Patents by Inventor Masahiro Takada

Masahiro Takada 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: 10721447
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20190342531
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: 10397534
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20190236777
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes a memory; and at least one processor configured to execute detecting one or more vertebral bodies and one or more intervertebral disks in a medical image; labeling each part satisfying a predetermined condition among the one or more vertebral bodies and the one or more intervertebral disks detected by the detecting; interpolating a vertebral body or an intervertebral disk in a case where the one or more vertebral bodies and the one or more intervertebral disks detected by the detecting do not include the vertebral body or the intervertebral disk that satisfies the predetermined condition; and executing the labeling also for the vertebral body or the intervertebral disk interpolated by the interpolating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKADA, Akira KINOSHITA, Kazuya NIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190005660
    Abstract: A diagnostic support system includes a spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data acquisition device configured to acquire spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data and a medical image information acquisition device configured to acquire first medical image information having each pixel associated with a corresponding pixel of visualized data of the spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data. The diagnostic support system superimposes the visualized data of the spinal cord/spinal nerve evoked magnetic field data on second medical image information based on information included in the first medical image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Akira Kinoshita, Shigenori Kawabata, Masahiro Takada, Kazuya Niyagawa
  • Publication number: 20180295333
    Abstract: A projection display includes an image display device that displays an image, a projection unit that projects the image displayed by the image display device to a projection surface, a light irradiator that irradiates the projection surface with linear light at an incident angle shallower than an incident angle of projection light, in which the linear light extends along a first direction within the projection surface, an imaging unit that has an optical axis different from an optical axis of the light irradiator, and performs capturing of the projection surface, and a signal processor that performs signal processing on an imaging signal outputted from the imaging unit. The imaging unit performs capturing of the linear light with which the projection surface is irradiated, and the signal processor corrects, on a basis of a captured image of the linear light, a distortion of the projected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20180275131
    Abstract: Provided is a cancer development risk assessment device (1) capable of determining the possibility of cancer development in a subject to be assessed in short time. The cancer development risk assessment device (1) includes a measurement unit (3) and a controller (4). The measurement unit (3) is configured to measure concentrations of a plurality of types of target components included in exhaled air collected from a subject to be assessed. The controller (4) is configured to calculate an assessment score correlated to the possibility of cancer being developed in the subject to be assessed based on measurement results of the concentrations obtained by the measurement unit (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Mariko HANADA, Hiroshi KODA, Hajime KOMURA, Satoshi MORIMOTO, Katsumi TOKUNO, Katsuyuki TANAKA, Noriko ASHIDA, Yuzo KODAMA, Tsutomu CHIBA, Atsushi MIMA, Masahiro TAKADA, Masakazu TOI
  • Publication number: 20180119923
    Abstract: A phosphor substrate according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a substrate configured to be rotatable, and a phosphor layer disposed at a center of the substrate. This allows a displacement amount of the phosphor layer to be smaller than a situation when an annular phosphor layer is disposed on an outer edge of the substrate in a case where warpage occurs in the substrate due to stress caused by respective thermal expansions of the phosphor layer and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: MASAHIRO TAKADA, YUKI MAEDA
  • Patent number: 9599884
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a plurality of light source units, a sensor unit, and an interval control unit. The sensor unit is capable of receiving a plurality of emitted light beams from the plurality of light source units and sampling intensities of the emitted light beams at a predetermined sampling interval. The interval control unit is capable of controlling the predetermined sampling interval on the basis of an output characteristic relating to each of the emitted light beams from the plurality of light source units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Fukami, Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada, Norihiro Ohse
  • Publication number: 20150205190
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a plurality of light source units, a sensor unit, and an interval control unit. The sensor unit is capable of receiving a plurality of emitted light beams from the plurality of light source units and sampling intensities of the emitted light beams at a predetermined sampling interval. The interval control unit is capable of controlling the predetermined sampling interval on the basis of an output characteristic relating to each of the emitted light beams from the plurality of light source units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Fukami, Atsuhiro Chiba, Masahiro Takada, Norihiro Ohse
  • Publication number: 20150124052
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising an interpolation processing unit configured to generate a plurality of interpolation images based on a plurality of viewpoint images. The image processing apparatus further comprises a development processing unit configured to develop a subject image based on a development parameter and a plurality of ray vectors associated with the plurality of interpolation images and the plurality of viewpoint images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ito, Kengo Hayasaka, Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: 8625981
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image-pickup lens; a shutter partitioned into a plurality of sections along a first direction and allowed to open and close for each of the plurality of sections; a stop adjusting an amount of light; and a drive section driving the shutter and the stop. The drive section controls the shutter in such a manner that any one of the sections of the shutter is opened and the remaining sections are closed, and drives the stop in such a manner that passage of a flux of light through the open section is limited to a larger extent in a second direction than in the first direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Kengo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 8595776
    Abstract: A train-mounted content delivery system includes a video information delivery apparatus that performs delivery control for advertisement/guidance image content and a display control apparatus that stores service image content generated based on train information from a train information apparatus, accumulates advertisement/guidance image content delivered from the video information delivery apparatus, and controls, based on a display schedule created by the video information delivery apparatus, display of a service image and an advertisement/guidance image that should be displayed on displays. The video information delivery apparatus includes a service image scheduler that manages the service image content and an advertisement/guidance image scheduler that manages the advertisement/guidance image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Tadashi Yamamura, Takaji Sano
  • Patent number: 8470481
    Abstract: A clean power supply unit with a high fuel utilization rate using a fuel cell is provided. The power supply unit of the present invention comprises a fuel cell using methanol as fuel; a secondary battery for supplying power to a load; a fuel cell control part for controlling the amount of fuel and/or air supplied to the above-mentioned fuel cell; and a power converter for converting the power output from the above-mentioned fuel cell to a predetermined voltage or current, supplying power to the load and/or the above-mentioned secondary battery and controlling the supplied power so as to fall within a predetermined range including the value at which the amount of methanol discharged from the above-mentioned fuel cell becomes minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Kozu, Toshihiko Ichinose, Masahiro Takada, Satoshi Shibutani, So Kuranaka
  • Patent number: 8389173
    Abstract: A method for activating a direct oxidation fuel cell including an anode, a cathode, and a proton-conductive electrolyte membrane interposed between the anode and the cathode is provided. The anode and the cathode each have a catalyst layer on a face in contact with the proton-conductive electrolyte membrane. This method activates the fuel cell by passing a current through the fuel cell from an external power source, with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the external power source connected to the anode and the cathode of the fuel cell, respectively, while supplying an organic fuel and an inert gas to the anode and the cathode, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Yukihiro Okada, Satoshi Shibutani, Hideyuki Ueda, Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: 8371020
    Abstract: A plurality of shaped wires, which are obtained by shaping electric wires, are assembled to form a wire assembly 47. The wire assembly 47 is then rolled around a core member 6 with aligning members 7 being inserted into spaces 472 formed between adjacent ones of straight superposed parts 471 of the wire assembly 47.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Gorohata, Keigo Moriguchi, Akito Akimoto, Masahiro Takada, Masaomi Dobashi, Youichi Kamakura, Shuzo Muraki, Atsuo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 8341824
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator coil to be wound in and around a stator by bending an insulating-coating conducting wire so as to alternately have slot-held conductor sections to be held in slots of the stator and a coil-end conductor sections each mutually connecting two of the slot-held conductor sections outside the slots. The method includes arranging three or more pairs of molds at predetermined intervals along the insulating-coating conducting wire, each pair of molds having paired molds facing each other with the wire located therebetween. First, the coil-end conductor sections are formed by moving the mold pairs such that the paired molds come closer to each other. Then the slot-held conductor sections are formed by moving the molds, in parallel, in both the longitudinal direction along which the insulating-coating conducting wire extends and in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Akito Akimoto, Hideji Shimaoka
  • Patent number: 8268497
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack including a plurality of fuel cells connected in series; a fuel supply portion supplying a fuel to each fuel cell; a current regulation portion regulating an electric current flowing from the fuel cell stack in such a way that an output voltage of the fuel cell stack is a predetermined set voltage; a voltage detection portion detecting an output voltage of each fuel cell; a fuel-supply control portion regulating a fuel supply to each fuel cell by the fuel supply portion in such a way that the difference decreases between an output voltage of each fuel cell detected by the voltage detection portion; a fuel-stoichiometric ratio detection portion detecting a fuel stoichiometric ratio of the fuel cell stack; and a fuel-stoichiometric ratio control portion regulating the set voltage in such a way that a fuel stoichiometric ratio detected by the fuel-stoichiometric ratio detection portion is a target fuel stoichiometric ratio set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Takashi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8256259
    Abstract: A coil forming method, a coil forming die assembly and a coil manufactured by the coil forming method are disclosed. The coil forming method comprises conducting preliminary forming work on a coil under a linear state before conducting bending work on the coil. The preliminary forming work including conducting compression work on the coil under the linear state to compress the coil in a region covering a rounded corner portion formed when bending work is conducted to decrease a dimension of the coil in a widthwise direction. The dimension of the coil is decreased in the widthwise direction by the nearly same dimension as that of the coil bulged in the widthwise direction when bending work is conducted in the absence of the preliminary forming work. This prevents the occurrence of bulging of the coil during bending work with an increase in lamination factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: 8256593
    Abstract: A driving force transmitting devices is able to engage a main clutch with a small amount of hydraulic pressure. The driving force transmitting device includes an input shaft and an output shaft, and a main clutch. The device is formed of a primary clutch that intermittently transmits the driving force transmitted from the input shaft, a hydraulic pump that generates a hydraulic pressure, a piston that presses the primary clutch with the hydraulic pressure by the hydraulic pump, and a cam mechanism that presses the main clutch with a press-contact force which is amplified to be larger than the press-contact force of the piston by utilizing the driving force from the input shaft through the primary clutch, so as to engage the main clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Univance Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiko Kato, Tatsuya Suzuki, Akira Nakabayashi, Yosuke Masuda, Masahiro Takada, Yoshitaka Onishi