Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kobayashi

Shinichi Kobayashi 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: 11393431
    Abstract: It is provided that a display system including a HMD and a smartphone connected to the HMD, wherein the HMD configured to visually recognize an external scene and display a first image overlapping the external scene, the smartphone includes a display panel configured to display a second image, a touch sensor arranged at the display panel, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the display panel is facing the HMD, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the display panel with respect to the HMD, a second determination unit configured to determine whether the position of the display panel is included in the first image, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust display of the first image on an image display unit based on a determination result of the first determination unit and a determination result of the second determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11373806
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a dielectric resin film and a metal layer on one surface of the dielectric resin film. The dielectric resin film has a crosslink density at 225° C. of 2700 mol/m3 or more, or the dielectric resin film has a storage elastic modulus at 125° C. of 1.1 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomichi Ichikawa, Tomoki Inakura, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11358209
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a hot forged material capable of preventing the generation of double-barreling shaped forging defects. The method for producing a hot forged material, wherein both an upper die and a lower die are made of Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy and the method comprises a hot forging step of pressing a material for hot forging by the lower die and the upper die in the air to form the hot forged material, the method comprising: a raw material heating step of heating the material for hot forging in a furnace to a heating temperature within a range of 1025 to 1150° C.; a die heating step of heating the upper die and the lower die to a heating temperature within a range of 950 to 1075° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Tomonori Ueno, Shinichi Kobayashi, Shoichi Takahashi, Takanori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11353704
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display system including a HMD mounted on a head of a user and a smartphone coupled to the HMD. The smartphone includes a touch sensor configured to accept a position input operation to detect coordinates of an operational position, a first sensor configured to detect a motion of the user with respect to the smartphone, and a first execution unit configured to execute personal authentication of the user based on a detection result of the first sensor until the user starts the position input operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220168016
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing support tool of a balloon unit for uterine hemostasis, which can prevent an inflated balloon of the balloon unit for uterine hemostasis from falling out of a uterus. A fixing support tool 100 is used to fix a balloon unit for uterine hemostasis 1 including a flexible tube and a hemostatic balloon provided in a distal end of the tube to a patient M. The fixing support tool 100 has a tube stopper 7 that supports the tube, and a fixing member 8 capable of fixing the tube stopper to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Masato HONDA, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Ryoko KAKINUMA, Ichiro MATSUBARA, Eiji KONDOH
  • Patent number: 11335502
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a dielectric resin film having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the second surface having a silicone resin-containing layer; a first metal layer opposite to the first surface of the dielectric resin film; and a second metal layer opposed to the second surface of the dielectric resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomichi Ichikawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomoki Inakura
  • Patent number: 11314314
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display unit configured to display an image, a sound output unit configured to output a sound, a mounting state determination unit configured to determine a mounting state of the head-mounted display apparatus, and an image sound output control unit configured to turn ON/OFF display, and turn ON/OFF an output of a sound, based on the mounting state. The image sound output control unit is configured to turn ON display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is the first state, turn OFF display of an image and turn ON an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is the second state, and turn OFF display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is not the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Okano, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11310483
    Abstract: An HMD includes a six-axis sensor, a magnetic sensor, and a head motion detecting section that detect at least one of the position and motion of a head, a reference setting section that sets a reference state based on at least one of the head position and motion detected by the head motion detecting section, and a display controlling section that changes the display state of a content displayed by the display section based on changes in the position and motion of the head with respect to those in the reference state. The content is formed of a plurality of contents, and the display controlling section changes the display state of the contents displayed by an image display section in such a way that the relative display positions of the contents are maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11295898
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a resin layer having a linear protrusion on a first surface thereof and a linear recess on a second surface thereof opposite the first surface, and a metal layer on the first surface of the resin layer. A total length of the linear recess per 1 cm2 is 3 m or less, and an average depth of the linear recess is 0.01 ?m to 1.3 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Inakura, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomomichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11278953
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a hot forged material capable of preventing the generation of double-barreling shaped forging defects. A method for producing a hot forged material, wherein both an upper die and a lower die are made of Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy, and a material for hot forging is pressed by the lower die and the upper die in the air to form the hot forged material, the method comprising: a raw material heating step of heating the material for hot forging in a furnace to a heating temperature within a range of 1000 to 1150° C.; a jig heating step of heating a holding jig for holding the material for hot forging within a temperature range of 50° C. lower than and 100° C. higher than the heating temperature of the material for hot forging; a die heating step of heating the upper die and the lower die to a heating temperature within a range of 950 to 1100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Tomonori Ueno, Shinichi Kobayashi, Shoichi Takahashi, Takanori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11275547
    Abstract: A display system includes an HMD and a control device. The control device can execute switching between a plurality of user interfaces. When the user interfaces are switched without change of display of an image display unit, a notification is made by the control device. When the user interfaces are switched with change of display of the image display unit, a notification is made by the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Torii, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11269188
    Abstract: An HMD is coupled to a smart phone. The HMD displays a first image overlapping an external scene in a left display unit, and displays a second image corresponding to the first image overlapping the external scene in a right display unit. The smart phone includes a display panel displaying a third image, a first detector detecting that at least one of the first image and the second image overlaps the third image, and an adjustment unit adjusting, based on a detection result of the first detector, at least one of the first image and the second image such that the third image is visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 11216066
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a detection control unit configured to detect a state of a body of the user, an input detection unit configured to receive an input, an application execution unit configured to execute processing when a condition is satisfied, and a display control unit configured to display information about the processing, where the application execution unit executes the processing when the execution instruction is received, the display device includes a learning unit that includes a data set generation unit configured to generate a data set based on a detection result by the detection control unit and an received input, and the learning unit configured to estimate by an estimation model whether the processing is executable, to update the estimation model according to the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Publication number: 20210410204
    Abstract: A control method of an embodiment is a control process in which, based on management information of a first execution order that is an execution order of a hands free profile (HFP) connection process of attempting to establish an HFP connection to a pre-registered peripheral device and a second execution order that is an execution order of an audio video profile (AVP) connection process of attempting to establish an AVP connection to the peripheral device, an on-vehicle device connectable to the peripheral device by Bluetooth performs the HFP connection process in the first execution order and performs the AVP connection process in the second execution order, and when a connection with a certain peripheral device is not established within a predetermined time in one of the HFP connection process and the AVP connection process and the peripheral device is managed as an execution target of the other connection process in the management information, the on-vehicle device determines whether to restrain execution
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Naoto Furuyama, Daiki Kawase, Yuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Asafuji
  • Publication number: 20210370001
    Abstract: A mask device which can appropriately detect exhalation of a patient is provided with a mask body installed on the patient, an exhalation tube having an exhalation flow path through which the exhalation of the patient runs and used for detecting the exhalation, and an oxygen tube used for supplying oxygen to the patient; the mask body is provided with an oxygen supply port to which the oxygen tube is connected and an exhalation tube support part which can support the exhalation tube; and the exhalation tube support part is structured so as to support the exhalation tube with changing at least one distance of a distance between a tip end of the exhalation tube and a nose part of the patient or a distance between the tip end of the exhalation tube and the mouth part of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke WAKABAYASHI, Shinichi KOBAYASHI, Takashi TANABE, Ichiro MATSUBARA, Kazuya NIWA
  • Patent number: 11178344
    Abstract: To provide HMD including an image display unit worn by a user on a head and configured to display an image, a camera provided in the image display unit and configured to capture an image in a predetermined direction relative to the image display unit, and a control unit configured to specify a non-display region in an imaging range of the camera, perform a process of lowering a clarity of the non-display region on captured image data of the camera, and output the processed captured image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 11141194
    Abstract: The uterine hemostatic balloon unit includes a tube, a hemostatic balloon, a connector disposed in the tube, and a cap to be detachably attached to a proximal end portion of the tube. The tube has a drain channel for draining uterine blood outward and a water supply channel communicating with the hemostatic balloon. The connector has a drain terminal communicating with the drain channel and disposed in a proximal end portion of the tube, a flexible water supply tube communicating with the water supply channel and extending by being bifurcated outward of the tube, and a water supply terminal communicating with the water supply tube. The cap has an accommodating portion capable of accommodating the water supply terminal along a length direction of the drain terminal. The accommodating portion is open in a direction orthogonal to the length direction of the drain terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ATOM MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Wakabayashi, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko Seki, Ichiro Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11093191
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts two job log entries on the basis of a relationship between a first area of a common portion and a second area of a different portion. The job log entries are associated with a single job flow, and are constituted by a certain job log entry and at least one different job log entry. The common portion and the different portion are specified between an image related to the certain job log entry and an image related to the at least one different job log entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11086441
    Abstract: The smartphone includes an I/F unit that can be coupled with an HMD, a touch sensor, and a mode switching unit. The mode switching unit is configured to switch, depending on whether the I/F unit is coupled with the HMD, between a first mode in which an input detected by the touch sensor is received as an input in an absolute coordinate, and a second mode in which an input detected by the touch sensor is received as an input in a relative coordinate, to execute the first mode or the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Okano, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210239988
    Abstract: A specific posture is set as a standard posture of the head of a user wearing a display device, and a movementfrom the standard posture is detected. The detected movement of the head is associated in advance with a first mode and a second mode that are display modes of the image display unit, and the image display unit performs display in the first mode when the detected movement of the head is a movement in a predetermined first direction and exceeds a predetermined first threshold value and performs display in the second mode when the movement is a movement in a second direction that is different from the first direction and exceeds a predetermined second threshold value. An input is received in an input mode associated in advance with the first mode or the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi KOBAYASHI