Patents by Inventor Takahito Baba

Takahito Baba 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).

  • Interface device, interface method and control training device by the use of the interface device
    Patent number: 7873411
    Abstract: An interface device in accordance with the present claimed invention is an interface device 4 that intervenes between a measuring means 2 that measures brain activities of a subject H and an object 31 to be controlled, and that comprises a reference signal storing part D1 that stores a brain activity signal measured at a time when the subject H conducts predetermined thinking different from direct thinking in order to control the object 31 to be controlled in a desired mode as a reference signal, a discriminating part 41 that compares the brain activity signal measured by the measuring means 2 with the reference signal and discriminates whether or not the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking, and a controlling part 42 that controls the object 31 to be controlled in the desired mode when the discriminating part 41 discriminates that the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Hideo Eda, Yasushi Terazono, Toshio Yanagida, Amami Kato, Masayuki Hirata, Masaaki Taniguchi, Takahito Baba, Toshiki Yoshimine
  • Interface device, interface method and control training device by the use of the interface device
    Publication number: 20060074822
    Abstract: An interface device in accordance with the present claimed invention is an interface device 4 that intervenes between a measuring means 2 that measures brain activities of a subject H and an object 31 to be controlled, and that comprises a reference signal storing part D1 that stores a brain activity signal measured at a time when the subject H conducts predetermined thinking different from direct thinking in order to control the object 31 to be controlled in a desired mode as a reference signal, a discriminating part 41 that compares the brain activity signal measured by the measuring means 2 with the reference signal and discriminates whether or not the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking, and a controlling part 42 that controls the object 31 to be controlled in the desired mode when the discriminating part 41 discriminates that the thinking of the subject H is the predetermined thinking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Hideo Eda, Yasushi Terazono, Toshio Yanagida, Amami Kato, Masayuki Hirata, Masaaki Taniguchi, Takahito Baba, Toshiki Yoshimine