Patents by Inventor Ayako Nishimura
Ayako Nishimura 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: 11896205Abstract: A digestive organ internal contents sampling capsule for sampling internal contents in a digestive organ includes: a cylindrical container insoluble in a digestive tract for housing the internal contents in the digestive organ; an outer lid enclosing an orifice of the cylindrical container and to dissolve at least partially in the digestive organ; an inner lid arranged in the cylindrical container, and to swell in response to contact with the internal contents in the digestive organ to enclose the orifice of the cylindrical container after the orifice is exposed by dissolving of at least a part of the outer lid; and a marker material to be discharged together with the cylindrical container housing the internal contents in the digestive organ and feces.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ayako Nishimura, Akihiko Kandori, Tsukasa Funane, Akiko Obata, Hirokazu Atsumori, Masashi Kiguchi
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Publication number: 20230306604Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a medical image, a region setting unit setting a peripheral region around an inner region set in the medical image as a region including a lesion, an intensity value ratio distribution calculation unit calculating a histogram comprising a distribution of intensity value ratios for the inner region and calculating a histogram being a distribution of intensity value ratios for the peripheral region, a ratio difference calculation unit that calculates a ratio difference comprising a difference between intensity value ratios in the inner region and peripheral regions for each of predetermined intensity values, an intensity value determination unit selecting a pixel to be highlighted in the medical image based on the ratio difference, and a display processing unit outputting the medical image whereby the pixel selected by the pixel selection unit is highlighted in the medical image to a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Stephanie SUTOKO, Tsukasa FUNANE, Ayako NISHIMURA, Akihiko KANDORI
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Patent number: 11744486Abstract: A biometric system includes: a camera that captures a subject; a pressure information collection unit that detects a pressure value of at least one sole of the subject; a skeleton direction vector calculation unit that calculates a skeleton direction vector of the subject captured by the camera; a floor reaction force vector calculation unit that calculates a floor reaction force vector on a basis of information on pressure from the pressure information collection unit; and an analysis result output unit that displays, in a superimposing manner, the skeleton direction vector calculated by the skeleton direction vector calculation unit and the floor reaction force vector calculated by the floor reaction force vector calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: Hiroshima University, Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ayako Nishimura, Hirokazu Atsumori, Tsukasa Funane, Akihiko Kandori, Yasuaki Nakamura, Akiko Obata, Yuto Komatsu, Seiji Hama, Toshio Tsuji
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Publication number: 20220087655Abstract: A digestive organ internal contents sampling capsule for sampling internal contents in a digestive organ includes: a cylindrical container insoluble in a digestive tract for housing the internal contents in the digestive organ; an outer lid enclosing an orifice of the cylindrical container and to dissolve at least partially in the digestive organ; an inner lid arranged in the cylindrical container, and to swell in response to contact with the internal contents in the digestive organ to enclose the orifice of the cylindrical container after the orifice is exposed by dissolving of at least a part of the outer lid; and a marker material to be discharged together with the cylindrical container housing the internal contents in the digestive organ and feces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Ayako NISHIMURA, Akihiko KANDORI, Tsukasa FUNANE, Akiko OBATA, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Masashi KIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210121100Abstract: A biometric system includes: a camera that captures a subject; a pressure information collection unit that detects a pressure value of at least one sole of the subject; a skeleton direction vector calculation unit that calculates a skeleton direction vector of the subject captured by the camera; a floor reaction force vector calculation unit that calculates a floor reaction force vector on a basis of information on pressure from the pressure information collection unit; and an analysis result output unit that displays, in a superimposing manner, the skeleton direction vector calculated by the skeleton direction vector calculation unit and the floor reaction force vector calculated by the floor reaction force vector calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Ayako NISHIMURA, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Tsukasa FUNANE, Akihiko KANDORI, Yasuaki NAKAMURA, Akiko OBATA, Yuto KOMATSU, Seiji HAMA, Toshio TSUJI
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Publication number: 20210090460Abstract: An information processing system visualizes brain states to optimize rehabilitation programs for rapid feedback of their effects to a patient and healthcare staff, to thereby promote the efficiency of rehabilitation. An embodiment of the system includes: a storage section that stores test-result brain-state relationship information associating results of activities of multiple examinees subjected to predetermined tests with brain states of the examinees; an input section that accepts a first test result as the result of the activity of a first examinee subjected to the predetermined tests; a control section that estimates the brain state from the first test result on the basis of the test-result brain-state relationship information; and an output section that outputs the estimated brain state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Tsukasa FUNANE, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Akihiko KANDORI, Akiko OBATA, Ayako NISHIMURA, Yuto KOMATSU, Takashi NUMATA, Seiji HAMA, Toshio TSUJI
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Publication number: 20210001005Abstract: An object is to produce a collagen vitrigel, which has a high film strength even without performing a crosslinking treatment, and is easily produced and processed industrially and mechanically, and is also easy to handle and is highly safe, from collagen, and a purified product thereof. In order to achieve the object, it is directed to a method for producing a collagen vitrigel characterized by gelling collagen with a gelling agent containing an inorganic carbonate and a compound selected from the group consisting of an inorganic chloride and an inorganic phosphate, subsequently vitrifying the obtained collagen gel, and further subjecting the vitrified collagen gel to a hydration treatment; a method for producing a purified collagen vitrigel characterized by desalting, equilibrating, and further drying the collagen vitrigel; and a collagen vitrigel and a purified collagen vitrigel obtained by these methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Ayako NISHIMURA, Shohei MIYAUCHI, Toshiaki TAKEZAWA, Ayumi MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 9933442Abstract: A monoclonal antibody that does not show a crossreactivity with middle-molecular weight (MMW) adiponectin and specifically reacts with high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin alone is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be produced by using HMW adiponectin as an antigen. According to the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, a convenient, high-accurate, and versatile reagent for analyzing HMW adiponectin can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Akamatsu, Kiyonori Katsuragi, Hideaki Onishi, Midori Abe, Toru Hadama, Ayako Nishimura, Mio Ooguchi
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Publication number: 20150025226Abstract: A monoclonal antibody that does not show a crossreactivity with middle-molecular weight (MMW) adiponectin and specifically reacts with high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin alone is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be produced by using HMW adiponectin as an antigen. According to the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, a convenient, high-accurate, and versatile reagent for analyzing HMW adiponectin can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Suguru Akamatsu, Kiyonori Katsuragi, Hideaki Onishi, Midori Abe, Toru Hadama, Ayako Nishimura, Mio Ooguchi
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Patent number: 8871518Abstract: A monoclonal antibody that does not show a crossreactivity with middle-molecular weight (MMW) adiponectin and specifically reacts with high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin alone is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be produced by using HMW adiponectin as an antigen. According to the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, a convenient, high-accurate, and versatile reagent for analyzing HMW adiponectin can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignees: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., LSI Medience CorporationInventors: Suguru Akamatsu, Kiyonori Katsuragi, Hideaki Onishi, Midori Abe, Toru Hadama, Ayako Nishimura, Mio Ooguchi
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Patent number: 8700281Abstract: A vehicle that improves the accuracy of wheel stopping determination including a stopping determination unit that calculates stopping determination time by multiplying the pulse width of a wheel speed pulse immediately before a non-output time, for which no wheel speed pulse is output from a wheel speed sensor, by 21/2+1, or a corrected time which is corrected on the basis of the stopping determination time is set as a threshold value for determining stopping of wheels. Thus, the time corresponding to the pulse width of the wheel speed pulse takes into consideration the deceleration and traveling distance of the vehicle, thereby obtaining an optimum threshold value for determining the stopping of the wheels.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura, Masayuki Naito
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Patent number: 8573714Abstract: To make a brake device generate a required braking force, a hydraulic control section switches, according to the relative magnitude between the required braking force and a braking force exerted by braking operation, between drive of a pump motor and non-drive of the pump motor and a master cut valve reduces the flow of brake fluid in the direction to a master cylinder. By this, a wheel cylinder maintains hydraulic pressure capable of generating the required braking force. As a result, the pump motor is not necessarily always driven when the required braking force is generated, and the operating time period of the pump motor is reduced. As a result, a load on the pump motor is reduced to enhance durability of the pump motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayako Nishimura, Motonari Ohbayashi, Masayuki Naito
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Patent number: 8554443Abstract: An ECU designates a value of a variation “Vunder” based on at least one of information about driver's operation, a velocity, and a road surface gradient when an actual velocity “V” is higher than a target velocity, sets a value of a variation “Vtarget” based on the designated value of the variation “Vunder” and the target velocity, adjusts the velocity of the vehicle to the velocity of the set value of the variation “Vtarget”, and determines whether the actual velocity “V” after the adjustment is a value not greater than the value of the variation “Vtarget”. Then, the ECU converges the velocity of the vehicle to the target velocity after it has been determined that the actual velocity “V” after the adjustment is a value not greater than the value of the variation “Vtarget”.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura, Masayuki Naito
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Patent number: 8543257Abstract: In a vehicle remote operation system that remotely operates a vehicle V using a portable terminal 200, during the remote operation of the vehicle V by the portable terminal 200, when the cab of the vehicle V is not locked, a main control unit 112 of an on-board device 100 does not permit movement of the vehicle V. Therefore, the vehicle V can be remotely operated only when the cab of the vehicle is locked. As a result, it is possible to prevent a malicious person from getting in the vehicle V during the remote operation. In addition, even when a well-meaning person who gets in the cab unexpectedly unlocks and opens the door, the vehicle is stopped. Therefore, it is possible to ensure safety.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120316704Abstract: In a vehicle remote operation system that remotely operates a vehicle V using a portable terminal 200, during the remote operation of the vehicle V by the portable terminal 200, when the cab of the vehicle V is not locked, a main control unit 112 of an on-board device 100 does not permit movement of the vehicle V. Therefore, the vehicle V can be remotely operated only when the cab of the vehicle is locked. As a result, it is possible to prevent a malicious person from getting in the vehicle V during the remote operation. In addition, even when a well-meaning person who gets in the cab unexpectedly unlocks and opens the door, the vehicle is stopped. Therefore, it is possible to ensure safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120052596Abstract: A monoclonal antibody that does not show a crossreactivity with middle-molecular weight (MMW) adiponectin and specifically reacts with high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin alone is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be produced by using HMW adiponectin as an antigen. According to the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, a convenient, high-accurate, and versatile reagent for analyzing HMW adiponectin can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicants: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Medience CorporationInventors: Suguru Akamatsu, Kiyonori Katsuragi, Hideaki Onishi, Midori Abe, Toru Hadama, Ayako Nishimura, Mio Ooguchi
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Publication number: 20110320102Abstract: An ECU designates a value of a variation “Vunder” based on at least one of information about driver's operation, a velocity, and a road surface gradient when an actual velocity “V” is higher than a target velocity, sets a value of a variation “Vtarget” based on the designated value of the variation “Vunder” and the target velocity, adjusts the velocity of the vehicle to the velocity of the set value of the variation “Vtarget”, and determines whether the actual velocity “V” after the adjustment is a value not greater than the value of the variation “Vtarget”. Then, the ECU converges the velocity of the vehicle to the target velocity after it has been determined that the actual velocity “V” after the adjustment is a value not greater than the value of the variation “Vtarget”.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura, Masayuki Naito
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Publication number: 20110278113Abstract: To make a brake device generate a required braking force, a hydraulic control section switches, according to the relative magnitude between the required braking force and a braking force exerted by braking operation, between drive of a pump motor and non-drive of the pump motor and a master cut valve reduces the flow of brake fluid in the direction to a master cylinder. By this, a wheel cylinder maintains hydraulic pressure capable of generating the required braking force. As a result, the pump motor is not necessarily always driven when the required braking force is generated, and the operating time period of the pump motor is reduced. As a result, a load on the pump motor is reduced to enhance durability of the pump motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayako Nishimura, Motonari Ohbayashi, Masayuki Naito
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Publication number: 20110118948Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle capable of improving the accuracy of wheel stopping determination. A stopping determination time which is calculated by multiplying the pulse width of a wheel speed pulse immediately before a non-output time, for which no wheel speed pulse is output from a wheel speed sensor 3, by 21/2+1, or a corrected time which is corrected on the basis of the stopping determination time is set as a threshold value for determining stopping of wheels. The wheel speed pulse which is output immediately before the non-output time is output when the wheels are substantially in the stopping state. Thus, the time corresponding to the pulse width of the wheel speed pulse is multiplied by 21/2+1 which is a constant taking into consideration the deceleration and traveling distance of the vehicle, thereby obtaining an optimum threshold value for determining the stopping of the wheels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motonari Ohbayashi, Ayako Nishimura, Masayuki Naito
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Patent number: 7659125Abstract: A latex reagent for analyzing adiponectin, comprising a suspension of latex particles carrying a substance which specifically binds to adiponectin, is disclosed. Further, a method for analyzing adiponectin, comprising (1) obtaining a biological liquid possibly containing adiponectin, and (2) bringing the biological liquid, while maintaining the state in which the biological liquid is obtained, into contact with a suspension of latex particles carrying a substance which specifically binds to adiponectin, and optically analyzing a degree of latex-particles-agglutination, is disclosed. According to the latex reagent and the method for analyzing adiponectin, a predilution or pretreatment of the biological liquid to be analyzed is not necessary. Further, the analysis can be performed rapidly and conveniently, and facilities therefor are not limited.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Kagaku Latron, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuya Tachikawa, Suguru Akamatsu, Tokio Sawai, Ayako Nishimura