Patents by Inventor Yuichi Hasegawa
Yuichi Hasegawa 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: 11549938Abstract: An analysis unit for quantitating detection target substances bound to antibodies includes wells and inclination parts. The wells each have a hole-like shape defined by an opening, an inner circumferential surface, and a bottom. The inclination parts each have an inclined surface connected to the inner circumferential surface and inclined downward such that whose height with respect to the bottom decreases as a distance from an outer circumferential side of the well increases.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiko Iwama, Yuichi Hasegawa, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono, Katsue Horikoshi, Atsushi Saito
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Publication number: 20220365079Abstract: A first buffer fluid containing a first bead having fixed to a surface thereof a first antibody that specifically binds to a first antigen is injected into a reaction container, and then a plurality of a second bead having fixed to a surface thereof a second antibody that specifically binds to an optional second antigen, and a biological sample containing an exosome to be analyzed having the first antigen and the second antigen on a surface of the exosome are injected into the reaction container, thereby generating a second buffer fluid. An exosome having the first bead and the second bead bound thereto is collected from the second buffer fluid. The exosome having the first bead and the second bead bound thereto is separated into the first bead, the second bead, and the exosome, and the second bead and the exosome are individually collected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Koji TSUJITA, Masayuki ONO, Makoto ITONAGA, Yuichi HASEGAWA, Katsunori OHSHIMA, Atsushi SAITOU, Tatsuya KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 11493525Abstract: The dispensing unit includes a disc, a cartridge, and a dispensing holder. The disc has a disc shape and includes a track region provided with recesses and projections alternately arranged in a radial direction. The cartridge includes a penetration hole, and a well is formed by the penetration hole and the track region in a state in which the cartridge is attached to the disc. The dispensing holder includes a holding part to be inserted into the penetration hole, and a guide hole penetrating the holding part. The guide hole has a truncated cone shape in which a first opening diameter on the holding part side is smaller than a second opening diameter on a side opposite to the holding part, and a center line of the guide hole is located on a line passing through the center of the disc and the center of the well.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Katsue Horikoshi, Makoto Itonaga, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono, Yuichi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20220208519Abstract: Proposed are techniques for simplifying the process of suppressing an increase in a reflected wave Pr due to IMD. A high-frequency power supply system for providing high-frequency power to a load includes: a bias power supply for supplying a bias power having a first frequency; a source power supply for supplying a high-frequency output having a second frequency higher than the first frequency and being frequency modulated with the first frequency; and a matching device including an impedance matching circuit for acquiring the bias power and the frequency modulated high-frequency output and achieving impedance matching between the source power supply and the load. The source power supply, in response to a trigger signal for timing having the first frequency, detects a reflected wave while causing a modulation start phase and a modulation amount gain to be varied, and determines an optimum modulation start phase and modulation amount gain that minimize the reflected wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Yuichi HASEGAWA, Yuya UENO
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Patent number: 11344924Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a stage, a suction nozzle, and a control unit. On the stage, an analytical unit is mounted. In the analytical unit, a well having a hole shape including a bottom surface and an inner peripheral surface is formed. The suction nozzle sucks a solution in the well. The control unit, after controlling the suction nozzle to sucks the solution in the well, controls the stage to rotate the stage on which the analytical unit is mounted at a predetermined speed of rotation, and controls the suction nozzle to suck a residue of the solution existing in the well.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiko Iwama, Yuichi Hasegawa, Katsue Horikoshi, Masayuki Ono
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Patent number: 11300580Abstract: An analysis device includes a turntable holding a substrate, an optical pickup driven in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis of the turntable and configured to emit laser light to reaction regions and to receive reflected light from the respective reaction regions, an optical pickup drive circuit, and a controller. The reaction regions are formed at positions different from the center of the substrate. The center of the substrate is located on the rotation axis of the turntable. The optical pickup detects a reception level of the reflected light to generate a light reception level signal. The controller controls a turntable drive circuit to rotate the substrate, controls the optical pickup drive circuit to drive the optical pickup, and specifies the respective reaction regions in accordance with a positional information signal and the light reception level signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiko Iwama, Makoto Itonaga, Yuichi Hasegawa, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono, Makoto Igarashi
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Publication number: 20220103224Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing lowering in the quality of user experience. An information processing device includes: a wireless communication unit that sends transmission information to another information processing device through wireless communication; and a control unit that controls at least one of the wireless communication performed by the wireless communication unit, encoding of the transmission information, or a processing process on the transmission information on the basis of blockage prediction period information indicating a prediction result on blockage of a communication path to the another information processing device. The present technology can be applied to a content playback system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: KOSUKE AIO, SAWAKO KIRIYAMA, YUICHI HASEGAWA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, ASAKO DOI
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Patent number: 11265603Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, and an information processing system that transmit a response of viewers acquired in a more natural way to a place where content is captured, enabling presentation in an easier-to-see way. The information processing apparatus receives motion information indicating motions of users watching video content and information indicating attributes of the users, and generates an excitement image by arranging information visually indicating a degree of excitement of each user determined on the basis of the motion information transmitted from a plurality of reproducing apparatuses at a position according to an attribute of each user.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yukio Oobuchi, Yuichi Hasegawa, Yuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220060672Abstract: There is provided a video reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, and a program that can suppress a decline in the degree of immersion of a viewer. A video generation apparatus of the present disclosure acquires a first 3D shape video generated from a plurality of viewpoint videos obtained by capturing images of a subject from different viewpoints, and a second 3D shape video being a video different from the first 3D shape video, and switches a frame to be reproduced, from a frame of the first 3D shape video to a frame of the second 3D shape video on the basis of a state of a viewer viewing the first 3D shape video. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to a video generation apparatus, a video processing apparatus, a video reproduction apparatus, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Yuichi HASEGAWA, Nobuaki IZUMI
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Publication number: 20220038852Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing device and an information processing method by which an optimal communication channel can be ensured. The information processing device includes a blocking detection unit configured to detect blocking of a communication channel to a reproduction device configured to reproduce content on the basis of content data, a movement calculation unit configured to calculate, in a case where the blocking of the communication channel is detected, an amount of movement of the reproduction device to a position that escapes the blocking, and a control unit configured to control generation of the content data on the basis of the amount of movement. The present technique can be applied to a console.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventor: YUICHI HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20210405036Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate for analysis fixes antibodies that specifically react with specific antigens included in detection target substances to the substrate for analysis. The method subjects the substrate for analysis to immersion treatment with a predetermined treatment solution so as to form antibody aggregations in which the antibodies are aggregated at boundary regions between recesses and convex portions on the substrate for analysis. The method causes the antigens and the antibodies to react with each other so as to capture the detection target substances on the substrate for analysis by the antibody aggregations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Koji TSUJITA, Makoto ITONAGA, Masayuki ONO, Atsushi SAITO, Shigehiko IWAMA, Katsue HORIKOSHI, Yuichi HASEGAWA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210364793Abstract: A display system includes: a transparent display; a dimming panel located behind the transparent display and capable of adjusting transmissivity; and a processor, wherein, when the processor detects an object located behind the dimming panel, the processor displaying an image on the transparent display, setting the transmissivity of a region of the dimming panel located in front of the object higher than the transmissivity of a region of the dimming panel located behind a region on which the image is displayed, and making different a degree of an increase of the transmissivity in accordance with combination of the image and the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Nanami FUJIWARA, Yuichi HASEGAWA, Takeshi KAWAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11087480Abstract: Provided is a drawing section that generates a display image from a predetermined viewpoint by using a texture image and a depth image of a first layer and using a texture image and a depth image of a second layer in which a range of information indicated by a pixel value is different from at least one of the texture image or the depth image of the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11089213Abstract: Reproduction position information of a free viewpoint video is formatted to be easy for a viewer to understand, and managed. Words of a photographer, the words being uttered when the photographer was impressed at a time of shooting a scenery of the real world, are used as a tag of the shot video, and the words are managed in association with a viewpoint position and a viewing direction, and shooting time. Alternatively, words of the viewer viewing the free viewpoint video, the words being uttered when the viewer was impressed by a certain scene, are used as a tag of the shot video, and the words are managed in association with a viewpoint position and a viewing direction, and shooting time corresponding to the reproduction position. The viewer can cue a desired free viewpoint video by using a tag with which tagging has been performed by the viewer himself/herself or another person.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Inventor: Yuichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11073698Abstract: An image display device includes an image formation device and an optical system that brings an image from the image formation device to an eyeball of an observer. 0 (degrees)??2<?1 is satisfied where an image-formation-device first strike point (CP1) is a point where an extended line of an optical axis of the optical system intersects with an image exit surface of the image formation device, an image-formation-device second strike point (CP2) is a point where an extended line of a pupil center line of the eyeball of the observer intersects with the image exit surface of the image formation device, ?1 represents an angle between the extended line of the optical axis of the optical system and a first normal line (NL1), and ?2 represents an angle between the extended line of the pupil center line and a second normal line (NL2).Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Tanaka, Hirokazu Tatsuta, Yuichi Hasegawa, Kenta Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20210148808Abstract: An analysis device includes a controller configured to count a pulse derived from a particles as a plural particles when a light reception level signal includes the pulse having a first extreme value point, a second extreme value point, and a third extreme value point, and the pulse fulfils a condition in which the third extreme value point is present between the first extreme value point and the second extreme value point in a pulse width direction of the pulse, the third extreme value point is present between the first extreme value point and a threshold in a pulse amplitude direction, the first extreme value point and the second extreme value point are each an extreme value point of a waveform projecting in a common direction, and the third extreme value point is an extreme value point of a waveform in a direction opposite to the common direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Masayuki ONO, Shigehiko IWAMA, Atsushi SAITO, Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Yuichi HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 10991144Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ML3D model generation section, which are applicable to a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like. The ML3D model generation section receives transmission information in which auxiliary information is added to at least one of texture information of a first layer, depth information of the first layer, texture information of a second layer or depth information of the second layer, and executes predetermined image processing using the auxiliary information for at least one of the texture information of the first layer, the depth information of the first layer, the texture information of the second layer or the depth information of the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Araki, Junichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Oryoji, Yuichi Hasegawa, Tooru Masuda, Tetsuya Fukuyasu
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Patent number: 10969861Abstract: There is provided an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image system capable of reducing discomfort of a user, such as “VR sickness.” The image processing device includes: an image generation unit configured to generate an avatar viewpoint image according to a viewpoint of an avatar corresponding to a user in a virtual world as a first presentation image to be presented to the user, and generate a second presentation image different from the avatar viewpoint image in a case in which posture difference occurs between an actual posture of the user based on a result of detecting motion of the user and a posture of the avatar. The present technique is applicable, for example, to an image processing device etc. for generating an image to be displayed on a head mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10962531Abstract: A first sample solution including exosomes including first to third detection target substances is mixed with a first buffer solution including first nanoparticles including first binding substances which bind to the first detection target substances. The first detection target substances and the first binding substances are bound together, so as to form first complexes of the exosomes and the first nanoparticles. The first complexes are isolated from a mixed solution of the first sample solution and the first buffer solution. The second detection target substances and the second binding substances are bound together, so as to capture the first complexes on a substrate. The second binding substances are fixed onto the substrate. A second buffer solution including second nanoparticles including third binding substances which bind to the third detection target substances is reacted with the first complexes.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Itonaga, Yuichi Hasegawa, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono, Shigehiko Iwama, Makoto Igarashi
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Patent number: 10887571Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate a texture image of high picture quality at a predetermined viewpoint using an omnidirectional image. A plurality of real cameras image a plurality of reference images at a plurality of viewpoint positions in a plurality of sight line directions. A great weight is applied to a reference image in a sight line direction close to a virtual viewpoint specified in response to a movement of a head mounted display and having a virtual viewpoint position and a sight line direction to generate a virtual viewpoint image by weighted averaging, and the virtual viewpoint image is displayed on the head mounted display. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a home server or the like that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kendai Furukawa, Junichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Oryoji, Yuichi Hasegawa, Goh Kobayashi