Patents by Inventor Masafumi Shimotashiro
Masafumi Shimotashiro 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: 11837331Abstract: An integration system comprising a biological image acquiring device which acquires, from a sample including biological particles which are a detection target, a biological image which is an image of the biological particles; a nucleotide sequence information acquiring device which acquires nucleotide sequence information of the biological particles; and an integration device which associates and registers the biological image and the nucleotide sequence information acquired from the same type of biological particles in an integrated database.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, TechnoSuruga Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Miyuki Nishijima, Masafumi Shimotashiro
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Patent number: 11423947Abstract: An image recording method in an image processing apparatus, includes the steps of acquiring, from a plurality of cameras, respective video images which the plurality of cameras start capturing in the sea before a first light that is lit in a first color is turned on and end capturing after a second light that is lit in a second color is turned on after the first tight is turned on, detecting, for each of the video images, a difference in luminance between chronologically adjacent frames in the video image, associating times of frames between the video images on the basis of the difference, and recording the video images with the associated times in a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and TechnologyInventors: Tetsuya Miwa, Dhugal Lindsay, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Hiroshi Takahashi, Atsushi Arai
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Publication number: 20210295953Abstract: An integration system comprising a biological image acquiring device which acquires, from a sample including biological particles which are a detection target, a biological image which is an image of the biological particles; a nucleotide sequence information acquiring device which acquires nucleotide sequence information of the biological particles; and an integration device which associates and registers the biological image and the nucleotide sequence information acquired from the same type of biological particles in an integrated database.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Tomo Kitahashi, Miyuki Nishijima, Masafumi Shimotashiro
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Publication number: 20210166733Abstract: An image recording method in an image processing apparatus, includes the steps of acquiring, from a plurality of cameras, respective video images which the plurality of cameras start capturing in the sea before a first light that is lit in a first color is turned on and end capturing after a second light that is lit in a second color is turned on after the first tight is turned on, detecting, for each of the video images, a difference in luminance between chronologically adjacent frames in the video image, associating times of frames between the video images on the basis of the difference, and recording the video images with the associated times in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Tetsuya Miwa, Dhugal Lindsay, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Hiroshi Takahashi, Atsushi Arai
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Patent number: 10994820Abstract: Image recording as long as possible during one activity is required in deep sea exploration. Necessity of multi-directional image recording, optical and chemical observations and probing of mineral resources of seabed are also increased. There is no underwater exploration device enable these requirements. It is disclosed that at least one battery-driven underwater exploration body having three pressure-resistant hollow glass spheres for housing an image capturing device, an illumination device, a recording device, an acoustic communication device and a control device controlling thereof and at least one battery body having an approximately the same shape and structure as the underwater exploration body are connected with each other by a connecting tool to provide the connectedly-formed underwater exploration device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Okamoto Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Miwa, Dhugal Lindsay, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Hiroshi Takahashi, Atsushi Arai
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Publication number: 20200239116Abstract: Image recording as long as possible during one activity is required in deep sea exploration. Necessity of multi-directional image recording, optical and chemical observations and probing of mineral resources of seabed are also increased. There is no underwater exploration device enable these requirements. It is disclosed that at least one battery-driven underwater exploration body having three pressure-resistant hollow glass spheres for housing an image capturing device, an illumination device, a recording device, an acoustic communication device and a control device controlling thereof and at least one battery body having an approximately the same shape and structure as the underwater exploration body are connected with each other by a connecting tool to provide the connectedly-formed underwater exploration device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Tetsuya MIWA, Dhugal LINDSAY, Masafumi SHIMOTASHIRO, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Atsushi ARAI
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Publication number: 20160037233Abstract: An information provision system provides a program-related information in parallel with broadcast of a television program. The system includes: a program-related information server; a television receiver; and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes: a display unit; a program-related information display controller for acquiring the program-related information, and for displaying the acquired program-related information in a first display region on the display unit; and a net information display controller for acquiring net information from a net information server, and for displaying the acquired net information in a second display region on the display unit. The net information display controller displays the net information in the second display region after a lapse of a predetermined delay time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Kouichi MATSUMURA, Sako KONDO, Masafumi SHIMOTASHIRO, Rumi OHNISHI
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Publication number: 20150358656Abstract: An information providing system includes a television receiver, a user terminal, and a connection state management server each connectable to a network. The user terminal can execute a program for connecting with the television receiver. The connection state management server obtains connection state information including an identifier of the television receiver and an identifier of the user terminal, through a network from one of the television receiver and the user terminal connected to each other. Further, the connection state management server scores a degree of relevance representing a level of relevance between the television receiver and the user terminal connected to each other, based on the obtained connection state information. Furthermore, the connection state management server provides the scored degree of relevance to a request source in response to a request from an outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Kouichi MATSUMURA, Sako KONDO, Masafumi SHIMOTASHIRO
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Patent number: 8661357Abstract: An electronic device system with improved user convenience that is capable of controlling plural electronic devices connected via a network or the like from any of such electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masafumi Shimotashiro, Kentaro Tanikawa, Masakazu Nakamura
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Patent number: 8599107Abstract: An image system includes: a display device configured to display an image; and an eyeglasses device for viewing the image displayed by the display device, wherein the display device includes: a display portion configured to display in time series the image to be viewed through the eyeglasses device; a signal generation portion configured to generate a synchronization signal for synchronizing timing of switching of frames of the image; and a transmission portion configured to transmit the synchronization signal, the eyeglasses device includes: an optical filter portion configured to adjust an amount of light of the image; a reception portion configured to receive the synchronization signal transmitted from the transmission portion; and a control portion configured to control action of the optical filter portion corresponding to the switching of the frames of the image, based on the synchronization signal, the signal generation portion further generates a parameter signal including action information for definiType: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Hiroshi Miyai, Katsuo Saigo, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Seiji Nakazawa, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshiho Gotoh
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Patent number: 8320748Abstract: An audio/video information recording/reproducing device capable of easily implementing a post-recording function on an optical disk by using even a low-cost disk drive having a comparatively low-speed seek time. When recording a video file, it is recorded on an optical disk continuously for a duration equivalent to more than three times a seek time. When recording dubbing audio, it is recorded continuously only with constant data size at the same time with the reproducing of the recorded video file, thereby enabling concurrent real-time continuous reproducing and recording. Accordingly, concurrent reproductions of a video file and an audio file are ensured when reproducing dubbing audio.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masanori Itoh, Masafumi Shimotashiro
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Patent number: 8294752Abstract: An image system comprises an image display device which displays images, and image viewing eyeglasses used for viewing images displayed by the image display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Hiroshi Miyai, Katsuo Saigo, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Seiji Nakazawa, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshiho Gotoh
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Patent number: 8290348Abstract: The present invention provides an AV data recording apparatus and method that facilitate various processes concerning a recorded video, including continuous reproduction, digital transmission, file operation, partial deletion, and post-recording. The AV data recording apparatus divides an audio signal and a video signal into transport packets having a predetermined unit length, assembles a plurality of transport packets as one transport stream and executes recording. Accordingly, this invention enables managing whether a logical block is used or not, detecting a continuous data area comprising plural logical blocks that ensure realtime continuous reproduction, and determining logical block numbers of continuous data areas to be recorded. As a result, the transport stream is recorded continuously on a plurality of detected continuous data areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masanori Ito, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Makoto Mitsuda, Tadashi Nakamura, Yasumori Hino
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Patent number: 8076043Abstract: A fuel cell body has an anode having an anode-side separator with projections and depressions formed on its surface, a cathode, and a membrane electrode assembly disposed between the anode and the cathode, and the fuel cell body is disposed in a container for storing liquid fuel so that at least the anode side is immersed therein. Fuel passageways through which the liquid fuel flows are formed by regions surrounded by the projections and depressions on the surface of the separator and the membrane electrode assembly. By this, the downsized, simplified and lower power consuming structure of auxiliary equipment such as a fuel feed system is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenji Hasegawa, Toshiyuki Aoyama, Masaru Higashionji, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Masayuki Ono, Kenya Hori, Masaru Odagiri
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Patent number: 8019197Abstract: The present invention provides a recording/reproduction device that can perform post-record editing on a disk on which post-record editing has been determined to be impossible by conventional methods, and that can reproduce data that thus has been subjected to post-record editing, by devising a method for access in one cycle of repetitive processes of post-record editing.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2003Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takanori Okada, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Yoshiho Gotoh, Tatsushi Bannai
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Patent number: 7983528Abstract: For multiple moving-image recorded on a storage medium, one piece of meta-data or each of multiple pieces of meta-data recorded for a part or all of the moving-image is managed by meta-data indices. A meta-data index keeps invalidity information indicating whether a piece of meta-data is going to be invalid and validity information indicating validity of the current piece of meta-data in the same form, when operations such as editing and processing are performed on a part or all of a moving-image that is an object of a piece of meta-data. When cutting-out occurs on a section of a moving-image that is an object of a piece of meta-data and the piece of meta-data cannot be recalculated, the invalidity information is copied to the validity information. In this manner, a meta-data added to the moving-image can be adapted and be used after the moving-image is edited.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hidetomo Sohma, Hiroshi Tojo, Masanori Itoh, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Tadashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7982623Abstract: A radio-type transmitting device capable of transmitting information other than information in an internal memory is provided. A RFID tag includes a encoding circuit for digitalizing receiving sensitivity of a radio wave sent from an external transmitting/receiving apparatus and then sending the digitalized receiving sensitivity to the external transmitting/receiving apparatus. Thus, the external transmitting/receiving apparatus can obtain a distance between the external transmitting/receiving apparatus and the RFID tag based on received sensitivity information.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaru Higashionji, Kenji Hasegawa, Masaru Odagiri, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Hiroshi Seki
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Publication number: 20110074551Abstract: A radio-type transmitting device capable of transmitting information other than information in an internal memory is provided. A RFID tag includes a encoding circuit for digitalizing receiving sensitivity of a radio wave sent from an external transmitting/receiving apparatus and then sending the digitalized receiving sensitivity to the external transmitting/receiving apparatus. Thus, the external transmitting/receiving apparatus can obtain a distance between the external transmitting/receiving apparatus and the RFID tag based on received sensitivity information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaru HIGASHIONJI, Kenji Hasegawa, Masaru Odagiri, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Hiroshi Seki
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Patent number: 7906249Abstract: A fuel tank for a fuel cell includes a fuel valve which allows a methanol water solution to pass to a fuel supply portion from a fuel injecting portion after joining a fuel cell main body and the fuel tank for the fuel cell, and shuts off the passage of the methanol water solution before the fuel supply portion and the fuel injecting portion are disconnected. Accordingly, the fuel valve is properly opened and closed, the liquid fuel does not leak out from the fuel tank for the fuel cell at a time of attaching and detaching, and it is possible to improve a safety in the fuel supply in comparison with the conventional structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenji Hasegawa, Masaru Odagiri, Masaru Higashionji, Masafumi Shimotashiro
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Publication number: 20100328439Abstract: An image system comprises an image display device which displays images, and image viewing eyeglasses used for viewing images displayed by the image display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Kazuhiro Mihara, Hiroshi Miyai, Katsuo Saigo, Masafumi Shimotashiro, Seiji Nakazawa, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshiho Gotoh