Patents by Inventor Jun Arai
Jun Arai 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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Publication number: 20250084050Abstract: A perfuming agent including a compound represented by Formula (I): where R1 is a tert-butyl group, and R2 is an ethyl group. A fragrance composition, including a compound represented by Formula (II), and a compound represented by Formula (I): where R1 and R3 are each independently an alkyl group having 1 or more and 5 or less of carbon atoms, and R2 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 or more and 4 or less of carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Akari SAITO, Hironori MORI, Jun DEGUCHI, Tsubasa ARAI
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Publication number: 20250066037Abstract: An alert device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: identify, from measurement data of a flying object by a sensor, a position of the flying object; determine whether the flying object is located within a predetermined region; determine whether a signal of a predetermined pattern assigned to a mission in the predetermined region is received from the flying object determined to be located within the predetermined region; determine, in a case where no signal of the predetermined pattern is received from the flying object, that the flying object is an unpermitted flying object that is not permitted to enter the predetermined region; and cause a light projection device to irradiate a position of the unpermitted flying object with light.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Takanari Arai, Eiichi Tokumi, Kenichi Keyaki, Eiji Ichihara, Kensuke Uchida, Jun Suzuki, Takeshi Shouta, Kenichi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12228971Abstract: An e-book reader in which destruction of a driver circuit at the time when a flexible panel is handled is inhibited. In addition, an e-book reader having a simplified structure. A plurality of flexible display panels each including a display portion in which display control is performed by a scan line driver circuit and a signal line driver circuit, and a binding portion fastening the plurality of display panels together are included. The signal line driver circuit is provided inside the binding portion, and the scan line driver circuit is provided at the edge of the display panel in a direction perpendicular to the binding portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Yasuyuki Arai, Ikuko Kawamata, Atsushi Miyaguchi, Yoshitaka Moriya
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Publication number: 20250027854Abstract: Provided is a water quality measurement device, comprising: a dilution device, preparing sample water including raw water and dilution water; and a residual chlorine concentration measurement device, measuring a residual chlorine concentration of the sample water, wherein the dilution device comprises: a container in which the sample water is accommodated; a first liquid level detection portion, detecting a first liquid level in the container; a second liquid level detection portion, detecting a second liquid level in the container; a raw water injection portion, injecting the raw water into the container until the first liquid level detection portion detects the first liquid level; and a dilution water injection portion, diluting the raw water by injecting the dilution water into the container until the second liquid level detection portion detects the second liquid level.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Jun KANEKO, Masayuki MIWA, Minoru ARAI
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Publication number: 20250009446Abstract: A control system of an aspect according to the present disclosure includes a robot including an actuator, and an estimation section that estimates external force received by the robot on the basis of state information of the robot, in which the actuator includes an encoder on an output shaft side, a speed reducer that has backdrivability, that is coupled to the encoder on the output shaft side, and that is a load element, a motor coupled to the speed reducer, and an encoder on an input shaft side which encoder is coupled to the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shunsuke YAJIMA, Jun ARAI
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Publication number: 20240346826Abstract: A medical observation system includes: an imaging unit that acquires an operative field image including an abdominal cavity environment; a display unit that displays the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding gaze of a user on the abdominal cavity environment of the operative field image displayed by the display unit; a target candidate recognition unit that recognizes a tracking target candidate from the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a reliability acquisition unit that acquires recognition reliability of the tracking target candidate recognized by the target candidate recognition unit; and a target determination unit that determines a tracking target in the abdominal cavity environment from the tracking target candidate on the basis of the information regarding the tracking target candidate, the recognition reliability, and the information regarding the gaze.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Kohei AMANO, Takeo INAGAKI, Ryouhei YASUDA
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Publication number: 20240164706Abstract: An in-vivo observation system including: an excitation device (150) that vibrates an object in a living body; an event vision sensor (200) that detects, as an event, a change due to the vibration in a luminance value of light emitted from the object; and an estimation unit (528) that estimates a characteristic of the object on a basis of sensing data from the event vision sensor is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: HIROYASU BABA, SHINJI KATSUKI, FUMISADA MAEDA, JUN ARAI, KOHEI AMANO, SHO INAYOSHI
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Patent number: 11850014Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo
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Publication number: 20230218365Abstract: Provided is a medical arm device that avoids interference with a surgeon. A medical arm device includes a first arm part including a tip part that supports a medical instrument such as an endoscope, and a second arm part that supports the first arm part, and includes at least two horizontal rotation axes and an inter-axis distance changing unit that changes a distance between the two horizontal rotation axes. The tip part includes a structure in which joint members corresponding to rotation axes of three degrees of freedom that determine an attitude of the medical instrument are directly connected, and a rotation axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis in a case where the rotation axis around the longitudinal axis is a roll axis, and a pitch axis are disposed in order from a most tip part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Jun ARAI, Kei TOMATSU, Kazuo HONGO
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Publication number: 20230211494Abstract: To prevent scattering of scattered objects such as of water, sand, mud, or snow accompanied by movement. Scattering prevention constraint information is acquired based on road surface information. Movement is controlled based on the scattering prevention constraint information. For example, vibration information is detected by a vibration sensor or the like, and road surface information (information such as a road surface depth and a road surface type) is acquired based on the vibration information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: ATSUSHI SUZUKI, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, WILLIAM CONUS, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, KAZUO HONGO
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Publication number: 20230210630Abstract: A medical arm device to support a medical instrument has a tip part with a structure in which three rotation axes are disposed in order of a rotation axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis that rotates the medical instrument left and right with respect to a tip of a link, and a pitch axis that rotates the medical instrument up and down with respect to the tip of the link, and a first wire for rotation transmission of the yaw axis, a second wire for rotation transmission of the roll axis, a first rerouting pulley that reroutes the first wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, a second rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, and a third rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the yaw axis and the roll axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazuo HONGO, Jun ARAI
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Publication number: 20230202051Abstract: The present technology relates to a transport device, a transport method, a program, and an information processing device that can prevent damage to the content of luggage during transportation. The transport device includes a luggage characteristic estimation unit that estimates luggage characteristics including at least one of fragility of a content of luggage and packaging quality of the luggage based on at least one of change in center of gravity due to movement of the luggage, vibration characteristics of the luggage, and characteristics of the sound generated from the luggage due to the movement of the luggage. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a robot that transports luggage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: WILLIAM ALEXANDRE CONUS, KAZUO HONGO, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11612306Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Kuroda, Jun Arai, Masaru Usui, Takeshi Maeda
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Patent number: 11602404Abstract: A medical support system that includes a support arm including one or more active joints having an actuator, and one or more passive coupling mechanisms including a passive joint and a telescopic extension arm, the passive joint having no actuator; and processing circuitry configured to obtain information indicating a change due to movement of the one or more passive coupling mechanisms, and control the actuator of each of the one or more active joints based on the obtained information indicating the change, and the telescopic extension arm is positioned between (1) an active joint of the one or more active joints on a first side of the telescopic extension arm, and (2) the passive joint on a second side of the telescopic extension arm, the first side being closer to an proximal end of the support arm than a distal end of the support arm.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Wataru Kokubo, Yasuhiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 11553838Abstract: There is provided an endoscope including a main body including a coupler to which a cable is attached, a tubular section having a tubular form, a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects light introduced from the coupler to inside of the main body and introduces the light to inside of the tubular section, a first optical system that transmits the light introduced by the reflector to the inside of the tubular section to a front-end portion of the tubular section and irradiates a subject with the light from the front-end portion, and a second optical system that transmits reflected light of the subject from the front-end portion of the tubular section to the main body side. The coupler is provided to be rotatable in the main body around a central axis of the tubular section with respect to another portion. The cable is coupled to a light source.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Daisuke Nagao
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Patent number: 11540701Abstract: There is provided a medical holding apparatus including: a first actuator configured to cause a medical optical tool that guides light from a body cavity of a subject to a camera head during a surgical operation, to rotate about an optical axis of the medical optical tool and a rotation mechanism configured to support the camera head that acquires an image of the body cavity of the subject via the medical optical tool, the camera head being rotatable about the optical axis of the medical optical tool independently from the medical optical tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220400938Abstract: A medical observation system includes: a plurality of types of sensor units that measure information regarding an internal environment; an acquisition unit (131) that acquires individual sensor values of the plurality of types of sensor units; a comparison unit (132) that compares the individual sensor values of the plurality of types of sensor units acquired by the acquisition unit (131); and a determination unit (134) that determines a sensor unit to be used for observing the internal environment among the plurality of types of sensor units based on a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit (132).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Jun ARAI
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Publication number: 20220287787Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Jun ARAI, Takara KASAI, Yohei KURODA, Wataru KOKUBO
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Patent number: 11419696Abstract: There is provided a control device that decides at least one medical image as a medical image to display or save from among medical images taken by a plurality of imaging devices, on a basis of imaging device status information that includes information about a position or an attitude for at least one of the plurality of imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Jun Arai
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Patent number: 11395709Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo