Patents by Inventor Shinya Uema

Shinya Uema 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: 20230083764
    Abstract: A communication device includes a connector inserted into a first device, a communication circuit which performs wireless communication with a second device, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is programmed to communicate with the first device via the connector to control the communication circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to execute generating a first signal representing that the connector is pulled out from the first device when the processing circuit detects that the connector is pulled out from the first device, and transmitting the first signal to the second device by controlling the communication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nozomi SATO, Shinya UEMA, Daisuke MIMA, Akihiro TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11164009
    Abstract: A control method of the control device includes receiving state information representing a state of communication in a first area, determining an image corresponding to a degree of congestion with persons in the first area based on the state information, and making a display section display the image corresponding to the degree of the congestion with the persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Uema
  • Publication number: 20200193167
    Abstract: A control method of the control device includes receiving state information representing a state of communication in a first area, determining an image corresponding to a degree of congestion with persons in the first area based on the state information, and making a display section display the image corresponding to the degree of the congestion with the persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya UEMA
  • Patent number: 10276133
    Abstract: A projector includes: a projecting section that projects an image onto a projection surface; an imaging section that captures the image projected on the projection surface and a person located between the projecting section and the projection surface, and obtain a captured image; a specifying section that specifies a split position of the projection surface based on a position of the person in the captured image; and a display control section that splits the projection surface into a plurality of areas at the split position specified by the specifying section and controls the projecting section so as to project different images in the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Uema
  • Publication number: 20180061371
    Abstract: A projector includes: a projecting section that projects an image onto a projection surface; an imaging section that captures the image projected on the projection surface and a person located between the projecting section and the projection surface, and obtain a captured image; a specifying section that specifies a split position of the projection surface based on a position of the person in the captured image; and a display control section that splits the projection surface into a plurality of areas at the split position specified by the specifying section and controls the projecting section so as to project different images in the plurality of areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya UEMA
  • Publication number: 20150101291
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIWATARI, Shinya UEMA, Manabu HARAGUCHI, Koichi KOBAYASHI, Shigeyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20120256924
    Abstract: An image supply device capable of communicating with an image display device adapted to display an image with a predetermined display resolution includes a transmission image data generator adapted to generate transmission image data with a resolution lower than a display resolution of the image display device, and a transmitter adapted to transmit the transmission image data generated by the transmission image data generator to the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya UEMA
  • Patent number: 8220224
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7848846
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus for filling medicines into containers has a plurality of reception compartments into which each of a plurality of medicines are to be respectively selectively fed by a user based on prescription data stored in a processor, a discharge apparatus for discharging the medicines from each of the reception compartments, and filling apparatus for filling the medicines discharged from the reception compartments into containers. An LED lamp is identifiably related to each of the plurality of reception compartments to indicate the reception compartment into which a particular medicine is to be fed based on the prescription data and a control device controls the discharge apparatus to discharge the medicine from the reception compartment and the filling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20100100232
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIWATARI, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100100231
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIWATARI, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100095635
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC BIOMEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIWATARI, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7637078
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7293672
    Abstract: In a medicine supply apparatus having a plurality of tablet cases equipped in a case accommodating portion of a main body, each tablet case containing medicines, chutes into which medicines discharged from the respective table cases fall, a hopper equipped in correspondence with the lower portions of the chutes, and a charging apparatus for charging a medicine accommodating container with medicines caught by the hopper, a plurality of drawers are equipped in the case accommodating portion, the tablet cases are detachably mounted on each drawer, and each drawer is equipped so as to be freely drawn out from the case accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Mori, Hideyuki Takahashi, Toshihiko Ota, Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20060230710
    Abstract: A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section 8, a plurality of tablet cases 3 for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag 72, which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case 3 based on a prescription. An identification code 26 is provided for each of the tablet cases 3 and read by an optical sensor 33 provided inside the case accommodating section 8, whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor 14 for driving a discharge drum for the tablet case 3 is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operation of parts that wear out, such as the motors, are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism 73 on the bag 72 into which medicine is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi, Koichi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20050145644
    Abstract: In a medicine supply apparatus having a plurality of tablet cases equipped in a case accommodating portion of a main body, each tablet case containing medicines, chutes into which medicines discharged from the respective table cases fall, a hopper equipped in correspondence with the lower portions of the chutes, and a charging apparatus for charging a medicine accommodating container with medicines caught by the hopper, a plurality of drawers are equipped in the case accommodating portion, the tablet cases are detachably mounted on each drawer, and each drawer is equipped so as to be freely drawn out from the case accommodating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Mori, Hideyuki Takahashi, Toshihiko Ota, Hiroshi Ishiwatari, Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20040134043
    Abstract: In a medicine supply apparatus for filling medicines into containers using a plurality of reception compartments into which medicines can be voluntarily fed, an object is to improve usability of the apparatus and prevent supply of wrong medicines. The medicine supply apparatus includes a plurality of reception compartments into which medicines can be respectively put arbitrarily, discharge means for discharging the medicines in the reception compartments, respectively, and filling means for filling the medicines discharged from the reception compartments into containers such as bags or vials. The medicine supply apparatus is provided with LED lamps for identifiably showing the plurality of reception compartments, respectively, and control means for controlling the discharge means, the LED lamps, and the filling means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Uema, Manabu Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 6471088
    Abstract: There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can easily and securely prevent a disadvantage that a medicine is wrongly supplied. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a container for containing medicines, and a discharge drum for discharging the medicines one by one from the container, each tablet case is provided with a memory in which identification data for identifying the tablet case is written, and a main body is provided with a controller for identifying the tablet case based on the identification data in the memory of each tablet case, and executing the drive control of the discharge drum of each tablet case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Uema, Hiroshi Seya
  • Patent number: 6405893
    Abstract: There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can improve the efficiency of a dispensing operation. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases 3 stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a container 51 for containing medicines, and a discharge drum 53 for discharging the medicines one by one from the container 51, and the container 51 is provided with a residual amount sensor 58 for detecting that the residual amount of medicines in the container 51 is lowered to indicate a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuzo Tobe, Atsuo Inamura, Manabu Haraguchi, Shinya Uema
  • Patent number: 6349848
    Abstract: There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can improve the dispensing operation efficiency. The medicine supply apparatus is constituted by storing a plurality of tablet cases in a main body case storage part, each tablet case comprising a container for containing a medicine and a discharge drum for discharging the medicine from the container, comprises a motor for driving the discharge drum and a controller for controlling the operation of the motor, and the controller comprises means for rotating forward the motor to discharge the medicine and for detecting medicine sticking, so that when the medicine sticking occurs, the motor is rotated backward and then rotated forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Uema, Atsuo Inamura