Patents by Inventor Yasunori Ohto
Yasunori Ohto 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: 8871403Abstract: A fuel cell stack system is configured to uniformly supply a fuel or an electrolytic solution to each of fuel cell elements, and an electronic device using the fuel cell stack system are provided. An electrolytic solution channel allowing an electrolytic solution to flow therethrough is arranged between a fuel electrode and an oxygen electrode, and a fuel channel allowing a fuel to flow therethrough is arranged outside of the fuel electrode. The electrolytic solution channels and the fuel channels of all fuel cell elements are connected in series to one another. That is, the fuel or the electrolytic solution emitted from an outlet of the fuel channel or the electrolytic solution channel of one fuel cell element enters into an inlet of the fuel channel or the electrolytic solution channel of the next fuel cell element through a connection channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kengo Makita, Shinichi Uesaka, Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20110223496Abstract: A fuel cell stack system is configured to uniformly supply a fuel or an electrolytic solution to each of fuel cell elements, and an electronic device using the fuel cell stack system are provided. An electrolytic solution channel allowing an electrolytic solution to flow therethrough is arranged between a fuel electrode and an oxygen electrode, and a fuel channel allowing a fuel to flow therethrough is arranged outside of the fuel electrode. The electrolytic solution channels and the fuel channels of all fuel cell elements are connected in series to one another. That is, the fuel or the electrolytic solution emitted from an outlet of the fuel channel or the electrolytic solution channel of one fuel cell element enters into an inlet of the fuel channel or the electrolytic solution channel of the next fuel cell element through a connection channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Makita, Shinichi Uesaka, Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20100304395Abstract: The present invention aims at presenting novel means for analyzing and correcting gene expression amounts. There is provided a gene expression amount normalizing method in which the number of cells in a sample is obtained by measuring a repeated sequence present in a substantially fixed proportion in a genome contained in the sample, and the number of cells obtained is used as an index for normalizing gene expression amounts obtained from the same sample. For example, a DNA sample 33 and an RNA sample 34 are obtained from the same sample 32, the DNA sample 33 is used as a sample for obtaining the number of cells, and the RNA sample 34 is used as a sample for obtaining the gene expression amounts, whereby the number of cells contained in the sample 32 and the gene expression amounts relating to the same sample 32 can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Yasunori OHTO, Tomoteru Abe
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Publication number: 20090246757Abstract: The present invention aims at presenting novel means for analyzing and correcting gene expression amounts. There is provided a gene expression amount normalizing method in which the number of cells in a sample is obtained by measuring a repeated sequence present in a substantially fixed proportion in a genome contained in the sample, and the number of cells obtained is used as an index for normalizing gene expression amounts obtained from the same sample. For example, a DNA sample 33 and an RNA sample 34 are obtained from the same sample 32, the DNA sample 33 is used as a sample for obtaining the number of cells, and the RNA sample 34 is used as a sample for obtaining the gene expression amounts, whereby the number of cells contained in the sample 32 and the gene expression amounts relating to the same sample 32 can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Tomoteru Abe
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Publication number: 20090216458Abstract: The present invention relates to a biological-information processing apparatus and a method, which are capable of measuring a hybridisation of a DMA chip without making use of a complex measurement configuration, at a low cost and with a high degree of accuracy, as well as relates to a program and a recording medium. An area enclosed by a spot boundary 461 is divided into spot internal areas 522 each having debris 463 and spot internal areas 521 each having no debris 463. For each of the spot internal areas 521 and 522, a flag f is set in accordance with the reliability of each of the spot internal areas 521 and 522 respectively in order to prevent data of a spot internal area having low reliability from being used. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus for measuring the fluorescence intensity of the DNA chip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Atsumi Tsujimoto
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Publication number: 20090208931Abstract: It is an object to improve the reliability and accuracy of normalization of gene expression levels, which have been measured separately, by providing a method for the acquisition of an index of high reliability and high accuracy as an index for performing the normalization such that the gene expression levels can be compared and verified. Provided is a method for normalizing a gene expression level, which has been measured for an analysis of a gene expression, by using plural gene expression levels measured for an acquisition of an index. The method includes acquiring a correlation among the plural gene expression levels measured for the acquisition of the index, and using the thus-acquired correlation as an index for normalizing the gene expression level measured for the analysis of the gene expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2005Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Tomoteru Abe
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Publication number: 20090197773Abstract: This invention relates to a bioreaction execution system and bioreaction execution method capable of producing electric fields in a flow channel, into which a solution with a target gene contained therein is dropped, on a DNA chip and causing the target gene to electrophoretically migrate, the DNA chip, an information processing system and information processing method, a program, and a recording medium. An AC supply unit 41 supplies an AC current to an electromagnetic induction generator unit 42, the electromagnetic induction generator unit 42 generates electromagnetic induction based on the thus-supplied AC current, and generates a magnetic field in adjacent to a flow channel which is formed on a mounted DNA chip 43 and into which a solution with a target gene contained therein is dropped. One of electric fields produced to negate the thus-generated magnetic field is canceled, while the other electric field is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Patent number: 7133539Abstract: A three-dimensional terrain-information generating system extracts a road region from altitude information arranged on a two-dimensional plane and adjusts the position and scale by matching the road region with a building/road map. Altitude information of a road region with a width that is greater than or equal to a preset width is obtained from the building/road map, and the obtained altitude information is arranged in a three-dimensional space. Ribbon forms that may intersect one another at a plurality of points are generated. Altitude information of a region such as a park that is almost free from the effects of a building on the three-dimensional terrain is obtained from the building/road map. Subsequently, a surface including such altitude information is created, thereby generating three-dimensional terrain data.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Patent number: 7119831Abstract: A display device including a camera is used by inserting it in the direction of a user's gaze. Alternatively, an image of the same area as that of a scene from a windshield of an automobile may be obtained and the image may be displayed by using an information providing apparatus installed in the automobile. A system provides information to the user by adding a two-dimensional or three-dimensional computer graphics object to an image taken by the camera. The information is directly added to a scene in the direction of the user's gaze and is displayed to the user. Thus the user can easily understand the relationship between the information and the position to which the information is added.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Patent number: 7116341Abstract: An information presentation apparatus creates a three-dimensional animation of a specific object in a three-dimensional virtual space on the basis of the human characteristic of paying more attention to a moving object. A user's attention can be drawn to a specific object, such as a destination building, in the virtual space displayed on the screen. Irrespective of whether the specific object is selected by the user or designated at the system side to which the user's attention is to be drawn, the user can easily detect the attention-drawing object.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20060143266Abstract: A communication system adopts communication means having a small effective communication range for communication between mobile terminals and a server functioning as a cell station, so that each server is responsible for a small range only. In this manner, the communication system produces information about how servers are distributed on the network based on the geographic location of each server, thereby pre-delivering the information about such geographic locations and estimating how much and when data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship between servers and mobile terminals for load sharing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2006Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Kenji Kameda
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Patent number: 7047021Abstract: A communication system adopts communication means having a small effective communication range for communication between mobile terminals and a server functioning as a cell station, so that each server is responsible for a small range only. In this manner, the communication system produces information about how servers are distributed on the network based on the geographic location of each server, thereby pre-delivering the information about such geographic locations and estimating how much and when data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship between servers and mobile terminals for load sharing.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Kenji Kameda
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Patent number: 6982712Abstract: A three-dimensional model generating system obtains altitude information corresponding to a specified building region on a building/road map. On the basis of the altitude distribution in the building region, a plane corresponding to a connected subset of observation data is obtained. After all pieces of observation data are allocated to planes, the planes are interconnected to form a simply-connected polyhedron serving as a building model. Accordingly, individual pieces of building information, which are free from the effects of a building-located region, are generated on the basis of three-dimensional terrain information and a set of planes.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20050108781Abstract: A method and an apparatus for introducing information into a living organism without fail and without disturbing the original function of the living organism. Information to be introduced into a biogenic DNA is prepared in a step. This information is compressed in the next Step. The compressed data is converted into base sequence data in the next step. The base sequence data has an error correction code inserted thereinto in the next step, has a buffer sequence inserted thereinto in the next Step, and has a sequence for positive selection inserted thereinto in the next step. If the position of introduction is determined in the next step to be a sequence complementary to the untranslated region, then an intron sequence is added. If the position of introduction is determined in the next step to be intron, then the next step is skipped and the position for introduction (which has the least effect on the living organism) is determined in the following step immediately after the skipped step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Patent number: 6798414Abstract: A base animation storing unit stores base animation, generated for each grid point in a range of adaptation with regard to a certain motion. A synthesizing unit starts adaptation motion synthesizing in the event that an end effector exists within the range of adaptation. The synthesizing unit calculates a weight array based on the position of a target and the position of each grid point, and adds base animation with the calculation results as linear addition coefficients, thereby generating the desired animation. Accordingly, animation cooperatively display with multiple objects of display can be effectively generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Takashi Nozaki, Yoichiro Serita
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Publication number: 20040137917Abstract: A communication system adopts communication means having a small effective communication range for communication between mobile terminals and a server functioning as a cell station, so that each server is responsible for a small range only. In this manner, the communication system produces information about how servers are distributed on the network based on the geographic location of each server, thereby pre-delivering the information about such geographic locations and estimating how much and when data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship between servers and mobile terminals for load sharing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Kenji Kameda
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Publication number: 20040027344Abstract: A three-dimensional terrain-information generating system extracts a road region from altitude information arranged on a two-dimensional plane and adjusts the position and scale by matching the road region with a building/road map. Altitude information of a road region with a width that is greater than or equal to a preset width is obtained from the building/road map, and the obtained altitude information is arranged in a three-dimensional space. Ribbon forms that may intersect one another at a plurality of points are generated. Altitude information of a region such as a park that is almost free from the effects of a building on the three-dimensional terrain is obtained from the building/road map. Subsequently, a surface including such altitude information is created, thereby generating three-dimensional terrain data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20030218617Abstract: An information presentation apparatus creates a three-dimensional animation of a specific object in a three-dimensional virtual space on the basis of the human characteristic of paying more attention to a moving object. A user's attention can be drawn to a specific object, such as a destination building, in the virtual space displayed on the screen. Irrespective of whether the specific object is selected by the user or designated at the system side to which the user's attention is to be drawn, the user can easily detect the attention-drawing object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2003Publication date: November 27, 2003Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20030184545Abstract: A three-dimensional model generating system obtains altitude information corresponding to a specified building region on a building/road map. On the basis of the altitude distribution in the building region, a plane corresponding to a connected subset of observation data is obtained. After all pieces of observation data are allocated to planes, the planes are interconnected to form a simply-connected polyhedron serving as a building model. Accordingly, individual pieces of building information, which are free from the effects of a building-located region, are generated on the basis of three-dimensional terrain information and a set of planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunori Ohto
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Publication number: 20030160867Abstract: A display device including a camera is used by inserting it in the direction of a user's gaze. Alternatively, an image of the same area as that of a scene from a windshield of an automobile may be obtained and the image may be displayed by using an information providing apparatus installed in the automobile. A system provides information to the user by adding a two-dimensional or three-dimensional computer graphics object to an image taken by the camera. The information is directly added to a scene in the direction of the user's gaze and is displayed to the user. Thus the user can easily understand the relationship between the information and the position to which the information is added.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Mitsuharu Ohki