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).
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Publication number: 20120133658Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a moving image display unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a moving image thereon, a reading unit configured to read animation information including a plurality of frame images, a detection unit configured to detect touch on the display apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display apparatus to display a first frame image of the animation information thereon if touch on a specific position of the display apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the moving image is being displayed on the display aparatus, and to start a transition display of frame images of the animation information if the touch on the display apparatus becomes undetected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kurumi Mori, Tomohiro Ota, Shuichiro Matsushima, Tomohiro Yano, Toshimichi Ise
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Patent number: 8059182Abstract: An apparatus and method provides different animations or effects when screens of different groups of icons are switched. This technique prevents a user for mistakenly assuming that icons on different screens necessarily are related to each other, even if they occupy the same location on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Ota, Keita Takatani, Hidehiko Morinaga
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Publication number: 20110102125Abstract: A plane coil which reduces an increase of an effective resistance in a high-frequency area and is made thinner is provided. The plane coil is equipped with plural conductive wires which are parallel to each other, wherein the conductive wires are arranged in a plane and spirally wound, and coil ends of the respective conductive wires are electrically connected to each other at coil lead-out portions and thus are connected in parallel. The conductive wires are arranged in plane, so that a coil thickness does not increase, and the coil is made thinner. Moreover, the plural conductive wires are connected in parallel, an increase of an effective resistance due to an influence of a skin effect in a high-frequency area is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.,Inventors: Hideki Tamura, Tomohiro Ota, Kyohei Kada, Masayuki Suzuki
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, PROGRAM THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20100321529Abstract: An image processing apparatus for retrieving and displaying image data related to an object included in image data, and a method of controlling the apparatus, whereby the image processing apparatus obtains image data, extracts feature data of an object in the image data, retrieves, from image data stored in a storage medium, image data having feature data similar to the extracted feature data, selects image data to be displayed from a plurality of items of retrieved image data, based on additional data of each of the plurality of retrieved image data, and displays the selected image data together with the obtained image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Ota -
Patent number: 7809416Abstract: A method of non-invasively determining a concentration of an in-vivo component such as blood sugar level (glucose) of a subject is provided. An absorption spectrum of the subject is measured by use of near-infrared light. The concentration of the in-vivo component is determined by use of the absorption spectrum of the subject and a calibration curve. The calibration curve is prepared by determining a plurality of difference absorption spectra that are differences between a plurality of near-infrared absorption spectra of a living body and a reference absorption spectrum selected from the near-infrared absorption spectra, determining a plurality of synthetic absorption spectra, which are obtained by synthesizing each of the difference absorption spectra with a previously measured reference absorption spectrum of the subject, and performing a multivariate analysis with use of the obtained synthetic absorption spectra.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Katsuhiro Hirata, Katsuhiko Maruo
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Publication number: 20100187912Abstract: Power saving is promoted by oscillating only power transmission coil contributing to contactless charging without using any communication means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu KITAMURA, Tomohiro OTA, Seiichi IWAO
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Publication number: 20100171861Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute a predetermined process, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a progress situation of the predetermined process executed by the processing unit, and a display control unit configured to display a progress situation display area for indicating the progress situation of the predetermined process on an area which lies along a plurality of adjacent sides of the display area on a display apparatus, and control a display state of the progress situation display area based on the progress situation acquired by the acquisition unit so that the display state changes from a state indicating that processing is yet to be performed to a state indicating that processing has been performed, progressively from one end to another end of the progress situation display area at a different rate based on a length of the sides along which the progress situation display area lies.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ota, Soushi Takita
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Publication number: 20100088643Abstract: An apparatus and method provides different animations or effects when screens of different groups of icons are switched. This technique prevents a user for mistakenly assuming that icons on different screens necessarily are related to each other, even if they occupy the same location on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ota, Keita Takatani, Hidehiko Morinaga
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Patent number: 7598734Abstract: A position sensor with excellent linearity of coil impedance is provided. This position sensor is equipped with a tubular detection coil, a magnetic core movable in the detection coil, a drive circuit for the detection coil, a signal processing circuit for converting a change in impedance of the detection coil into an electric signal, and a shield member disposed around the detection coil. The shield member is a tubular member having a first inner surface for surrounding an axial region of the detection coil, and a second inner surface for surrounding another axial region of the detection coil. The tubular member is formed such that a distance between the second inner surface and the detection coil is smaller than the distance between the first inner surface and the detection coil.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahisa Niwa, Yukiko Inooka, Yoshio Mitsutake, Tomohiro Ota
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Publication number: 20090103704Abstract: A compact voice information processing device having excellent howling preventing effect, and a wiring system using the same device, which is excellent in function expandability and easy exchangeability, are provided. This processing device has a speaker, a first microphone disposed to face a diaphragm of the speaker, a second microphone disposed outside of an outer periphery of the diaphragm of the speaker, and a signal processing portion for removing an output voice component of the speaker mixed in an output of the second microphone by use of an output of the first microphone. This processing device is preferably used in a wiring system for transmitting information and electric power between plural locations in a building structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Kousaku Kitada, Keiichi Yoshida, Yoshio Mitsutake, Yasushi Arikawa, Hiroaki Takeyama, Tomohiro Ota, Hiroshi Kawada, Shinya Kimoto, Manabu Nakata, Yuya Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20080315868Abstract: A position sensor with excellent linearity of coil impedance is provided. This position sensor is equipped with a tubular detection coil, a magnetic core movable in the detection coil, a drive circuit for the detection coil, a signal processing circuit for converting a change in impedance of the detection coil into an electric signal, and a shield member disposed around the detection coil. The shield member is a tubular member having a first inner surface for surrounding an axial region of the detection coil, and a second inner surface for surrounding another axial region of the detection coil. The tubular member is formed such that a distance between the second inner surface and the detection coil is smaller than the distance between the first inner surface and the detection coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2006Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Masahisa Niwa, Yukiko Inooka, Yoshio Mitsutake, Tomohiro Ota
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Publication number: 20070170877Abstract: An actuator includes a casing, a stationary member having a coil member and mounted in the casing and a movable member having a moving element and supported by the casing. The moving element has a shaft and is supported by the casing so as to be moved in an axial direction of the shaft and in a rotational direction having the axial direction of the shaft as its rotational axis and the moving element is moved in the axial direction and in the rotational direction by causing electric current to flow through the coil member. The stationary member includes a first stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the axial direction and a second stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the rotational direction, while the coil member includes a first coil member for exciting a first magnetic path passing through the first stationary member and a second coil member for exciting a second magnetic path passing through the second stationary member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Yuya HASEGAWA, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Yoshio MITSUTAKE, Tomohiro OTA, Ryo MOTOHASHI, Tomohiro KUNITA, Hiroaki SHIMIZU, Hidekazu YABUUCHI, Takahiro NISHINAKA
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Patent number: 7218018Abstract: An actuator includes a casing, a stationary member having a coil member and mounted in the casing and a movable member having a moving element and supported by the casing. The moving element has a shaft and is supported by the casing so as to be moved in an axial direction of the shaft and in a rotational direction having the axial direction of the shaft as its rotational axis and the moving element is moved in the axial direction and in the rotational direction by causing electric current to flow through the coil member. The stationary member includes a first stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the axial direction and a second stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the rotational direction, while the coil member includes a first coil member for exciting a first magnetic path passing through the first stationary member and a second coil member for exciting a second magnetic path passing through the second stationary member.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Yuya Hasegawa, Katsuhiro Hirata, Yoshio Mitsutake, Tomohiro Ota, Ryo Motohashi, Tomohiro Kunita, Hiroaki Shimizu, Hidekazu Yabuuchi, Takahiro Nishinaka
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Publication number: 20070030362Abstract: For two screen configurations with different icons are arranged in the same region, when screens are immediately switched from one to the other, the switching is not easy to be recognized, being mistaken that both icons have strong relationship with each other. After deleting a group of icons, the other group of icons is animated and arranged. Alternatively, a group of icons are deleted when the screen is switched, and after a window is animated in a region where the group of icons is displayed, the other group of icons is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ota, Keita Takatani, Hidehiko Morinaga
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Patent number: 7089152Abstract: A system for assisting shoe selection can select and present a shoe type that fits a customer by estimating the anatomical characteristics of a foot from the state of the foot. The system includes the following: a measured data input portion for measuring and inputting data that show the state of a foot of a person to be measured; a normalization processing portion for normalizing the data input from the measured data input portion and storing the normalized data at least temporarily; a shoe catalog database for storing information of a plurality of types of shoes; and a selection portion for estimating the anatomical characteristics of the foot of the person based on the normalized data, referring to the shoe catalog database based on the anatomical characteristics, and selecting and presenting a shoe type that fits the person.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2004Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Mizuno CorporationInventors: Takao Oda, Natsuki Sato, Isao Nakano, Yasunori Kaneko, Tomohiro Ota
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Publication number: 20060063987Abstract: A method of non-invasively determining a concentration of an in-vivo component such as blood sugar level (glucose) of a subject is provided. An absorption spectrum of the subject is measured by use of near-infrared light. The concentration of the in-vivo component is determined by use of the absorption spectrum of the subject and a calibration curve. The calibration curve is prepared by determining a plurality of difference absorption spectra that are differences between a plurality of near-infrared absorption spectra of a living body and a reference absorption spectrum selected from the near-infrared absorption spectra, determining a plurality of synthetic absorption spectra, which are obtained by synthesizing each of the difference absorption spectra with a previously measured reference absorption spectrum of the subject, and performing a multivariate analysis with use of the obtained synthetic absorption spectra.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Katsuhiro Hirata, Katsuhiko Maruo
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Publication number: 20050264669Abstract: An image processing apparatus is arranged so that when a special effect to be applied to an input image is selected, an image showing the behavior of the special effect is displayed during the selection, comprising an image input unit for inputting an image; a selecting unit for selecting a special effect to be applied to the input unit; an effect applying unit for applying the selected special effect to the input unit; a special effect image display unit for displaying an image showing behavior of the selected special effect during the selection by the selecting unit; and a display unit for displaying the image to which the effect applying unit has applied the special effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventor: Tomohiro Ota
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Publication number: 20050200207Abstract: An actuator includes a casing, a stationary member having a coil member and mounted in the casing and a movable member having a moving element and supported by the casing. The moving element has a shaft and is supported by the casing so as to be moved in an axial direction of the shaft and in a rotational direction having the axial direction of the shaft as its rotational axis and the moving element is moved in the axial direction and in the rotational direction by causing electric current to flow through the coil member. The stationary member includes a first stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the axial direction and a second stationary member for imparting to the movable member a force oriented in the rotational direction, while the coil member includes a first coil member for exciting a first magnetic path passing through the first stationary member and a second coil member for exciting a second magnetic path passing through the second stationary member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2003Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Yuya Hasegawa, Katsuhiro Hirata, Yoshio Mitsutake, Tomohiro Ota, Ryo Motohashi, Tomohiro Kunita, Hiroaki Shimizu, Hidekazu Yabuuchi, Takahiro Nishinaka
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Publication number: 20050049816Abstract: A system for assisting shoe selection can select and present a shoe type that fits a customer by estimating the anatomical characteristics of a foot from the state of the foot. The system includes the following: a measured data input portion for measuring and inputting data that show the state of a foot of a person to be measured; a normalization processing portion for normalizing the data input from the measured data input portion and storing the normalized data at least temporarily; a shoe catalog database for storing information of a plurality of types of shoes; and a selection portion for estimating the anatomical characteristics of the foot of the person based on the normalized data, referring to the shoe catalog database based on the anatomical characteristics, and selecting and presenting a shoe type that fits the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Applicant: MIZUNO CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Oda, Natsuki Sato, Isao Nakano, Yasunori Kaneko, Tomohiro Ota
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Patent number: 6710483Abstract: A revolution type actuator having a movable member performing a revolution motion includes a movable member capable of revolving with respect to a fixed member, a plurality of conducting paths which are provided on a face parallel to a trajectory face of the above-mentioned revolution motion and through which currents flow in mutually intersecting directions, power supply which flows currents having different phases through the above-mentioned plurality of conducting paths, and a magnetic field generator which forms a magnetic field perpendicular to the above-mentioned conducting path, in which the above-mentioned movable member revolves due to an electromagnetic force generated by an interaction between a current flowing through said conducting path and a magnetic field generated by the above-mentioned magnetic field generator.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Katsuhiro Hirata, Hitoshi Kitano, Yoshikazu Shikata