Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kobayashi

Shinichi 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: 20210239988
    Abstract: A specific posture is set as a standard posture of the head of a user wearing a display device, and a movementfrom the standard posture is detected. The detected movement of the head is associated in advance with a first mode and a second mode that are display modes of the image display unit, and the image display unit performs display in the first mode when the detected movement of the head is a movement in a predetermined first direction and exceeds a predetermined first threshold value and performs display in the second mode when the movement is a movement in a second direction that is different from the first direction and exceeds a predetermined second threshold value. An input is received in an input mode associated in advance with the first mode or the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210240343
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display system including a head-mounted display device and a controller coupled to the display device is provided. A first display unit provided in the display device constituting the display system enables an outside scene to be visually recognized. The first display unit is caused to perform display in any mode of a plurality of modes in accordance with a state of the head of a user wearing the display device. At this time, one input mode of a plurality of input modes is set in accordance with a display mode of the first display unit, and input corresponding to each of the plurality of input modes is enabled in coordination with display on a second display unit provided in the controller, and input is received in the input mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210240250
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display unit configured to display an image, a sound output unit configured to output a sound, a mounting state determination unit configured to determine a mounting state of the head-mounted display apparatus, and an image sound output control unit configured to turn ON/OFF display, and turn ON/OFF an output of a sound, based on the mounting state. The image sound output control unit is configured to turn ON display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is the first state, turn OFF display of an image and turn ON an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is the second state, and turn OFF display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is not the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi OKANO, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210222471
    Abstract: A hinge, wherein, inter alia, intrusion of foreign matter in a contacting portion of a slide member and a cam member and resulting adhesion of an oil provided in the cam member to the foreign matter is reliability prevented from the closed state to the open state of a second wing member. The hinge is provided with an oil fence disposed on the outside close to the contacting portion of the cam member and slide member, the oil fence preventing, from the closed slate to the open state of the second wing member, foreign matter front intruding into the contacting portion of the slide member and cant member from the outside of the slide member and cant member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210200495
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD and a control device. The control device can execute switching between a plurality of user interfaces. When the user interfaces are switched without change of display of an image display unit, a notification is made by the control device. When the user interfaces are switched with change of display of the image display unit, a notification is made by the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TORII, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210186561
    Abstract: Provided is a balloon unit for uterine hemostasis capable of reliably suppressing or stopping uterine bleeding. The balloon unit includes a flexible tube and a balloon provided in a distal end portion of the tube. The balloon has a lower uterine lumen compression portion that compresses an inner surface of a lower uterine lumen and an upper uterine lumen compression portion that compresses an inner surface of an upper uterine lumen. As the balloon, two balloons including a first balloon functioning as the lower uterine lumen compression portion and a second balloon functioning as the upper uterine lumen compression portion are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Eiji Kondoh, Keisuke Wakabayashi, Ryoko Kakinuma, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko Seki, Ichiro Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20210188998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment and/or prevention of cancer, which comprises, as an active ingredient, an antibody or fragment thereof having an immunological reactivity with a CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof comprising 7 or more consecutive amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi OKANO, Takayoshi IDO, Takanori SAITO, Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11025826
    Abstract: An HMD includes a display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, a HMD control section configured to generate, according to the operation detected by the operation detecting section, a command for operating a first mobile body, a communication control section configured to acquire first mobile body image data concerning a captured image captured by the mobile body, and a display control section configured to cause the display section to display an image based on the first mobile body image data acquired by the communication control section. The display control section controls visibility of the outside scene in the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi Ozawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 10972668
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, a mobile-body-position acquiring section configured to acquire a position of a mobile machine, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the image. The display control section executes visibility control processing for controlling, on the basis of the position of the mobile machine acquired by the mobile-body-position acquiring section and the operation detected by the operation detecting section, visibility of the image displayed by the image display section with respect to the external light transmitted through the image display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi Ozawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20210072548
    Abstract: An HMD is coupled to a smart phone. The HMD displays a first image overlapping an external scene in a left display unit, and displays a second image corresponding to the first image overlapping the external scene in a right display unit. The smart phone includes a display panel displaying a third image, a first detector detecting that at least one of the first image and the second image overlaps the third image, and an adjustment unit adjusting, based on a detection result of the first detector, at least one of the first image and the second image such that the third image is visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Yuichi MORI
  • Patent number: 10884498
    Abstract: An HMD includes: an image display unit of a transmissive type that is mounted on a head of a user and configured to transmit light; a display control unit configured to display on the image display unit an image for input at a position overlapping a hand of the user visually recognized through the image display unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detected value of a myoelectric sensor mounted on a hand of the user; and an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation corresponding to the image for input that is displayed by the image display unit, based on the detected value of the myoelectric sensor acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideho Kaneko, Masahide Takano, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200374508
    Abstract: An HMD includes a six-axis sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a head motion detecting section that detect at least one of the position and motion of a head, a reference setting section that sets a reference state based on at least one of the head position and motion detected by the head motion detecting section, and a display controlling section that changes the display state of a content displayed by the display section based on changes in the position and motion of the head with respect to those in the reference state. The content is formed of a plurality of contents, and the display controlling section changes the display state of the contents displayed by an image display section in such a way that the relative display positions of the contents are maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200344420
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, a mobile-body-position acquiring section configured to acquire a position of a mobile machine, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the image. The display control section executes visibility control processing for controlling, on the basis of the position of the mobile machine acquired by the mobile-body-position acquiring section and the operation detected by the operation detecting section, visibility of the image displayed by the image display section with respect to the external light transmitted through the image display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi OZAWA, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Masahide TAKANO
  • Patent number: 10785472
    Abstract: An HMD includes a six-axis sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a head motion detecting section that detect at least one of the position and motion of a head, a reference setting section that sets a reference state based on at least one of the head position and motion detected by the head motion detecting section, and a display controlling section that changes the display state of a content displayed by the display section based on changes in the position and motion of the head with respect to those in the reference state. The content is formed of a plurality of contents, and the display controlling section changes the display state of the contents displayed by an image display section in such a way that the relative display positions of the contents are maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200294717
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a capacitor element including one or more wound or laminated metallized films, each metallized film including a resin film and a metal layer on a surface of the resin film; an outer case that houses the capacitor element; and a filling resin that fills a space between the capacitor element and the outer case, wherein the outer case is made of a resin composition containing a liquid crystal polymer and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomomichi Ichikawa, Satoshi Kamei, Kimiaki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20200269308
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a hot forged material capable of preventing the generation of double-barreling shaped forging defects. A method for producing a hot forged material, wherein both an upper die and a lower die are made of Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy, and a material for hot forging is pressed by the lower die and the upper die in the air to form the hot forged material, the method comprising: a raw material heating step of heating the material for hot forging in a furnace to a heating temperature within a range of 1000 to 1150° C.; a jig heating step of heating a holding jig for holding the material for hot forging within a temperature range of 50° C. lower than and 100° C. higher than the heating temperature of the material for hot forging; a die heating step of heating the upper die and the lower die to a heating temperature within a range of 950 to 1100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Tomonori UENO, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Shoichi TAKAHASHI, Takanori MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20200273432
    Abstract: It is provided that a display system including a HMD and a smartphone connected to the HMD, wherein the HMD configured to visually recognize an external scene and display a first image overlapping the external scene, the smartphone includes a display panel configured to display a second image, a touch sensor arranged at the display panel, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the display panel is facing the HMD, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the display panel with respect to the HMD, a second determination unit configured to determine whether the position of the display panel is included in the first image, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust display of the first image on an image display unit based on a determination result of the first determination unit and a determination result of the second determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200273624
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a laminate having a first resin film including a first metal layer on a surface thereof alternately laminated with a second resin film including a second metal layer on a surface thereof, the laminate having opposed first and second ends, a first external electrode on the first end of the laminate, and a second external electrode on the second end of the laminate, wherein the first resin film protrudes more than the second resin film by a first protruding length of 0.5 mm to 3 mm on the first end of the laminate, and the first resin film has a Young's modulus at 150° C. of 0.6 GPa or more in a direction perpendicular to a lamination direction of the laminate and parallel to a direction from the first end to the second end of the laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Tomomichi Ichikawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomoki Inakura, Kimiaki Kikuchi, Satoshi Kamei, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200264437
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display system including a HMD mounted on a head of a user and a smartphone coupled to the HMD. The smartphone includes a touch sensor configured to accept a position input operation to detect coordinates of an operational position, a first sensor configured to detect a motion of the user with respect to the smartphone, and a first execution unit configured to execute personal authentication of the user based on a detection result of the first sensor until the user starts the position input operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10750094
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, a mobile-body-position acquiring section configured to acquire a position of a mobile machine, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, and a display control section configured to cause the image display section to display the image. The display control section executes visibility control processing for controlling, on the basis of the position of the mobile machine acquired by the mobile-body-position acquiring section and the operation detected by the operation detecting section, visibility of the image displayed by the image display section with respect to the external light transmitted through the image display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emi Ozawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano