Patents by Inventor Isao Sasaki

Isao Sasaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240118170
    Abstract: A vibration monitoring device includes: a rotation sensor for outputting a rotation signal synchronized with rotation of a rotational shaft; an output device for outputting a filter command value corresponding to a rotation speed of the rotational shaft calculated from the rotation signal; and at least one filter for extracting, in response to input of the rotation signal and the filter command value, a signal in a passband set according to the filter command value from the rotation signal as a vibration signal from which vibration information of the rotational shaft can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoshida, Hidetaka Nishimura, Akifumi Tanaka, Shinji Ogawa, Isao Tomita, Tohru Suita, Ryoji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10321046
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus superior in operability and visibility at the time of setting and adjusting functions thereof. The apparatus includes GUI screen image generating means for generating a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus to display the GUI screen image on image display means; operating means for operating the GUI screen image displayed on the image display means; controlling means for controlling the imaging apparatus in accordance with the operation of the GUI screen image by the operating means; storing means for storing hierarchy type main menu information; menu generating means; and menu editing means capable of editing the unique menu information generated by the menu generating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Riuzou Nagatsuka, Emi Arakawa, Tetsuya Asai, Masaki Mikamo, Takashi Nunomaki, Hisashi Ohashi, Kenji Tsushio, Mayumi Kamiya, Kenji Yoshida, Takeshi Harada, Keiki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9736362
    Abstract: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unit 110 is used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unit 100 controls the OSD unit 20 and a baseband processing unit 30 to synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohashi, Kuniaki Sakai, Isao Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20170019586
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus superior in operability and visibility at the time of setting and adjusting functions thereof. The apparatus includes GUI screen image generating means for generating a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus to display the GUI screen image on image display means; operating means for operating the GUI screen image displayed on the image display means; controlling means for controlling the imaging apparatus in accordance with the operation of the GUI screen image by the operating means; storing means for storing hierarchy type main menu information; menu generating means; and menu editing means capable of editing the unique menu information generated by the menu generating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Riuzou Nagatsuka, Emi Arakawa, Tetsuya Asai, Masaki Mikamo, Takashi Nunomaki, Hisashi Ohashi, Kenji Tsushio, Mayumi Kamiya, Kenji Yoshida, Takeshi Harada, Keiki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160353016
    Abstract: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unit 110 is used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unit 100 controls the OSD unit 20 and a baseband processing unit 30 to synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohashi, Kuniaki Sakai, Isao Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20160303332
    Abstract: An injection needle 1 made of an alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum is manufactured as follows. First, a lancet cut is carried out to a pipe-like metallic material composed of the alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum to form a blade tip 3 and a blade part 5. Then, a distal end part 1A including the blade tip 3 is mechanically polished, and thereafter, the distal end part 1A is immersed in an electrolytic solution and electrolytically polished. Thus, burrs at the blade tip 3 or the like generated during mechanical polishing are removed. Since the injection needle 1 is composed of the alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum, compared to a conventional injection needle made of stainless steel, an injection needle in which the surface roughness of an inner peripheral surface of the injection needle is low and smooth can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiharu IWASE, Yutaka EIZUMI, Isao SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9451936
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an endoscopic treatment tool which is inserted to a body cavity endoscopically including a wire, a surgical section which is disposed on a first end of the wire and used for treatment inside the body cavity, and an operator section which is disposed on the second end of the wire and moves in conjunction with the wire so as to rotate by a rotary operation; and the movement of the operator section in conjunction with the wire is released upon exerting more than a predetermined torsional load on the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Yanuma, Takashi Nagata, Tsukasa Kobayashi, Isao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9451169
    Abstract: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unit 110 is used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unit 100 controls the OSD unit 20 and a baseband processing unit 30 to synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohashi, Kuniaki Sakai, Isao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9426355
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus. A controller controls the generation of the GUI screen image upon detecting a predetermined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Riuzou Nagatsuka, Emi Arakawa, Tetsuya Asai, Masaki Mikamo, Takashi Nunomaki, Hisashi Ohashi, Kenji Tsushio, Mayumi Kamiya, Kenji Yoshida, Takeshi Harada, Keiki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140296797
    Abstract: An injection needle 1 made of an alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum is manufactured as follows. First, lancet cut is carried out to a pipe-like metallic material composed of the alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum to form a blade tip 3 and a blade part 5. Then, a distal end part 1A including the blade tip 3 is mechanically polished, and thereafter, the distal end part 1A is immersed in an electrolytic solution and electrolytically polished. Thus, burrs at the blade tip 3 or the like generated during mechanical polishing are removed. Since the injection needle 1 is composed of the alloy containing cobalt and molybdenum, compared to a conventional injection needle made of stainless steel, an injection needle in which surface roughness of an inner peripheral surface of the injection needle is low and smooth can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Iwase, Yutaka Eizumi, Isao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8519918
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprises a pixel having a drive transistor and a pixel display element which are connected in series between a first power line and a second power line, a holding capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and a selection transistor connected between a signal line and the gate electrode of the drive transistor. When the selection transistor is turned on, gradation pixel data is written in the holding capacitor from the signal line. The charge of gradation pixel data written in the holding capacitor is discharged for a certain period through the drive transistor, thereafter the charge of the gradation pixel data stored in the holding capacitor is held by floating the gate electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Gold Charm Limited
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Koichi Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20130033619
    Abstract: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unit 110 is used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unit 100 controls the OSD unit 20 and a baseband processing unit 30 to synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Hisashi OHASHI, Kuniaki SAKAI, Isao SASAKI
  • Patent number: 8336402
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to devices and methods in which one or more miniature synthetic jet actuators are integrated with a chemical fluidic sensor (ChemFET) to effect inhalation and exhalation of ambient gas samples and induce small scale mixing at the surface of the sensor. The fluidically integrated jet transports ambient gas or liquid into the jet/sensor assembly through integrated gas or liquid channels, impinges the sample gas or liquid on the sensing element, and finally ejects the sample gas or liquid back into the ambient gas or liquid. The response of the sensor in the presence of the active jet is compared to its response when the jet is inactive. The jet actuator directs entrained ambient gas or liquid toward the active surface of the sensor, and the impingement of sample gas or liquid onto the surface of the sensor results in faster response time. Other embodiments are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Ari Glezer, Isao Sasaki, Jiri Janata
  • Publication number: 20120311483
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus generates a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus. A controller controls the generation of the GUI screen image upon detecting a predetermined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Riuzou Nagatsuka, Emi Arakawa, Tetsuya Asai, Masaki Mikamo, Takashi Nunomaki, Hisashi Ohashi, Kenji Tsushio, Mayumi Kamiya, Kenji Yoshida, Takeshi Harada, Keiki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8314861
    Abstract: Multiple capture assist marks (markers for capture assistance) to be synthesized with video captured by a camera unit 10 is generated by an OSD unit 20 through the control of a control unit 100. These capture assist marks are synthesized with the video from the camera unit 10 by synthesis means and displayed. In this case, an operation unit 110 is used to accept input of an instruction about the capture assist mark from a user. Based on this instruction input, the control unit 100 controls the OSD unit 20 and a baseband processing unit 30 to synthesize the capture assist mark corresponding to the instruction with a video signal from the camera unit 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohashi, Kuniaki Sakai, Isao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8214761
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus superior in operability and visibility at the time of setting and adjusting functions thereof. The apparatus includes GUI screen image generating means for generating a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus to display the GUI screen image on image display means; operating means for operating the GUI screen image displayed on the image display means; controlling means for controlling the imaging apparatus in accordance with the operation of the GUI screen image by the operating means; storing means for storing hierarchy type main menu information; menu generating means; and menu editing means capable of editing the unique menu information generated by the menu generating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Riuzou Nagatsuka, Emi Arakawa, Tetsuya Asai, Masaki Mikamo, Takashi Nunomaki, Hisashi Ohashi, Kenji Tsushio, Mayumi Kamiya, Kenji Yoshida, Takeshi Harada, Keiki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8038597
    Abstract: The instrument for an endoscope is an instrument for an endoscope is able to move reciprocally in the channel of the endoscope along a guide wire, and includes: a sheath portion having a guide lumen into which the guide wire is inserted and another lumen disposed along the guide lumen. The proximal end of the sheath portion is bifurcated into the first sheath portion having the guide lumen and the second sheath portion having the other lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Yutaka Yanuma, Yasushi Okoshi, Isao Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7986865
    Abstract: The recording operation can be rapidly started and a notification about the operating state during the recording operation can be realized without adding a new component, whereby a target scene of a subject can be recorded reliably. When a video signal captured by a camera unit 10 is compressed and encoded and is recorded on a DV tape, a control unit 100 controls a compression/decompression unit 40 and a tape deck unit 60 to compress and encode the video signal and record as DV data without using compressed data already recorded on the DV tape. In other words, the control unit 100 controls the operation of compressing and encoding video data to be newly recorded in such a manner that compressed data already recorded on the DV tape is not read out, thus reducing the time until recording of the video data on the DV tape is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Ohashi, Isao Sasaki, Takao Ohsawa
  • Publication number: 20110090210
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprises a pixel having a drive transistor and a pixel display element which are connected in series between a first power line and a second power line, a holding capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and a selection transistor connected between a signal line and the gate electrode of the drive transistor. When the selection transistor is turned on, gradation pixel data is written in the holding capacitor from the signal line. The charge of gradation pixel data written in the holding capacitor is discharged for a certain period through the drive transistor, thereafter the charge of the gradation pixel data stored in the holding capacitor is held by floating the gate electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: ISAO SASAKI, Koichi Iguchi
  • Patent number: 7876294
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprises a pixel having a drive transistor and a pixel display element which are connected in series between a first power line and a second power line, a holding capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and a selection transistor connected between a signal line and the gate electrode of the drive transistor. When the selection transistor is turned on, gradation pixel data is written in the holding capacitor from the signal line. The charge of gradation pixel data written in the holding capacitor is discharged for a certain period through the drive transistor, thereafter the charge of the gradation pixel data stored in the holding capacitor is held by floating the gate electrode of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sasaki, Koichi Iguchi