Patents by Inventor Takashi Ota

Takashi Ota 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: 20250110370
    Abstract: A task of the present invention is to realize a display device with high definition and high contrast by means of local dimming. The configuration is as follows. A liquid crystal display device including a display panel and a back light, the back light having a light source and a group of optical sheets, the light source including a light source substrate and LEDs arranged on the light source substrate, the light source being divided into segments in a plan view, the segment including at least one LED, characterized in that the segment is surrounded by a stacked structure of a lower reflection wall and an upper reflection wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Michihide SHIBATA, Toshihiro YAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20250102862
    Abstract: The objective is to reduce yellow shift around a blue LED in a backlight using the blue LED and a color conversion sheet. To solve this problem, one of the structures of invention is: a display device including a display panel and a backlight, the backlight having a plurality of LEDs arranged on a substrate and a color conversion sheet arranged between the plurality of LEDs and the display panel, the color conversion sheet being formed of color conversion material and a binder, the color conversion sheet having a ring-shaped area without the color conversion material, the ring-shaped area surrounding each of the plurality of LEDs in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro YAJIMA, Michihide SHIBATA, Takashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20250105041
    Abstract: A substrate transporting device for transporting a substrate with a carrier capable of stacking and accommodating a plurality of substrates with a gap and having a carry-in/out port on one side surface includes the following. The device includes a transporting unit including a holding hand that holds the substrate, and being configured to transport the substrate by advancing/retreating the holding hand to/from the carry-in/out port of the carrier to a gap between the substrates; an acquisition unit configured to acquire shape information of the substrate when the substrate is viewed in an advancing/retreating direction of the holding hand from the carry-in/out port side while the substrate is accommodated; and a control unit configured to control the transporting unit based on the shape information; where the acquisition unit obtains the shape information by irradiating light in a wavelength region longer than visible light from the advancing/retreating direction of the holding hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAHARA, Takashi OTA, Takuya SATO, Fujikazu KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 12246196
    Abstract: Provided are novel antibody-pyrrolodiazepine derivative and novel antibody-pyrrolodiazepine derivative conjugates, as well as methods of using the same, and a novel CLDN6 and/or CLDN9 antibody. The disclosed compounds are of the class of alkyl benzene sulfonyl ureas, useful as oral anti-diabetics, and include substituted benzo[e]pyrrolo[1,2-?][1,4]diazepine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Narihiro Toda, Yusuke Ota, Fuminao Doi, Masaki Meguro, Ichiro Hayakawa, Shinji Ashida, Takeshi Masuda, Takashi Nakada, Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, Naoya Harada, Tomoko Terauchi, Daisuke Okajima, Kensuke Nakamura, Hiroaki Uchida, Hirofumi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20250068011
    Abstract: A backlight includes: a light source capable of emitting light spreading in first and second directions perpendicular to each other, from an optical axis; a first cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the first cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; a second cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light even closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the second cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source and the first cylindrical lens in the third direction; and a reflector that reflects and brings the light closer along the second direction to the optical axis, the reflector being positioned between the first cylindrical lens and the second cylindrical lens in the third direction, the reflector avoiding overlap with the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Michihide SHIBATA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Masafumi OKADA
  • Patent number: 12235128
    Abstract: A data correction device includes a data acquiring part for acquiring map data including point sequence data showing a position of a first dividing line in a first section and point sequence data showing a position of a second dividing line corresponding to the first dividing line in a second section adjoining the first section; a position revising part for revising point data showing a position near a boundary of at least one of the first dividing line and the second dividing line so that the first dividing line and the second dividing line expressed by the point sequence data are smoothly connected at the boundary; and a position data output part for outputting point sequence data including point data showing revised positions of the dividing lines near the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Ota, Daisuke Nakata
  • Publication number: 20240418925
    Abstract: A backlight includes: a light guide plate including a front surface and a back surface, the light guide plate including an end face that connects one edge of the front surface and one edge of the back surface, at least part of the end face being inclined at an angle other than a right angle relative to the front surface; and a light source that emits light, the light source being set in an arrangement enabling emission of the light parallel to the front surface towards the at least part of the end face of the light guide plate, wherein the light is incident on and refracted at the at least part of the end face, propagates inside a material of the light guide plate, is reflected off the back surface, and is surface-emitted from the front surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Shinichi KOMURA, Hiroaki KIJIMA, Koichi OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240421265
    Abstract: The purpose is to reduce a color shift around an ultraviolet LED in a backlight using the ultraviolet LED and a QD sheet, viewed in a plane. The structure is: A display device having a display panel and a backlight, the backlight including a light source in which ultraviolet LEDs are arranged in a plane and in a matrix with a first interval, and a QD sheet covering the light source; the QD sheet being dispersed with red quantum dots, green quantum dots, and blue quantum dots, emitting light in response to ultraviolet light, the QD sheet having a first region and a second region arranged in a ring shape to surround the ultraviolet LED in a plan view, more of the red quantum dots, the green quantum dots, or the blue quantum dots being dispersed in the second region than in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro YAJIMA, Michihide SHIBATA, Takashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240408963
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause an information display unit to blink with a predetermined blinking pattern. The information display unit is arranged on a vehicle such that a user of the vehicle is able to see the information display unit from outside of the vehicle. The processor is configured to transmit to a terminal of the user blinking pattern information which causes at least part of a display screen of the terminal of the user to blink in the same pattern as the predetermined blinking pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Naotoshi KADOTANI, Nana KIKUIRE, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240402538
    Abstract: A display device includes: point light sources emitting light of different colors; light guides each of which includes an end face facing a corresponding one of the point light sources, a first surface connected to the end face, and a second surface diagonally facing the end face and the first surface, the light being incident on the end face and undergoing internal reflection, between the first and second surfaces, and linear pattern emission from the first surface; and a display panel including a side surface that faces the first surface and on which the light is incident, front and back surfaces, and a converter that changes a traveling direction of the light, for each pixel of the image, propagating away from the side surface internally between the front and back surfaces, to a direction toward the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240383335
    Abstract: A display system mounted on a vehicle that travels in a driving mode selected from among a plurality of driving modes having different degrees of autonomy of driving tasks, the display system includes: a display unit configured to display information to a driver; and a control unit configured to execute at least one of setting a refresh interval of predetermined information displayed on the display unit to be longer than that before a driving mode change and setting visibility of the predetermined information to be lower than that before the driving mode change, when a degree of autonomy decreases due to the driving mode change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kana YAMASHITA, Takashi OTA
  • Patent number: 12142502
    Abstract: A processing condition selection method includes a step (S21) and a step (S22). In the step (S21), a thickness pattern TM that represents a distribution of thicknesses measured at respective measurement points on a target is compared to pre-stored reference patterns (RP) to specify a reference pattern (RP) having a high correlation with the thickness pattern (TM) from among the reference patterns (RP) based on a prescriptive rule. In the step (S22), a reference processing condition associated with the specified reference pattern (RP) is acquired as a processing condition for the target from among reference processing conditions associated with the respective reference patterns (RP). The reference patterns (RP) each represent a distribution of physical quantities of a corresponding one of reference targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ota, Makoto Takaoka, Toru Edo, Hiroshi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20240351440
    Abstract: A display device includes: a steering non-holding recognition unit configured to recognize a steering non-holding state in which a driver of the vehicle does not hold steady a steering wheel of the vehicle based on detection result of a steering sensor of the vehicle; and a display control unit configured to display the vehicle surroundings image on the display unit based on detection result of an external sensor of the vehicle. The display control unit reduces visibility of the vehicle surroundings image in the display unit when the steering non-holding state continues for a predetermined first period or longer, compared to visibility of the vehicle surroundings image when the steering non-holding state does not continue for the first period or longer, during execution of autonomous driving control in which the driver is required to visually confirm a surrounding environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi OTA, Takahiko KUWABARA
  • Publication number: 20240336141
    Abstract: A display device includes an image generation unit configured to generate a status image presented to a driver of the vehicle, the status image representing to a current status of the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire the map information and recognize an acquisition status of the map information; a display mode setting unit configured to set a display mode; and a display control unit configured to display the status image on a display unit in the display mode. The acquisition status includes a first case, a second case, and a third case in which the map information is temporarily unavailable. The display mode setting unit sets the display mode so that the display mode of the first case, the second case and the third case are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironori ITO, Naoki NISHIMURA, Takashi OTA, Hisanobu INOUE, Kana YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240300538
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to: on a travel route of an autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward a desired drop-off position of a user of the autonomous driving taxi, set a predetermined travel route range from a point behind the desired drop-off position to the desired drop-off position, as a permissible midway drop-off range in which midway drop-off from the autonomous driving taxi is permitted; receive a setting about a midway drop-off position in the permissible midway drop-off range, the setting being made by the user in the autonomous driving taxi configured to travel toward the desired drop-off position; and stop the autonomous driving taxi at the midway drop-off position set by the user such that the user drops off the autonomous driving taxi midway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi KADOTANI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Nana KIKUIRE, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240302177
    Abstract: An information processing device includes one or more processors configured to: set, as a travel destination of a vehicle, a point where an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle to transfer from the vehicle to a regularly operated transportation facility; acquire delay information indicating occurrence of a delay of the regularly operated transportation facility or occurrence of an event that causes a delay in travel of the vehicle to the travel destination; and change the travel destination of the vehicle based on the delay information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi KADOTANI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Nana KIKUIRE, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE
  • Patent number: 12080566
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method. The substrate treating apparatus includes a treating unit and a controller. The treating unit includes a substrate holder, a rotation driving unit, a treatment liquid supplying unit, a liquid collecting unit, and a guard driving unit. The substrate holder holds a substrate in a horizontal posture. The rotation driving unit rotates the substrate holder. The liquid collecting unit includes a first guard, a second guard, and a liquid inlet. The first guard and the second guard are arranged so as to surround the substrate holder laterally. The liquid inlet is defined by the guards. The liquid inlet is open toward the substrate held by the substrate holder. The guard driving unit moves the second guard in a vertical direction. The controller controls the guard driving unit in accordance with the shape of the substrate held by the substrate holder, thereby changing a height position of an upper end of the liquid inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taiki Hinode, Takashi Ota, Mitsukazu Takahashi, Kazuhiro Honsho, Yusuke Akizuki
  • Publication number: 20240288731
    Abstract: A backlight includes a light source in which blue LEDs are planarly arranged in a matrix with a first interval, and a color conversion sheet disposed covering the light source. First red quantum dots that receive blue light and emit red light, and first green quantum dots that receive blue light and emit green light are dispersed in the color conversion sheet. An RG quantum dot layer, in which second red quantum dots that receive blue light and emit red light and second green quantum dots that receive blue light and emit green light are dispersed, is disposed around each of the blue LEDs in planar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihiro YAJIMA, Michihide SHIBATA, Takashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240261814
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film, a liquid film heat retaining step of keeping the liquid film warm, a gas phase layer forming step of forming a gas phase layer which holds the processing liquid on a center portion of the liquid film, an opening forming step of forming an opening in the center portion of the liquid film by excluding the processing liquid held by the gas phase layer, a substrate rotating step of rotating the substrate around a rotation axis, and an opening expanding step of expanding the opening, while a state in which the gas phase layer is formed on an inner circumferential edge of the liquid film is maintained, by moving the irradiation region toward a circumferential edge portion of the substrate while the liquid film heat retaining step and the substrate rotating step are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi ABE, Takashi OTA, Takaaki ISHIZU, Kenji KOBAYASHI, Ryo MURAMOTO, Sei NEGORO, Manabu OKUTANI, Wataru SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240265807
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a movement route receiving unit, an operation-related information acquiring unit, and a display control unit. The movement route receiving unit configured to receive, from an outside, a movement route of a passenger of a vehicle that includes transfer from the vehicle to a scheduled transportation system. The operation-related information acquiring unit configured to acquire operation-related information of the scheduled transportation system to which the passenger is expected to transfer. The display control unit configured to display the operation-related information on a display screen disposed in a cabin of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotoshi KADOTANI, Yuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Nana KIKUIRE, Takahiko KUWABARA, Ryusei GICHU, Takashi OTA, Toshifumi IWASE, Hironori ITO, Hisanobu INOUE