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).

  • DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20150123954
    Abstract: A device for controlling a display apparatus includes: an image acquiring portion that acquires first image data containing a tone value of each pixel; a parameter acquiring portion that acquires a parameter for determining a tone used to display an image, from among the tones of the pixel that change in a discrete manner; and a tone reducing portion that determines, in a case of reducing the number of tones to a number of tones smaller than that of the first image data, each tone value after the reduction of the number of tones, according to the parameter acquired by the parameter acquiring portion, and generates second image data in which the number of tones in the first image data acquired by the image acquiring portion has been reduced based on the determined tone value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamada, Kota Muto
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20150128054
    Abstract: An electronic device that requires setup of plural setting items upon initial startup operations includes a storage unit that stores designated setting information and setting status information indicating whether the setting items have been set up, which designated setting information and setting status information are stored and updated each time the setup of one of the setting items is completed; and a startup processing unit that refers to the storage unit upon performing startup operations to determine whether at least one of the setting items has been set up and starts setup operations for the setting items that have not yet been set up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Sugimoto, Yohei Yamamoto
  • SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDE AND PEPTIDE GEL WITH HIGH STRENGTH
    Publication number: 20150125611
    Abstract: Provide are a peptide gel with practically sufficient mechanical strength and a self-assembling peptide capable of forming the peptide gel. The self-assembling peptide is formed of the following amino acid sequence: a1b1c1b2a2b3db4a3b5c2b6a4 where: a1 to a4 each represent a basic amino acid residue; b1 to b6 each represent an uncharged polar amino acid residue and/or a hydrophobic amino acid residue, provided that at least five thereof each represent a hydrophobic amino acid residue; c1 and c2 each represent an acidic amino acid residue; and d represents a hydrophobic amino acid residue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicants: Menicon Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Hidenori Yokoi, Koji Uesugi, Keiji Naruse
  • BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150127226
    Abstract: A brake control device for a vehicle which can prevent occurrence of hunting or stepping during braking control operation and includes a pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selecting portion which selects a pressure increasing characteristic when a target wheel cylinder pressure increases continuously for a predetermined operation judgment period and selects a pressure decreasing characteristic when the target wheel cylinder pressure decreases continuously for a predetermined operation judgment period. The brake control device further includes an output servo pressure setting portion which sets a target servo pressure based on the pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selected by the pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selecting portion and a servo pressure generating device which generates a servo pressure based on the target servo pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyohito Takeuchi, Yoshio Maduda, Masaaki Komazawa, Yusuke Kamiya
  • COOLANT PASSAGE STRUCTURE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20150122204
    Abstract: A coolant passage structure for an internal combustion engine includes a coolant communication member. The coolant communication member includes a centrifugal water pump, a housing portion, a scroll portion, a second coolant passage portion, a first coolant passage portion, a direction of a center line of the second coolant passage portion, and a rib. The first coolant passage portion includes a downstream region connected to an upstream region of the second coolant passage portion. A direction of a center line of the first coolant passage portion is parallel to a direction of a rotation shaft of the centrifugal water pump. The direction of the center line of the second coolant passage portion is orthogonal to the direction of the center line of the first coolant passage portion. The rib is disposed on an internal circumferential surface of the first coolant passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi KITAHARA, Takahiro YAMAUCHI, Yusuke KATO
  • IMPRINT APPARATUS, IMPRINTING MOLD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20150123313
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern on a substrate by contacting an imprint material on the substrate with a mold includes a mold holding member configured to hold the mold and a mold deforming mechanism for applying a force to a side surface of the mold in a direction along a pattern face of the mold in which the pattern is formed in order to deform the pattern formed in the mold held by the mold holding member. The mold deforming mechanism includes a contact portion to contact with the side surface of the mold to press against the side surface. The contact portion is shaped such that a dimension of part of the contact portion to contact with the side surface of the mold is less than a dimension of part of the contact portion away from the side surface of the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Hirotoshi Torii
  • SEAT APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20150122556
    Abstract: A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a load detection device measuring a load applied to a seat, an offset amount detection portion adding an offset amount being offset from zero, the offset amount of the load detection device occurred by a collision of the vehicle to a value stored as an offset amount occurred before the collision of the vehicle, the offset amount detection portion storing the offset amount occurred by the collision of the vehicle and the offset amount occurred before the collision of the vehicle as the offset amount in a case where a collision load value occurred by the collision of the vehicle and detected by the load detection device exceeds a predetermined value, and a correction portion correcting a load value detected by the load detection device on the basis of the offset amount stored in the offset amount detection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Honda, Yoshiaki Tomatsu, Yusuke Takahashi, Tomomi Tomizawa
  • Augmented reality system, apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9024974
    Abstract: Information technology tools can be provided to manage access by a plurality of attendees through a network to a presentation. Each of the attendees is registered with an associated content access status, and presentation data for the presentation is provided to a registered attendee based on the particular content access status of the registered attendee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tamari
  • Element mounting substrate and semiconductor module
    Patent number: 9024446
    Abstract: Conventional printed circuit boards had a problem of being inferior in heat-radiation characteristic, and metal-core printed circuit boards adopted to improve the heat-radiation characteristic had problems in having low rigidity and a tendency to bend. The ductility of the metal can be obstructed, and the metal protected; by covering substantially the whole area of the front and back sides of the metal core, consisting of metal as the main material, with a first ceramic film and a second ceramic film that obstruct the ductility of the aforementioned metal-core; and covering each of the ceramic films with insulated resin films, to cover the fragility of these ceramics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Usui, Yusuke Igarashi, Yasunori Inoue, Mayumi Nakasato, Masayuki Nagamatsu, Yasuhiro Kohara
  • Developing roller
    Patent number: 9026014
    Abstract: Provided is a developing roller in which printing quality, in particular, one-dot level fine line printing quality is improved by securing a high resistance value and high surface potential on the surface layer. The elastic roller comprises successively on the outer periphery of a shaft 1 an elastic layer 2, an intermediate layer 3, and a surface layer 4. The surface layer 4 contains a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer obtained by allowing polybutadiene polyol or hydrogenated polybutadiene polyol, polyisocyanate, and (meth)acrylate having a hydroxyl group to react.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Akihide Oosaku, Shogo Imai, Yusuke Fujisawa
  • Push switch
    Patent number: 9024219
    Abstract: A push switch of the present invention includes a case in which a concave portion is formed. The push switch of the present invention includes a movable member formed so as to be convex upward and arranged in the concave portion. The push switch of the present invention includes a protecting sheet provided above the movable member so as to cover the concave portion, the protecting sheet having an adhesive formed on a lower surface thereof. The push switch of the present invention is provided with an intermediate sheet between a lower surface of the adhesive and an upper surface of the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakaoka, Kojiro Yano
  • Photocurable composition
    Patent number: 9023949
    Abstract: Conventionally, a photocurable resin can be used for forming a soft cured product but is difficult to have thick film curability and exhibit moisture resistance. A photocurable composition containing components (A) to (D), in which a ratio of a (meth)acrylate monomer having an aromatic group in the component (C) is 30 to 100%: the component (A): an isoprene polymer having a (meth)acrylic group, the component (B): an isoprene polymer having a hydroxyl group, the component (C): at least one kind of (meth)acrylate monomers selected from a (meth)acrylate monomer having an aromatic group and an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer, and the component (D): a hydrogenated terpene resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Three Bond Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Imai, Naoya Otsuki, Huo Chuanjia
  • Interferometer and fourier spectrometer using same
    Patent number: 9025156
    Abstract: Provided is a small, highly accurate Fourier spectrometer which enables highly accurate detection of an optical path difference in an interferometer. An element for changing to a narrow band is provided to return reflected light to a second light source (4), and the wavelength of light emitted by the second light source is locked, whereby the position of a movable mirror (8) is measured highly accurately and an optical path length (1) and an optical path length (2) match highly accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Hirao
  • Method for producing substrate having concavity and convexity structure and method for producing organic EL element using the same
    Patent number: 9023668
    Abstract: A method for producing a substrate having an irregular concave and convex surface for scattering light includes: manufacturing a substrate having the irregular concave and convex surface; irradiating the concave and convex surface of the manufactured substrate with inspection light from a direction oblique to a normal direction and detecting returning light of the inspection light returned from the concave and convex surface by a light-receiving element provided in the normal direction of the concave and convex surface; and judging unevenness of luminance of the concave and convex surface by an image processing device based on light intensity of the returning light received. An organic EL element which includes a diffraction-grating substrate having an irregular concave and convex surface is produced with a high throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Sato, Suzushi Nishimura
  • Eyeglasses-type wireless communications apparatus
    Patent number: 9024830
    Abstract: An eyeglasses-type wireless communications device includes: left and right eyepiece sections; pads; endpieces; temples; and an antenna element for carrying out wireless communications, and the antenna element is disposed in a region along an outer edge(s) of the right eyepiece section and/or the left eyepiece section, the region including corresponding one(s) of the endpieces but excluding connecting parts of the eyepiece sections which parts are connected to the respectively corresponding pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Okajima, Tomofumi Katayama
  • Tibia pad and tibia pad installation structure
    Patent number: 9022451
    Abstract: A tibia pad has: a right foot placement portion having a right side horizontal portion positioned beneath and rearward of an accelerator pedal on which a passenger's heel who is stepping-on the accelerator pedal is placed, and a right side inclined portion integrally formed with a vehicle front side of the right side horizontal portion and positioned beneath the accelerator pedal; and a rib formed at least at a bottom surface of the right side horizontal portion at the right foot placement portion by a region between a pair of groove portions that are formed so as to extend along a vehicle longitudinal direction and so as to be lined-up in a vehicle transverse direction, and that is provided at a position that is offset toward a vehicle transverse direction one side with respect to a central line that passes-through a vehicle transverse direction central portion of the accelerator pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eisuke Ikeno, Kunio Ohashi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Yusuke Fukushima
  • Structure for fixing electric part for motor-driven compressor
    Patent number: 9025334
    Abstract: An electric part fixing structure for a motor-driven compressor includes an electric part having a plurality of leads and a guide member for positioning the leads. The guide member is made of a plastic and has a guide hole through which the lead is passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shingo Enami, Yusuke Kinoshita, Masanori Tsuzuki
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program
    Patent number: 9024881
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a display controller that controls a display to display a keyboard, an interface that receives position information corresponding to a user input detected at a user interface, and a processor that determines that the received position information corresponds to a first determination region of a first key of the displayed keyboard and expands a second determination region of a second key based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Nomura, Fuminori Homma, Yusuke Miyazawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Medium conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus, medium conveying system, and medium conveying method
    Patent number: 9022386
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying status detecting unit configured to determine a conveyance status of a medium based on a driving torque of a driving unit, wherein the conveying unit is configured to convey the medium at a reference speed, the reference speed being faster than the upstream conveying unit at least when the medium is conveyed from the upstream conveying unit, and the reference speed being slower than the downstream conveying unit at least when the medium is conveyed to the downstream conveying unit, and wherein the conveyance status of the medium is detected by the comparison of a prescribed reference torque to the driving torque of the driving unit at least when the medium is conveyed between the upstream conveying unit and the conveying unit or when the medium is conveyed between the conveying unit and the downstream conveying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kasamai, Yusuke Ishizaki, Takahisa Koike
  • Display control device, display control method, and program
    Patent number: 9025012
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including an image adjustment unit for taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment, and a display control unit for performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted by the image adjustment unit and the other object image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa