Patents by Inventor Yoichi Katayama
Yoichi Katayama 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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Patent number: 10967717Abstract: Provided is a door structure including: a door installed capable of opening and closing a door opening part of a vehicle body; a decorative member attached to a surface of the door which faces an outside of a vehicle; and a sealing member arranged along an end part of the door which faces an outside of the door, and sealing the door opening part, wherein the sealing member includes a thick part which becomes thicker toward an inside of the door, and which is inserted into a gap formed between the end part of the door which faces the outside of the door and an end part of the decorative member which faces the outside of the door, and the sealing member is biased toward an inside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasaki, Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 10532644Abstract: A vehicle body structure is provided that has fewer parts and allows a seal member securely sealing a gap between a vehicle body and a door to be attached thereto. The vehicle body structure has a door that covers and uncovers a door opening formed in a vehicle body. The door has a first garnish that is located on an outer side of a vehicle than the door, and a seal member that is attached to the first garnish and seals a gap between the door and the vehicle body. The first garnish has an insertion groove defined by a contact wall extending in a direction which is orthogonal to a lateral direction, and the seal member is inserted in the insertion groove so as to be in contact with the contact wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 10457224Abstract: A vehicle body structure including an ornamental member attached to an outer surface of an outer edge portion of a door, wherein the ornamental member includes an attachment portion pasted to the outer surface by a pasting unit, and a parallel surface that extends from the attachment portion outward with respect to the outer edge portion and is parallel to the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20190283558Abstract: Provided is a door structure including: a door installed capable of opening and closing a door opening part of a vehicle body; a decorative member attached to a surface of the door which faces an outside of a vehicle; and a sealing member arranged along an end part of the door which faces an outside of the door, and sealing the door opening part, wherein the sealing member includes a thick part which becomes thicker toward an inside of the door, and which is inserted into a gap formed between the end part of the door which faces the outside of the door and an end part of the decorative member which faces the outside of the door, and the sealing member is biased toward an inside of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Yasuhiro SASAKI, Yoichi KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180363359Abstract: A vehicle door non-contact open apparatus includes: a detection part, a control part, and an actuator. The detection part detects an object and measures a distance to the object. The control part stores the distance which is measured by the detection part as an initial value and outputs a door open signal according to the stored initial value. The actuator opens a door to the object according to the door open signal from the control part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Tomonori Watanabe, Nobuyuki Kishikawa, Kenji Shioiri, Mitsunori Nishino, Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20180154753Abstract: A vehicle body structure is provided that has fewer parts and allows a seal member securely sealing a gap between a vehicle body and a door to be attached thereto. The vehicle body structure has a door that covers and uncovers a door opening formed in a vehicle body. The door has a first garnish that is located on an outer side of a vehicle than the door, and a seal member that is attached to the first garnish and seals a gap between the door and the vehicle body. The first garnish has an insertion groove defined by a contact wall extending in a direction which is orthogonal to a lateral direction, and the seal member is inserted in the insertion groove so as to be in contact with the contact wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventor: Yoichi KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180154844Abstract: A vehicle body structure including an ornamental member attached to an outer surface of an outer edge portion of a door, wherein the ornamental member includes an attachment portion pasted to the outer surface by a pasting unit, and a parallel surface that extends from the attachment portion outward with respect to the outer edge portion and is parallel to the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 8380769Abstract: A filter operation unit that performs a multiply-accumulate operation on input data and a filter coefficient group including a plurality of coefficients using Booth's algorithm. The filter operation unit includes: at least two filter multiplier units that multiply the input data and a difference between adjacent filter coefficients in a filter coefficient group to obtain multiplication results; and an adder that adds the multiplication results of the multiplier units adjacent to each other. The filter multiplier units each include: a partial product generation unit that repeatedly generates a partial product according to Booth's algorithm; and an adder that cumulatively adds the partial products generated by the partial product generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 8364741Abstract: A multiplier includes an operation unit that adds or subtracts a first group selected from a current input data, and a second group selected from a next input data corresponding to the first group to generate an operation result, a Booth's encoder that encodes the operation result according to Booth's algorithm, and generates code data, a partial product generation unit that calculates a partial product from the code data as a first partial product, and calculates, in a case where the first group and the second group are specific combination, a second partial product, and an adder that cumulatively adds an output from the partial product generation unit. The specific combination is a combination in which the highest-order bit of each of the first group and the second group is the same value, and the third least significant bit obtained after the subtraction operation is 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 7876830Abstract: A video encoder is composed of a DC/AC prediction unit performing DC/AC prediction, a motion vector prediction unit performing motion vector prediction, and a memory. The memory is accessible from both of the DC/AC prediction unit and the motion vector prediction unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Yoichi Katayama, Hisashi Takamura
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Patent number: 7660469Abstract: An image decoding apparatus includes an analyzing section and an image decoding section. The analyzing section determines a process quantity of a coded image data to each of a plurality of image decoding processes within a unit process time based on a parameter of the coded image data, prior to the plurality of image decoding processes. The image decoding section carries out each of the plurality of image decoding processes to the coded image data for the determined process quantity such that a decoded image data is generated from the coded image data.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: NEC Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20090228540Abstract: A multiplier includes an operation unit that adds or subtracts a first group selected from a current input data, and a second group selected from a next input data corresponding to the first group to generate an operation result, a Booth's encoder that encodes the operation result according to Booth's algorithm, and generates code data, a partial product generation unit that calculates a partial product from the code data as a first partial product, and calculates, in a case where the first group and the second group are specific combination, a second partial product, and an adder that cumulatively adds an output from the partial product generation unit. The specific combination is a combination in which the highest-order bit of each of the first group and the second group is the same value, and the third least significant bit obtained after the subtraction operation is 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi KATAYAMA
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Publication number: 20090094303Abstract: A filter operation unit that performs a multiply-accumulate operation on input data and a filter coefficient group including a plurality of coefficients using Booth's algorithm. The filter operation unit includes: at least two filter multiplier units that multiply the input data and a difference between adjacent filter coefficients in a filter coefficient group to obtain multiplication results; and an adder that adds the multiplication results of the multiplier units adjacent to each other. The filter multiplier units each include: a partial product generation unit that repeatedly generates a partial product according to Booth's algorithm; and an adder that cumulatively adds the partial products generated by the partial product generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: NEC Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 7346640Abstract: An image processing apparatus supporting both discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform with reduced hardware resources. The image processing apparatus is composed of an input unit receiving a plurality of pixel data, a controlling unit selecting a desired transform from among discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform, and providing a plurality of coefficients depending on the desired transform, and a processing unit which processes the pixel data using the plurality of coefficients to achieve the desired transform.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: NEC Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20070071332Abstract: An image decoding apparatus includes an analyzing section and an image decoding section. The analyzing section determines a process quantity of a coded image data to each of a plurality of image decoding processes within a unit process time based on a parameter of the coded image data, prior to the plurality of image decoding processes. The image decoding section carries out each of the plurality of image decoding processes to the coded image data for the determined process quantity such that a decoded image data is generated from the coded image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2004Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20060277131Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid financing structure for renewable power facilities that reduces the cost of power supplied from such facilities. In a preferred embodiment, the hybrid financing structure combines low cost financing, e.g., bonds, available to governmental entities, e.g., municipalities, with tax benefits and similar benefits available to private entities to lower the cost of power supplied from a renewable power facility. The renewable power facility is owned and operated by a private company to take advantage of tax benefits and similar benefits available to the private sector. To further reduce costs, a municipality prepays for power supplied from the facility using low cost financing, e.g., tax exempt bonds, available to the municipality.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventors: Richard Bacon, Charles Cardall, Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20060209960Abstract: A video encoder is composed of a DC/AC prediction unit performing DC/AC prediction, a motion vector prediction unit performing motion vector prediction, and a memory. The memory is accessible from both of the DC/AC prediction unit and the motion vector prediction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: September 21, 2006Inventors: Yoichi Katayama, Hisashi Takamura
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Publication number: 20050278401Abstract: An image processing circuit is composed of: a plurality of registers retaining pixel data, respectively; a plurality of absolute difference calculator/adders; at least one selective multiplier, each disposed between associated one of said registers and associated one of said absolute difference calculator/adders; and an adder calculating a sum of outputs of said absolute difference calculator/adders. Each of said at least one selective multiplier is designed to perform selected one of first and second operations; said first operation involving transferring pixel data retained in said associated one of said registers as it is to said associated one of said absolute difference calculator/adders, and said second operation outputting a product of a predetermined coefficient and said pixel data retained in said associated one of said registers onto an input of said associated one of said absolute difference calculator/adders.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: NEC Electronics CorporationInventor: Yoichi Katayama
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Patent number: 6909552Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional image display device capable of reproducing clear, deviation-free and distortion-free three-dimensional images generated by a three-dimensional generating method. The three-dimensional image display device 4 comprises a lens array 1 having the predetermined number of convex lenses arranged in a matrix; and image display means for displaying a plurality of two-dimensional images 3 corresponding to the respective convex lenses. The same lens array 1 is employed in the three-dimensional display device as the lens array employed for generating the two-dimensional images.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: DHS, Ltd.Inventors: Takeyoshi Dohi, Makoto Iwahara, Nobuhiko Hata, Hongen Liao, Yoichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20040190146Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional image display device capable of reproducing clear, deviation-free and distortion-free three-dimensional images generated by a three-dimensional generating method. The three-dimensional image display device 4 comprises a lens array 1 having the predetermined number of convex lenses arranged in a matrix; and image display means for displaying a plurality of two-dimensional images 3 corresponding to the respective convex lenses. The same lens array 1 is employed in the three-dimensional display device as the lens array employed for generating the two-dimensional images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: DHS, Ltd.Inventors: Takeyoshi Dohi, Makoto Iwahara, Nobuhiko Hata, Hongen Liao, Yoichi Katayama