Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Mizuno

Hiroyuki Mizuno 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: 20210271926
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of accurately recognizing an object to be sensed are provided. One or a plurality of learning models are selected from among learning models corresponding to a plurality of categories, a priority of each of the selected learning models is set, observation data obtained by sequentially compounding pieces of sensor data applied from a sensor is analyzed using the learning model and the priority of the learning model, a setting of sensing at a next cycle is selected based on an analysis result, predetermined control processing is executed in such a manner that the sensor performs sensing at the selected setting of sensing, and the learning model corresponding to the category estimated as the category to which a current object to be sensed belongs with a highest probability is selected based on the categories to each of which the previously recognized object to be sensed belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kanako ESAKI, Tadayuki MATSUMURA, Hiroyuki MIZUNO, Kiyoto ITO
  • Publication number: 20210264188
    Abstract: To generate a prediction image in which an outline of an object is clear and existence of the object is easily recognized, the image prediction system that generates a future prediction image and includes a gaze unit, a working memory unit, a control unit, and a generation model unit. The gaze unit controls a region including an object included in an observation image as a first gaze region. The working memory unit controls the first gaze region as a second gaze region when a difference in the first gaze region between the observation image and a prediction image is equal to or less than a predetermined value. The generation model unit generates prediction images of the first gaze region and the second gaze region. The control unit integrates the prediction image of the first gaze region and the prediction image of the second gaze region to generate a prediction image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Tadayuki MATSUMURA, Kanako ESAKI, Hiroyuki MIZUNO, Kiyoto ITO
  • Patent number: 11097949
    Abstract: In the present invention, a bis (fluorosulfonyl) imide metal salt is an alkali metal salt of bis (fluorosulfonyl) imide or an alkaline earth metal salt of bis (fluorosulfonyl) imide. The bis (fluorosulfonyl) imide metal salt has an average particle diameter of not less than 0.1 mm, or has an average moisture absorption rate of not more than 2.5 mass ppm/cm2·min when sealed in a PE bag having a thickness of 80 ?m and left for 30 minutes at 23° C. and 65% humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: MORITA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Hirotsugu Shimizu, Hiromoto Katsuyama, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yasunori Okumura, Naohiko Itayama, Yukihiro Fukata, Yuichi Sato, Yasuhiro Higuchi, Takahiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11087958
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a restoration method for a plasma processing apparatus is provided. The method includes performing application of a restoration liquid from a coating part onto a consumed region on a component for serving as a constituent element of the plasma processing apparatus, by controlling positions of the component and the coating part, and an application amount of the restoration liquid; and solidifying the restoration liquid applied on the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210168310
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a first pixel signal output from a first pixel, a second acquisition unit that acquires a second pixel signal output from a second pixel having a size smaller than that of the first pixel, a temperature detection unit that detects temperature; a composition gain determination unit that determines a composition gain corresponding to the detected temperature, and a composition unit that composes the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal multiplied by the composition gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: HIROYUKI MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10978740
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte solution of which electrolyte salt concentration is high and by which cycle characteristics hardly deteriorate and battery lifetime can be extended, and a lithium ion secondary battery which contains the above electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution of the present invention comprises an electrolyte salt and a solvent, wherein a concentration of the electrolyte salt is more than 1.1 mol/L, the electrolyte salt contains a compound represented by the following formula (1): (XSO2) (FSO2)NLi (1) (wherein X is a fluorine atom, a C1-6 alkyl group or a C1-6 fluoroalkyl group), and the solvent contains a cyclic carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizuno, Kazuhisa Hirata, Takeo Kawase, Izuho Okada, Hiromoto Katsuyama, Miwako Tominaga, Masayuki Okajima
  • Patent number: 10951841
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to suppress, where a pixel signal of a large pixel and a pixel signal of a small pixel are composed to generate a WD image, degradation of image quality of the WD image. An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a first pixel signal output from a first pixel, a second acquisition unit that acquires a second pixel signal output from a second pixel having a size smaller than that of the first pixel, a temperature detection unit that detects temperature, a composition gain determination unit that determines a composition gain corresponding to the detected temperature, and a composition unit that composes the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal multiplied by the composition gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210018231
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism unit and an electric motor. The compression mechanism unit includes a first bearing, a second bearing, first to third refrigerant compression units, a second intermediate partitioning panel, and a rotation shaft. The compression mechanism unit is fixed to the sealed container by a pair of fixing units which are provided at two locations spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the rotation shaft, and the center of gravity of a structure comprising the compression mechanism unit and the rotor of the electric motor is positioned between the pair of fixing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Taishi Nagahata, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Masahiro Hatayama
  • Patent number: 10896919
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kanno, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yoshihiko Yasu, Kenji Hirose, Takahiro Irita
  • Patent number: 10829377
    Abstract: Provided is a method the enables easy production of bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide suitable for a non-aqueous electrolytic solution for a lithium ion secondary battery, etc. The method for producing a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide alkali metal salt according to the present invention comprises reacting bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide with an alkali metal compound in a reaction solution containing an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent includes at least one organic solvent (A) selected from the group consisting of carbonate solvents, cyclic ether solvents, linear ether solvents having two or more oxygen atoms in the molecule, cyclic ester solvents, sulfolane solvents, N,N-dimethyl formamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N-methyl oxazolidinone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Okumura, Hiromoto Katsuyama, Naohiko Itayama, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yukihiro Fukata
  • Publication number: 20200263208
    Abstract: A method of producing ethanol includes: a continuous ethanol fermentation step including culturing a microorganism with a fermentation feedstock containing cane molasses as a main component, filtering the resulting culture liquid through a separation membrane to recover a filtrate containing the ethanol and from which the microorganism has been removed; retaining or returning an unfiltered liquid containing the microorganism, in or to the culture liquid; and adding an additional fermentation feedstock to the culture liquid, and an ethanol concentration and purification step including distilling the filtrate collected in the continuous ethanol fermentation step and contains the ethanol, wherein the microorganism causes a centrifugal supernatant of the culture liquid to contain particles having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or more, and particles formed by the microorganism culture and contained in the filtrate containing ethanol have an average particle diameter of 40 to 80 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNO, Takashi MIMITSUKA, Masashi HIGASA, Shinjiro SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20200183685
    Abstract: An electronic circuit (4000) includes a bias value generator circuit (3900) operable to supply a varying bias value in a programmable range, and an instruction circuit (3625, 4010) responsive to a first instruction to program the range of the bias value generator circuit (3900) and further responsive to a second instruction having an operand to repeatedly issue the second instruction with the operand varied in an operand value range determined as a function of the varying bias value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi Tashiro, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yuji Umemoto
  • Patent number: 10564962
    Abstract: An electronic circuit (4000) includes a bias value generator circuit (3900) operable to supply a varying bias value in a programmable range, and an instruction circuit (3625, 4010) responsive to a first instruction to program the range of the bias value generator circuit (3900) and further responsive to a second instruction having an operand to repeatedly issue the second instruction with the operand varied in an operand value range determined as a function of the varying bias value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kenichi Tashiro, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yuji Umemoto
  • Patent number: 10556500
    Abstract: A hydraulic excavator includes an engine hood covering an engine from above and a vent member disposed inside the engine hood. The engine hood includes a third side plate. The third side plate is provided with a lower side vent hole group, and simultaneously, a region located laterally to the lower side vent hole group is imperforate. The vent member covers the lower side vent hole group with a first opening from inside. A second opening of the vent member communicates with an interior of the engine hood. The vent member upwardly tilts toward the engine hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizuno, Satoru Ide, Syuhei Takarae
  • Publication number: 20200028847
    Abstract: A computer-implemented authentication method includes, when receiving first identification information of a first terminal and first feature information from the first terminal, by referring to relational information indicating relation between identification information of each terminal and identification information of each user, identifying one or more pieces of feature information associated with the first identification information, and performing a first authentication process based on a result of comparison between the identified one or more pieces of feature information and the received first feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20200014865
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to suppress, where a pixel signal of a large pixel and a pixel signal of a small pixel are composed to generate a WD image, degradation of image quality of the WD image. An image processing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present technology includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires a first pixel signal output from a first pixel; a second acquisition unit that acquires a second pixel signal output from a second pixel having a size smaller than that of the first pixel; a temperature detection unit that detects temperature; a composition gain determination unit that determines a composition gain corresponding to the detected temperature; and a composition unit that composes the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal multiplied by the composition gain. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: HIROYUKI MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200006384
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke KANNO, Hiroyuki MIZUNO, Yoshihiko YASU, Kenji HIROSE, Takahiro IRITA
  • Publication number: 20190385818
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a restoration apparatus for a plasma processing apparatus includes a coating part, a solidifying part, and a controller. The coating part is configured to apply a restoration liquid onto a consumed region on a component serving as a constituent element of the plasma processing apparatus. The solidifying part is configured to solidify the restoration liquid applied on the component. The controller is configured to control application of the restoration liquid from the coating part onto the consumed region on the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10503511
    Abstract: A processor is provided for use with a memory having selectable memory areas. In an example, the processor includes a memory area selection circuit (MMU) to select one of the selectable memory areas, and an instruction fetch circuit to fetch a target instruction at an address from the selected memory area. The processor includes an execution circuit (Pipeline) to execute instructions from the instruction fetch circuit and to execute a first instruction for changing the selection by the MMU to a second selectable memory area. The Pipeline executes a branch instruction that points to a target instruction, where access to the target instruction depends on actual change of selection to the second memory area. The processor also includes a logic circuit to ensure fetch of the target instruction in response to the branch instruction after actual change of selection. Other circuits, devices, systems, apparatus, and processes are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yoann Foucher
  • Patent number: D911436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kimura, Hidenori Ueda, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Morihito Saigusa, Kosei Watanabe