Patents by Inventor Manabu Kotani

Manabu Kotani 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).

  • Patent number: 9565380
    Abstract: A plurality of pieces of first input data are input to a first decision circuit in an order based on a first rule. The memory has a plurality of first memory areas that respectively store a plurality of pieces of first data that match at least part of the plurality of pieces of first input data. The first decision circuit compares the first data read from the memory with the first input data to be input. When they do not match each other, The first decision circuit compares the first data with the first input data to be input next. When they match, The first decision circuit compares the first data read next from the memory on the basis of the first read pointer incremented with the first input data to be input next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MegaChips Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Kotani
  • Patent number: 9319568
    Abstract: In the processor device connected to the endoscope, the imaging signal transmitted in serial from an imaging chip of the endoscope is converted by an S/P converter to parallel data, and is then decoded by an 8B10B decoder. When data corruption occurs due to noise or the like during transmission of the imaging signal and normal pixel data cannot be obtained due to decode error at an 8B10B decoder, that pixel data is interpolated with pixel data of a peripheral part in an inner memory of an image processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kotani
  • Publication number: 20150281508
    Abstract: A plurality of pieces of first input data are input to a first decision circuit in an order based on a first rule. The memory has a plurality of first memory areas that respectively store a plurality of pieces of first data that match at least part of the plurality of pieces of first input data. The first decision circuit compares the first data read from the memory with the first input data to be input. When they do not match each other, The first decision circuit compares the first data with the first input data to be input next. When they match, The first decision circuit compares the first data read next from the memory on the basis of the first read pointer incremented with the first input data to be input next.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: MegaChips Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu KOTANI
  • Patent number: 8973450
    Abstract: The present invention controls rolling motion of a vehicle by eliminating the detrimental influence of gyro moment on the motion of the vehicle and actively using gyro moment generated by a flywheel constituting an energy storing device. The invention relates to an attitude control device for a vehicle mounted with a flywheel as an energy storage device, the flywheel being pivotally supported about first and second axes mutually orthogonal with each other, the flywheel being mounted on a body of the vehicle such that the first axis extends in a front-rear direction of the body, the attitude control device comprising locking means for locking movement of the flywheel about the first axis, wherein a rolling motion of the vehicle is controlled by locking the movement of the flywheel about the first axis using said locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Suda, Manabu Kotani
  • Patent number: 7986769
    Abstract: A region of interest is set in a state in which a subject is positioned in front of a radiographic image detector. Further, judgment is made as to whether a defect region is present in the region of interest. If the defect region is present in the region of interest, a relative movement amount of at least one of the subject and the radiographic image detector is calculated. After the at least one of the subject and the radiographic image detector is moved by the calculated relative movement amount, radiography is performed to detect a radiographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Kotani
  • Publication number: 20110016996
    Abstract: The present invention controls rolling motion of a vehicle by eliminating the detrimental influence of gyro moment on the motion of the vehicle and actively using gyro moment generated by a flywheel constituting an energy storing device. The invention relates to an attitude control device for a vehicle mounted with a flywheel as an energy storage device, the flywheel being pivotally supported about first and second axes mutually orthogonal with each other, the flywheel being mounted on a body of the vehicle such that the first axis extends in a front-rear direction of the body, the attitude control device comprising locking means for locking movement of the flywheel about the first axis, wherein a rolling motion of the vehicle is controlled by locking the movement of the flywheel about the first axis using said locking means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Suda, Manabu Kotani
  • Publication number: 20100091945
    Abstract: A region of interest is set in a state in which a subject is positioned in front of a radiographic image detector. Further, judgment is made as to whether a defect region is present in the region of interest. If the defect region is present in the region of interest, a relative movement amount of at least one of the subject and the radiographic image detector is calculated. After the at least one of the subject and the radiographic image detector is moved by the calculated relative movement amount, radiography is performed to detect a radiographic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Kotani
  • Patent number: 7409242
    Abstract: In order to provide an active muscle display unit that extracts a firing pattern of the individual motor unit without applying a load to living organisms and display the extracted motor unit, the active muscle display unit comprises multiple electrodes that are arranged on a skin surface, a surface electromyogram measuring part that measures a surface electromyogram on the skin surface at the multiple electrodes, a motor unit separating part that estimates the individual motor unit constituting an active muscle based on the surface electromyogram measured by the surface electromyogram measuring part, a motor unit position estimating part that estimates a three-dimensional position of the firing motor unit based on the motor unit estimated to be the firing motor unit by the motor unit separating part, and a display part that displays the motor unit estimated by the motor unit position estimating part in an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Satoshi Maekawa, Yoshihisa Fujiwara, Hiroko Kotani, legal representative, Takahiko Arimoto, Manabu Kotani
  • Publication number: 20060129057
    Abstract: In order to provide an active muscle display unit that extracts a firing pattern of the individual motor unit without applying a load to living organisms and display the extracted motor unit, the active muscle display unit comprises multiple electrodes 1 that are arranged on a skin surface, a surface electromyogram measuring part 32 that measures a surface electromyogram on the skin surface at the multiple electrodes 1, a motor unit separating part 33 that estimates the individual motor unit constituting an active muscle based on the surface electromyogram measured by the surface electromyogram measuring part 32, a motor unit position estimating part 35 that estimates a three-dimensional position of the firing motor unit based on the motor unit estimated to be the firing motor unit by the motor unit separating part 33, and a display part 38 that displays the motor unit estimated by the motor unit position estimating part 35 in an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Satoshi Maekawa, Yoshihisa Fujiwara, Manabu Kotani, Takahiko Arimoto, Hiroko Kotani
  • Patent number: 7010514
    Abstract: The present invention enable to separate source signals from mixture signals into which the source signals are mixed temporally and spatially, where the number of source signals is more than or equal to the number of mixture signals. A signal storing portion 12 stores the mixture signals input into a signal input portion 11, and a formulation portion 131 in a signal separation portion 13 extracts the mixture signals stored in the signal storing portion 12 and formulates them as an operation expression using a basis matrix composed of plural small matrixes that consist of bases with time symmetry. A learning algorithm application portion 132 applies a learning algorithm based on overcomplete representations, a mixture matrix calculating portion 133 calculates a mixture matrix, a source signal estimating portion 134 estimates source signals separated from the mixture signals, and an output portion 14 outputs the calculated mixture matrix and the estimated source signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Satoshi Maekawa, Hiroko Kotani, legal representative, Tomoya Okumura, Manabu Kotani, deceased
  • Publication number: 20050055388
    Abstract: The present invention enable to separate source signals from mixture signals into which the source signals are mixed temporally and spatially, where the number of source signals is more than or equal to the number of mixture signals. A signal storing portion 12 stores the mixture signals input into a signal input portion 11, and a formulation portion 131 in a signal separation portion 13 extracts the mixture signals stored in the signal storing portion 12 and formulates them as an operation expression using a basis matrix composed of plural small matrixes that consist of bases with time symmetry. A learning algorithm application portion 132 applies a learning algorithm based on overcomplete representations, a mixture matrix calculating portion 133 calculates a mixture matrix, a source signal estimating portion 134 estimates source signals separated from the mixture signals, and an output portion 14 outputs the calculated mixture matrix and the estimated source signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Applicant: Communications Research Laboratory, Independent Administrative Institution
    Inventors: Satoshi Maekawa, Manabu Kotani, Hiroko Kotani, Tomoya Okumura