Patents by Inventor Isao Ohta
Isao Ohta 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: 11282222Abstract: An apparatus comprises: acquiring depth information regarding an object that is present in a real space, the depth information indicating a distribution of distances to points on a surface of the object in a depth direction relative to a position; developing the points on the surface of the object, within a three-dimensional space that corresponds to the real space, based on the depth information; classifying the developed points on the surface of the object into any of a plurality of cells of a volume grid, divided from the three-dimensional space and each having a predetermined size; and determining, as a space in which the object is present, a space of the three-dimensional space and corresponding to cells into which a greater number of points on the surface of the object than a threshold value are classified.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Isao Ohta
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Publication number: 20210162305Abstract: A game device is provided with an object detection unit for detecting positions of a plurality of real objects from a predetermined area, an object control unit for disposing a game object in a virtual area, a collision detection unit for detecting, in the virtual area, collisions between each of a plurality of player objects, which are disposed in positions corresponding to the detected positions of the plurality of real objects, and the game object, a parameter updating unit for updating a parameter of the game each time a collision is detected, a rendering unit for generating a game screen by rendering the virtual area, and a display unit for displaying the game screen in a position that can be seen from the predetermined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki ITO, Isao OHTA, Kiminori ONO, Michio TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20210019900Abstract: An apparatus comprises: acquiring depth information regarding an object that is present in a real space, the depth information indicating a distribution of distances to points on a surface of the object in a depth direction relative to a position; developing the points on the surface of the object, within a three-dimensional space that corresponds to the real space, based on the depth information; classifying the developed points on the surface of the object into any of a plurality of cells of a volume grid, divided from the three-dimensional space and each having a predetermined size; and determining, as a space in which the object is present, a space of the three-dimensional space and corresponding to cells into which a greater number of points on the surface of the object than a threshold value are classified.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Isao Ohta
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Patent number: 10128078Abstract: Provided are a protective agent for electron microscopic observation in a vacuum which can protect a biological sample in a water-containing state, such as a mammal, a plant tissue or a cultured cell, and a single cell in the living state without deforming it even in a vacuum, a kit using the same, methods for observation, diagnosis, evaluation, and quantification of a sample by an electron microscope, and a sample stage to be used for the observation. The protective agent for electron microscopic observation of the present invention contains a a component to impart the survival environment, a saccharide, and an electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Satoshi Hirakawa, Hideaki Kawasaki, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii, Isao Ohta, Yoshinori Muranaka
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Patent number: 10099657Abstract: A wiper blade includes blade rubber, a holder body, and a clip. The clip is pivotally connected to the holder body. The clip has an elastic piece and an engagement protrusion. The engagement protrusion engages with an engagement hole provided in a wiper arm. The elastic piece section has a long piece section, a turned-back section, a first bending axis, and a second bending axis. The long piece section extends through a position to a side of the engagement protrusion. The turned-back section extends so as to change the direction of the long piece section in order to connect the front end of the long piece section to the engagement protrusion. The first bending axis and the second bending axis extend so that the engagement protrusion is located between the first bending axis and the second bending axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Wiper Blades Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Ohta, Takao Yoshimoto, Masahiro Ohta
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Patent number: 10046283Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii, Isao Ohta, Yoshinori Muranaka
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Publication number: 20170282130Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Takahiko HARIYAMA, Yasuharu TAKAKU, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Masatsugu SHIMOMURA, Daisuke ISHII, Isao OHTA, Yoshinori MURANAKA
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Patent number: 9687793Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii, Isao Ohta, Yoshinori Muranaka
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Patent number: 9557253Abstract: Provided is an observation method by an electron microscope, in which a biological sample can be observed as it is alive and a situation that the biological sample is moving can be observed using an electron microscope, and a composition for evaporation suppression under vacuum, a scanning electron microscope, and a transmission electron microscope used in the method. The sample observation method by an electron microscope according to the invention includes applying a composition for evaporation suppression containing at least one kind selected from an amphiphilic compound, oils and fats, and an ionic liquid to the surface of a sample to form a thin film, and covering the sample with the thin film, and displaying an electron microscopic image of the sample, which is covered with the thin film and accommodated in a sample chamber under vacuum, on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshinori Muranaka, Isao Ohta, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii
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Publication number: 20160343539Abstract: Provided are a protective agent for electron microscopic observation in a vacuum which can protect a biological sample in a water-containing state, such as a mammal, a plant tissue or a cultured cell, and a single cell in the living state without deforming it even in a vacuum, a kit using the same, methods for observation, diagnosis, evaluation, and quantification of a sample by an electron microscope, and a sample stage to be used for the observation. The protective agent for electron microscopic observation of the present invention contains a a component to impart the survival environment, a saccharide, and an electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Takahiko HARIYAMA, Yasuharu TAKAKU, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Satoshi HIRAKAWA, Hideaki KAWASAKI, Masatsugu SHIMOMURA, Daisuke ISHII, Isao OHTA, Yoshinori MURANAKA
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Publication number: 20160264101Abstract: A wiper blade includes blade rubber, a holder body, and a clip. The clip is pivotally connected to the holder body. The clip has an elastic piece and an engagement protrusion. The engagement protrusion engages with an engagement hole provided in a wiper arm. The elastic piece section has a long piece section, a turned-back section, a first bending axis, and a second bending axis. The long piece section extends through a position to a side of the engagement protrusion. The turned-back section extends so as to change the direction of the long piece section in order to connect the front end of the long piece section to the engagement protrusion. The first bending axis and the second bending axis extend so that the engagement protrusion is located between the first bending axis and the second bending axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicants: ASMO CO., LTD., NIPPON WIPER BLADE CO., LTD.Inventors: Isao OHTA, Takao YOSHIMOTO, Masahiro OHTA
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Publication number: 20150224452Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii, Isao Ohta, Yoshinori Muranaka
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Publication number: 20140227734Abstract: Provided is an observation method by an electron microscope, in which a biological sample can be observed as it is alive and a situation that the biological sample is moving can be observed using an electron microscope, and a composition for evaporation suppression under vacuum, a scanning electron microscope, and a transmission electron microscope used in the method. The sample observation method by an electron microscope according to the invention includes applying a composition for evaporation suppression containing at least one kind selected from an amphiphilic compound, oils and fats, and an ionic liquid to the surface of a sample to form a thin film, and covering the sample with the thin film, and displaying an electron microscopic image of the sample, which is covered with the thin film and accommodated in a sample chamber under vacuum, on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshinori Muranaka, Isao Ohta, Masatsugu Shimomura, Daisuke Ishii
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Patent number: 8186003Abstract: A relationship between a thickness of a water film at a location of a maximum pressing pressure and a maximum pressure gradient value is deduced. Each corresponding design factor of a wiper blade is determined based on this relationship, and the wiper blade is manufactured. In this way, at the wiper blade, a thickness of the water film right after wiping falls in an appropriate range.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Ohta, Masaaki Kiyama
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Publication number: 20080289136Abstract: A relationship between a thickness of a water film at a location of a maximum pressing pressure and a maximum pressure gradient value is deduced. Each corresponding design factor of a wiper blade is determined based on this relationship, and the wiper blade is manufactured. In this way, at the wiper blade, a thickness of the water film right after wiping falls in an appropriate range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Isao Ohta, Masaaki Kiyama
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Patent number: 6709347Abstract: A sporting rod member which is strong against flexure, which is improved in tough and balance when it is flexed, and which can be made finer in thickness and lighter in weight. The sporting rod member uses a solid rod (8). The solid rod (8) is made up of a solid-state core member (10) and an outer layer (12) formed of fiber reinforced resin and disposed on the outside of the core member (10). In the solid rod (8), most of reinforcing fibers that are used in at least one of the solid-state core member and outer layer and that extend substantially in the axial direction thereof have a longitudinal elastic modulus of 40 ton/mm2 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Daiwa Seiko, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ono, Atsushi Saito, Isao Ohta
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Patent number: 6233862Abstract: An interline fishing rod which not only prevents stress centralization but also includes a fishing line guide and is high in strength. A rod pipe (12) includes a joining portion (12T) in the leading end portion thereof, a forwardly narrowed taper portion (12S) located just in the rear of the joining portion (12T), and a straight or forwardly narrowed and gently tapered rod pipe main body portion (12H) located in the rear of the taper portion (12S). A fishing line guide (RG2) is provided on and protected from the inside wall of the rod pipe main body portion (12H), while the inside diameter (d2) of the fishing line guide (RG2) is set larger than the inside diameters (d0) and (d4). Reinforcing layers (H1, H2) for reinforcing a main body layer are provided in such a manner that it extends from the joining portion (12T) to at least the front-most position of the fishing line guide (RG2).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1999Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: NGB CorporationInventors: Tomoyoshi Tsurufuji, Shoichi Koganei, Eiji Sugaya, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Masaru Akiba, Futoshi Nishikawa, Hiroyasu Suzue, Isao Ohta
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Patent number: 6108959Abstract: An interline fishing rod which not only prevents stress centralization but also includes a fishing line guide and is high in strength. A rod pipe (12) includes a joining portion (12T) in the leading end portion thereof, a forwardly narrowed taper portion (12S) located just in the rear of the joining portion (12T), and a straight or forwardly narrowed and gently tapered rod pipe main body portion (12H) located in the rear of the taper portion (12S). A fishing line guide (RG2) is provided on and projected from the inside wall of the rod pipe main body portion (12H), while the inside diameter (d2) of the fishing line guide (RG2) is set larger than the inside diameters (d0) and (d4). Reinforcing layers (H1, H2) for reinforcing a main body layer are provided in such a manner that it extends from the joining portion (12T) to at least the front-most position of the fishing line guide (RG2).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1997Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Daiwa Seiko, Inc.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Tsurufuji, Shoichi Koganei, Eiji Sugaya, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Masaru Akiba, Futoshi Nishikawa, Hiroyasu Suzue, Isao Ohta