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).
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Publication number: 20140365159Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
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Patent number: 8848004Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunobu Kato
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Patent number: 8825431Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
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Publication number: 20130323825Abstract: 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 lineaType: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masashi Sekino, Yasunobu Kato, Tatsumi Ito
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Publication number: 20130026391Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masashi Sekino, Yasunobu Kato, Tatsumi Ito
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Patent number: 8334884Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunobu Kato
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Publication number: 20120123722Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya Kakuta, Koji Futamura, Yoshitsugu Sakai, Yasunobu Kato
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Publication number: 20120016616Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
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Publication number: 20120010822Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Yoshitsugu Sakai
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Publication number: 20100128053Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunobu Kato
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Publication number: 20090161015Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a display unit configured to carry out video displaying on a display panel based on a supplied video signal; and a video signal correcting unit configured to output a corrected video signal value obtained through arithmetic operation including division operation in response to an input video signal value, as correction processing suited to a characteristic of the display panel for a video signal to be supplied to the display unit, wherein the video signal correcting unit includes a memory table block having a plurality of reference tables, and a correction operation block that calculates a corrected video signal value through arithmetic operation including all or a part of addition, subtraction, and multiplication by using an input video signal value and the operation result values read out from reference tables dependent upon the input video signal value in the memory table block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunobu Kato
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Publication number: 20090015577Abstract: A driving method of a flat panel display apparatus of a line-sequential driving system in which the display apparatus has N first wirings extending in a first direction, M second wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and image display portions formed in overlapped regions of the first wirings and the second wirings, and the first to Nth first wirings are sequentially selected. A predetermined voltage is applied to each of the M second wirings for a period of time until the first first wiring is selected after the Nth first wiring was selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicants: Sony Corporation, Field Emission Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Norihito Nishimoto, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Yasunobu Kato
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Patent number: 6603922Abstract: An editing system includes an editing device 1 for editing a plurality of channels of video data, a disk recorder 2 constituted by a disk array having a plurality of disks, and a computer 3. The disk recorder 2 prepares a block map for managing recording areas on the disks so that respective subblock data are recorded at such position that a rotational delay time of a head becomes minimum in accessing the subblock data recorded on the respective disks. The disk recorder 2 then divides pixel data of source video frames into a plurality of subblocks for each frame on the basis of the block map, and records the subblocks so that the subblocks are dispersed on a plurality of different disks.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1999Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Shino, Tanio Nagasaki, Yasunobu Kato, Masaki Nishikawa, Noboru Ooya, Masatoshi Imai
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Patent number: 6545718Abstract: A control portion detects a level of video signals for each color when video signals are inputted from a frame memory to DSP circuits. Next, the control portion calculates an appropriate correction coefficient of each color to be used in modulation control of brightness, for every unit pixel or unit pixel array among a plurality of correction coefficients stored in its own memory in advance based on the detected signal level. The control portion instructs the DSP circuits to perform modulation of brightness by using the determined correction coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoru Nakanishi, Yasunobu Kato, Masamichi Okada
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Patent number: 6480242Abstract: An image display correcting apparatus of the invention comprises, broadly, a correction data forming apparatus and an image display apparatus. Correction data for correcting a display state of an image is formed by the correction data forming apparatus on the basis of an image as a reference displayed on the screen of a CRT. Further, on the basis of the correction data, an operation of correcting image data is executed so that an image is accurately displayed on the image display apparatus. The corrected image data is outputted to the CRT. Thus, a defective display state such as image distortion, misconvergence, or the like can be corrected at low cost and a high quality image can be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masamichi Okada, Yasunobu Kato, Hiromu Hosokawa, Yoshio Takayanagi, Takahiro Inoue
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Patent number: 6466268Abstract: An operation for correcting horizontally an array of pixels in two-dimensional image data is performed so that a plurality of divided frames are joined properly in position in the horizontal direction and displayed. The horizontally corrected image data is stored, in the order of write address, on memories for storing image data. The image data stored is read in the same order as the order of write address or in the order different from the order of write address. The image data outputted from the memories for storing image data is vertically corrected so that the divided frames are joined properly in position in the vertical direction and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Hiroshi Okuda, Tohru Kurata, Satoru Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6452636Abstract: An image control device and method, and image display device, capable of producing an image of high quality by joining a plurality of divided frames with the joint areas made inconspicuous. An index electrode is provided in an over-scan region on the side of the joint area of the right and left divided frames. The index electrode outputs a detection signal in response to an electron beam scanning in the over-scan region. Based on the detection signal, obtained is data on a pixel position in the joint area of the divided frames. Further, based on the data on the pixel position thus obtained, estimated is data on a pixel position in an area other than the joint area of the divided frames. Meanwhile, using data obtained based on the detection signal outputted from the index electrode, control of image data is exerted so that the left and right divided frames are joined properly.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Saito, Shoichi Muraguchi, Yasunobu Kato, Hiromu Hosokawa, Masamichi Okada
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Publication number: 20020024478Abstract: A multi-beam electron gun of the invention emits two electron beams for each of the three colors from the top and the bottom. A single composite screen is formed as a whole by the electron beam group on the top and the electron beam group on the bottom. Image distortion in all of the scanning screens formed by the electron beam group on the top and the electron beam group on the bottom are corrected by directly correcting the image data. At this time, correction of the image data is separately performed on the data for each electron beam, and is performed by changing the arrangement of pixels in terms of space and time. Thereby, image display using the multi-beam electron gun can be excellently performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Ryo Saito, Yasunobu Kato
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Patent number: 6223249Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling access to a disc storage device comprising a plurality of discs storing a plurality of second data obtained by dividing first data, the disc being configured such that a number of sectors included at tracks in an outer section of the disc is greater than a number of sectors included at tracks in an inner section of the disc. In particular, the method and device for controlling disc array decides the discs storing each of a plurality of the second data, and information comprising the addresses of the second data on the disc and the size of each item of a plurality of the second data in such a manner that the time required for accessing each of a plurality of the second data stored in the disc device becomes equal, with access then being carried out to the disc device on the basis of the decided information.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1997Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Takashi Totsuka, Hiroyuki Shioya
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Patent number: 6078989Abstract: There is provided a disc array control method and apparatus for controlling access to a disc drive consisting of a plurality of second data obtained by dividing a first data and a plurality of discs for storing the error correction data for the second data. Particularly, the disc array control method and apparatus of the present invention determines the information consisting of disc storing a plurality of the second data and address on the disc, data size of a plurality of second data and disc storing the error correction data and address on the disc to make equal the time required for access to a plurality of second data and error correction data and executes the access to the disc drive on the basis of the determined information. Thereby, the time required for access to the error correction data and sub-blocks can be set to equal time and the real-time property can be assured while maintaining high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kato, Takashi Totsuka, Hiroyuki Shioya