Patents by Inventor Kazunori Kobayashi
Kazunori Kobayashi 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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Patent number: 11990963Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, a radio transmission unit configured to execute radio transmission processing on data to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas, and a processor connected to the radio transmission unit. The processor executes a process including acquiring beam group specification information that specifies a beam group that is capable of being formed when the data to be transmitted is transmitted, forming at least one beam included in the beam group, and correcting an envelope of a beam group using correction factors, the beam group including the at least one beam formed, the correction factors corresponding to the beam group specification information.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Katsuhiko Tsujihata, Kazuyuki Ozaki, Shunsuke Fujio, Kunifumi Tamachi, Kazunori Sato, Tadahiro Sato, Hiroshi Okagawa, Yoji Ohashi, Yusuke Furuumi, Shinichiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11984253Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu
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Publication number: 20240137694Abstract: Provided is an acoustic system for a user who uses a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like, which reproduces a sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users without using earphones or headphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO, Ryotaro SATO
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Publication number: 20240129663Abstract: There is provided an acoustic system for a user who uses a seat of an airplane, an automobile, or the like, which reproduces a sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users without using earphones or headphones. An acoustic system including a speaker system including one speaker unit that emits a sound based on an acoustic signal of a predetermined sound source, in which a sound emitted from the speaker unit is hearable in a region to be audible near the speaker unit, and by a sound emitted from the speaker unit in a back surface direction coming around to a front surface direction, the sound emitted from the speaker unit in the front surface direction and the sound emitted from the speaker unit in the back surface direction cancel each other in a region in the front surface direction far from the speaker unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO, Ryotaro SATO
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Publication number: 20240129664Abstract: Provided is an acoustic system for a user who uses a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like, which reproduces a sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users without using earphones or headphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO, Ryotaro SATO
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Patent number: 11961517Abstract: Operations are appropriately changed in accordance with the use method. A keyword detection unit 11 generates a keyword detection result indicating a result of detecting an utterance of a predetermined keyword from an input voice. A voice detection unit 12 generates a voice section detection result indicating a result of detecting a voice section from the input voice. A sequential utterance detection unit 13 generates a sequential utterance detection result indicating that a sequential utterance has been made if the keyword detection result indicates that the keyword has been detected and if the voice section detection result indicates that the voice section has been detected.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Shoichiro Saito, Hiroaki Ito
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Publication number: 20240083600Abstract: An extensible boom is extended in an extension direction from a state of being rolled in a cylindrical form, the extension direction being one of short directions of the cylindrical form. Protruding portions and recessed portions are alternately formed at each of one end and another end in a long direction of the cylindrical form. The protruding portions at the one end are located opposite the recessed portions at the other end. The recessed portions at the one end are located opposite the protruding portions at the other end. When the extensible boom is extended along the extension direction, the protruding portions at the one end engage with the recessed portions at the other end, and the recessed portions at the one end engage with the protruding portions at the other end, such that a cylindrical shape is formed along the extension direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Kazunori TAKAGAKI
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Patent number: 11915951Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage disposed in a processing chamber for mounting a wafer, a plasma generation chamber disposed above the processing chamber for plasma generation using process gas, a plate member having multiple introduction holes, made of a dielectric material, disposed above the stage and between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber, and a lamp disposed around the plate member for heating the wafer. The plasma processing apparatus further includes an external IR light source, an emission fiber arranged in the stage, that outputs IR light from the external IR light source toward a wafer bottom, and a light collection fiber for collecting IR light from the wafer. Data obtained using only IR light from the lamp is subtracted from data obtained also using IR light from the external IR light source during heating of the wafer. Thus, a wafer temperature is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobuya Miyoshi, Kazunori Shinoda, Tatehito Usui, Naoyuki Kofuji, Yutaka Kouzuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kenetsu Yokogawa, Satoshi Sakai, Masaru Izawa
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Patent number: 11894013Abstract: Provided is a sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus that has a mechanism for detecting situations in which sound amplification should not be performed and stopping sound amplification from a speaker. The sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus is installed in a vehicle. At least a sound pickup position and a sound amplification position are assumed to be present in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Shoichiro Saito
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Patent number: 11884208Abstract: A danger detection system for detecting a danger on a road, the danger that changes over time and may not be a danger due to the change over time, the danger detection system including a vibration acquisition unit 11 configured to acquire an acoustic signal collected by a microphone mounted on a vehicle when the vehicle passes through a region on a predetermined road, a danger determination unit 12 configured to determine whether the acoustic signal is derived from the danger, a danger location detection unit 2 configured to determine whether the danger is present in the region on the predetermined road based on the number of times an acoustic signal acquired from each of the plurality of vehicles is determined to be derived from the danger, and a danger information notification unit 3 configured to notify a communication device that can pass through the region on the predetermined road of danger information that is information about a region on a road determined to have a danger.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata
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Patent number: 11878696Abstract: An abnormality detection device 1 includes: a vibration acquisition unit 11 configured to acquire an acoustic signal generated during passage of a vehicle on a road; a frequency domain conversion unit 12 configured to convert the acquired acoustic signal into a frequency domain signal; an unexpectedness determination unit 13 configured to determine whether there is unexpectedness at each predetermined frequency using the frequency domain signal; and an abnormality determination unit 14 configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the road based on the number of frequencies at which it is determined that there is the unexpectedness.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata
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Publication number: 20240007787Abstract: A sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users is reproduced. A reproduction device (110) includes an n-th reproduction unit that outputs a 2n?1th acoustic signal (n=1, . . . , N) that is an acoustic signal obtained on the basis of a reproduction target and a 2n-th acoustic signal that is an acoustic signal having a phase opposite to that of the 2n?1th acoustic signal. A speaker system (120) includes a set of an n-th speaker unit pair (122) including a positive speaker unit (1221) that emits a 2n?1th acoustic signal-based sound and a negative speaker unit (1222) that emits a 2n-th acoustic signal-based sound, the n-th speaker unit pair being installed at a position close to a user's head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO
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Patent number: 11840240Abstract: A road condition estimation device 2 includes: a reception unit 21 that receives pieces of sensor information from automobiles respectively, each piece of sensor information including positional information that is information regarding a position at which an automobile travels, and spectral information obtained by converting an acoustic signal generated when the automobile travels at the position into information in a frequency domain; a first classification unit 22 that classifies the pieces of spectral information respectively for roads on which the automobiles travel, based on pieces of positional information included in the pieces of sensor information thus received; and an estimation unit 23 that estimates a condition of a road for each of the pieces of spectral information classified by the first classification unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata
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Publication number: 20230377550Abstract: A sound system includes: a control system that generates a control signal for erasing noise from a signal of the noise in a place close to a head of a user who uses a seat; a silencing speaker system that is installed at the place close to the head of the user who uses the seat and includes M speaker units each emitting a sound based on the control signal; and an emission suppression unit including at least a sound absorbing material that easily absorbs only a sound having a frequency greater than or equal to a predetermined value and configured to make it difficult for the sound having the frequency greater than or equal to the predetermined value emitted from the silencing speaker units to be emitted to a place other than an ear of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO
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Publication number: 20230379627Abstract: Two speaker units are arranged on the right side from the center of a seat; two speaker units are arranged on the left side from the center of the seat; one of the two speaker units arranged on the right side is arranged at a position closer to the right ear of the user seated on the seat as compared with the other one of the two speaker units arranged on the right side; one of the two speaker units arranged on the left side is arranged at a position closer to the left ear of the user seated on the seat as compared with the other one of the two speaker units arranged on the left side; acoustic signals of a reproduction target are emitted from the two speaker units arranged on the right side to be opposite in phase to each other; the acoustic signals of the reproduction target are emitted from the two speaker units arranged on the left side to be opposite in phase to each other; and the acoustic signals are emitted from the two speaker units arranged at positions closer to the ears not to be opposite in phaseType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO
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Publication number: 20230379628Abstract: Two speaker units are arranged on the right side from the center of a seat; two speaker units are arranged on the left side from the center of the seat; one of the two speaker units arranged on the right side is arranged at a position closer to the right ear of a user seated on the seat as compared with the other one of the two speaker units arranged on the right side; one of the two speaker units arranged on the left side is arranged at a position closer to the left ear of the user seated on the seat as compared with the other one of the two speaker units arranged on the left side; acoustic signals obtained on the basis of a reproduction target are emitted from the two speaker units arranged on the right side to be opposite in phase to each other; the acoustic signals obtained on the basis of the reproduction target are emitted from the two speaker units arranged on the left side to be opposite in phase to each other; and the acoustic signals are emitted from two speaker units arranged on the positions closeType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO
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Publication number: 20230370770Abstract: A sound that cannot be heard by surrounding users is reproduced. A reproduction device (110) includes an n-th reproduction unit that outputs a 2n?1th acoustic signal (n=1, . . . , N) that is an acoustic signal obtained on the basis of a reproduction target and a 2n-th acoustic signal that is an acoustic signal having a phase opposite to that of the 2n?1th acoustic signal. A speaker system (120) includes at least two or more sets of an n-th speaker unit pair (122) including a positive speaker unit (1221) that emits a 2n-1th acoustic signal-based sound and a negative speaker unit (1222) that emits a 2n-th acoustic signal-based sound, the n-th speaker unit pair being installed at a position close to a user's head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUKUI, Kazunori KOBAYASHI, Noriyoshi KAMADO
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Publication number: 20230353800Abstract: The user communicates reactions to the distribution source without inputting character strings, and parties of an event naturally feel the reactions of the users so as not to disturb the progress. A cheering support device (2) reproduces, in a space of a distribution source, a cheering composed of an acoustic signal based on sounds generated by viewers in a plurality of spaces different from the space of the distribution source and a video signal. A voice acquisition unit (22) acquires a voice material from a voice material storage unit (24). A video acquisition unit (25) acquires a video material from a video material storage unit (27) according to the voice material acquired by the voice acquisition unit (22). A voice reproduction unit (23) emphasizes and reproduces the voice material corresponding to the sound type in which many viewers have uttered. A video reproduction unit (26) reproduces the video material acquired by the video acquisition unit (25).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazunori KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11778369Abstract: Provided is a notification technique that makes it possible to notify a person of a direction in which a danger exists, using a sound.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazunori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230306260Abstract: There are provided a detection method, a detection device, and a program that do not cause a difference in events to be detected even when physical characteristics of an acoustic signal change. The detection method includes: a step of acquiring a target sound for detecting an event; and a detecting step of detecting a desired event included in the acquired sound, and in the detecting step, even when any one of a distance and a direction of a sound source of the event, which are based on a position where the target sound is collected, and an occurrence time of the event changes, the events are always detected as the same event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryotaro SATO, Kenta NIWA, Kazunori KOBAYASHI