Patents by Inventor Yusuke

Yusuke 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: 20150229946
    Abstract: An image encoding device include a predicting unit for adaptively determining the size of each motion prediction unit block according to color component signals, and for dividing each motion prediction unit block into motion vector allocation regions to search for a motion vector, and a variable length encoding unit for, when a motion vector is allocated to the whole of each motion prediction unit block, performing encoding in mc_skip mode if the motion vector is equal to an estimated vector and a prediction error signal does not exist, and for, when each motion vector allocation region has a size equal to or larger than a predetermined size and a motion vector is allocated to the whole of each motion vector allocation region, performing encoding in sub_mc_skip mode if the motion vector is equal to an estimated vector and a prediction error signal does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi SEKIGUCHI, Kazuo SUGIMOTO, Yusuke ITANI, Akira MINEZAWA, Yoshiaki KATO
  • Publication number: 20150227009
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate is provided with first and second main pixel electrodes electrically connected each other extending along a first direction, respectively. A second substrate includes first to third main common electrodes electrically connected each other extending along the first direction, respectively. The first main pixel electrode is arranged between the first and second main common electrodes, and the second main pixel electrode is arranged between the second and third main common electrodes. Four inter-electrode distances are formed. One of the four inter-electrode distances is set to an optimal inter-electrode distance, and one of the four inter-electrode distances is different from at least one of the other three inter-electrode distances. Herein, the optimal inter-electrode distance is defined as follows: in a range of voltage which is applied between the electrodes, more than 90% of a peak transmissivity is obtained by the optimal inter-electrode distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hitomi HASEGAWA, Jin HIROSAWA, Arihiro TAKEDA, Nobuko FUKUOKA, Yusuke MORITA
  • Publication number: 20150228447
    Abstract: A sample observation method includes irradiating a sample with a primary charged particle beam, detecting a secondary charged particle signal obtained by the irradiating, and observing the sample. The method is characterized by causing the primary charged particle beam generated in a charged particle optical lens barrel, which is maintained in a vacuum state, to be transmitted or passed through a separating film disposed to isolate a space in which the sample is placed from the charged particle optical lens barrel; and detecting a transmitted charged particle beam obtained by irradiating the sample, placed in an atmospheric pressure or a predetermined gas atmosphere of a slightly negative pressure state compared with the atmospheric pressure, with the primary charged particle beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Ominami, Sukehiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20150228449
    Abstract: In a charged particle beam device that performs observation of a sample under a gas environment in atmospheric pressure or pressure substantially equal to the atmospheric pressure, a diaphragm that separates an atmospheric pressure space, in which the sample is placed, and a vacuum space in an interior of an electron optical lens barrel is made very thin in order to allow an electron beam to transmit therethrough and damaged with a high possibility. Although at the time of replacing the diaphragm, it is necessary to adjust a position of a diaphragm, it is impossible to easily perform the adjustment of the position of the diaphragm by a conventional method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kawanishi, Yusuke Ominami, Masahiko Ajima, Hiroyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150227068
    Abstract: The magnetic toner contains a magnetic toner particle having a binder resin and a magnetic body, and inorganic fine particles, wherein the average circularity of the magnetic toner is at least 0.955 and, when classifying the inorganic fine particles, in accordance with the fixing strength thereof to the magnetic toner particle and in the sequence of the weakness of the fixing strength, as first inorganic fine particles, second inorganic fine particles, and third inorganic fine particles, the content of the first inorganic fine particles, the ratio of the second inorganic fine particles to the first inorganic fine particles, and the coverage ratio X are in prescribed ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sano, Yusuke Hasegawa, Shuichi Hiroko, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Keisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9102987
    Abstract: A method of detecting Paecilomyces variotii, containing identifying Paecilomyces variotii using a nucleic acid represented by the following nucleotide sequence (a) or (b): (a) a partial nucleotide sequence of a ?-tubulin gene set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 4 and 22 to 33, or a complementary sequence thereof; and (b) a nucleotide sequence which includes a nucleotide sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 4 and 22 to 33 which has a deletion, substitution, or addition of one to several nucleotides and can be used for detecting Paecilomyces variotii, or a complementary sequence thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Hosoya, Motokazu Nakayama, Hajime Tokuda, Takashi Yaguchi, Yusuke Hiro
  • Patent number: 9102892
    Abstract: A method for estimating the thermal plasticity of coal and a caking additive by observing the thermal plasticity of coal and a caking additive under the condition that sufficiently simulates an environment surrounding thermal plastic coal and a caking additive in a coke oven and to provide a method for preparing coal of a brand having a specified quality by making clear the required quality of a coal brand which can be ideally used for manufacturing high-strength coke by using the estimation method. A method for preparing coal for coke making, the method including adjusting a permeation distance of one or more kinds of coal to a specified value or less when plural coal brands are blended as materials to be used for coke making is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Dohi, Izumi Shimoyama, Kiyoshi Fukada, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Sumi
  • Patent number: 9105869
    Abstract: A light-emitting device which is thin and lightweight and has high flexibility, impact resistance, and reliability is provided. Further, a light-emitting device which is thin and lightweight and has high flexibility, impact resistance, and hermeticity is provided. In the light-emitting device in which a light-emitting region including a transistor and a light-emitting element is sealed between a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate, an opening is provided in the second flexible substrate around a region overlapping with the light-emitting region, the opening is filled with frit glass containing low-melting glass and bonding the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate, and the fit glass is provided so as to be in contact with an insulating layer provided over the first flexible substrate. The second flexible substrate may include an opening in a region overlapping with the light-emitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nishido
  • Patent number: 9102028
    Abstract: A machine tool cooling system and cooling method which allow cost reduction by reducing the number of control valves, and in which opening/closing control is simple are disclosed. The machine tool cooling system and cooling method include a hot oil tank storing hot oil, a cold oil tank storing cold oil, a first to third hot oil passages and a first to third cold oil passages, which supply the hot oil and the cold oil to a first to third heat generating portions, a hot oil return passage returning the hot oil to the hot oil tank, a first to third supply control valves interposed in the first to third cold oil passages, and a valve controller controlling opening/closing of the first to third supply control valves so that the cold oil is supplied to the first to third heat generating portions intermittently at different timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyamoto, Naoki Furukawa, Masahiro Oguma, Yusuke Ikeda, Yoichi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9104132
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a signal generating unit that stores information on a plurality of dither matrices preset in correspondence with the density level of toner to be attached to the photosensitive member and converts input image data based on the dither matrices to generate a driving signal. The signal generating unit stores information on a first dither matrix corresponding to a first density level and a second dither matrix corresponding to a second density level higher than the first density level. The first dither matrix includes a minute exposure area in which the exposure device is caused to emit light to attain a potential at which no toner adheres to the photosensitive member, and the second dither matrix includes a normal exposure area in which the exposure device is caused to emit light to attain a potential at which toner adheres to the photosensitive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Iida, Yusuke Shimizu, Toshihiko Takayama, Ryo Morihara
  • Patent number: 9102164
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus determines a color range based on a dot counting value of a number of colors smaller than a number of colors subjected to thinning processing. Thus, even if the number of ink colors subjected to the thinning processing is great, a processing load of the determination of the color range can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yusuke Komano
  • Patent number: 9105716
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type provided on a main surface of the first semiconductor layer and having a lower impurity concentration than that of the first semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type provided on the second semiconductor layer; a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type selectively provided on the third semiconductor layer; a gate electrode provided in a trench passing through the third semiconductor layer and reaching the second semiconductor layer; a first main electrode contacting the fourth semiconductor layer and contacting the third semiconductor layer through a contact groove provided to pass through the fourth semiconductor layer between the contiguous gate electrodes; a second main electrode provided on an opposite surface to the main surface of the first semiconductor layer; and a fifth semiconductor layer of the s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Miwako Akiyama, Yusuke Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9103330
    Abstract: There is provided a motor including, a rotating portion and a stationary portion. The mounting plate includes a substantially cylindrical fixing cylindrical portion; an annular upper plate portion; an annular circumferential portion; and a mounting portion. A lower end of the fixing cylindrical portion is arranged at a level lower than that of a lower end of a bushing press-fit area. At least one of a lower end of a sleeve fixing area in which an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve and an inner circumferential surface of the bushing cylindrical portion are in contact with each other and a lower end of a radial gap which supports the shaft is arranged at a level higher than that of an upper end of the bushing press-fit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Kawano, Yusuke Iwai, Hidehiko Hidaka
  • Patent number: 9105734
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a base insulating film including silicon, an oxide semiconductor film over the base insulating film, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode which is in contact with the gate insulating film and overlaps with at least the oxide semiconductor film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a region in which a concentration of silicon distributed from the interface with the base insulating film toward an inside of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %. A crystal portion is included at least in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Honda, Masashi Tsubuku, Yusuke Nonaka, Takashi Shimazu
  • Patent number: 9106834
    Abstract: An image display controller capable of providing excellent visibility of a face display frame and a human display frame associated with an object. The image display controller detects an object in an image, and identifies a face area of the object distinguishably from a human body area exclusive of the face area. Further, the image display controller generates a face display frame for enclosing the face area and a human body display frame for enclosing the human body area. Then, the image display controller displays the face display frame and the human body display frame on a screen together with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Saori Hoda, Yoshinobu Sato, Yasushi Ohwa, Yusuke Takeuchi, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9102292
    Abstract: A steering apparatus (1) is provided, which includes: a key lock collar (5) being fitted on a steering shaft (2) and restricted from rotating by a steering lock mechanism when performing a steering lock; and a slip ring (8) being interposed between the steering shaft (2) and the key lock collar (5) in radial directions, wherein the slip ring (8) includes a plurality of protruded portions (9) protruding outwardly or inwardly in the radial directions and being provided in a circumferential direction, and an inner peripheral portion of the key lock collar (5) covering the slip ring (8) is formed with large-diameter portions (7a) and small-diameter portions (7b) in the axial direction, thereby further stabilizing slip torque of the key lock and enlarging a range of dimensional allowance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Suemasu, Masaya Jouta
  • Patent number: 9102637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel bicyclic thiazole compounds that inhibit Traf2- and Nck-interacting kinase (TNIK), and as such are useful as TNIK inhibitors administered to cancer patients, especially to solid cancer patients such as colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer or breast cancer. The bicyclic thiazole compounds are showed by a next formula (I). (wherein R1, R2, R3 and Q are as defined in the specification), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: CARNA BIOSCIENCES, INC., NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Masaaki Sawa, Hideki Moriyama, Tesshi Yamada, Miki Shitashige, Yusuke Kawase, Yuko Uno
  • Patent number: 9103361
    Abstract: A clip includes a clip body, displacement portions, engagement portions and curved protruding portions. The clip body can be accommodated between a first through-hole of a protruding portion of a first object to be fixed and a second object to be fixed. The displacement portions are provided on both end portions of the clip body along a virtual line. The engagement portions are provided at leading end side of the displacement portions so as to engage with the protruding portion when the clip body is pulled out from the first through-hole. The curved protruding portions provided at both end portions of the clip body and each are engaged with a curved corner portion formed in the second object to be fixed when the clip body is pulled out from the first through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gen Tanabe, Haruka Tsuda, Yusuke Inoue, Hajime Naoi
  • Patent number: 9106862
    Abstract: A print control device communicably connected to an inkjet recording apparatus capable of performing form overlay printing for incorporating original document data into form data, the print control device comprising: a correction unit that performs head shading correction on the form data based on information of a characteristic of a nozzle of a recording head provided in the inkjet recording apparatus; a storage unit that stores the form data therein; and a control unit that, upon reception of information on another recording head different from the recording head, causes the correction unit to perform head shading correction on the form data stored in the storage unit based on information of a characteristic of a nozzle of the another recording head, and causes a transmission unit to transmit, to the inkjet recording apparatus, the original document data and corrected form data corresponding to the another recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH INC.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9106808
    Abstract: A processor includes: a data transmission/reception section that reads parameter data unique to a scope from a ROM provided in the scope; a register communication state determination section that determines whether or not the parameter data read from the data transmission/reception section has an error; and a mute control/color bar control section that if a result of the determination by the register communication state determination section indicates that the parameter data has an error, controls an image processing section according to a type of the parameter data having the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Toshihiro Hamada, Yusuke Takenouchi