Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Kato

Yasunobu Kato 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).

  • Publication number: 20210123859
    Abstract: A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: MASAYA KAKUTA, KOJI FUTAMURA, YOSHITSUGU SAKAI, YASUNOBU KATO
  • Patent number: 10908075
    Abstract: A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Kakuta, Koji Futamura, Yoshitsugu Sakai, Yasunobu Kato
  • Publication number: 20200249166
    Abstract: A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200217784
    Abstract: A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: MASAYA KAKUTA, KOJI FUTAMURA, YOSHITSUGU SAKAI, YASUNOBU KATO
  • Publication number: 20200182772
    Abstract: Provided is a fine particle measurement apparatus that offers improved spectral separation capability with reduced noise. The fine particle measurement apparatus according to the present technology includes a detection section, a multiplication factor setting section, a correction factor calculation section, and a spectrum generation section. The detection section has a plurality of detectors for detecting light from fine particles. The multiplication factor setting section sets a multiplication factor for each of the plurality of detectors. The correction factor calculation section calculates a correction factor on the basis of the set multiplication factor. The spectrum generation section generates spectral data by correcting a value detected by the detector, with the calculated correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Umetsu, Masaaki Hara, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 10670509
    Abstract: A technology is provided, capable of reducing the time required for the flow velocity of a laminar flow to stabilize, and of providing more finely responsive control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Azuma, Yasunobu Kato, Fumitaka Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10656090
    Abstract: A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200124520
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, a particle sorting system, a program, and a particle sorting method that practice a spectral type analysis usable for sorting particles. [Solving Means] The information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology includes: an analysis unit; a learning unit; and a discrimination unit. The analysis unit calculates fluorophore information indicating respective amounts of luminescence of a plurality of types of fluorophores on the basis of detection data indicating amounts of luminescence of fluorescence at respective wavelength bands, the fluorescence having been emitted from a particle irradiated with excitation light, discriminates whether or not to treat the particle as a process target in accordance with the fluorophore information, and generates teaching data by associating a result of the discrimination with the detection data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Yamane, Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 10371639
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a testing section performing statistical testing on simple staining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on a particle subjected to simple staining with a staining material having a prescribed fluorescence characteristic and unstaining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on an unstained particle for comparison for a frequency band, a masking processing section setting, in a case where there is no significant difference between the simple staining data and the unstaining data for the frequency band, the simple staining data to 0 or a prescribed value, and an estimation section estimating, in a manner that double staining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on a particle stained with a plurality of staining materials is represented by a linear combination of base vectors representing a distribution of the simple staining data corresponding to each staining material, a combination coefficient of the linea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Sekino, Yasunobu Kato, Tatsumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20190212267
    Abstract: A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
  • Patent number: 10309891
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a particle sorting apparatus, a particle sorting method, and a program that are capable of efficiently sorting particles even when sizes of particles to be sorted are not uniform. [Solving Means] A particle sorting apparatus includes a charge section that imparts charges to at least a part of droplets discharged from an orifice from which a fluid stream is generated, and a charge control section that adjusts a charge amount to be imparted to the droplets by the charge section. Further, the charge control section is structured to adjust the charge amount according to sizes of particles included in the droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Muraki, Fumitaka Otsuka, Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 10295466
    Abstract: A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20190137383
    Abstract: [Object] To increase the accuracy of a reference spectrum. [Solution] An information processing device includes: a statistical processing unit configured to perform statistical processing for a group of spectra obtained by applying light to a group of microparticles that exhibit one response property with respect to light, and on a basis of a result of the statistical processing, exclude a spectrum indicating an outlier from the group of spectra; and a reference spectrum calculation unit configured to calculate a reference spectrum using the group of spectra from which the spectrum indicating the outlier has been excluded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI UMETSU, YASUNOBU KATO, NOBUHIRO HAYASHI, NAOKI IDE
  • Publication number: 20180348120
    Abstract: A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: MASAYA KAKUTA, KOJI FUTAMURA, YOSHITSUGU SAKAI, YASUNOBU KATO
  • Publication number: 20180024039
    Abstract: A technology is provided, capable of reducing the time required for the flow velocity of a laminar flow to stabilize, and of providing more finely responsive control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Azuma, Yasunobu Kato, Fumitaka Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9857286
    Abstract: A particle fractionating apparatus is described that can sort droplets containing particles in a first mode of operation, and distribute droplets that do not contain particles to a plurality of locations in a second mode of operation. The modes of operation are selectable by a user. Droplets may be emitted from a microchip of the particle fractionating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Muraki, Atsuo Fujimaki, Fumitaka Otsuka, Yasunobu Kato
  • Publication number: 20160266027
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a particle sorting apparatus, a particle sorting method, and a program that are capable of efficiently sorting particles even when sizes of particles to be sorted are not uniform. [Solving Means] A particle sorting apparatus includes a charge section that imparts charges to at least a part of droplets discharged from an orifice from which a fluid stream is generated, and a charge control section that adjusts a charge amount to be imparted to the droplets by the charge section. Further, the charge control section is structured to adjust the charge amount according to sizes of particles included in the droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Muraki, Fumitaka Otsuka, Yasunobu Kato
  • Publication number: 20160245736
    Abstract: A particle fractionating apparatus is described that can sort droplets containing particles in a first mode of operation, and distribute droplets that do not contain particles to a plurality of locations in a second mode of operation. The modes of operation are selectable by a user. Droplets may be emitted from a microchip of the particle fractionating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Muraki, Atsuo Fujimaki, Fumitaka Otsuka, Yasunobu Kato
  • Patent number: 9128055
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an estimation unit that expresses a light intensity distribution, which is obtained by irradiating light to a measurement object of a measurement target having a plurality of substances with mutually different responsive characteristics to the light on a surface and/or an inside of the measurement object, as a linear combination of light intensity distributions, which are obtained by irradiating the light to reference measurement objects, each of which has a single substance, models the light intensity distribution obtained from each of the reference measurement objects so as to follow a predetermined probability distribution, and estimates a combination coefficient of the linear combination from the light intensity distribution obtained from the measurement object of the measurement target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Sekino, Yasunobu Kato, Tatsumi Ito
  • Patent number: 8990024
    Abstract: A fluorescence intensity compensation method, includes: receiving, with photodetectors having different input wavelength bands, fluorescence emitted from fluorochromes excited by irradiating light on microparticles multiply-labeled by a plurality of fluorochromes with overlapping fluorescence wavelengths; collecting detected values for the photodetectors; and obtaining a measurement spectrum, by approximating, from the linear sum of single-stain spectrums obtained from microparticles individually labeled with the fluorochromes; wherein approximation of the measurement spectrum by the linear sum of the single-stain spectrums is performed using the restricted least-square method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai