Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Okada

Yoshinori Okada 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: 20240145744
    Abstract: The present invention is a fuel cell evaluation system that obtains an actual gas consumption amount in a fuel cell in real time with accuracy and calculates a consumption amount of a fuel gas in the fuel cell, the fuel cell evaluation system including: a fuel gas supply path that supplies a fuel gas of a first flow rate to the fuel cell; a fuel gas discharge path that discharges the fuel gas from the fuel cell; an inert gas introduction path that introduces an inert gas of a second flow rate into the fuel gas discharge path or the fuel gas supply path; a first fuel gas concentration meter that measures a fuel gas concentration in a mixed gas of the fuel gas and the inert gas flowing through the fuel gas discharge path; and a fuel gas consumption amount calculation unit that calculates the consumption amount of the fuel gas in the fuel cell based on the first flow rate, the second flow rate, and the fuel gas concentration measured by the first fuel gas concentration meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi OKADA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Kohei SASAI, Shunta WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11972037
    Abstract: In a head mounted information processing apparatus, a control unit includes a virtual object generation processing unit configured to generate a virtual object to be displayed by the display unit. The virtual object generation processing unit is configured to generate a first virtual object that is arranged so as to be associated with a first real space where a user exists and a second virtual object that is arranged so as to be associated with a second real space different from the first real space. The control unit is configured to cause the display to display the first virtual object and the second virtual object in accordance with virtual object display instruction information for instructing display of the first virtual object and the second virtual object, which is inputted through an operational input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohisa Takamizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Yoshinori Okada
  • Publication number: 20240111380
    Abstract: A finger tapping measurement processing terminal that measures a finger tapping motion and processes a measurement result includes: a touch panel that is provided on one surface of a terminal, is capable of displaying information related to the finger tapping motion, and is tapped by one of two fingers of a same hand of a user who holds the terminal; finger detectors that detect a motion of one finger tapping the touch panel; and a processor that performs processing of measuring a two-finger distance during a finger tapping motion between the other of the two fingers holding another surface of the terminal located on an opposite side of the touch panel and the one finger tapping the touch panel based on detection information obtained by the finger detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Yoshinori OKADA, Tomohiko MIZUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240104883
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device and a processor, and the display device displays at least the virtual object among the individual real object cut out from the external real body as an object and the virtual object to be arranged in three dimensions, the object for which the user wants to view is determined as the target object, the object to be interfered when the user views the target object is detected as the interfering object, and when there is an interfering object, the display mode of at least one of the target object and the interfering object is changed so as to eliminate or reduce the interfering caused by the interfering object for viewing the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Mayumi NAKADE
  • Patent number: 11929771
    Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20240067339
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire weather information including a wind speed on a scheduled spraying date and time at which an unmanned aircraft is to spray an agricultural chemical on a field, determine a flight altitude of the unmanned aircraft according to the wind speed, and generate a plan for spraying of the agricultural chemical by the unmanned aircraft, the plan for spraying including the determined flight altitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240071237
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to predict a scattering range of a chemical to be sprayed onto a field by a first unmanned aircraft and control, in a case in which it is determined that the chemical will scatter near the field based on the scattering range, a three-dimensional position or a travel route of a second unmanned aircraft so that downwash of the second unmanned aircraft prevents scattering of the chemical near the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11913910
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring an inspection target on the basis of vibration generated when the inspection target has been irradiated with laser light includes a condensing position deriving portion configured to derive an amount of adjustment of a distance between condensing lenses of a laser condensing unit configured to condense the laser light on the basis of a distance between a laser device configured to radiate the laser light and an irradiation location of the laser light and a communicating portion configured to transmit control information including information representing the amount of adjustment to the laser condensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Mikami, Toshiyuki Kitamura, Shuji Kondo, Hajime Okada, Tetsuya Kawachi, Yoshinori Shimada, Shinri Kurahashi, Masaharu Nishikino, Noboru Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240053509
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. In a case in which the controller predicts, based on weather data, that there will be adverse weather that could cause damage to a crop in a field, the controller is configured to present reference information and propose harvesting before the adverse weather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240028112
    Abstract: An image display device is for displaying an image including a user in, and comprises: a display processing unit displaying an image within a user's visual field display range; and a processor controlling the entire operation including a display operation on the display processing unit. The processor controls the display processing unit such that, in a state where information is displayed at a low content level within a visual field display range by control of the display processing unit, when an observation point which a user observes closely stays within a prescribed display range for a prescribed period of time, the vicinity of the observation point is displayed as information of a high content level, whereas when the observation point has deviated from the location of said information of the high content level, the vicinity of the observation point is returned to the information display at the low content level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Koji KANIWA, Nobuaki KABUTO
  • Publication number: 20230384831
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device including a camera for imaging the person to be photographed and a flexible and foldable display is provided with a line of sight detection unit for detecting a line of sight of the person to be photographed. Here, when photographing in the state where the mobile terminal device is folded, the mobile terminal device displays a mirror image on the display part on the side of the person to be photographed when it has been identified that the line of sight direction of the person to be photographed detected by the line of sight detection unit is directed to the display part on the side of the person to be photographed, the camera, or at least the mobile terminal device itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230363303
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by an information processing device configured to decide an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The information processing method includes acquiring information about each of a plurality of farm fields and deciding an execution timing of agricultural chemical spraying over a first farm field to be sprayed by the unmanned aerial vehicle based on information about a second farm field located around the first farm field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ryotaro FUJIWARA, Hirotada NAKANISHI, Fuhito KODAMA, Yuki UCHIDA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Yoshinori OKADA, Satoshi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20230332888
    Abstract: When thumbnails of a wide-angle panorama image are displayed, by scrolling and displaying a thumbnail image in which distortion and tilt deviation are reduced, visibility is improved. An information processing apparatus includes an image correction information generating unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The image correction information generating unit is composed of an image distortion determination processing unit and a horizontal/vertical direction determination processing unit, and generate correction information for correcting a partial image composed of an arbitrary image area of the wide-angle panorama image. The control unit corrects the partial image on a basis of the correction information generated by the image correction information generating unit. The display unit 108 displays an image. Then, the control unit causes the display unit to display the corrected partial image as the thumbnail image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Sadao TSURUGA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230293075
    Abstract: A biomagnetic measuring apparatus includes a biomagnetic detector, a first marker configured to be detectable by the biomagnetic detector, a radiation source, a radiation detector provided to face the radiation source, and a second marker configured such that an image of the second marker can be captured by the radiation source and the radiation detector. Positional information about the first marker and the second marker is known or obtainable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruka KURIHARA, Yoshinori OKADA, Hiroshi KUBOTA, Makoto INAMOTO, Nobuhiro SHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230297447
    Abstract: An information processing system in which a plurality of terminals cooperate to execute an application commonly provided in each terminals, comprises a first-information-terminal and a second-information-terminal as the plurality of terminals, the second-information-terminal includes: an acceptance section that accepts an instruction to start the application; and a linkage controller that causes the second-information-terminal to operate in either an independent-operation-mode or a linkage-operation-mode, the first-information-terminal includes an output section that outputs an execution result of the application executed in the linkage-operation-mode, the independent-operation-mode is an operation mode for causing the second-information-terminal to execute the application independently, and the linkage-operation-mode is an operation mode in which the application is executed on the first-information-terminal and the second-information terminal being linked with each other, and a linked state in which the seco
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Patent number: 11733039
    Abstract: When thumbnails of a wide-angle panorama image are displayed, by scrolling and displaying a thumbnail image in which distortion and tilt deviation are reduced, visibility is improved. An information processing apparatus includes an image correction information generating unit, a control unit, and a display unit. The image correction information generating unit is composed of an image distortion determination processing unit and a horizontal/vertical direction determination processing unit, and generate correction information for correcting a partial image composed of an arbitrary image area of the wide-angle panorama image. The control unit corrects the partial image on a basis of the correction information generated by the image correction information generating unit. The display unit 108 displays an image. Then, the control unit causes the display unit to display the corrected partial image as the thumbnail image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohisa Takamizawa, Sadao Tsuruga, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Yoshinori Okada
  • Publication number: 20230236874
    Abstract: Linkage of application software among a plurality of information processing terminals is easily and conveniently realized. An information processing system for executing application software by a plurality of information processing terminals in linkage with each other, each of the information processing terminals including: a detector that detects a predetermined linkage mark; and an execution section that executes, as linkage application software, application software associated with the linkage mark as detected, in linkage with the other information processing terminal which has detected the same linkage mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230201310
    Abstract: A STAT3 phosphorylation inhibitor containing stanniocalcin 1 (STC1) as an active ingredient. A JAK expression or phosphorylation inhibitor containing stanniocalcin 1 as an active ingredient. A prophylactic or therapeutic agent for autoimmune disease, the agent containing stanniocalcin 1 as an active ingredient. A prophylactic or therapeutic agent for influenza virus infection, the agent containing stanniocalcin 1 as an active ingredient. A prophylactic or therapeutic agent for coronavirus infection, the agent containing stanniocalcin 1 as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shinya OHKOUCHI, Masahiko KANEHIRA, Yoshinori OKADA, Hajime KUROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20230188772
    Abstract: A content viewing method uses a viewing system including a content distribution server distributing contents, a mobile information terminal, and a viewing device reproducing a content. The mobile information terminal transmits user identification information and a user password to the content distribution server. The content distribution server authenticates the mobile information terminal based on the user identification information and the user password. The mobile information terminal transmits an account issue request requesting an account for reproducing a desired content to the content distribution server. The content distribution server issues the account based on the account issue request and transmits the account to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal stores the account. The mobile information terminal transmits the account by short-range wireless communication. The viewing device stores the account received by short-range wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230120506
    Abstract: Provided is non-contact power transmission/reception technique which is easy to be used while ensuring consideration for safety. A non-contact power transmission device 100 that wirelessly transfers generated transmission power to a non-contact power reception device 200 comprises a transmission power generation unit 120 configured to perform generation of the transmission power and a control unit 117 configured to control the generation of the transmission power. The control unit 117 is further configured to control the generation of the transmission power which is performed by the transmission power generation unit 120 in accordance with a surrounding environment in which at least one of the non-contact power transmission device 100 and the non-contact power reception device 200, or at least one of states of these devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kawamae, Yoshinori Okada