Patents by Inventor Mieko Ohsuga
Mieko Ohsuga 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: 9877678Abstract: A respiration signal of a seated person is detected with high accuracy by using a vehicle seat that includes a seat cushion; and a sensor detecting a pressure signal from a load applied from a seated person. The sensor is provided to be along an edge of a contact portion between the seat cushion and buttocks of the seated person. The sensor transmits the detected pressure signal to an arithmetic operation device of the seated person. In a respiration measuring device, the arithmetic operation device computes the detected pressure signal detected by the sensor to obtain a respiration signal of the seated person.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Josho Gakuen Educational Foundation, Nihon UniversityInventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Toyokazu Nakano, Mieko Ohsuga, Ichiro Kageyama, Yukiyo Kuriyagawa, Shu Iida
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Publication number: 20150133804Abstract: To make it possible to stably measure heartbeats even if seated persons physically differ and to measure the heartbeats of even a seated person other than a driver. A vehicle seat includes: a measuring device including a plurality of sensors that are provided in a seat back and that acquire body potentials of the seated person, and an arithmetic operation device that computes electrical signals to obtain an electrocardiographic signal of the seated person. The sensors are each capacitively coupled sensors. The sensor is arranged at a lower right position relative to the sensor and the sensor while facing a front surface of the seat back if a surface of the seat back facing the seated person is assumed as the front surface. Both sensors are arranged so that the seated person's heart is located in a zone if the zone is defined from the sensor and the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Toyokazu Nakano, Mieko Ohsuga, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shota Yasuda, Ichiro Kageyama, Yukiyo Kuriyagawa
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Publication number: 20150061347Abstract: A respiration signal of a seated person is detected with high accuracy by using a vehicle seat that includes a seat cushion; and a sensor detecting a pressure signal from a load applied from a seated person. The sensor is provided to be along an edge of a contact portion between the seat cushion and buttocks of the seated person. The sensor transmits the detected pressure signal to an arithmetic operation device of the seated person. In a respiration measuring device, the arithmetic operation device computes the detected pressure signal detected by the sensor to obtain a respiration signal of the seated person.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Toyokazu Nakano, Mieko Ohsuga, Ichiro Kageyama, Yukiyo Kuriyagawa, Shu Iida
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Patent number: 6317151Abstract: At each of n shooting (or capturing) points, a natural scene is captured for a period of time tS(N), where N=1 to n, using one or more video cameras held at rest, and it is then converted into each of a plurality of stationary-viewpoint images. Furthermore, on the way from the (N−1)th shooting point to the Nth (N=2 to n) shooting point, a natural scene is captured for a period of time tM(N), where N=2 to n, using the video cameras being moved and it is then converted into each of a plurality of moving-viewpoint images. In order to provide a virtual reality environment for a user, the plurality of stationary-viewpoint images and the plurality of moving-viewpoint images are reproduced in turn according to user's movements detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1998Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mieko Ohsuga, Isao Mizukura
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Patent number: 6244987Abstract: A wellness system comprises an exercise load providing unit for providing a load of a physical exercise for a user, and for measuring a movement of the user who is doing the physical exercise, a virtual reality environment providing unit for providing the user with a virtual reality environment that can cause user's plural senses such as the sense of sight, hearing, touch, and smell to work, according to the contents of the virtual reality environment, and a control unit for controlling the virtual reality environment provided by the virtual reality environment providing unit according to the user's movement measured by the exercise load providing unit. Furthermore, when providing the virtual reality environment, the virtual reality environment providing unit displays an image which produces the virtual reality environment by setting its angle of view to be larger than an angle of view of a corresponding object or scene which was shot.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mieko Ohsuga, Futomi Shimono, Masahiro Kimura, Mitsuo Maeda, Isao Mizukura
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Publication number: 20010001303Abstract: A wellness system comprises an exercise load providing unit for providing a load of a physical exercise for a user, and for measuring a movement of the user who is doing the physical exercise, a virtual reality environment providing unit for providing the user with a virtual reality environment that can cause user's plural senses such as the sense of sight, hearing, touch, and smell to work, according to the contents of the virtual reality environment, and a control unit for controlling the virtual reality environment provided by the virtual reality environment providing unit according to the user's movement measured by the exercise load providing unit. Furthermore, when providing the virtual reality environment, the virtual reality environment providing unit displays an image which produces the virtual reality environment by setting its angle of view to be larger than an angle of view of a corresponding object or scene which was shot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2000Publication date: May 17, 2001Inventors: Mieko Ohsuga, Futomi Shimono, Masahiro Kimura, Mitsuo Maeda, Isao Mizukura
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Patent number: 6151521Abstract: A medical support system includes a patient-side system including patient shooting devices for photographing a patient's body and forming respective images displaying respective parts of the patient's body; a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from the patient-side system and including an image synthesizer for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of the patient's body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient's body extending across the respective images, and a display for displaying the composite image produced by the image synthesizer; and a communication link for transmitting information between the medical-side system and the patient-side system and for transferring the images produced by the patient shooting devices to the medical-side system.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1998Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Qinglian Guo, Mieko Ohsuga, Katsuyuki Kamei, Katsunobu Muroi, Mitsuo Maeda
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Patent number: 5997439Abstract: A bedside wellness system is provided with an exercise load providing unit for providing a load of a physical exercise for a user who lies in bed, and for measuring a movement of the user who is doing the physical exercise, a virtual reality environment providing unit for providing the user with a virtual reality environment which causes user's plural human senses to work according to the contents of the virtual reality environment, and a control unit for controlling the virtual reality environment provided by the virtual reality environment providing unit according to the user's movement measured by the exercise load providing unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mieko Ohsuga, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Oyama
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Patent number: 4896675Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring mental tension comprises a first measuring unit for measuring a periodic wave related to a contraction activity of the heart of a person to be monitored; a detecting unit for detecting special waves which periodically appear in the periodic wave measured by the first measuring unit; a second measuring unit for measuring the interval at which the special wave are generated; a first processor for providing, as tension index values, a mean value of an interval train of the special waves and the magnitude of a respiration component of the fluctuation of the interval train; and a display unit for displaying the resulting tension index values.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1989Date of Patent: January 30, 1990Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mieko Ohsuga, Futomi Shimono