Patents by Inventor Masao Tanaka

Masao Tanaka 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: 20240102088
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide new PCR measuring method and device. As one embodiment of the present invention, a DNA detection method for detecting DNA in a droplet being present in oil, the droplet containing the DNA and a fluorescent labeled probe, the fluorescent labeled probe being hybridized to the DNA, the method including: a first step of amplifying the DNA in the droplet by a nucleic acid amplification reaction; and a second step of measuring a melting temperature of the fluorescent labeled probe and the DNA in the droplet is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Junko TANAKA, Takahide YOKOI, Masao KAMAHORI, Yoshinobu KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240087392
    Abstract: A money handling device includes a feeding unit; a transport unit; a receiving unit; a recognition unit; and a mount to which a first board or a second board is detachably mounted, a memory configured to store information to be used in money handling and attached to the first board or the second board. The first board holds a first key which is an encryption and decryption key unique to the first board, the second board holds a second key, and the first board and the second board hold a third key which is a common key. In a management method, the first board encrypts the information using the first key and stores the encrypted information in the memory, and encrypts the first key using the third key and stores the encrypted first key in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Glory Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao OKAMURA, Yukiya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240037696
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of reducing the capacity of a memory. Provided is an image processing apparatus including a memory that stores image data, and a control unit that controls write processing of writing the image data in the memory and read processing of reading the image data stored in the memory, in which the control unit frees a memory area where the image data is stored but is not read before the read processing is completed. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus that performs image stabilization processing or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: MASAO TANAKA, SINSUKE HISHINUMA
  • Publication number: 20230034032
    Abstract: Image deterioration in an image sensor is inhibited. A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array that photoelectrically converts received light and contains pixels arranged in a two-dimensionally arrayed manner, the pixels outputting analog signals; a conversion part that converts the analog signals outputted from the pixels to digital data; a coding part that generates one sign bit or a plurality of sign bits as to the digital data; a storage part that stores the digital data and the sign bit or sign bits; a decoding part that decodes the sign bit or sign bits as to the digital data stored in the storage part; a determination part that determines, on the basis of the decoded sign bit or sign bits, whether or not an error in writing or reading of the digital data in or from the storage part has occurred; and a signal processing part that processes the digital data read from the storage part on the basis of output of the determination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: DAI SUZUKI, MASAO TANAKA, KOJI ENOKI
  • Patent number: 11392517
    Abstract: An access control method of the disclosure includes: allowing one master device of a plurality of master devices to generate a request for access to a device to be accessed; allowing a slave device to identify, on a basis of the request for the access, the one master device that has generated the request for the access; and allowing the slave device to make a response to the one master device, at response timing that corresponds to the one master device identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11212529
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Mikita Yasuda, Toshiharu Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Chaki
  • Publication number: 20210160492
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: MASAO TANAKA, TSUYOSHI KIMURA, MIKITA YASUDA, TOSHIHARU TSUCHIYA, YASUYUKI CHAKI
  • Patent number: 10302659
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of a pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample. The method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease of the present invention has a step for (a) measuring the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample taken from a subject and a step for (b) evaluating the possibility of the subject suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker measured in step (a) and the age of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari Nakata, Hiromi Sanuki, Tetsuhide Takeyama, Shoji Tokunaga, Masao Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180238906
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of a pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample. The method for evaluating the possibility of suffering from pancreatic disease of the present invention has a step for (a) measuring the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker in a duodenal juice sample taken from a subject and a step for (b) evaluating the possibility of the subject suffering from pancreatic disease on the basis of the concentration of the pancreatic disease marker measured in step (a) and the age of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari NAKATA, Hiromi SANUKI, Tetsuhide TAKEYAMA, Shoji TOKUNAGA, Masao TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170235688
    Abstract: An access control method of the disclosure includes: allowing one master device of a plurality of master devices to generate a request for access to a device to be accessed; allowing a slave device to identify, on a basis of the request for the access, the one master device that has generated the request for the access; and allowing the slave device to make a response to the one master device, at response timing that corresponds to the one master device identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9131633
    Abstract: A display device includes: a flexible first substrate; a flexible second substrate provided facing the first substrate; a display part; and a wiring substrate. The display part has a display component which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display component produces at least one of an optical characteristic change and a light emission. The wiring substrate is connected to a connection pad provided on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. At least a portion of the wiring substrate is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate outside the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Miura, Hajime Yamaguchi, Masao Tanaka, Takashi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8661180
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a memory controlling device including: an address converting section configured to convert a logical address included in a request issued from a plurality of clients into a physical address of a memory; a request dividing section configured to divide a converted request converted by the address converting section by a command unit for the memory on a basis of the physical address of the converted request; and an arbitrating section configured to perform arbitration on a basis of the physical address indicated in a divided request output from the request dividing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Takagi, Yasuhiro Matsui, Masao Tanaka, Takahiro Ikarashi, Akihiko Saotome, Hiroshi Sumihiro, Yukinao Kenjo
  • Patent number: 8613985
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal/polymer complex includes a liquid crystal material, a polymer, and a chiral agent. The liquid crystal material exhibits blue phase and contains liquid crystal molecules that are spirally arranged to form liquid crystal molecular cylinders having a spiral arrangement. The polymer maintains the arrangement and has a dendrimer-type structure including a dendrimer unit and a polymerizable unit bonded to an end of the dendrimer unit. The dendrimer unit contains a central atom and at least two branched structures bonded to the central atom and has a generation of two or more. The polymerizable unit contains a polymerizable group which can bond to a polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukio Kizaki, Hajime Yamaguchi, Yuko Kizu, Masao Tanaka, Akiko Hirao
  • Publication number: 20130208224
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a support substrate, first electrodes, second electrodes, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first and second electrodes are provided on a surface of the support substrate. The first and second electrodes are alternately arranged. A counter substrate opposes the surface. The liquid crystal layer is held between the support substrate and the counter substrate. 0.7?D/(L+S)?2 is satisfied. L is an average width of at least two of the first electrodes and at least two of the second electrodes. S is an average distance between at least two pairs of adjacent ones of the first and second electrodes. D is a distance between the support substrate and the counter substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Yuko Kizu, Hajime Yamaguchi, Yukio Kizaki, Masao Tanaka, Machiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8429463
    Abstract: One system monitors components constituting an information apparatus and a program in execution. The system classifies logs outputted from the information processing apparatus for each monitor target, divides the monitor targets into categories of hardware and software, refers to relationship definition information indicating the combination of monitor targets in which an operational relationship exists between monitor targets belonging to different categories and specifies a combination indicated in the relationship definition information among monitor targets whose logs are classified. The system relates logs arranged for each monitor target on the basis of the specified combination and outputs the logs on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Masao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8345193
    Abstract: An electronic device including: a thin-film substrate having a front surface being formed with electronic circuits; an adhesive layer comprising an adhesive material applied to a back surface of the thin-film substrate, the adhesive material having an elasticity modulus being in a range of 1.0×103 to 2.1×104 Pa at 80° C.; and a flexible substrate having a front surface being bonded to the back surface of the thin-film substrate with the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Miyazaki, Hajime Yamaguchi, Masao Tanaka, Kentaro Miura, Rei Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20120307184
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal/polymer complex includes a liquid crystal material, a polymer, and a chiral agent. The liquid crystal material exhibits blue phase and contains liquid crystal molecules that are spirally arranged to form liquid crystal molecular cylinders having a spiral arrangement. The polymer maintains the arrangement and has a dendrimer-type structure including a dendrimer unit and a polymerizable unit bonded to an end of the dendrimer unit. The dendrimer unit contains a central atom and at least two branched structures bonded to the central atom and has a generation of two or more. The polymerizable unit contains a polymerizable group which can bond to a polymerizable group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Yukio KIZAKI, Hajime Yamaguchi, Yuko Kizu, Masao Tanaka, Akiko Hirao
  • Patent number: 8237044
    Abstract: A concentrating solar power generation unit (10) comprises a solar cell element (1), a mounting plate (3) on which is mounted the solar cell element (1), which is bonded to a receiver (2), a light shield (4) that covers the mounting plate (3), a frame (5) disposed perpendicularly from the ends on two facing sides of a light shield (4), a concentrating lens (7) that is disposed corresponding to the upper end of the frame (5) across from the light shield (4) and that concentrates sunlight (Ls) on a light receiving region of the solar cell element (1), and a translucent substrate (6) that fixes (fastens) the concentrating lens (7) and is mounted to the upper end of the frame (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Anzawa, Kosuke Ueda, Masao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8077278
    Abstract: A display device is provide, which includes a supporting substrate, a flexible display provided with a transparent display substrate formed above the supporting substrate, and a dilatant fluid accommodating member. The dilatant fluid accommodating member is disposed on the outside of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Miyazaki, Hajime Yamaguchi, Masao Tanaka, Rei Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20110048497
    Abstract: A concentrating solar power generation unit 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a concentrating lens panel 10 in which a plurality of concentrating lenses 12 are arranged on a light transmitting panel substrate 11; a solar cell mounting plate 21 in which solar cells 20 are mounted corresponding to the concentrating lenses 12; and a first direction side supporting wall 32 that extends in a direction intersecting the solar cell mounting plate 21 and that supports a first direction side 13 of the light transmitting panel substrate 11, wherein a panel positioning portion 15 that defines the position of the concentrating lens panel 10 is formed in the first direction side 13, and a positioning portion-engagement portion 34 with which the panel positioning portion 15 is engaged is formed in an upper portion of the first direction side supporting wall 32.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Chikao Okamoto, Masao Tanaka