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Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi

Emi Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100014751IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A face candidate of an object having movable ears is detected by a face candidate detection unit from an image of the object, and an ear of the object is detected by an attached site detection unit. The object is then detected from the image by a head portion determination unit in accordance with the detected face candidate and ear.01-21-2010
20100054604IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus configured to perform face detection on an image signal of an image to be processed, includes a target region setting unit configured to set a target region of a face detection process in the image to be processed, and a characteristic extraction unit configured to extract a characteristic of the image signal of the target region set by the target region setting unit. The image processing apparatus further includes a tone conversion unit configured to perform tone conversion on the image signal of the target region set by the target region setting unit according to the characteristic extracted by the characteristic extraction unit, and a face detection unit configured to detect a face region based on the image signal tone-converted by the tone conversion unit.03-04-2010

Fuyuki Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20090134863ELECTRICITY METER - An electricity meter capable of minimizing a risk of data destruction in case of lightning or surge that involves improperly high voltage is provided. The electricity meter includes a measurement part, an operation part, and an insulation part. The measurement part includes a detection unit to detect electricity consumption of an objective system and a transmission unit to wirelessly transmit data representative of the detected electricity consumption. The operation part includes a reception unit to receive the wirelessly transmitted data and an operation unit to process the received data into data representative of electric energy consumed by the objective system. The insulation part electrically insulates the measurement part and operation part from each other.05-28-2009
20090248330WATT-HOUR METER - In a watt-hour meter, encoders 10-01-2009

Shinji Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20120092508IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photograph an object to acquire an image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information, an addition unit configured to add the positional information acquired by the acquisition unit to the image acquired by the imaging unit, an operation unit configured to receive an instruction from a user, and a notification unit configured to notify before sending the image, when the operation unit receives an instruction to send the image to the external apparatus after the acquisition unit starts to perform processing for acquiring the positional information and before the addition unit adds the positional information to the image, the user that the positional information has not been added to the image which is instructed to be sent.04-19-2012

Tomoko Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20090002458INK JET PRINT HEAD SUBSTRATE AND INK JET PRINT HEAD - An ink jet print head substrate is provided which can prevent voltage drop variations during driving, no matter in what way the ejection energy generation elements are driven, and which can also apply a stable energy to the ejection energy generation elements at all times. The ink jet print head substrate of this invention has a plurality of kinds of ejection energy generation elements to generate different magnitudes of ink ejection energy and wiring portions. The print head substrate also has a plurality of wiring layers arranged to at least partly overlap one another. The wiring portions connected to the different kinds of ejection energy generation elements are provided at least partly in different wiring portions.01-01-2009
20090135229ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND HEAD CARTRIDGE - This invention provides an element substrate having a heater selection circuit normally operable even in the use of voltage conversion circuits, which are arranged along the nozzle arrayed direction, each having a small-area in order to reduce the area of the element substrate. The element substrate according to this invention includes a heater selection circuit, which receives a signal output from a voltage conversion circuit, a block selection signal, and a print data signal, and generates and outputs a signal for performing switching by a switching element.05-28-2009
20110134192INK JET PRINT HEAD SUBSTRATE AND INK JET PRINT HEAD - An ink jet print head substrate is provided which can prevent voltage drop variations during driving, no matter in what way the ejection energy generation elements are driven, and which can also apply a stable energy to the ejection energy generation elements at all times. The ink jet print head substrate of this invention has a plurality of kinds of ejection energy generation elements to generate different magnitudes of ink ejection energy and wiring portions. The print head substrate also has a plurality of wiring layers arranged to at least partly overlap one another. The wiring portions connected to the different kinds of ejection energy generation elements are provided at least partly in different wiring portions.06-09-2011
20110292154ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND HEAD CARTRIDGE - This invention provides an element substrate having a heater selection circuit normally operable even in the use of voltage conversion circuits, which are arranged along the nozzle arrayed direction, each having a small-area in order to reduce the area of the element substrate. The element substrate according to this invention includes a heater selection circuit, which receives a signal output from a voltage conversion circuit, a block selection signal, and a print data signal, and generates and outputs a signal for performing switching by a switching element.12-01-2011

Wataru Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20100189997STAINLESS STEEL MEMBER FOR A FUEL CELL - A stainless steel material for a fuel cell, used for a fuel cell or a cartridge for the fuel cell, having a magnetic permeability of 1.000 to 2.500, and forming a layer having a value of chromium atomic %/iron atomic % of not less than 3.0 in the most surface thereof, and/or the layer of thickness of not less than 12 nm calculated as SiO07-29-2010
20100248079COIL SPRING FOR A FUEL CELL - A coil spring for fuel cells, used for a fuel cell or a cartridge for the fuel cell, comprising an austenite type stainless steel without any nickel layer formed on the surface thereof, and having a cationic index I of not more than 60 as expressed by the following formula (1),09-30-2010
20100320216SURFACE-TREATED TIN-PLATED STEEL SHEET FOR WELDED CANS AND WELDED CANS MADE THEREFROM - A surface-treated tin-plated steel sheet for welded cans forming a surface-treating layer comprising chiefly a silane coupling agent on the surface of a tin-plated layer formed on the surface of a steel sheet, wherein the amount of free tin (Sn) (X g/m12-23-2010

Patent applications by Wataru Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Yokohama-Shi JP

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20090071511SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS - A substrate treatment apparatus, which treats a substrate with a treatment liquid that is ultrasonically vibrated, includes an oscillator body which is rectangular-parallelepiped and has a treatment liquid supply path having an opening on a lower surface thereof in a first end portion in a longitudinal direction thereof and inclining to a second end portion in the longitudinal direction thereof, a vibrator which is provided on an upper surface of the oscillator body and ultrasonically vibrates the oscillator, and a heat exchanger which cools the treatment liquid supplied to the treatment liquid supply path.03-19-2009
20090321252Sulfuric acid electrolytic cell and a sulfuric acid recycle type cleaning system applying the sulfuric acid electrolytic cell - In a sulfuric acid electrolytic cell to electrolyze sulfuric acid supplied to an anode compartment and a cathode compartment comprising a diaphragm, said anode compartment and said cathode compartment separated by said diaphragm, a cathode provided in said cathode compartment and a conductive diamond anode provided in said anode compartment, as said conductive diamond anode, a conductive diamond film is formed on the surface of said conductive substrate, the rear face of said conductive substrate is pasted, with conductive paste, on an current collector comprising a rigid body with size equal to, or larger than, said conductive substrate, an anode compartment frame constituting said anode compartment is contacted via gasket with the periphery on the side of the conductive diamond film of said diamond anode, said diaphragm is contacted with the front face of said anode compartment, further, with the front face of said diaphragm, the cathode compartment frame constituting said cathode compartment, a gasket, and said cathode are contacted in sequence, the rear face of said cathode is pasted with conductive paste to the current collector comprising a rigid body with size equal to, or larger than, said cathode and electric power is supplied from one current collector to the other current collector via said conductive paste.12-31-2009
20090321272Sulfuric acid electrolysis process - Sulfuric acid electrolysis process wherein; 12-31-2009
20090325390Cleaning method by electrolytic sulfuric acid and manufacturing method of semiconductor device - The cleaning method by electrolytic sulfuric acid and the manufacturing method of semiconductor device comprising: 12-31-2009