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).

  • Publication number: 20130251185
    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 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130251184
    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 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20130241830
    Abstract: A gesture input apparatus that recognizes gesture made by a gesture actor in front of a camera, and controls a control target device on the basis of the recognized gesture is provided. The gesture input apparatus comprising a sensor detection part configured to detect an input from a sensor, and a gesture recognition part configured to start gesture recognition using an image captured by the camera, on the basis of a time when the input from the sensor is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Publication number: 20130241818
    Abstract: A display screen that is displayable in a direction corresponding to a direction of a body of a user. A terminal including a gyrosensor that detects a direction of the terminal, a camera that is provided in order to image a user who views the display screen, a face detection processor that detects a direction of the user imaged by the camera, and a screen displaying part that decides a display direction of the display screen based on the terminal direction detected by the gyrosensor and the user direction detected by the face detection processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Patent number: 8513881
    Abstract: An organic EL display device including organic EL light-emitting regions which includes a red-light emitting layer, a green-light emitting layer, and a blue-light emitting layer that are arranged on a main substrate includes: a first light-adjusting layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion selectively transmitting desired blue light, and the second portion absorbing visible light other than at least the desired blue light; and a second light-adjusting layer selectively absorbing light with a wavelength between desired red light and desired green light at an entire surface, in which the blue light-emitting layer is overlaid with the first portion, and a bank which is a non-light emitting portion is overlaid with the second portion. The first portion and the second portion may be integrally formed of a same material, and the second portion may absorb an entire range of visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Okumoto, Masafumi Matsui, Takashi Ohta, Kouhei Koresawa
  • Patent number: 8500302
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, organic electroluminescence units, and a lens sheet. The lens sheet includes a sheet base and lenses protruding from a surface of the sheet base. A transparent substrate is above the lens sheet, and a bonding layer that includes a resin bonds the lenses to the transparent substrate. Either the substrate or the organic electroluminescence units include an alignment mark. The lens sheet includes a groove formed between the lenses in the sheet base. The groove is used for alignment with the alignment mark. The resin covers a surface of each of the lenses and is filled into the groove. A boundary area between the sheet base and each of the lenses, which is located between a surface of a lens and the groove, is covered by the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Ohta
  • Patent number: 8390015
    Abstract: An organic EL element includes a substrate and a light refractive layer, a first transparent electrode layer, an insulation layer, a hole transport layer, and a photosensitive resin layer stacked above the substrate. A luminous function layer is above the hole transport layer in a recess defined by the photosensitive resin layer. A second transparent electrode layer is above the luminous function layer. The light reflective layer, the first transparent electrode layer, the insulation layer, and the hole transport layer are formed above the substrate in a region isolated by the photosensitive resin layer. The photosensitive resin layer comprises a material that absorbs incident light of a predetermined wavelength. The first transparent electrode layer, the insulation layer, the hole transport layer, and the photosensitive resin layer each have a reflectance value that is between a local minimum value and a neighborhood value of the local minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Nishiyama, Takashi Ohta
  • Patent number: 8359596
    Abstract: A grid computing system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of which comprises an index value storing part for storing an index value indicative of the throughput of the information processing apparatus itself; a request acquiring part for acquiring a job execution request that requests an execution of a job; a job executing part for executing the job, based on the index value stored in the index value storing part and also based on the process contents of the job, if determining that the job is to be executed in the foregoing information processing apparatus; and a request transmitting part for forwarding the job execution request to another information processing apparatus connected to the foregoing information processing apparatus if determining that the job is not to be executed in the foregoing information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Takashi Ohta, Kazuo Iwano
  • Publication number: 20120269376
    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: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuo, Takashi Ohta, Koji Nageno, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8278804
    Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting organic electroluminescent (EL) display device including a plurality of organic EL light-emitting regions including a red light-emitting layer, a green light-emitting layer, and a blue light-emitting layer on a main substrate includes: a magenta color filter, as a first light-adjusting layer, having predetermined transmission property for blue light and red light; and a second light-adjusting layer having predetermined absorption property for light with a wavelength intermediate between the red light and green light, wherein the magenta color filter is laid over the blue light-emitting layer, the red light-emitting layer, and a bank which is a non light-emitting region, and the second light-adjusting layer is laid over the blue light-emitting layer, the green light-emitting layer, the red light-emitting layer, and the bank which is the non light-emitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsui, Kouhei Koresawa, Takashi Ohta, Kenji Okumoto
  • Publication number: 20120223873
    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: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Patent number: 8257213
    Abstract: In a hybrid driving apparatus, a gear mechanism (3) having a first rotating element (7), a second rotating element (4) and a third rotating element (5) is provided, and a first driving power source (2), a second driving power source MG1 and a third driving power source MG2 are linked to the elements of the gear mechanism (3). The speed change ratio of the gear mechanism (3) can be altered. A driven member (18) to which the power output from an output element of the gear mechanism (3) is transmitted is provided. A first power transmission path (9) that connects the second driving power source MG1 to the driven member (18) is provided. A second power transmission path (17) that connects the third driving power source MG2 to the driven member (18) is provided. In this hybrid driving apparatus, at least one of the first power transmission path (9) and the second power transmission path (17) is provided with a transmission (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Komada, Yukihiko Ideshio, Tooru Matsubara, Takashi Ohta, Hiroyuki Shibata, Hidehiro Oba
  • Publication number: 20120218173
    Abstract: A display panel apparatus includes pixels. Each pixel includes an organic luminescent layer between an upper electrode and a lower electrode and is configured to emit a red, a green, or a blue light. A glass substrate is above the upper electrode. A lens sheet is between the pixels and the glass substrate and includes lenses and a base. Each lens corresponds to a pixel and protrudes from the base. Partitions are between the glass substrate and the lens sheet for partitioning the lenses. The partitions have a first height that is greater than a second height of the lenses. The base includes trenches between the lenses. The trenches are recessed in a direction opposite the lenses. The partitions are in the trenches. Each partition has a cross-section that includes an upper side that has a different length than a bottom side and lateral sides that are tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi OHTA, Masahiro KASANO, Kenji OKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120217521
    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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Patent number: 8246508
    Abstract: A vehicle drive unit control system. The vehicle includes a prime mover arranged on a power transmission route from a continuously variable transmission to a wheel, a clutch mechanism arranged on a first route from the prime mover to the wheel, and a shift range or shift position can be shifted selectively between a drive range or drive position where a power can be transmitted through the first route and a non-drive range or non-drive position where a power cannot be transmitted through the first route. The control system includes a vehicle speed control demand judging mechanism judging a vehicle speed control demand in case of shifting the shift range or shift position from the non-drive range or non-drive position to the drive range or drive position; and a prime mover controller controlling torque of the prime mover based on the judged vehicle speed control demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tooru Matsubara, Takashi Ohta, Hideaki Komada, Yukihiko Ideshio, Hiroyuki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20120206916
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, organic electroluminescence units, and a lens sheet. The lens sheet includes a sheet base and lenses protruding from a surface of the sheet base. A transparent substrate is above the lens sheet, and a bonding layer that includes a resin bonds the lenses to the transparent substrate. Either the substrate or the organic electroluminescence units include an alignment mark. The lens sheet includes a groove formed between the lenses in the sheet base. The groove is used for alignment with the alignment mark. The resin covers a surface of each of the lenses and is filled into the groove. A boundary area between the sheet base and each of the lenses, which is located between a surface of a lens and the groove, is covered by the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi OHTA
  • Publication number: 20120175648
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro KASANO, Takashi OHTA
  • Patent number: 8177004
    Abstract: A control system for a drive unit of a hybrid vehicle, which is capable of preventing an uncomfortable feeling, when a vehicle is driven by a power of an electric motor. The control system includes an electric motor, another power unit other than the electric motor, and a transmission, including a speed change inhibiting mechanism for inhibiting a speed change operation of the transmission in case the vehicle is run by a power of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shibata, Tooru Matsubara, Takashi Ohta, Hideaki Komada, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Patent number: 8177680
    Abstract: A drive unit control system having a continuously variable speed change (CV) unit and a geared speed change (geared) unit to execute a manual speed change to apply responsive engine brake and sufficient braking force. A speed change mode is selected from first and second modes, where a total speed change ratio governed by the speed change ratio of the CV unit and the gear stage of the geared unit is set based on a vehicle running condition, and the total speed change ratio is set based on a signal for applying power source braking, respectively. The system reduces a number of gear stages of the geared unit settable under the second mode. Total speed change ratio is set according to the gear stage of the geared unit, and to the speed change ratio of the CV unit, in case the second mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shibata, Tooru Matsubara, Takashi Ohta, Hideaki Komada, Yukihiko Ideshio
  • Publication number: 20120086332
    Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting organic electroluminescent (EL) display device including a plurality of organic EL light-emitting regions including a red light-emitting layer, a green light-emitting layer, and a blue light-emitting layer on a main substrate includes: a magenta color filter, as a first light-adjusting layer, having predetermined transmission property for blue light and red light; and a second light-adjusting layer having predetermined absorption property for light with a wavelength intermediate between the red light and green light, wherein the magenta color filter is laid over the blue light-emitting layer, the red light-emitting layer, and a bank which is a non light-emitting region, and the second light-adjusting layer is laid over the blue light-emitting layer, the green light-emitting layer, the red light-emitting layer, and the bank which is the non light-emitting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi MATSUI, Kouhei KORESAWA, Takashi OHTA, Kenji OKUMOTO