Patents by Inventor Masao Shimizu

Masao Shimizu 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: 8294778
    Abstract: An image processor includes a frequency transformation unit configured to perform frequency transformation processing with respect to a multiple image, and an inter-superimposed-image displacement acquisition unit that calculates a displacement amount between images forming superimposed images included in the multiple image by using a frequency-transformed image subjected to the frequency transformation processing by the frequency transformation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Okutomi, Masao Shimizu, Takahiro Yano
  • Publication number: 20120259133
    Abstract: Provided is an oil or fat composition, which has an MCPD-FS content (ppm) of 13 ppm or less, the content being measured by a Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fettwissenschaft (DGF) standard method C-III 18(09), has a diacylglycerol content of 15 mass % or more, and is subjected to deodorization treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rika Homma, Masao Shimizu, Junya Moriwaki, Minoru Kase, Tetsuya Abe, Shinpei Fukuhara, Toshiteru Komatsu, Keiji Shibata
  • Publication number: 20120223952
    Abstract: The basic image specifying unit specifies the basic image of a character representing a user of the information processing device. The facial expression parameter generating unit converts the degree of the facial expression of the user to a numerical value. The model control unit determines an output model of the character for respective points of time. The moving image parameter generating unit generates a moving image parameter for generating animated moving image frames of the character for respective points of time. The command specifying unit specifies a command corresponding to the pattern of the facial expression of the user. The playback unit outputs an image based on the moving image parameter and the voice data received from the information processing device of the other user. The command executing unit executes a command based on the identification information of the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Kanemaru, Akira Suzuki, Masao Shimizu, Takahiro Koguchi, Fumikazu Kumagae
  • Patent number: 8227010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing oils and fats rich in diacylglycerol by subjecting fatty acids which are obtainable by hydrolyzing raw material oils and fats, to esterification with glycerin, wherein the process comprises decreasing an anisidine value of greater than 6 of the raw material oils and fats or reaction intermediates, by 20% or more. By using the process of the present invention, even in the case of using a raw material having an anisidine value which is likely to increase in the production processes for raw material oils and fats or for oils and fats rich in diacylglycerol, the stability of the final product oils and fats rich in diacylglycerol is enhanced, and coloration is suppressed, so that products having excellent external appearance can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kase, Masao Shimizu, Junya Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 8158969
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a top emission type organic light emitting display device which prevents the organic film from being oxidized during the formation of the upper transparent electrode and can emit light at a low voltage. The top emission type organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; an organic light emitting layer; and upper and lower electrodes sandwiching the organic light emitting layer, where the lower electrode is arranged between the substrate and the organic light emitting layer, the upper electrode is arranged on the opposite side of the substrate with respect to the lower electrode, light emitted from the organic light emitting layer is taken out from the upper electrode side, and an organic layer which is mainly composed of an organic material having a heterocyclic group containing one or more nitrogen atoms, is included between the organic light emitting layer and the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukekazu Aratani, Hajime Murakami, Masao Shimizu, Kazuhito Masuda
  • Patent number: 8089531
    Abstract: An image processor includes an inter-superimposed-image deformation acquisition unit configured to acquire deformation information between superimposed images included in a multiple image in which images of a subject are superimposed, an image deformation unit configured to generate at least two deformed images by performing deformation processing with respect to the multiple image at least twice to be geometrically deformed based on the acquired deformation information between superimposed images, and a signal intensity relationship acquisition unit configured to acquire signal intensity relationship information indicative of a relationship between signal intensities of the superimposed images included in the multiple image. The image processor further includes a signal processing unit configured to perform addition processing of the at least two deformed images generated from the deformation processing by using the acquired signal intensity relationship information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takahiro Yano, Masatoshi Okutomi, Masao Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8029591
    Abstract: An inorganic fiber aggregate includes an inorganic material and inorganic fibers on which the inorganic material is provided to fix the inorganic fibers each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masao Shimizu, Chiemi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8027068
    Abstract: For an image-capturing unit having a light source and mirrors directing light reflected from a scanned document into a lens condensing the light onto a photoelectrically converting image sensor, a synthetic resin housing. The housing is composed of an open-ended upper frame having a top plate from which sidewalls extend, encompassing an internal space. A mounting surface for anchoring the light-source is formed on the upper side of the upper-frame top plate, and formed on the lower side of the upper-frame top plate is a pedestal on which the lens is supported. Mirror-support projections are formed on the lower side of the upper-frame top plate, or on the upper-frame sidewalls, to support the mirrors from below the lens. With this housing, the influence of heat from the light source on the optics is minimized, improving the mirrors' positional accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Shimizu, Mamoru Noda
  • Patent number: 8008852
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device is provided which achieves high efficiency by reducing the number of steps for vapor deposition using a mask with a fine pattern and photolithography. A blue light-emitting portion (B), a green light-emitting portion (G) and a red light-emitting portion (R) placed on a substrate 10 have a thickness relationship represented as (blue light-emitting portion (B)<green light-emitting portion (G)=red light-emitting portion (R)), so that the green light-emitting portion (G) and the red light-emitting portion are formed with common deposition steps. In addition, an electron injection layer 2 and an electron transport layer 3 between a lower electrode and an organic light-emitting layer 4 are formed with common depositions steps in the light-emitting portions (B, G and R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukekazu Aratani, Masao Shimizu, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Masahiro Tanaka, Masaya Adachi
  • Publication number: 20110206968
    Abstract: The assembled battery system according to the present invention includes at least two non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cells, each including a positive electrode that occludes and emits lithium ions, a negative electrode that occludes and emits lithium ions, and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising an electrolyte dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent, all received in a parallelepiped cell case. These cells are arranged so that each larger area side of an adjacent pair of the parallelepiped cell case faces in parallel one another. A cooling member with a cooling medium flow conduit is provided between each opposing pair of larger area cell case sides, and cooling medium flowing in this conduit directly contacts the sides of the parallelopiped cell cases that define the two opposite sides of the cooling conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Katsunori Nishimura, Masao Shimizu, Tadashi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110187330
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses a decrease in the capacity of a lithium ion battery. A polymer forming agent or a sacrificial reducing agent is added to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution. A voltage is then applied to between a battery container and an anode. Thus, lithium ions can be inserted into the anode to recover the capacity of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Masao SHIMIZU, Katsunori Nishimura
  • Patent number: 7990428
    Abstract: An optical system, imaging device and high-resolution processing method precisely generate a high-resolution image by using image data with few pixels. The optical system images an optical image in an imaging unit, the imaged image is spatially discretized so as to be sampled and converted into an image signal, thereby being recorded in a recording unit. A timing at which the image is imaged by the imaging unit is recorded in an imaging timing recording unit. A weight coefficient for the image is calculated by a weight calculating unit by utilizing the timing information obtained by the imaging timing recording unit. A high-resolution processing unit generates a high-resolution image by using the weighted information of the image generated by the weight calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takahiro Yano, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Masatoshi Okutomi, Masao Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20110151102
    Abstract: To obtain a fat or oil composition which can make a delicious deep-fried food, which is coated with batter having a good dispersibility, and has improved flavor and texture, provided is a fat or oil composition containing 20 wt % or more of diacylglycerol and sucrose fatty acid esters, in which the content of monoester of the sucrose fatty acid esters is 30 wt % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunobu Fujii, Izumi Katsuta, Masao Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7943963
    Abstract: The present invention provides a top emission type organic light-emitting display device in a production of which it is possible to prevent the organic film from being oxidized when the upper transparent electrode is formed, and which is capable of emitting light at a low voltage. This organic light-emitting display device contains an organic light-emitting layer and an upper electrode and a lower electrode sandwiching the organic light-emitting layer, and is of a structure in which the emitted light is taken out from the upper electrode side, and a buffer layer mainly made of an oxide producing less oxygen by decomposition in the film-forming process than the upper electrode material is provided between the organic light-emitting layer and the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Murakami, Masao Shimizu, Sukekazu Aratani, Etsuko Nishimura, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7898172
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic light emitting element having a high efficiency and a high quality in which electron and hole injection efficiency of an electrode is reproduced in an insulated or contaminated first electrode. In an organic light emitting display apparatus, a substrate, a first electrode, an insulation film bank formed so as to cover edges of the first electrode, a metal thin film formed on the first electrode and the insulation film bank, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode are disposed in the cited order. A lower part of a side face of the insulation film bank takes a reverse tapered shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Shimizu, Hajime Murakami, Sukekazu Aratani, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110033754
    Abstract: A nonaqueous lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode capable of intercalating and releasing lithium ions and a separator. The negative electrode includes a collector and a negative electrode mixture layer formed on the collector. The negative electrode mixture layer includes at least a negative electrode active material and a binder. Nonconductive particles are buried in a top layer of the negative electrode mixture layer. The nonconductive particles and the negative electrode active material exist as a mixture in the top layer with a depth ranging from 1 to 20 ?m. A volume ratio of nonconductive particles having a diameter equal to or less than 20 ?m to a total volume of all the nonconductive particles and the negative electrode active material existing in the top layer of the negative electrode mixture layer ranges from 20 to 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Masao SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki Kumashiro
  • Patent number: 7863461
    Abstract: Novel epoxy compounds having imide structures represented by general formula (I) or general formula (II) below, and having an allyl group in the same molecule, as well as a process for their production (wherein R1 and R2 each represent hydrogen, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-4 trialkylsilyl group) (wherein R3 represents hydrogen, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-4 trialkylsilyl group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignees: Showa Denko K.K., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Toshio Fujita, Yuji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Uchida, Nobutoshi Sasaki, Kazuhiko Sato, Masanori Ookoshi, Masao Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100291274
    Abstract: The present invention provides means of allowing an edible oil to contain useful components derived from an oil-containing raw material, such as polyphenols, efficiently. The present invention is a process for producing an edible oil, wherein when the edible oil is expressed from an oil-containing raw material, a diacylglycerol-containing oil or fat is added to the oil-containing raw material so that the diacylglycerol content in the oil or fat obtained after the oil expression is 4% by weight or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Shimizu, Noboru Matsuo, Naoto Kudo, Yoshinobu Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20100253796
    Abstract: The invention provides imaging device and high-resolution processing method of image which precisely generate high-resolution image by using image data with a little number of the pixels. An optical system images an optical image in an imaging unit (101), the imaged image is spatially discretized so as to sampled and converted into an image signal, thereby being recorded in a recording unit (105). Further, a timing at which the image is imaged by the imaging unit (101) is recorded in an imaging timing recording unit (107). A weight coefficient for imaged image is calculated by a weight calculating unit (104) by utilizing the timing information obtained by the imaging timing recording unit (107). A high-resolution processing unit (106) generates a high-resolution image by using the weighted information of the image generated by the weight calculating unit (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Takahiro Yano, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Masatoshi Okutomi, Masao Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7795808
    Abstract: TFTs are formed on a substrate. An interlayer insulation film is formed on the substrate to cover the TFTs. Lower layer portions of SD lines formed of a multi-layered film which are formed on the interlayer insulation film constitute a lower electrode of an organic EL layer. An uppermost layer of the SD line is formed of a chemically stable metal oxide film, and the SD layer is used as it is. On the other hand, as a lower electrode of an organic EL layer, an upper layer of the SD line is removed and an Al—Si, alloy film of the SD line is used. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to reduce a cost by shortening steps while holding the performance and the reliability of organic EL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Matsuura, Masahiro Tanaka, Sukekazu Aratani, Masao Shimizu