Patents by Inventor Satoru Kobayashi

Satoru Kobayashi 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: 20230191806
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device performing printing by ejecting liquid onto a medium in a printing region, the liquid ejecting device including an ejecting unit including a first ejecting unit ejecting the liquid onto the medium, and a second ejecting unit ejecting a reaction liquid containing a coagulant for coagulating a component in the liquid, a transport unit configured to transport the medium, a jam detector configured to detect a jam of the medium, and a control unit configured to control the ejecting unit, and the transport unit, wherein when the jam is detected in the jam detector, the control unit causes the transportation of the medium by the transport unit to stop, and causes the liquid, the reaction liquid, or the liquid and the reaction liquid to be ejected in the printing region from the first ejecting unit, and the second ejecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Satoru KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230183505
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method having excellent ejecting stability and capable of recording a fluorescent-colored image with an excellent color developability and abrasion resistance. The ink jet recording method includes a recording step of ejecting an aqueous ink from a recording head of an ink jet system and applying the aqueous ink to a recording medium and a heating step of heating the recording medium applied with the aqueous ink at a temperature TH (° C.). The aqueous ink contains a first resin particle and a second resin particle, the first resin particle is dyed with at least one fluorescent dye selected from the group consisting of a basic dye, a disperse dye and an oil-soluble dye, and contains a cyano group-containing unit, and the second resin particle does not include any coloring material therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hirohiko Yuasa, Daiji Okamura, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230166520
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an ejecting portion configured to be able to eject a liquid onto a medium; a supply flow path configured to be able to supply the liquid to the ejecting portion; a liquid storage unit coupled to the supply flow path and configured to be able to store the liquid, the liquid storage unit being a unit in which an air-liquid interface where the liquid and air are in contact is formed; a first filter provided lower than the air-liquid interface and configured to separate the supply flow path and the liquid storage unit; an adjustment mechanism configured to lift a position of the air-liquid interface in the liquid storage unit; and a control unit configured to control the adjustment mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Satoru KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11659278
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Kikkawa, Satoru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihiko Sato, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230106200
    Abstract: A printing device includes a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject a liquid and perform printing on fiber to be transported, and a supply flow path for supplying a liquid accommodated in a liquid accommodating body to the liquid ejecting unit. Furthermore, the printing device includes a selection unit configured to enable a user to select a finished state of the printed fiber in advance, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control a control target so as to match a condition corresponding to the finished state specified by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Satoru KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11595584
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display on a display a live image of a subject and previously captured images; an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the subject; and a recording unit configured to record in a recording medium the captured image of the subject which has been captured by the image capturing unit and the previously captured images in association with disposition information which includes a display position of the captured image of the subject and display positions of the previously captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Fumitaka Nakayama, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hiroki Okino
  • Patent number: 11594428
    Abstract: A wafer chuck assembly includes a puck, a shaft and a base. The puck includes an electrically insulating material that defines a top surface of the puck; a plurality of electrodes are embedded within the electrically insulating material. The puck also includes an inner puck element that forms one or more channels for a heat exchange fluid, the inner puck element being in thermal communication with the electrically insulating material, and an electrically conductive plate disposed proximate to the inner puck element. The shaft includes an electrically conductive shaft housing that is electrically coupled with the plate, and a plurality of connectors, including electrical connectors for the electrodes. The base includes an electrically conductive base housing that is electrically coupled with the shaft housing, and an electrically insulating terminal block disposed within the base housing, the plurality of connectors passing through the terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Toan Q. Tran, Zilu Weng, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Satoru Kobayashi, Tae Seung Cho, Soonam Park, Son M. Phi, Shankar Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11508337
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention, includes: an input unit configured to receive a predetermined user operation for an image displayed on a display; a change unit configured to perform control of increasing a display range of the display in a case where the predetermined user operation is received by the input unit; a processing unit configured to perform gradation conversion on the image to improve gradation of a high brightness portion, based on the display range increased by the change unit; and a control unit configured to perform control of enabling the increase in the display range in accordance with the predetermined user operation in a case where the image satisfies a predetermined condition and disabling the increase in the display range in accordance with the predetermined user operation in a case where the image does not satisfy the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaihei Kitamura, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220348781
    Abstract: Provided are an aqueous fluorescent ink with which a fluorescent color image having an excellent color developability and lightfastness can be recorded, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method using this aqueous fluorescent ink. The aqueous fluorescent ink contains a resin particle dyed with a fluorescent dye, and a quinacridone pigment. The fluorescent dye includes a basic dye having a xanthene skeleton. The resin particle has a cyano group-containing unit. A mass ratio of a content (% by mass) of the quinacridone pigment to a content (% by mass) of the fluorescent dye is 1.0 times or less. The ink cartridge includes an ink storage portion storing this aqueous fluorescent ink. An image is recorded onto a recording medium by the ink jet recording method comprising ejecting the aqueous fluorescent ink from an ink jet recording head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Saki Tasaki, Daiji Okamura, Satoru Kobayashi, Hirohiko Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20220318958
    Abstract: When swinging of a camera does not follow a motion of a subject in following-photographing, the position of the subject deviates among a plurality of images, and thus there is a problem that the subject that is moving is blurred. An image processing apparatus includes: a standard region designation unit configured to designate a partial region in an image as a standard region; a standard region motion blur setting unit configured to set a motion blur in the standard region designated by the standard region designation unit as a predetermined motion blur; and a motion blur adjustment unit configured to adjust a motion blur in the standard region so that the motion blur becomes the predetermined motion blur and adjust a motion blur on a screen of a region different from the standard region in accordance with the adjusting of the motion blur in the standard region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220265757
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] It is intended to provide a composition for hemostasis which can be uniformly applied to a bleeding site and exerts a high hemostatic effect. [Solution] The present invention provides a composition to be applied as a spray to a subject, the spray being used for hemostasis, and the composition comprising a self-assembling peptide, wherein the self-assembling peptide self-assembles and thereby gels when the composition is applied to a bleeding site of the subject, and the self-assembling peptide is contained in the composition at a concentration at which the composition has an improved hemostatic ability as compared with that when directly applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Keiji Nagano, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220262014
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a capturing unit, a first motion information acquisition unit configured to acquire a first captured image with a first parameter and first motion information, a second motion information acquisition unit configured to acquire second motion information, a setting unit configured to set a second parameter, a third acquisition unit configured to acquire driving information for either the optical system or the capturing unit, an estimation unit configured to estimate estimated information by converting motion blur of the object in the first captured image into motion blur of the object in a second captured image obtained in a case where second capturing is performed with the second parameter, and a notification unit configured to notify the estimated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiko Sato, Satoru Kobayashi, Hitoshi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 11400720
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion that has a nozzle opening surface on which a plurality of nozzles open, and that ejects a liquid from the nozzles to a medium in an inclined state in which the nozzle opening surface is inclined, a first cleaning portion that has a wiping member configured to wipe the nozzle opening surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting portion in a state of being in contact with the nozzle opening surface, and a second cleaning portion that is formed of an absorbing member configured to absorb the liquid and that has an end portion cleaning member configured to wipe a lower end of the nozzle opening surface in the inclined state by moving relative to the liquid ejecting portion in a state of being in contact with the lower end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Numajiri, Satoru Kobayashi, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11400719
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting portion configured to eject a first liquid from a nozzle; a liquid receiving portion configured to receive the first liquid discharged from the nozzle for a purpose of maintenance of the liquid ejecting portion in a state that a second liquid is stored therein; and a discharge portion configured to discharge a liquid stored in the liquid receiving portion. The liquid receiving portion includes: a liquid storing portion that stores the second liquid; a maintenance portion that maintains a liquid surface of the liquid stored in the liquid storing portion at an upper limit position above a discharge port at which the discharge portion discharges the liquid from the liquid storing portion; and a lip portion configured to contact the liquid ejecting portion. The liquid receiving portion is configured to cap a space in which the nozzle opens with the lip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11398014
    Abstract: When swinging of a camera does not follow a motion of a subject in following-photographing, the position of the subject deviates among a plurality of images, and thus there is a problem that the subject that is moving is blurred. An image processing apparatus includes: a standard region designation unit configured to designate a partial region in an image as a standard region; a standard region motion blur setting unit configured to set a motion blur in the standard region designated by the standard region designation unit as a predetermined motion blur; and a motion blur adjustment unit configured to adjust a motion blur in the standard region so that the motion blur becomes the predetermined motion blur and adjust a motion blur on a screen of a region different from the standard region in accordance with the adjusting of the motion blur in the standard region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220203748
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a glue belt as an example of a transport belt including a support unit configured to support a medium, the support unit being configured to transport a medium by moving the support unit, a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject liquid onto a medium supported by the support unit, and a dyeing unit configured to perform dyeing by immersing a medium in dyeing liquid. Printing is performed on the medium by combining dyeing by the dyeing unit and ejecting by the liquid ejecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Shin KOMATSU, Satoru KOBAYASHI, Shigenori NAKAGAWA, Yoshitaka MIYAJIMA, Saeko MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220193184
    Abstract: There is provided a bioabsorbable peptide tissue occluding agent that can be applied to large mammals including humans, the peptide tissue occluding agent being obtained by artificial synthesis to avoid concerns of infection by viruses and the like. The tissue occluding agent contains a peptide, wherein the peptide is an amphiphilic peptide having 8-200 amino acid residues with the hydrophilic amino acids and hydrophobic amino acids alternately bonded, and is a self-assembling peptide exhibiting a ?-structure in aqueous solution in the presence of physiological pH and/or a cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro Takamura, Satoshi Gojo, Satoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11355317
    Abstract: Plasma is generated in a semiconductor process chamber by a plurality of microwave inputs with slow or fast rotation. Radial uniformity of the plasma is controlled by regulating the power ratio of a center-high mode and an edge-high mode of the plurality of microwave inputs into a microwave cavity. The radial uniformity of the generated plasma in a plasma chamber is attained by adjusting the power ratio for the two modes without inputting time-splitting parameters for each mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Lance Scudder, David Britz, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Hideo Sugai
  • Publication number: 20220168462
    Abstract: Systems and methods of blocking a biological vessel 2 are provided. The systems and methods may comprise introducing to the vessel an amphiphilic peptide. The peptide may comprise at least thirteen amino acids that may alternate between a hydrophobic amino acid and a hydrophilic amino acid. The peptide may form a beta- sheet spontaneously in an aqueous solution in the presence of a cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: 3-D Matrix, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Kentaro Takamura
  • Patent number: 11348783
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide plasma generation for semiconductor process chambers. In some embodiments, the plasma is generated by a system that may comprise a process chamber having at least two upper microwave cavities separated from a lower microwave cavity by a metallic plate with a plurality of radiation slots, at least one microwave input port connected to a first one of the at least two upper microwave cavities, at least two microwave input ports connected to a second one of the at least two upper microwave cavities, and the lower microwave cavity receives radiation through the plurality of radiation slots in the metallic plate from both of the at least two upper microwave cavities, the lower microwave cavity is configured to form an electric field that provides uniform plasma distribution in a process volume of the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hideo Sugai, Denis Ivanov, Lance Scudder, Dmitry Lubomirsky