Patents by Inventor Akira Nakanishi

Akira Nakanishi 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: 20050046622
    Abstract: The invention presents a touch panel disposed at the display screen side of a liquid crystal display device or the like, and excellent in surface smoothness and environmental resistance. In marginal outer circumferential part 400B for adhering and fixing first transparent substrate 21 and second transparent substrate 31 face to face, insulating layer 27 for correction of step difference is disposed in order to make uniform the film thickness. Adhesive layer 29 is disposed on insulating layer 27, and first transparent substrate 21 and second transparent substrate 31 are adhered to each other. As a result, the adhesion fixing state if stabilized, and the adhesion strength is enhanced, and a touch panel suitable for car-mount unit excellent in surface smoothness and environmental resistance can be presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Shigeyuki Fujii, Kenichi Takabatake
  • Publication number: 20040239805
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal, a frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation and the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6781642
    Abstract: A transparent touch panel (TTP) comprising a fixed substrate of transparent resin, an adhesion layer disposed on the fixed substrate, an antireflection layer disposed on the adhesion layer, a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the antireflection layer, a second transparent conductive layer opposed to and spaced apart from the first transparent conductive layer, and a flexible transparent film disposed on the upper surface of the second transparent conductive layer. In one embodiment, rather than having a separate adhesion layer and antireflection layer, the adhesion layer may also serve as the antireflection layer, the rest of the above components remaining the same. The use of transparent resin in the TTP of the present invention reduces weight and increases resistance to breaking. The antireflection layer decreases the light reflection at respective boundary surfaces, thus increasing light transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Toshiharu Fukui
  • Patent number: 6778774
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal, a frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation and the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6727566
    Abstract: With objectives of providing with a transparent board with conductive multi-layer antireflection thin films, under condition of high transmissivity not only on a glass substrate but also on a non-glass transparent substrate with property of demanded electrical resistance at the most exterior surface, this invention laminates at least three layers of thin films on a transparent substrate, in which the transparent dielectric 1st-layer thin film on the substrate that has a higher refractive index than the substrate has, the transparent dielectric 2nd-layer thin film next to the 1st layer that has a lower refractive index than the substrate has, and the most exterior transparent conductive transparent thin film that includes weight percentage no less than 20% of SnO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Fukui, Akira Nakanishi, Hiroshi Moroi, Jun Katsuragawa
  • Publication number: 20040017363
    Abstract: A touch panel comprising: a resin substrate; a first film with one surface provided with a first conductive layer and another surface adhering the resin substrate; a second film provided with a second conductive layer on one surface facing the first conductive layer of the first film; and a third film adhering a surface of the resin substrate opposite to the surface the first film is adhered. The first and third films sandwich the resin substrate via adhesive layers. Warp caused by changes in temperature and humidity during and after the production of the touch panels can be decreased, thereby achieving application of the touch panels to a large-sized display apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Tetsuya Tadokoro
  • Publication number: 20030197813
    Abstract: A transparent touch panel (TTP) comprising a fixed substrate of transparent resin, an adhesion layer disposed on the fixed substrate, an antireflection layer disposed on the adhesion layer, a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the antireflection layer, a second transparent conductive layer opposed to and spaced apart from the first transparent conductive layer, and a flexible transparent film disposed on the upper surface of the second transparent conductive layer. In one embodiment, rather than having a separate adhesion layer and antireflection layer, the adhesion layer may also serve as the antireflection layer, the rest of the above components remaining the same. The use of transparent resin in the TTP of the present invention reduces weight and increases resistance to breaking. The antireflection layer decreases the light reflection at respective boundary surfaces, thus increasing light transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Toshiharu Fukui
  • Patent number: 6600880
    Abstract: A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the width of an exposure opening in the camera body in the film-feed direction and the film is fed a length corresponding to the width of the exposure opening. The photographic camera records an exposure opening position signal indicative of the size of the exposure opening on the photographic film, and the automatic printer automatically prints the photographic film using the exposure opening position signal detected from the photographic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Kyoji Genda, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6590622
    Abstract: A transparent touch panel (TTP) comprising a fixed substrate of transparent resin, an adhesion layer disposed on the fixed substrate, an antireflection layer disposed on the adhesion layer, a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the antireflection layer, a second transparent conductive layer opposed to and spaced apart from the first transparent conductive layer, and a flexible transparent film disposed on the upper surface of the second transparent conductive layer. In one embodiment, rather than having a separate adhesion layer and antireflection layer, the adhesion layer may also serve as the antireflection layer, the rest of the above components remaining the same. The use of transparent resin in the TTP of the present invention reduces weight and increases resistance to breaking. The antireflection layer decreases the light reflection at respective boundary surfaces, thus increasing light transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Toshiharu Fukui
  • Patent number: 6583851
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal, a frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation and the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6574440
    Abstract: A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the aspect of an exposure opening in the camera body and the film is fed for a length corresponding to the selected aspect by detecting a hole located in a marginal area of the film. The photographic camera magnetically or optically records at a location away from the hole an aspect information signal indicative of the selected aspect of the exposed frame on the photographic film, and the automatic printer automatically prints the photographic film using the magnetically or optically recorded aspect information signal detected from the photographic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6571067
    Abstract: A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the width of an exposure opening in the camera body in the film-feed direction and the film is fed a length corresponding to the width of the exposure opening. The photographic camera records an exposure opening position signal indicative of the size of the exposure opening on the photographic film, and the automatic printer automatically prints the photographic film using the exposure opening position signal detected from the photographic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Kyoji Genda, Hideki Toshikage
  • Publication number: 20030071796
    Abstract: A touch panel comprising a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive layer, and a second transparent substrate with a second transparent conductive layer. Color of the touch panel is 2.0 or smaller in the b* value of the L*a*b* color specification in accordance with JIBS Z 8729. At least one of the first and second transparent substrates is provided with a color adjustment layer which renders optical interference. A touch panel further comprises a third transparent substrate provided with a color adjustment layer, or a third transparent substrate containing a colorant having complementary color to a color of the transparent conductive layer. The touch panel has less yellowish appearance, and shows least color change of a color display device. When attached on a liquid crystal display device in an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus exhibits a high grade color display without accompanying a sense of incompatibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Nobuhiro Yamaue, Shigeyuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 6511816
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protein that possesses an ability to inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase activity (DNA Gyrase-inhibiting protein; DGI); a host cell transformed by a replicable expression vector comprising a DNA that encodes DGI; a process for preparing DGI comprising culturing the same; a method for identifying a medical compound comprising assaying the action of modulating the DNA gyrase-inhibiting activity of DGI; and a method for identifying a medical compound comprising assaying the action of modulating the expression of a DGI-encoding gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakanishi, Tadahiro Oshida, Tadahiro Matsushita, Tetsuo Onuki
  • Patent number: 6504269
    Abstract: A touch type input device is used for various forms of control. A primary side line is connected to a power source, and a secondary side circuit ground through a power transformer are connected by an impedance element. Flat electrodes to be touched by a finger are formed on one side of an insulating base material, and are connected to a ground current detection circuit through a high resistor and a low pass filter. A control circuit for converting the output of the ground current detection circuit into a control signal for an electronic appliance, and a display unit are provided. Therefore, an input device having plural touch switches disposed on a base material in a free shape and layout can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Miyajima, Tamotsu Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sakuma, Akira Nakanishi, Toyoshi Fukumura
  • Publication number: 20020176710
    Abstract: A photographic camera system includes a photo-graphic camera that can successively expose a photo-graphic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the width of an exposure opening in the camera body in the film-feed direction and the film is fed a length corresponding to the width of the exposure opening. The photographic camera records an exposure opening position signal indicative of the size of the exposure opening on the photographic film, and the automatic printer automatically prints the photographic film using the exposure opening position signal detected from the photographic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Kyoji Genda, Hideki Toshikage
  • Publication number: 20020172517
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal, a frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation and the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6470152
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an-image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal. A frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation in the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 6463217
    Abstract: A photographic and video image system for transforming an image on a frame of a photographic film includes a structure in the overall form of a photographic printer having an image transformation element that transforms an optical image from the film into a video signal, a frame position indicator, which can be a hole or an optical or magnetic signal, is recorded on the film along with aspect information relating to the size of the frame exposed on the film. The frame position indicator and aspect information are detected and used to control a film feeding operation and the optical image to video signal transformation operation. The user of the system can record order information on the film that is used to specify the aspect of the resultant photographic print, as well as the quantity of prints to be made. Such order information can be superimposed as a menu on a displayed video signal at the time the video signal is reviewed prior to producing a photographic print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Hideki Toshikage
  • Publication number: 20020136239
    Abstract: A bandwidth management apparatus determines, when a call whose communication information is to be transmitted as a sequence of datagrams is assigned, a link to be used for transmitting the communication information, judges whether there exists a surplus bandwidth in sections of the determined link, and allocates the call to a bandwidth necessary for transmitting the communication information when the judgement result is true, and informs a node that is involved in call setup for the call about the judgement result. Also disclosed are an address resolution assistance apparatus that cooperates with the bandwidth management apparatus, a band managing method, and an address resolution assisting method which realize the respective apparatuses. In a network to which the invention is applied, good speech quality can be stably maintained irrespective of its configuration and scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventor: Akira Nakanishi