Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kitazawa

Takayuki Kitazawa 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: 20240156781
    Abstract: Provided is a therapeutic agent for cellular drug resistance to a microtubule inhibitor. The therapeutic agent contains a ? opioid receptor agonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: SOCIUM INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa HORIMOTO, Masashi KITAZAWA, Takayuki KIBOKU, Atsushi MIZOKAMI, Kouji IZUMI, Takashi SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240100718
    Abstract: A gripping device includes a gripper gripping an object by decreasing a distance to the object, a pressure sensor provided in the gripper, detecting a contact force applied from the object when contacting with the object, and outputting a detection signal, a driver driving the gripper, and a first controller controlling operation of the driver based on the detection signal, wherein the first controller operates the driver in a first drive mode for decreasing the distance at a first speed when the detection signal is not output, and operates the driver in a second drive mode for decreasing the distance at a second speed lower than the first speed when the detection signal is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki YONEMURA, Takayuki KITAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11681397
    Abstract: A position detection system includes a position detection apparatus and a server. The position detection apparatus includes an imaging apparatus that captures an image of an operation surface, a processor that detects a pointed position at which a pointing element is pointing on the operation surface by using a learned model based on captured images captured by the imaging apparatus, and a first communication apparatus that transmits the captured images to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes at least one processor that detects a first image that does not contain an image of the pointing element out of the captured images, generates learning data containing the first image, and relearns the learned model by using the learning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corportation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Yuma Iwahara
  • Patent number: 11385742
    Abstract: A position detection method of detecting a position in an operation surface pointed by a pointing element, the method including irradiating with infrared light toward the operation surface, obtaining a first and second taken image calibrated with respect to the operation surface by imaging the operation surface with a first and second camera configured to take an image with the infrared light, forming a difference image between the first taken image and the second taken image, extracting an area in which an amount of disparity between the first taken image and the second taken image is within a predetermined range out of the difference image as a candidate area in which an image of the pointing element is included, detecting an area corresponding to a tip position of the pointing element from the candidate area extracted based on a shape of the pointing element, and outputting, based on the area corresponding to a tip position, information representing a pointing position of the pointing element in the operat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Kensuke Ogasawara, Yuma Iwahara
  • Publication number: 20220203517
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program controls a processor to execute (a) processing of recognizing a worker motion from an image of one or more worker motions captured by an imaging apparatus, (b) processing of recognizing hand and finger positions in a specific hand and finger motion when the worker motion contains the specific hand and finger motion, (c) processing of recognizing a position of a workpiece after work, and (d) processing of generating a control program for a robot using the worker motion, the hand and finger positions, and the position of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Yuma IWAHARA, Takayuki KITAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210382575
    Abstract: A position detection system includes a position detection apparatus and a server. The position detection apparatus includes an imaging apparatus that captures an image of an operation surface, a processor that detects a pointed position at which a pointing element is pointing on the operation surface by using a learned model based on captured images captured by the imaging apparatus, and a first communication apparatus that transmits the captured images to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes at least one processor that detects a first image that does not contain an image of the pointing element out of the captured images, generates learning data containing the first image, and relearns the learned model by using the learning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAZAWA, Yuma IWAHARA
  • Patent number: 11180835
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a surface exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is not less than 50% nor more than 85% in a range of wave numbers of 1200 cm?1 to 1300 cm?1 by a Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy analysis by a reflection absorption spectrometry method, and does not exhibit an absorption peak in a range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, or exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is 85% or more in the range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, wherein Ni of 3 mg/m2 to 100 mg/m2 adheres to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Ueda, Hiroyuki Kawata, Takayuki Kitazawa, Takeshi Yasui, Hiroyuki Ban
  • Publication number: 20210255718
    Abstract: a position detection method of detecting a position in an operation surface pointed by a pointing element, the method including irradiating with infrared light toward the operation surface, obtaining a first and second taken image calibrated with respect to the operation surface by imaging the operation surface with a first and second camera configured to take an image with the infrared light, forming a difference image between the first taken image and the second taken image, extracting an area in which an amount of disparity between the first taken image and the second taken image is within a predetermined range out of the difference image as a candidate area in which an image of the pointing element is included, detecting an area corresponding to a tip position of the pointing element from the candidate area extracted based on a shape of the pointing element, and outputting, based on the area corresponding to a tip position, information representing a pointing position of the pointing element in the operat
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAZAWA, Kensuke OGASAWARA, Yuma IWAHARA
  • Patent number: 11035021
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes: a specific chemical composition; and a microstructure represented by, in a ? thickness to ? thickness range with ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness from a surface being a center, in volume fraction, ferrite: 85% or less, bainite: 3% or more and 95% or less, tempered martensite: 1% or more and 80% or less, retained austenite: 1% or more and 25% or less, pearlite and coarse cementite: 5% or less in total, and fresh martensite: 5% or less, in which the solid-solution carbon content in the retained austenite is 0.70 to 1.30 mass %, and to all grain boundaries of retained austenite grains having an aspect ratio of 2.50 or less and a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.80 ?m or more, the proportion of interfaces with the tempered martensite or the fresh martensite is 75% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawata, Yuji Yamaguchi, Takayuki Kitazawa, Satoshi Uchida, Kohei Ueda, Naoki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190024208
    Abstract: The present method for manufacturing a high strength steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or higher includes continuous annealing by heating a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition to 750° C. to 900° C. and holding the steel sheet in the temperature range for 0 seconds to 300 seconds, in which, during heating and holding, a hydrogen concentration in a furnace atmosphere is less than 10 volume %, when a temperature of the steel sheet is 700° C. or lower, a furnace body average value is higher than ?3.01 and lower than ?0.07, when the temperature is higher than 700° C. and 800° C. or lower, the value is higher than ?1.36 and lower than ?0.07, when the temperature is higher than 800° C., the value is higher than ?3.01 and ?0.53 or lower, and a dew point is lower than ?10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAZAWA, Kohei UEDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kaoru HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190003009
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes: a specific chemical composition; and a microstructure represented by, in a ? thickness to ? thickness range with ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness from a surface being a center, in volume fraction, ferrite: 85% or less, bainite: 3% or more and 95% or less, tempered martensite: 1% or more and 80% or less, retained austenite: 1% or more and 25% or less, pearlite and coarse cementite: 5% or less in total, and fresh martensite: 5% or less, in which the solid-solution carbon content in the retained austenite is 0.70 to 1.30 mass %, and to all grain boundaries of retained austenite grains having an aspect ratio of 2.50 or less and a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.80 ?m or more, the proportion of interfaces with the tempered martensite or the fresh martensite is 75% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWATA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Satoshi UCHIDA, Kohei UEDA, Naoki MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180274069
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a surface exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is not less than 50% nor more than 85% in a range of wave numbers of 1200 cm?1 to 1300 cm?1 by a Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy analysis by a reflection absorption spectrometry method, and does not exhibit an absorption peak in a range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, or exhibits an absorption peak at which a reflectance is 85% or more in the range of wave numbers of 1000 cm?1 to 1100 cm?1, wherein Ni of 3 mg/m2 to 100 mg/m2 adheres to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei UEDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Takeshi YASUI, Hiroyuki BAN
  • Publication number: 20180256938
    Abstract: A rehabilitation training device includes a motion parameter value acquirer that acquires a first motion parameter value relating to a first motion of a body of a user who uses the training device, a training image generator that generates N (an integer greater than or equal to 1) training images including a training image having a motion parameter value representing motion characteristics different from the first motion parameter value with respect to the first motion, based on the first motion parameter value, and a display that displays one training image of the N training images as a first training image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hideki TANAKA, Yuya MARUYAMA, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Yutaka OOUCHIDA, Shinichi IZUMI, Yosuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20180036506
    Abstract: A support device for phantom limb pain treatment includes: a dynamic image transmitting unit which outputs dynamic image data in which a hand carries out a repetition movement between a first state and a second state; a head-mounted display which displays a dynamic image based on the dynamic image data; and a display condition input unit which inputs a display condition for the repetition movement. The dynamic image transmitting unit outputs the dynamic image data corresponding to the display condition for the repetition movement. The display condition includes a forward speed which is a speed of shifting from the first state to the second state and a backward speed which is a speed of shifting from the second state to the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki TANAKA, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Yuya MARUYAMA, Yutaka OOUCHIDA, Shinichi IZUMI
  • Patent number: 9810907
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a camera that outputs live motion images, a recorded motion image output section that outputs recorded motion images produced, a reversed motion image formation section that forms reversed motion images produced by reversing the live motion images, a skin color image extraction section that extracts images having a skin color from the live motion images and reverses the extracted images to form skin color reversed motion images, a motion image display section having a first display section and a second display section, and a display content setting section that sets display contents that are contents to be displayed in the first display section and the second display section, and the display content setting section selects contents to be displayed motion image display section from the live motion images, the recorded motion images, the reversed motion images, and the skin color reversed motion images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Hideki Tanaka, Yuya Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20170099468
    Abstract: In a case where a patient is caused to perform a first emulating action, a moving image in which a therapy target part repeatedly moves is displayed on a screen member, and the therapy target part is shielded from the visual field of the patient by using the screen member. In a case where the patient is caused to perform a second emulating action, a transition operation for stopping the shielding is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hideki TANAKA, Yuya MARUYAMA, Takayuki KITAZAWA, Yutaka Oouchida, Shinichi IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20170014683
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section with which a pair of body portions performing cooperative exercise can be visually recognized, an imaging section that can image a marker attached to one body portion of the pair of body portions, and a display control section configured to cause the display section to display an image representing a normal motion of the other body portion of the pair of body portions. The display control section estimates, on the basis of the position of the captured marker, a position concerning the other body portion visually recognized in the display section in the cooperative exercise and causes the display section to display the image in the estimated position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yuya MARUYAMA, Hideki TANAKA, Takayuki KITAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160379338
    Abstract: A sheet for rehabilitation used together with a head-mounted display device (an HMD) that can display an image is disclosed. On the sheet for rehabilitation, markers functioning as labels for designating a position for displaying the image are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yuya MARUYAMA, Hideki TANAKA, Takayuki KITAZAWA
  • Patent number: 9530832
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line and a data line intersecting each other, a pixel circuit provided at a position corresponding to an intersection of the scanning line and the data line, and a power supply wiring line that supplies a given potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting element. A gate electrode of the driving transistor is electrically connected via a first relay electrode to a given node. The first relay electrode is formed in the same layer as the power supply wiring line and the data line. The first relay electrode is surrounded on at least three sides by the power supply wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kitazawa, Takeshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20160249008
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a camera that outputs live motion images, a recorded motion image output section that outputs recorded motion images produced, a reversed motion image formation section that forms reversed motion images produced by reversing the live motion images, a skin color image extraction section that extracts images having a skin color from the live motion images and reverses the extracted images to form skin color reversed motion images, a motion image display section having a first display section and a second display section, and a display content setting section that sets display contents that are contents to be displayed in the first display section and the second display section, and the display content setting section selects contents to be displayed motion image display section from the live motion images, the recorded motion images, the reversed motion images, and the skin color reversed motion images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Takayuki KITAZAWA, Hideki TANAKA, Yuya MARUYAMA