Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Itoh
Tatsuo Itoh 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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Patent number: 11883210Abstract: A method of controlling a device includes: obtaining information related to a body surface temperature of a person by detecting the body surface temperature of the person by a thermal camera, estimating a deep body temperature of the person on the basis of the information related to the body surface temperature of the person, detecting the person's condition on the basis of the deep body temperature of the person, and controlling an operation of the device according to the detected person's condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Aki Yoneda, Nawatt Silawan, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh
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Publication number: 20240027093Abstract: A sensor mounting device (100) of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit (110) configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor (120) configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit (130) configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (120); and a second control unit (150) configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (130) Power to the sensor (120) and the first control unit (130) is directly supplied from the power supply unit (110). Power to the second control unit (150) is supplied from the power supply unit (110) via a switching unit (140) whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit (130).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Shinichi SHIKII, Koichi KUSUKAME, Nawatt SILAWAN, Tatsuo ITOH
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Patent number: 11808478Abstract: A sensor mounting device (100) of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit (110) configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor (120) configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit (130) configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (120); and a second control unit (150) configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (130). Power to the sensor (120) and the first control unit (130) is directly supplied from the power supply unit (110). Power to the second control unit (150) is supplied from the power supply unit (110) via a switching unit (140) whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit (130).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Nawatt Silawan, Tatsuo Itoh
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Publication number: 20230305312Abstract: An image display device includes: a laser light source; a first lens that converges a laser beam emitted from the laser light source, in a first direction; a second lens that converges the laser beam emitted from the laser light source, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a spatial light modulator irradiated with the laser beam that has passed through the first lens and the second lens; a first vibrator that vibrates the first lens along a first vibration plane; and a second vibrator that vibrates the second lens along a second vibration plane non-parallel to the first vibration plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo ITOH, Akira KUROZUKA
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Publication number: 20220244177Abstract: An optical device includes: a light source part configured to project illumination light toward a sensing region; a photodetector configured to receive reflected light of the illumination light reflected on the sensing region; and a condenser mirror. The condenser mirror has a through hole through which the illumination light from the light source part passes and an optical axis of the light source part and an optical axis of the condenser mirror are aligned with each other. A reflection surface of the condenser mirror has a shape obtained by cutting out a columnar body extending in a projection direction of the illumination light, with a spheroid whose rotation axis is a major axis. The photodetector is disposed in a direction toward a first focal position of the condenser mirror. The sensing region is set in a direction toward a second focal position of the condenser mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Akira KUROZUKA, Tatsuo ITOH, Kosuke IMAWAKA, Hiroyuki FURUYA
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Patent number: 11320162Abstract: A thermal image sensor including: a plurality of infrared detector elements that detect infrared light in a detection area; and rotors that scan the detection area in a scanning direction to detect, with the plurality of infrared detector elements, infrared light in an area to be captured as a single thermal image. The plurality of infrared detector elements include infrared detector elements arranged in mutually different positions in a rotational direction corresponding to the scanning direction of the plurality of infrared detector elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Koichi Kusukame, Shinichi Shikii, Nawatt Silawan, Tatsuo Itoh, Kazuki Funase, Aki Yoneda
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Patent number: 11312383Abstract: A road surface condition prediction system includes a collector which collects pieces of moisture information on moisture on a road surface obtained by detecting the moisture on the road surface of a road on which moving bodies travel, and pieces of position information each indicating a position on the road surface at which the moisture is detected, one or more of the pieces of moisture information and one or more of the pieces of position information being collected from each of the moving bodies; and a predictor which predicts a moisture condition of a target road surface at a time after a time at which moisture on the target road surface is detected, based on moisture information obtained by detecting the moisture on the target road surface, the target road surface being a road surface at a position indicated by at least one of the pieces of position information.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Kusukame, Tatsuo Itoh
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Patent number: 11275431Abstract: A control method of a personal authentication apparatus and a personal authentication apparatus stores a piece of authentication information of a predetermined user. The method and apparatus estimates an emotion felt by a target user, based on a physical quantity acquired by a sensor, generates identification information that identifies an object that causes the target user to feel the estimated emotion, based on the physical quantity acquired by the sensor or presentation information presented by a presenter, and determines whether the target user is the predetermined user based on the estimated emotion and the generated identification information and the piece of authentication information of the predetermined user.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Aki Yoneda, Koichi Kusukame, Shinichi Shikii, Nawatt Silawan, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh
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Patent number: 11194405Abstract: In a method for controlling an information display apparatus that displays information on a display seen by a plurality of users, a feeling of a first user among the plurality of users is estimated on the basis of a physical value obtained from a sensor, it is determined, using the obtained physical value or the estimated feeling, whether to display the estimated feeling, and the display is controlled in accordance with a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh, Aki Yoneda, Nawatt Silawan
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Publication number: 20210369212Abstract: A method of controlling a device includes: obtaining information related to a body surface temperature of a person by detecting the body surface temperature of the person by a thermal camera, estimating a deep body temperature of the person on the basis of the information related to the body surface temperature of the person, detecting the person's condition on the basis of the deep body temperature of the person, and controlling an operation of the device according to the detected person's condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi SHIKII, Koichi KUSUKAME, Aki YONEDA, Nawatt SILAWAN, Shinji UCHIDA, Tatsuo ITOH
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Patent number: 11123021Abstract: A method for estimating a physical condition used by a computer includes simultaneously measuring blood flow volumes of at least two body parts of a person and estimating the person's physical condition on the basis of the blood flow volumes of the at least two body parts measured in the simultaneously measuring.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Aki Yoneda, Nawatt Silawan, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh
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Patent number: 10863939Abstract: An emotion estimating method includes: acquiring first data and second data from the subject, the first data corresponding to physiology data, and the second data corresponding to one of physiology data different from the first data and non-physiology data; calculating a first value and a second value based on the acquired first data and second data, the first value indicating a degree of arousal of the subject and the second value indicating a degree of valence of the subject; estimating the emotion of the subject, by using the calculated first value and second value and based on a predetermined association of people's emotions with a degree of arousal and a degree of valence of the people, the predetermined association being pre-stored in a memory; and outputting information indicating the estimated emotion.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Nawatt Silawan, Koichi Kusukame, Shinji Uchida, Shinichi Shikii, Aki Yoneda, Tatsuo Itoh
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Publication number: 20200381834Abstract: Apparatus and systems for antennas for endfire radiation with vertical polarization are described. In an embodiment, an antenna includes a top patch, a ground substrate defining a hole, a feeding cable disposed to mate with the hole, two coupled radiating resonant cavities having two eigen-modes, where the coupled radiating resonant cavities are configured to form a beam, and where the antenna is configured for endfire radiation with vertical polarization.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Haozhan Tian, Lijun Jiang, Tatsuo Itoh
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Publication number: 20200272225Abstract: A control method of a personal authentication apparatus and a personal authentication apparatus stores a piece of authentication information of a predetermined user. The method and apparatus estimates an emotion felt by a target user, based on a physical quantity acquired by a sensor, generates identification information that identifies an object that causes the target user to feel the estimated emotion, based on the physical quantity acquired by the sensor or presentation information presented by a presenter, and determines whether the target user is the predetermined user based on the estimated emotion and the generated identification information and the piece of authentication information of the predetermined user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: AKI YONEDA, KOICHI KUSUKAME, SHINICHI SHIKII, NAWATT SILAWAN, SHINJI UCHIDA, TATSUO ITOH
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Publication number: 20200224906Abstract: A thermal image sensor including: a plurality of infrared detector elements that detect infrared light in a detection area; and rotors that scan the detection area in a scanning direction to detect, with the plurality of infrared detector elements, infrared light in an area to be captured as a single thermal image. The plurality of infrared detector elements include infrared detector elements arranged in mutually different positions in a rotational direction corresponding to the scanning direction of the plurality of infrared detector elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Koichi KUSUKAME, Shinichi SHIKII, Nawatt SILAWAN, Tatsuo ITOH, Kazuki FUNASE, Aki YONEDA
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Patent number: 10691197Abstract: A control method for an information presenting apparatus includes: estimating an emotion felt by a user, based on a physical quantity acquired by a sensor; generating identification information that identifies a cause that causes the user to feel the estimated emotion, based on the physical quantity acquired by the sensor or information that a presenter included in the information presenting apparatus presents to the user; and controlling presentation performed by the information presenting apparatus, by using information obtained by executing predetermined processing using the estimated emotion and the generated identification information.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Aki Yoneda, Koichi Kusukame, Shinichi Shikii, Nawatt Silawan, Shinji Uchida, Tatsuo Itoh
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Patent number: 10641509Abstract: A thermal image sensor including: a plurality of infrared detector elements that detect infrared light in a detection area; and rotors that scan the detection area in a scanning direction to detect, with the plurality of infrared detector elements, infrared light in an area to be captured as a single thermal image. The plurality of infrared detector elements include infrared detector elements arranged in mutually different positions in a rotational direction corresponding to the scanning direction of the plurality of infrared detector elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Koichi Kusukame, Shinichi Shikii, Nawatt Silawan, Tatsuo Itoh, Kazuki Funase, Aki Yoneda
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Patent number: 10615473Abstract: Waveguides in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a dual-mode circular waveguide includes a cavity, a first end wall including a first handedness-preserving metasurface positioned at a first end of the cavity, and a second end wall including a second handedness-preserving metasurface positioned at a second end of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Tatsuo Itoh, Xiaoqiang Li, Mohammad Memarian
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Publication number: 20200003438Abstract: A sensor mounting device (100) of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit (110) configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor (120) configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit (130) configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (120); and a second control unit (150) configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (130). Power to the sensor (120) and the first control unit (130) is directly supplied from the power supply unit (110). Power to the second control unit (150) is supplied from the power supply unit (110) via a switching unit (140) whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit (130).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Shinichi SHIKII, Koichi KUSUKAME, Nawatt SILAWAN, Tatsuo ITOH
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Patent number: 10371402Abstract: A sensor mounting device (100) of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit (110) configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor (120) configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit (130) configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (120); and a second control unit (150) configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (130). Power to the sensor (120) and the first control unit (130) is directly supplied from the power supply unit (110). Power to the second control unit (150) is supplied from the power supply unit (110) via a switching unit (140) whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit (130).Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shinichi Shikii, Koichi Kusukame, Nawatt Silawan, Tatsuo Itoh