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: 9935488
    Abstract: A charging coil of a portable terminal charging apparatus is provided with a first detection coil, and a second detection coil disposed inward of the first detection coil and having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the first detection coil. The first and second detection coils are connected to a controller. If the ratio (V2/V1) of a second voltage (V2) detected by the second detection coil to a first voltage (V1) detected by the first detection coil is less than a first set value held in a memory between starting of conduction of the charging coil and connection of a charging load of the portable terminal, the controller performs a safety operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuto Yamanishi, Ken Hatakeyama, Tomohiro Ota, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9927400
    Abstract: The present invention provides a field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer for selectively separating at least one kind of material from a mixture containing two or more kinds of materials. A filter included in the spectrometry comprises first—four plate-like electrodes each having a principal plane parallel to a direction from an ionizer toward a filter. The second plate-like electrode is located between the first plate-like electrode and the third plate-like electrode. The third plate-like electrode is located between the second plate-like electrode and the fourth plate-like electrode. The third and fourth plate-like electrodes are electrically connected to the first and second plate-like electrodes, respectively. An interspace is formed between two adjacent plate-like electrodes. The present invention provides a field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer having high separation ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Tsukuda, Tomohiro Ota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Norihito Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 9860457
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an object, a display unit configured to display a video image captured by the capturing unit, an extracting unit configured to extract an area of the video image that is within a display range displayed by the display unit and is smaller than the display range, a detecting unit configured to detect a change in a position or attitude of the apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that an area of the video image that is within the display range displayed by the display unit and is not extracted by the extracting unit is larger on a side in a direction in which the position or attitude of the apparatus changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170366732
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a communication unit for communication with an image capturing apparatus including a display unit; an input unit configured to input a setting change request to the image capturing apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit to transmit, to the image capturing apparatus, second information to be highlighted together with first information indicating contents of the setting change request so as to highlight a display element related to the setting change request when displayed in the display unit of the image capturing apparatus in a case where the contents of the setting change request meet a predetermined condition, and control the communication unit to transmit the first information to the image capturing apparatus without transmitting the second information in a case where the contents of the setting change request do not meet the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170351372
    Abstract: Upon detection of a touch operation, an intensity of the touch is detected to calculate a provisional value of the touch intensity, and a video image to which a visual effect based on the provisional value is applied is displayed. Upon detection of removal of the touch, a definite value of the touch intensity is calculated and a confirmation screen for confirming whether to apply a visual effect based on the definite value is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170343510
    Abstract: The present invention provides a field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer for selectively separating at least one kind of material from a mixture containing two or more kinds of materials. A filter included in the spectrometry comprises first—four plate-like electrodes each having a principal plane parallel to a direction from an ionizer toward a filter. The second plate-like electrode is located between the first plate-like electrode and the third plate-like electrode. The third plate-like electrode is located between the second plate-like electrode and the fourth plate-like electrode. The third and fourth plate-like electrodes are electrically connected to the first and second plate-like electrodes, respectively. An interspace is formed between two adjacent plate-like electrodes. The present invention provides a field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer having high separation ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: MASAHIKO TSUKUDA, TOMOHIRO OTA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO, NORIHITO TSUKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20170295344
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus generates a reduced image by reducing an image, generates a first cutout image by cutting out a part of the image before the reduction, performs processing for image recording involving writing into a memory on the reduced image and performs recording processing for recording the processed image, presents a first display by outputting an image based on the reduced image to a display unit, presents an enlarged display larger than the first display by outputting an image based on the first cutout image to the display unit during the recording processing, and does not perform specific processing involving reading or the writing of data from or into the memory at least when the enlarged display is ongoing during the recording processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Michinori Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9778686
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a touch detection unit that detects a touch operation to a display unit. A display control unit controls operation so as to display a touch icon to the display unit. An attitude detection unit detects an attitude of the electronic apparatus. A setting unit sets a case mode to be used when the electronic apparatus is put in a case. A control unit controls, in a case when the case mode is not set by the setting unit, to change a position of a touch-responsive area adapted to receive a touch operation to the touch icon in accordance with the attitude of the electronic apparatus detected by the attitude detection unit, and, in a case when the case mode is set by the setting unit, not to change the position of the touch-responsive area irrespective of the attitude of the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Kurumi Mori, Tomohiro Ota, Toshimichi Ise, Kyota Saito
  • Patent number: 9734972
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a contactor including a fixed contact and a movable contact, and an electromagnet device for moving the movable contact. The electromagnet device includes a coil generating a first magnetic flux by energization, a tubular body including a permanent magnet generating a second magnetic flux in a direction identical to a direction of the first magnetic flux and having a hollow extending in a center axis direction, a movable element disposed in the hollow of the tubular body and reciprocating in the center axis direction, and a yoke forming a magnetic circuit passing together with the movable element and the tubular body. The magnetic circuit allows at least one of the first and second magnetic fluxes to pass through the magnetic circuit. The electromagnet device is configured to, when the coil is energized, move the movable contact to a first position by attracting the movable element with the first magnetic flux and the second magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Fukuda, Kazuhiro Kodama, Junji Takahashi, Hisashi Hiraki, Shuichi Katayama, Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170126067
    Abstract: This contactless power transmission device transmits power to a contactless power reception device having a reception-side coil and a reception-side resonator which resonates with the reception-side coil. The contactless power transmission device has a transmission unit including a transmission-side coil, a transmission-side resonator which resonates with the transmission-side coil, and an inverter for feeding power to the transmission-side resonator. The inductance value of the transmission-side coil and/or the capacitance value of the transmission-side resonator is set so that the frequency range in which the phase difference of a primary-side current flowing through the transmission unit relative to a primary-side voltage applied to the transmission unit is zero or above is wider than when the inductance value of the reception-side coil are equal to each other as are the capacitance value of the reception-side resonator and the capacitance value of the transmission-side resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: MASAYOSHI KOIZUMI, OSAMU OHASHI, TOMOHIRO OTA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170078566
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a readout unit that reads out information recorded in association with an image and that indicates an effect applied to the image, a processing unit that applies an effect to an image, and a control unit that, in a case where the information indicating the effect applied to the image has been read out, performs control to restrict the processing unit from applying to the image a part of effects including an effect other than the applied effect and being set according to the applied effect indicated by the information, from among a plurality of effects that can be applied by the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170064217
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an object, a display unit configured to display a video image captured by the capturing unit, an extracting unit configured to extract an area of the video image that is within a display range displayed by the display unit and is smaller than the display range, a detecting unit configured to detect a change in a position or attitude of the apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that an area of the video image that is within the display range displayed by the display unit and is not extracted by the extracting unit is larger on a side in a direction in which the position or attitude of the apparatus changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20170054320
    Abstract: This mobile terminal charging device has a support plate in which the front surface-side part is where a mobile terminal is installed, a charging coil disposed facing the support plate on the rear surface-side of the support plate, a plurality of detection coils concentrically disposed in the charging coil on a surface opposite the support plate, and a control unit connected to the detecting coils. When a charging operation is carried out, the control unit compares the difference between a voltage value detected using a first detecting coil among the plurality of detecting coils, and a voltage value detected using two detecting coils from a group comprising the first detecting coil and at least one detecting coil disposed outward of the first detecting coil. In addition, the control unit executes a safety operation in accordance with the results of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: YUTO YAMANISHI, KEN HATAKEYAMA, TOMOHIRO OTA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170005505
    Abstract: A charging coil of a portable terminal charging apparatus is provided with a first detection coil, and a second detection coil disposed inward of the first detection coil and having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the first detection coil. The first and second detection coils are connected to a controller. If the ratio (V2/V1) of a second voltage (V2) detected by the second detection coil to a first voltage (V1) detected by the first detection coil is less than a first set value held in a memory between starting of conduction of the charging coil and connection of a charging load of the portable terminal, the controller performs a safety operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YUTO YAMANISHI, KEN HATAKEYAMA, TOMOHIRO OTA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9524026
    Abstract: A portable apparatus includes a determination unit, a first notification unit, a second notification unit, and a control unit. The determination unit determines whether there occurs an event which is to be notified to a user. The first notification unit notifies the event to the user by a first method that gives a tactile sensation to an operation element via an input surface. The second notification unit notifies the event to the user in accordance with a second method that is different from the first method. The control unit causes a notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a contact state when the event occurs, the control unit performs control to cause the first notification unit to give a notification. Where the input surface is in a not-touched state when the event occurs, the control unit causes the second notification unit to give a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20160336133
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a contactor including a fixed contact and a movable contact, and an electromagnet device for moving the movable contact. The electromagnet device includes a coil generating a first magnetic flux by energization, a tubular body including a permanent magnet generating a second magnetic flux in a direction identical to a direction of the first magnetic flux and having a hollow extending in a center axis direction, a movable element disposed in the hollow of the tubular body and reciprocating in the center axis direction, and a yoke forming a magnetic circuit passing together with the movable element and the tubular body. The magnetic circuit allows at least one of the first and second magnetic fluxes to pass through the magnetic circuit. The electromagnet device is configured to, when the coil is energized, move the movable contact to a first position by attracting the movable element with the first magnetic flux and the second magnetic flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshihisa FUKUDA, Kazuhiro KODAMA, Junji TAKAHASHI, Hisashi HIRAKI, Shuichi KATAYAMA, Tomohiro OTA
  • Patent number: 9489167
    Abstract: A display unit that moves into a first position and a second position with respect to a main body portion includes setting, where the display unit is in the first position, any of a plurality of settings including a first setting, with which a normal image of an image is displayed, and a second setting, with which a mirror image of an image is displayed, and displaying, where the display unit is in the second position with the first setting, an image that has an orientation opposite to that of the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the first setting, and when the display unit is in the second position with the second setting, an image is displayed with the same orientation as the image displayed when the display unit is in the first position with the second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kurumi Mori, Tomohiro Ota, Toshimichi Ise, Akio Yoshikawa, Kyota Saito
  • Publication number: 20160295120
    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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Soushi Takita, Koichi Okada, Masaaki Kano, Hidetaka Uemura, Satoshi Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20160241064
    Abstract: In a mobile-terminal charging device, a controller performs a safety operation in a case where a resonance frequency detected by a foreign object detection coil corresponding to a location where a charging coil is present is higher than a reference resonance frequency stored in a memory, or a resonance voltage detected by a foreign object detection coil corresponding to a location where the charging coil is present is lower than a reference resonance voltage stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: KEN HATAKEYAMA, YUTO YAMANISHI, TOMOHIRO OTA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160217059
    Abstract: A debug device to more accurately compute current consumption or a current consumption quantity from a computer program to be executed in a mobile terminal when a computer program is debugged. The mobile terminal includes a terminal log information acquisition unit configured to acquire terminal log information indicating an operating state of hardware constituting the mobile terminal during debug execution and a current consumption computation unit configured to compute the current consumption or the current consumption quantity of the mobile terminal during debug execution on the basis of the terminal log information and computation information for computing the unique current consumption or the unique current consumption quantity from the operating state of the hardware which is pre-stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTA, Sadaatsu KATO, Takeshi KAMIYAMA, Takayuki NAKANISHI, Koichi ASANO