Patents by Inventor Yuji Hirose

Yuji Hirose 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).

  • Patent number: 11973882
    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving first information pertaining to a first contract from a first terminal used by a first user who is one of two parties who have agreed to the first contract; when consent of a party aside from the two parties is required to validate the first contract, identifying a second user as the party aside from the two parties with reference to a ledger storing information pertaining to a past contract, and transmitting the first information to a second terminal operated by the second user; obtaining second information in which a confirmation result indicating whether the second user consents to the first contract and a digital signature of the second user are added to the first information; and confirming the second information, and when the confirmation result indicates consent, setting the first contract as a valid contract and storing the second information in the ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama, Junichiro Soeda, Naohisa Nishida, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Publication number: 20230170485
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube dispersion paste includes carbon nanotubes (B), and an organic solvent (C), in which a content of the carbon nanotubes (B) is 1% to 10% by mass with respect to a total mass of the carbon nanotube dispersion paste, and, in a Bode plot obtained by impedance measurement, in which a reactance is plotted on a vertical axis and a frequency is plotted on a horizontal axis, a local minimum value of the reactance is in a frequency range of 50 to 250 kHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaro ICHI, Yuji HIROSE
  • Patent number: 11340472
    Abstract: A first stereoscopic image display device includes a light guide plate having a plurality of reflectors and causes an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate. In a plan view from a direction vertical to an outgoing surface, when four quadrants are specified for each of the reflectors, the four quadrants taking a position of each of the reflectors as an origin, the four quadrants being divided by two straight lines orthogonal to each other and inclined 45° with respect to a direction in which the incident light is incident on each of the reflectors, light changed in the optical path by each of the reflectors is emitted to a quadrant adjacent to a quadrant on which incident light is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 11176800
    Abstract: A power supply device is such that when an output voltage is abnormal, a system manager or the like can easily acquire information effective in identifying a cause of the abnormality. The power supply device includes a first light emitting element installed to be visually recognizable from an exterior, and a light emitting element control unit that drives the first light emitting element. When an output voltage is abnormal, the light emitting element control unit causes the first light emitting element to flash, thereby convert at least one of specific power supply operation information used for inferring a cause of the output voltage being abnormal and cause information inferred based on the specific power supply operation information into an optical digital signal formatted for serial communication, and causes the optical digital signal to be output from the first light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: COSEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuto Kawataka, Yuji Hirose, Shinji Moriya, Masanobu Hiramatsu, Hikaru Kobayashi, Yuta Usui
  • Publication number: 20210337180
    Abstract: A first stereoscopic image display device (2) is provided with a light guide plate (20) including a plurality of reflectors (31a, 31b, 31c), the first stereoscopic image display device (2) causing an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from an angle being a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Publication number: 20210166549
    Abstract: A power supply device is such that when an output voltage is abnormal, a system manager or the like can easily acquire information effective in identifying a cause of the abnormality. The power supply device includes a first light emitting element installed to be visually recognizable from an exterior, and a light emitting element control unit that drives the first light emitting element. When an output voltage is abnormal, the light emitting element control unit causes the first light emitting element to flash, thereby convert at least one of specific power supply operation information used for inferring a cause of the output voltage being abnormal and cause information inferred based on the specific power supply operation information into an optical digital signal formatted for serial communication, and causes the optical digital signal to be output from the first light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuto KAWATAKA, Yuji HIROSE, Shinji MORIYA, Masanobu HIRAMATSU, Hikaru KOBAYASHI, Yuta USUI
  • Patent number: 10841987
    Abstract: A display device is configured to show an image inside a vehicle, and mounted inside the vehicle as an internal component. The display device has a light source configured to emit light, and a light guide element configured to guide incident light from the light source. The light guide element includes an emission surface configured to output incident light, and a plurality of light focusing portions configured to change the path of the incident light toward the emission surface, causing the light output to converge toward a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element or to radiate from a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element and thereby form an image outside the light guide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Osumi, Yuji Hirose, Keiichiro Tanaka, Toshinori Yamasue
  • Patent number: 10801691
    Abstract: A vehicle display device is configured for installation to a vehicle and includes a mirror element configured to reflect external light entering from a front surface toward the front surface, and a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes a light source configured to emit light, and a light guide element configured to guide incident light from the light source. The light guide element includes an emission surface configured to output incident light, and an optical-path changing portion configured to change the optical path of incident light toward the emission surface. The mirror element and the light guide element are stacked at an outer surface of the mirror element to allow the optical-path changing portion to change the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Osumi, Yuji Hirose, Keiichiro Tanaka, Toshinori Yamasue
  • Publication number: 20200218360
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a process execution unit configured to execute a process relating to a user's gesture recognized on a basis of information from a sensor. The process execution unit determines, during a period after the gesture has been recognized, whether or not there is an input of operation information based on a user's operation, and the process execution unit refrains from executing the process relating to the recognized gesture when there is an input of the operation information during the period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryu Aoyama, Tomoo Mizukami, Yuji Hirose, Kei Takahashi, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 10634861
    Abstract: A display device configured to show an image inside an instrument panel for a vehicle includes: a light source configured to emit light; and a light guide element configured to guide incident light from the light source. The light guide element includes: an emission surface configured to output incident light; and a plurality of light focusing portions configured to change the path of the incident light toward the emission surface, causing the light output to converge toward a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element or to radiate from a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element and thereby form an image outside the light guide element. The light guide element is configured to form light to thereby present an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Osumi, Yuji Hirose, Keiichiro Tanaka, Toshinori Yamasue
  • Patent number: 10591659
    Abstract: A light guide plate, produced from material transparent to visible light, includes a plurality of prisms provided on one surface (a diffusion surface) thereof in a predetermined pattern. The plurality of prisms include a reflection surface that reflects visible light emitted from a light source and entering the light guide plate from an input surface toward another surface (an output surface). Each prism in the plurality of prisms is distributed so that the reflection surfaces of two prisms separated by a predetermined pitch are oriented in the same direction, and the reflections surfaces of two prisms that are closer than the predetermined pitch are oriented in mutually different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Fujita, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yoshihiko Takagi, Yuji Hirose
  • Patent number: 10545274
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light-guiding plate and light sources that each emit light to the light-guiding plate. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions, the light substantially converges at or scatters from a convergence point or line, and an image is formed by a collection of the convergence points or lines, and a light convergence portion causes light to be emitted in directions in which the light substantially converges in or scatters from a range including a point located a first distance apart from the emission surface, and a second light convergence portion causes light to be emitted in directions in which the light substantially converges in or scatters from a range including a point located a second distance, which is longer than the first distance, apart from the emission surface, and the number of first light convergence portions is higher than the number of second light convergence portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda, Yuji Hirose, Kazuyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 10503500
    Abstract: A management system constructs management information indicating that log chunks and issue chunks extracted from a first system managing log information and issue information output by a process related to a first team for a program to be developed are linked. The management system searches, from the management information, a log message group compatible with a designated log message group that is one or more log messages related to the issue by log pattern matching using the designated log message group in a case of receiving an inquiry with which the designated log message group is associated from the second system. The management system displays, on the second system, a response containing a handling method represented by handling method information corresponding to the found log message group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Tameshige, Jun Mizuno, Junji Kinoshita, Yuichi Taguchi, Shigeru Tachikawa, Yuji Hirose, Mitsuhiro Nagata
  • Patent number: 10371349
    Abstract: An optical device includes one or more light sources and a light-guiding plate that guides light emitted from the light sources in a plane parallel to an emission surface that emits light. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions that receive guided light and each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point. The convergence points for the light convergence portions are different from each other. An image is formed on an emission surface side by a collection of the convergence points. First light convergence portions positioned differently from each other along a light-guiding direction of the light-guiding plate cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in different directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from the same first convergence point among the convergence points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Yuji Hirose, Mitsuru Okuda, Kazuyuki Okada
  • Publication number: 20190205129
    Abstract: A management system constructs management information indicating that log chunks and issue chunks extracted from a first system managing log information and issue information output by a process related to a first team for a program to be developed are linked. The management system searches, from the management information, a log message group compatible with a designated log message group that is one or more log messages related to the issue by log pattern matching using the designated log message group in a case of receiving an inquiry with which the designated log message group is associated from the second system. The management system displays, on the second system, a response containing a handling method represented by handling method information corresponding to the found log message group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi TAMESHIGE, Jun MIZUNO, Junji KINOSHITA, Yuichi TAGUCHI, Shigeru TACHIKAWA, Yuji HIROSE, Mitsuhiro NAGATA
  • Patent number: 10338749
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light-guiding plate that guides light in a plane parallel to an emission surface that emits light, and a sensor for detecting an object located on an emission surface side using light that passes through a back surface opposite to the emission surface and through the emission surface. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions that receive light guided by the light-guiding plate and each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point or one convergence line in a space, and the convergence points or the convergence lines for the light convergence portions are different from each other, and an image is formed in the space on the emission surface side by a collection of the convergence points or the convergence lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Yuji Hirose, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda, Kazuyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 10325570
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first display unit which is a transmissive display unit; a transparent backlight formed of transparent material, provided relative to the first display unit opposite the viewing surface of the first display unit, and configured to emit light toward the first display unit; a light source configured to output object light to the transparent backlight where light from an object provided opposite the light emission plane of the transparent backlight is output toward the transparent backlight and the first display unit; and a controller configured to control the first display unit, the transparent backlight, and the light source so that light emitted from the transparent backlight shows an image on the first display unit, and so that the object light can pass through the transparent backlight and the first display unit and be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Fujita, Yuji Hirose, Jun Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10317714
    Abstract: A presentation control device includes: a first display unit which is a transmissive display unit; a transparent backlight formed of transparent material, provided relative to the first display unit opposite the viewing surface of the first display unit, and configured to emit light toward the first display unit; a light source configured to output object light to the transparent backlight where light from an object provided opposite the light emission plane of the transparent backlight is output toward the transparent backlight and the first display unit; and a display device including a controller configured to control the first display unit, the transparent backlight, and the light source so that light emitted from the transparent backlight shows an image on the first display unit, and so that the object light can pass through the transparent backlight and the first display unit and be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Fujita, Yuji Hirose, Jun Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10267969
    Abstract: A light-guiding plate of an optical device has first light convergence portions and second light convergence portions. The light convergence portions each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from an emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point or one convergence line, the convergence points or lines for the light convergence portions are different from each other, first and second images are formed by a collection of the convergence points or lines of the first and second light convergence portions, respectively, and in a case where an image is projected to a plane perpendicular to the emission surface and parallel to a light-guiding direction of the light-guiding plate, the first and second light convergence portions cause light to be emitted from the emission surface at a first angle and at a second angle, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Yuji Hirose, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda, Kazuyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 10262510
    Abstract: A display system is provided with a display device; the display device including: a light source configured to emit light; and a light guide element configured to guide incident light from the light source; the light guide element including: an emission surface configured to output incident light; and a plurality of light focusing portions configured to change the path of the incident light toward the emission surface, causing the light output to converge toward a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element or to radiate from a convergence point or convergence line outside the light guide element and thereby form an image outside the light guide element. The display device presents information as an image, e.g., as a stereoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Osumi, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yuji Hirose, Toshinori Yamasue