Patents by Inventor Takashi Morimoto

Takashi Morimoto 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: 20250018501
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for adjusting an optical axis of laser light, capable of accurately grasping change in the state of the laser light and maintaining the quality of laser processing. The method for adjusting an optical axis of laser light includes: a step of detecting a position of laser light by position sensitive detectors arranged at two or more detection positions on an optical path of the laser light that is output from a laser light source toward a workpiece; and a step of adjusting, based on the detected position of the laser light, at least one of a position and an angle of optical elements arranged at two or more positions on the optical path of the laser light, to adjust an optical axis of the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikara AIKAWA, Takashi MORIMOTO, Hirokazu HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240402123
    Abstract: An electrophoresis system includes: an electrophoresis apparatus; a control device that controls the electrophoresis apparatus; and a display device. The control device includes a calculation unit and an interface, the calculation unit calculates a required amount of the reagent for an electrophoresis process based on electrophoresis process information acquired via the interface, the calculation unit calculates a preparation amount of the reagent based on the required amount of the reagent, the preparation amount of the reagent being more than the required amount of the reagent, the preparation amount of the reagent being a round number, and the calculation unit displays the preparation amount of the reagent on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Akira HARADA, Kota OGINO, Kazunori SHIMIZU, Takashi MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240377203
    Abstract: An information processing device has a processor configured to detect a vanishing point where two lane marking lines in a front image representing environment ahead of a vehicle intersect, to detect a moving direction of the vehicle from a predetermined reference location to the vanishing point in the front image, to determine whether or not each of two moving directions has a different orientation in excess of a predetermined reference range with respect to the previously detected moving direction when the two moving directions have been detected, and to determine that a branching road that branches from a road in which the vehicle is traveling has appeared in the front image, when it has been determined that either of the two moving directions has a different orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Ken Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20240326810
    Abstract: A vehicle control device having a vehicle control part and a vehicle-to-vehicle distance estimation part estimating a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a host vehicle and a preceding vehicle using a machine learning model based on an image including the preceding vehicle captured by a monocular camera mounted on the host vehicle, wherein the machine learning model is generated by performing machine learning using teacher data images including a preceding vehicle for learning captured from a vehicle for capturing teacher data images and annotation information added to the teacher data images, and the annotation information includes information showing any of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the vehicle for capturing teacher data images and the preceding vehicle for learning being suitable, the vehicle-to-vehicle distance being short, and the vehicle-to-vehicle distance being long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20240307305
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an aqueous composition comprising 0.001-0.1% (w/v) atropine or a salt thereof, a water-soluble polymer, and buffer (1), which is at a pH range of 6 or lower, wherein the buffer (1) is at least one selected from the group consisting of a phosphate buffer, an aminocarboxylate buffer, a carbonate buffer, an acetate buffer, a tartrate buffer, a borate buffer, and trometamol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Donald TAN, Roger BEUERMAN, Hiroyuki ASADA, Kyohei TAKAHASHI, Koji SAKANAKA, Takashi MORIMOTO, Toyomi FUJISAWA
  • Patent number: 12083719
    Abstract: An insert molding sheet to be used for insert molding has a positioning rib to be fixed to a mold facing a cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Koshimizu, Takashi Morimoto, Tomonori Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Kaneuchi, Takeshi Kiritoshi
  • Publication number: 20240255420
    Abstract: A gas concentration feature quantity estimation device 20 includes: an inspection data acquisition unit 211, 212 that acquires time-series pixel group inspection data and a temperature value of a gas, the time-series pixel group inspection data being region-extracted from inspection data of a gas distribution moving image representing an existence region of the gas in a space, and having two or more pixels in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, respectively; and an estimation unit 215 that calculates an estimation value of a gas concentration feature quantity corresponding to the time-series pixel group inspection data acquired by the inspection data acquisition unit using an inference model, which is machine-learned using time-series pixel group training data of the gas distribution moving image having the same size as the time-series pixel group inspection data, and a gas temperature value and a value of the gas concentration feature quantity corresponding to the time-series pixel group trainin
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: MOTOHIRO ASANO, TAKASHI MORIMOTO, SHUNSUKE TAKAMURA, MIKAKO KIUCHI
  • Patent number: 12044600
    Abstract: A gas flow rate estimation device includes a first calculation unit that calculates, by using an average movement vector of a gas region included in an image, a gas passage time for leaked gas to pass through the gas region, a second calculation unit that calculates a gas volume in the gas region by using a gas concentration thickness product of the gas region, and a third calculation unit that calculates an estimated value of a flow rate of the gas by using the gas passage time and the gas volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Asano, Takashi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11995107
    Abstract: The control system includes: a determiner that determines, based on browsing information on browsing using a browsing device, a target device and a browsing relation degree indicating relationship between a predetermined function of the target device and the browsing; a device information obtainer that obtains device information on a target control device that is the target device having the browsing relation degree of the browsing greater than or equal to a threshold; and a control unit that changes an operation mode for executing the predetermined function of the target control device when the device information obtained satisfies a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Jitsuho Nishida, Kazuki Sakamoto, Yasuhiko Akemine, Kyohei Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11928700
    Abstract: A smart farm platform is disclosed for determining recommended selling prices of agricultural products based on state information of the agricultural products and operation history information of a plant grower, among information received from the plant grower, and a terminal displays the recommended selling prices of agricultural products through a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Younsung Choi, Eunjung Lee, Kangseong Lee, Takashi Morimoto, Masako Ikeda, Hiromu Imanishi, Masami Yokota
  • Publication number: 20240052287
    Abstract: Provided are a cell culture apparatus and a living cell concentration adjustment method. The cell culture apparatus includes: a first container that holds a cell suspension; a second container that holds a diluent diluting the cell suspension; a living cell concentration measurement device that individually determines whether a plurality of target cells in the cell suspension are alive or dead to measure a living cell concentration of the target cells in the cell suspension; a control device that holds and controls the living cell concentration and amount data of the cell suspension; a mixing unit that mixes the cell suspension and the diluent; and a culture container in which the diluted cell suspension is seeded to culture cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shota KAMEI, Takashi Morimoto, Tomoyuki Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20240044773
    Abstract: Provided are a cell life-and-death determination method, a cell life-and-death determination device, and a cell life-and-death determination system. The cell life-and-death determination method includes: acquiring images of a cell captured in a plurality of focal planes including an in-focus plane of the cell in a direction opposite to a side on which the cell is irradiated with light; acquiring an image piece including a central portion and an outer peripheral portion of the cell from each of the images; connecting the image pieces in an order of an imaging direction of the focal plane to create a connected image for analysis; extracting a feature amount from the connected image for analysis; and determining whether the cell is alive or dead on the basis of the feature amount of the connected image for analysis and a predetermined range of the feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shota KAMEI, Takashi MORIMOTO, Tomoyuki SHIMODA
  • Publication number: 20230415450
    Abstract: Provided is a laminate that can be pre-trimmed and can eliminate the need for a post-processing step. A laminate includes a decorative layer, an adhesive layer, and a support layer laminated in this order. The support layer includes two or more kinds of materials having different melting points including a material having a relatively low melting point and a material having a relatively high melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tomonori SUGIYAMA, Kazuhiko KANEUCHI, Takashi MORIMOTO, Hiroshi MORIOKA, Hideki CHIBA, Makoto UTSUMI, Kazuya KUSU
  • Publication number: 20230351568
    Abstract: There are provided an inspection image input unit that receives a gas distribution image as an input, the gas distribution image having a visualized presence region of a gas in a space and including an image portion in which a target is irradiated with light, and a reflection-component-reduced image generating unit that generates a reflection-component-reduced image in which an image component of reflected light in the image portion of the gas distribution image received by the inspection image input unit is reduced using an estimation model machine-learned using, as teacher data, a combination of a first image including an image portion in which a target is irradiated with light and a second image including an image portion in which the target is not irradiated with light, the second image being equivalent to the first image for elements other than the image portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: TAKASHI MORIMOTO, MOTOHIRO ASANO
  • Publication number: 20230306753
    Abstract: A method includes: recognizing a signal candidate position around a vehicle by using a sensor mounted on the vehicle, the signal candidate position being a position a traffic light is possibly present, the vehicle including a light configured in such a manner that a light distribution state of the light changes; and performing a first light control process of controlling the light in response to recognition of the signal candidate position, the first light control process including at least one of: increasing an intensity of light emitted to the signal candidate position to a value higher than before the recognition of the signal candidate position; or making the intensity of the light emitted to the signal candidate position higher than an intensity of light emitted to an area other than the signal candidate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KINOSHITA, Akihiro WATANABE, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Ichiro MATSUYAMA, Masaki KISHIMOTO, Masamichi OHSUGI, Masateru UDATE, Satoshi TAKEYASU, Takahiro DOI, Takashi MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230290160
    Abstract: A stop line detection apparatus recognizes a boundary line of a lane on which the host vehicle travels, and detect a stop line at an intersection in front of the host vehicle. The apparatus sets an intersection area corresponding to the intersection in the road on which the host vehicle travels on the basis of a captured image by a front camera of the host vehicle, detects a crosswalk in the intersection area, a stop line search area setting unit configured to set a stop line search area extending from the crosswalk toward a front side in the lane on which the host vehicle travels, and performs stop line detection in the stop line search area. A depth of the stop line search area in an extending direction of a traveling lane is smaller than twice a depth of the crosswalk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kawaharada, Akihiro Watanabe, Hiroaki Shimizu, Ichiro Matsuyama, Masaki Kishimoto, Masamichi Ohsugi, Masateru Udate, Satoshi Takeyasu, Takahiro Doi, Takashi Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20230274443
    Abstract: An estimation device and an estimation method are capable of detecting whether or not gas is flowing in a distal-proximal direction from a viewpoint even in a case where gas monitoring is performed on the basis of only an image from one viewpoint. The gas migration estimation device includes: an image input unit that receives, as an input, a gas distribution moving image in which a presence range of gas leaked into a space is indicated as a gas region; and a gas migration estimation unit that estimates a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction corresponding to the gas distribution moving image received by the image acquisition unit, by using an estimation model that is machine-learned using a combination of a training gas distribution moving image and a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction in the training gas distribution moving image as training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro ASANO, Takashi MORIMOTO, Shunsuke TAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11707572
    Abstract: A cartridge adapter includes: a cartridge holder having a space that can accommodate therein a drug cartridge, the drug cartridge including a cylinder having a tubular internal space extending in a longitudinal direction, a gasket supported in the internal space so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and a drug held in the internal space; a piston that moves the gasket in the longitudinal direction in the internal space of the cylinder; a piston guide that movably supports the piston and connected to the cartridge holder; and a piston driving mechanism that drives the piston in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto, Seiji Kikuchi, Toru Aoki, Masakazu Mori, Ryosuke Tani, Shinichi Kojima, Yoshihiro Kataoka, Katsumi Nakanishi, Tsuguhiro Kondo, Takashi Morimoto, Akio Inoki
  • Publication number: 20230229054
    Abstract: This electrophoresis system includes an electrophoresis apparatus, an analysis apparatus, and a display unit. The analysis apparatus is configured to switch between a detailed display state in which a plurality of analysis result check displays including at least the gel image display are displayed in a result display area of the display unit and an enlarged display state in which only the gel image display among the plurality of analysis result check displays is enlarged and displayed in the result display area of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota OGINO, Akira HARADA, Kazunori SHIMIZU, Takashi MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230228708
    Abstract: This electrophoresis system includes an electrophoresis apparatus, an analysis apparatus, and a display unit. Then, in a case where at least one of an apparatus error that is an abnormality in the electrophoresis apparatus or an analysis error that is an abnormality in the analysis of a component of the object-to-be-measured is detected, the analysis apparatus is configured to display, on the display unit, an abnormality detection indication that allows identification of the type of the detected abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota OGINO, Akira HARADA, Kazunori SHIMIZU, Takashi MORIMOTO