Patents by Inventor Seiichi Ito
Seiichi Ito 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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Publication number: 20220099451Abstract: A management apparatus as a traveling route setting apparatus acquires, during moving in a vehicle, position information about the vehicle, driver's driving state information, and feeling state related information relating to a feeling state of the driver or a passenger; sets an ? evaluation value obtained by evaluating each of a spot and a section in map data from the viewpoint of an influence of a factor other than human interaction on an experience, and a ? evaluation value obtained by evaluating each of the spot and the section from the viewpoint of an influence of human interaction on an experience, based on the position information, the driving state information, and the feeling state related information which are acquired from a plurality of the vehicles 1; and sets a proposed traveling route based on the ? and ? evaluation values set for at least the spot and section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Seiichi ITO, Masashi OKAMURA, Takashi MAEDA, Yuji FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20220101884Abstract: Video editing equipment acquires videos captured by an in-vehicle camera and an outside camera during movement of a vehicle, acquires driving state information by a driver and emotional state-related information of the driver or a passenger during the movement of the vehicle, determines the first degree of action indicative of the influence of the element other than the interaction with the person on an experience of the driver or the passenger and the second degree of action indicative of the influence of the interaction with the person on the experience of the driver or the passenger based on the driving state information and the emotional state-related information, identifies plural highlight portions in the videos based on the first degree of action and the second degree of action, and edits the videos on the basis of the plural highlight portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Seiichi ITO, Masashi OKAMURA, Takashi MAEDA, Yuji FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20220101881Abstract: An experience acquisition support apparatus that supports acquisition of an experience through a vehicle includes circuitry that sets a destination and a travel route of the vehicle to be suggested to a first user. While the vehicle is operating in a trip mode in which the destination and the travel route are set, the circuitry notifies a first mobile terminal of the first user of a second user and sends information on the second user to the first mobile terminal such that the first user can interact with the second user having a second mobile terminal that is in the trip mode within a specified range around the first mobile terminal. The circuitry generates a video file, which can be browsed by the second user and the like, from videos captured by cameras of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Seiichi Ito, Masashi Okamura, Takashi Maeda
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Publication number: 20220097724Abstract: An information processing apparatus for, in an environment including a plurality of vehicles of a plurality of users and a plurality of portable terminals of the plurality of users, associating the plurality of users based on position signals received from the plurality of vehicles and the plurality of portable terminals. In a first mode of operation the information processing apparatus allows for greetings to be exchanged between users when the vehicles are in a driving state. In another mode of operation, a list of users is exchanged between users when the vehicles are in a non-driving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Seiichi ITO, Masashi OKAMURA, Takashi MAEDA
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Publication number: 20210106730Abstract: An apparatus includes a first layer, wherein the first layer comprises a scaffold structure forming an inner lumen along a length of the scaffold structure, and wherein the first layer comprises a bioresorbable material; a second layer on the first layer, wherein the second layer comprises a bioresorbable material configured to expand, wherein the second layer is positioned on the first layer such that ends of the first layer extend beyond ends of the second layer; and an expandable balloon located within a distal end of the inner lumen of the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Moritz Koroschetz, Seiichi Ito
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Patent number: 10168532Abstract: There are provided right and left side-rearward cameras, an inside camera to detect a driver's eyeball position, main HUDs comprising projectors to form virtual images by projecting image information picked up by the cameras to reflecting mirrors and drive portions to adjust positions of the virtual images, and a ECU to control the projectors and the drive portions. The controller is configured to perform the process of calculating a distance between the eyeball position and a normal virtual-image display position which is located at a front end and an end portion, in a vehicle width direction, of a bonnet, and controlling the main HUDs such that a normal main view v1 is displayed at the normal virtual-image display position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Ito, Shigeyuki Mori, Hidenobu Nakashima
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Publication number: 20180214006Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a three-dimensional model structuring section configured to generate, when an image pickup signal related to a region in a subject is inputted from an image pickup apparatus configured to pick up an image of an inside of the subject, three-dimensional data representing a shape of the region based on the image pickup signal; and an image generation section configured to perform, on the three-dimensional data generated by the three-dimensional model structuring section, processing of allowing visual recognition of a boundary region between a structured region that is a region, an image of which is picked up by the image pickup apparatus, and an unstructured region that is a region, an image of which is yet to be picked up by the image pickup apparatus, and generate a three-dimensional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Syunya AKIMOTO, Seiichi ITO, Junichi ONISHI
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Publication number: 20170343799Abstract: There are provided right and left side-rearward cameras, an inside camera to detect a driver's eyeball position, main HUDs comprising projectors to form virtual images by projecting image information picked up by the cameras to reflecting mirrors and drive portions to adjust positions of the virtual images, and a ECU to control the projectors and the drive portions. The controller is configured to perform the process of calculating a distance between the eyeball position and a normal virtual-image display position which is located at a front end and an end portion, in a vehicle width direction, of a bonnet, and controlling the main HUDs such that a normal main view v1 is displayed at the normal virtual-image display position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi ITO, Shigeyuki MORI, Hidenobu NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 9078616Abstract: A rotary self-propelled endoscope system includes an insertion section body, an insertion section, a drive unit, a torque detection unit, and a control unit. In a distal end portion of the insertion section body, a rigid distal end portion including an image pickup apparatus is disposed. The insertion section is rotatably fit to the outside of the insertion section body, and includes a rotary tubular member having a helical portion formed by a helical concave-convex portion. The drive unit applies the rotary tubular member with axial and rotational drive force. The torque detection unit detects torque information of the rotary tubular member. On the basis of the torque information detected by the torque detection unit, the control unit compares a present value with a preset limit value for controlling the torque of the rotary tubular member, and controls the drive unit on the basis of the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Akio Uchiyama, Mitsuhiro Ito, Seiichi Ito, Yoshiyuki Tanii
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Patent number: 8388522Abstract: An endoscope system having a two-stage depression button provided in an operation portion of an endoscope; a first switch changing from off to on by a first stage depressing operation of the depression button and maintaining the on state after the first stage; a second switch changing from off to on by a second stage depressing operation of the depression button; and a control unit controlling to provide an air feeding function when the first switch is on and provide a water feeding function without providing the air feeding function regardless of a state of the first switch when the second switch is on, the control unit controlling to provide the air feeding function with a delay of a predetermined time period so long as the first switch does not change from on to off within the predetermined time period when the first switch changes from off to on.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Atsushi Kakuto, Mitsuhiro Ito, Seiichi Ito
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Patent number: 8298135Abstract: A medical device for examination or treatment based on a reference point A1, including: a virtual endoscopic image generation section configured to generate a virtual endoscopic image from a plurality of different sight line positions using three-dimensional image data of a bronchus that is obtained in advance; an image retrieving section configured to retrieve a virtual endoscopic image highly similar to a real image; a reference-point setting section configured to set the reference point A1 based on a line-of-sight position A0 of the highly similar virtual endoscopic image; a relative-position calculation section configured to calculate a relative position of a treatment instrument to the reference point A1; a movement detection section configured to detect a movement of the reference point A1 or the bronchus; and a position correction section configured to correct the relative position in response to the movement of the reference point A1 or the bronchus.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Seiichi Ito, Shunya Akimoto, Junichi Onishi, Jun Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20120197082Abstract: A rotary self-propelled endoscope system includes an insertion section body, an insertion section, a drive unit, a torque detection unit, and a control unit. In a distal end portion of the insertion section body, a rigid distal end portion including an image pickup apparatus is disposed. The insertion section is rotatably fit to the outside of the insertion section body, and includes a rotary tubular member having a helical portion formed by a helical concave-convex portion. The drive unit applies the rotary tubular member with axial and rotational drive force. The torque detection unit detects torque information of the rotary tubular member. On the basis of the torque information detected by the torque detection unit, the control unit compares a present value with a preset limit value for controlling the torque of the rotary tubular member, and controls the drive unit on the basis of the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Akio UCHIYAMA, Mitsuhiro ITO, Seiichi ITO, Yoshiyuki TANII
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Patent number: 8202213Abstract: A medical device for examination or treatment based on a reference point, includes: a virtual endoscopic image generation section configured to generate a virtual endoscopic image of a bronchus from a plurality of different line-of-sight positions using three-dimensional image data of the bronchus of a subject that is obtained in advance; an image retrieval section configured to retrieve a virtual endoscopic image highly similar to an endoscopic image of the bronchus picked up by an image pickup section arranged at a distal end portion of an insertion section; a reference-point setting section configured to set a reference point based on a line-of-sight position of the highly similar virtual endoscopic image; and a relative-position calculation section configured to calculate a relative position of a treatment instrument to the reference point.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Seiichi Ito, Shunya Akimoto, Junichi Onishi, Akira Suzuki, Soichi Ikuma
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Patent number: 8177709Abstract: A rotary self-propelled endoscope system includes an insertion section body, an insertion section, a drive unit, a torque detection unit, and a control unit. In a distal end portion of the insertion section body, a rigid distal end portion including an image pickup apparatus is disposed. The insertion section is rotatably fit to the outside of the insertion section body, and includes a rotary tubular member having a helical portion formed by a helical concave-convex portion. The drive unit applies the rotary tubular member with axial and rotational drive force. The torque detection unit detects torque information of the rotary tubular member. On the basis of the torque information detected by the torque detection unit, the control unit compares a present value with a preset limit value for controlling the torque of the rotary tubular member, and controls the drive unit on the basis of the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Akio Uchiyama, Mitsuhiro Ito, Seiichi Ito, Yoshiyuki Tanii
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Patent number: 8152007Abstract: In an automatic coupler for a model railroad car, a coupler body includes a knuckle coupler member formed of a coupler trunk having a knuckle portion and an engagement portion, and a receiving coupler member formed of a coupler trunk having a receiving portion and an engagement portion. A holder includes a lower holder member having a holder plate, a holder shaft projecting from the holder plate and adapted to engage with the engagement portions, and a spring portion adapted to surround the engagement portions. The holder plate, holder shaft, and the spring portion are integrally formed, and an upper holder member is adapted to be fixed to the lower holder member with the coupler body interposed between. The coupler body and the holder have a guide mechanism that allows the coupler body to follow a curve when the car travels on the curve.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Imon CorporationInventors: Seiichi Ito, Yoshihiro Imon
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Patent number: 8102416Abstract: A medical apparatus includes an endoscopic insertion portion provided with an image pickup unit and a channel; a treatment unit provided with a sensor and a bending portion and passed through a channel, with a distal end portion of the treatment unit being allowed to protrude from an insertion-portion distal end portion of the endoscopic insertion portion, where the sensor is disposed in the distal end portion and the bending portion is adapted to bend the distal end portion; a storage unit adapted to store three-dimensional image data; a target position setting unit adapted to set the target position based on the three-dimensional image data; a virtual endoscopic image generating unit adapted to generate a virtual endoscopic image using a line-of-sight parameter which includes a position, a direction, and a roll angle of the distal end portion detected by the sensor, based on the three-dimensional image data; and an image processing unit adapted to perform a superimposition process and thereby display operatType: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Seiichi Ito, Junichi Onishi
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Publication number: 20110234780Abstract: A medical apparatus includes an endoscopic insertion portion provided with an image pickup unit and a channel; a treatment unit provided with a sensor and a bending portion and passed through a channel, with a distal end portion of the treatment unit being allowed to protrude from an insertion-portion distal end portion of the endoscopic insertion portion, where the sensor is disposed in the distal end portion and the bending portion is adapted to bend the distal end portion; a storage unit adapted to store three-dimensional image data; a target position setting unit adapted to set the target position based on the three-dimensional image data; a virtual endoscopic image generating unit adapted to generate a virtual endoscopic image using a line-of-sight parameter which includes a position, a direction, and a roll angle of the distal end portion detected by the sensor, based on the three-dimensional image data; and an image processing unit adapted to perform a superimposition process and thereby display operatType: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Seiichi ITO, Junichi ONISHI
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Publication number: 20110036800Abstract: In an automatic coupler for a model railroad car, a coupler body includes a knuckle coupler member formed of a coupler trunk having a knuckle portion and an engagement portion, and a receiving coupler member formed of a coupler trunk having a receiving portion and an engagement portion. A holder includes a lower holder member having a holder plate, a holder shaft projecting from the holder plate and adapted to engage with the engagement portions, and a spring portion adapted to surround the engagement portions. The holder plate, holder shaft, and the spring portion are integrally formed, and an upper holder member is adapted to be fixed to the lower holder member with the coupler body interposed between. The coupler body and the holder have a guide mechanism that allows the coupler body to follow a curve when the car travels on the curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: IMON CORPORATIONInventors: Seiichi Ito, Yoshihiro Imon
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Publication number: 20090292166Abstract: A medical device for examination or treatment based on a reference point A1, including: a virtual endoscopic image generation section configured to generate a virtual endoscopic image from a plurality of different sight line positions using three-dimensional image data of a bronchus that is obtained in advance; an image retrieving section configured to retrieve a virtual endoscopic image highly similar to a real image; a reference-point setting section configured to set the reference point A1 based on a line-of-sight position A0 of the highly similar virtual endoscopic image; a relative-position calculation section configured to calculate a relative position of a treatment instrument to the reference point A1; a movement detection section configured to detect a movement of the reference point A1 or the bronchus; and a position correction section configured to correct the relative position in response to the movement of the reference point A1 or the bronchus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Seiichi Ito, Shunya Akimoto, Junichi Onishi, Jun Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20090292175Abstract: A medical device for examination or treatment based on a reference point, including: an image pickup section capable of picking up an image of a bronchus in a patient; a VBS image generation section configured to generate a virtual endoscopic image of bronchus in a patient from a plurality of different line-of-sight positions based on three-dimensional image data of the patient that is obtained in advance; an image retrieval section configured to retrieve a virtual endoscopic image highly similar to the endoscopic image of the bronchus picked up by the image pickup section; and a reference-point setting section configured to set a predetermined position near the image pickup section as a reference point based on the line-of-sight positions of the highly similar virtual endoscopic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Shunya AKIMOTO, Junichi ONISHI, Seiichi ITO