Patents by Inventor Akihiro Wakayama

Akihiro Wakayama 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).

  • Patent number: 11911417
    Abstract: A nerve growth promoter and an antioxidant containing a degradation product obtained by degrading a composition containing a hyaluronic acid and a protein with a protease. A would treatment agent containing an ethyl acetate extract of a degradation product obtained by degrading a composition containing a hyaluronic acid and a protein with a protease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LAIMU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachio Wakayama, Akihiro Tai
  • Patent number: 7715940
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of creating a single unit of tree structure vector data by coupling plural pieces of independent tree structure vector data. A coupling node is added between nodes and of a tree structure vector data, and a vector data to for coupling nodes and, and a vector data to for coupling nodes and are created, and thereby a tree structure vector data is created. In a tree structure vector data, the node mutual direction is converted so that the node existing at the connecting position may be a root node, and a tree structure vector data is created, and this root node is coupled with the coupling node of the tree structure vector data, and a single tree structure vector data is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 7515985
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of tearing off an elastic sheet easily after an item of embroidery has been sewn, thus enhancing working efficiency. A CPU extracts a contour line from needle drop points PN (N=1, 2, . . . , n) stored in embroidery data (S1 to S3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 7493187
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a quilting data processing apparatus and a program capable of displaying changes of fabric caused by a sewing line, and or easily displaying a visual image of a finished state of quilting. The CPU receives the fabric pattern of quilting, the thickness of fabric, the thickness of elastic material, and the sewing line of quilting, and, when the preview button is pressed, creates a basic mesh pattern, calculates the total deformation degree, deforms the basic mesh pattern sequentially along the sewing line to a deformation degree commensurate with the total deformation degree, and deforms each mesh adjacent to deformed meshes commensurately with the deformation degree, thereby creating a deformation mesh pattern (S1 to S5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 7212880
    Abstract: The invention presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of easily forming images of finished state of applique even if the fabric for applique is a pattern fabric. A selected fabric image of fabric for applique is displayed, and when the user manipulates the mouse, and moves the cursor to a desired position of the fabric image, and clicks by a specified number of times, the applique pattern preliminarily inputted through the image scanner is displayed at the position of the cursor (S101 to S103). When the user clicks the preview button by the mouse, only the fabric image within the applique pattern is extracted, and an applique image is displayed, and an applique sewing stitch image is overlaid and displayed on the applique image (S104 to S109).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20070088452
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of tearing off an elastic sheet easily after an item of embroidery has been sewn, thus enhancing working efficiency. A CPU extracts a contour line from needle drop points PN (N=1, 2, . . . , n) stored in embroidery data (S1 to S3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20070032899
    Abstract: The invention presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of easily forming images of finished state of applique even if the fabric for applique is a pattern fabric. A selected fabric image of fabric for applique is displayed, and when the user manipulates the mouse, and moves the cursor to a desired position of the fabric image, and clicks by a specified number of times, the applique pattern preliminarily inputted through the image scanner is displayed at the position of the cursor (S101 to S103). When the user clicks the preview button by the mouse, only the fabric image within the applique pattern is extracted, and an applique image is displayed, and an applique sewing stitch image is overlaid and displayed on the applique image (S104 to S109).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20070032892
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a quilting data processing apparatus and a program capable of displaying changes of fabric caused by a sewing line, and or easily displaying a visual image of a finished state of quilting. The CPU receives the fabric pattern of quilting, the thickness of fabric, the thickness of elastic material, and the sewing line of quilting, and, when the preview button is pressed, creates a basic mesh pattern, calculates the total deformation degree, deforms the basic mesh pattern sequentially along the sewing line to a deformation degree commensurate with the total deformation degree, and deforms each mesh adjacent to deformed meshes commensurately with the deformation degree, thereby creating a deformation mesh pattern (S1 to S5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20070014436
    Abstract: The disclosure presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of creating a single unit of tree structure vector data by coupling plural pieces of independent tree structure vector data. A coupling node N22 is added between nodes N2 and N5 of a tree structure vector data (TV1), and a vector data N2 to N22 for coupling nodes N2 and N22, and a vector data N22 to N5 for coupling nodes N22 and N4 are created, and thereby a tree structure vector data (TVa) is created (S1 to S3). In a tree structure vector data (TV2), the node mutual direction is converted so that the node N22 existing at the connecting position may be a root node, and a tree structure vector data (TVb) is created, and this root node N22 is coupled with the coupling node N22 of the tree structure vector data (TVa), and a single tree structure vector data is created (S4 to S6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 7155302
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device is disclosed producing embroidery data on which an embroidery sewing machine forms an embroidery pattern along another pattern previously formed on cloth held by a cloth holding frame. The embroidery data producing device includes image data producing means for scanning the cloth held by the cloth holding frame to produce pattern image data corresponding to the pattern, and embroidery data producing means for producing embroidery data for forming an embroidery pattern on at least a part of the pattern on the basis of the pattern image data, the embroidery pattern having a size equal to that of the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Muto, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 7079917
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device includes an area information input unit for inputting area information indicating first and second areas to be embroidered, at least a part of the second area being overlapped inside the first area, a first setting unit for setting a first stitch type for one of the first and second areas, a second setting unit for setting a second stitch type different from the first stitch type for the other area than the area set by the first setting unit, and an embroidery data producing unit for producing first and second embroidery data based on the stitch types set by the first and second setting unit, respectively, the first embroidery data being used to embroider the first area except for its part on which the second area is overlapped, the second embroidery data being produced to embroider the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6983193
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus and program stored on a computer readable medium for processing embroidery data make stitch data subdivisions into which the stitch data was divided, according to the size of partitions, and add partition position information corresponding to the position of stitch data subdivision in the stitch data to the stitch data subdivisions. If the size of an embroidery pattern which is embroidered by the embroidery data is greater than a predetermined workable area of sewing within the embroidery frame, the embroidery data is divided into subdivisions and where the embroidery data subdivisions is positioned in the whole embroidery design can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Shoichi Taguchi, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6963790
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device includes an offset line producing device for producing data of an offset line obtained by offsetting an outline defining an embroidery area inside an embroidery area by a previously set offset width, based on data of the outline defining the embroidery area, a self-intersection or mutual intersection detecting device for detecting a self-intersection of the offset line produced by the offset line producing device or a mutual intersection of the offset line and the outline, and an offset line changing device for changing the offset line data produced by the offset line producing device upon detection of a self-intersection or mutual intersection by the self-intersection or mutual intersection detecting device so that the self-intersection or the mutual intersection is dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Mizuno, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Shoichi Taguchi, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20050234584
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus and program stored on a computer readable medium for processing embroidery data make stitch data subdivisions into which the stitch data was divided, according to the size of partitions, and add partition position information corresponding to the position of stitch data subdivision in the stitch data to the stitch data subdivisions. If the size of an embroidery pattern which is embroidered by the embroidery data is greater than a predetermined workable area of sewing within the embroidery frame, the embroidery data is divided into subdivisions and where the embroidery data subdivisions is positioned in the whole embroidery design can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Shoichi Taguchi, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20050234585
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device is disclosed producing embroidery data on which an embroidery sewing machine forms an embroidery pattern along another pattern previously formed on cloth held by a cloth holding frame. The embroidery data producing device includes image data producing means for scanning the cloth held by the cloth holding frame to produce pattern image data corresponding to the pattern, and embroidery data producing means for producing embroidery data for forming an embroidery pattern on at least a part of the pattern on the basis of the pattern image data, the embroidery pattern having a size equal to that of the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Muto, Masahiro Mizuno, Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20050228532
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device includes an area information input unit for inputting area information indicating first and second areas to be embroidered, at least a part of the second area being overlapped inside the first area, a first setting unit for setting a first stitch type for one of the first and second areas, a second setting unit for setting a second stitch type different from the first stitch type for the other area than the area set by the first setting unit, and an embroidery data producing unit for producing first and second embroidery data based on the stitch types set by the first and second setting unit, respectively, the first embroidery data being used to embroider the first area except for its part on which the second area is overlapped, the second embroidery data being produced to embroider the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20050222704
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device for use with an embroidery sewing machine sewing an embroidery pattern on work cloth using a needle thread and a bobbin thread is disclosed. The embroidery data producing device produces sewing data necessary for an embroidery sewing operation of the embroidery sewing machine. The embroidery data producing device includes an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data of an original image of an embroidery pattern, a dot pattern data producing unit that produces dot pattern data representative of the embroidery pattern by a dot pattern, based on the image data, and a sewing data producing unit that produces sewing data for obtaining needle drop points forming the embroidery pattern by a pattern of the needle thread appearing in the form of dot on a back of the work cloth by an embroidery sewing operation of the embroidery sewing machine, based on the dot pattern data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6952626
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device for use with an embroidery sewing machine sewing an embroidery pattern on work cloth using a needle thread and a bobbin thread is disclosed. The embroidery data producing device produces sewing data necessary for an embroidery sewing operation of the embroidery sewing machine. The embroidery data producing device includes an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data of an original image of an embroidery pattern, a dot pattern data producing unit that produces dot pattern data representative of the embroidery pattern by a dot pattern, based on the image data, and a sewing data producing unit that produces sewing data for obtaining needle drop points forming the embroidery pattern by a pattern of the needle thread appearing in the form of dot on a back of the work cloth by an embroidery sewing operation of the embroidery sewing machine, based on the dot pattern data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Taguchi, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6944519
    Abstract: An embroidery data producing device reads an image composed of a plurality of areas to produce embroidery data including sewing data for filling each area with stitches and underlying stitch sewing data for carrying out underlying stitch sewing for each of the areas. The embroidery data producing device includes a synthesized outline data producing unit which produces data of a synthesized outline defining an outline of a synthesized area formed by synthesizing a part or all of a plurality of the areas and an underlying stitch sewing data producing unit which produces data of underlying stitch sewing based on the synthesized outline data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikitoshi Suzuki, Shoichi Taguchi, Masahiro Mizuno, Yukiyoshi Muto, Akihiro Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6937919
    Abstract: An embroidery data processing apparatus is constructed to execute calculation for forming a plurality of circles with different radii concentrically around a central point, extract circles and arcs that fall within the embroidery region from the thus formed circles, and determine stitch points on the circles and arcs that fall within the embroidery region. The thus created stitching data features thread flows along the arcs and concentric stitches with a new texture, not existing before, can be created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Muto, Masahiro Mizuno, Mikitoshi Suzuki, Shoichi Taguchi, Akihiro Wakayama