Patents by Inventor Shinji Takenaka
Shinji Takenaka 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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Publication number: 20180133602Abstract: An information processing system includes an operation apparatus and a main body apparatus which is capable of communicating with the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus includes an operation portion and a transmitter which transmits operation data to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a receiver which receives operation data and a controller. The controller sets any of a first mode in which first information processing is performed based on the received operation data and a second mode in which second information processing is performed based on the operation data while a first application is executed, makes transition from execution of the first application to execution of a second application, and maintains a set mode when transition to execution of the second application is made and changes from one set mode to the other mode when a prescribed condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Naoki MIWA, Shumpei YASUDA, Shinji TAKENAKA, Sumikazu ONO, Kiyomi ITANI, Ryota OIWA
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Publication number: 20180126262Abstract: An information processing system includes an operation apparatus and a main body apparatus which is capable of communicating with the operation apparatus. The operation apparatus includes a first transceiver which transmits operation data to the main body apparatus. The main body apparatus includes a memory in which an operation scheme of the operation apparatus is registered, a second transceiver which receives the operation data, and a controller. The controller registers the operation scheme of the operation apparatus in the memory as a first operation scheme when the operation data received by the second transceiver indicates a first operation and registers the operation scheme of the operation apparatus in the memory as a second operation scheme when the operation data received by the second transceiver indicates a second operation, and performs processing based on the operation scheme registered in the memory onto the operation data received by the second transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Naoki MIWA, Shumpei YASUDA, Shinji TAKENAKA, Sumikazu ONO, Kiyomi ITANI, Ryota OIWA
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Publication number: 20180122062Abstract: It is possible to present to the user, information by which the user can recognize specific work items of a product management work for improving an inappropriate display state. Included are an image acquisition unit (31) that acquires the captured image of the display area, a state monitoring area setter (32) that sets a state monitoring area on the captured image of the display area, a product detector (33) that acquires product detection information indicating a position of a product in the state monitoring area, based on a captured image of the state monitoring area, a display state evaluator (34) that evaluates a display state of the product in the state monitoring area, using a plurality of evaluation indices relating to display disorder of the product, based on the product detection information, and a display information generator (37) that presents information on an evaluation result by the display state evaluator to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji TAKENAKA, Kenji TOKUDA, Yuichiro TAKEMOTO
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Patent number: 9349042Abstract: A human detection and tracking apparatus prevents errors in a size of a person and a location of body parts between actual image data and a tracking result. Human frame detecting section detects, from first image data, a human frame as a region having high possibility of presence of a human, based on human feature data representing a feature of an entire human body. Body part frame location determining section determines a body part frame in the first image data, based on part feature data illustrating a feature of a body part of the human and a part frame determined as a region having high possibility of presence of a body part of the human in second image data previous to the first image data. Body part frame location correcting section corrects, based on the human frame, a location of the part frame determined in the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takenaka, Kazuhiko Iwai, Mitsuko Fujita
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Publication number: 20140211994Abstract: A human detection and tracking apparatus prevents errors in a size of a person and a location of body parts between actual image data and a tracking result. Human frame detecting section detects, from first image data, a human frame as a region having high possibility of presence of a human, based on human feature data representing a feature of an entire human body. Body part frame location determining section determines a body part frame in the first image data, based on part feature data illustrating a feature of a body part of the human and a part frame determined as a region having high possibility of presence of a body part of the human in second image data previous to the first image data. Body part frame location correcting section corrects, based on the human frame, a location of the part frame determined in the first image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinji Takenaka, Kazuhiko Iwai, Mitsuko Fujita
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Patent number: 8144199Abstract: Disclosed is a moving object automatic tracking apparatus that includes a movement detector for detecting movement of a moving object from an image obtained in time series from an image input portion. A tracker tracks the moving object by controlling a platform of the image input portion in a direction of movement of the moving object based on a movement detection result of the movement detector. An area manager manages a registered preset position and new registration of a preset position indicating an area for executing tracking by the tracker and movement detection by the movement detector. A patrol monitor conducts monitoring while patrolling plural preset positions set and managed by the area manager, and when a position in which the moving object is tracked and lost differs from the initialized preset position, the lost position is newly added and registered as an adaptive preset position.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinji Takenaka, Yasuyuki Michimoto, Satoru Oyabu
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Publication number: 20110032352Abstract: An imaging position determining method includes: an imaging process and an imaging position determination process. The imaging process includes acquiring images by picking up images in a plurality of predetermined imaging positions by an imaging unit. The imaging position determining process includes: comparing an image picked up by the imaging unit in any of the imaging positions with previously stored images; and determining a current imaging position by using a correlation calculated values obtained between the compared images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu Kanda, Masaaki Sato, Katsuya Miyanishi, Shinji Takenaka, Yasuyuki Michimoto
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Publication number: 20100002083Abstract: Even when a moving object intrudes into an area other than an initially registered preset position, movement of the moving object can be detected and tracked.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takenaka, Yasuyuki Michimoto, Satoru Oyabu
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Patent number: 5302187Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process comprising introducing a chlorine-containing gas through an adsorbent to adsorb chlorine and thereafter reducing the pressure of the adsorbent to a pressure lower than that during the introduction, thereby obtaining an effluent gas with a higher chlorine concentration than that of the introduced gas. Among preferably usable adsorbents are zeolite, non-zeolite-type porous acidic oxides and active carbon.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Kono, Shinji Takenaka, Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Isao Kikuchi, Teruo Hirayama
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Patent number: 5254323Abstract: A gaseous mixture containing chlorine, carbon dioxide and non-condensable gas is compressed and cooled to separate it into a residual gas formed principally of a major portion of the non-condensable gas and a condensate formed primarily of chlorine. The condensate is fed to a stripping column to desorb carbon dioxide and a minor portion of the non-condensable gas dissolved in the condensate. The stripped gas formed primarily of chlorine and carbon dioxide may be treated further. Namely, the stripped gas is mixed with the residual gas. At least a portion of the mixed gas is fed into an absorption column, whereby a major portion of remaining chlorine is absorbed to lower the chlorine content Removal of chlorine from such a gaseous mixture or an off-gas from the above process can be achieved by washing it with an aqueous solution or suspension containing an alkali metal sulfite and/or an alkaline earth metal sulfite while controlling the pH of the solution or suspension within a range of 1.9-6.3.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Kono, Isao Kikuchi, Shinji Takenaka, Masanobu Ajioka, Mitsuo Kudoh
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Patent number: 5169823Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for the stabilizing treatment of a catalyst comprising washing the catalyst with hot washing water following the preparation of the catalyst, the catalyst being composed principally of chromium oxide and used in the production of chlorine by the oxidation of hydrogen chloride with an oxygen-containing gas, thereby improving its catalytic activity and prolonging its life.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1991Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Tooru Hihara, Teruo Hirayama, Kunihiro Yamada, Shinji Takenaka
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Patent number: 5112580Abstract: Chlorine is produced by reacting hydrogen chloride and oxygen in the presence of a chromium oxide catalyst in a reactor whose catalyst-contacting part is lined with one of lining materials represented by the following general formula (I):M.sub.a X.sub.b (I)wherein M can be boron, aluminum, silicon, titanium, zirconium or chromium, X denotes oxygen, nitrogen or carbon, a is an integer of 1-2 and b stands for an integer of 1-3 or with a mixture of at least two of the lining materials. The above process and reactor are effective in maintaining the activity of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Masanobu Ajioka, Shinji Takenaka, Hiroyuki Itoh, Masafumi Kataita, Yoshitsugu Kohno
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Patent number: 5112593Abstract: Chlorine is produced by reacting hydrogen chloride and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst composed of a chromium oxide as a principal component. The reaction is carried out in a fluidized bed reactor equipped at vertical intervals not greater than 100 cm with a plurality of perforated horizontal plates having a perforation rate of 10-60% in a reaction zone in which the catalyst is fluidized in operation. The reaction zone is above a gas diffuser plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Kono, Isao Kikuchi, Shinji Takenaka, Masanobu Ajioka
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Patent number: 5108558Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for the electroreduction of aromatic acids comprising reducing an aromatic carboxylic acid electrolytically in an aqueous acidic solution by the use of a material of a low oxygen overvoltage as the anode for oxygen generation, thereby producing the corresponding benzyl alcohol in high yield in a single electrolytic apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1989Date of Patent: April 28, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Shinji Takenaka, Ryu Oi, Chitoshi Shimakawa
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Patent number: 5093292Abstract: The catalytic activity of a chromium oxide-based catalyst used in the production of chlorine by oxidation of hydrogen chloride gas with an oxygen-containing gas is regenerated by impregnating it with an aqueous solution of chromic acid anhydride or of a chromium salt and then calcining the catalyst at a temperature not higher than 800.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1990Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Tooru Hihara, Kunihiro Yamada, Shinji Takenaka, Kazunori Kawahara, Jun Kitagawa
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Patent number: 5068459Abstract: A process for producing m-phenoxybenzyl alcohol by reacting chlorobenzene with m-hydroxybenzyl alcohol in the presence of a copper catalyst and a base, the process being characterized by using an alkylene glycol as a reaction solvent.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1990Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Ryu Oi, Shinji Takenaka, Chitoshi Shimakawa
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Patent number: 5034209Abstract: Chlorine is produced by reacting hydrogen chloride and oxygen in the presence of a chromium oxide catalyst in a reactor whose catalyst-contacting part is lined with one of lining materials represented by the following general formula(I):M.sub.a X.sub.b (I)wherein M means boron, aluminum, silicon, titanium, zirconium or chromium, X denotes oxygen, nitrogen or carbon, a is an integer of 1-2 and b stands for an integer of 1-3 or with a mixture of at least two of the lining materials. The above process and reactor are effective in maintaining the activity of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1990Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Masanobu Ajioka, Shinji Takenaka, Hiroyuki Itoh, Masafumi Kataita, Yoshitsugu Kohno
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Patent number: 5000006Abstract: A gaseous mixture containing chlorine, carbon dioxide and non-condensable gas is compressed and cooled to separate it into a residual gas formed principally of a major portion of the non-condensable gas and a condensate formed primarily of chlorine. The condensate is fed to a stripping column to desorb carbon dioxide and a minor portion of the non-condensable gas dissolved in the condensate. The stripped gas formed primarily of chlorine and carbon dioxide may be treated further. Namely, the stripped gas is mixed with the residual gas. At least a portion of the mixed gas is fed into an absorption column, whereby a major portion of remaining chlorine is absorbed to lower the chlorine content. Removal of chlorine from such a gaseous mixture or an off-gas from the above process can be achieved by washing it with an aqueous solution or suspension containing an alkali metal sulfite and/or an alkaline earth metal sulfite while controlling the pH of the solution or suspension within a range of 1.9-6.3.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1989Date of Patent: March 19, 1991Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Kono, Isao Kikuchi, Shinji Takenaka, Masanobu Ajioka, Mitsuo Kudoh
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Patent number: 4956169Abstract: Chlorine is produced by reacting hydrogen chloride and oxygen in the presence of a chromium oxide catalyst in a reactor whose catalyst-contacting part is lined with one of lining materials represented by the following general formula (I):M.sub.a X.sub.b (I)wherein M means boron, aluminum, silicon, titanium, zirconium or chromium, X denotes oxygen, nitrogen or carbon, a is an integer of 1-2 and b stands for an integer of 1-3 or with a mixture of at least two of the lining materials. The above process and reactor are effective in maintaining the activity of the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1988Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Masanobu Ajioka, Shinji Takenaka, Hiroyuki Itoh, Masafumi Kataita, Yoshitsugu Kohno
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Patent number: 4803065Abstract: An improved process is provided for the production of chlorine. In a fluidized-bed reactor having a specific equivalent diameter and made of a material with a particular iron content, hydrogen chloride and oxygen are reacted in particular gas volumes and at specific molar ratio, superficial velocity, temperature and pressure in the presence of a catalyst composed principally of a chromium oxide and having a specific particle size distribution. The catalyst is filled in a specific amount in terms of catalyst layer height at rest. The catalyst can retain its high activity.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1987Date of Patent: February 7, 1989Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Kono, Masanobu Ajioka, Shinji Takenaka, Masafumi Kataita