Patents by Inventor Kouichirou Kasama

Kouichirou Kasama 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: 20180137735
    Abstract: An abnormality detection method includes acquiring, by a computer, data indicating a time when a monitored subject is detected to have assumed a predetermined posture, based on an output value from a sensor corresponding to the monitored subject; and referencing, by the computer, a storage configured to store information identifying a time period when the monitored subject assumes the predetermined posture and detecting an abnormality of the monitored subject when the time indicated by the acquired data is not included in the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenta Matsuoka, Kouichirou Kasama
  • Publication number: 20170172436
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a storage that stores therein pulse rate ranges using a resting heart rate of a user as a reference to be associated with exercise amounts, respectively, and a processor. The processor executes a process including: acquiring a first sensor value and a second sensor value from a first sensor and a second sensor that are sensors worn on a body of the user, respectively, the first sensor detecting pulses and the second sensor detecting an acceleration; calculating a plurality of pulse rate candidates based on the acquired first sensor value; calculating an exercise amount of the user based on the acquired second sensor value; and specifying a pulse rate range stored in the storage to be associated with the calculated exercise amount and deciding a pulse rate candidate included in the specified pulse rate range as a pulse rate of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichirou KASAMA, Kazutaka KOCHI, Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Noriaki OKUDA
  • Patent number: 9618336
    Abstract: There is provided a measuring device that includes a first measuring unit that measures a distance between a measurement reference point and an intersection of a plane and a line passing through the measurement reference point, a calculator that calculates angles formed by the plane and the intersection; and a second measuring unit that measures an object using data of the distance or the angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Patent number: 9423270
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a sensor that detects a triaxial direction acceleration; and a processor operable to calculate axial components in the triaxial directions of a gravitational acceleration from detection values of the sensor, to determine a ratio of a magnitude of the gravitational acceleration with respect to the axial components of an axial direction of the triaxial directions, to determine a vertical acceleration magnitude according to the ratio and the detection values of the sensor in the axial direction, and to judge whether or not a motion state is a running state according to the vertical acceleration magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kouichirou Kasama, Toshihiro Azami
  • Patent number: 9425718
    Abstract: A disclosed vibration device includes a first vibrating motor that causes a first eccentric spindle to be rotated so that an angular velocity changes regularly within a rotation period, and a second vibrating motor that causes a second eccentric spindle to be rotated in the same angular velocity as the angular velocity of the first eccentric spindle in an opposite rotation direction to a rotation direction of the first eccentric spindle. Then, the first vibrating motor and the second vibrating motor are arranged so that a rotating shaft of the first vibrating motor is parallel with a rotating shaft of the second vibrating motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Patent number: 9299235
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable medium storing a program causing a processor to execute a procedure. The processor is provided in a portable electronic apparatus. The procedure includes detecting acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction of the portable electronic apparatus, determining whether or not the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is a threshold value or less, the threshold value being stored in a determination threshold value table, and raising an alarm for prediction of stumbling of a user when the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is the threshold value or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Patent number: 9291452
    Abstract: An undulation detection device includes a two-dimensional sensor configured to emit a sensing wave for distance measurement in a plurality of directions forming different lateral and vertical angles and to measure respective distances to objects from which the sensing wave is reflected, and a processor performs detecting an undulation of the measurement surface or an obstacle placed on the measurement surface from which the sensing wave is reflected, on the basis of a difference among the distances in the different directions, the difference being measured by the two-dimensional sensor, and outputting an undulation detection report, when an in-plane size of the undulation of the measurement surface or the obstacle placed on the measurement surface is equal to or more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Patent number: 9229023
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to select a type of an object subject to measurement; calculate a first distance to the object, based on output of a first sensor configured to detect passing of the object; calculate a second distance to the object, based on output of a second sensor configured to detect passing of the object; obtain based on the first distance, a first time point at which the object passes the first sensor; obtain based on the second distance, a second time point at which the object passes the second sensor; and calculate based on the first and second time points and a distance between the first and second sensors, a velocity of the object. The processor drives the first and second sensors at measurement time intervals corresponding to the type, and causes the first and the second sensors to detect the passing of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Patent number: 8942796
    Abstract: An exercise determination method includes: acquiring a detection value from an acceleration sensor; and controlling, by a processor, starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value. An electronic device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to acquire a detection value from an acceleration sensor, and control starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Publication number: 20140350428
    Abstract: A processor of a fluctuation detection device that detects fluctuation of a body of a user, is configured to measure a first distance that is a distance to a still object existing in a first direction and a second distance that is a distance to a still object existing in a second direction different from the first direction, to calculate a first fluctuation amount that is a changing amount of the first distance and a second fluctuation amount that is a changing amount of the second distance, and to remove a changing amount of the first distance caused by breathing of the user from the first fluctuation amount and to remove a changing amount of the second distance caused by the breathing from the second fluctuation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: KOUICHIROU KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140323881
    Abstract: A determination unit 41 determines stop time at which a user has stopped exercise. A measurement unit 42 measures the pulse of the user. A calculation unit 43 calculates the ratio of changes in pulse rate when the measurement unit measures the pulse of the user for a predetermined time period. An estimation unit 44 estimates the pulse rate at stoppage of exercise, based on the time elapsed from the stop time to the measurement of the pulse by the measurement unit 42, the measured pulse rate, and the ratio of changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: KOUICHIROU KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140296656
    Abstract: A storage device of an information processing apparatus holds a first cycle based on transition times of sleep depths for one cycle. A processor activates a heartbeat sensor when the boarding of a user on a conveyance has been detected on the basis of detected acceleration. The processor stops driving of the heartbeat sensor when a transition to a sleep of the user has been detected on the basis of heartbeat measured by the heartbeat sensor and the time of the transition. The processor makes a warning issuing device issue a warning when it has been determined that a distance between a position represented by a position information detected by the position information detection device and a destination is shorter than a prescribed value and that a sleep depth of the user is shallow on the basis of the first cycle and a transition time to the sleep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: KOUICHIROU KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140276189
    Abstract: A state determination device includes a myopotential measurement unit configured to measure a myopotential of a surface of the body, a myopotential integrated value calculation unit configured to calculate a myopotential integrated value by integrating, with time, the myopotential measured by the myopotential measurement unit for a measurement period at predetermined measurement intervals, and a fatigue determination unit configured to determine presence/absence of fatigue of the body based on a size of the myopotential integrated value calculated by the myopotential integrated value calculation unit, and a change amount of the myopotential integrated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: KOUICHIROU KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140222368
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to select a type of an object subject to measurement; calculate a first distance to the object, based on output of a first sensor configured to detect passing of the object; calculate a second distance to the object, based on output of a second sensor configured to detect passing of the object; obtain based on the first distance, a first time point at which the object passes the first sensor; obtain based on the second distance, a second time point at which the object passes the second sensor; and calculate based on the first and second time points and a distance between the first and second sensors, a velocity of the object. The processor drives the first and second sensors at measurement time intervals corresponding to the type, and causes the first and the second sensors to detect the passing of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140159619
    Abstract: A disclosed vibration device includes a first vibrating motor that causes a first eccentric spindle to be rotated so that an angular velocity changes regularly within a rotation period, and a second vibrating motor that causes a second eccentric spindle to be rotated in the same angular velocity as the angular velocity of the first eccentric spindle in an opposite rotation direction to a rotation direction of the first eccentric spindle. Then, the first vibrating motor and the second vibrating motor are arranged so that a rotating shaft of the first vibrating motor is parallel with a rotating shaft of the second vibrating motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA
  • Patent number: 8711158
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a detecting unit that detects a direction of the mobile terminal turned toward a stellar body existence direction; a display processing unit that acquires an image of a specific stellar body corresponding to the detected direction of the mobile terminal and image identification information thereon from a stellar body watching engine and, when any one of a plurality of kinds of information transfer is selected, that controls to display a rendered effect screen corresponding to the selected information transfer and including the image of the specific stellar body; and a transmitting unit that transmits, when the selected information transfer is carried out in a state in which the rendered effect screen is displayed, at least the image identification information or a URL associated with the image identification information along with a content of the selected information transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kouichirou Kasama
  • Publication number: 20140052010
    Abstract: An exercise determination method includes: acquiring a detection value from an acceleration sensor; and controlling, by a processor, starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value. An electronic device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to acquire a detection value from an acceleration sensor, and control starting or stopping of a heart rate sensor depending on the acquired detection value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20140039828
    Abstract: A drop determining device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: detecting acceleration within a predetermined range; calculating acceleration outside the predetermined range, using the acceleration detected at the detecting; and determining whether drop has occurred, using the acceleration calculated at the calculating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20130285813
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable medium storing a program causing a processor to execute a procedure. The processor is provided in a portable electronic apparatus. The procedure includes detecting acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction of the portable electronic apparatus, determining whether or not the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is a threshold value or less, the threshold value being stored in a determination threshold value table, and raising an alarm for prediction of stumbling of a user when the acceleration in the gravitational acceleration direction is the threshold value or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20130245465
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for determining depth of sleep. The apparatus includes a heart rate sensor configured to detect a heart rate of a subject in a non-contact manner, and a processor. The processor performs determining depth of sleep of the subject from the heart rate detected by the heart rate sensor, estimating a sleep cycle of the subject on the basis of a plurality of times at each of which a change in the depth of sleep occurs, and stopping the heart rate sensor, after completion of acquiring the plurality of times, at least until an anticipated time of a change in the depth of sleep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouichirou KASAMA