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Shinoda, Tokyo

Hiroki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100087613DIVIDED REDOX-CURING TYPE COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a divided redox-curing type composition including a first part in which at least an oxidizing agent (b) is dissolved in a first radical monomer including a radical monomer (a) having an acidic group and/or a hydrophilic group; and a second part in which at least an aromatic sulfinate (d) is dispersed in a second radical monomer including a radical monomer (c) having neither an acidic group nor a hydrophilic group. According to the present invention, a redox-curing type composition capable of securing a time necessary for an adhesion operation and exhibiting high bond strength not only at the initial stage of adhesion but also over a long period of time thereafter in application to a wetting material such as a tooth or a bone as well as a tooth crown repairing material such as a metal or porcelain.04-08-2010
20100267856CEMENT FOR DENTAL APPLICATIONS - A cement for dental use, containing a first agent and a second agent, wherein both of the first agent and the second agent contain a polymerizable monomer (a) and a filler (b), wherein the first agent and/or the second agent further contains a photopolymerization initiator (c), wherein further as a chemical polymerization initiator (d), either one of the first agent and the second agent contains an oxidizing agent (f) and the other contains a reducing agent (g), the oxidizing agent (f) and the reducing agent (g) constituting a redox polymerization initiator, wherein the photopolymerization initiator (c) contains an α-diketone, and the photopolymerization initiator (c) is contained in a total amount of from 0.010 to 0.100 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the polymerizable monomer (a), wherein the chemical polymerization initiator (d) is contained in a total amount of from 0.001 to 20 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the polymerizable monomer (a), and wherein a cured product has a compression modulus immediately after photocuring of from 100 to 400 MPa, and a compression modulus after 24 hours from photocuring of 500 MPa or more. The cement for dental use of the present invention is suitably used for adhering the dentine and a crowning restorative material in the field of dental therapy, or the like.10-21-2010

Hisanobu Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120061961WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to, if a frequency decrease has occurred in a power system, avoid a trip in a wind turbine generator and reliably contribute to recovery of the frequency of the power system. The present invention provides a wind turbine generator that, if a predetermined frequency decrease that requires PFR has occurred in the power system, calculates a marginal active power based on the difference between a predetermined rotational speed lower limit value, which is obtained by providing the parallel-off rotational speed with a predetermined margin, and a measured value of the shaft rotational speed, and generates an active power command value based on the marginal active power.03-15-2012
20120104753CONTROL SYSTEM OF WIND POWER GENERATOR, WIND FARM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIND POWER GENERATOR - A wind power generator generates power through a rotation of a rotor and is interconnected, and operated with its power generation output previously limited in order to be able to further supply the power to a power system in response to a decrease in system frequency. Thus, a concentrated control system derives a required restricted amount corresponding to a power generation output required to respond to the decrease in system frequency, derives a value by subtracting an amount corresponding to a latent power generation output with which the power generation output can be increased, from the required restricted amount, and sets a restricted amount of the power generation output in each wind power generator to perform the operation with the power generation output previously limited to respond to the decrease in system frequency, based on the above value.05-03-2012
20120104755WIND FARM CONTROL SYSTEM, WIND FARM, AND WIND FARM CONTROL METHOD - To prevent disconnection of wind turbine generators due to changes in wind conditions even if the wind turbine generators is operated to limit the power output. A plurality of wind turbine generators that generate electric power by the rotation of rotors are provided in a wind farm are interconnected and are operated while the power outputs are limited in advance so as to be able to further supply electric power to a utility grid in response to a decrease in the frequency or voltage of the utility grid. The rotational speed of the rotor, which is a physical quantity related to increase and decrease in the power output of the wind turbine generator, is measured for each of the wind turbine generators by a wind-turbine control system, and the limitation amount of the power output of the wind turbine generator is set for each of the wind turbine generators by a central control system on the basis of the rotational speed of the rotor measured.05-03-2012
20120205912WIND-TURBINE-GENERATOR CONTROL APPARATUS, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM, AND WIND-TURBINE-GENERATOR CONTROL METHOD - A wind-turbine control device controls a wind turbine generator in which a rotor having a plurality of blades receives wind and rotates. The generator generates electrical power through the rotation of the rotor. The electrical power is supplied to a utility grid, and electric energy to be supplied to the utility grid can be changed according to a change in the frequency of the utility grid. The wind-turbine control device includes a subtracter to calculate a frequency change, which is the difference between a measurement value of the frequency of generated output power of the wind turbine generator and a set value of the frequency of the generated output power of the wind turbine generator. The wind-turbine control device further includes a limiter to limit a change in the electrical power corresponding to the frequency change calculated by the subtracter, based on the rotational speed of the generator.08-16-2012
20120261919CONTROL SYSTEM OF WIND POWER GENERATOR, WIND FARM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WIND POWER GENERATOR - A wind power generator generates power through a rotation of a rotor and is interconnected, and operated with its power generation output previously limited in order to be able to further supply the power to a power system in response to a decrease in system frequency. Thus, a concentrated control system derives a required restricted amount corresponding to a power generation output required to respond to the decrease in system frequency, derives a value by subtracting an amount corresponding to a latent power generation output with which the power generation output can be increased, from the required restricted amount, and sets a restricted amount of the power generation output in each wind power generator to perform the operation with the power generation output previously limited to respond to the decrease in system frequency, based on the above value.10-18-2012

Isao Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100150666ANCHOR FIXING AGENT, ANCHOR FIXING AGENT AMPULE, AND METHOD FOR FIXING ANCHOR - Provided are an anchor fixing agent which can fill up fine concave and convex portions present on the inner surface of a hole formed in a base material and can maintain great strength, in particular, even after the lapse of a long period of time; an anchor fixing agent ampule; and a method for fixing an anchor. An anchor fixing agent which comprises an alumina cement, a lime and/or a portland cement, and water. Preferably, it further comprises an agent for the retardation of setting and light magnesia. The anchor fixing agent ampule holds a solid component and a liquid component in the anchor fixing agent in the state wherein the components are separated from each other.06-17-2010

Junji Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090202304SYSTEM FOR TREATING CARBON DIOXIDE, AND METHOD FOR STORING SUCH TREATED CARBON DIOXIDE UNDERGROUND - The present invention provides a system for treating carbon dioxide, and a method by which such treated carbon dioxide can be stored underground at low cost and with high efficiency. The present invention' method for storing carbon dioxide underground includes: a step for pumping up to the ground groundwater from a pumping well in a deep aquifer, and then producing injection water. Carbon dioxide that has been separated and recovered from exhaust gas from a plant facility is changed into the bubbles. The bubbles are mixed with the injection water, and hereby produces a gas-liquid mixture a step for injecting into. The deep aquifer is injected into the gas-liquid mixture from the injection well. The method preferably further includes a step for dissolving a cation-forming material in the injection water, and a step for injecting the injection water, in which the cation-forming material is dissolved, into the deep acquifer at its top and above the place at which injection water has already been injected.08-13-2009
20110017456Method and Device for Feeding Liquefied Carbon-Dioxide Gas into an Aquifer Deep Underground - To provide a method and device for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground, by which liquefied carbon-dioxide gas can be efficiently permeated and diffused in a deep aquifer. The present invention's method for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground includes the following steps: using a pumping well to pump up water from a deep aquifer to aboveground; creating injection water; applying pulsatile hydraulic pressure to the injection water; feeding the injection water to which pulsatile hydraulic pressure has been applied into the deep aquifer via an injection well; feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—while maintaining said gas in a liquefied condition—from a storage tank into the injection well to a depth having such pressure and temperature in which the liquefied condition can be maintained; mixing the liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—in the form of fine droplets—with the injection water, thereby generating a mixture of those two liquids.01-27-2011

Katsumi Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110105465INHIBITOR OF ANALGESIC TOLERANCE - Provided are: an agent for suppressing an undesirable effect of an opioid-type analgesic (opioid), which comprises a compound having adenosine A05-05-2011

Kazunori Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120314725OPTICAL DEVICE, MODULATOR MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes a ridge-like optical waveguide portion, a mesa protector portion that is arranged in parallel to the optical waveguide portion, a resin portion that covers upper parts of the mesa protector portion and is disposed at both sides of the mesa protector portion, an electrode that is disposed on the optical waveguide portion, an electrode pad that is disposed on the resin portion located at an opposite side to the optical waveguide portion with respect to the mesa protector portion, and a connection portion that is disposed on the resin portion and electrically connects the electrode to the electrode pad.12-13-2012
20130051725OPTICAL DEVICE, OPTICAL MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes a substrate and a first optical waveguide including a mesa. The mesa includes a first lower clad layer portion, a first core layer portion, and a first upper clad layer portion. The first lower clad layer portion, the first core layer portion, and the first upper clad layer portion are disposed in this order from the substrate side. The optical device also includes a first etch stop layer configured to stop etching when the first optical waveguide is formed. The first etch stop layer being laminated over the substrate. The first optical waveguide is laminated on the first etch stop layer.02-28-2013

Kazushige Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090121807Electronic component - An electronic component includes a layered substrate including a plurality of dielectric layers stacked, and three resonators provided within the layered substrate. One of the three resonators includes resonator-forming conductor layers of a first type and a second type that each have a short-circuited end and an open-circuited end, relative positions of the short-circuited end and the open-circuited end being reversed between the first and second types. The resonator-forming conductor layers of the first type and the second type are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a direction in which the plurality of dielectric layers are stacked.05-14-2009
20090121813Electronic component - An electronic component includes first and second resonators provided within a layered substrate including stacked dielectric layers. The first resonator includes resonator-forming conductor layers of a first type and a second type. The resonator-forming conductor layers of the first type and the second type are reversed in relative positions of the short-circuited end and the open-circuited end, and are alternately arranged in the stacking direction of the dielectric layers. An input terminal is connected to all of the resonator-forming conductor layers of the first type. The second resonator includes resonator-forming conductor layers of a third type and a fourth type. The resonator-forming conductor layers of the third type and the fourth type are reversed in relative positions of the short-circuited end and the open-circuited end, and are alternately arranged in the stacking direction of the dielectric layers. An output terminal is connected to all of the resonator-forming conductor layers of the third type.05-14-2009

Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120194884IMAGE DISPLAY, LABELED ARTICLE, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - An image display is to be transferred from a support onto a substrate and displays an image including personal information. The image display includes a base layer releasably supported by the support and having a light-transmitting property, and an image display layer including a hologram and/or diffraction grating and transferred onto the base layer by a thermal transfer method using a thermal head. The image display layer displays an image including at least a piece of the personal information. An individual authentication medium including the image display, and manufacturing methods of the image display and individual authentication medium are also described.08-02-2012

Masahisa Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080205235Optical-pickup-adjustment optical disk, method of adjusting optical pickup device, and method of producing optical pickup device - An optical-pickup-adjustment optical disk used for adjusting or producing an optical pickup device, includes a transparent protective substrate; and an optical-pickup-adjustment middle-depth information recording layer formed on a side of an inside surface of the transparent protective substrate, wherein the optical-pickup-adjustment middle-depth information recording layer is formed to have a middle depth which is a center of the maximum depth of the maximum-depth information recording layer prescribed by the optical disk standard and the minimum depth of the minimum-depth information recording layer prescribed by the optical disk standard.08-28-2008
20090078857Optical Pickup Device and Optical Disk Device - A laser emitting device (03-26-2009
20090097121Diffractive Optical Element and Optical Head - A diffractive optical element whose two diffraction gratings diffract three different wavelength light beams is provided. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating that is located opposite the first one, and is configured in such a way that, among three different wavelength incident light beams, the diffraction efficiency in one light beam diffracted on the first diffraction grating is a predetermined value or less, and the diffraction efficiencies in the other two different incident light beams diffracted on the second diffraction grating are predetermined values or less. This arrangement can achieve a diffractive optical element capable of diffracting the three different wavelength light beams in a simple configuration.04-16-2009
20090135701Optical Pickup Device and Optical Disc Device - [Problem] An objective is to provide an optical pickup device, for recording on or reproducing from optical medias enable to use for the light beams with plural kind of wavelength, in which plural light beams reflected by the optical medium can be detected by a common photo detector.05-28-2009
20090201785OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - An optical pickup has a semiconductor laser device that can emit laser beams with different wavelengths. A beam splitter and objective lens direct the emitted beam onto a rotating optical disc. Reflected light returns through the objective lens and beam splitter to a photodetector. A pair of liquid crystal elements on the optical path from the optical disc to the photodetector have controllable lens functions acting in different directions to produce an adjustable astigmatic effect that enables the photodetector to generate a focus error signal with a linear range appropriate for the type of optical disc, the number of signal layers in the optical disc, and the spacing between the layers.08-13-2009
20090303850OPTICAL DISC MEDIUM AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - When using an optical disc medium that includes pit trains having their widths narrower than a diffraction limit, it is difficult to detect a tracking error signal and take a tracking-servo control while increasing pit density in a direction orthogonal to a pit-train extension direction.12-10-2009
20100097917DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup with a simplified structure in which, according to the type of optical disc, diffracted light from three types of laser light can be directed efficiently onto a photodetector and appropriate focus control can be performed based on the signals detected by the photodetector, and a diffractive optical element that can be used in the optical pickup, which has a semiconductor laser 04-22-2010
20120106310OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical head device mounted in an optical disc device. The optical head device is provided with a diffractive optical element and a photodetector. The diffractive optical element has: a primary diffraction region at a location on which the positive and negative first-order components and some of the zero-order component of a reflectively diffracted light beam are incident; and secondary diffraction regions at locations on which the rest of the zero-order component but none of the positive or negative first-order components of the reflectively diffracted light beam are incident. A main light-receiving section of the photodetector receives the zero-order component of a transmissively diffracted light beam that has passed through the primary diffraction region and the secondary diffraction regions. Secondary light-receiving sections receive the positive first-order component and/or the negative first-order component of the transmissively diffracted light beam that has passed through the secondary diffraction regions.05-03-2012

Patent applications by Masahisa Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Masanobu Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Masao Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110135261OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MODULE AND METHOD FOR FORMING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - An optical waveguide comprising a core and a clad characterized in that a desired part is heated and transited to machining strain release state, the part transited to the machining strain release state is curved with a specified bending radius and transited to machining strain state. That part of the optical waveguide is heated to a temperature within a range between the bending point and softening point and transited to machining strain state. The optical waveguide is an optical fiber having the outer diameter not shorter than 50 μm. The optical waveguide has the outer diameter not shorter than ten times of the mode field diameter of the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has a bending radius of 5.0 mm or less and difference equivalent of refractive index &Dgr;06-09-2011
20120061309SEAWATER DESALINATION SYSTEM AND ENERGY EXCHANGE CHAMBER - A seawater desalination system which can solve a problem of wear of a sliding member and can suppress mixing of concentrated seawater and seawater by making an energy exchange chamber no-piston configuration is provided.03-15-2012

Masayuki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100039751SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The invention relates to a substrate for solid electrolytic capacitor and a method for producing solid electrolytic capacitors using the substrate. By reducing at least part of the porous layer on the surface between the anode part region and the cathode part region of the substrate and preferably filling the dent generated by the reduction with a masking material, a structure ensuring insulation between the anode and the cathode can be obtained and solid electrolytic capacitors excellent in leakage current property and reliability can be obtained.02-18-2010

Minoru Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080233411PREFORM FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF FORMING A FUNCTIONAL LAYER - An electronic device material preform is used when manufacturing an electronic device material where a predetermined functional layer is formed on a surface of a substrate by sputtering. The electronic device material preform includes a discharge-guiding film that conducts electricity and guides abnormal discharge that occurs when the sputtering is carried out. The discharge-guiding film is formed at a predetermined part of an outer circumferential edge of the substrate before the functional layer is formed.09-25-2008
20090226761THIN FILM MAGNETIC HEAD - The thin-film magnetic head in accordance with the present invention comprises a magnetic pole, a coil surrounding the magnetic pole, and an insulating layer covering the coil, while the insulating layer is formed from a resin containing a carbon nanotube. Preferably, the resin contains 0.05 to 5 wt % of the carbon nanotube. Preferably, the resin contains a cyclodextrin.09-10-2009

Noriaki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100144568ORGANIC MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS AND OIL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SAME - The present invention provides novel organic molybdenum compounds, the use thereof as friction-modifiers and lubricating compositions which contain said compounds.06-10-2010
20100144570MOLYBDENUM ALKYLXANTHATES AND LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS - The present invention provides a molybdenum pentakis-alkylxanthate having general formula (1) which is indicated below.06-10-2010
20100173815ORGANIC MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS AND LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS WHICH CONTAIN SAID COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides cyclopentadienyl molybdenum hexa-carbonyl complexes which can be represented by general formula (1) which is indicated below.07-08-2010
20100269774LUBRICATING COMPOSITION FOR USE IN DIESEL ENGINES COMPATIBLE WITH BIOFUEL - The present invention provides a lubricating composition for use in diesel engines compatible with biofuel, the lubricating composition comprising a base oil belonging to Group III and/or Group II of the API base oil categories, from 0.5 to 5% by mass of a phenolic anti-oxidant and from 0.5 to 5% by mass of an amine-based anti-oxidant, the total content of the anti-oxidants being at least 2% by mass.10-28-2010
20110312863ORGANIC MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS AND LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS WHICH CONTAIN SAID COMPOUNDS - The present invention provides dicyclopentadienyl molybdenum crosslinked complexes which can be represented by general formula (1) below, the use thereof as friction-modifiers and lubricating compositions which contain these compounds.12-22-2011

Patent applications by Noriaki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Shigeki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110295087BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DETECTION SENSOR, ELECTRIC APPARATUS USING THEREOF AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD - A biological information detection sensor is provided by which it is possible to integrate multiple detection means, and it is possible to measure the biological information that is necessary in accordance with the usage state of the sensor used by the user while avoiding redundant information. The biological information detection sensor includes: a skin condition detection portion measuring at least one of a capacitance and an electric resistance change between engaged comb electrodes; a smell component detection portion measuring an electric resistance in accordance with objects absorbed on a selective sensitive membrane which is formed on a portion of the engaged comb electrodes; a temperature detection portion measuring an ambient temperature based on an electromotive force generated by a thermocouple which is formed by using at least two kinds of metallic materials and which is formed on a portion of the engaged comb electrodes; a switching means SW which compares the electromotive force generated by the thermocouple due to changes of the ambient temperature to a predetermined threshold, detects a contact state with an object having a heat source such as a biological body based on a comparison result and conducts switching operation of ON and OFF of the skin condition detection portion and the smell component detection portion based on the contact state.12-01-2011
20120296571ORGANISM INFORMATION MEASURING INSTRUMENT, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, ORGANISM INFORMATION MEASURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An organism information measuring instrument of the present invention includes: a sensor that measures organism information; a normalization circuit that normalizes the organism information by converting a value of the organism information based on preset normalization information; and a reliability information generation circuit that detects a change amount greater than or equal to a predetermined value in a predetermined time period, with respect to the organism information or the normalized organism information, and generates reliability information indicating lower reliability as the change amount is greater.11-22-2012
20130012799PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD - A portable terminal device comprises a case 01-10-2013

Patent applications by Shigeki Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Takuya Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090034983OPTICAL TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER SUBASSEMBLY AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER MODULE - An optical transmitter-receiver subassembly including a light-emitting element which converts a current into an output optical signal, a light-receiving element which converts an input optical signal from an optical fiber into a current, a planar lightwave circuit which guides the output optical signal and the input optical signal, and comprises the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element, a first land pad through which the current to be input to the light-emitting element passes, a second land pad through which the current output from the light-receiving element passes, a package which is electrically coupled to the planar lightwave circuit and includes the first land pad and the second land pad.02-05-2009

Tatsuru Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100188896NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LEAKAGE DEFECTS OF THE SAME - There is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor memory wherein a normal mode voltage is provided to a selected word line when a normal mode is selected, and a test mode voltage lower than the normal mode voltage is provided to the selected word line when a test mode is selected, thus leakage current is detected by selecting the test mode.07-29-2010
20120099384SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor memory has main bit lines paralleled by fixed potential lines in an alternating arrangement. Each main bit line is switchably connected to two sub-bit lines. The memory cells connected to one of the two sub-bit lines are placed below the main bit line. The memory cells connected to the other one of the two sub-bit lines are placed below an adjacent fixed potential line. The fixed potential lines prevent parasitic capacitive coupling between the main bit lines and thereby speed up read access to the memory cells without taking up extra layout space.04-26-2012

Tomonori Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090053518Sheet for Forming a Protective Film for Chips - Described is a sheet for forming a protective film, which can be used suitably in a process where marking is made on the protective film formed on work such as a wafer and the like. The sheet includes a release sheet and a protective film forming layer provided on the release surface of the release sheet, wherein the protective film forming layer includes 100 parts by weight of an epoxy resin, 50 to 200 parts by weight of a binder polymer, and 100 to 2,000 parts by weight of fillers, 30% by weight or more of total 100% by weight of the said epoxy resin being selected from epoxy resins represented by the following formulae (I) and (II);02-26-2009

Tomotaka Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090110273Image Processing Device and Image Processing Program - An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value of the hue of the color image having been subjected to negative-positive reversal, the image processing device changes the hue of the color image in accordance with a difference between a boundary value of two predefined hues and the detected mode value. In accordance with the change of the hue, a plurality of target pixels different in the saturation is extracted and the saturation and the intensity of each pixel are changed, or the gradation of each pixel is converted so that the plurality of target pixels becomes most distant from one another in a color space.04-30-2009
20090141979IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value of the hue the color image having been subjected to negative-positive reversal, the image processing device changes the hue of the color image in accordance with a difference between a boundary value of two predefined hues and the detected mode value. In accordance with the change of the hue, a plurality of target pixels different in the saturation is extracted and the saturation and the intensity of each pixel are changed, or the gradation of each pixel is converted so that the plurality of target pixels becomes most distant from one another in a color space.06-04-2009
20110117821CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING AQUEOUS DISPERSION, CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING METHOD USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF RECYCLING CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING AQUEOUS DISPERSION - A chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion includes (A) abrasive grains, (B) an organic acid, and (C1) copper ions or (C2) at least one kind of metal atoms selected from Ta, Ti, and Rb, the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion including the copper ions (C1) at a concentration of 1×1005-19-2011
20110228132CAMERA AND IMAGE COMPOSITION PROGRAM - A camera includes: an image-capturing unit; a storage unit; a positional deviation amount determination unit that determines an amount of positional deviation in each of a plurality of frame images; an image composition unit that positionally matches the frame images based upon the results of determination and performs additive composition; a decision unit that decides whether or not each of the frame images is suitable for a subject for the additive composition; and a control unit that, if a negative decision is reached for at least one of the frame images, selects as a source image a frame image decided as suitable, takes a duplicate image as a subject for the additive composition instead of the frame image decided to be negative, and controls the image composition unit so as to perform the additive composition while relatively shifting one of the duplicate and the source image by a predetermined amount.09-22-2011
20120013737IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE COMBINATION PROGRAM - An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject; a selection unit that selects, as a reference image, a single image from among a plurality of images that have been captured in succession by the image-capturing unit; a calculation unit that calculates an amount of positional deviation between the reference image and each of the plurality of images other than the reference image; and a generation unit that generates a combined image by positionally aligning and then combining the reference image and those ones of the plurality of images whose amounts of positional deviation are less than or equal to a predetermined amount of deviation. The selection unit selects the reference image so that the number of images for which the amount of positional deviation is less than or equal to the predetermined amount of deviation becomes large.01-19-2012
20120026365IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - An imaging device includes an imaging element, a RAM, an adding synthesizing unit, and a high dynamic range synthesizing means. The imaging element captures an image of a subject and generates image data. The RAM temporarily stores plural pieces of image data that have been consecutively captured by the imaging element. The adding synthesizing means adds and synthesizes the plural pieces of image data stored in the RAM to generate synthesized image data. The high dynamic range synthesizing means synthesizes one of the plural pieces of image data with the synthesized image data to generate high dynamic range image data and outputs the generated high dynamic range image data.02-02-2012

Patent applications by Tomotaka Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Toru Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120242812ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE THEREFOR - Under usual conditions, a first computation unit computes/outputs a first light adjustment signal in accordance with a photometric signal, and a second computation unit performs control of at least part of the endoscope system. The second computation unit computes/outputs the second light adjustment signal in accordance with the photometric signal together with the at least partial control while suppressing an increase in a processing load when an abnormality has occurred in the first computation unit.09-27-2012

Yoshikazu Shinoda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110018747Data Generator Providing Large Amounts of Data of Arbitrary Word Length - A waveform memory 01-27-2011