Patents by Inventor Emiko Sano
Emiko Sano 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: 7577279Abstract: An identity verification apparatus includes a light source for applying light that can pass through an object to be detected and having a fingerprints to the object to be detected, an image pickup unit for picking up light emitted from the light source and passing through projections of the fingerprint and light emitted from the light source and passing through depressions of the fingerprint, and for generating a fingerprint image including dark portions corresponding to the projections and bright portions corresponding to the depressions, and a signal processing unit for image processing the fingerprint image generated by the image pickup unit to generate fingerprint information, and for verifying an identity based on the fingerprint information.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emiko Sano, Akihide Shiratsuki, Masahiro Shikai, Hajime Nakajima
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Patent number: 7574023Abstract: A fingerprint image pickup device includes a light source that emits a light for transmission through a fingertip portion having a fingerprint to be photographed, an image pickup unit that picks up the light from the light source and transmitted through the subject to acquire a fingerprint image in which convex and concave parts of the fingerprint are dark and bright, respectively, and an optical system that images the light transmitted through the fingertip portion on the image pickup unit. The optical system is arranged so that a distal side of the fingertip portion is tilted, at a predetermined angle, farther away from the optical system than an opposite side, with reference to a position at which a ventral side of the fingertip portion contacts a face orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emiko Sano, Masahiro Shikai, Akihide Shiratsuki, Toshiro Nakashima, Takahiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20060072795Abstract: A fingerprint image pickup device includes a light source that emits light for transmission through a fingertip portion having a fingerprint to be photographed, an image pickup unit that picks up the light from the light source and transmitted through the fingertip portion and acquires a fingerprint image in which a convex part of the fingerprint is dark and a concave part of the fingerprint is bright, and an optical system that images the light transmitted through the fingertip portion from the light source on the image pickup unit. The light from the light source illuminates a portion other than a nail of the fingertip portion, and the light has a center of illumination on a center line, in a width direction of a face where the nail of the fingertip portions is present, and on a skin side of a border of the nail and skin of the fingertip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emiko Sano, Masahiro Shikai, Akihide Shiratsuki, Toshiro Nakashima
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Publication number: 20060072796Abstract: A fingerprint image pickup device includes a light source that emits a light for transmission through a fingertip portion having a fingerprint to be photographed, an image pickup unit that picks up the light from the light source and transmitted through the subject to acquire a fingerprint image in which convex and concave parts of the fingerprint are dark and bright, respectively, and an optical system that images the light transmitted through the fingertip portion on the image pickup unit. The optical system is arranged so that a distal side of the fingertip portion is tilted at a predetermined angle, farther away from the optical system thank an opposite sides with reference to a position at which a ventral side of the fingertip portion contacts a face orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emiko Sano, Masahiro Shikai, Akihide Shiratsuki, Toshiro Nakashima, Takahiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20040179723Abstract: An identity verification apparatus includes a light source for applying light that can pass through an object to be detected having a fingerprint to the object to be detected, an image pickup unit for picking up both light emitted out of the light source and passing through projections of the fingerprint and light emitted out of the light source and passing through depressions of the fingerprint, and for generating a fingerprint image including dark portions corresponding to the projections and bright portions corresponding to the depressions, and a signal processing unit for performing image processing on the fingerprint image generated by the image pickup unit so as to generate fingerprint information, and for verifying an identity based on the fingerprint information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Emiko Sano, Akihide Shiratsuki, Masahiro Shikai, Hajime Nakajima
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Publication number: 20040086981Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for efficiently producing oligosaccharide for use in pharmaceutical drugs, medicals, glyco chips and the like from cells, said method comprising giving saccharide primers to human cells, plant cells, or yeast, or giving saccharide primers to cells cultured using a high-density culture method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Toshinori Sato, Emiko Sano
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Patent number: 6221359Abstract: A hemopoietic stem cell augmenting agent in which at least one type of hepatocyte growth factor is contained as an active component is provided. The hepatocyte growth factor has an augmenting activity on undifferentiated pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells and is useful as a hemopoietic stem cell augmenting agent for treatment of bone marrow suppression and for treatment of bone marrow malfunctions and furthermore is useful for in vitro growth of peripheral blood stem cells and bone marrow stem cells. Furthermore, a hepatocyte growth factor derived from human normal fibroblasts which is considered to be a type of hepatocyte growth factor can be obtained by genetic recombination techniques, and said factor is also useful as a hemopoietic stem cells augmenting agent.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1993Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Komiyama, Tatsutoshi Nakahata, Tetsuo Kubo, Ryuhei Tanaka, Genji Kawano, Tetsuo Sudo, Emiko Sano, Katsuaki Kojima
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Patent number: 5641868Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions containing human interleukin-6 with sugar chains, a process for preparing human interleukin-6 by culturing cells in a medium containing ascorbic acid or any of its derivatives, and a process for purifying a crude raw human interleukin-6 solution by chromatography using a carrier with heparin bound. The present invention has allowed the production of high quality human interleukin-6 compositions with sugar chains, and their application to medicines. Furthermore, it has established a process for massproducing human interleukin-6.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Shingou Sakurai, Masanobu Naruto, Makoto Kihara, Keizo Hanada, Emiko Sano, Shigeru Ichikura, Jun Utsumi, Kazuo Hosoi
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Patent number: 4433052Abstract: In producing interferon by treating animal cells proliferated on a microcarrier with an interferon inducer, the cells on the microcarrier are treated with a negatively charged water-soluble macromolecular material.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1981Date of Patent: February 21, 1984Assignee: Toray Industries, IncorporatedInventors: Masahiko Iizuka, Hidenobu Kubota, Emiko Sano