Patents by Inventor Kenji Ishii

Kenji Ishii 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: 20240153640
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a machine learning model learned using learning data including two or more types of modal information acquired from a patient or a subject; a setting unit that sets input data to be used as input to the machine learning model from the learning data; and an output unit that inputs the input data to the machine learning model and outputs an estimation result of efficacy of a medicine or a health condition for the patient or the subject, in which the setting unit sets the input data on the basis of the degree of influence given to estimation of a diagnosis result at the time of learning of the machine learning model, the degree of influence given by each piece of the modal information included in the learning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeatsu YOSHIOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi KUNIHIRO, Yohei KOBAYASHI, Shiori SASADA, Yugo KATSUKI, Kenji SUZUKI, Masato ISHII
  • Patent number: 11955662
    Abstract: The present invention provides (I) a dry-stretched microporous membrane and a separator for an electric storage device excellent in balance among the required performances such as product safety, charge/discharge characteristics, dimension stability, energy cost, consideration to the environment, etc., (II) a separator for an electric storage device superior in product safety obtained by controlling a puncture depth of a microporous membrane comprised in the separator for an electric storage device, or/and (III) a dry-stretched microporous membrane and a separator for an electric power storage device excellent in product safety realized by controlling a porosity and a puncture strength of a thin microporous membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Celgard, LLC
    Inventors: Shinya Hamasaki, Masaki Takahashi, Shohei Mori, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Kenji Ebara, Changqing Adams
  • Patent number: 11934366
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a common data model management unit that manages information indicating a common data model corresponding to a plurality of modules in common; a unique data model management unit that manages information indicating a unique data model corresponding to at least one of the modules; and a common management unit that manages a version of a module corresponding to the common data model managed by the common data model management unit, a version of a module corresponding to the unique data model managed by the unique data model management unit, and a version of a module corresponding to a newly installed data model, and verifies compatibility of the versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichiro Kashiwagi, Hisaharu Ishii, Koki Mitani, Kenji Umakoshi, Tomoyuki Fujino, Yui Saito
  • Publication number: 20240085764
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. The contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. The attachment detection and communication request contacts are disposed between a contact closest one end and a contact closest to another end in the first direction. The attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the one end. In the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than that between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the other end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kei Tohyama, Takayuki Shu, Hiromi Hayasaki, Kouji Ikeda, Yuhei Hattori, Kenji Ishii, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Patent number: 11915188
    Abstract: A delivery server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product; transmit, in a case where unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user; transmit the signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal; and transmit delivery completion information of the product to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Okazaki, Masato Endo, Mayumi Kurita, Masashi Toritani, Kumiko Matsuura, Takayuki Shikoda, Masaaki Otsuka, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240056099
    Abstract: An error correction coding apparatus that performs error correction coding using, as an error correction code sequence, a frame of m bits×n symbols input in m-bit parallel, where m and n are positive integers, includes: an error correction coding circuit that performs error correction coding using, as information bits, m bits×n symbols including known bits assigned to a bit sequence specified in the error correction code sequence and generate error correction coded parity bits; and a selector that replaces the known bits of the error correction code sequence with the parity bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi YOSHIDA, Yoshiaki KONISHI, Kenji ISHII
  • Patent number: 11901913
    Abstract: An error correction coding apparatus that performs error correction coding using, as an error correction code sequence, a frame of m bits×n symbols input in m-bit parallel, where m and n are positive integers, includes: an error correction coding circuit that performs error correction coding using, as information bits, m bits×n symbols including known bits assigned to a bit sequence specified in the error correction code sequence and generate error correction coded parity bits; and a selector that replaces the known bits of the error correction code sequence with the parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Yoshiaki Konishi, Kenji Ishii
  • Patent number: 11886099
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of contacts electrically connectable to an accessory and arranged in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the accessory is attached. The contacts include an attachment detection contact to detect an attachment of the accessory to the electronic apparatus, and a communication request contact for a communication request from the accessory to the electronic apparatus. The attachment detection and communication request contacts are disposed between a contact closest one end and a contact closest to another end in the first direction. The attachment detection contact is disposed between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the one end. In the first direction, a distance between the attachment detection contact and the communication request contact is shorter than that between the communication request contact and the contact closest to the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kei Tohyama, Takayuki Shu, Hiromi Hayasaki, Kouji Ikeda, Yuhei Hattori, Kenji Ishii, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Publication number: 20230400754
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus detachably attached to an accessory via an accessory shoe includes contacts electrically connectable to the accessory via the accessory shoe and arranged in a row. The contacts include a first signal contact used to transmit a data signal in a communication between the electronic apparatus and accessory, a second signal contact used to transmit a clock signal in synchronization with the data signal in the communication, and a third signal contact used to receive a communication request signal from the accessory. The first and second signal contacts are arranged next to each other. The third signal contact is disposed on an opposite side of the second signal contact with respect to the first signal contact. A transmission of the data signal via the first signal contact is executed in response to a reception of the communication request signal via the third signal contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yuhei Hattori, Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kei Tohyama, Takayuki Shu, Hiromi Hayasaki, Kouji Ikeda, Kenji Ishii, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Patent number: 11841609
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that is capable of reducing occurrence of malfunction when an accessory is attached without enlarging an accessory shoe device. The electronic apparatus includes an accessory shoe device and a controller. The accessory shoe device is electrically connectable with an accessory and has terminals that are arranged in a line in a first direction that intersects perpendicularly with an attaching direction of the accessory. The controller is electrically connected to the terminals. At least one of the terminals differs from the other terminals in a length of an externally exposed part in a second direction that intersects perpendicularly with both the attaching direction and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Okano, Kenji Ishii, Yuichi Ariga
  • Patent number: 11841606
    Abstract: An accessory shoe apparatus on an electronic apparatus includes an engagement member and a communication. A shoe apparatus on an accessory apparatus is detachably attachable to the accessory shoe apparatus. The engagement member engages with the shoe apparatus and including an opening portion that faces the engaged shoe apparatus. The communication element performs wireless communication with the shoe apparatus via an inside of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ishii, Natsumi Sekiguchi, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Publication number: 20230357553
    Abstract: A housing for a livestock sensor, the housing including: a resin having a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.40 or lower and a coefficient of static friction of 0.10 or lower, and the resin being other than polytetrafluoroethylene. Also disclosed is a livestock sensor including the housing and a detector inside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki FUKUSHIMA, Hirofumi Mukae, Kenji Ishii, Yoshito Tanaka, Masaji Komori, Takumi Shimosuki, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Yosuke Kishikawa, Hirokazu Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11796898
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus detachably attached to an accessory via an accessory shoe includes contacts electrically connectable to the accessory via the accessory shoe and arranged in a row. The contacts include a first signal contact used to transmit a data signal in a communication between the electronic apparatus and accessory, a second signal contact used to transmit a clock signal in synchronization with the data signal in the communication, and a third signal contact used to receive a communication request signal from the accessory. The first and second signal contacts are arranged next to each other. The third signal contact is disposed on an opposite side of than the second signal contact with respect to the first signal contact. A transmission of the data signal via the first signal contact is executed in response to a reception of the communication request signal via the third signal contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhei Hattori, Hiromichi Sakamoto, Kei Tohyama, Takayuki Shu, Hiromi Hayasaki, Kouji Ikeda, Kenji Ishii, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Publication number: 20230312777
    Abstract: A seal for a livestock sensor containing a resin, or a rubber free from a chlorine atom. The seal is at least one selected from a packing, an O-ring, and a gasket, and the seal is configured to prevent a body fluid containing an organic acid in livestock from entering a space that contains a detecting portion or a substrate of the livestock sensor. Also disclosed is a livestock sensor including the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji ISHII, Yoshito TANAKA, Takumi SHIMOSUKI, Masaji KOMORI, Hirofumi MUKAE, Toshiyuki FUKUSHIMA, Akiyoshi YAMAUCHI, Yosuke KISHIKAWA, Hirokazu AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230309514
    Abstract: A housing for a livestock sensor capable of constituting a livestock sensor that has excellent corrosion resistance, has a small size, and can easily be administered orally to livestock, and a livestock sensor including the same. The housing includes a metal housing including a metal surface covered with a thermoplastic resin. Also disclosed is a livestock sensor including the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi MUKAE, Masaji Komori, Kenji Ishii, Yoshito Tanaka, Toshiyuki Fukushima, Takumi Shimosuki, Yosuke Kishikawa, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Hirokazu Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11750216
    Abstract: A decoder that is a decoding apparatus includes an error-correction decoder that executes error correction decoding processing of iteratively performing decoding processing with a window size and the number of decoding iterations indicated by decoding parameters, on received data converted into a spatially coupled low-density parity-check code, and a decoding parameter control unit that updates the decoding parameters on the basis of a decoding result obtained by the iteratively executed decoding processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Ishii, Hideo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11736127
    Abstract: Provided is an optical transmission device including: a symbol demapping unit; a likelihood generation circuit configured to generate likelihoods relating to the reception signal; and an error correction decoding unit configured to execute soft decision decoding. The likelihood generation circuit includes: a first one-dimensional-modulation lookup table configured to input the signal of the I-axis component as an argument to output a first likelihood; a second one-dimensional-modulation lookup table configured to input the signal of the Q-axis component as an argument to output a second likelihood; and a two-dimensional-modulation lookup table configured to input, as an argument, the signal being the concatenation of the signal of the I-axis component and the signal of the Q-axis component, to generate a third likelihood. The error correction decoding unit is configured to execute the soft decision decoding based on the first likelihood, the second likelihood, and the third likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Konishi, Kenji Ishii, Hideo Yoshida, Takashi Sugihara, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11696007
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, having an imaging element has top, bottom, front, and rear sides, includes exterior members, a control circuit on a control circuit board to control the imaging apparatus, a display panel on the rear side as one of the exterior members, and a heat release fan. The control circuit board and the display panel are arranged sequentially in a direction of an optical axis from the front side to the rear side. A duct having a vent formed on the duct rear side as one of the exterior members extends from the rear side to the front side and from the top side to the bottom side and connects to a bottom side vent formed on the bottom side as one of the exterior members. The heat release fan is inside the duct near the bottom side below the control circuit board as one of the exterior members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Kenji Ishii, Koji Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230183450
    Abstract: A foam molding composition from which a foam molded body and a foamed electric wire can be produced having excellent heat resistance, a small average cell size, a high foaming ratio, and good outer diameter stability. The foam molding composition includes a resin (A) having a pyrolysis temperature of 330° C. or higher and at least one compound (B) selected from phosphoric acid esters and salts thereof and phosphoric acid ester complex compounds. Also disclosed is a foam molded body obtained from the foam molding composition, an electric wire including a core wire and a covering material covering the core wire obtained from the foam molding composition, and a method for producing the foam molded body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki KOUNO, Kenji ISHII, Masato TOKUDA, Takahiro KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230167258
    Abstract: A foam molding composition containing a fluororesin (A) and a compound (B) having a pyrolysis temperature of 300° C. or higher and a solubility parameter (SP value) of 8 to 15. Also disclosed is a foamed electric wire including a core wire, and a fluororesin layer or a fluororesin composition layer covering the core wire, a foam molded body, a method for producing a foam molded body, and a method for producing an electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji ISHII, Masato TOKUDA