Patents by Inventor Akihiro Yamaguchi

Akihiro Yamaguchi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240137478
    Abstract: A stereo camera apparatus includes a housing, a first camera unit attached to the housing, a second camera unit attached to the housing, a processing device that performs image processing by using captured images acquired by capturing of the first camera unit and the second camera unit, and a circuit board on which the processing device is mounted. In the housing, a base length direction of the first camera unit and the second camera unit is a longitudinal direction, the housing and the circuit board are bonded to each other by an adhesive, and in a region in the housing, onto which the adhesive is applied, a length in the base line length direction is shorter than a length in an orthogonal direction that is a direction perpendicular to the base length direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Kenichi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240068821
    Abstract: The drive route generation device according to the present disclosure is configured to execute a process of acquiring a designated point, a process of acquiring a designation condition for a drive route to be generated, a process of selecting one or a plurality of specific spots from a plurality of spots based on the position information and the designation condition for the plurality of spots, and a process of generating, as a drive route, a circulation route that comes back to a designated point via one or a plurality of specific spots using the designated point as a departure point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240070793
    Abstract: An order reception system according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform receiving a reservation from a user to provide a dish to a dish providing place, receiving the reservation to provide a dish, calculating a lead time required for providing the dish and an arrival time at which the user arrives at the dish providing place, and instructing the dish providing place to start preparing to provide the dish based on the arrival time and the lead time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240070496
    Abstract: An information processing device incudes one or more hardware processors. The processors calculate first similarities between a plurality of probabilistic models each modeling a probability of a value, at corresponding time, of time series data whose data length is a specific value, and a plurality of pieces of partial time series data whose data length is the specific value, the plurality of pieces of partial time series data being contained in target time series data to be a target of diagnosis; and determine a plurality of pieces of matching information including positions of the plurality of pieces of partial time series data in the target time series data, first probabilistic models whose first similarities with respect to the plurality of pieces of partial time series data at the positions are larger than other probabilistic models, and the first similarities to the first probabilistic models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kento KOTERA, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Ken UENO
  • Publication number: 20240068827
    Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240054411
    Abstract: An itinerary matching system according to the present disclosure includes a process of receiving registration of an itinerary, a process of extracting two registered itineraries from among a plurality of registered itineraries that have been registered and calculating a degree of matching between the two registered itineraries that have been extracted, a process of generating, upon receiving that the degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a merged itinerary in which the two registered itineraries are merged, and a process of setting, upon receiving acceptance from a participant of each of the two registered itineraries, the participant of each of the two registered itineraries as a participant of the merged itinerary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240054442
    Abstract: A luggage delivery management system manages a service of delivering luggage deposited by a user to a destination specified by the user. The luggage delivery management system acquires payment amount information indicating an amount equivalent to a payment amount paid by the user for the service. When multiple pieces of luggage of a plurality of the users are delivered by one vehicle, the luggage delivery management system determines whether to set priority of the multiple pieces of luggage. The luggage delivery management system sets the priority of the luggage of the user who pays more to be higher based on the payment amount information when the priority is set. Then, the luggage delivery management system sets a luggage delivery route of the vehicle such that the multiple pieces of luggage are delivered to the destinations in accordance with the priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240027200
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes one or more storage devices that store entrance and exit information indicating a correspondence relationship between a location of an entrance and a location of an exit for each area, and one or more processors. The processors determine whether an alighting position at which a user of the vehicle gets off the vehicle is the location of the entrance, based on the entrance and exit information, and set a destination of the vehicle so that the vehicle moves to the location of the exit corresponding to the entrance, when the alighting position of the user is the location of the entrance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240028649
    Abstract: An information provision system proposes an action item including at least one of a destination and a vehicle to a user. A database indicates a correspondence between a category of clothing and the action item that is recommended. The information provision system acquires an image showing user's clothing that is clothing of the user, and recognizes the category of the user's clothing based on the image. The information provision system further refers to the database to select the action item recommended for the category of the user's clothing as a recommended action item. The information provision system then proposes the recommended action item to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240019254
    Abstract: The spot proposal system includes one or more storage devices that store a database indicating a spot weather compatibility with weather tor each spot, and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors acquire weather information for each candidate spot, acquire spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot with reference to the database, select a target spot from among the candidate spots based on the spot weather compatibility corresponding to the weather for each candidate spot, and propose a target spot to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taizo MASUDA, Kiyoto SASAKI, Daisuke KAKUMA, Hiroyoshi MASUI, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Sokfan YEE, Yuki NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11874623
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor drum and a drive device. A latent image is to be formed on the photoconductor drum. The drive device drives the photoconductor drum. The drive device includes a motor, a drive pulley, a driven pulley, and a metal belt. The drive pulley is provided for the motor. The driven pulley is provided for the photoconductor drum. The metal belt is wrapped around the drive pulley and the driven pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230408962
    Abstract: A belt drive device includes a drive source, a drive pulley, a driven shaft, a driven pulley, a belt, and a speed detecting device. The drive pulley is rotated about an axis thereof by the drive source. The driven shaft is rotatable about an axis thereof. The driven pulley is secured to and in axial alignment with the driven shaft. The belt is annularly formed of a metallic flat belt and mounted around the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The speed detecting device includes an encoder disk and a single optical sensor. The encoder disk has an optical pattern formed thereon. The optical sensor reads the optical pattern. The speed detecting device detects a rotational speed of the driven shaft based on a result of the optical sensor having read the optical pattern. The encoder disk is secured to and in axial alignment with the driven pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230411066
    Abstract: A transformer includes a core and a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding wound around the core. The first secondary winding includes first winding layers stacked along an axial direction of the core. The second secondary winding includes second winding layers stacked along the axial direction. The first winding layers are electrically connected in parallel to each other. The second winding layers are electrically connected in parallel to each other. A distance between the primary winding and the first secondary winding and a distance between the primary winding and the second secondary winding are greater than a distance between adjacent two of the first winding layers and a distance between adjacent two of the second winding layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota KOJIMA, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11840367
    Abstract: A synthetic resin multilayer bottle includes an outer shell bottle and an inner container. The outer shell bottle is capable of restoring itself to its original shape against external pressure. The shoulder portion has a polygonal pyramidal shape, and the bottom portion has a polygonal pyramidal shape, including ridge lines continuing to the extended lines of the polygonal pyramidal ridge lines of the shoulder portion. The inner container includes a an inner container body having a shape extending along the internal shape of the outer shell bottle. It further includes an air passage formed between the outer mouth portion and the inner mouth portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hokkai Can Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230360864
    Abstract: A film-forming device disclosed is a film-forming device for forming a film on a metal foil having a porous portion on a main surface thereof by a gas phase method, and includes a film-forming region in which the film is formed on the metal foil, conveyors to provided downstream of the film-forming region and drawing the metal foil from the film-forming region, and a control unit that controls the stress applied to the metal foil from the conveyors to 21 N/mm2 or less. This provides a film-forming device which does not cause defects easily on a film-forming target metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa YOSHIMURA, Naomi KURIHARA, Miwa OGAWA, Akihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11803613
    Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to classify a plurality of partial waveform patterns that characterize a plurality of time series data into a plurality of classes based on the plurality of time series data classified into the plurality of classes, update shapes of the partial waveform patterns by fitting the partial waveform patterns to the time series data of the corresponding class, and reclassify the plurality of time series data into the plurality of classes based on the updated partial waveform patterns and difficulty levels that represent degrees of difficulty of classification and interpretation of the time series data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamaguchi, Shigeru Maya, Ken Ueno
  • Patent number: 11710066
    Abstract: A time-series feature extraction apparatus has a coefficient outputter to output a coefficient to be used in calculation for classifying time series data into a plurality of segments, a segment position outputter to perform calculation for classifying the time series data into the plurality of segments based on the coefficient to output information on boundary positions of the plurality of segments, a cluster classifier to classify the plurality of segments into a certain number of plurality of clusters equal to or smaller than a certain number of the plurality of segments, a representative element outputter to output a representative element which represents a local feature of each of the plurality of clusters and is set for each of the plurality of segments, a feature degree calculator to calculate a feature degree of the representative element, and a representative element updater to update the representative element based on the feature degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shigeru Maya, Tatsuya Inagi, Akihiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11644087
    Abstract: A drive transmission device is provided with a drive pulley driven by a motor, a driven pulley in which a bulging part crowned in a shape bulging outward in the radial direction is formed over the entire circumference of the outer peripheral surface, a belt wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley, and a first measurement unit for measuring rotation unevenness of the drive pulley. The drive pulley has a uniform diameter in the axial direction which is a smaller diameter than that of the driven pulley. The belt is bent and deformed along the bulging part of the driven pulley so that the axial center portion is expanded outward the axial end portion. The axial end of the belt contacts the outer peripheral surface of the drive pulley, but does not contact the outer peripheral surface of the driven pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230096244
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a skew correction device and a cleaning device. The skew correction device includes first conveying rollers. The first conveying rollers are rotatable about a predetermined rotation fulcrum. The first conveying rollers are, before a sheet, which is skewed, enters a device body, rotated from an initial position, and, when the sheet enters the device body, rotated back to the initial position while nipping and conveying the sheet. The cleaning device includes a toner conveying member that conveys residual toner on an image-carrying member to a predetermined container. Both the first conveying rollers and the toner conveying member operate by consecutively receiving a rotational driving force from a common electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11543616
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle image pickup device wherein highly accurate optical axis adjustment of an image pickup unit with respect to a housing can be performed, while suppressing precision machining of the housing as much as possible. The present invention is provided with: camera modules having a lens holder, which has the optical axis of a lens as a normal line, and which has one or more reference surfaces that are formed therein; and a housing having an insertion hole, into which the lens holder is inserted, facing surfaces facing the reference surfaces, and adhesive filling sections penetrating from the side of the facing surfaces to the reverse side of the facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takeuchi, Hidenori Shinohara, Hiroyuki Kudo, Akihiro Yamaguchi