Patents by Inventor Noriko Sakai

Noriko Sakai 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: 20240091185
    Abstract: Compositions, containing glycine and serine and having a content ratio of glycine to serine (glycine/serine) of not less than 0.6 in weight ratio are effective for improving cognitive function, and have an effective preventive or improving effect on a decline in cognitive function and cognitive dysfunction, are highly safe, and enable continuous ingestion or administration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hidehiro NAKAMURA, Noriko KAWASAKI, Yasuko KAWAMATA, Akihiko KITAMURA, Ryosei SAKAI, Fumika TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11836581
    Abstract: A learning model generation apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain captured image data and plural setting values which are set for each imaging condition in a case where the image data is captured and have dependency relationships with one another; calculate an evaluation value for classifying image information which is information obtained from the image data by using the plural setting values; classify the image information based on the evaluation value; and generate a learning model for each classification by using the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Noriko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11421203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a retinal pigment epithelial cell from a human pluripotent stem cell, and a method of treating or preventing a retinal disease by using the produced cell. The retinal pigment epithelial cell is prepared by (a) inducing differentiation of a human pluripotent stem cell into a pigment cell by adhesion cultivation of a human pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing a Nodal signal inhibitor and a Wnt signal inhibitor in the absence of a feeder cell to give a culture containing the pigment cell, (b) subjecting the obtained culture to further adhesion culture to give a culture containing a pigment cell colony, and (c) isolating the pigment cell from the obtained culture and culturing the cell to give a retinal pigment epithelial cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Masayo Takahashi, Satoshi Okamoto, Noriko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11244187
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire an amount of color change, the amount of color change being an amount of color change caused by processing performed on image data, the amount of color change being acquired for each area with a color change within the image data; and extract an interest region from the image data, the interest region being an area in the image data where the amount of color change is greater than in other areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kichikawa, Noriko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10997749
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a unit that obtains one or more pairs, each of which is constituted by images before and after correction, a unit that obtains changes in color, caused by the correction, of points in an image for the one or more pairs, a unit that obtains a distribution of the changes for the obtained pairs, and an extracting unit. When an interval having a frequency equal to or larger than a threshold determined for each interval exists at a distance of a tolerance width or more from an interval having a maximum frequency in the distribution, the extracting unit extracts, as learning data to learn a color change caused by the correction, the changes that are included in the interval having the maximum frequency but are not included in the interval having a frequency equal to or larger than the threshold determined for each interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Morimoto, Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Noriko Sakai, Chizuru Ohsawa
  • Publication number: 20210084218
    Abstract: A learning model generation apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain captured image data and plural setting values which are set for each imaging condition in a case where the image data is captured and have dependency relationships with one another; calculate an evaluation value for classifying image information which is information obtained from the image data by using the plural setting values; classify the image information based on the evaluation value; and generate a learning model for each classification by using the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriko SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210081696
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire an amount of color change, the amount of color change being an amount of color change caused by processing performed on image data, the amount of color change being acquired for each area with a color change within the image data; and extract an interest region from the image data, the interest region being an area in the image data where the amount of color change is greater than in other areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro KICHIKAWA, Noriko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10834370
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit and a color conversion property creation unit. The acceptance unit accepts sets of image information each of which is composed of image information of an image before color conversion and image information of an image after color conversion. The color conversion property creation unit creates a color conversion property for color conversion of an image on the basis of pieces of image-capture setting information that are set for image-capture conditions used when the images before color conversion are captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Noriko Sakai, Masashi Morimoto, Chizuru Ohsawa
  • Patent number: 10675907
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit and a conversion unit. The reception unit receives as a designated color a color of an image desired to be seeable when irradiated with light at a specific wavelength. The conversion unit converts, when converting image data on an image to be printed into print data, a color value of the designated color received by the reception unit into a color value including a value for outputting a special color material that has absorption properties for the light at the specific wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200123500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a retinal pigment epithelial cell from a human pluripotent stem cell, and a method of treating or preventing a retinal disease by using the produced cell. The retinal pigment epithelial cell is prepared by (a) inducing differentiation of a human pluripotent stem cell into a pigment cell by adhesion cultivation of a human pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing a Nodal signal inhibitor and a Wnt signal inhibitor in the absence of a feeder cell to give a culture containing the pigment cell, (b) subjecting the obtained culture to further adhesion culture to give a culture containing a pigment cell colony, and (c) isolating the pigment cell from the obtained culture and culturing the cell to give a retinal pigment epithelial cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: RIKEN
    Inventors: Masayo TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKAMOTO, Noriko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10602026
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a specifying unit, an extraction unit, and a creation unit. The specifying unit specifies, for one image among a first image before color conversion and a second image after color conversion, an area for which image information is extracted. The extraction unit extracts plural pieces of color conversion information, which are image information about pixels in the area of the one image among the first image and the second image, the area being specified by the specifying unit, and image information about pixels in the other image corresponding to the pixels in the one image. The creation unit creates a color conversion property on the basis of the plural pieces of color conversion information extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Noriko Sakai, Yusuke Izumisawa
  • Patent number: 10519422
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a retinal pigment epithelial cell from a human pluripotent stem cell, and a method of treating or preventing a retinal disease by using the produced cell. The retinal pigment epithelial cell is prepared by (a) inducing differentiation of a human pluripotent stem cell into a pigment cell by adhesion cultivation of a human pluripotent stem cell in a medium containing a Nodal signal inhibitor and a Wnt signal inhibitor in the absence of a feeder cell to give a culture containing the pigment cell, (b) subjecting the obtained culture to further adhesion culture to give a culture containing a pigment cell colony, and (c) isolating the pigment cell from the obtained culture and culturing the cell to give a retinal pigment epithelial cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Masayo Takahashi, Satoshi Okamoto, Noriko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10523846
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a conversion relationship acquisition unit that acquires, for each of plural output destinations by which to output an image, a conversion relationship for performing color correction corresponding to each of the output destinations; a selection information acquisition unit that acquires, for each of the plural output destinations, selection information about whether or not to perform color correction using the conversion relationship; and an image data transmission unit that transmits, to a display device, image data expressing the image before or after performing color correction on a basis of the selection information acquired from the selection information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Sakai, Makoto Fujio
  • Patent number: 10499047
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a pair of image information including image information before color conversion and image information after the color conversion, an accuracy output unit that outputs accuracy of a color conversion characteristic from a plural of pairs of image information received by the reception unit, and a display control unit that displays the accuracy output from the accuracy output unit on a display apparatus for color areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Sakai, Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Masashi Morimoto, Yusuke Izumisawa
  • Patent number: 10397483
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acceptance unit that accepts an image information pair composed of image information before color conversion and image information after color conversion; an accuracy output unit that outputs accuracy of a color conversion property from the plural accepted image information pairs; a color conversion property creation unit that creates the color conversion property from the plural accepted image information pairs; and a display control unit that, when the acceptance unit accepts a new image information pair, controls to display, on a display device, at least image information created by color conversion of image information of the new image information pair before color conversion based on the color conversion property created by the color conversion property creation unit from the image information pair that has already been accepted by the acceptance unit and image information of the new image information pair after color conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Sakai, Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Masashi Morimoto, Yusuke Izumisawa
  • Publication number: 20190228543
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a unit that obtains one or more pairs, each of which is constituted by images before and after correction, a unit that obtains changes in color, caused by the correction, of points in an image for the one or more pairs, a unit that obtains a distribution of the changes for the obtained pairs, and an extracting unit. When an interval having a frequency equal to or larger than a threshold determined for each interval exists at a distance of a tolerance width or more from an interval having a maximum frequency in the distribution, the extracting unit extracts, as learning data to learn a color change caused by the correction, the changes that are included in the interval having the maximum frequency but are not included in the interval having a frequency equal to or larger than the threshold determined for each interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi MORIMOTO, Toshihiro IWAFUCHI, Noriko SAKAI, Chizuru OHSAWA
  • Patent number: 10362198
    Abstract: A color processing device includes: a color data obtaining unit obtaining color data of a first image displayed on a display based on image data as first color data and color data of a second image formed on a recording medium by an image forming device based on the image data as second color data; and a conversion relationship creation unit creating a conversion relationship to correct the image data to be outputted to the image forming device based on the first color data and the second color data to integrate colors of the images displayed on the display and formed by the image forming device, wherein the conversion relationship creation unit creates the conversion relationship to increase a correction amount as a color to be corrected comes closer to gray and to reduce a correction amount as a color to be corrected comes closer to white.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Noriko Sakai, Masashi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20190132565
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit and a color conversion property creation unit. The acceptance unit accepts sets of image information each of which is composed of image information of an image before color conversion and image information of an image after color conversion. The color conversion property creation unit creates a color conversion property for color conversion of an image on the basis of pieces of image-capture setting information that are set for image-capture conditions used when the images before color conversion are captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro IWAFUCHI, Noriko SAKAI, Masashi MORIMOTO, Chizuru OHSAWA
  • Patent number: 10276082
    Abstract: A color adjustment device includes an environment information acquisition unit that acquires information on an environment of when an object that is displayed as an image by a display device is viewed in an actual use state; and a determination unit that determines a color temperature and a luminance of the display device on the basis of the information on the environment and information on a type of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwafuchi, Noriko Sakai, Makoto Fujio, Masashi Morimoto, Yusuke Izumisawa
  • Publication number: 20190098218
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acceptance unit that accepts an image information pair composed of image information before color conversion and image information after color conversion; an accuracy output unit that outputs accuracy of a color conversion property from the plural accepted image information pairs; a color conversion property creation unit that creates the color conversion property from the plural accepted image information pairs; and a display control unit that, when the acceptance unit accepts a new image information pair, controls to display, on a display device, at least image information created by color conversion of image information of the new image information pair before color conversion based on the color conversion property created by the color conversion property creation unit from the image information pair that has already been accepted by the acceptance unit and image information of the new image information pair after color conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko SAKAI, Toshihiro IWAFUCHI, Masashi MORIMOTO, Yusuke IZUMISAWA