Patents by Inventor Junji Inaba

Junji Inaba 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: 11921320
    Abstract: There is a manufacturing error even if an RGB coupler is appropriately designed, and thus a problem that it is difficult to achieve the function as designed with good yield arises. To solve this problem, an optical circuit with a first waveguide in which light in a zero-th order mode is guided and a second waveguide having a larger width than the first waveguide, in which light in a primary mode is guided in which the first and second waveguides at least include a first curved portion in a curve shape curved toward the first waveguide while maintaining a combination of waveguide widths satisfying mode conversion conditions is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Sakamoto, Tomohiro Inaba, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7454216
    Abstract: To enable an appropriate change of a path according to a situation of a user and a situation of a target store and the path without having a special terminal when the user of a facility utilizes the target store and an appropriate guidance, spatial recognition nodes respectively provided with a sensor and information processing equipment are installed in each location in the facility and connected via a network. The nodes recognize the position, the action and the behavior of a user of the facility. A server controlling a system manages the recognition result and constantly grasps the situation of the user. The situation of the user is recognized by the node installed at a destination and on a path, and notified to the server. The server displays appropriate path information based on the recognition result on any of plural information displays installed in the facility when the user approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shikano, Naohiko Irie, Atsushi Ito, Junji Inaba, Mitsuru Inoue, Kazutaka Sakai
  • Publication number: 20060040679
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to enable the appropriate change of a path according to a situation at that time of a user himself/herself and a situation of a target store and the path without having a special terminal when the user of facilities utilizes the target store and to perform appropriate guidance. To achieve the object, first, plural spatial recognition nodes respectively provided with a sensor and information processing equipment are installed in each location in the facilities and are connected via a network. The node recognizes the position, the action and the behavior of a user of the facilities, a server that controls a system manages the result of recognition and constantly grasp the situation of the user. Besides, the situation of the user is recognized by the node installed at a destination and on a path and is similarly notified to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shikano, Naohiko Irie, Atsushi Ito, Junji Inaba, Mitsuru Inoue, Kazutaka Sakai
  • Patent number: 5901288
    Abstract: A network operating information setting system includes a design device, an automatic setting device and a network device. The design device has the function of producing a command chain of information which an operator designs using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) in order to store the command chain thus produced in a storage medium such as a floppy disk. In addition, the design device also has the function of reading out data from the storage medium in order to display the data thus read out. The automatic setting device has the function of reading out the command chain from the storage medium in order to transmit the command chain thus read out to the network device through a data transmission line. In this connection, an inverse command chain may be produced which is used to restore the network operating information to the original information in the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kihara, Satoru Tezuka, Shigeru Miyake, Yoichiro Sakurai, Junji Inaba