Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida 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: 20240149444
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit 121 configured to acquire a communication condition of a communication route leading to a provision destination to which probability distribution data is provided, a determination unit 122 configured to determine a mixture number of a plurality of known distributions to be used when the probability distribution data is approximated based on the communication condition, and a generation unit 123 configured to generate a mixture model approximating the probability distribution data by mixing the distributions according to the determined mixture number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240152607
    Abstract: The detection device that detects presence of an unauthorized message in an in-vehicle network, the detection device includes: a state detection unit configured to detect a transition to a state in which a periodic message is transmitted in an in-vehicle network, based on content of a message transmitted in the in-vehicle network; and a processing unit configured to perform detection processing to detect presence of the unauthorized message based on a reception status of a plurality of the periodic messages in the state detected by the state detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Keigo YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki TSUKAMOTO, Shogo KAMIGUCHI, Hiroshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20240151573
    Abstract: Provided is a technique which makes it possible to suitably evaluate a weight of a target object disposed in a container. A weight estimation method includes: a first obtaining step of obtaining first image data for training included in first type image data on a target object which has been scooped up by an excavator and is disposed in a container; a training step of training, with reference to the first image data and a measured weight of the target object, an estimation model that outputs a weight of the target object based on the first type image data; a second obtaining step of obtaining second image data for estimation included in the first type image data; and an estimating step of estimating the weight of the target object based on the estimation model and the second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11978282
    Abstract: An authentication system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: track an object included in a video captured by a first capture device; detect a candidate for biometric authentication in the object being tracked; determine whether biometric authentication has been performed for the candidate based on a record of biometric authentication performed for the object being tracked; and perform the biometric authentication for the candidate based on a video of an authentication part of the candidate when the biometric authentication has not been performed for the candidate, the video of the authentication part being captured by a second capture device having a capture range including a part of a capture range of the first capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Hiroshi Imai, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11977377
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus capable of remotely operating a work machine efficiently and with high accuracy is provided. A remote operation apparatus (100) is connected to a work machine (200) via a communication network N, and includes an operation input unit (101) that inputs an operation signal to the remote operation apparatus (100), the operation signal in response to an operation performed by an operator, an operation calculation unit (108) that acquires a magnitude of an operation from the operation signal, an operation change amount calculation unit (109) that acquires an operation change amount from the operation signal, a communication delay time measurement unit (110) that measures a communication delay time, and a speed calculation unit (111) that calculates an operation speed of the work machine (200) based on the magnitude of the operation, the operation change amount, and the communication delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240141617
    Abstract: In order to specify and instruct to where to move an object in order to form the object in a shape that allows the object to be easily excavated, a control method includes: acquiring information pertaining to a deposition state of the object deposited; specifying a destination of the object in an excavation target region with reference to the acquired information pertaining to the deposition state; and instructing an excavator to move the object to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yoshimoto, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240141460
    Abstract: A 5000-series aluminum alloy expanded material which does not undergo the occurrence of welding cracks even when the aluminum alloy expanded material is subjected to high-speed welding utilizing laser welding or the like; a welding-joined body comprising the aluminum alloy expanded material; and a method for efficiently welding the aluminum alloy expanded material. An aluminum alloy expanded material for welding use, which is characterized by having an Mg content of 0.2% by mass or more and less than 6.0% by mass, and containing a surface active element capable of reducing the surface tension of molten aluminum, in which the surface active element comprises at least one element selected from Sr, Ca, Sb, Li and Ba, and the content of the surface active element is 0.08 to 0.50% by mass inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Jie XING, Hiroshi KANEKI, Ryo YOSHIDA, Yasuyuki OWADA
  • Publication number: 20240144148
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for facilitating evaluation of a relationship between persons in work. An information processing device according to one embodiment includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an achievement value for each work representing an achievement of each work obtained when a plurality of workers is combined and allocated to the work; a calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value for each work by comparing the achievement value for each work with a reference value; a determination unit that determines quality of a relationship between the plurality of workers based on the evaluation value for each work; and a setting unit that sets, based on a result of the determination, a relationship value numerically representing the quality of the relationship between the plurality of workers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11967356
    Abstract: An example apparatus may perform concurrent threshold voltage compensation in a memory array with distributed row redundancy. The example apparatus may include a memory cell array having a mat having a plurality of row sections that each include respective prime memory cell rows and a respective redundant memory cell row. The example apparatus may further include a row decoder configured to receive an access command and a prime row address. The row decoder may be configured to, in response to a determination that the prime row address matches a defective prime row address, concurrently initiate a threshold voltage compensation operation on both of a prime row of the respective plurality of prime rows of memory cells of a first row section of the plurality of row sections corresponding to the prime row address and the respective redundant row of a second row section of the plurality of row sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Akamatsu, Wonjun Choi, Jacob Rice, Kenji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240123106
    Abstract: Space cleaning device includes: hypochlorous acid water generator; mixing bath storing a mixture of the hypochlorous acid water and water; hypochlorous acid water supply unit; water supply unit; water level sensor detecting a water level of the water mixture; humidifying purifier micronizing the water mixture and releases the water mixture micronized into air; and control unit controlling operations of hypochlorous acid water supply unit and water supply unit. Control unit is configured, after supplying the hypochlorous acid water and the water to fill mixing bath with the water mixture, controls an operation of hypochlorous acid water supply unit to supply a predetermined amount of the hypochlorous acid water to mixing bath once in every predetermined time period, and controls an operation of water supply unit to supply the water to mixing bath based on information related to the water level of the water mixture received from water level sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki MIZUNO, Shinji YOSHIDA, Tomohiro HAYASHI, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Yuichi KANBARA, Mayumi SASAI, Hiroshi KOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240124959
    Abstract: A wrought 6000-series aluminum alloy material which is suppressed in weld cracking even in cases where high-speed welding is performed by means of laser welding or the like; a welded body which contains the wrought aluminum alloy material; and an efficient welding method for the wrought aluminum alloy material. A wrought aluminum alloy material for welding, the wrought aluminum alloy material being characterized in that: the Si content is not less than 0.3% by mass but less than 2.0% by mass; the Mg content is not less than 0.3% by mass but less than 2.0% by mass; a surface active element which decreases the surface tension of molten aluminum is contained therein; the surface active element is at least one of Sr, Ca, Sb, Li and Ba; and the content of the surface active element is from 0.04% by mass to 0.50% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Jie XING, Hiroshi KANEKI, Ryo YOSHIDA, Yasuyuki OWADA
  • Publication number: 20240122247
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generating device includes a power supply, a heater connector connected to a heater, a voltage conversion IC, a circuit board, a capacitor, a first ground provided inside the circuit board and connected to the other end of the capacitor, a second ground provided inside the circuit board, insulated from the first ground inside the circuit board, and connected to the detection terminal, and a common ground configured to electrically connect the first ground and the second ground. On the second surface, no electronic component is provided in a common ground projection region overlapping with the common ground when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunari AOYAMA, Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Toru NAGAHAMA, Takashi FUJIKI, Ryo YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240126193
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing a feeding direction of a recording material fed in a nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: YASUHARU TORATANI, SHUTARO SAITO, KEISUKE YOSHIDA, YUYA YAMADA, TAKU ASHIDA, ASUNA FUKAMACHI, SHOHEI TSUZAKI, YUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, HIROSHI MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240126194
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion extending along a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member perpendicular to a recording material feeding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: SHUTARO SAITO, KEISUKE YOSHIDA, YUYA YAMADA, TAKU ASHIDA, ASUNA FUKAMACHI, YUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, SHOHEI TSUZAKI, HIROSHI MIYAMOTO, YASUHARU TORATANI
  • Publication number: 20240126197
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit to receive a job, heating and pressing rotary members to form a nip portion, and a spraying member having a nozzle and a cylinder. The nozzle discharges air to the heating rotary member and a recording material. During a period after the reception unit receives the job and before a leading edge of a first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion, the spraying member performs a spraying operation of spraying air in an amount greater than or equal to a predetermined amount. The air that the spraying member sprays on the first sheet of the recording material during the job is higher in temperature than the air that the spraying member sprays during the period after the reception unit receives the job and before the leading edge of the first sheet of the recording material reaches the nip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: SHOHEI TSUZAKI, ASUNA FUKAMACHI, YUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, HIROSHI MIYAMOTO, YASUHARU TORATANI, KEISUKE YOSHIDA, SHUTARO SAITO, YUYA YAMADA, TAKU ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240117592
    Abstract: A posture recovery apparatus capable of automatically recovering a posture of a work machine is realized. The setting unit (11) sets a safe posture range based on a posture of the work machine before operation. The acquisition unit (12) acquires posture information on the work machine in operation. In a case where, by reference to the posture information, it has been detected that the posture of the work machine in operation has deviated from the safe posture range for a first period, the recovery unit (13) causes the work machine to carry out a recovery operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masafumi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20240113667
    Abstract: The switching module has, mounted on a substrate thereof, a MOSFET and a driver circuit for applying drive voltage to a gate electrode of the MOSFET. In the switching module according to the present invention, the driver circuit is electrically connected to the MOSFET via a damping adjustment element and a bonding wire between the gate electrode and the driver circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: KYOSAN ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kunitama, Takuya Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240099679
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprising: an arm, a pair of grooved portions, a plurality of rollers, and a plurality of belts. The arm is configured to support an X-ray tube at one end and an X-ray detector at another end and has a shape of an arc. The grooved portions are formed on side surfaces of the arm. The plurality of rollers are configured to run in the grooved portions and slidably support the arm along the arc. Each of the belts passes over at least two of the rollers and at least partially abuts on inner walls of the grooved portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki AKIYAMA, Shumpei OHASHI, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Kensei NARAHARA, Masashi HIRASAWA
  • Patent number: 11940347
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NAGANO KEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kodama, Naoki Yoshida, Kaori Miyashita, Eiji Takeda, Nobuaki Yamada, Yoshihiro Tomomatsu, Yasushi Yanagisawa, Yusuke Midorikawa, Shirou Kamanaru, Kenichi Yokoyama, Inao Toyoda, Hisayuki Takeuchi, Naohisa Niimi, Masao Takahashi, Yasutake Ura, Kouji Asano, Yukihiro Kamada
  • Patent number: 11941370
    Abstract: An arithmetic apparatus includes input lines and multiply-accumulate devices. An electrical signal for an input value is input into each of the input lines. Multiplication units include a positive weight multiplication unit that generates a positive weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a positive weight value and/or a negative weight multiplication unit that generates a negative weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a negative weight value. An output unit of the multiply-accumulate device includes an accumulation unit that accumulates the positive weight charge and the negative weight charge, generates a voltage signal representing a sum of the product values by a voltage on the basis of the voltage of the accumulation unit, and outputs the multiply-accumulate signal on the basis of the voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida