Patents by Inventor Tomonori Ishikawa
Tomonori Ishikawa 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: 20240085743Abstract: In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Tomonori NISHINO, Masato SHIMURA, Tomokazu ISHIKAWA, Yuki KURAMOTO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11513332Abstract: Provided is a microscope apparatus including: a microscope section configured to perform magnified observation of a subject's eye while obtaining a red reflex caused by irradiating a fundus of the subject's eye with illuminating light; a holding section configured to hold the microscope section; and a tilting section configured to tilt an illumination optical axis which is an optical axis of an illumination optical system, and an observation optical axis which is an optical axis of an observation optical system in the microscope section, around a tilt reference point in an interior of the subject's eye as a base point, while maintaining a substantially coaxial state between the illumination optical axis and the observation optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tomonori Ishikawa, Noboru Shibuya, Yoshia Hoshino, Takashi Fukaya, Masaaki Ueda
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Publication number: 20220080839Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a train control system which is a device executing an exclusive control between trains for each of a plurality of sections dividing up a track, wherein said train control system comprises: an on-ground device which manages whether each of the trains has a right to advance into each of the sections; and, an on-board device which is mounted on the trains, said trains comprising an on-board branch device, and with respect to one of the sections to which the on-ground device has given a certain train the right to advance, if said section is a branch section, which is a section that includes a branch, and when a branch direction of the train in said branch section and a branch direction of the on-board branch device coincide, said on-board device self-determines whether it is possible to advance into said branch section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Noritaka YANAI, Tomonori ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11160451Abstract: Provided is a microscope apparatus including: a microscope section configured to image a subject's eye with an image sensor for performing magnified observation of the subject's eye; a holding section configured to hold the microscope section; a front lens insertion/removal unit configured to insert/remove a front lens for observing a posterior eye of the subject's eye onto an optical axis of the microscope section; and a control apparatus configured to execute an AF control that focuses the microscope section on an image-forming position of an image of the posterior eye by the front lens when the front lens is inserted onto the optical axis of the microscope section by the front lens insertion/removal unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tomonori Ishikawa, Naobumi Okada
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Patent number: 11147647Abstract: To reduce more load related to the correction of deformation of an observation image that is caused by an error between a plurality of imaging sections. A medical stereoscopic observation device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an imaging unit including a first imaging section configured to capture a left-eye image and a second imaging section configured to capture a right-eye image, correction data for correcting an error related to capturing of an image between the first imaging section and the second imaging section, the imaging unit being rotatably held by a support section; and a correction section configured to correct a difference of parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image on a basis of the correction data, using a position corresponding to a rotation axis of the imaging unit as a reference position.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MRDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Masataka Kado, Tomonori Ishikawa, Gakuji Higuchi, Hiroshi Ushiroda, Takahiro Yamamoto, Masashige Kimura
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Publication number: 20210031819Abstract: The present invention provides an operation system which can finely control the operation of a train in response to the operation state of the train at low cost in a traffic system that uses a process of dynamically setting a path and an operation interval. This traffic control system is provided with: on-board control units installed on trains that are traveling, and an on-ground control unit installed on the ground. The on-board control units are installed on a plurality of trains, respectively, the operations of which are managed by the traffic control systems, perform a track demand on the basis of a delivered operation mode, and deliver information on the track demand to the on-ground control unit. The on-ground control unit controls the progress of the train on the basis of the delivered track demand.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Noritaka YANAI, Masahiro YAMADA, Tomonori ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10888390Abstract: Provided is a sterile drape configured to cover a medical observation apparatus to keep the medical observation apparatus sterile, the medical observation apparatus including a microscope part configured to magnify and image a microfine site of an observation object, an input part configured to receive an input of an operation instruction to the microscope part, and a grip part having a bar shape and having a surface provided with at least a portion of the input part, the sterile drape including: an attaching part configured to be fixed and attached to the grip part in a state where the sterile drape covers the medical observation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Gakuji Higuchi, Junichi Nozawa, Tomonori Ishikawa, Masataka Kado
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Publication number: 20200306003Abstract: Provided is a medical control apparatus including an imaging control unit that adjusts an inward angle which is an angle formed by an imaging direction in a first imaging device that captures a medical image for the right eye and an imaging direction in a second imaging device that captures a medical image for the left eye to the inward angle corresponding to a display device that displays the medical image for the right eye and the medical image for the left eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shinji KATSUKI, Motoaki KOBAYASHI, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Kazunori SEGAWA
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Publication number: 20200306000Abstract: There is provided a medical control apparatus including an illumination control unit that performs, based on a detection result of brightness relating to imaging, a first control of controlling brightness of a light source of an observation device for observing an observation target and a second control of controlling brightness of an illumination apparatus that irradiates the observation target with illumination light from an outside of the observation device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro OKABE, Mitsuaki SHIRAGA, Tomonori ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20200178795Abstract: Provided is a microscope apparatus including: a microscope section configured to image a subject's eye with an image sensor for performing magnified observation of the subject's eye; a holding section configured to hold the microscope section; a front lens insertion/removal unit configured to insert/remove a front lens for observing a posterior eye of the subject's eye onto an optical axis of the microscope section; and a control apparatus configured to execute an AF control that focuses the microscope section on an image-forming position of an image of the posterior eye by the front lens when the front lens is inserted onto the optical axis of the microscope section by the front lens insertion/removal unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Naobumi OKADA
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Publication number: 20200163555Abstract: A light shielding member covering a subject placement portion in which the subject is placed and a light irradiation unit that irradiates the subject with light through the subject placement portion while imaging is not underway in a photoacoustic device that images a subject and includes the subject placement portion and the light irradiation unit, the light shielding member includes a display surface that indicates positional information relating to an imaging available region on the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Tomonori Ishikawa, Takahiro Noguchi, Hitomi Ogasawara
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Patent number: 10634893Abstract: [Object] To provide a medical observation apparatus and a medical observation system that can ensure the user's visual field and have good manipulability.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Gakuji Higuchi, Tomonori Ishikawa, Masataka Kado
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Publication number: 20200124826Abstract: A cemented lens includes a first lens, a second lens and a cementation layer. The first lens includes a convex surface. The second lens includes a concave surface. The cementation layer cements the convex surface to the concave surface. The cementation layer includes a resin and a gap material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Masashi KITSUNEZUKA, Soji MASUI, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Takashi AOKI, Osamu FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20200064615Abstract: Provided is a microscope apparatus including: a microscope section configured to perform magnified observation of a subject's eye while obtaining a red reflex caused by irradiating a fundus of the subject's eye with illuminating light; a holding section configured to hold the microscope section; and a tilting section configured to tilt an illumination optical axis which is an optical axis of an illumination optical system, and an observation optical axis which is an optical axis of an observation optical system in the microscope section, around a tilt reference point in an interior of the subject's eve as a base point, while maintaining a substantially coaxial state between the illumination optical axis and the observation optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Noboru SHIBUYA, Yoshia HOSHINO, Takashi FUKAYA, Masaaki UEDA
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Patent number: 10561304Abstract: [Object] To present a three-dimensional image in a more favorable mode, regardless of differences in display conditions. [Solution] A medical stereoscopic observation device including: an acquisition section that acquires input image data; a parallax control section that controls, for each of a plurality of different display regions, a parallax value in accordance with display size of the display region; and an image generation section that generates, for each display region, a parallax image corresponding to each of a plurality of viewpoints for display in the display region, on a basis of the acquired input image data and the parallax value corresponding to the display region.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tomonori Ishikawa, Masataka Kado, Hiroshi Ushiroda
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Publication number: 20190192251Abstract: To reduce more load related to the correction of deformation of an observation image that is caused by an error between a plurality of imaging sections. A medical stereoscopic observation device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire, from an imaging unit including a first imaging section configured to capture a left-eye image and a second imaging section configured to capture a right-eye image, correction data for correcting an error related to capturing of an image between the first imaging section and the second imaging section, the imaging unit being rotatably held by a support section; and a correction section configured to correct a difference of parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image on a basis of the correction data, using a position corresponding to a rotation axis of the imaging unit as a reference position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masataka KADO, Tomonori ISHIKAWA, Gakuji HIGUCHI, Hiroshi USHIRODA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Masashige KIMURA
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Publication number: 20190069969Abstract: Provided is a sterile drape configured to cover a medical observation apparatus to keep the medical observation apparatus sterile, the medical observation apparatus including a microscope part configured to magnify and image a microfine site of an observation object, an input part configured to receive an input of an operation instruction to the microscope part, and a grip part having a bar shape and having a surface provided with at least a portion of the input part, the sterile drape including: an attaching part configured to be fixed and attached to the grip part in a state where the sterile drape covers the medical observation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Gakuji Higuchi, Junichi Nozawa, Tomonori Ishikawa, Masataka Kado
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Patent number: 10106058Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame, a base portion, and a guide structure. The guide structure includes a rail and a rolling mechanism. The rolling mechanism includes an upper guide roller, a lower guide roller, and a roller holder. The rolling mechanism is sandwiched by an upper rolling surface and a lower rolling surface of the rail. The guide structure is configured such that when an occupant load is input to the cushion frame, the guide roller and the rolling surface at one of a first contact point or a second contact point come relatively close together, such that pressure increases, due to a relative position of the roller holder and the rail changing, with the other of the first contact point or the second contact point as a reference point.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sohei Matsuyama, Tomonori Ishikawa, Komei Yano, Kento Yoshida
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Patent number: 10085803Abstract: Provided is a sterile drape configured to cover a medical observation apparatus to keep the medical observation apparatus sterile, the medical observation apparatus including a microscope part configured to magnify and image a microfine site of an observation object, an input part configured to receive an input of an operation instruction to the microscope part, and a grip part having a bar shape and having a surface provided with at least a portion of the input part, the sterile drape including: an attaching part configured to be fixed and attached to the grip part in a state where the sterile drape covers the medical observation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Gakuji Higuchi, Junichi Nozawa, Tomonori Ishikawa, Masataka Kado
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Patent number: 10067778Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry configured to identify a plurality of systems that each access at least one of a plurality of virtual machines executed by a server, generate, for each system, a value indicating whether performance of the system satisfies an agreement for the system if a virtual machine accessed by the system is stopped, determine a virtual machine to be stopped among the plurality of virtual machines based on the values.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomonori Ishikawa, Hidenori Ishikawa, Shingo Kato