Patents by Inventor Shigeo Kinoshita

Shigeo Kinoshita 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: 20230073382
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of a practical level for performing sensor fusion of multiple vibration sensors such as a seismometer, and in an example, to extend a dynamic range of a high-sensitivity geophone by sensor fusion of the high-sensitivity geophone and a low-sensitivity acceleration geophone. A state related to the high-sensitivity geophone is estimated by capturing, in a Kalman filter, an acceleration record from the low-sensitivity acceleration geophone and a velocity record, or a displacement record, and an acceleration record of the high-sensitivity geophone, and estimating and calculating them as the linear Kalman filter problem with a control input. The high-sensitivity geophone is an actual device, but the state can be estimated using a sensor value of the low-sensitivity acceleration geophone even when the record is saturated. This extends the dynamic range of the high-sensitivity geophone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: TOKYO SOKUSHIN CO., LTD., KURAHASHI RUBBER INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo KINOSHITA, Shinsuke SATO
  • Patent number: 10758685
    Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes a working tank configured to be detachable with respect to a main body. The working tank includes a rod-shaped tank-side contact electrode that extends in a vertical direction along an outer wall of the working tank. A specific portion that corresponds to a portion in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode is exposed from the outer wall, and the remaining portion of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode is embedded inside of the outer wall and is connected to an electrode of an ultrasonic vibrator. A main body-side contact electrode comes into contact with the specific portion of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode when the working tank is mounted on the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Kinoshita, Takaaki Okanishi, Makoto Tabata, Hiroshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10744279
    Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes: a working tank in which an ultrasonic vibrator is incorporated and in which a working liquid is stored facing the ultrasonic vibrator; a medicine tank that stores a medicinal liquid, at least a bottom portion thereof being dipped in the working liquid; and a main body that includes an oscillation circuit that is to drive the ultrasonic vibrator. The medicine tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the working tank. The working tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tabata, Takaaki Okanishi, Shigeo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20170368271
    Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes: a working tank in which an ultrasonic vibrator is incorporated and in which a working liquid is stored facing the ultrasonic vibrator; a medicine tank that stores a medicinal liquid, at least a bottom portion thereof being dipped in the working liquid; and a main body that includes an oscillation circuit that is to drive the ultrasonic vibrator. The medicine tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the working tank. The working tank is configured to be detachable with respect to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto TABATA, Takaaki OKANISHI, Shigeo KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20170368270
    Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes a working tank configured to be detachable with respect to a main body. The working tank includes a rod-shaped tank-side contact electrode that extends in a vertical direction along an outer wall of the working tank. A specific portion that corresponds to a portion in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode is exposed from the outer wall, and the remaining portion of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode is embedded inside of the outer wall and is connected to an electrode of an ultrasonic vibrator. A main body-side contact electrode comes into contact with the specific portion of the outer circumferential surface of the tank-side contact electrode when the working tank is mounted on the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo KINOSHITA, Takaaki OKANISHI, Makoto TABATA, Hiroshi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 8608671
    Abstract: A gait change determination device includes a main body unit, an accelerometer that detects an acceleration of the main body unit, and a control unit, and determines a change in the gait of a user that wears the main body unit on a predetermined area. The control unit specifies a trajectory of a predetermined area on which the main body unit is worn during walking based on accelerations detected by the accelerometer, calculates the temporal change amount of the specified trajectory, and determines the degree of change, which is the degree of the temporal change, based on the calculated temporal change. The degree of change in the gait can be more accurately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Kinoshita, Kentaro Mori, Tetsuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20130293597
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130123669
    Abstract: A gait change determination device includes a main body unit, an accelerometer that detects an acceleration of the main body unit, and a control unit, and determines a change in the gait of a user that wears the main body unit on a predetermined area. The control unit specifies a trajectory of a predetermined area on which the main body unit is worn during walking based on accelerations detected by the accelerometer, calculates the temporal change amount of the specified trajectory, and determines the degree of change, which is the degree of the temporal change, based on the calculated temporal change. The degree of change in the gait can be more accurately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO LTD
    Inventors: Shigeo Kinoshita, Kentaro Mori, Tetsuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20120274554
    Abstract: A body movement detection device is provided with a main body unit, a display unit provided to the main body unit, a control unit, and a detection unit that detects acceleration of the main body unit, and the control unit includes a discriminating unit for discriminating a movement state of a user wearing the main body unit based on the acceleration detected by the detection unit, and a display control unit for switching a display state of the display unit based on discrimination of the movement state by the discriminating unit. Display can thereby be automatically switched to display appropriate to the state of physical activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo KINOSHITA, Naoki TAKEISHI
  • Publication number: 20120212500
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8194007
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya, Yuichi Taneya, Masae Ichino, Kazuo Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 7561127
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd,
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya, Yuichi Taneya, Masae Ichino, Kazuo Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20090170564
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7518621
    Abstract: An uneven display correction method including a first step of dividing a display area of a display panel into a plurality of unit areas, the first step setting one arbitrary unit area among the unit areas at a reference area, the first step previously determining a value as a correction parameter in each unit area, the value corresponding to a difference between a light-emission start gradation level of the unit area and the light-emission start gradation level of the reference area; and a second step of correcting an input video signal based on the correction parameter determined in each unit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kinoshita, Susumu Tanase, Yukio Mori, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7456852
    Abstract: When an input detection unit has detected that no user operation has been performed to an organic EL display apparatus for a predetermined period of time or when a processing detection unit has detected that a predetermined processing is being performed, the input detection unit or the processing detection unit outputs an instruction to a reference voltage adjusting unit to modify a reference voltage referenced by a DAC unit upon conversion to an analog output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya
  • Patent number: 7358935
    Abstract: The invention provides an organic LED display device of the digital drive type which has a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels 51. Each of the pixels 51 comprises an organic EL element 50, a drive transistor TR2 for effecting or interrupting the passage of current through the EL element 50 in response to the input of an on/off control signal, a write transistor TR1 to be brought into conduction upon receiving scanning voltage applied thereto from a scanning driver, a capacitance element C to be supplied with data voltage from a data driver by the write transistor TR1 conducting, and a comparator 9 for comparing a predetermined ramp voltage with the output voltage of the capacitance element C and supplying the result of comparison to the drive transistor TR2 as the on/off control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yamashita, Haruhiko Murata, Yukio Mori, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Susumu Tanase
  • Publication number: 20080084433
    Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata
  • Patent number: 7304654
    Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata
  • Patent number: 7139008
    Abstract: In a display apparatus, a luminance acquiring unit acquires luminance signals from inputted image signals. A difference calculating unit compares luminance signals of the current frame acquired by the luminance acquiring unit with those of a previous frame stored in a frame memory, and then takes a difference between these luminance signals. If the difference of the luminance is large, a judging unit judges that the image corresponding to a portion in question is moving. If the difference of the luminance is small, the judging unit judges that the image corresponding to the portion stays still. A gain calculating unit gradually lowers the luminance corresponding to a part where the image stays still, and gradually restores to the original level the luminance corresponding to a part where the image is moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Shigeo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20060214940
    Abstract: An uneven display correction method including a first step of dividing a display area of a display panel into a plurality of unit areas, the first step setting one arbitrary unit area among the unit areas at a reference area, the first step previously determining a value as a correction parameter in each unit area, the value corresponding to a difference between a light-emission start gradation level of the unit area and the light-emission start gradation level of the reference area; and a second step of correcting an input video signal based on the correction parameter determined in each unit area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Atsushi Kinoshita, Susumu Tanase, Yukio Mori, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita