Patents by Inventor Yuzuru Tanaka
Yuzuru Tanaka 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: 10420195Abstract: A lighting fixture for attaching to an attachment component is provided. A lamp includes a light source that emits illumination light. A power supply includes a power supply circuit that generates power for causing the light source to emit the illumination light and a power supply housing that houses the power supply circuit. An arm couples the lamp and the power supply and rotatably supports the lamp. The power supply housing houses an infrared communication receiver that receives an infrared signal for controlling the lighting fixture and a radio communication circuit that receives a radio signal for controlling the lighting fixture. The power supply housing includes a first opening through which the infrared communication receiver receives the infrared signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoru Sakurai, Naoki Komatsu, Koji Matsushita, Toshizumi Okada, Ryousuke Ijichi, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180245780Abstract: A lighting fixture includes: a lamp that is configured to be recessed in an opening of a ceiling, and includes a light source that emits illumination light; and a power supply that is configured to be disposed behind the ceiling when the lighting fixture is in the opening of the ceiling, and generates power for causing the light source to emit the illumination light. The lamp includes an infrared communication receiver that receives an infrared signal for controlling the lighting fixture. The power supply includes a radio communication circuit that receives a radio signal for controlling the lighting fixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.Inventors: Toshizumi OKADA, Satoru SAKURAI, Naoki KOMATSU, Koji MATSUSHITA, Ryousuke IJICHI, Yuzuru TANAKA
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Publication number: 20180249559Abstract: A lighting fixture for attaching to an attachment component is provided. A lamp includes a light source that emits illumination light. A power supply includes a power supply circuit that generates power for causing the light source to emit the illumination light and a power supply housing that houses the power supply circuit. An arm couples the lamp and the power supply and rotatably supports the lamp. The power supply housing houses an infrared communication receiver that receives an infrared signal for controlling the lighting fixture and a radio communication circuit that receives a radio signal for controlling the lighting fixture. The power supply housing includes a first opening through which the infrared communication receiver receives the infrared signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoru SAKURAI, Naoki KOMATSU, Koji MATSUSHITA, Toshizumi OKADA, Ryousuke IJICHI, Yuzuru TANAKA
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Publication number: 20130211909Abstract: To provide a technique for maintaining high efficiency of advertisement images. In response to a request for a banner advertisement data set from a terminal device, a second banner distribution server device selects a banner advertisement data set at distribution frequencies that are determined in advance, and distributes the selected banner advertisement data set to the terminal device. For the first distribution term, the second banner distribution server device determines distribution frequencies so that each attribute of each component comprising a banner advertisement image is contained in distributed banner advertisement images at an equal rate. In the second and later distribution terms, banner advertisement data sets that had CTRs equal to or greater than a baseline-CTR in the previous distribution term are continuously distributed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: FRINGE81, INC.Inventors: Yuzuru Tanaka, Rei Hiramatsu, Minoru Matsushima, Junko Yamada, Yu Higashiyama, Kazuhiro Mitsuhashi, Hibiki Takama
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Publication number: 20110276650Abstract: A banner generating device 12 periodically obtains feeds from a Web server 11a, and generates banner data sets containing the obtained feeds and advertisement data sets relating to the feeds. The banner distribution server 13 periodically obtains banner data sets from a banner generating device 12. A terminal device 14a obtains a page data set from a Web server 11p, and displays a Web page 20 in accordance with the page data set. When the Web page 20 is displayed, the terminal device 14a obtains a banner data set that is required for displaying a banner in the Web page 20 from the banner distribution server 13. When the banner data set obtained from the banner distribution server 13 was generated by a banner generating device 12, the contents of the newest feeds and an advertisement are displayed as a banner at the terminal device 14a.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: RSS ADS, INC.Inventors: Yuzuru Tanaka, Rei Hiramatsu, Yu Higashiyama, Kazuhiro Mitsuhashi
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Publication number: 20080195932Abstract: Re-editing and redistributing a WWW document with services embedded therein according to a user's will. Portions of Web pages are extracted and combined together to compose a new document. If a portion to be extracted contains a dynamic content, its copy is kept alive, that is, the content of the copy is periodically updated. Object-oriented IntelligentPad technology is used to extract portions of Web documents and wrap them with a pad wrapper. The function of periodically accessing a server is included in the wrap of a dynamic Web document portion to compose an object called a view pad having an automatic, periodic refresh function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Kazushige Oikawa, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 7015934Abstract: The present invention aims at realizing displaying of a realistic image of a conversation scene in which a speaker can be visually recognized by people watching this image regardless of the content of the image. To this end, according to the present invention, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional face model is deformed, and animations A1i through A3i which express a state in which a person is speaking are consequently created and displayed as auxiliary images.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2001Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Toyama, Eiro Fujii, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 7003440Abstract: A method for use in displaying an expression phenomenon in a living matter that are capable of displaying (printing), in a format directly appealing to the eyes or sense, information indicative of gene expression phenomena occurring with time to assist a researcher with easy elucidation of a gene network mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2001Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Inventors: Takashi Gojobori, Yuzuru Tanaka, Toshitsugu Okayama
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Patent number: 6943794Abstract: A communication system for performing a remote conversation with an actual or fictional human or the like virtualized by using a computer comprises a client and a server, wherein the client includes an input portion for inputting a first message addressed from a user to the human or the like, a transmitting portion for transmitting the first message, a receiving portion for receiving facial animation of the human or the like and a second message that is a message sent from the human or the like to the user as a response to the first message, an output portion for outputting the second message to the user, and a display portion for displaying the facial animation; and the server includes a storing portion for storing facial image data of the human or the like, a receiving portion for receiving the first message, a first generating portion for generating the second message, a second generating portion for generating motion control data for causing the facial image data to move in accordance with the second messType: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tokio Kamimura, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 6853458Abstract: In order to reproduce a three-dimensional shape of an object accurately while maintaining measuring accuracy and high speed, in a three-dimensional measuring method of projecting a stripe pattern having colored stripes on the object and measuring the three-dimensional shape of the object based on stripe positions on the imaged image corresponding to the stripes on the stripe pattern, colors of the stripes on the stripe pattern are set according to a predetermined rule, and a plurality of stripes having a predetermined positional relationship are extracted from the image, and correspondence with stripes on the stripe pattern based on the color arrangement of the extracted plural stripes.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yahashi, Tetsuya Katagiri, Fumiya Yagi, Hiroshi Uchino, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20040006743Abstract: An object of the present invention is to re-edit and redistribute a WWW document with services embedded therein according to a user's will. Portions of Web pages are extracted and combined together to compose a new document. If a portion to be extracted contains a dynamic content, its copy is kept alive, that is, the content of the copy is periodically updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Kazushige Oikawa, Daisuke Kurosaki, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20030026475Abstract: In order to reproduce a three-dimensional shape of an object accurately while maintaining measuring accuracy and high speed, in a three-dimensional measuring method of projecting a stripe pattern having colored stripes on the object and measuring the three-dimensional shape of the object based on stripe positions on the imaged image corresponding to the stripes on the stripe pattern, colors of the stripes on the stripe pattern are set according to a predetermined rule, and a plurality of stripes having a predetermined positional relationship are extracted from the image, and correspondence with stripes on the stripe pattern based on the color arrangement of the extracted plural stripes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Akira Yahashi, Tetsuya Katagiri, Fumiya Yagi, Hiroshi Uchino, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20020150941Abstract: A method for use in displaying an expression phenomenon in a living matter that are capable of displaying (printing), in a format directly appealing to the eyes or sense, information indicative of gene expression phenomena occurring with time to assist a researcher with easy elucidation of a gene network mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Takashi Gojobori, Yuzuru Tanaka, Toshitsugu Okayama
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Publication number: 20020072886Abstract: A three-dimensional object shape model simulator system is provided. The system represents three-dimensional object shape models in such a form as to allow the models to be reused and efficiently managed in a database to implement flexible simulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Kazushige Oikawa, Yuzuru Tanaka, Tomoru Teruuchi
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Publication number: 20020070936Abstract: A three-dimensional graph display apparatus is provided for dynamically changing a display format for a three-dimensional graph. In a simulator of a three-dimensional object shape model wherein a three-dimensional object shape model is comprised of two objects, i.e., an object which has data related to properties of a target three-dimensional object (referred to as the “model object”) and an object having data required to display the object (referred to as the “display object”); data of a plurality of model objects can be linked to one another; and the model object can be shared by a plurality of display objects, three-dimensional point data saved in a database is retrieved and the retrieved three-dimensional point data is converted to three-dimensional objects and an object (container object) having the three-dimensional objects representing the three-dimensional point data as slot values in its model object is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2001Publication date: June 13, 2002Inventors: Kazushige Oikawa, Yuzuru Tanaka, Tomoru Teruuchi
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Publication number: 20020054047Abstract: The present invention aims at realizing displaying of a realistic image of a conversation scene in which a speaker can be visually recognized by people watching this image regardless of the content of the image. To this end, according to the present invention, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional face model is deformed, and animations A1i through A3i which express a state in which a person is speaking are consequently created and displayed as auxiliary images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Applicant: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Toyama, Eiro Fujii, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20010051535Abstract: A communication system for performing a remote conversation with an actual or fictional human or the like virtualized by using a computer comprises a client and a server, wherein the client includes an input portion for inputting a first message addressed from a user to the human or the like, a transmitting portion for transmitting the first message, a receiving portion for receiving facial animation of the human or the like and a second message that is a message sent from the human or the like to the user as a response to the first message, an output portion for outputting the second message to the user, and a display portion for displaying the facial animation; and the server includes a storing portion for storing facial image data of the human or the like, a receiving portion for receiving the first message, a first generating portion for generating the second message, a second generating portion for generating motion control data for causing the facial image data to move in accordance with the second messType: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD.Inventors: Tokio Kamimura, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 6154875Abstract: A graphical programming system (1) allows a user to visually create a program. The system employs and input unit (12) and a display (11). The system includes, for example, a graphic-component memory (3) storing graphic components each corresponding to a program that achieves a task such as an operation task or a database task, and displaying the graphic components on the display (11), a task memory (5) storing the programs corresponding to the graphic components and providing the graphic-component memory (3) with data obtained by executing the programs, and a graphic component generator (6) automatically generating data on the graphic components and storing the data in the graphic-component memory (3).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1997Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Tanaka, Satoshi Kikuchi, Takamoto Imataki, Koichi Sakamoto, Munechika Nishida
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Patent number: 5867707Abstract: To permit a user to produce application programs easily, a plurality of object names and objects linkage information is specified as external specification data, the plurality of objects are related to each other based on linkage information stored in an objects linkage information storage, transmission and reception of data between the plurality of objects are controlled, and processes in which the plurality of objects constituting the application program are linked are executed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1997Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignee: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Munechika Nishida, Koichi Sakamoto, Akefumi Kumeta, Yuzuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 5754712Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit for inputting image information, a trimming unit for trimming an area for classifying and summarizing the image information input by the image input unit, a recognition unit for recognizing information representing each image information in the area trimmed by the trimming unit, and a search unit for searching image information by at least one of pieces of the information recognized by the recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1994Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuzuru Tanaka, Kinya Takahashi