Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Ota

Tomohiro 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).

  • Patent number: 11828794
    Abstract: There is provided a placement table having an upper surface on which a device to be processed is placed. The placement table comprises: a top plate having a placement surface for the device; a heating unit configured to heat the top plate; a plurality of temperature sensors configured to acquire temperature of the top plate at desired measurement positions in a plan view; and a positioning unit electrically connected to the temperature sensors and configured to position the temperature sensors at the measurement positions in a plan view. The positioning unit is formed of a flexible substrate having flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Kasai, Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20230222627
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display unit, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device including a second display unit, and a control unit configured to rotate an image to be displayed on the first display unit, in accordance with a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the first display unit, and rotate an image to be output to the external device, in accordance with the rotational angle of the first display unit and a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the second display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Genjiro Sano
  • Publication number: 20230188864
    Abstract: A display control device is related to an electronic device, the display control device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire conditions of a first factor that is at least one factor out of a plurality of factors, the conditions corresponding to a selection performed by a user; a determining unit configured to determine conditions of a second factor out of the plurality of factors that is different from the first factor on a basis of conditions of the first factor acquired by the acquiring unit, the conditions being conditions under which maximum electric power consumption is not more than suppliable electric power without operation of the electronic device being limited in a predetermined situation; and a control unit configured to control a display unit to display conditions of the second factor determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Patent number: 11630627
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display unit, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device including a second display unit, and a control unit configured to rotate an image to be displayed on the first display unit, in accordance with a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the first display unit, and rotate an image to be output to the external device, in accordance with the rotational angle of the first display unit and a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Genjiro Sano
  • Publication number: 20220377249
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus capable of being operated by an operation device that is external, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to output a first image by capturing an object; and a control unit configured to control, when the first image that is outputted from the image capturing unit is being displayed on a first display unit, in a case where there has been an operation on the operation device to display a second image that is different from the first image on a second display unit of the operation device, whether or not to display the second image on the first display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke Inazawa, Tomohiro Ota
  • Patent number: 11509810
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus which can be remotely controlled by an external apparatus. The image capture apparatus communicates with the external apparatus, generates a first operation screen which displays first information relating to the image capture apparatus and which includes a captured image, generates a second operation screen which is different from the first operation screen and displays second information relating to the image capture apparatus and does not include the captured image, and controls the image capture apparatus based on the operation request for the image capture apparatus received from the external apparatus. The image capture apparatus selectively transmits the first operation screen or the second operation screen to the external apparatus based on an instruction from the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Inazawa, Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20220247917
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus which can be remotely controlled by an external apparatus. The image capture apparatus communicates with the external apparatus, generates a first operation screen which displays first information relating to the image capture apparatus and which includes a captured image, generates a second operation screen which is different from the first operation screen and displays second information relating to the image capture apparatus and does not include the captured image, and controls the image capture apparatus based on the operation request for the image capture apparatus received from the external apparatus. The image capture apparatus selectively transmits the first operation screen or the second operation screen to the external apparatus based on an instruction from the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke Inazawa, Tomohiro Ota
  • Patent number: 11363191
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquisition unit capable of acquiring an image captured through optical system, wherein a subject image passing through the optical system has characteristic blurring based on a function of spherical aberration of the optical system or a function of an apodization filter of the optical system; and a control unit that performs control to display, together with the captured image, a guidance related to the characteristic blurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Ayumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20220128624
    Abstract: There is provided a placement table having an upper surface on which a device to be processed is placed. The placement table comprises: a top plate having a placement surface for the device; a heating unit configured to heat the top plate; a plurality of temperature sensors configured to acquire temperature of the top plate at desired measurement positions in a plan view; and a positioning unit electrically connected to the temperature sensors and configured to position the temperature sensors at the measurement positions in a plan view. The positioning unit is formed of a flexible substrate having flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shigeru KASAI, Tomohiro OTA
  • Patent number: 11245851
    Abstract: If an on/off setting of an on-screen display (OSD) on a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel (“LCD OSD” setting) is changed from on to off on an “LCD OSD” setting screen of a menu screen, a system control unit stores a flag A indicating that the “LCD OSD” setting is changed to off into a system memory. If a menu end operation is made and the flag A is stored, the system control unit changes the “LCD OSD” setting to off and ends the menu screen. The setting of the information display on the LCD panel can thereby be made with high operability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20220011996
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first display unit, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device including a second display unit, and a control unit configured to rotate an image to be displayed on the first display unit, in accordance with a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the first display unit, and rotate an image to be output to the external device, in accordance with the rotational angle of the first display unit and a rotational angle in a plane parallel to a screen of the second display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Genjiro Sano
  • Patent number: 11221350
    Abstract: A probe device according to an embodiment is a probe device for inspecting electrical characteristics of an inspection target object, mounted on a mounting table, by electrically contacting probes and the inspection target object to each other. The probe device includes a support base having on an upper surface thereof a needle trace transfer member for transferring needle traces of the probes, a fixed support portion extending from a side of the mounting table and configured to fix and support the support base from below, and a movable support unit that is disposed below the support base and is configured to be moved up and down to be in contact with the support base and movably support the support base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Kazumi Yamagata, Mitsushiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11218638
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, in accordance with user operation, whether transparent display at a first transparency level is performed for a display element that is superimposed and displayed on a captured image captured by an imaging unit; a display control unit configured to superimpose and display a plurality of display elements including a specific display element on the captured image, and to control so that in a case where the setting unit sets the transparent display to be performed, the plurality of display elements other than the specific display element are transparently superimposed and displayed on the captured image at the first transparency level, and the specific display element is superimposed and displayed on the captured image at a second transparency level lower than the first transparency level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayumi Sato, Tomohiro Ota
  • Patent number: 11138402
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit with a focal length different from a focal length of the first imaging unit, and a reading unit configured to read information from an optical code image included in a captured image, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to, in a case where information based on the optical code image has been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, execute processing corresponding to the read information, and in a case where information based on the optical code image has not been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, to cause the reading unit to read information based on the optical code image, from an image captured by the second imaging unit, and execute processing corresponding to the read information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20210258475
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquisition unit capable of acquiring an image captured through optical system, wherein a subject image passing through the optical system has characteristic blurring based on a function of spherical aberration of the optical system or a function of an apodization filter of the optical system; and a control unit that performs control to display, together with the captured image, a guidance related to the characteristic blurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Ayumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20210058554
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, in accordance with user operation, whether transparent display at a first transparency level is performed for a display element that is superimposed and displayed on a captured image captured by an imaging unit; a display control unit configured to superimpose and display a plurality of display elements including a specific display element on the captured image, and to control so that in a case where the setting unit sets the transparent display to be performed, the plurality of display elements other than the specific display element are transparently superimposed and displayed on the captured image at the first transparency level, and the specific display element is superimposed and displayed on the captured image at a second transparency level lower than the first transparency level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ayumi Sato, Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20210042485
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit with a focal length different from a focal length of the first imaging unit, and a reading unit configured to read information from an optical code image included in a captured image, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to, in a case where information based on the optical code image has been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, execute processing corresponding to the read information, and in a case where information based on the optical code image has not been read by the reading unit from an image captured by the first imaging unit, to cause the reading unit to read information based on the optical code image, from an image captured by the second imaging unit, and execute processing corresponding to the read information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20210037188
    Abstract: If an on/off setting of an on-screen display (OSD) on a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel (“LCD OSD” setting) is changed from on to off on an “LCD OSD” setting screen of a menu screen, a system control unit stores a flag A indicating that the “LCD OSD” setting is changed to off into a system memory. If a menu end operation is made and the flag A is stored, the system control unit changes the “LCD OSD” setting to off and ends the menu screen. The setting of the information display on the LCD panel can thereby be made with high operability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Patent number: 10874996
    Abstract: To provide a nanobubble generating nozzle that is compact and capable of generating nanobubbles with high efficiency. The problem is solved by a nanobubble generating nozzle and a nanobubble generator including this nanobubble generating nozzle. The nanobubble generating nozzle includes an introduction part for introducing a mixed fluid of a liquid and a gas into an interior thereof, a jetting part for feeding out the mixed fluid containing nanobubbles of the gas, and a nanobubble generating structure part for generating nanobubbles of the gas, between the introduction part and the jetting part. The nanobubble generating structure part includes a plurality of flow paths having different cross-sectional areas through which the mixed fluid of the liquid and the gas is passed, in an axial direction of the nanobubble generating nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AQUA SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Ota, Takahumi Goto
  • Patent number: 10812725
    Abstract: Included are a display control unit configured to display a live view image being imaged by an imaging unit, and to display a display item indicating a degree of in-focus, superimposed on the live view image; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to a degree of in-focus in a focus detecting region; and a changing unit configured to change display positions and display forms of a first indicator and second indicator that indicate a degree of in-focus by a positional display relationship with each other, and a third indicator that indicates a focus position, based on information acquired by the acquiring unit, the first indicator and the second indicator and the third indicator are included in the display item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Soushi Takita, Koichi Okada, Masaaki Kano, Hidetaka Uemura, Satoshi Ishimaru