Patents by Inventor Takashi Ohta

Takashi Ohta 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: 9227727
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting apparatus provided along one side of an aisle and a specular reflection plate provided along the other side of the aisle to reflect the light emitted from the lighting apparatus toward a region where the lighting apparatus is provided. According to the above configuration, the lighting apparatus can illuminate the region where the lighting apparatus is provided. Therefore, it is possible to effectively illuminate a cabin of an aircraft with less lighting apparatuses as compared to conventional lighting apparatuses which are provided along both sides of the aisle. Moreover, since the number of the lighting apparatuses can be reduced, it is possible to improve fuel efficiency of the aircraft by reducing the total weight of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadasi Nisimura, Youji Tachino, Atsushi Motoya, Takashi Ohta, Hiroshi Kido, Junichi Hasegawa, Shigeo Gotoh, Nobuyuki Matsui, Tadashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9232294
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9179212
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20150259966
    Abstract: An automatic door control device that transmits a door opening and closing command to a driving device of an automatic door, comprises a person detector that detects a person approaching the door; a movement detector that detects a movement of a face or a line of sight of the detected person; and a door controller that determines whether or not to open the door based on the detected movement and transmits a corresponding command to the driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Sakai, Takashi Ohta, Takahiro Takayama
  • Publication number: 20150262327
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that morphs at least part of an input image has an image acquiring unit that acquires an input image, an object specifying unit that specifies an object that is included in the input image and is to be morphed, a map storage unit in which a shift amount map, which is a map in which shift amounts of pixels in a two-dimensional plane are defined, is stored, a map morphing unit that morphs the shift amount map according to a shape of the object to be morphed, and an image morphing unit that morphs the image by determining a shift amount of a pixel that corresponds to the object based on the morphed shift amount map and shifting the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Takashi Ohta
  • Patent number: 9127815
    Abstract: This lighting apparatus includes three or more LEDs arranged in a row. Each of the LEDs emits light of a color different from that of an LED adjacent to itself, and the LEDs include an LED having a relatively wide light distribution angle and others of the three or more LEDs each having a relatively narrow light distribution angle. The one LED is arranged in an inner portion in the row of the other LEDs. In this configuration, light emitted from the one LED is mixed well with lights emitted from the respective other LEDs adjacent to the one LED, and thus, color unevenness of illuminating light can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Tachino, Atsushi Motoya, Takashi Ohta, Hiroshi Kido, Junichi Hasegawa, Shigeo Gotoh, Nobuyuki Matsui, Tadashi Murakami, Tadasi Nisimura
  • Publication number: 20150249879
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9112183
    Abstract: A display panel apparatus includes pixels, each including an organic luminescent layer between first and second electrodes. A glass substrate is above the second electrode. A lens sheet is between the pixels and the glass substrate and includes a lens corresponding to each of the pixels and a base from which the lens protrudes. A first partition is between the glass substrate and the lens sheet on a first side of the base from which the lens protrudes for partitioning, between the glass substrate and the lens sheet, a gap between the lens of each of the pixels. A second partition is between the organic electro-luminescence unit and the lens sheet on a second side of the base opposite the first side from which the lens protrudes for partitioning, between the organic electro-luminescence unit and the lens sheet, the gap between the lens of each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Ohta
  • Patent number: 9088008
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel device including a pixel unit including a luminescent layer, and a lens that covers a luminescent region of the luminescent layer placed above the pixel unit and that transmits light emitted from the luminescent layer. The height between a luminescent face of the luminescent region and an apex of the lens is uniform along the straight line in the long axis direction of the luminescent region. Furthermore, at both end parts of the lens, a cross-section of the light emitting side corresponding to the long axis direction of the luminescent region has a shape of an elliptic arc having a predetermined curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kasano, Takashi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20150153638
    Abstract: A projection type image display apparatus (1) comprises a focus correction system (30). The system includes a temperature detection mechanism (16) for measuring temperature in the vicinity of a projection lens group (13), a correction amount calculation unit (18) for calculating a correction amount for correcting the focus shift caused by a temperature change, and a driving signal generation unit (19) for generating, based on the correction amount, a driving signal for driving a focus adjustment mechanism (15). If the user performs a focus adjustment using a focus operation input unit (23), a focus operation determination unit (21) determines that a focus adjustment has occurred independently of the focus correction system and changes a correction condition stored in a memory (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Norio Maeda, Kohei Wataru, Kazuhiko Inoue, Masahiro Terada, Takashi Ohta, Yasumasa Sawai
  • Publication number: 20150131855
    Abstract: A gesture recognition device configured to detect a gesture from acquired image and generate command issued to a control target instrument according to the gesture, the gesture recognition device comprising: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image; a gesture acquisition unit configured to detect a target region performing a gesture from the acquired image, and acquire the gesture based on motion or a shape of the detected target region; a face detection unit configured to detect a face comprised in the acquired image; a correlation unit configured to correlate the detected target region with the detected face using a human body model representing a shape of a human body; a personal identification unit configured to identify a user corresponding to the detected face; and a command generation unit configured to generate a command issued to the control target instrument based on the identified user and the acquired gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Hanzawa, Takashi Ohta, Kazuya Urabe, Shun Sakai
  • Patent number: 9020181
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9010944
    Abstract: A projection type image display apparatus (1) comprises a focus correction system (30). The system includes a temperature detection mechanism (16) for measuring temperature in the vicinity of a projection lens group (13), a correction amount calculation unit (18) for calculating a correction amount for correcting the focus shift caused by a temperature change, and a driving signal generation unit (19) for generating, based on the correction amount, a driving signal for driving a focus adjustment mechanism (15). If the user performs a focus adjustment using a focus operation input unit (23), a focus operation determination unit (21) determines that a focus adjustment has occurred independently of the focus correction system and changes a correction condition stored in a memory (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Maeda, Kohei Wataru, Kazuhiko Inoue, Masahiro Terada, Takashi Ohta, Yasumasa Sawai
  • Patent number: 9014410
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9008345
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20150023024
    Abstract: A light emitting module includes a surface emitting panel and an optical member located at the light emitting surface side of the surface emitting panel. The surface emitting panel has a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region. The optical member has a reflector in the region corresponding to the light emitting region. The reflector has a reflectivity distribution in which the average reflectance per unit area varies. According to this configuration, light emitted from the surface emitting panel and guided by the optical member is reflected by the reflector and emitted in front of the non-light emitting region. By this way, a region in front of the non-light emitting region is difficult to be dark, thus allowing the light emission area to be increased. Further, where a number of light emitting modules are arranged in a matrix as a lighting device, a uniform illumination surface is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi OHTA, Osamu TANAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8913773
    Abstract: An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8901587
    Abstract: A display panel apparatus includes a substrate and an organic electro-luminescence unit that includes an array. The array is above the substrate and includes a red, a green, and a blue pixel. A glass layer is above the organic electro-luminescence unit. A resin layer is between the glass layer and the organic electro-luminescence unit. A surface of the resin layer that is on a side toward the organic electro-luminescence unit includes concaves. Each of the concaves is concaved toward the glass layer and corresponds to one of the pixels. Lens resins are each in one of the concaves and include a surface that is substantially coplanar with the surface of the resin layer. A refractive index of the lens resin in the concave that corresponds to the blue pixel is greater than a refractive index of the lens resin in the concave that corresponds to the red pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20140348400
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for character input which has an input predicting function for presenting, to a user, a candidate group for a phrase predicted to be input by the user, the program causing a computer to execute: an image recognizing step of recognizing a person included in an image by image recognition when a character is being input to an application program handling the image; and a candidate adding step of adding a phrase related to the person recognized from the image to a candidate group of phrases to be presented when a character is being input to the application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Publication number: 20140307453
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row on an elongated wiring board; and a lens covering all the LEDs and controlling distribution of light emitted from each LED. An optical axis of the light emitted from each LED is orthogonal to the wiring board. The lens has a light emitting surface that controls distribution of the light emitted from each LED. When the light emitting surface is divided into at least three regions, the lens performs light distribution such that light radiated from a region is distributed in a direction tilted with respect to the optical axis of the light emitted from the LED. Thus, asymmetric distribution of light is achieved when the optical axis of the light from the LED is the axis of symmetry, and further, the luminous flux in the direction tilted with respect to the optical axis is increased most.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi OHTA, Tadashi MURAKAMI