Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Suzuki

Hirokazu Suzuki 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: 20130030806
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kouji Ueno, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Tomoo Ikeda, Osamu Nisiyama, Hirokazu Suzuki, Manabu Nagao
  • Publication number: 20130030794
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speaker clustering apparatus includes a clustering unit, an extraction unit, and an error detection unit. The clustering unit is configured to extract acoustic features for speakers from an acoustic signal, and to cluster utterances included in the acoustic signal into the speakers by using the acoustic features. The extraction unit is configured to acquire character strings representing contents of the utterances, and to extract linguistic features of the speakers by using the character strings. The error detection unit is configured to decide that, when one of the character strings does not fit with a linguistic feature of a speaker into which an utterance of the one is clustered, the utterance is erroneously clustered by the clustering unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoo Ikeda, Manabu Nagao, Osamu Nishiyama, Hirokazu Suzuki, Koji Ueno, Nobuhiro Shimogori
  • Publication number: 20130030805
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transcription support system supports transcription work to convert voice data to text. The system includes a first storage unit configured to store therein the voice data; a playback unit configured to play back the voice data; a second storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string; a text creating unit that creates the text in response to an operation input of a user; and an estimation unit configured to estimate already-transcribed voice positional information indicative of a position at which the creation of the text is completed in the voice data based on the voice indices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Tomoo Ikeda, Kouji Ueno, Osamu Nishiyama, Manabu Nagao
  • Publication number: 20120295484
    Abstract: The Present Disclosure is a module socket for mounting a module on a mounting member, in which the module socket has a first connector including a flat housing, a first conductive pattern arranged on the mating side surface of the housing, and a male terminal protruding from a surface of the first conductive pattern, and a flat second connector formed from plate-shaped metal and including a female terminal elastically interposing the male terminal, and in which either the first conductor or the second conductor is attached to the module and the other is attached to the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eriko Sato, Toshihiro Niitsu, Hirokazu Suzuki, Akihiro Tezuka, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20120247237
    Abstract: A sensor and bonding agent for the sensor wherein thickness of the bonding agent interposed between the sensor and measuring object can be kept uniform to maintain uniform bonding force of the bonding agent and a peeling phenomenon of the bonding agent occurring due to a difference in thermal expansion between the measuring object and bonding agent and/or between the bonding agent and the sensor can be prevented. The sensor is attached, through the bonding agent, to a high-temperature measuring object, include a sensor main body having a detecting section, a block body constructed by integrally forming the sensor main body using a molding process. The block body is made of a ceramic-based bonding material that the same as a material forming the bonding agent and, on a side of the measuring object of the block body, a bonding surface of the bonding agent is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, KUMAGAI GUMI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hisayoshi ISHIBASHI, Hirokazu SUZUKI, Akihiko NISHIMURA, Yukihiro SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20120247236
    Abstract: A sensor with aging function is provided wherein installation space for an apparatus to perform an aging process and the number of apparatuses can be reduced which enables easy and reliable aging processes and can improve measuring accuracy and enhance measuring reliability of the sensor. The sensor with aging function 10 is attached, through a bonding agent 15, to a high temperature measuring object 14, comprising a block body 12 constructed by integrally forming a sensor main body 11 and an electric heater 13 disposed in a manner to be close to the sensor main body 11 using a molding process, wherein a bonding surface on which the bonding agent 15 is applied is formed on the measuring object 14 side of the block body 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, KUMAGAI GUMI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi ISHIBASHI, Hirokazu SUZUKI, Akihiko NISHIMURA, Yukihiro SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20120244275
    Abstract: A process for production of a flexible laminated sheet having one or more laminated bodies each provided with a metal foil formed on one side of a resin film. The process includes coating a varnish containing a polyamic acid and a solvent onto the metal foil, holding the coated film, drying in which at least a portion of the solvent in the varnish is removed to form a layer composed of a resin composition, and forming the resin in which the layer composed of the resin composition is heated to form a resin film containing a polyimide resin. The conditions for each step from the coating up to the resin film-forming are adjusted based on a target for the content of metal elements in the resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Masahiko SUZUKI, Kazuhito OBATA, Katsuyuki MASUDA, Kenichi TOMIOKA, Masaki TAKEUCHI, Sumio YOSHIDA, Hirokazu SUZUKI, Yoshitsugu MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20120098460
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device capable of favorably controlling a color temperature of white light and having excellent color rendering properties, the light emitting device includes: a plurality of kinds of LED elements emitting ultraviolet rays or short-wavelength visible rays of different wavelengths; a single wavelength converting member containing fluorescent substances and converting the ultraviolet rays or short-wavelength visible rays emitted from the plurality of kinds of LED elements to derive white light; and a current control part varying current values to be supplied to the plurality of kinds of LED elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Shin Miyasaka, Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110284453
    Abstract: An oil filter for an automatic transmission includes a housing which is composed of a case having an opened end portion and a cover covering the opened end of the case, the case being formed with a flow-in port and the cover being formed with a flow-out port, a filter element dividing an interior of the housing into a dust side section positioned on the flow-in port side and a clean side section positioned in the flow-out port side, the filter element including a first filter to which a flow-in hole continuous to the flow-in port is formed and a second filter opposing to the first filter, and a flow passage ensuring unit disposed between the first filter and the second filter for defining a predetermined gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: ROKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takazumi TOYOSHIMA, Masanori GOTO, Hirokazu SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20110278606
    Abstract: In order to provide an LED light emitting device that can easily control a color temperature of white light, the LED light emitting device is provided with a plurality of types of light emitting parts that: respectively have LED elements that emit ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light, and phosphors that absorb the ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light to emit colored light; and emit the colored light, wherein: the colored light emitted by the plurality of types of light emitting parts become white light when all mixed with each other; the LED elements of the plurality of types of light emitting parts are all the same ones, and mounted on a single base material; and two or more light emitting parts overlap with each other in their parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Jun Konishi, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenji Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20110238411
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a document proofing support apparatus includes an input unit, an analysis unit, a detection unit, a database unit, a retrieval unit, and a display unit. The input unit is configured to receive input of one of at least one proof document and at least one entry document. The analysis unit is configured to perform a morphological, a syntactic and a dependency analysis and generate analysis information including a dependency relation. The detection unit is configured to detect as a possible coined word character string a compound word having a nominal continuation relation. The database unit is configured to store syntactic information. The retrieval unit is configured to retrieve a dependency-relation sentence, and to determine the possible coined word character string as a coined word if the dependency-relation sentence exists. The display unit is configured to display a message including the coined word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110201226
    Abstract: A board-to-board connector comprising a first connector and a second connector is disclosed. The first connector has a first housing mounted on first terminals. The second connector is configured to be engaged, by fitting, with the first connector. The second connector has a second housing mounted on second terminals, which are configured to make contact with the first terminals. At least a part of an entrance end portion a concave guide portion is provided with a sloped guide surface formed therein. Due to the insertion of a second fitting guide portion into a concave guide portion, in such a manner that portions of the second fitting guide portion are brought into abutting contact with the sloped guide surface, the first and second terminals are spaced apart from each other in a state where fitting faces of the first and second housings are even with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Ryotaro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7979265
    Abstract: Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element representing second expression of second language, first expression being to be translated into second expression, first expression and second expression belonging to category, acquiring unit configured to acquire predetermined expression of first language, predetermined expression being contained in to-be-translated text having structure, detecting unit configured to detect, from interpretation data items, interpretation data items each including expression element representing predetermined expression, selection unit configured to select, from detected interpretation data items, interpretation data item including word set element corresponding to same attribute or equivalent positional relationship in structure, and translation unit configured to transl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Akira Kumano
  • Publication number: 20110094781
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a glass substrate (10) containing sodium, and a sodium diffusion-preventing film (11) which is a planarization coating film formed on the glass substrate (10). An electronic element (12) is formed on the sodium diffusion-preventing film (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Kohei Watanuki, Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7927246
    Abstract: The rotation of a first rotating element is shifted in speed by a speed shift device, and is transmitted to a second rotating element or a third rotating element of a differential device via a first clutch or a second clutch. In this manner, the torque of right and left driving wheels can be controlled. Furthermore, in conjunction with limitation of the differential motion, the amount of torque transmitted to a fourth rotating element is eliminated by allowing the speed shift device to freely rotate, and the accumulated amount of sliding of friction engagement elements at the time of differential motion limitation can be reduced by completely engaging the first clutch and the second clutch without allowing them to slide. Thus, the differential motion limitation control can be realized without a need to increase the size of the first clutch and the second clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ikushima, Kazuhiko Yuasa, Hideki Tamoto, Hirokazu Suzuki, Akifumi Miyazaki, Koji Ando
  • Publication number: 20110058767
    Abstract: A reinforced sensor with an optical fiber woven into a fabric, comprising a fabric formed in a manner that a weft yarn is woven thereinto in a direction substantially perpendicular to a warp yarn, wherein an optical fiber is included in at least either one of fibers of the warp yarn and the weft yarn. The optical fiber may function as a FBG sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: KUMAGAI GUMI CO., LTD., JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, FIBEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Ishibashi, Hirokazu Suzuki, Kiyoshi Oka, Akihiko Nishimura, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Sumiyuki Matsubara, Kazumasa Kosugi
  • Patent number: 7859556
    Abstract: A thermal head has a heat storage layer provided on an insulating substrate and a heat generating resistance layer provided on the heat storage layer. An individual electrode and a common electrode are formed on the heat generating resistance layer, and a protective film layer covers the electrodes and the heat generating resistance layer. A resin covering layer is formed on the surface of the protective film layer by applying and drying fluorine-based resin particles dissolved in a solvent on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Shoji, Yoshinori Sato, Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090252932
    Abstract: An active energy ray-curable resin composition is handleable when it is formed into an uncured film. The resin composition cures quickly, is formable, and can be used to make a hard coat layer with a high hardness. Specifically, the active energy ray-curable resin composition of the present invention contains a vinyl polymer having alkoxysilyl groups in its side chain, along with a photoacid generator. In its uncured state, the active energy ray-curable resin composition has a glass transition temperature of 15° C. to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kitano, Hiroshi Matsugi, Takashi Imazu, Keiji Kubo, Masayasu Ogushi, Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090186738
    Abstract: The rotation of a first rotating element is shifted in speed by a speed shift device, and is transmitted to a second rotating element or a third rotating element of a differential device via a first clutch or a second clutch. In this manner, the torque of right and left driving wheels can be controlled. Furthermore, in conjunction with limitation of the differential motion, the amount of torque transmitted to a fourth rotating element is eliminated by allowing the speed shift device to freely rotate, and the accumulated amount of sliding of friction engagement elements at the time of differential motion limitation can be reduced by completely engaging the first clutch and the second clutch without allowing them to slide. Thus, the differential motion limitation control can be realized without a need to increase the size of the first clutch and the second clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ikushima, Kazuhiko Yuasa, Hideki Tamoto, Hirokazu Suzuki, Akifumi Miyazaki, Koji Ando
  • Patent number: 7526423
    Abstract: A machine translation apparatus includes a plurality of target language document databases used for a translation from an original language to a target language. A database control unit assigns a priority degree to each of the plurality of target language document databases, and indicates a target language document database of the highest priority degree. A translation word generation unit generates a plurality of translation word candidates of an original word for the translation. A translation word learning unit selects a translation word from the plurality of translation word candidates by using the target language document database indicated by the database control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirokazu Suzuki