Patents by Inventor Masako Yamada
Masako Yamada 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).
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Patent number: 11507616Abstract: A method of inspecting a component includes storing at least one inspection image file in a memory and receiving a search request associated with the at least one inspection image file. The method also includes accessing a database including a plurality of image files, comparing the hash code of the at least one inspection image file to the hash code of each image file of the plurality of image files, and identifying a first subset of image files based on the hash code comparison. The method also includes comparing the feature data of the at least one inspection image file to the feature data of each image file of the first subset of image files and classifying a second subset of image files as relevant based on the feature data comparison. The method further includes generating search results based on the second subset of image files.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Shaopeng Liu, Xiao Bian, Yan Liu, Feng Xue, Walter Vincent Dixon, III, Mark Richard Gilder, Peihong Zhu, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Masako Yamada, Colin James Parris
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Publication number: 20220067083Abstract: A method of inspecting a component includes storing at least one inspection image file in a memory and receiving a search request associated with the at least one inspection image file. The method also includes accessing a database including a plurality of image files, comparing the hash code of the at least one inspection image file to the hash code of each image file of the plurality of image files, and identifying a first subset of image files based on the hash code comparison. The method also includes comparing the feature data of the at least one inspection image file to the feature data of each image file of the first subset of image files and classifying a second subset of image files as relevant based on the feature data comparison. The method further includes generating search results based on the second subset of image files.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Shaopeng Liu, Xiao Bian, Yan Liu, Feng Xue, Walter Vincent Dixon, III, Mark Richard Gilder, Peihong Zhu, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Masako Yamada, Colin James Parris
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Patent number: 11068752Abstract: A method of inspecting a component using an image inspection controller that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory includes classifying each sample image in a first database as a first sample or a second sample using a classification module, extracting at least one class generic feature from each first sample to generate a plurality of class generic features, and extracting at least one class specific feature from each second sample to generate a plurality of class specific features. The method further includes combining the class generic features and the class specific features to generate a plurality of supplemental images. The method further includes storing the sample images and the supplemental images in a second database, classifying each sample image and each supplemental image, capturing at least one image of the component using a camera, and identifying at least one feature of the component in the at least one image of the component using the classification module.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xiao Bian, Colin James Parris, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Masako Yamada, Shaopeng Liu, Peng Chu
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Publication number: 20210133511Abstract: A method of inspecting a component using an image inspection controller that includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory includes classifying each sample image in a first database as a first sample or a second sample using a classification module, extracting at least one class generic feature from each first sample to generate a plurality of class generic features, and extracting at least one class specific feature from each second sample to generate a plurality of class specific features. The method further includes combining the class generic features and the class specific features to generate a plurality of supplemental images. The method further includes storing the sample images and the supplemental images in a second database, classifying each sample image and each supplemental image, capturing at least one image of the component using a camera, and identifying at least one feature of the component in the at least one image of the component using the classification module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Xiao Bian, Colin James Parris, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Masako Yamada, Shaopeng Liu, Peng Chu
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Publication number: 20210126937Abstract: A cyber-security improvement platform database may store electronic records including information, received from remote submitting devices, associated with vulnerability data for computing elements. Information associated with first vulnerability data for a first computing element may be retrieved from the database and verified. Information about the first vulnerability data may then be recorded in a secure, distributed transaction ledger, and a crypto-currency payment may be transferred in connection with the recorded information. Similarly, the electronic records may further include fix data for computing elements. In this case, first fix data associated with the first vulnerability data may be retrieved, verified, and applied in connection with the first computing element. Additional information, about the first fix data, may then be recorded in the transaction ledger and an additional crypto-currency payment may be transferred in connection with the recorded additional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Austars Raymond Schnore, JR., Safayet Nizam Uddin AHMED, David Safford, Krzysztof KEPA, Willard Monten WISEMAN, Kevin B. KENNY, William David SMITH, III, Masako YAMADA
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Patent number: 10481002Abstract: A system for detecting an array of samples having detectable samples and at least one reference sample is provided. The system comprises an electromagnetic radiation source, a sensing surface comprising a plurality of sample fields, wherein the plurality of sample fields comprise at least one reference field, a phase difference generator configured to introduce differences in pathlengths of one or more samples in the array of samples, and an imaging spectrometer configured to image one or more samples in the array of samples.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Masako Yamada, Sandip Maity, Sameer Dinkar Vartak, Rajesh Langoju, Abhijit Patil
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Publication number: 20170151736Abstract: A modular method of manufacturing a waveguide is disclosed. The method includes positioning a mold insert including a plurality of mold prototypes, along at least one side wall of a molding equipment such that micro-optic structures of each mold prototype in the plurality of mold prototypes, faces a mold cavity. Each mold prototype extends along a length of the mold insert and the plurality of mold prototypes is disposed adjacent one another along a height of the mold insert. The method further includes feeding a material into the mold cavity for molding the material in the mold cavity to generate waveguide including a major surface having an optical pattern, where the optical pattern includes a plurality of elongated facets. Each of the plurality of elongated facets extends into the major surface and along a length of the waveguide. Further, the optical pattern extends along a height of the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Mark Marshall Meyers, Masako Yamada, Paul Richard Myers, Scott Michael Miller, Siavash Yazdanfar
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Publication number: 20160363711Abstract: Waveguides having improved illumination distribution and output luminance variation and lighting systems utilizing such waveguides are disclosed. The lighting systems generally include a light source which is optically coupled to a waveguide to distribute the light. The waveguides include one or more headlighting reduction regions and one or more output intensity shaping regions that work together to improve the distribution of light and reduce the effects of headlighting. The headlighting reduction regions may be integrated with the output intensity shaping region or may be an independent section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Mark Marshall Meyers, Paul Richard Myers, Masako Yamada, Scott Michael Miller, Siavash Yazdanfar
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Patent number: 9209738Abstract: When a direction command signal indicates a first direction, a signal for causing the other end of the induction load to be connected to a second power supply unit is output as a second control signal. In addition, after a passage of a first predetermined delay time after a first current detection value becomes less than a reference value of a conducting current, a signal for causing the one end of the induction load 5 to be connected to a first power supply unit is output as a first control signal. And, after a passage of a second predetermined delay time after the first current detection value becomes equal to or greater than the reference value of the conducting current, a signal for causing the one end of the induction load to be connected to the second power supply unit is output as the first control signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Daijiro Arisawa, Masako Yamada
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Publication number: 20140249055Abstract: A system for detecting an array of samples having detectable samples and at least one reference sample is provided. The system comprises an electromagnetic radiation source, a sensing surface comprising a plurality of sample fields, wherein the plurality of sample fields comprise at least one reference field, a phase difference generator configured to introduce differences in pathlengths of one or more samples in the array of samples, and an imaging spectrometer configured to image one or more samples in the array of samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Masako Yamada, Sandip Maity, Sameer Dikar Vartak, Rajesh Langoju, Abhijit Patil
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Publication number: 20120104985Abstract: In a stepping motor drive unit which drives a stepping motor including coils having a plurality of phases, and has functions of causing both ends of one of the coils having one of the plurality of phases to have high impedance to detect an inductive voltage in the coil, and determining a rotation/stop state of the stepping motor based on a result of the detection, the stepping motor drive unit has a function of temporarily stopping, while causing the both ends of the coil having the one of the plurality of phases to have high impedance, PWM driving of at least one of the other coils to fix an energized state of the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Masako Yamada, Daijiro Arisawa
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Publication number: 20110244588Abstract: An optical sensing device is provided. The device comprises a cavity defined by at least an anomalous reflective element having an anomalous reflection surface, and a non-absorptive element having a non-absorptive reflection surface disposed in a direction away from the anomalous reflection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Sandip Maity, Sameer Dinkar Vartak, Veena Besige Narayan Rao, Masako Yamada, Shankar Chandrasekaran, Abhijit Vishwas Patil, Ayan Banerjee, Umakant Damodar Rapol
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Publication number: 20110122412Abstract: An optical detection system for sensing one or more samples is provided. The optical detection system comprises a broadband light source that emits a beam comprising a continuous spectrum over a range of wavelengths; a fluidic cell comprising one or more channels that positions the sample so that at least a portion of the beam is directed on the sample to produce a back reflected beam; and a spectrometer that analyzes an interference spectrum of the beam back reflected from the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Chulmin Joo, Anthony John Murray, Masako Yamada
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Patent number: 7889427Abstract: A light collimating and diffusing film and a method for making the film are provided. The film includes a plastic layer having a first side and a second side opposite the first side and at least a first peripheral edge. The first side has a first textured surface, wherein between 7 to 20 percent of slope angles on the first textured surface proximate a first axis has a value between zero and five degrees. The first axis is substantially parallel to the first peripheral edge. The plastic layer collimates light propagating therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Adel F. Bastawros, Ashwit Dias, Elif Gurel, Grant Hay, John Graf, Kevin P. Capaldo, Marshall Gordon Jones, Masako Yamada, Steven Alfred Tysoe
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Patent number: 7859759Abstract: In one embodiment a film can comprises a surface comprising a plurality of prism structures. Each prism structure has a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures. The plurality of prism structures can have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. In one embodiment, a method for making a film can comprise forming a plurality of prism structures on a surface. The plurality of prism structures can have a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures, and wherein the plurality of prism structures have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Dennis Joseph Coyle, Eugene George Olczak, Masako Yamada, Scott Michael Miller, Nitin Garg
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Publication number: 20090185278Abstract: In one embodiment a film can comprises a surface comprising a plurality of prism structures. Each prism structure has a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures. The plurality of prism structures can have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. In one embodiment, a method for making a film can comprise forming a plurality of prism structures on a surface. The plurality of prism structures can have a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures, and wherein the plurality of prism structures have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.Inventors: Dennis Joseph Coyle, Eugene George Olczak, Masako Yamada, Scott Michael Miller, Nitin Garg
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Publication number: 20090052045Abstract: In one embodiment a film can comprises a surface comprising a plurality of prism structures. Each prism structure has a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures. The plurality of prism structures can have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. In one embodiment, a method for making a film can comprise forming a plurality of prism structures on a surface. The plurality of prism structures can have a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures, and wherein the plurality of prism structures have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.Inventors: Dennis Joseph Coyle, Eugene George Olczak, Masako Yamada, Scott Michael Miller, Nitin Garg
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Publication number: 20080231780Abstract: There is provided an optical plate. The optical plate includes a supporting substrate and an optical diffuser film. The optical diffuser film has a density of light scattering particles to provide light diffusion. The optical diffuser film has a surface facing the supporting substrate, wherein a first portion of the surface facing the supporting substrate contacts the supporting substrate. There exists a gap between a second portion of the surface facing the supporting substrate and the supporting substrate, wherein the ratio of the area of the first portion to the second portion is less than 10%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: John F. Graf, Dennis J. Coyle, Eugene Olczak, Philip Peters, Masako Yamada
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Publication number: 20080232132Abstract: There is provided an optical diffuser sheet. The optical diffuser sheet has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface has a plurality of optical structures arranged to diffuse and direct light illuminated onto the first surface. The optical diffuser sheet when illuminated is characterized by an absorption of less than 10% and an absolute hiding power of less than 10%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: John F. Graf, Dennis J. Coyle, Eugene Olczak, Philip Peters, Masako Yamada
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Patent number: 7371590Abstract: A system for the inspection of and a process for the correction of defects in a microreplicated optical display film manufacturing process. The process steps of manufacturing a master, a plurality of shims from the master, and a multiplicity of display films from each shim are integrated with a systemic defect identification and correction process. Each primary manufacturing step has its own inspection system and correction process where defect information for that step of the process is fed back and analyzed; and from that analysis the subprocess is adjusted to eliminate or reduce the detected defect. The systemic defect is identified as to its source and then fed back and analyzed in the correction step of the respective subprocess in order to cure the root of the defect.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kevin Patrick Capaldo, Mark Allen Cheverton, Dennis Joseph Coyle, Michael John Davis, Sameer Kirti Talsania, Masako Yamada, Chung-hei Yeung