Patents by Inventor Jun Konishi
Jun Konishi 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: 20140015947Abstract: An endoscope system includes an imaging apparatus that outputs, as image information, an electrical signal photoelectrically converted from a plurality of pixels, outside the imaging apparatus, and a processing apparatus that is connected to the imaging apparatus so as to bi-directionally communicate with the imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes a first recording unit that records identification information for identifying the imaging apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a second recording unit that records correction information for correcting characteristics of the imaging apparatus in association with the identification information, and a control unit that acquires, from the second recording unit, the correction information corresponding to the identification information received from the imaging apparatus and transmits the correction information to the imaging apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Saeri SAITO, Jun KONISHI, Hiroyuki USAMI
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Publication number: 20130329028Abstract: An image pickup system is an image pickup system in which an image pickup device arranged at a distal end of an insertion section of an endoscope and a processor can communicate with each other. A group of multiple control parameters to be collectively transmitted and checksum codes related to the parameters are transmitted from the processor to the image pickup device, and the image pickup device reflects the control parameters on a register only when all the received multiple control parameters are normal, on the basis of the checksums.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Saeri SAITO, Jun KONISHI
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Publication number: 20130265403Abstract: An endoscope includes: an image pickup device mounted in a distal end portion of an insertion portion; wiring that transmits a power supply having a plurality of different power supply voltages for driving the image pickup device, a drive signal that drives the image pickup device, an image pickup signal that is outputted from the image pickup device, and a ground level; a substrate on which a connector that relays the wiring is provided; a first voltage comparing portion that compares the plurality of different power supply voltages; a power supply generation portion that generates a plurality of second power supply voltages; a second voltage comparing portion that compares the plurality of second power supply voltages; and a power supply control portion that controls a supply of power to the image pickup device based on comparison results of the first and second voltage comparing portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Fumiyuki OKAWA, Jun KONISHI, Hidenori HASHIMOTO, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Yasunori MATSUI
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Patent number: 8189041Abstract: An endoscope signal processing apparatus has a first video signal generating circuit and a second video signal generating circuit which respectively generate a first video signal and a second video signal offering different resolutions depending on a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device respectively which are mounted in an endoscope removably connected to an endoscope connecting portion. The first and second video signals can be selectively output to an exterior through a common video signal output connector.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Jun Konishi, Kentaro Hase, Tsutomu Hirai, Shoichi Amano, Tomoki Iwasaki, Katsuyuki Saito, Makoto Tsunakawa, Takehiro Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20110278606Abstract: In order to provide an LED light emitting device that can easily control a color temperature of white light, the LED light emitting device is provided with a plurality of types of light emitting parts that: respectively have LED elements that emit ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light, and phosphors that absorb the ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light to emit colored light; and emit the colored light, wherein: the colored light emitted by the plurality of types of light emitting parts become white light when all mixed with each other; the LED elements of the plurality of types of light emitting parts are all the same ones, and mounted on a single base material; and two or more light emitting parts overlap with each other in their parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Jun Konishi, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenji Yoneda
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Patent number: 8040074Abstract: There is provided a discharge-lamp lighting device that, upon start-up of a high-intensity discharge lamp, alternately outputs a period A during which a starting circuit applies a high voltage to the high-intensity discharge lamp by resonance operation when a DC/AC inverter outputs a high-frequency voltage, and a period B during which the DC/AC inverter applies a low-frequency-square-wave voltage or a DC voltage to the high-intensity discharge lamp via the starting circuit. The period A for applying the high voltage by the resonance operation is set to about a time enough for a high-intensity discharge lamp in an initial aging stage to cause a dielectric breakdown, and a period C for alternately outputting the high-voltage generating period A and the period B for outputting the low-frequency-square-wave voltage or the DC voltage is set to about a time enough for a high-intensity discharge lamp in a life's last stage to cause a dielectric breakdown.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignees: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., Ikeda Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Goriki, Akira Yufuku, Jun Konishi
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Patent number: 7994733Abstract: When the starting of the discharge lamp has been detected at least once, the control circuit increases the number of repetitions of a period while the high frequency voltage and the square wave voltage are being outputted alternately. In such a way, in the discharge lamp lighting device that alternately generates the high frequency voltage and the square wave voltage at the time of starting, sure startability is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignees: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., Ikeda Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yufuku, Takeshi Goriki, Jun Konishi
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Publication number: 20110016404Abstract: To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuji Sano, Jun Konishi
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Patent number: 7827493Abstract: To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsji Sano, Jun Konishi
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Publication number: 20100247667Abstract: A soft tissue enlarging material including fine particles of a pH-response water-absorbing swelling polymer having an average particle size of from 15 ?m to 40 ?m wherein swelling of said particles is completed within 10 minutes after immersion in a 10 mM phosphate buffer physiological saline solution (pH: 7) at 37° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takako Ariga, Takao Anzai, Jun Konishi
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Patent number: 7737214Abstract: An adhesion preventive material including a cross-linking polysaccharide derivative containing at least one active ester group introduced in a polysaccharide side chain, which is capable of reacting with an active hydrogen-containing group, and being capable of forming a crosslinked material due to covalent binding among the active ester group and an active hydrogen-containing group upon contact with water under an alkaline condition, is disclosed. The adhesion preventive material is able to reduce preparation works to be carried out while previously estimating the time of application and does not require a special device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiko Abe, Yutaro Sonoda, Jun Konishi, Takao Anzai, Miyuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20090236999Abstract: In a discharge lamp lighting device that, at a time of starting a discharge lamp La, alternately repeats periods HF1 and HF2 while high frequency voltages are being outputted, in which a resonant circuit performs resonant operations, and periods FB1 and FB2 while square wave voltages are being outputted, and at a time of lighting the discharge lamp La, applies a low-frequency square wave voltage to the discharge lamp La through a starting circuit 4, there are provided: a starting detection circuit 5 that detects the starting of the discharge lamp La during the periods FB1 and FB2 while the square wave voltages are being outputted; and a control circuit 3C that stops the high frequency voltage or lowers a frequency of the high frequency voltage in the case where the starting of the discharge lamp La is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicants: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD., IKEDA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yufuku, Takeshi Goriki, Jun Konishi
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Publication number: 20090146579Abstract: There is provided a discharge-lamp lighting device that, upon start-up of a high-intensity discharge lamp, alternately outputs a period A during which a starting circuit applies a high voltage to the high-intensity discharge lamp by resonance operation when a DC/AC inverter outputs a high-frequency voltage, and a period B during which the DC/AC inverter applies a low-frequency-square-wave voltage or a DC voltage to the high-intensity discharge lamp via the starting circuit. The period A for applying the high voltage by the resonance operation is set to about a time enough for a high-intensity discharge lamp in an initial aging stage to cause a dielectric breakdown, and a period C for alternately outputting the high-voltage generating period A and the period B for outputting the low-frequency-square-wave voltage or the DC voltage is set to about a time enough for a high-intensity discharge lamp in a life's last stage to cause a dielectric breakdown.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicants: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD., IKEDA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Goriki, Akira Yufuku, Jun Konishi
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Publication number: 20090105365Abstract: A chlorinated polyolefin composition, including 100 mass parts of a chlorinated polyolefin, 1 to 15 mass parts of an epoxy derivative, and 0.05 to 3 mass parts of a stabilizer. The chlorinated polyolefin is obtained by chlorinating a polyolefin being selected from ethylene homopolymer or ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer, and has a density of 0.90 or more; and the chlorinated polyolefin has a chlorine content of 25 to 45% by mass, a melt flow rate of 0.1 to 300 g/10 minutes, and a heat of crystal fusion as determined by DSC of 20 to 60 J/g. The epoxy derivative is selected from epoxidized unsaturated oil, and epoxidized unsaturated fatty acid ester, epichlorhydrin derivative and epoxycyclohexane derivative, and the stabilizer is selected from a hydrotalcite minerals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Jun Konishi, Atsushi Sugawara
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Publication number: 20090027490Abstract: This is an endoscope apparatus which has an endoscope which picks up an image of a sample using a solid state image pickup element and outputs an image pickup signal, and a processor which processes the above-mentioned image pickup signal, generates HDTV and SDTV serial digital video signals, switches one side of those selectively, and performs a serial output, in which the serial digital video signal switched selectively by the above-mentioned processor is output through a first connector, the above-mentioned processor is equipped with a discrimination signal generating section which is linked with selection switching of the above-mentioned HDTV or SDTV serial digital video signal to generate an HDTV/SDTV discrimination signal which can discriminate the above-mentioned HDTV or SDTV serial digital video signal, and the discrimination signal is output through a second connector different from the above-mentioned first connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Tsutomu Hirai, Tomoki Iwasaki, Kazumasa Takahashi, Hidenori Hashimoto, Akihiko Mochida, Katsuyuki Saito, Makoto Tsunakawa, Kentaro Hase, Kotaro Ogasawara, Tadao Eto, Akihito Kawamura, Shin Liu, Shoichi Amano, Jun Konishi
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Patent number: 7354975Abstract: Uniform chlorinated polyolefins which can give crosslinked rubbers and thermoplastic elastomers with excellent low-temperature rubber elasticity, compression set and fatigue strength, and a process for their production. Polyolefin powder pulverized to a mean particle size of no greater than 500? is used for chlorination.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Jun Konishi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yutaka Mitsunaga
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Publication number: 20080058469Abstract: An adhesion preventive material including a cross-linking polysaccharide derivative containing at least one active ester group introduced in a polysaccharide side chain, which is capable of reacting with an active hydrogen-containing group, and being capable of forming a crosslinked material due to covalent binding among the active ester group and an active hydrogen-containing group upon contact with water under an alkaline condition, is disclosed. The adhesion preventive material is able to reduce preparation works to be carried out while previously estimating the time of application and dose not require a special device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Yoshihiko Abe, Yutaro Sonoda, Jun Konishi, Takao Anzai, Miyuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20080022221Abstract: To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuji Sano, Jun Konishi
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Patent number: 7272796Abstract: To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2003Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuji Sano, Jun Konishi
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Publication number: 20070139522Abstract: An endoscope signal processing apparatus has a first video signal generating circuit and a second video signal generating circuit which respectively generate a first video signal and a second video signal offering different resolutions depending on a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device respectively which are mounted in an endoscope removably connected to an endoscope connecting portion. The first and second video signals can be selectively output to an exterior through a common video signal output connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Konishi, Kentaro Hase, Tsutomu Hirai, Shoichi Amano, Tomoki Iwasaki, Katsuyuki Saito, Makoto Tsunakawa, Takehiro Nakagawa