Patents by Inventor Hidenori Aoki
Hidenori Aoki 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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Publication number: 20240096544Abstract: A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions. The first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other. A first dimension of the base body representing a dimension between the first surface and the second surface is greater than a second dimension of the base body representing a dimension of the base body between the third and fourth surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hidenori AOKI, Tomoo KASHIWA
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Patent number: 11914760Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, and an information processing method for curbing occurrence of a feeling of strangeness in augmented reality in a use environment for a plurality of people. Position information indicating the self position of an AR device that outputs an AR object that is shown to the user as if the AR object existed in real space is acquired by the AR technology, and a deviation weight which is an evaluation value indicating how easily a plurality of users recognizes that an arrangement position of the AR object is deviated from each other on the basis of position information of a plurality of the AR devices and the arrangement position of the AR object. Then, the output method of the AR object is adjusted according to the deviation weight to make it difficult to recognize occurrence of the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Hidenori Aoki, Haruka Fujisawa, Fujio Arai, Ryo Fukazawa, Tomohiko Gotoh
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Patent number: 11901106Abstract: A coil element according to one embodiment of the present invention has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a principal surface including long sides and short sides. The coil element includes a drum core, a winding wound around the drum core, a first external electrode, a second external, and a covering portion covering at least a part of the winding core. The drum core in the embodiment includes a first flange, a second flange, and a winding core connecting between the first flange and the second flange. The winding core extends along the short sides of the principal surface. In one embodiment, the coil element has a height less than 0.85 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidenori Aoki, Tomoo Kashiwa
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Patent number: 11869702Abstract: A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions. The first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other. A ratio of a first distance between the first conductor portions and the first surface to a second distance between the second conductor portions and the second surface is from 0.5 to less than 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidenori Aoki, Tomoo Kashiwa
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Patent number: 11862379Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: a drum core 10 that includes a winding shaft 12 and flange parts 14a, 14b; a coil 40 that includes a winding part 42 and a pair of lead parts 44a, 44b led out from the winding part 42 toward a side face 22 of the flange part 14a and then bent onto the flange part 14a along the side face 22; and a pair of external electrodes 60a, 60b provided on the outer face 17a of the flange part 14a, and connected to the pair of lead parts 44a, 44b; wherein the shortest distance L4 between the side face 22 and the outermost periphery of the winding part 42 is shorter than the shortest distance L3 between a side face 24, opposite the side face 22, of the flange part 14a, and the outermost periphery of the winding part 42.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki Matsui, Hidenori Aoki
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Patent number: 11854151Abstract: This information processing device includes: a control device which determines whether or not a first terminal is in a first position in a real space, controls, on the basis of the determination that the first terminal is in the first position, the first terminal to start superimposing a virtual object according to the first position on the real space, determines whether or not the second terminal different from the first terminal is in the first position, and controls the second terminal to start superimposing the virtual object on the real space, on the basis of the determination that the second terminal is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Hidenori Aoki, Fujio Arai, Masayuki Inoue, Tomohiko Gotoh, Shintaro Tsutsui, Keijiroh Nagano, Haruka Fujisawa
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Publication number: 20230335331Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil component comprises: forming a coil conductor including a winding portion, the winding portion including a plurality of first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions, the first and second conductor portions alternate with and connected to each other; forming a molded body by molding composite magnetic material including metal magnetic particles and a binder with the coil conductor being disposed inside the composite magnetic material; and heating the molded body to produce a magnetic base body. The magnetic base body is formed such that a distance between the first conductor portions and a first surface of the magnetic body is greater than a distance between the second conductor portions and a second surface of the magnetic base body opposite to the first surface, by molding, cutting or polishing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Hidenori AOKI, Tomoo KASHIWA
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Patent number: 11770517Abstract: Natural appearance of transition from a predetermined object of two-dimensional content displayed on a two-dimensional display to a three-dimensional display model of an AR display device or vice versa is achieved. Control is performed such that, the transition is performed after switching the two-dimensional content from the motion parallax non-application display to the motion parallax application display. For example, control is performed such that the motion parallax application display is displayed on the two-dimensional display in a case where there is one AR display device, and the motion parallax application display is displayed on the AR display device in a case where there is a plurality of AR display devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuko Ishihara, Hirotake Ichikawa, Atsushi Ishihara, Hajime Wakabayashi, Takaomi Kimura, Masayuki Inoue, Hidenori Aoki
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Patent number: 11694675Abstract: Provided is an apparatus that includes a voice recognition section that executes a voice recognition process on a user speech and a learning processing section that executes a process of updating a degree of confidence on the basis of an interaction made between a user and the information processing apparatus after the user speech. The degree of confidence is an evaluation value indicating the reliability of a voice recognition result of the user speech. The voice recognition section generates data on degrees of confidence in recognition of the user speech in which data plural user speech candidates based on the voice recognition result of the user speech are associated with the degrees of confidence which are evaluation values each indicating reliability of the corresponding user speech candidate.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori Aoki, Fujio Arai, Yusuke Kudo, Gen Hamada, Naoyuki Sato
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Publication number: 20230120092Abstract: An information processing device includes an output control unit (173) that controls output on a presentation device so as to present content associated with an absolute position in a real space, to a first user, a determination unit (171) that determines a self-position in the real space, a transmission unit (172) that transmits a signal requesting rescue to a device positioned in the real space, when reliability of determination by the determination unit (171) is reduced, an acquisition unit (174) that acquires information about the self-position estimated from an image including the first user captured by the device according to the signal; and a correction unit (175) that corrects the self-position based on the information about the self-position acquired by the acquisition unit (174).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: DAITA KOBAYASHI, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, HIDENORI AOKI, YOSHINORI OGAKI, YU NAKADA, RYOSUKE MURATA, TOMOHIKO GOTOH, SHUNITSU KOHARA, HARUKA FUJISAWA, MAKOTO DANIEL TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20230109335Abstract: A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions. The first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other. A ratio of a first distance between the first conductor portions and the first surface to a second distance between the second conductor portions and the second surface is from 0.5 to less than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Hidenori AOKI, Tomoo KASHIWA
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Patent number: 11621114Abstract: A coil component according to one aspect is provided with a core containing a plurality of soft magnetic metal particles, a winding wire wound on the core, and a sheathing body provided on the core so as to cover at least part of the winding wire and having a relative magnetic permeability smaller than that of the core.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kobayashi, Hidenori Aoki
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Patent number: 11551853Abstract: A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode provided on the base body, a second external electrode provided on the base body, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes and extending around the coil axis. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions, and the first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other, and a distance between the first conductor portions and the first surface is less than a distance between the second conductor portions and the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Aoki, Tomoo Kashiwa
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Publication number: 20230007560Abstract: An object is to provide alternative communication means that does not require establishment of a connection. A communication control device according to the present technology includes: a first communication unit that performs communication by a device designation method that performs signal communication while designating a communication target device; a second communication unit that performs communication by a broadcasting method that performs signal communication without designating the communication target device; and a switching control unit that, when the first communication unit is performing communication with the communication target device, switches a communication system from the device designation method by the first communication unit to the broadcasting method by the second communication unit in accordance with a communication condition of the first communication unit such that the communication with the communication target device is continuously performed by the second communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventor: HIDENORI AOKI
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Publication number: 20220414945Abstract: A device and a method for performing AR image display control in which flicker in a boundary region between a virtual object and a real object is not noticeable are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: SHUNITSU KOHARA, HIDENORI AOKI, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, SHINTARO TSUTSUI, HIROSHI MATSUYAMA, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20220414960Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit that displays a virtual object on a three-dimensional coordinate space associated with a real space and causes the virtual object to perform a predetermined movement according to a predetermined sound reproduced from a real sound source disposed in the real space, in which the control unit performs delay amount setting processing of increasing a delay amount of movement start timing at which the virtual object is caused to perform the predetermined movement with respect to reproduction timing at which the real sound source reproduces the predetermined sound, as a position of the real sound source in the real space and a position of the virtual object on the three-dimensional coordinate space are separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Takaomi KIMURA, Yasuko ISHIHARA, Hajime WAKABAYASHI, Atsushi ISHIHARA, Masayuki INOUE, Hirotake ICHIKAWA, Hidenori AOKI, Ryo FUKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20220377313Abstract: Natural appearance of transition from a predetermined object of two-dimensional content displayed on a two-dimensional display to a three-dimensional display model of an AR display device or vice versa is achieved. Control is performed such that, the transition is performed after switching the two-dimensional content from the motion parallax non-application display to the motion parallax application display. For example, control is performed such that the motion parallax application display is displayed on the two-dimensional display in a case where there is one AR display device, and the motion parallax application display is displayed on the AR display device in a case where there is a plurality of AR display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: YASUKO ISHIHARA, HIROTAKE ICHIKAWA, ATSUSHI ISHIHARA, HAJIME WAKABAYASHI, TAKAOMI KIMURA, MASAYUKI INOUE, HIDENORI AOKI
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Publication number: 20220327787Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, method, and program capable of more easily displaying an AR object at an accurate position. The information processing device includes: a first self-position estimation unit that performs a first self-position estimation on the basis of an environment image whose subjects are surroundings of the information processing device; and a second self-position estimation unit that performs a second self-position estimation on the basis of a detection plane detected from the environment image and object information generated in advance and related to a shielding AR object having a planar shape to correct a display position of a non-shielding AR object according to a result of the first self-position estimation on the basis of a result of the second self-position estimation. The present technology can be applied to an AR device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: SHINTARO TSUTSUI, GEN HAMADA, KEIJIROH NAGANO, TOMOHIKO GOTOH, MASAYUKI INOUE, HIDENORI AOKI
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Publication number: 20220308657Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of curbing occurrence of a feeling of strangeness in augmented reality in a use environment for a plurality of people. Position information indicating the self position of an AR device that outputs an AR object that is shown to the user as if the AR object existed in real space is acquired by the AR technology, and a deviation weight which is an evaluation value indicating how easily a plurality of users recognizes that an arrangement position of the AR object is deviated from each other on the basis of position information of a plurality of the AR devices and the arrangement position of the AR object. Then, the output method of the AR object is adjusted according to the deviation weight to make it difficult to recognize occurrence of the deviation. The present technology can be applied to an AR system used by a plurality of people, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: KEIJIROH NAGANO, HIDENORI AOKI, HARUKA FUJISAWA, FUJIO ARAI, RYO FUKAZAWA, TOMOHIKO GOTOH
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Publication number: 20220285067Abstract: A coil element according to one embodiment of the present invention has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a principal surface including long sides and short sides. The coil element includes a drum core, a winding wound around the drum core, a first external electrode, a second external, and a covering portion covering at least a part of the winding core. The drum core in the embodiment includes a first flange, a second flange, and a winding core connecting between the first flange and the second flange. The winding core extends along the short sides of the principal surface. In one embodiment, the coil element has a height less than 0.85 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Hidenori AOKI, Tomoo KASHIWA