Patents by Inventor Takeshi Maeda

Takeshi Maeda 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: 10992857
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an input control device, an input control method, and an operation system, which enable achievement of a highly flexible input operation without a burden on a user. A target point determination unit determines a target point to be a display reference in an operative field image in a display, on the basis of a user's line-of-sight position with respect to the operative field image displayed in the display and of a characteristic point detected in the operative field image. The present technology can be applied to an input device for an operation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Kana Matsuura, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210090115
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes an identification information reception unit configured to receive identification information for specifying a transaction target; an extraction unit configured to refer to privilege related information obtained by correlating the identification information with privilege information about the transaction target specified with the identification information and extract the privilege information about the transaction target specified with the identification information received by the identification information reception unit; and an output unit configured to output the privilege information extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Takeshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20200325412
    Abstract: A release agent for a hot-forging die, containing micronanobubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Masahito Takagaki, Yuzou Yamaga, Takeshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20200256088
    Abstract: A case includes a first member and a second member configured in such a way that a closed space is formed between the first and second members in a state where the first and second members abut against each other. The first member includes a shaft portion extending toward the second member. The second member includes a shaft support portion including a circumferential wall portion that surrounds one end portion of the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an enlarged-diameter portion that is the one end portion melted in such a way as to be enlarged in diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya INUZUKA, Takeshi MAEDA, Yasuo KIDENA
  • Publication number: 20200179077
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, TAKESHI MAEDA, SEIJI WADA
  • Publication number: 20200162664
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an input control device, an input control method, and an operation system, which enable achievement of a highly flexible input operation without a burden on a user. A target point determination unit determines a target point to be a display reference in an operative field image in a display, on the basis of a user's line-of-sight position with respect to the operative field image displayed in the display and of a characteristic point detected in the operative field image. The present technology can be applied to an input device for an operation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: TAKESHI MAEDA, SEIJI WADA, KANA MATSUURA, TATSUMI SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200112234
    Abstract: An excitation operation brake includes a braking shaft, an armature that rotates integrally with the braking shaft, and a field core including a disc portion facing the armature. The disc portion includes an outer magnetic shielding portion and an inner magnetic shielding portion, which make a magnetic flux flowing through the disc portion bypass to the armature a plurality of times. The outer magnetic shielding portion includes a bypass magnetic path having a magnetic resistance smaller than the magnetic resistance of a magnetic path that bypasses the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuo KIDENA, Keita NAKASHIMA, Takeshi MAEDA, Motoi KATO, Yoshihiro KUROSU, Hiroyasu ONAI, Kosuke MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200085282
    Abstract: A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20200073110
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a surgical loupe that can adjust a convergence angle more easily. [Solution] A surgical loupe including: two optical systems that cause images of light from a surgical field which is an observation target to be formed on eyes of a wearer; and a drive unit for adjusting a convergence angle formed by optical axes of the two optical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: TAKESHI MAEDA, YOHEI KURODA
  • Publication number: 20200046208
    Abstract: To provide a medical observation system, an apparatus for controlling an endoscope system, and a method for controlling the same. A medical observation system includes a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is mutually coupled by joint parts, a medical observation apparatus attached on the multi-link structure, a control part configured to control the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus, and a user interface part by which a user inputs an instruction to change a visual field of the medical observation apparatus. When a user instructs to move a visual field of the medical observation apparatus vertically or horizontally to rotate an oblique-viewing endoscope, or to change a magnification of the visual field via the user interface part, the control part controls the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takara KASAI, Yohei KURODA, Takeshi MAEDA, Seiji WADA
  • Publication number: 20200037847
    Abstract: [Problem] To be able to visually recognize a treatment region from an angle different from a direction in which an endoscope is inserted when an inside of a human body is to be observed using the endoscope. [Solving Means] According to the present disclosure, there is provided a control apparatus for a medical system, including a recognizing section that recognizes instruction information for indicating an area whose image is to be captured by an endoscope that is inserted into an inside of a human body through a trocar and captures an image of the inside of the human body, and a control information generator that generates first control information for turning the endoscope about the trocar and second control information for magnifying the area whose image is to be captured by the endoscope, based on the instruction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190328479
    Abstract: To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji WADA, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190172271
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Takuro NODA, Seiji WADA, Takeshi MAEDA, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20190145150
    Abstract: A vehicle opening-closing body control device controlling a drive unit of an opening-closing body openably and closably supported by a vehicle body of a vehicle via a hinge includes: a storage device storing at least one registered parking area of the vehicle and a target opening degree of the opening-closing body in the registered parking area; and a control unit controlling the drive unit such that the opening-closing body is opened to the target opening degree of the registered parking area in accordance with an opening operation by a user when a host vehicle position of the vehicle is in the registered parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo KIDENA, Takeshi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190041015
    Abstract: Provided is a hybrid street light in which an effect of facilitating use, by people, of a space under illumination is obtained. The hybrid street light includes: a support column; a power generation device main unit including, at an upper portion of the support column, a vertical-axis wind turbine power generation device and a solar photovoltaic power generation device; a lighting device installed around the support column and powered by either or both of the power generation devices; and a seat attached to the support column. In the daytime, power is generated by the solar photovoltaic power generation device. The wind turbine power generation device generates power by day and night as long as wind is available. Since the seat is attached to the support column, an effect of facilitating use, by people, of a space under illumination is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru ITO, Takeshi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10191562
    Abstract: A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hideo Kawabe, Takeshi Maeda, Kousuke Seki
  • Publication number: 20190000585
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to further increase the safety of a medical procedure. [Solution] There is provided a medical safety control apparatus. The medical safety control apparatus issues a motion-restricting instruction for restricting a motion of an arm section of a support arm apparatus that supports a surgical instrument, on a basis of a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, which is a distance between the surgical instrument and a biological tissue of a patient, the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance being detected while a treatment is being performed on the biological tissue by the surgical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Takeshi MAEDA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180256272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block (64) estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block (61) on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (64), a command block (62) restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), or an image processing block (66) based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (61). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), an action recognition camera (13), a display (14), a control apparatus (15), a pair of glasses (17), a microphone (18), a marker, a foot switch (20), etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MAEDA, Seiji WADA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI, Kana MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20180120955
    Abstract: A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ito, Hideo Kawabe, Takeshi Maeda, Kousuke Seki
  • Patent number: D841214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Ito, Takeshi Maeda