Patents by Inventor Nobuo Sasaki

Nobuo Sasaki 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: 11859174
    Abstract: To identify a microorganism causing the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with ulcerative colitis. A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain inducing inflammation in the liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Nobuo Sasaki, Ryo Aoki, Kentaro Miyamoto, Toshiro Sato, Takanori Kanai
  • Patent number: 11845926
    Abstract: To identify a microorganism causing the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with ulcerative colitis. A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain inducing inflammation in the liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Nobuo Sasaki, Ryo Aoki, Kentaro Miyamoto, Toshiro Sato, Takanori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20230041980
    Abstract: A method of protecting a respiratory tract or a lung from damage is provided. The method comprises administering a pharmaceutical composition to a patient in need thereof. The pharmaceutical composition comprises trehalose or a trehalose derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEXT21 KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki SUZUKI, Nobuo SASAKI, Ungil CHUNG, Nobuyuki SHIMOHATA
  • Publication number: 20220220427
    Abstract: A culture container for culturing epithelial cells, includes an upper container, a lid member configured to airtightly fit with an opening portion of the upper container, and a lower container configured to accommodate the upper container and a cell culture medium, in which at least a part of an area of the upper container in contact with the cell culture medium is formed of a membrane that is permeable to at least a part of components of the cell culture medium and impermeable to a cell, and a material of the lid member has an oxygen permeability coefficient of 1.0×10?6 cm3 cm/(cm2·sec·atm) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiro SATO, Nobuo SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11120614
    Abstract: In an image generation apparatus, a virtual space generation section generates a virtual space in which an object and a virtual camera are arranged in accordance with input information acquired by an input information acquisition section. An intermediate image generation section draws the virtual space by a past technique. A curved surface generation section of a display image generation section generates, for each polygon of an object, a curved surface corresponding to the polygon. A pixel displacement acquisition section acquires a correspondence in pixel position between an image drawn with a planar polygon and a curved surface image. A drawing section determines color values of the pixels of the display image in accordance with the correspondence by referring to an original image. An output section outputs data of the display image generated as described above to a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11050993
    Abstract: A position and posture acquiring section 250 of an image generating apparatus 200 acquires information related to the position and posture of the user's head. A view screen control section 252 sets a view screen corresponding to a viewpoint of the user. An original image manipulating section 254 determines displacement of pixels and acquires color values for an image corresponding to the viewpoint of the user such that an object appears fixed according to movement of the viewpoint of the user, and performs synthesis of color values in a color map corresponding to the viewpoint of a preceding frame, to acquire a new color map. A display image generating section 268 determines a value for each of the pixels in the view screen in accordance with a color map for a corresponding position to generate a display image. An output section 270 outputs the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10999567
    Abstract: When a predetermined condition based on an instruction input from a user or a change in a posture of the user is satisfied (N in S300), an original image manipulating section of an image generating apparatus acquires amounts of displacement of viewpoints of a viewer from base points with respect to an image stereoscopically viewed by the user on the basis of display of left and right parallax images (S302). On the basis of the amounts of displacement, the original image manipulating section acquires the amount of adjustment of the position of an image plane in a virtual space in which the parallax images are expressed (S304). In generating, from each pixel on the image plane, an image reference vector for referencing the original images of the parallax images, the original image manipulating section executes calculation reflecting the amount of adjustment of the position of the image plane to achieve adjustment of the position of the image plane (S306).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210123109
    Abstract: To identify a microorganism causing the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with ulcerative colitis. A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain inducing inflammation in the liver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Nobuo Sasaki, Ryo Aoki, Kentaro Miyamoto, Toshiro Sato, Takanori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20210123108
    Abstract: To identify a microorganism causing the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with ulcerative colitis. A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain inducing inflammation in the liver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Nobuo Sasaki, Ryo Aoki, Kentaro Miyamoto, Toshiro Sato, Takanori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20200258290
    Abstract: In an image generation apparatus, a virtual space generation section generates a virtual space in which an object and a virtual camera are arranged in accordance with input information acquired by an input information acquisition section. An intermediate image generation section draws the virtual space by a past technique. A curved surface generation section of a display image generation section generates, for each polygon of an object, a curved surface corresponding to the polygon. A pixel displacement acquisition section acquires a correspondence in pixel position between an image drawn with a planar polygon and a curved surface image. A drawing section determines color values of the pixels of the display image in accordance with the correspondence by referring to an original image. An output section outputs data of the display image generated as described above to a display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10719991
    Abstract: A position and posture acquisition unit of an image generation apparatus acquires position information relating to a point of view of a user. A viewscreen setting unit sets a viewscreen. An original image operation unit calculates a correction amount for a pixel from parallax values of pixels of an original image and an amount of movement of the point of view such that an object looks fixed. Then, an image reference vector map in which an image reference vector that refers to a position before correction from coordinates of each pixel after correction is stored for each pixel is generated. A display image generation unit specifies an image reference vector corresponding to each pixel of the viewscreen and generates, based on the image reference vectors, a color value by filtering pixel values of reference destinations in the original image. An outputting unit outputs a display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10721456
    Abstract: A position and posture acquisition unit acquires viewpoint position information of a user. A viewscreen setting unit sets a viewscreen for the user. An original image operation unit calculates a correction amount for a pixel of the image from a parallax value of each pixel of an original image and an amount of movement of the viewpoint such that the object looks fixed, and generates, for each of left and right viewpoint, an image reference vector map. The image reference vector map includes an image reference vector that refers to the position of the object before correction from coordinates of each pixel after correction. A display image generation unit refers to the original image on the basis of the image reference vector corresponding to each pixel of the viewscreen to determine a color value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200177859
    Abstract: When a predetermined condition based on an instruction input from a user or a change in a posture of the user is satisfied (N in S300), an original image manipulating section of an image generating apparatus acquires amounts of displacement of viewpoints of a viewer from base points with respect to an image stereoscopically viewed by the user on the basis of display of left and right parallax images (S302). On the basis of the amounts of displacement, the original image manipulating section acquires the amount of adjustment of the position of an image plane in a virtual space in which the parallax images are expressed (S304). In generating, from each pixel on the image plane, an image reference vector for referencing the original images of the parallax images, the original image manipulating section executes calculation reflecting the amount of adjustment of the position of the image plane to achieve adjustment of the position of the image plane (S306).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Nobuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200162716
    Abstract: A position and posture acquiring section 250 of an image generating apparatus 200 acquires information related to the position and posture of the user's head. A view screen control section 252 sets a view screen corresponding to a viewpoint of the user. An original image manipulating section 254 determines displacement of pixels and acquires color values for an image corresponding to the viewpoint of the user such that an object appears fixed according to movement of the viewpoint of the user, and performs synthesis of color values in a color map corresponding to the viewpoint of a preceding frame, to acquire a new color map. A display image generating section 268 determines a value for each of the pixels in the view screen in accordance with a color map for a corresponding position to generate a display image. An output section 270 outputs the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Nobuo SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10607417
    Abstract: A position/posture acquiring unit of image generating apparatus acquires information on the position and posture of the head of a user. A view screen control unit sets a view screen according to the point of view of a user. An original image operating unit disposes an original image in a virtual space and moves the position thereof in response to movement of the point of view of the user. In addition, the original image operating unit calculates the amount of displacement of pixels in such a manner that an object looks fixed. Thereby, the original image operating unit sets a reference vector for each pixel of the image plane. The original image operating unit decides the reference vector by interpolation regarding a pixel for which the reference vector is not set. A displayed image generating unit carries out mapping of the original image onto the view screen by using the obtained reference vectors to generate a displayed image. An output unit outputs the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sasaki, Atsushi Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20190338374
    Abstract: To identify a microorganism causing the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated with ulcerative colitis. A Klebsiella pneumoniae strain inducing inflammation in the liver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Nobuo Sasaki, Ryo Aoki, Kentaro Miyamoto, Toshiro Sato, Takanori Kanai
  • Patent number: 10458437
    Abstract: An air blower including a casing having an intake port and a discharge port an air-blowing fan disposed inside the casing to take in air through the intake port and discharge air from the discharge port; and a filter filtering the air taken in through the intake port, wherein an insect trapping part trapping an insect is disposed in a ventilation path between the intake port and the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoyuki Shigemoto, Nobuo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10362297
    Abstract: A marker detection block 20 scans a taken image of a plurality of markers of a fixture worn on the head of a user so as to detect a two-dimensional coordinate on the taken image of the plurality of markers. A viewpoint position correction block 30 corrects a viewpoint position of the user without use of a coordinate in a Z direction of the markers but by use of the detected two-dimensional coordinate of the plurality of markers. A stereoscopic image generation block 40 generates a parallax image obtained when a three-dimensional object is viewed from the corrected viewpoint position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Takizawa, Nobuo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190180514
    Abstract: A position and posture acquisition unit of an image generation apparatus acquires position information relating to a point of view of a user. A viewscreen setting unit sets a viewscreen. An original image operation unit calculates a correction amount for a pixel from parallax values of pixels of an original image and an amount of movement of the point of view such that an object looks fixed. Then, an image reference vector map in which an image reference vector that refers to a position before correction from coordinates of each pixel after correction is stored for each pixel is generated. A display image generation unit specifies an image reference vector corresponding to each pixel of the viewscreen and generates, based on the image reference vectors, a color value by filtering pixel values of reference destinations in the original image. An outputting unit outputs a display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190164354
    Abstract: A position/posture acquiring unit of image generating apparatus acquires information on the position and posture of the head of a user. A view screen control unit sets a view screen according to the point of view of a user. An original image operating unit disposes an original image in a virtual space and moves the position thereof in response to movement of the point of view of the user. In addition, the original image operating unit calculates the amount of displacement of pixels in such a manner that an object looks fixed. Thereby, the original image operating unit sets a reference vector for each pixel of the image plane. The original image operating unit decides the reference vector by interpolation regarding a pixel for which the reference vector is not set. A displayed image generating unit carries out mapping of the original image onto the view screen by using the obtained reference vectors to generate a displayed image. An output unit outputs the displayed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sasaki, Atsushi Takizawa