Patents by Inventor Keiichi Yamada
Keiichi Yamada 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: 20160317723Abstract: A storage container includes a storing section including a storage space and an inflow port, and a water sealing section. The storing section includes an inflow section connectable to a tube and a volume changing section capable of changing the volume of the storage space. The volume changing section is deformed to increase the volume of the storage space when pressure in the storage space is about to rise to be equal to or higher than a reference pressure set in advance and is deformed to reduce the volume of the storage space when the pressure in the storage space is about to drop to be lower than the reference pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Keiichi Yamada, Zhonghuan Shen, Kazuki Ishibashi, Masayuki Uruma
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Patent number: 9478601Abstract: In a semiconductor device, plate-shaped upper electrodes are formed on a lower electrode with a dielectric film interposed therebetween. The lower electrode, the dielectric film, and the upper electrodes constitute MIM capacitors. One of the upper electrodes and another upper electrode that are adjacent to each other are arranged at an equal distance, without the guard ring being interposed therebetween. The upper electrodes positioned on the outermost periphery and the guard ring positioned outside those upper electrodes are arranged at a distance equal to the distance from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Kazuo Tomita, Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: 9299334Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20150331490Abstract: By recognizing visual trigger events to determine start points and/or end points of voice data signals, the negative effects of noise on voice recognition may be significantly minimized. The visual trigger events may be predetermined gestures and/or predetermined postures of a user captured by a camera, which allow a system to appropriately focus attention on a user to optimize the receipt of a voice command in a noisy environment. This may be accomplished through the assistance of visual feedback complementing the voice feedback provided to the system by the user. Since the visual trigger events are predetermined gestures and/or postures, the system may be able to distinguish which sounds produced by a user are voice commands and which sounds produced by the user is noise that in unrelated to the operation of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Keiichi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20150285796Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel antigen peptide that can be used as an antibody test material for anti-malaria protozoa antibodies, which comprises as an active ingredient a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki Oku, Shinya Kitamura, Keiichi Yamada, Shigeyuki Kano, Kazuhiko Yano
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Patent number: 9103903Abstract: An approaching vehicle detecting system that detects an approaching vehicle on the basis of sounds collected by a plurality of sound collectors mounted on a host vehicle determines whether a transverse moving direction of a sound source detected by the plurality of sound collectors is a direction approaching the host vehicle, determines whether a vertical position of the sound source detected using the plurality of sound collectors is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle, and detects that sound source as the approaching vehicle when it is determined that the transverse moving direction of the sound source is the direction approaching the host vehicle and the vertical position of the sound source is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hisashi Satonaka, Keiichi Yamada, Hideki Banno, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa
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Patent number: 9091751Abstract: A sound source detection system for detecting a sound source (e.g., running sound of a vehicle) based on sound collected by microphones extracts characteristic amounts from the sound collected by the microphones, sets a plurality of classes according to the position of the sound source by a multi-class pattern recognition method (e.g., multi-class SVM) using the characteristic amounts, extracts characteristic amounts from sound collected by the microphones for detection of a sound source, determines a class to which the extracted characteristic amounts belong, from the preset plurality of classes, and estimates the sound source based on the class.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20150123243Abstract: In a semiconductor device (SD), plate-shaped upper electrodes (UEL) are formed on a lower electrode (LEL) with a dielectric film (DEC) interposed therebetween. The lower electrode (LEL), the dielectric film (DEC), and the upper electrodes (UEL) constitute MIM capacitors (MCA). One of the upper electrodes (UEL) and another upper electrode (UEL) that are adjacent to each other are arranged at an equal distance (D1), without the guard ring being interposed therebetween. The upper electrodes (UEL) positioned on the outermost periphery and the guard ring (GR) positioned outside those upper electrodes UEL are arranged at a distance equal to the distance (D1) from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Kazuo Tomita, Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: 9002707Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of information input units; an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification information of users present in the real space based on analysis of the information from the information input unit; and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position of each user and user identification information based on the input event information, and signal information representing a probability value of the event generation source, wherein the information integration processing unit includes an utterance source probability calculation unit, and wherein the utterance source probability calculation unit performs a process of calculating an utterance source score as an index value representing an utterance source probability of each target by multiplying weights based on utterance situations by a plurality of dType: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: 8983846Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a voice analysis unit which performs an analysis process for a user speech; and a data processing unit which is input with analysis results of the voice analysis unit to determine a process which is to be performed by the information processing apparatus, wherein in the case where a factor of inhibiting process continuation occurs in a process based on the user speech, the data processing unit performs a process of generating and outputting feedback information corresponding to a process stage in which the factor of inhibiting occurs.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ugo Di Profio, Akane Sano, Kouichi Matsuda, Tsutomu Sawada, Keiichi Yamada
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Publication number: 20140241532Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20140241126Abstract: A sound source detection system for detecting a sound source (e.g., running sound of a vehicle) based on sound collected by microphones extracts characteristic amounts from the sound collected by the microphones, sets a plurality of classes according to the position of the sound source by a multi-class pattern recognition method (e.g., multi-class SVM) using the characteristic amounts, extracts characteristic amounts from sound collected by the microphones for detection of a sound source, determines a class to which the extracted characteristic amounts belong, from the preset plurality of classes, and estimates the sound source based on the class.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 8790306Abstract: Provided is a injection equipment capable of alleviating the force required of a user to inject a medical liquid. A housing chamber S1 for extrusion and a housing chamber S2 for injection are mutually connected so that, when one of the chambers S1, S2 expands, the other one of the chambers contracts. As a result of switching a switching valve 9 to an open position in a state where at least a predetermined amount of the medical liquid is filled in the housing chamber S2, the housing chamber S2 for injection is contracted based on the expansion of the housing chamber S1 for extrusion according to the discharge pressure of the medical liquid pump 2 so as to deliver a predetermined amount of medical liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Daiken Iki Kanbushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Yamada, Masayuki Uruma, Masaki Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20140136096Abstract: An approaching vehicle detecting system that detects an approaching vehicle on the basis of sounds collected by a plurality of sound collectors mounted on a host vehicle determines whether a transverse moving direction of a sound source detected by the plurality of sound collectors is a direction approaching the host vehicle, determines whether a vertical position of the sound source detected using the plurality of sound collectors is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle, and detects that sound source as the approaching vehicle when it is determined that the transverse moving direction of the sound source is the direction approaching the host vehicle and the vertical position of the sound source is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hisashi Satonaka, Keiichi Yamada, Hideki Banno, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa
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Patent number: 8680599Abstract: To provide a more reliable semiconductor device including a lower-cost and more reliable capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same. This manufacturing method comprises the steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate; and forming, over one of the major surfaces of the semiconductor substrate, a first metal electrode including an aluminum layer, a dielectric layer over the first metal electrode, and a second metal electrode over the dielectric layer. In the step of forming the first metal electrode, the aluminum layer is formed so that the surface thereof satisfies a relationship of Rmax<80 nm, Rms<10 nm, and Ra<9 nm. The step of forming the first metal electrode comprises the steps of: forming at least one first barrier layer; forming the aluminum layer over the first barrier layer; and recrystallizing a crystal constituting the aluminum layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mitsuyama, Yasuhisa Fujii, Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: 8669621Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first insulated gate field effect transistor, a second insulated gate field effect transistor, a bipolar transistor, a first element isolation structure formed on a main surface above a pn junction formed between an emitter region and a base region, a second element isolation structure formed on the main surface above a pn junction formed between the base region and a collector region, and a third element isolation structure formed on the main surface opposite to the second element isolation structure relative to the collector region, in which the semiconductor device further includes a bipolar dummy electrode formed on at least one of the first element isolation structure, the second element isolation structure and the third element isolation structure and having a floating potential.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: 8600752Abstract: A search apparatus includes a sound recognition unit which recognizes input sound, a user information estimation unit which estimates at least one of a physical condition and emotional demeanor of a speaker of the input sound based on the input sound and outputs user information representing the estimation result, a matching unit which performs matching between a search result target pronunciation symbol string and a recognition result pronunciation symbol string for each of plural search result target word strings, and a generation unit which generates a search result word string as a search result for a word string corresponding to the input sound from the plural search result target word strings based on the matching result. At least one of the matching unit and the generation unit changes processing in accordance with the user information.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Keiichi Yamada, Hitoshi Honda
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Publication number: 20130268483Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information gathering unit gathering information relating to a user, an information constructing unit constructing, from the information gathered by the information gathering unit, personal information on the user based on information disclosed by the user, and an information disclosure control unit dynamically changing a disclosed content of the personal information constructed by the information constructing unit, depending on another user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ugo Di Profio, Satoshi Asakawa, Kiyoto Ichikawa, Keiichi Yamada
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Publication number: 20130238976Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a selectable part analyzing unit analyzing selectable parts in a webpage displayed in a display area of a display unit; and a layout processing unit rearranging the selectable parts as selection objects in an operation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kiyoto ICHIKAWA, Satoshi Asakawa, Ugo Di, Keiichi Yamada
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Publication number: 20130188794Abstract: Provided is a device for detecting sound outside vehicle capable of detecting sounds outside the vehicle with high accuracy in various surrounding environments. A sound source direction detecting ECU 1 acquires sound collection information about sounds outside a vehicle which are collected by microphones 2A to 2G. The sound source direction detecting ECU 1 acquires traveling road information about the vicinity of a host vehicle on the basis of the acquired sound collection information. When the traveling road information is acquired, the sound source direction detecting ECU 1 adjusts the sound collection characteristics of the microphones 2A to 2G on the basis of the traveling road information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Kawamata, Hisashi Satonaka, Ryuji Funayama, Keiichi Yamada, Osami Yamamoto, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa