Patents by Inventor Koji Aoyama

Koji Aoyama 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: 20170229064
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to distribute brightness information to a plurality of display devices in accordance with external light amount information from a sensor; and a plurality of drive units configured to drive the plurality of display devices on a basis of the brightness information distributed by the display control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9666121
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to distribute brightness information to a plurality of display devices in accordance with external light amount information from a sensor; and a plurality of drive units configured to drive the plurality of display devices on a basis of the brightness information distributed by the display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9571808
    Abstract: There is provided a video format determination device including a video input unit that receives video having a feature amount for each pixel, a region representative value calculation unit that divides a left-eye video region and a right-eye video region in a three-dimensional video format to be determined in input video into small regions, and then computes representative values of feature amounts of the respective small regions for each of the left-eye video region and the right-eye video region, a correction value calculation unit that calculates a correction value to correct the representative values, a data correction unit that corrects the representative values, an inter-region correlation calculation unit that calculates the correlation between the left- and right-eye video regions, and an evaluation determination unit that evaluates the correlation to determine whether input video is in the three-dimensional video format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Mitsuo Sato, Tomoichi Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20160355602
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a bispecific antibody for preventing or treating an immune inflammatory disease by acting on both human TLR2 and human TLR4 to inhibit human TLR2- and human TLR4-mediated immune inflammatory effects. [Means for Solution] Provided is a bispecific antibody for human TLR2 and human TLR4, including a heavy chain variable region of an anti-human TLR2 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 1 to 120 of SEQ ID NO: 4; a light chain variable region of an anti-human TLR2 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 1 to 113 of SEQ ID NO: 6; a heavy chain variable region of an anti-human TLR4 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 491 to 609 of SEQ ID NO: 4; and a light chain variable region of an anti-human TLR4 antibody consisting of the amino acid sequence of amino acid numbers 625 to 732 of SEQ ID NO: 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKEUCHI, Masahito SATO, Jotarou SUZUKI, Shinji SOGA, Jun TAKASAKI, Koji AOYAMA, Chie OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160142696
    Abstract: There is provided a video format determination device including a video input unit that receives video having a feature amount for each pixel, a region representative value calculation unit that divides a left-eye video region and a right-eye video region in a three-dimensional video format to be determined in input video into small regions, and then computes representative values of feature amounts of the respective small regions for each of the left-eye video region and the right-eye video region, a correction value calculation unit that calculates a correction value to correct the representative values, a data correction unit that corrects the representative values, an inter-region correlation calculation unit that calculates the correlation between the left- and right-eye video regions, and an evaluation determination unit that evaluates the correlation to determine whether input video is in the three-dimensional video format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: KOJI AOYAMA, MITSUO SATO, TOMOICHI FUJISAWA
  • Patent number: 9229441
    Abstract: A system construction supporting tool that supports construction of a programmable controller system, the system construction supporting tool including: a product-specification storage unit that stores therein information related to product specifications of units to be used as elements for constructing the programmable controller system; an arranged-unit-information storage unit that stores therein information related to arrangements of units already arranged in an edition operation on a display screen; a unit-list-display control unit that extracts arrangeable units based on the information stored in the arranged-unit-information storage unit and the information stored in the product-specification storage unit; and a unit-list display unit that displays a list of the units extracted by the unit-list-display control unit on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yuzuru Tone, Koji Aoyama, Tomohiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20150356914
    Abstract: Provided is a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to distribute brightness information to a plurality of display devices in accordance with external light amount information from a sensor; and a plurality of drive units configured to drive the plurality of display devices on a basis of the brightness information distributed by the display control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140199557
    Abstract: Provided is a stretch film product with which the film itself has consistent stretchability (elasticity) and the entire film can be subjected to waste treatment by biodegradation without being incinerated at the time of waste disposal. The stretch film product has a layer adhered on at least one surface of a base film. The base film contains a resin blend (A+B), which is produced by blending polyester biodegradable resin (A) and polyethylene (B), that further contains a starch or a starch derivative. The mixture ratio [B/(A+B)] of polyethylene (B) in the resin blend (A+B) is 60 to 90%. The adhesive layer comprises a binder resin and polybutene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: KRH & Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kentaro Naito, Koji Aoyama, Hideyo Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8712106
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a flatness detector, a difference calculation section, a noise level detector, and a motion detector. The flatness detector detects a flat region where pixel values of pixels on a first image are flat, based on variances of the pixel values of the pixels constituting the first image inputted. The difference calculation section calculates a difference between the pixel values of the pixels corresponding to the first image and a second image which continues before or after the first image. The noise level detector detects a noise level indicating a statistic noise amount of noise generated in each pixel constituting the first image based on the variances of the difference. The motion detector detects at least one of a still region indicating a region where an object on the first image is still and a motion region indicating a region where the object is moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Uchida, Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8661368
    Abstract: In a main area of a display device, buttons and a map display area where a map is scrolled are provided. A cursor can be moved to an arbitrary position of the main area according to directional input received from an input device. When a decision input is performed with the input device when the cursor points to each button, processing assigned to the button to which the cursor points is performed. When a user inputs a direction and a special input button is not selected, the cursor is moved throughout the main area. When the user inputs a direction while the special input button is selected, the cursor is moved only within the map display area and the map is scrolled as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Tadashi Tsushima, Koji Aoyama, Mitsuo Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20130343650
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processor, including: a detecting portion detecting a composition of an input image; a first generating portion generating first information in accordance with an intensity of image processing based on the composition detected by the detecting portion is controlled; a second generating portion detecting a flat portion in which a change in pixel values corresponding to the input image is small, and generating second information in accordance with which an intensity of image processing for the flat portion is controlled; a third generating portion detecting a foreground portion of the input image, and generating third information in accordance with which an intensity of image processing for the foreground portion is controlled; and an image processing portion executing image processing in accordance with an intensity based on the first information, the second information, and the third information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori TSUTSUMI, Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8601042
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device performing filter processing operations on an input signal using a plurality of filters to generate an output signal, including a filter processing unit configured to perform a filter processing operation on the input signal using a filter and a generating unit configured to generate the output signal by adding a correction value determined on the basis of each sign and each absolute value of each difference between each of filtered output signals obtained by the filter processing operations performed using a plurality of the above mentioned filter processing units and the input signal, to the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamajo, Koji Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20130307926
    Abstract: There is provided a video format determination device including a video input unit that receives video having a feature amount for each pixel, a region representative value calculation unit that divides a left-eye video region and a right-eye video region in a three-dimensional video format to be determined in input video into small regions, and then computes representative values of feature amounts of the respective small regions for each of the left-eye video region and the right-eye video region, a correction value calculation unit that calculates a correction value to correct the representative values, a data correction unit that corrects the representative values, an inter-region correlation calculation unit that calculates the correlation between the left- and right-eye video regions, and an evaluation determination unit that evaluates the correlation to determine whether input video is in the three-dimensional video format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Mitsuo Sato, Tomoichi Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 8551711
    Abstract: As a means for treating diseases such as neurodegenerative diseases, malignant tumors and infectious diseases, a method for screening a substance increasing glutathione is provided. According to this method, by contacting a test substance with a cell expressing a GTRAP3-18 protein, a substance decreasing the amount of expression of the GTRAP3-18 protein or inhibiting a function of the GTRAP3-18 protein is specified as a target substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Teikyo University
    Inventors: Toshio Nakaki, Masahiko Watabe, Koji Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20130226331
    Abstract: A system construction supporting tool that supports construction of a programmable controller system, the system construction supporting tool including: a product-specification storage unit that stores therein information related to product specifications of units to be used as elements for constructing the programmable controller system; an arranged-unit-information storage unit that stores therein information related to arrangements of units already arranged in an edition operation on a display screen; a unit-list-display control unit that extracts arrangeable units based on the information stored in the arranged-unit-information storage unit and the information stored in the product-specification storage unit; and a unit-list display unit that displays a list of the units extracted by the unit-list-display control unit on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yuzuru Tone, Koji Aoyama, Tomohiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8503531
    Abstract: With regard to a subject block including a subject pixel and four adjacent blocks vertically and horizontally adjacent to the subject block, respective motion vectors of these blocks are considered as candidates of a pixel motion vector of the subject pixel. The block motion vectors are actually applied to the subject pixel, and one of the motion vectors that minimizes difference between pixel values of pixels used for inter-field interpolation is selected as the pixel motion vector of the subject pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Xavier Michel, Masuyoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8452120
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a level difference calculation means for calculating the difference of pixel values between each pixel and a neighborhood pixel as a level difference; a classification means for classifying respective pixels into classes in each range of the level difference; a boundary proportion calculation means for calculating proportion of the number of pixels at a block boundary as a boundary proportion according to the respective classes; and a block noise intensity determination means for determining a level difference of the class in which the boundary proportion is higher than a given threshold as well as the maximum value as block noise intensity in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8401311
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a step calculator configured to calculate, as a step, a difference in pixel values of pixels in a neighborhood with respect to each pixel in an image; a classifier configured to classify the pixels into classes for areas of the steps; a boundary ratio calculator configured to calculate, as a boundary ratio, a ratio of the number of pixels at a block boundary for each of the classes; and a block noise strength determinator configured to determine, as a block noise strength of the image, the step that is larger than a predetermined threshold and that is at a class having a largest value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Hideki Watanabe, Hiroaki Yamajo, Masuyoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8374441
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a step calculator configured to calculate, as a step, a difference in pixel values of pixels in a neighborhood with respect to each pixel in an image; a classifier configured to classify the pixels into classes for areas of the steps; a boundary ratio calculator configured to calculate, as a boundary ratio, a ratio of the number of pixels at a block boundary for each of the classes; and a block noise strength determinator configured to determine, as a block noise strength of the image, the step that is larger than a predetermined threshold and that is at a class having a largest value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Hideki Watanabe, Hiroaki Yamajo, Masuyoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 8340454
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a block level information obtaining unit to detect a block level from the difference in pixel values between each pixel of an image and nearby pixels and to obtain distribution information wherein the block levels are accumulated for each position in a predetermined direction; a short cycle measuring unit to measure short cycle information which is the distribution information for each phase in a plurality of predetermined short cycles corresponding to a plurality of block sizes from the distribution information; and a determining unit to determine the block size corresponding to the short cycle information wherein the phase distribution takes a maximum value, of the short cycle information of the plurality of predetermined short cycles corresponding to the plurality of block sizes, as the block size in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Aoyama, Hideki Watanabe, Hiroaki Yamajo