Patents by Inventor Tomo Baba

Tomo Baba 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: 8270836
    Abstract: A signal transmitting device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and four optical fibers. The transmitter includes a first electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical red video signal into optical red video signal in original video signal, a second electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical green video signal into optical green video signal a third electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical blue video signal into optical blue video signal, a parallel/serial converter converting original electrical parallel signal having a lower transfer rate than a transfer rate of the original video signal into original electrical serial signal, and a fourth electro-optical converter electro-optically converting the original electrical serial signal transmitted from the parallel/serial converter into optical serial signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Sato, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Hidenori Yamada, Tomo Baba
  • Publication number: 20120046187
    Abstract: An analysis chip includes a carrier having a surface on which a selective binding substance(s) is(are) immobilized; a vessel holding a solution containing a test substance(s) which react(s) with the selective binding substance(s); and particles for stirring the solution, the particles being sealed within a space formed between the carrier and the vessel wherein a separator which allows passage therethrough of the solution containing the test substance(s), but does not allow passage therethrough of the particles is arranged in the space to separate the surface of the carrier on which the selective binding substance(s) is(are) immobilized and the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Yuki Takii
  • Patent number: 7924861
    Abstract: A signal communication apparatus includes a transmission component, a reception component and an identification information storage component. The transmission component is connectable to an information processing device and a signal propagation medium, and transmits an inputted image signal through the connected signal propagation medium. The reception component is connectable with an image display device and the signal propagation medium, receives the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and outputs the image signal to the connected image display device. The identification information storage component is removably attached to the transmission component, and stores identification information for identifying the image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Hisayoshi Mori, Kazuhiro Sakai, Junji Okada, Masao Funada, Shinobu Ozeki, Shinya Kyozuka, Takehiro Niitsu, Hidenori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100149416
    Abstract: A signal transmitting device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and four optical fibers. The transmitter includes a first electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical red video signal into optical red video signal in original video signal, a second electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical green video signal into optical green video signal a third electro-optical converter electro-optically converting original electrical blue video signal into optical blue video signal, a parallel/serial converter converting original electrical parallel signal having a lower transfer rate than a transfer rate of the original video signal into original electrical serial signal, and a fourth electro-optical converter electro-optically converting the original electrical serial signal transmitted from the parallel/serial converter into optical serial signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Sato, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Hidenori Yamada, Tomo Baba
  • Publication number: 20090180580
    Abstract: For signals to be transmitted through a signal transmission path constituted by a relay device group for relay for each set of a plurality of channels, a timing adjustment unit is provided in both or one of a receiver-side LSI and a transmitter-side LSI for each set of a plurality of channels transmitted through the relay device group for relay so that the signals can be transmitted with accurate timing. In addition, the timing adjustment unit can adjust the timing for signals transmitted through each relay device group, the timing in one receiver-side LSI in signal transmission through a plurality of relay device groups, and the timing in one-to-many signal transmission in which signals are transmitted from one transmitter-side LSI to a plurality of receiver-side LSIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakai, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tomo Baba, Tsutomu Hamada, Shinobu Ozeki, Masaru Kijima, Masaaki Miura, Takeshi Kamimura, Yoshihide Sato
  • Publication number: 20090153536
    Abstract: A receiving module includes a receiving unit and a power supply substrate. The receiving unit includes a connector that receives an image signal and a control signal from a signal transmitting medium. And the power supply substrate is provided in an image display device and supplies a power to the receiving unit upon receipt of a supply of the power from the image display device and outputs the image signal and the control signal from the receiving unit to the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Osamu Takanashi, Hidenori Yamada
  • Patent number: 7522684
    Abstract: For signals to be transmitted through a signal transmission path constituted by a relay device group for relay for each set of a plurality of channels, a timing adjustment unit is provided in both or one of a receiver-side LSI and a transmitter-side LSI for each set of a plurality of channels transmitted through the relay device group for relay so that the signals can be transmitted with accurate timing. In addition, the timing adjustment unit can adjust the timing for signals transmitted through each relay device group, the timing in one receiver-side LSI in signal transmission through a plurality of relay device groups, and the timing in one-to-many signal transmission in which signals are transmitted from one transmitter-side LSI to a plurality of receiver-side LSIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakai, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tomo Baba, Tsutomu Hamada, Shinobu Ozeki, Masaru Kijima, Masaaki Miura, Takeshi Kamimura, Yoshihide Sato
  • Patent number: 7444083
    Abstract: In an optical signal transmission system which can perform high-speed optical transmission not lower than 1 Gbps, VCSEL has light-emission points. A core diameter of an optical fiber GI-POF is set to not lower than 200 ?m, and the light-emission points of VCSEL are arranged inside an outer periphery at an end face of GI-POF. A polymerization composition material constituting the core of GI-POF is made of a compound containing deuterated poly methacrylic ester. A wavelength of the light beam of VCSEL is set to the range of 770 nm to 810 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignees: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ohashi, Kenji Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Hiiro, Yoshisada Nakamura, Mikihiko Kato, Osamu Ueno, Tsutomu Hamada, Shinya Kyozuka, Hideo Nakayama, Tomo Baba
  • Patent number: 7394989
    Abstract: A transmission unit of a signal transmission device includes: a transmission-side detection unit that detects image information from an inputted electrical signal; a receiving unit that receives, from a reception unit, a status signal representing an arrival status of an outputted optical signal; and a control unit that controls an electrical-optical conversion unit on the basis of the detection result of the transmission-side detection unit and the status signal of the receiving unit so that the output of the optical signal is shut down in at least one of a case where image information is not included in an electrical signal and a case where an optical signal has not arrived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinobu Ozeki, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hidenori Yamada, Shinya Kyozuka, Takehiro Niitsu, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tomo Baba, Osamu Takanashi
  • Patent number: 7317720
    Abstract: A signal transmission system has a master node and plural slave nodes performing data transmission with the master node. The master node has a serial-to-parallel converter for converting a serial data signal from each slave node into a parallel data signal. Each slave node has a transmission aligner for performing word alignment processing upon a parallel data signals, and a parallel-to-serial converter for converting the parallel data signal subjected to the word alignment processing by the transmission aligner into a serial data signal, and outputting the serial data signal to the master node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamimura, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kazuhiro Sakai, Tsutomu Hamada, Tomo Baba, Shinobu Ozeki, Masaru Kijima, Masaaki Miura, Osamu Ueno, Yoshihide Sato, Masao Funada
  • Patent number: 7308205
    Abstract: In an optical transmission apparatus in which a plurality of nodes are optically connected to one another via an optical transmission path, a light signal which is coded so that a mixture ratio of 1 and 0 constituting data is made close to 50% is transmitted through the optical transmission path. When a light signal is not emitted from all of the nodes, a dummy signal which is an AC-like signal is emitted to the optical transmission path. Therefore, an optoelectric conversion section can be always set to an active state, and the signal recognizability can be prevented from being lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinobu Ozeki, Akira Toshima, Masao Funada, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hidenori Yamada, Takeshi Kamimura, Yoshihide Sato, Junji Okada, Takehiro Niitsu, Shinya Kyozuka, Kazuhiro Sakai, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tomo Baba, Tsutomu Hamada, Masaru Kijima, Osamu Takanashi, Masaaki Miura, Osamu Ueno
  • Patent number: 7245832
    Abstract: An optical bus 30 optically connects each board of a signal processing section 22 and each board of a transmission/reception section 40 for transmitting an optical signal output to the optical bus 30 by each board of the signal processing section 22 to each board of the transmission/reception section 40 in a non-block state. In contrast, the optical bus 30 transmits an optical signal output to the optical bus 30 by each board of the transmission/reception section 40 to each board of the signal processing section 22 in a non-block state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Masao Funada, Takeshi Kamimura, Hidenori Yamada, Junji Okada, Shinya Kyozuka, Kazuhiro Sakai, Tsutomu Hamada, Shinobu Ozeki, Osamu Takanashi, Masaaki Miura, Takehiro Niitsu, Masashi Hisada, Kenichi Kobayashi, Akira Toshima
  • Publication number: 20070045521
    Abstract: An optical distribution module includes at least one light emitting element that converts an optical signal to an electrical signal, at least one light receiving element that converts the optical signal to the electrical signal, and a distribution circuit that is arranged so as to optically couple the light emitting element and the light receiving element. The distribution circuit branches or couples the optical signal from the light emitting element so as to emit the optical signal to the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Okada, Shinobu Ozeki, Jun Kitamura, Seiji Suzuki, Takeshi Kamimura, Yoshihide Sato, Masaru Kijima, Osamu Ohtani, Norihiko Kuroishi, Tomo Baba, Hisayoshi Mori, Tsutomu Hamada, Takehiro Niitsu, Shinya Kyozuka
  • Publication number: 20060277586
    Abstract: A signal communication apparatus includes a transmission component, a reception component and an identification information storage component. The transmission component is connectable to an information processing device and a signal propagation medium, and transmits an inputted image signal through the connected signal propagation medium. The reception component is connectable with an image display device and the signal propagation medium, receives the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and outputs the image signal to the connected image display device. The identification information storage component is removably attached to the transmission component, and stores identification information for identifying the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Hisayoshi Mori, Kazuhiro Sakai, Junji Okada, Masao Funada, Shinobu Ozeki, Shinya Kyozuka, Takehiro Niitsu, Hidenori Yamada
  • Patent number: 7146065
    Abstract: In an optical wiring board, an optical components including a planar optical waveguide, a plurality of first optical fibers optically connected via a transmissive diffusion plate to a light incident face of the waveguide, and a plurality of second optical fibers optically connected to a light emitting face of the waveguide is placed on a support board. The optical component is sealed by a sealing member made of a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Niitsu, Masao Funada, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hidenori Yamada, Takeshi Kamimura, Junji Okada, Shinya Kyozuka, Kazuhiro Sakai, Tomo Baba, Tsutomu Hamada, Masashi Hisada, Shinobu Ozeki, Osamu Takanashi, Masaaki Miura
  • Publication number: 20060187983
    Abstract: A light emitting element driving circuit includes: plural AC-coupling capacitors which are connected together in series; and a bias generating circuit which generates a bias current, wherein a light emitting element is driven by superposing a modulating current to the bias current via the plural AC-coupling capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomo Baba, Shinya Kyozuka, Hisayoshi Mori, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Shinobu Ozeki, Takehiro Niitsu, Hidenori Yamada, Masao Funada
  • Publication number: 20060115277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing propagation errors in an optical communication system which includes an optical element and an optical transmission medium. In the present invention, a relative position of the optical element and an end face of the optical transmission medium, at which light emitted from the optical element is incident, is set to a (relative) position which is different from a relative position of the optical element and the end face of the optical transmission medium with which energy of light that is propagated is maximized. Then, light emitted from the optical element is propagated in multimode by the optical transmission medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicants: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., HONDA TSUSHIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori Yamada, Takehiro Niitsu, Shinya Kyozuka, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tomo Baba, Shinobu Ozeki, Kouichiro Yoshimura, Atsunobu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7039274
    Abstract: In a device of the present invention for allowing signal light to enter a light guide body using an optical fiber, a light guide body, which is constituted by dispersing particles for scattering the signal light in an optical medium, is selected as a light guide path which requires an area where a light diffusing function is performed just after incidence of the signal light. An optical connecting material intervenes between one end of the optical fiber from which the signal light is output and opposed one end surface of a particle dispersing light guide body and a desired diffusing function is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignees: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Okada, Takehiro Niitsu, Tsutomu Hamada, Masao Funada, Hidenori Yamada, Shinya Kyozuka, Tomo Baba, Shinobu Ozeki, Osamu Takanashi, Masaaki Miura
  • Patent number: 6966706
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes 16 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSELs) disposed like a 4×4 grid, for example, in a sufficiently narrower range than the end surface of an optical fiber. The 16 VCSELs disposed in the light-emitting device emit optical signals in the same direction. Since the VCSELs are disposed with a concentration in the sufficiently narrower range than the end surface of the optical fiber as described above, if the optical signals emitted from the VCSELs are spread, almost all optical signals generated by the light-emitting device are incident on the end surface of the optical fiber and are transmitted through the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hamada, Shinya Kyozuka, Tomo Baba, Hideo Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20050123231
    Abstract: In an optical wiring board, an optical components including a planar optical waveguide, a plurality of first optical fibers optically connected via a transmissive diffusion plate to a light incident face of the waveguide, and a plurality of second optical fibers optically connected to a light emitting face of the waveguide is placed on a support board. The optical component is sealed by a sealing member made of a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiro Niitsu, Masao Funada, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hidenori Yamada, Takeshi Kamimura, Junji Okada, Shinya Kyozuka, Kazuhiro Sakai, Tomo Baba, Tsutomu Hamada, Masashi Hisada, Shinobu Ozeki, Osamu Takanashi, Masaaki Miura