from a measuring device measuring a state of the one of the main shaft and the motor; a determination data obtaining unit obtaining determination data upon determining one of whether a fault has occurred in the one of the main shaft and the motor and a degree of fault; and a learning unit learning the fault prediction of the one of the main shaft and the motor in accordance with a data set generated based on a combination of the state variable and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yohei KAMIYA, Yasuo YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170201139
    Abstract: A rotor capable of preventing a magnet or a cover tube from being damaged by contacting a mold of an injection machine during production. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets arranged on the outside of the rotor core in the radial direction, a cylindrical cover tube surrounding the plurality of magnets, and resin charged to a gap defined between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core and an inner peripheral surface of the cover tube. An axial dimension of the rotor core is greater than an axial dimension of each magnet, and an axial dimension of the cover tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Akira Nishifukumoto
  • Patent number: 8601802
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device is provided with an exhaust manifold having a collecting section, and a catalytic converter provided downstream of the exhaust manifold. The catalytic converter has upstream and downstream catalysts. The upstream catalyst includes a carrier, a first layer located on the carrier containing Pd, a second layer located on the first layer containing Rh, and a third layer located on the second layer containing Pd. The downstream catalyst includes a carrier, a first layer located on the carrier containing Pd, and a second layer located on the first layer containing Pt and Rh. The collecting section connects to the catalytic converter after passing, in order from the upstream side, through a flow regulating path and a neck section which is provided in the flow regulating path. The flow regulating path has a predetermined length and a width which is gradually reduced to the downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Kei Kuroki, Noritaka Sekiya
  • Publication number: 20110126528
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying device having sufficient exhaust gas purifying performance and using a reduced amount of noble metal. An exhaust gas purifying device (10) is provided with an exhaust manifold (30) having a collecting section to which all branch pipes join, and also with a catalytic converter (40) provided directly downstream of the exhaust manifold (30). The catalytic converter (40) has an upstream catalyst (43) housed on the upstream side and also has a downstream catalyst (45) housed on the downstream of the upstream catalyst (43). The upstream catalyst (43) includes a carrier, an upstream first layer located on the carrier and containing Pd, an upstream second layer located on the upstream first layer and containing Rh, and an upstream third layer located on the upstream second layer and containing Pd.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Kei Kuroki, Noritaka Sekiya
  • Patent number: 7414474
    Abstract: An operational amplifier with a broad applicable band and little disturbing noise which is capable of preventing oscillation even when used in connection with a negative feedback path. The operational amplifier amplifies a difference between two input voltage signals to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal and outputs the amplified difference to an output terminal. The operational amplifier includes an input voltage/current conversion stage which outputs, to the non-inverting input terminal and the inverting input terminal, a current signal having a difference current component in accordance with the difference between the two input voltage signals; a current amplification stage which performs current amplification on the current signal outputted from the input voltage/current conversion stage; and an output buffer stage which converts, into a voltage signal, the output current signal from the current amplification stage and applies the voltage signal to the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Flying Mole Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamada, Kenji Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20080182516
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a changing unit which, if a command transmitted from a short-distance wireless communications terminal by pushing down a volume control button is received in a standby status in which the short-distance wireless communications terminal makes no connection with the Internet Protocol telephone communications network, changes selection of the telephone number stored in a memory unit, and a calling unit which, if a command transmitted from the short-distance wireless communications terminal by pushing down a call button is received after the changing process of the changing unit, calls the selected telephone number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamada