Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Sato

Yoshitaka Sato 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).

  • Patent number: 11076122
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a communicator, an image processing circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a first image. The image processing circuit is configured to generate a second image by performing image processing on the first image. The controller is configured to upload the second image to a page of a social networking service (SNS) by transmitting the second image to an SNS server by using the communicator. The controller is configured to record image management information in which the first image, image processing information that identifies the image processing, and an address of the page are associated with each other onto a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Matsumoto, Kensuke Ishii, Arata Shinozaki, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 10872723
    Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a case, and a joint. The primary and secondary coils are magnetically coupled with each other. The case includes a case body in which the primary and secondary coils are disposed and a cylindrical high-voltage tower which protrudes from a case bottom wall of the case body. The joint is fit on the high-voltage tower and a spark plug. The joint is of a cylindrical shape. A communicating void is formed between the high-voltage tower and the joint to communicate between an inner space of the high-voltage tower and the joint and an outer space disposed outside the high-voltage tower and the joint, thereby facilitating attachment or removal of the joint to or from the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 10845448
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging device includes a control unit configured to set a plurality of frequency bands within a predetermined frequency range. A subject is caused to be irradiated with a high-frequency magnetic field pulse having one of the frequency bands from a transmission unit. A reception unit is caused to receive a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal generated by the subject. An image generation unit is caused to generate an image from the NMR signal while changing the frequency band. A plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of frequency bands are obtained, and a composite of the plurality of images is obtained. The frequency bands are set so that adjacent frequency bands partially overlap each other. A bandwidth of the frequency bands is narrowest for the frequency band including a specific frequency within the frequency range, and widens in a direction away from the specific frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Sato, Katsunari Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200128163
    Abstract: An imaging system provided with an imaging terminal and an external server that communicates with the imaging terminal, wherein: when it is determined that the imaging terminal satisfies an imaging condition for a specific g object to be imaged, the imaging system transfers the right to operate the imaging terminal from an operator to the external server; and, when the right to operate is transferred to the external server, the external server controls the performance of an imaging operation by the imaging terminal for imaging the specific object to be imaged and receives the imaged data of the specific object to be imaged from the imaging terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Arata SHINOZAKI, Kensuke ISHII, Saori MATSUMOTO, Yoshitaka SATO, Yusaku FUJITA
  • Patent number: 10623804
    Abstract: A moving image capturing instructing terminal includes a communicator, a monitor, a memory, and a control unit. The control unit transmits recording start instruction information to a camera through the communicator. After the recording start instruction information is transmitted, the control unit receives moving image recording information related to the recording of the moving image from the camera through the communicator. After the recording start instruction information is transmitted, the control unit displays at least one of a scheduled recording period of time and a combination of a scheduled recording start time and a scheduled recording stop time through the monitor. After the moving image recording information is received, the control unit displays at least one of a recording period of time and a combination of a recording start time and a recording stop time through the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata Shinozaki, Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Kiiko Takamatsu, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Publication number: 20200053313
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a communicator, an image processing circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a first image. The image processing circuit is configured to generate a second image by performing image processing on the first image. The controller is configured to upload the second image to a page of a social networking service (SNS) by transmitting the second image to an SNS server by using the communicator. The controller is configured to record image management information in which the first image, image processing information that identifies the image processing, and an address of the page are associated with each other onto a storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Saori MATSUMOTO, Kensuke ISHII, Arata SHINOZAKI, Yoshitaka SATO
  • Patent number: 10420156
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal includes a first communication module performing wireless communication with an external terminal by using a first communication protocol; a second communication module performing wireless communication with the external terminal by using a second communication protocol; and a generation unit, wherein when the first communication module receives a connection request and terminal-specifying information specifying the external terminal, the generation unit generates a network identifier used for identifying a network using the second communication protocol based on the terminal-specifying information, the generation unit causes the second communication module to establish a logical link of communication with the external terminal by using the network identifier, and the generation unit subsequently causes the second communication module to start the network based on the network identifier such that the network is in a communicable state for the external terminal on a higher lay
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Shinozaki, Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Takayuki Nakatomi, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Publication number: 20190250234
    Abstract: An imaging time is shortened while reducing image distortion caused by a magnetic field disturbance caused by metal inside a subject. A plurality of frequency bands is set within a predetermined frequency range, a subject is caused to be irradiated with a high-frequency magnetic field pulse having one of the plurality of frequency bands from a transmission unit, a reception unit is caused to receive an NMR signal generated by the subject, an image generation unit is caused to repeatedly perform an operation for generating an image from the NMR signal while changing the frequency band, a plurality of images respectively corresponding to the plurality of frequency bands are obtained, and then the plurality of images are composited. In this case, the plurality of frequency bands are set so that adjacent frequency bands partially overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka SATO, Katsunari NAGASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10321047
    Abstract: An imaging-setting device includes a generation unit that generates a first value of a first control parameter, an input unit that inputs a second value of a second control parameter different from the first control parameter, that changes in accordance with the first value set in an imaging device and first image data generated by the imaging device in which the first value is set from the imaging device, a calculation unit that calculates a first difference between the first value and a third value of the first control parameter and a second difference between the second value and a fourth value of the second control parameter, and a display unit that shows first difference information indicating the first difference and second difference information indicating the second difference, and displays an image based on the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Shinozaki, Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 10178320
    Abstract: An image display terminal includes a memory configured to store a plurality of sample images and display time of the sample images; a display interface configured to display live images continuously output from an imaging module and the sample images; and a display control unit, wherein the display control unit performs a control to cause the live images to be displayed on the display interface, and cause a first image of the plurality of sample images to be displayed on the display interface for the display time, and when the display time has elapsed, the display control unit performs a control to cause the first image to be non-displayed, and cause a second image of the plurality of sample images, different from the first image and non-displayed, to be displayed on the displayer interface for the display time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Arata Shinozaki, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 10133157
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes a first communication module, a second communication module, and a generation unit. The first communication module receives first image data from a master imaging device. The first image data is generated by the master imaging device on the basis of second imaging-setting information. The generation unit generates first imaging-setting information from the second imaging-setting information stored in a storage module. The second communication module transmits the first imaging-setting information to two or more slave imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Matsumoto, Kensuke Ishii, Arata Shinozaki, Takayuki Nakatomi, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Publication number: 20180294092
    Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a case, and a joint. The primary and secondary coils are magnetically coupled with each other. The case includes a case body in which the primary and secondary coils are disposed and a cylindrical high-voltage tower which protrudes from a case bottom wall of the case body. The joint is fit on the high-voltage tower and a spark plug. The joint is of a cylindrical shape. A communicating void is formed between the high-voltage tower and the joint to communicate between an inner space of the high-voltage tower and the joint and an outer space disposed outside the high-voltage tower and the joint, thereby facilitating attachment or removal of the joint to or from the spark plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshitaka SATO
  • Publication number: 20180295410
    Abstract: A moving image capturing instructing terminal includes a communicator, a monitor, a memory, and a control unit. The control unit transmits recording start instruction information to a camera through the communicator. After the recording start instruction information is transmitted, the control unit receives moving image recording information related to the recording of the moving image from the camera through the communicator. After the recording start instruction information is transmitted, the control unit displays at least one of a scheduled recording period of time and a combination of a scheduled recording start time and a scheduled recording stop time through the monitor. After the moving image recording information is received, the control unit displays at least one of a recording period of time and a combination of a recording start time and a recording stop time through the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata SHINOZAKI, Kensuke ISHII, Saori MATSUMOTO, Kiiko TAKAMATSU, Yoshitaka SATO
  • Patent number: 10014149
    Abstract: In an X-ray radiation source, a counter wall made of alkali-containing glass, out of walls of a housing of an X-ray tube, is sandwiched between a filament and an electric field control electrode to each of which a negative high voltage is applied. This configuration prevents an electric field from being generated in the counter wall and thus suppresses precipitation of alkali ions from the glass. Therefore, it prevents change in potential relationship between electrodes at different potentials such as the filament, grid, and target and enables stable operation to be maintained, without occurrence of a trouble of failure in maintaining a desired X-ray amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: FUTABA CORPORATION, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Norimasa Kosugi, Naoki Okumura, Yoshitaka Sato, Akira Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Marushima, Kazuhito Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180139792
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal includes a first communication module performing wireless communication with an external terminal by using a first communication protocol; a second communication module performing wireless communication with the external terminal by using a second communication protocol; and a generation unit, wherein when the first communication module receives a connection request and terminal-specifying information specifying the external terminal, the generation unit generates a network identifier used for identifying a network using the second communication protocol based on the terminal-specifying information, the generation unit causes the second communication module to establish a logical link of communication with the external terminal by using the network identifier, and the generation unit subsequently causes the second communication module to start the network based on the network identifier such that the network is in a communicable state for the external terminal on a higher lay
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Arata SHINOZAKI, Kensuke ISHII, Saori MATSUMOTO, Takayuki Nakatomi, Yoshitaka SATO
  • Publication number: 20180088444
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes a first communication module, a second communication module, and a generation unit. The first communication module receives first image data from a master imaging device. The first image data is generated by the master imaging device on the basis of second imaging-setting information. The generation unit generates first imaging-setting information from the second imaging-setting information stored in a storage module. The second communication module transmits the first imaging-setting information to two or more slave imaging devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Saori MATSUMOTO, Kensuke ISHII, Arata SHINOZAKI, Takayuki NAKATOMI, Yoshitaka SATO
  • Patent number: 9762767
    Abstract: An imaging operation terminal includes: a storage section which stores software identification information for identifying imaging and editing software which performs at least one of an operation relating to imaging of an imaging module mounting an optical module and to editing of an image imaged by the imaging module in association with each combination of imaging module identification information for identifying imaging module and optical module identification information for identifying optical module; a communicating section which wirelessly receives the imaging module identification information for identifying the imaging module and the optical module identification information for identifying the optical module mounted to the imaging module from the imaging module when establishing wireless connection with the imaging module; and a software extracting section which extracts the software identification information corresponding to the combination of imaging module identification information and optical m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Echigo, Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Joji Sakamoto, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 9742987
    Abstract: An image pickup display apparatus includes: a communication section that is capable of receiving a picked-up image from an image pickup unit; a display section that displays the picked-up image received by the communication section; an operation section for controlling image pickup by the image pickup unit; a state determination section that determines a state of a case in which the communication section, the display section and the operation section are housed; and a control section that receives a result of determination performed by the state determination section, to change a user interface provided by the display section and the operation section based on whether or not the case is arranged on another object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Sato, Saori Matsumoto, Koji Sakai, Hiroki Amino, Yoshitaka Sato, Tsuyoshi Yaji, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 9681036
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging module configured to continuously generate a live image and perform capture to generate still images, a communication module configured to transmit the live image to a display apparatus and receive a capturing command from the display apparatus, a transmission detection unit configured to detect whether the live image is being transmitted to the display apparatus, an information addition unit configured to add transmission information indicating whether the transmission of the live image is being performed before the capturing command is received to the still images generated based on the capturing command, and a storage module configured to store the still images with the transmission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Ishii, Saori Matsumoto, Arata Shinozaki, Yoshitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 9664765
    Abstract: In order to obtain a highly reliable image with no image distortion or no artifacts, such as ghosting, by compensating for the distortion of an output gradient magnetic field waveform caused by various factors with high accuracy, an input gradient magnetic field waveform and an output gradient magnetic field waveform corresponding to the input gradient magnetic field waveform are calculated, a response function that is a sum of response functions of a plurality of elements affecting the output gradient magnetic field waveform is calculated using the input gradient magnetic field waveform and the output gradient magnetic field waveform, an output gradient magnetic field waveform is calculated from an input gradient magnetic field waveform of a gradient magnetic field pulse set in the imaging sequence using the response function, and various kinds of correction are performed using the calculated value of the calculated output gradient magnetic field waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Hanada, Yoshitaka Sato, Kosuke Hirai, Kuniharu Oka, Masahiro Takizawa, Naoya Sakaguchi, Hidehisa Akimaru, Miyuki Kawamura