Patents by Inventor Masaki Fujiwara

Masaki Fujiwara 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).

  • Publication number: 20240155883
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a base substrate layer, a thin film transistor layer, a light-emitting element layer, and a sealing film, and includes an image capturing unit provided on the base substrate layer side of a display region of the display panel. A plurality of subpixels constituting the display region are divided into a group of normal subpixels provided so as not to overlap with the image capturing unit and a group of thinned-out subpixels provided so as to overlap with the image capturing unit. The inorganic insulating film is provided with openings passing through the inorganic insulating film, in an image capturing region overlapping with the group of thinned-out subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takao SAITOH, Yohsuke KANZAKI, Masaki YAMANAKA, Masahiko MIWA, Yi SUN, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240155901
    Abstract: A second test portion includes a second test first terminal, a second test second terminal, a second test third terminal, and a second test fourth terminal electrically connected to a second test semiconductor layer via respective contact holes formed in a layered film of a gate insulating film and an interlayer insulating film, and the layered film of the gate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film in the second test portion is provided with an opening open upward between at least one of the second test first terminal, the second test second terminal, the second test third terminal, and the second test fourth terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takao SAITOH, Yohsuke KANZAKI, Masaki YAMANAKA, Masahiko MIWA, Yi SUN, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11978477
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a friendly gathering is occurring in a home when (i) a threshold amount of time or longer has elapsed from a start time of food preparation by a user and (ii) the volume of sound in a dining space is a first threshold volume or greater; obtaining, from a second information processing apparatus connected to a first information processing apparatus, information indicating first request content over a network; and when content of the first information is included in the first request content, outputting, to the second information processing apparatus, second information including information for identifying the user or the home, using the first information generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Nanami Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240138212
    Abstract: In an organic EL display device, a frame region provided outside a display region is provided with a damming wall extending on an outer periphery of the display region and a second lead-out wiring line extending across the damming wall from the display region side to an outside of the frame region. The damming wall includes a bank portion having a projecting shape and provided, in a part in which the second lead-out wiring line extends, on both sides in a direction in which the second lead-out wiring line extends with respect to a top portion of the damming wall. The bank portion is lower than a top portion of a second damming wall and forms, between the bank portion and the top portion, a trap portion having a recessed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takao SAITOH, Yohsuke KANZAKI, Masaki YAMANAKA, Masahiko MIWA, Yi SUN, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11959872
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured mom accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Fujiwara, Yoshifumi Takahara, Takaaki Fujii, Setsuko Yano, Fuminori Kutsuna
  • Publication number: 20240114781
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion element with an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, an imaging element, an optical sensor, and a compound. The photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes, in the following order, a conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent conductive film, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki MORITA, Ryo FUJIWARA, Hiroki SUGIURA, Yasunori YONEKUTA, Hiyoku NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20240077813
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearer rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a developing range, a holder, and an entrance seal. The holder has a facing face facing the developer bearer upstream from the developing range in the rotation direction, a support face defining a part of an outer face of the developing device, and a relay face extending from one end of the support face to one end of the relay face connected to the facing face to form an acute tip portion closer to the developing range than the one end. The entrance seal has a free end projecting from the one end as a cantilever, and a length of the entrance seal from a tip of the free end of the entrance seal to the one end is shorter than a length of the relay face from the acute tip portion to the one end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kei SAITO, Yoshihiro FUJIWARA, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Yuuki TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 11917036
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a user who is interested in first content is relaxing, when (i) a current behavior of the user includes a predefined behavior and (ii) the first content included in information on communication content and second content included in information indicating a shopping history are the same content; obtaining, from a second information processing apparatus connected to a first information processing apparatus, information indicating first request content over a network; and when content of the first information is included in the first request content, outputting, to the second information processing apparatus, second information including information for identifying the user or a space, using the generated first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Nanami Fujiwara, Shinichi Takiguchi, Shota Shimonaka
  • Publication number: 20240054253
    Abstract: To enable even a less experienced user to easily perform highly reproducible reverse engineering. A reverse engineering system includes a scanner module and a conversion module. The scanner module includes a measurement condition setting unit, a scanner control unit that generates image data according to a measurement condition, a mesh data creation unit that creates mesh data based on measurement data of a workpiece, and a scanner output unit that outputs the mesh data to the conversion module. The conversion module includes a CAD conversion unit that converts the mesh data into CAD data according to a processing parameter calculated based on at least one of the measurement condition or the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240054252
    Abstract: CAD data, which can be directly used for a design drawing, can be easily created from geometric element following mesh data. Provided is a reverse engineering support apparatus that converts mesh data obtained by measuring a three-dimensional shape of a workpiece into CAD data and outputs the CAD data. The reverse engineering support apparatus includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires mesh data; an extraction unit that extracts geometric element data from the mesh data; a rounding unit that executes rounding on a characteristic value of the geometric element data extracted by the extraction unit; a conversion unit that converts the geometric element data subjected to the rounding into CAD data; and an output unit that outputs the CAD data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Kazusa AOKI, Masaki FUJIWARA, Jun TABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230214494
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a tamper storage unit that stores a secure boot key and a control key, and has tamper resistance, a processor that is able to execute a program, a verification unit that verifies a program by using the secure boot key, performs secure boot causing the processor to execute the program based on a result of the verification, and has tamper resistance, a calculation unit that performs calculation related to encryption using the control key, and has tamper resistance, and a general storage unit that stores a first program that implements a delegated verification unit to which authority of the secure boot is delegated from the verification unit and a second program that implements a control unit that uses the calculation unit, and does not have tamper resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Momoka KASUYA, Nobuyoshi MORITA, Yasuhiro FUJII, Mikio KATAOKA, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230105478
    Abstract: This sensor has a probe inserted into a living body, and measures an analyte, wherein the probe has a substrate, an electrode formed on the substrate, a reagent layer formed on the electrode, a first protective film formed on the reagent layer, and a second protective film which is thinner than the first protective film and formed on the first protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Fuminori KUTSUNA, Masaki FUJIWARA, Masami TOMIOKA, Toshihiro IKEDA, Masatomo MATSUI, Makoto SUEYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20230091983
    Abstract: This sensor is for measuring an analyte and has a probe to be inserted inside a living body. The probe of the sensor includes a substrate, an electrode formed on the substrate, and a reagent layer that contains an oxidoreductase and that is formed on the electrode. At at least one end of the probe in the width direction, the reagent layer and the electrode are trimmed along the insertion direction of the probe toward the inside of the living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi EZAKI, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230069504
    Abstract: This sensor has a probe to be inserted into a living body and measures an analyte. The probe has a substrate, an electrode formed on the substrate, and a reference layer formed on the electrode. The upper surface of the reference layer is covered with a film, and the side surfaces thereof are exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi EZAKI, Isao SAKAMOTO, Masaki FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11508921
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display device including a resin substrate layer, a TFT layer provided on the resin substrate layer, and a light-emitting element that is provided on the TFT layer and constitutes a display region. The resin substrate layer includes a first resin layer, an inorganic layer, and a second resin layer, which are provided in that order from a side opposite to the TFT layer. The interior of the first resin layer contains a plurality of air bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fujita, Yukinobu Nakata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takehisa Sakurai, Masaki Fujiwara, Tokuo Yoshida, Shoji Okazaki, Tetsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11493331
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus includes a stage that includes a translation stage part having a placement surface on which a measurement object is placed and capable of translating the placement surface; an illuminator that includes independently controllable and two-dimensionally-arranged projection devices, and illuminates the measurement object, which is placed on the stage, with measuring light having a predetermined projection pattern having alternating light-and-dark intervals; a photoreceptor that receives measuring light reflected by the measurement object illuminated by the illuminator, and to generate a projection pattern image; and a movement controller that controls the translational movement of the translation stage part by a moving pitch smaller than the minimum width of the projection pattern which can be projected on the stage by independently controlling the projection devices of the illuminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Karube, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11467118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured more accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Fujiwara, Yoshifumi Takahara, Takaaki Fujii, Junko Nakayama, Setsuko Yano, Fuminori Kutsuna
  • Patent number: 11448805
    Abstract: An optical member includes a light-transmissive substrate, which includes a substrate surface, and reflecting surfaces located inside the substrate and configured to reflect at least a portion of incident light. At least a portion of the reflecting surfaces is inclined relative to the substrate surface so as to collect at least a portion of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Minagawa, Keita Yasuda, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11415666
    Abstract: A MASH type sigma delta AD converter includes a modulator, an analog filter filtering an extraction signal obtained by extracting a probe signal and an quantization error generated in a quantizer within a sigma delta modulator, a low speed AD converter performing an AD conversion of an output signal of the analog filter, a first adaptive filter searching for a transfer function of the sigma delta modulator, a second adaptive filter searching for a transfer function from an output of the modulator to the low speed AD converter via the analog filter, and a noise cancellation circuit cancelling the probe signal and the quantization error included in an output signal of the quantizer using the search results by the first and second adaptive filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Oshima, Tetsuo Matsui, Mitsuya Fukazawa, Katsuki Tateyama, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11382230
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, one or more electronic components, an enclosure portion, and a second housing. The electronic components are mounted on at least one of opposing surfaces of the first circuit board and the second circuit board that oppose each other. The enclosure portion supports a surface of each of the first circuit board and the second circuit board to oppose each other with a predetermined gap therebetween. The enclosure portion encloses a gap space that includes the one or more electronic components within a space between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The second housing accommodates the first circuit board, the second circuit board, and the enclosure portion. The enclosure portion contacts the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Fujiwara, Hiroshi Nakao