Patents by Inventor Yukio Okamura
Yukio Okamura 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: 8847011Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
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Patent number: 8847012Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui, Masaru Takagi
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Publication number: 20140223601Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi CHATANI, Chikara OHTO, Yukio OKAMURA, Norihiro MITSUKAWA, Nobuhiko MURAMOTO, Tomotsugu KOYAMA, Kyoko MATSUI, Masaru TAKAGI
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Patent number: 8495399Abstract: A communication apparatus which is connected to an information processing apparatus so as to operate dependent on the information processing apparatus and connects the information processing apparatus and an external apparatus, includes a judgment unit which judges instruction information transmitted from the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores the instruction information, a transmission unit which detects whether the information processing apparatus is in a normal state in which power is consumed normally or a power-saving state in which power consumption is reduced, and transmits the instruction information stored by the storage unit to the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus is in the normal state, and a switching unit which switches the communication apparatus to the normal state if the judgment unit judges that the instruction information is an instruction for directing the operation when the communication apparatus is in the power-saving state.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yuki Dogo, Yukio Okamura
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Patent number: 8346603Abstract: An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Sakakibara, Yukio Okamura, Kenji Mori, Yutaka Matsumoto, Chitose Shibata, Yoshitaka Asakura, Akihiko Kido, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kiichi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 8309762Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a method for efficiently synthesizing monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid, and tricarboxylic acid with the use of unsaturated triacyl glycerol as a starting material and hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. Such method comprises allowing unsaturated triacyl glycerol to react with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a quaternary ammonium polybasic acid hydrogen salt and at least one member selected from the group consisting of tungstic acid, heterotungstic acid, and salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Kon, Kazuhiko Sato, Hideaki Yazawa, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura
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Patent number: 8249933Abstract: An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Sakakibara, Yukio Okamura, Kenji Mori, Yutaka Matsumoto, Chitose Shibata, Yoshitaka Asakura, Akihiko Kido, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kiichi Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20110199650Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs filtering on block image data that is a predetermined region of original image data using a filter having a main scanning width of N and a sub-scanning width of M. Using a register that can shift image data in a plurality of directions, the image processing apparatus processes pixel data columns in a sub-scanning direction included in the block image data in the following manner. The pixel data columns are processed in the sub-scanning direction and a direction opposite to the sub-scanning direction alternately for each of the pixel data columns, and the pixel data columns are also processed in the order in which the columns are aligned in a main scanning direction. This makes shorter the filtering processing time of the image processing apparatus that performs processing on a block-by-block basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Publication number: 20110191613Abstract: A communication apparatus which is connected to an information processing apparatus so as to operate dependent on the information processing apparatus and connects the information processing apparatus and an external apparatus, includes a judgment unit which judges instruction information transmitted from the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores the instruction information, a transmission unit which detects whether the information processing apparatus is in a normal state in which power is consumed normally or a power-saving state in which power consumption is reduced, and transmits the instruction information stored by the storage unit to the information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus is in the normal state, and a switching unit which switches the communication apparatus to the normal state if the judgment unit judges that the instruction information is an instruction for directing the operation when the communication apparatus is in the power-saving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki DOGO, Yukio OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20110010804Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
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Publication number: 20100311994Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCEINCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui, Masaru Takagi
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Publication number: 20100210873Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a method for efficiently synthesizing monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid, and tricarboxylic acid with the use of unsaturated triacyl glycerol as a starting material and hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. Such method comprises allowing unsaturated triacyl glycerol to react with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a quaternary ammonium polybasic acid hydrogen salt and at least one member selected from the group consisting of tungstic acid, heterotungstic acid, and salts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro KON, Kazuhiko Sato, Hideaki Yazawa, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura
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Patent number: 7567366Abstract: A system having a power saving mode includes: a body provided with an original table having a surface for putting an original; an original cover coupled to the original table so that the original cover can be opened and closed to cover at least the surface of the original table; a light source that emits a beam; a power source that supplies power to the light source; a cover opening/closing detector that detects that the original cover is opened/closed; and a power source controller that controls the power source so that the power saving mode is released when the cover opening/closing detector detects that the original cover is closed during the power saving mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2004Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Publication number: 20090185754Abstract: There is provided an image processing circuit to which a block image obtained by cutting an area corresponding to a predetermined main scanning width and a predetermined sub-scanning width from an original image is input and which performs filter processing on each of pixels constituting the block image to be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Publication number: 20090144150Abstract: An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Sakakibara, Yukio Okamura, Kenji Mori, Yutaka Matsumoto, Chitose Shibata, Yoshitaka Asakura, Akihiko Kido, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kiichi Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20090144149Abstract: An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsumi Sakakibara, Yukio Okamura, Kenji Mori, Yutaka Matsumoto, Chitose Shibata, Yoshitaka Asakura, Akihiko Kido, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kiichi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 7236270Abstract: A white reference image is inputted to an image sensor with a light source lit up, and white reference data is set every effective photosensor element by inspecting the output signals of the image sensor as to the white reference image (steps S305 and S310). After the input of the white reference image, the light source is extinguished (point e in FIG. 1), a black reference image is inputted to the image sensor (step S315), and black reference data is set every effective photosensor element by inspecting the output signals of the image sensor as to the black reference image (step S320). After the light source is lit up (point f in FIG.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2002Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Patent number: 7031029Abstract: By performing preliminary scanning, a document identification unit determines whether a document is a dark document, such as a negative film, that requires excess exposure, or an ordinary document that does not require excess exposure. When it is determined that the document does not require excess exposure, an exposure time setting unit sets an exposure time for a line sensor. Then, in consonance with the designated exposure time, the line sensor initiates the reading of a black reference. Thereafter, in accordance with an excess exposure time that is designated, a black reference data preparation unit prepares black reference data. Since the black reference is read during the same period as the excess exposure time and the black reference data is prepared, the detailed tones of the dark portion of the document can be expressed, and the quality of the image can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Patent number: 6897989Abstract: A light source is turned off (S101), incidence of light on a line sensor is shut off, and the output value of an electric signal output from each of pixels of the line sensor (S102). Since the output value is detected 128 times (S103), random noise can be reduced equal to or less than the variation in the output values for each pixel of the line sensor. The output values detected by a detection section are added up by an average value difference calculation section (S104). The sum total of the output values is divided by the number of detection times (S105) to calculate the average value of the output values (S106). The average value difference calculation section calculates the difference between a setup value and the average value as an average value difference (S107) and the average value difference is stored in black reference memory for each pixel (S108).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2001Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yukio Okamura
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Publication number: 20050052680Abstract: A system having a power saving mode includes: a body provided with an original table having a surface for putting an original; an original cover coupled to the original table so that the original cover can be opened and closed to cover at least the surface of the original table; a light source that emits a beam; a power source that supplies power to the light source; a cover opening/closing detector that detects that the original cover is opened/closed; and a power source controller that controls the power source so that the power saving mode is released when the cover opening/closing detector detects that the original cover is closed during the power saving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventor: Yukio Okamura