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Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi

Haruto Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090259072METHOD FOR REMOVING IODIDE COMPOUND FROM ORGANIC ACID - An iodide compound is adsorbed and removed from an organic acid containing the iodide compound as an impurity by passing the organic acid through a packed bed of a cation-exchange resin having silver ion carried thereon at 50° C. or lower. The cation-exchange resin is a macroporous-type resin with an average particle size of 0.3 to 0.6 mm and an average pore size of 15 to 28 nm, and silver ion substitutes for 40 to 60% of the active site.10-15-2009

Jun Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100328834POLYMER SURGE ARRESTER - A polymer surge arrester has: internal elements including a plurality of disc-shaped nonlinear resistors disposed in a stacked manner, electrodes disposed at both ends of the nonlinear resistors, and a plurality of insulating rods coupling the electrodes; an insulating outer skin formed outside the internal elements by casting an insulating resin; and disc-shaped porous metal plates interposed between at least parts of the nonlinear resistors.12-30-2010

Katsutoshi Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090220896PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A pattern forming method has forming a lower layer film on a film to be processed, forming a silicon-containing intermediate film containing a protecting group which is removed by an acid, on said lower layer film, forming a resist film on said silicon-containing intermediate film, exposing a predetermined region of said resist film to light, and developing said resist film with a developer.09-03-2009
20090305169METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including: forming a resist film 12-10-2009

Katsuya Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110287884PARKING MECHANISM FOR TRANSMISSION - A parking mechanism of a transmission with a planetary gear mechanism for speed changing and outputting the rotation of a driving force source, includes a plurality of friction elements which change a speed ratio of the planetary gear mechanism by being engaged or released; and an engaging unit which engages the friction elements. The engaging unit maintains at least two interlock friction elements, which are engaged to interlock the transmission, out of the plurality of friction elements in engaged states when the operation of the driving force source stops due to a key-off operation.11-24-2011

Katsuyuki Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090027694COORDINATE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A coordinate detection apparatus has a light projecting unit and light receiving unit, detects abnormal light based on the output from the light receiving unit in a state in which the light projecting unit does not project any light, and detects the coordinates of a light-shielded position based on the output from the light receiving unit in a state in which the light projecting unit projects light.01-29-2009
20120002217COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, LIGHT RECEIVING APPARATUS OF THE COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A light receiving unit of a coordinate input apparatus includes a light receiving element, a light receiving lens, an adjusting unit for adjusting the positional relationship between the light receiving element and light receiving lens, and a light transmissive plate which is arranged between the light receiving element and light receiving lens, and defines the focal length of the light receiving lens. The light transmissive plate is arranged between the light receiving element and light receiving lens in a state in which the optical axis between the light receiving element and light receiving lens is adjusted by the adjusting unit with the light transmissive plate being removed.01-05-2012
20120019485INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to the present invention, even if a plurality of operators perform gesture operations in three-dimensional space, the three-dimensional spatial gesture of each operator is accurately associated with the target object of the three-dimensional spatial gesture. For this, a projector displays at least one selection-target object on an upper surface of a table. When a pointer operated by an operator comes in contact with the upper surface of the table, a two-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus detects the contact position, and determines which object has been designated by the operator. In this stage, among pointers detected by a three-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus, a pointer having a position closest to the contact position is determined, and the pointer determined to be the closest is decided as a tracking target. Thereafter, the tracking-target pointer is tracked by the three-dimensional coordinate detecting apparatus to determine the operator's gesture pattern.01-26-2012
20120113057COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR AND PROGRAM - A coordinate input apparatus includes retroreflecting units at two opposite sides of a rectangular-shaped coordinate input effective region, and a plurality of sensor units provided at the two sides. Each of the sensor units includes a light receiving unit for receiving light that reaches the light receiving unit, a light projecting unit for projecting light toward a retroreflecting unit provided at one of the two sides, which opposes the light projecting unit, and a surface light emitting unit for emitting even diffused light from a band-shaped surface. Each of the sensor units simultaneously detects, by the light receiving unit, light that has been projected by the light projecting unit and reflected back by the retroreflecting unit at the side opposing the light projecting unit, and light that has been emitted by surface light emitting units of a plurality of sensor units at the side opposing the light projecting unit.05-10-2012

Patent applications by Katsuyuki Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Kazuhide Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080205848Imaging apparatus and reproducing apparatus - An imaging unit takes an image and converts the image into a video signal. A display unit displays the image carried the by the video signal. An average luminance calculating unit calculates average luminance of the image per first predetermined period. A detecting unit calculates a ratio of maximum to minimum average luminance of the average luminance over a second predetermined period that is an integer multiple of the first predetermined period and determines whether the ratio is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. The detecting unit determines that the image taken by the imaging unit is an image of a movie projected onto a screen when it is determined that the ratio is equal to or higher than the predetermined value. A warning unit sends a warning signal to the display unit when the detecting unit determines that the image taken by the imaging unit is the image of the movie. The display unit then displays an warning message carried by the warning signal with the image.08-28-2008

Kensuke Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100098213X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generation unit configured to irradiate an object with X-rays in a rectangular shape, and an imaging unit which has a rectangular imaging plane and is configured to receive the X-rays transmitted through the object as an X-ray image, wherein the imaging unit is arranged on a plane which is spaced a predetermined distance apart from the X-ray generation unit and perpendicular to an X-ray reference axis such that a center of an irradiation field and a center of the imaging plane match with each other and rotational angles of the irradiation field and the imaging plane around the X-ray reference axis match with each other, by matching at least three visible light beams which have directionality and are irradiated from the X-ray generation unit, with distance indexes provided in the imaging unit.04-22-2010
20100220838X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit having an imaging unit power feeding mechanism configured to receive electric power from an external device; a pedestal including a pedestal power feeding mechanism configured to feed the electric power to the imaging unit; and a holder configured to position and hold the imaging unit so that a position of the imaging unit power feeding mechanism coincides with a position of the pedestal power feeding mechanism even if the imaging unit power feeding mechanism is moved with respect to the pedestal power feeding mechanism within a predetermined imaging plane.09-02-2010
20100301223RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - A radiation imaging system includes a portable electronic cassette having a first cable that includes at least one of a signal line and a power line and is provided with a first connector for connecting to another connector, the electronic cassette being configured to acquire an image based on radiation transmitted through an object; a controller having a second cable that includes at least one of a signal line and a power line and is provided with a second connector for connecting to the first connector, the controller being configured to control an imaging operation of the electronic cassette viathese cables; and a patient platform having an electronic cassette-housing unit in which the electronic cassette can be installed and a connector holding unit in which the second connector can be fixedly fitted. Here, the first connector has a lock/unlock operation unit configured to detachably connect to the second connector.12-02-2010

Kiwamu Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090024956INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus comprising display unit configured to display a window, accepting unit configured to accept a resize instruction of the displayed window together with a scroll instruction indicating whether or not to scroll display contents within the window, and control unit configured to control a size of the window and a scrolling of the display contents within the window based on contents of the resize instruction and the scroll instruction, wherein when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and scrolls the display contents according to a change amount of the window, and when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are not to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and suppresses a scrolling of the display contents.01-22-2009
20090040374IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention enables, for example, reduction of motion blur in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device by a simple process. For this purpose, an LPF filters a frame of input image data (A[i]) to generate low-frequency image data (L). A subtractor and an adder generate high-frequency image data (SH). Another adder adds the low-frequency image data (L) from a delay circuit to subsequent low-frequency image data. A divider halves the sum to generate low-frequency averaged image data (SL). A switch alternately outputs the high-frequency image data (SH) and the low-frequency image data (SL) every time a frame of image data is input. As a result, the apparatus of this invention can generate output image data having a frame rate twice that of the input image data.02-12-2009
20090040376IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - This invention enables reduction of moving blurring in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device, and also enables to suppress distortion such as ghost or tail-blurring in pursuit. A LPF generates low-frequency image data from input frame. High-frequency emphasized image data is also generated using a subtractor and an adder. A SizeDown unit reduces the low-frequency image data to decrease the number of pixels. A motion detection/motion application unit performs motion detection and motion application from the reduced image data of the frame of interest and that of the next frame to generate reduced image data located at the intermediate position between them. A SizeUp unit enlarges the generated reduced image data. Another LPF filters the enlarged image data and outputs the result as low-frequency image data. A switch alternately outputs the high-frequency emphasized and the low-frequency images at a speed twice the input frame rate.02-12-2009
20090073192IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image display apparatus which displays a picture by inverting the drive polarity for each sub-frame, when the pictures of adjacent sub-frames are different from each other, image data is generated to prevent accumulation of electrical charges in each display element. For this purpose, the first and second sub-frames are generated from a frame of interest of a moving picture. The difference between the pictures of the first and the second sub-frames is detected. A correction value is calculated by subtracting from the difference a cumulative value multiplied by a predetermined coefficient. A value obtained by subtracting the correction value from the difference is accumulated as the cumulative value. The pictures of the first and second sub-frames are corrected by the correction value.03-19-2009
20090310018DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and a driving method thereof capable of assuring reliability in frame inversion driving and improving cinema video image quality are provided. To accomplish this, a display apparatus of the embodiment replaces at least one of a plurality of frame images obtained by doubling the frame rate, with a different image before display. Specifically, the display apparatus replaces at least one of the double-speed converted plural frame images with a high-frequency emphasized image and at least one with a low-frequency component image, and displays the frame images. Furthermore, the display apparatus replaces an image at the border between cinema images with a different image before displaying.12-17-2009
20110007213IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides an image display apparatus capable of, even in an environment different from that of a theater, reproducing a video of the same atmosphere as that of a film movie screened in the theater. In the image display apparatus, input image data is multiplied by a predetermined ratio to obtain first image data. The first image data is subtracted from the input image data to obtain second image data. Buffer memories temporarily store the first and second image data, respectively. The first and second image data stored in the buffer memories are read and displayed in alternate order. At this time, the predetermined ratio is adjusted so as to set a flicker of the displayed image to a predetermined level.01-13-2011
20110128294IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A parameter acquiring portion 06-02-2011
20110234899MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to distribute low-frequency component image data L in image data for one frame to first and second sub-frames respectively as L09-29-2011
20120102430INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus comprising display unit configured to display a window, accepting unit configured to accept a resize instruction of the displayed window together with a scroll instruction indicating whether or not to scroll display contents within the window, and control unit configured to control a size of the window and a scrolling of the display contents within the window based on contents of the resize instruction and the scroll instruction, wherein when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and scrolls the display contents according to a change amount of the window, and when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are not to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and suppresses a scrolling of the display contents.04-26-2012

Patent applications by Kiwamu Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Mei Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090006377SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER EXECUTABLE PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION TRACKING FROM HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - A system for information clustering comprising a data accumulation part for accumulating documents in a document repository, the documents having loosely related attributes, and defining a cluster between the documents being time sliced so as to define chunks of the documents; a vector space generation part for generating document-keyword vectors, the document-keyword vectors consisting of sparse numeral values depending on presence of key words; a dimension reduction part for reducing dimensions of the keywords to create a dimension reduction matrix of the document-keyword matrix; a centroid vector determination part for generating a centroid vector of the cluster, the centroid vectors being defined from keywords and weight of documents within the cluster; and an item repository for storing the centroid vectors together with the keywords and the weights of the centroid vector.01-01-2009

Motonari Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120135749POSITION INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND POSITION INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To effectively analyze location information of a large number of users that is obtained easily and to quickly collect data with regard to macroscopic user tendencies. A location information analysis device includes: an input module that is adapted to input point data across a plurality of time points with regard to a plurality of users, the point data including location information indicating a position of a user, time information indicating time at which the location information is obtained, and user identifier information with regard to the user; a haunt area extraction module that extracts an area, as a haunt area where the plurality of users frequently haunt, the area in which the point data is concentrated at or more than a predetermined level, based on a distribution status of the input point data plotted on two dimensional map data; and a storage module that stores the extracted haunt area information.05-31-2012

Naoki Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100187862STRUCTURE OF MOUNTING COWL TOP COVER - A structure of mounting a cowl top cover which has a back end portion mounted to a lower end portion of a front windshield panel is disclosed. The structure includes: a surface portion disposed at the back end portion of cowl top cover, the surface portion covering a surface of lower end portion of front windshield panel and extending in a vehicular widthwise direction; a plurality of clip portions disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, the lower end portion of front windshield panel being clamped between the clip portions and the surface portion in a plurality of places along the direction in which the surface portion extends; and a thin plate portion disposed at back end portion of cowl top cover, wherein the thin plate portion connecting plurality of clip portions with each other is thinner than surface portion and is spaced apart from front windshield panel.07-29-2010

Naoko Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100076042PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition which can enhance the storage stability of 1-(1-hydroxymethyl-2,3-dihydroxypropyloxymethyl)-2-nitroimidazole without impairing the effect of the compound.03-25-2010
20120129905PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition which can enhance the storage stability of 1-(05-24-2012
20120130148PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition which can enhance the storage stability of 1-(1-hydroxymethyl-2,3-dihydroxypropyloxymethyl)-2-nitroimidazole without impairing the effect of the compound.05-24-2012
20120136160PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition containing a 2-nitroimidazole derivative, which has high solubility in an aqueous carrier and high stability.05-31-2012
20120136295PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION - To provide a pharmaceutical composition containing a 2-nitroimidazole derivative, which has high solubility in an aqueous carrier and high stability.05-31-2012

Norifumi Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120072881DESIGN APPARATUS, METHOD FOR HAVING COMPUTER DESIGN SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a design apparatus includes an extractor, a regression equation generator and an output module. The extractor extracts a critical part from a net list of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The critical part has a delay value greater than a delay threshold. The regression equation generator generates a regression equation to reproduce the delay value of the critical part using a regression algorithm. The output module outputs the regression equation.03-22-2012

Shiro Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090083687PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method used for supporting designing of a printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers having conductive areas to which a constant potential is applied, includes specifying conductive areas having a predetermined wiring from the conductive areas for each of the plurality of conductive layers, extracting areas that overlap each other in a planar view from the specified conductive areas, specifying an interlayer connection member that electrically connects at least two of the plurality of conductive layers in the extracted area, and clearly specifying an area within a predetermined distance from a center of the specified interlayer connection member and in the extracted area.03-26-2009

Tadahiko Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080216484MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING MATERIAL AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING DEVICE - A magnetic refrigeration material includes: at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm and Tb by a range of 4 to 15 atomic percentages; at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Mn and Cr by a range of 60 to 93 atomic percentages; at least one selected from the group consisting of Si, C, Ge, Al, Ga and In by a range of 2.9 to 23.5 atomic percentages; and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb and W by a range of 1.5 atomic percentages or less, wherein the magnetic refrigeration material includes a NaZn09-11-2008
20080236171MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATING METHOD - A magnetic refrigerating device includes: at least one set of double-structured Halbach type magnet including a ring-shaped inner Halbach type magnet and a ring-shaped outer Halbach type magnet which are coaxially arranged one another so that a magnetic field generated by the inner Halbach type magnet is superimposed with a magnetic field generated by the outer Halbach type magnet; a magnetic refrigerant or a magnetic refrigeration working chamber including the magnetic refrigerant therein disposed in a bore space of the inner Halbach type magnet; and a rotating mechanism to rotate the outer Halbach type magnet while the inner Halbach type magnet is stationed.10-02-2008
20090019860MAGNETIC MATERIAL FOR MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION - A magnetic material for magnetic refrigeration has a composition represented by (R101-22-2009

Patent applications by Tadahiko Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Takanori Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100248221METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANISM BY DNA TAG - The object is to provide a novel organism identification method which can be used as an alternative method to a conventional organism identification method which utilizes DNA and requires enormous labor. Developed is an organism identification method for determining whether or not an organism of interest is identical to a specific organism or a progeny thereof, which is characterized by introducing a DNA tag(s) in advance into a cell(s) of the specific organism, or a parasite or a symbiont with the specific organism, and determining whether or not the organism of interest is identical to the specific organism or a progenitor thereof based on the detection or non-detection of the DNA tag in DNA extracted from the organism of interest, or the parasite or the symbiont with the organism of interest.09-30-2010

Takatsugu Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090155844METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING A SUPPRESSOR tRNA, DNA CONSTRUCT AND USE THEREOF FOR PRODUCING A NON-NATURAL AMINO ACID-INCORPORATED PROTEIN - There are provided a DNA construct comprising non-eukaryote-derived suppressor tRNA gene containing no internal promoter functioning in a eukaryotic cell, and a eukaryote-derived or bacteriophage-derived promoter linked at the 5′ end of the tRNA gene, a method for synthesizing a suppressor tRNA by using the DNA construct, and a process for producing a non-natural amino acid-incorporated protein by using the same.06-18-2009
20100304431tRNA SYNTHESIS METHOD, NUCLEIC ACID, AMINOACYL tRNA SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN INTRODUCED WITH UNNATURAL AMINO ACID - The present invention relates to a process for producing a protein having an unnatural amino acid introduced therein, the process including: expressing in a eukaryotic cell an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, a nucleic acid having a sequence containing a eukaryote-derived tRNA nucleotide sequence linked to the 5′ end of a tRNA nucleotide sequence that is ligated with to an unnatural amino acid in the presence of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, an unnatural amino acid, and a gene of a desired protein having a nonsense mutation at a predetermined position, to integrate the unnatural amino acid at the nonsense mutation position into the protein, thereby expressing a protein having an unnatural amino acid introduced therein.12-02-2010
20110136168PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF NON-NATURAL PROTEIN HAVING ESTER BOND THEREIN - A non-natural protein having at least one ester bond in its polypeptide main chain is synthesized by using an in vivo translation system in a ribosome. The following components (a) to (c) are expressed in a cell or an cell extraction solution in the presence of an α-hydroxy acid: (a) an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase which can activate the α-hydroxy acid; (b) suppressor tRNA which can bind to the α-hydroxy acid in the presence of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; and (c) a gene encoding a desired protein having a nonsense mutation or a frame-shift mutation at a desired site.06-09-2011

Patent applications by Takatsugu Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Takayo Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100244254Semiconductor device - A semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes a first interlayer insulating film, a lower-layer interconnection in a first groove in the first film, a second interlayer insulating film over the first film, having a normal via hole opening to the lower-layer interconnection, a normal plug in the normal hole, a third interlayer insulating film over the second film, having a second groove opening to the normal plug, an upper-layer interconnection in the second groove, and a first dummy plug in a first dummy via hole in the second film, the first dummy via hole opening to one of the lower-layer and upper-layer interconnections, wherein a short side of the first dummy plug is larger than a minimum width of a minimum width interconnection and smaller than a minimum diameter of a minimum diameter via hole and a long side is larger than a shortest length of a shortest length interconnection.09-30-2010

Patent applications by Takayo Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Taro Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100157113IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image sensing apparatus including an image sensor that performs photoelectric conversion and outputs an image signal, a subtraction circuit that subtracts a black image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is shielded from light from a subject image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is exposed, a setting unit that sets a shooting condition, and a control unit that controls a thinning rate during thinning readout from the image sensor of the black image signal in accordance with the shooting condition set by the setting unit.06-24-2010

Tatsuru Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090161073Projection display apparatus - A bundle of rays is incident in a lens array and converted into sub-bundles of rays. The sub-bundles of rays are separated by a color separator into first and second sub-bundles of rays of different colors. The first and the second sub-bundles of rays are combined by other lens arrays into a first and a second bundle of rays of uniform illuminance, respectively. The first and second bundle of rays of uniform illuminance are applied polarization beam splitting and then polarization angle conversion by polarization converters, to be converted into first and second linearly polarized beams, respectively. The second linearly polarized beams are separated by a color separator, provided on an optical path of the second linearly polarized beams, into third and fourth linearly polarized beams of different colors. The first, third and fourth linearly polarized beams are modulated by liquid crystal display devices, provided on optical paths of the first, third and fourth linearly polarized beams, respectively, with input video signals into first, second and third modulated beams. The first, second and third modulated beams are combined by a color combiner into a combined bundle of rays to be projected for displaying images carried by the video signals.06-25-2009
20090179882Light modulator, projection display apparatus and image projection method - A first linearly polarized bundle of rays of incident rays is converted by optical modulation with an input video signal into a second linearly polarized bundle of rays orthogonal to the first rays in polarization. The first rays pass through a polarizer before optically modulated. A second linearly polarized bundle of rays originally involved in the incident rays is reflected by the polarizer in a first direction. The second rays obtained by the optical modulation are reflected by the polarizer in a second direction. The second rays reflected in the second direction pass through another polarizer. A first linearly polarized bundle of rays involved in the reflected second rays is reflected by the other polarizer. The reflected first rays is detected by an optical sensor that is positioned outside an optical path of the second rays originally involved in the incident rays and reflected in the first direction.07-16-2009

Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120130678WIND TURBINE MONITORING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Status monitoring of a wind turbine is automatically performed, and evaluation of that status is quantitatively performed according to an appropriate criterion. Provided is a wind turbine monitoring device including a first storage unit in which a diagnostic data file is stored; a second storage unit in which a normal data file is stored; a diagnostics setting unit that that extracts and sets a plurality of datasets to be used in diagnosis from the first storage unit and that extracts and sets a plurality of datasets to be used in diagnosis from the second storage unit; an index-value calculating unit that calculates status index values representing the status of the wind turbine using a statistical calculation method, on the basis of the set datasets in the diagnostic data file and the datasets in the reference data file; a fault determining unit that evaluates the status of the wind turbine on the basis of the status index values; and a notification unit that notifies the result of this evaluation.05-24-2012

Yuka Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120063546PHASE-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT - A voltage-controlled oscillator generates a first signal and a second signal having a phase reverse to that of the first signal. A switch supplies a current signal generated by a first charge pump to a loop filter. A counter counts a cycle number of the second signal included in one cycle period of a reference signal. A second charge pump supplies, to the loop filter, a first current signal having a constant value and a second current signal having a constant value whose polarity is reverse to that of the first current signal. The control circuit controls the switch and the second charge pump based on a comparison between the cycle number of the second signal counted by the counter and a value X.03-15-2012

Yuri Kobayashi, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120077128SUBSTRATE EDGE TREATMENT FOR COATER/DEVELOPER - A method of substrate edge treatment includes forming a processing target film on a treatment target substrate, applying an energy line to a predetermined position on the processing target film to form a latent image on the processing target film, heating the treatment target substrate in which the latent image is formed on the processing target film, developing the processing target film after the heating, inspecting whether a residue is present at an edge of the treatment target substrate after the developing, and cleaning an end of the treatment target substrate to remove the residue at the edge of the treatment target substrate determined to be defective in the inspecting.03-29-2012