Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Ohno
Tomoyuki Ohno 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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Patent number: 11976798Abstract: A vehicle headlight (1) includes a first lamp unit (10) that includes a light distribution pattern forming unit (12) which forms a predetermined light distribution pattern (P1) according to the light amount of the light emitted from a plurality of light emitting elements (13), and a second lamp unit (20), in which a light distribution pattern (PL) of a low beam is formed by light emitted from the first lamp unit (10) and light emitted from the second lamp unit (20), and in the light distribution pattern (PL) of the low beam, the elbow point (EP) is included in a predetermined region (CA) formed by light including the light from the first lamp unit (10), and a first side region (SA1) and a second side region (SA2) sandwiching the predetermined region (CA) are formed by the light emitted from the second lamp unit (20).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Mochizuki, Atsushi Sugimoto, Tomoyuki Ohno, Takashi Terayama
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Publication number: 20240110685Abstract: Vehicle headlights are equipped with a right-side lamp, a left-side lamp, and a control unit. A right-side light distribution pattern and a left-side light distribution pattern include an overlapping area and a non-overlapping area. In a case where the steering angle is greater than the prescribed angle, the control unit controls power supplied to light-emitting parts of the right-side lamp and power supplied to light-emitting parts of the left-side lamp such that: a first area of a first light distribution pattern is located in the non-overlapping area; a second area of a second light distribution pattern is located in the overlapping area; and a first intensity of the light in the first area becomes greater than the sum of a second intensity of the light in the second area and a third intensity of the light in the area overlapping the second area within the first light distribution pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki OHNO
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Patent number: 11920508Abstract: An anomaly determination device, an anomaly determination method, and a memory medium for a water pump are provided. An acquisition process acquires an input variable of a map from image data obtained by capturing an outer surface of the water pump. Execution circuitry obtains provisional determination results from maps, respectively. The provisional determination results are respectively obtained by executing the provisional determination processes for output variables output from the maps. A determination finalizing process treats, as a majority of the provisional determination results, a final determination result indicating whether coolant has leaked out of the water pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki Kittaka, Tomoaki Suzuki, Makoto Ohno, Takuya Tsujiyama, Tadanobu Sobue, Raishiro Wada
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Publication number: 20240035639Abstract: A vehicular headlight (20) includes a first light source unit (41), a second light source unit (61), a temperature sensor (47), and a control unit (110). When the temperature derating is performed on the first light source unit (41) based on the temperature in a state where the light distribution pattern (910) of a low-beam is formed, the control unit (110) controls the power to be supplied to each of a plurality of light-emitting elements (43) so that the light amount of at least a part of the first light with which at least a region (911) of a first light distribution pattern (400) is irradiated decreases as compared with that before the temperature derating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma MOCHIZUKI, Atsushi SUGIMOTO, Tomoyuki OHNO, Takashi TERAYAMA, Toshiyuki TSUCHIYA, Atsushi UESUGI
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Publication number: 20230147287Abstract: Provided are a genome engineering method and a genome engineering kit which can efficiently engineer two or more alleles and are capable of engineering a relatively large region. The present invention provides a genome engineering method for engineering two or more alleles, comprising the steps of: (a) introducing the following (i) and (ii) to a cell comprising the chromosome: (i) a genome engineering system comprising a sequence-specific nucleic acid cleaving molecule targeting a target region in the chromosomal genome, or a polynucleotide encoding the sequence-specific nucleic acid cleaving molecule, and (ii) two or more donor DNAs for selective markers respectively having different selective marker genes (the number of types of the donor DNAs for selective markers are equal to or more than the number of the alleles that are subject to genome engineering); and (b) selecting the cell on the basis of all the selective marker genes carried by the two or more donor DNAs for selective markers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicants: Logomix, Inc., Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: Yasunori AIZAWA, Tomoyuki OHNO
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Publication number: 20230098917Abstract: A vehicle headlight (1) includes a first lamp unit (10) that includes a light distribution pattern forming unit (12) which forms a predetermined light distribution pattern (P1) according to the light amount of the light emitted from a plurality of light emitting elements (13), and a second lamp unit (20), in which a light distribution pattern (PL) of a low beam is formed by light emitted from the first lamp unit (10) and light emitted from the second lamp unit (20), and in the light distribution pattern (PL) of the low beam, the elbow point (EP) is included in a predetermined region (CA) formed by light including the light from the first lamp unit (10), and a first side region (SA1) and a second side region (SA2) sandwiching the predetermined region (CA) are formed by the light emitted from the second lamp unit (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma MOCHIZUKI, Atsushi SUGIMOTO, Tomoyuki OHNO, Takashi TERAYAMA
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Patent number: 10845021Abstract: A light emitting module includes an upper light emitting unit, a lower light emitting unit, an intermediate reflector provided between the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit, and a lens that projects images of the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit to a space in front of a vehicle. A plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices are provided such that a light emitting surface of each light emitting device faces the lens, and the intermediate reflector includes a reflecting surface that reflects a portion of light emitted from at least one of the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit toward the lens.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20200049321Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light emitter in which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a matrix, a projection lens configured to focus and project light emitted from the light emitter, a light emission drive unit configured to drive the light emitting element to emit light based on an input voltage from an in-vehicle battery, and a controller configured to perform control to cause both a lower side light emitting area and an upper side light emitting area to emit light in response to a high beam lighting instruction and to cause the lower side light emitting area not to emit light in response to a low beam lighting instruction. The controller is configured to vary light amount distribution of the upper side light emitting area at a time of high beam lighting and a time of low beam lighting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki OHNO
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Publication number: 20190211986Abstract: A light emitting module is a light emitting module used in a lamp and includes: a light source in which a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements are provided as a light emitting element array of a plurality of stages; and a mount in which the light source is mounted. In the mount, a plurality of standard packages of the same configuration are arranged, and the standard package has the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements carried thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Tokida, Tetsuya Suzuki, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20180266642Abstract: A light emitting module includes an upper light emitting unit, a lower light emitting unit, an intermediate reflector provided between the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit, and a lens that projects images of the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit to a space in front of a vehicle. A plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices are provided such that a light emitting surface of each light emitting device faces the lens, and the intermediate reflector includes a reflecting surface that reflects a portion of light emitted from at least one of the upper light emitting unit and the lower light emitting unit toward the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Tomoyuki OHNO
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Patent number: 9837046Abstract: A display control device comprises calibration unit configured to display an image for colorimetry on a screen of a display panel and performing calibration processing of adjusting display quality of the display panel on the basis of a colorimetry result obtained by colorimetry with a sensor; detection unit configured to detect a predetermined event that can decrease an accuracy of colorimetry of the sensor while the calibration processing is executed; and determination unit configured to perform determination processing of determining whether or not to stop the calibration processing by comparing the colorimetry results before the detection and after the detection of the predetermined event with the sensor when the detection unit has detected the predetermined event.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Kudo, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 9699861Abstract: A light emitting apparatus having a plurality of light sources comprises a brightness sensor; a first malfunction detecting unit configured to detect any malfunction of each of the light sources; a second malfunction detecting unit configured to detect any malfunction of the brightness sensor; a storage unit configured to store a target value of a detected value of the brightness of each of the light sources; and a control unit configured to determine a light emission control value of each of the light sources so as to decrease a difference between the target value and the detected value of the brightness of each of the light sources; wherein the control unit allows the light emission control value to be set to a fixed value if the malfunction of at least any one of the light source and the brightness sensor is detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 9542894Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an image; a light emission unit configured to individually control light emission for each of a plurality of divided regions; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each divided region, a characteristic value of the image displayed on each of the divided regions; and a control unit. The control unit controls light emission of the light emission unit such that: in a moving image region, in which only a moving image is displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at a brightness based on a characteristic value of the moving image region; and in a mixed region, in which both of the moving image and a still image are displayed, among the plurality of divided regions, light is emitted at predetermined brightness.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Ohno, Atsushi Morita, Masaki Akamatsu
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Patent number: 9497512Abstract: A content player which receives a broadcast content and an information content and plays back a video image concerning a content, comprises a channel selection unit configured to select a channel to view the broadcast content; an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of an information content corresponding to the broadcast content on the channel selected by the channel selection unit; a detection unit configured to detect that the broadcast content on the selected channel has been viewed starting halfway; a determination unit configured to, if the detection unit has detected that the broadcast content has been viewed starting halfway, determine whether to notify that it is possible to view, from the beginning, the broadcast content that has been viewed starting halfway; and a notification unit configured to generate a notification image for notification when the determination unit has determined to notify.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Ukawa, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20160055624Abstract: Provided is a display device including an input unit configured to receive an input of first image data from an outside, a generating unit configured to generate second image data, a combining unit configured to combine the second image data with the first image data to generate display data, a display unit configured to display an image based on the display data, and a control unit configured to perform, when a fixed period elapses after an image based on the second image data is displayed on the display unit, control for changing display state of the image based on the second image data according to content of the second image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventor: Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20150206505Abstract: A display control device comprises calibration unit configured to display an image for colorimetry on a screen of a display panel and performing calibration processing of adjusting display quality of the display panel on the basis of a colorimetry result obtained by colorimetry with a sensor; detection unit configured to detect a predetermined event that can decrease an accuracy of colorimetry of the sensor while the calibration processing is executed; and determination unit configured to perform determination processing of determining whether or not to stop the calibration processing by comparing the colorimetry results before the detection and after the detection of the predetermined event with the sensor when the detection unit has detected the predetermined event.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Seiji Kudo, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 9086790Abstract: An image displaying method of displaying an image selected from images stored in an image storing apparatus onto a display has the step of displaying the image selected from the images stored in the image storing apparatus into a partial area on the display based on a relative positional relation between the image storing apparatus and the display.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20150193133Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control, a selection unit, and a control unit. The display control unit is configured to superimpose and display a second display item on a first display item on a display unit. The selection unit is configured to select a display item displayed on the display unit. The control unit is configured to control not to accept a selection operation of the second display item within a predetermined time after the second display item starts to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventor: Tomoyuki Ohno
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Publication number: 20150138060Abstract: a display apparatus, comprises a display panel; a backlight that illuminates the display panel; a vibration member that vibrates the display panel; and a control unit that controls the backlight, wherein the control unit enhances brightness of the backlight at least in a part of a predetermined period, including a timing when the vibration member starts vibration, to be higher than brightness outside the predetermined period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Daisuke Takayanagi, Tomoyuki Ohno, Tomoki Kuroda, Yoshiki Iwakiri
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Publication number: 20150124321Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a display panel; a vibration element configured to vibrate the display panel; a detection unit configured to detect movement of the display apparatus or turn of the display panel; and a correction unit configured to vibrate the vibration element in a case where the detection unit detects the movement of the display apparatus or the turn of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Yoshiki Iwakiri, Tomoyuki Ohno, Daisuke Takayanagi, Tomoki Kuroda