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Hirokazu Kobayashi

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090100577DOUBLE LENS - A double lens includes a front lens member, a back lens member and a gasket. A back curve side of the front lens member and a front curve side of the back lens member are contraposed in parallel, and fixed together with the gasket, at least one of the back curve side of the front lens member and the front curve side of the back lens member has an antifogging film which is formed avoiding part of a gasket bonding area. This double lens provides goggles or a shield in which fogging is less likely to be generated, the gasket is less likely to be separated, and the front curve side of the front lens member is less likely to be damaged.04-23-2009
20090323515OFDM TRANSMITTTER AND OFDM RECEIVER - In an environment with large transmission delays, use of an OFDM transmitter which includes: a pilot/data allocator for allocating pilot/data symbols on OFDM symbols and an OFDM receiver which includes: an antenna for receiving the OFDM signals sent out from the antenna of this OFDM transmitter; a ratio unit for frequency transforming the OFDM signals received as RF signals to baseband signals; a frequency offset estimate for estimating an offset value; and a frequency offset corrector for performing frequency compensation by the amount of the frequency offset, improves data transmission efficiency while reducing interference of data between sub-carriers to prevent degradation of reception characteristics by performing appropriate frequency offset correction.12-31-2009
20110106953WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - In a reception apparatus that receives random access signals transmitted from a transmission apparatus by being allocated to preset resources, the reception apparatus includes a resource allocation configuration candidate storage section that stores in advance a plurality of different resource allocation configurations which are obtained by combining the resources and have different sizes of the combined resources, a resource allocation configuration decision section that decides a resource allocation configuration from resource allocation configurations stored in the resource allocation configuration candidate storage section based on a value indicating a receiving frequency of the random access signal, and a resource allocation configuration report section that reports information of the resource allocation configuration decided by the resource allocation configuration decision section.05-05-2011
20110256840SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD - A synchronization device including a plurality of counter sections each outputting a numerical signal indicating a counted number by detecting a clock, the synchronization device includes: a first counter section which outputs the numerical signal; a counter synchronization signal output section which outputs a counter synchronization signal indicating the same number as the number indicated by the numerical signal output by the first counter section; and a second counter section which outputs a numerical signal indicating the same number at the same timing as that of the first counter section based on the number indicated by the counter synchronization signal output by the counter synchronization signal output section.10-20-2011
20120094706WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication system includes at least one terminal apparatus and one communication apparatus which perform communication in a plurality of frequency bands. The terminal apparatus includes: a function information storing unit which pre-stores frequency band information indicating available frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands and the number of simultaneously available frequency bands; and a terminal control unit which reads the frequency band information stored in the function information storing unit and transmits the read frequency band information to the communication apparatus via a first wireless communication unit. The communication apparatus includes: a base station control unit which selects at least one frequency band from the plurality of frequency bands based on the frequency band information transmitted from the terminal apparatus; and a second wireless communication unit which communicates with the terminal apparatus by use of the frequency band selected by the base station control unit.04-19-2012

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Osaka JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Asaka-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110058083SOLID STATE IMAGING DEVICE WITH HORIZONTAL TRANSFER PATHS AND A DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR - In a solid state imaging device, signal charges are branched to be output to in the form of one or plural outputs. At a horizontal transfer speed not lower than a predetermined transfer speed, the imaging device transfers signal charges of color attributes classified by a branching section, to plural horizontal transfer paths, where the signal charges are converted into analog voltage signals, which will be output synchronously. At a horizontal transfer speed lower than the predetermined transfer speed, the analog voltage signal converted is output from, e.g. the horizontal transfer path which has been selected. Output amplifiers arranged on the horizontal transfer paths are differentiated in sensitivities in detecting signal charges, depending on color attributes of signal charges supplied, and output the analog voltage signals.03-10-2011

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Asaka-Shi JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Higashiosaka-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110043902OPTICAL ARTICLE - The present invention relates to an optical article which has high surface hardness and absorbs an electromagnetic wave such as a visible light, ultraviolet radiation, infrared radiation, X-rays, β-rays and γ-rays, in particular, a functional optical article represented by a prescription lens, sunglasses, a goggle lens, a shield and an optical filter. The present invention provides an optical article comprising a laminated substance in which a plastic sheet, a resin layer and a backup resin are laminated in this order, wherein the resin layer containing an electromagnetic wave absorbing agent.02-24-2011

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090180448RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND AD HOC ROUTE INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD - The invention is to provide a wireless commutation device which can maintain fairness of transmission powers for wireless communication devices in an ad hoc network and reduce processing load and power consumption of a wireless commutation device. In a case when receiving a communication request from the upper layer processing unit 07-16-2009
20100052842THERMISTOR - A thermistor has a sealing portion of glass which seals at least a thermistor element body, first and second electrodes, and ends of the first and second lead wires and an insulating portion which covers portions of the first and second lead wires exposed from the sealing portion. The first and second lead wires are spaced from each other and include respective first portions extending from the aforementioned ends and spaced from each other with a first space, respective second portions spaced from each other with a second space larger than the first space, and respective third portions spaced from each other with a space varying from the first space to the second space, between the first and second portions. The insulating portion covers the first portions of the first and second lead wires together and covers the second and third portions of the first and second lead wires independently for each of the first and second lead wires.03-04-2010
20100111057WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND ACCESS POINT CONNECTION METHOD - A wireless communication device quickly connectable to an access point of a destination service area without wasting power when the wireless communication device moves from a service area to a different one. When a state change detecting section (05-06-2010
20100214054THERMISTOR DEVICE - The present invention relates to a laminate thermistor device comprising a lead terminal 12 connected to a terminal electrode 10. A device main body 4 is a rectangular parallelepiped having mutually perpendicular first side 408-26-2010
20110007713MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - Disclosed are a mobile communication device and mobile communication method which make it possible to reduce the amount of the data transfer during heterogeneous network handover processing in the hard handover processing in a mobile network. The mobile communication device which is equipped with a plurality of kinds of radio communication interfaces, receives a request to perform the handover between heterogeneous networks, which requests switching from a radio communication interface in use to another radio communication interface from the mobile communication network, and performs the handover between the heterogeneous networks comprises a measurement processing section (01-13-2011
20110125915TCP TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE AND TCP TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A TCP transmission control device enables high-efficiency TCP transmission for appliance integrated service provided via a home network. A TCP destination cache control unit (05-26-2011
20120127920RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - Provided area wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method, which are capable of preventing concentration of the data delivery requests from the wireless communication terminal apparatuses and thus reducing power consumption occurring when the wireless communication terminal waits for data delivery. AID managing section (05-24-2012

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Tokyo JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100119105Image processing device and image processing progam - Provided is a technology of embedding watermark data into an arbitrarily-shaped region by applying a wavelet transform. Prepared are: image data into which the watermark data is to be embedded; a shape map that defines the arbitrarily-shaped region into which the watermark data is to be embedded within the image data; and the watermark data. An SA-DWT processing unit uses the shape map to recognize a given region included in the arbitrarily-shaped region within the image data, and subjects image data in the given region to the wavelet transform. The wavelet transform causes the image data in the arbitrarily-shaped region to be divided into frequency bands, and a watermark data embedding unit embeds the watermark data into a frequency space of the image data generated by the dividing. An SA-IDWT processing unit subjects the resultant to an inverse wavelet transform, and watermark-embedded image data is generated.05-13-2010
20110008043OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK, REMOTE UNIT, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - The present invention is to provide an optical access network in which a remote unit receives an optical burst signal. A central unit (OLT) transmits a DC-balanced optical continuous signal including packets having identification information for identifying each remote unit (ONU) to an optical switching module (OSM). The optical switching module (OSM) receives the DC-balanced optical continuous signal from the central unit (OLT), optically switches the packets based on the identification information, and transmits a DC-balanced optical burst signal including the packets to the remote unit (ONU). The remote unit (ONU) receives the DC-balanced optical burst signal and acquires the packets transmitted to the remote unit (ONU).01-13-2011
20120014893ANTIMYCOTIC PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - In a pharmaceutical composition for external use containing a compound such as luliconazole and/or a salt thereof in an amount of 5% by mass or more, comprised is/are acetone, a polyoxyethylene alkyl (having 8 to 30 carbon atoms) ether, and/or a polyoxyethylene alkenyl (having 8 to 30 carbon atoms) ether. Provided is a preparation using a solvent other than crotamiton, propylene carbonate, and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone as a solvent for solubilization and steric stabilization and having the following properties: 1) when a compound represented by the general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof has a stereoisomer, the amount of the stereoisomer of the compound and/or a salt thereof produced under a preservation condition of 60° C. for 3 weeks is 1% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the compound and/or a salt thereof at the beginning of preservation; 2) the preparation is in a clear liquid state when preserved at a constant temperature of 20° C. immediately after manufacture; and 3) no crystal is deposited when the preparation is preserved at 5° C. for 2 weeks after manufacture.01-19-2012
20120022120ANTIMYCOTIC PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - In a pharmaceutical composition for external use containing a compound such as luliconazole and/or a salt thereof, comprised are a higher alcohol which is in a liquid state at 1 atm and 25° C. and/or a diester of a dibasic acid, provided that a diester carbonate is excluded, and a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether and/or a polyoxyethylene alkenyl ether. Provided is a preparation using a solvent other than crotamiton, propylene carbonate, and N-methyl-2-pyrroridone as a solvent for solubilization and steric stabilization and having the following properties: 1) when a compound represented by the general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof has a stereoisomer, the amount of the stereoisomer of the compound and/or a salt thereof produced under a preservation condition of 60 degrees C. for 3 weeks is 1% by mass or less with respect to the total mass of the compound and/or a salt thereof at the beginning of preservation; 2) the preparation is in a clear liquid state when preserved at a constant temperature of 20° C. immediately after manufacture; and 3) no crystal is deposited when the preparation is preserved at 5° C. for 2 weeks after manufacture.01-26-2012

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kanagawa JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Wako-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100301630VEHICLE BODY SIDE STRUCTURE - A vehicle body side structure in which a load acting from the front of the vehicle body is efficiently transferred to a door beam, whereby the weight of a side sill is reduced. A vehicle body side structure includes a front door provided to a front vehicle body opening via a front hinge, a front door beam provided to the front door and coupled at the front end to the front hinge, and an interaction for transferring a load to a rear part of the vehicle body, the interaction being provided to the side of the front hinge facing the front of the vehicle body. The front hinge includes a front attachment part provided to the vehicle body, and a front coupling part rotatably supported on the front attachment part and coupled with the front door beam. The front attachment part has a front bearing for bearing a load acting from the interaction.12-02-2010

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100231206INDUCTION DETECTING TYPE ROTARY ENCODER - An induction detecting type rotary encoder includes: a stator; a rotor configured to be rotated with respect to a rotary shaft; a first transmitting coil; a second transmitting coil; a first receiving coil; a second receiving coil; a first magnetic flux coupling body; and a second magnetic flux coupling body. The first transmitting coil is disposed between the first and second receiving coils. A distance between the second transmitting coil and the rotary shaft is larger than that of the second receiving coil and the rotary shaft. The first magnetic flux coupling body forms a first track for causing a periodic change for each rotation. The second magnetic flux coupling body forms a second track for causing a periodic change for each rotation. The second magnetic flux coupling body has a pattern of which an inner peripheral side is substantially continuous in a circumferential direction.09-16-2010

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Chiba JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100138023Production schedule creation device and method, production process control device and method, computer program, and computer-readable recording medium - A production schedule creation device includes: a production simulator (06-03-2010
20100168893Production schedule creation device and method, production process control device and method, computer program, and computer-readable recording medium - A production schedule creation device includes: a production simulator (07-01-2010

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090002537METHOD FOR DRIVING CCD-TYPE SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A method for driving a CCD-type solid-state imaging device includes: reading charges detected by photoelectric conversion elements into potential packets A (B) formed in a charge transfer path, dividing each potential packet A (B) into plural segment packets A01-01-2009
20090086073IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device 04-02-2009
20100102803INDUCTION DETECTING ROTARY ENCODER - An induction detecting rotary encoder has first to third transmitting windings, first to third receiving windings, and first to third flux coupling winding. The first transmitting winding, the first receiving winding, and the first flux coupling body constitute a first angle detection track generating a cyclic change for N04-29-2010

Patent applications by Hirokazu Kobayashi, Saitama JP

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Saitama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080239129METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE SYNTHESIZING METHOD - A method for driving a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, each of the plurality of pixels accumulating a signal charge according to an amount of incident light, is provided. The method includes: performing electron multiplication of a first signal charge at a first multiplication factor to output a first image signal; and performing electron multiplication of a second signal charge at a second multiplication factor to output a second image signal, at least the first and second image signals being image signals of the same scene of a subject and being successively output.10-02-2008
20080309808METHOD OF DRIVING CCD SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A method of driving a CCD solid-state image pickup device, which performs multiplication driving on the signal charges, the method including: reading out signal charges from a plurality of photoelectric converting elements that are arranged in a two-dimensional array-like pattern to a charge transfer path that is disposed in parallel to a photoelectric converting element column of the photoelectric converting elements; and applying a multiplying pulse to a multiplying electrode among transfer electrodes constituting the charge transfer path, wherein an electrode, which is set as the multiplying electrode among the transfer electrodes, is periodically changed.12-18-2008
20090059045IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device 5 includes photoelectric conversion elements 03-05-2009
20090066827METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A plurality of charge accumulation packets each of which is configured to accumulate signal charges from photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to (2n−1) rows where n denotes an integer equal to or larger than 2 are formed in to vertical charge transfer sections. The signal charges of the same color component are read from the photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to plural rows into each charge accumulation packet and are added in each charge accumulation packet. Then, the signal charges in the vertical charge transfer sections are transferred by a distance corresponding to one charge accumulation packet. A signal charge, which remains in the photoelectric conversion element and has the same color component as the electric charges previously read into each charge accumulation packet, is read into each charge accumulation packet. The newly read signal charge and the previously read signal charges are added in each charge accumulation packet.03-12-2009
20090109307SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE FOR COLOR IMAGING - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided at a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate by being arranged in a form of a two-dimensional array, spectral elements each provided on a number of the photoelectric conversion elements which are arranged linearly, a trapezoidal opening which is longitudinally elongated in a direction from a base toward an upper side thereof and which introduces incident light to the number of the photoelectric conversion elements being provided in each of the spectral elements, so as to cause spectral separation in the longitudinal direction by interference between the incident light and light reflected on inner side surfaces of the trapezoidal opening and a signal reading unit for reading a signal which is detected by each of the number of the photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the longitudinal direction by receiving the light incident through the trapezoidal opening.04-30-2009
20090122170IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements provided in the semiconductor substrate and a spectral element which is provided over the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are consecutive in a straight-line manner, in which a trapezoidal opening longitudinal in a direction from a bottom side into which light incident on the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements is introduced to a top side is provided, and which makes a spectral separation occur in the longitudinal direction by interference between the incident light and light reflected from an inner side surface of the trapezoidal opening; and a polarizing element which is provided on an optical path from a photographic subject to the solid-state imaging device and which allows polarized light to be transmitted therethrough.05-14-2009
20090219425IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, an imaging device deriving unit and a signal processing unit. Pixels of the imaging device include a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The imaging device driving unit exposes the first pixel group during a first exposure period, exposes the second pixel group during a second exposure period, and reads first image data captured by the first pixel group and second image data captured by the second pixel group separately. The signal processing unit performs image processing for the first and second image data. A first shooting mode and a second shooting mode are provided. In the first shooting mode, the signal processing unit performs the image processing for the first and second image data separately to generate two pieces of subject image data. In the second shooting mode, the signal processing unit combines the first and second image data.09-03-2009

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090030059PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR EXTERNAL USE - Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for external use, including: (i) luliconazole represented by the following structural formula (1) and/or a salt thereof; and (ii) α-hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a salt thereof.01-29-2009
20090076109Pharmaceutical Composition for External Use - Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for external use, including: (i) a compound represented by the general structural formula (1) and/or a salt thereof; and (ii) N-methyl-2-pyrolidone:03-19-2009
20090137651PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR EXTERNAL USE - A pharmaceutical composition for external use, including: i) luliconazole represented by the following structural formula (1) and/or a salt thereof; and ii) one or two or more selected from N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, propylene carbonate, and crotamiton.05-28-2009
20120015997PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR EXTERNAL USE - Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for external use, including: (i) a compound represented by structural formula (2) and/or a salt thereof; and (ii) N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.01-19-2012

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Toda JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110266424OPTICAL ENCODER - An optical encoder includes a scale; a light source; a plurality of light receiving element arrays (three light receiving element arrays) receiving via the scale light emitted from the light source; and a measurer. The first and the third light receiving element arrays are each divided into two areas. The measurer includes an abnormality determiner determining whether an abnormality has occurred in the areas based on signals output from the areas, and a location measurer measuring a location of the scale based on signals output from the areas (for which the abnormality determiner has determined that an abnormality has not occurred) and the second light receiving element array.11-03-2011

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Obu JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120078456CONTROL DEVICE - A control device configured with a vibration reduction necessity determination section that determines whether or not a required drive operation point falls within a reduction necessary range, which is prescribed in advance as a range in which it is necessary to reduce torque vibration transferred from the internal combustion engine to the rotary electric machine. A cancellation control execution determination section that determines whether or not torque vibration cancellation control can be executed in the case where it is determined that the required drive operation point falls within the reduction necessary range. An execution control decision section that decides to execute the torque vibration cancellation control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control can be executed and that decides to execute operation point change control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control cannot be executed.03-29-2012

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Osaka-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120135737CELL RESELECTING METHOD AND MOBILE STATION DEVICE - The mobile station device has: a first step of selecting a plurality of base station devices meeting a predetermined handover condition, based on reception levels of a plurality of signals transmitted from the plurality of base station devices; and a second step of reselecting, if the plurality of base station devices selected in the first step include a plurality of base station devices for specific subscribers, a base station device to be accessed from among the plurality of base station devices for specific subscribers, by using a predetermined correlation between frequencies and priorities. Accordingly, the number of frequencies can be reduced, and the ping-pong phenomenon can be suppressed.05-31-2012
20120135738COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, CONNECTION DESTINATION EVALUATING METHOD, CONNECTION DESTINATION EVALUATING PROGRAM, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - A priority storing unit (b05-31-2012