Patents by Inventor Masafumi Sato
Masafumi Sato 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: 20240159375Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light guide plate including a plurality of light-exiting portions and a low-luminance portion, which is located between adjacent light-exiting portions and outputs light having luminance lower than luminance of light exiting from the light-exiting portion; a plurality of light sources each emit light having a light emission peak wavelength in a range from 420 nm to 550 nm to enter the light guide plate; and a wavelength conversion member that is disposed on the plurality of light-exiting portions and emits light having a light emission peak wavelength in a range from 540 nm to 700 nm by converting a wavelength of the light exiting from the light-exiting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji SATO, Takuya NOICHI, Masafumi SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11981325Abstract: A control device includes: a retry determination unit configured to determine whether to execute retry control based on a current position of a moving object and a target position when the moving object is moved to the target position by automatic steering; and a notification control unit configured to transmit a retry notification, including information indicating that the retry control is to be executed based on a determination result of the retry determination unit, to a terminal device. The notification control unit transmits the retry notification to the terminal device when the retry control, executed after at least a part of the moving object reaches the target position, is determined, and the notification control unit does not transmit the retry notification to the terminal device when the retry control, executed before at least a part of the moving object reaches the target position, is determined.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuro Fujiwara, Akiko Sato, Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Takeshi Sasajima, Hiroki Takaku, Masafumi Sagara
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Publication number: 20240119894Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
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Patent number: 11946443Abstract: A bonded body wherein functional base material is attached to object to be bonded. Functional base material and object are bonded with functional base material's end portion covered so operational effect neither lost nor adversely affected by fluid, bonded body has strong bonding property preventing functional base material peeled off due to weather. Peelability allows functional base material repair ease. Functional base material provided on object's curved surface to be bonded to along curved and/or smooth surface of object to be bonded to along smooth surface. Functional base material has peripheral side surface with peripheral distal-most end portion. Peripheral gap part provided between object to be bonded to and functional base material on inside of peripheral distal-most end portion and on side opposing to object to be bonded to. Peripheral gap part filled with holding member extending in laminar fan shape from peripheral side surface along curved and/or smooth surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: ASAHI RUBBER INC., HOKUTAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Hideaki Sato, Masafumi Takeyama, Yukihiro Oryu
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Publication number: 20230320328Abstract: A pet status assessment system includes an area detector, an information generator, and an assessor. The area detector detects, in image data, a specific area representing at least a part of appearance of a pet as a subject. The information generator generates pet information. The pet information includes posture information which is based on a learned model and the image data. The learned model has been generated by learning the posture of the pet to recognize, on an image, the posture of the pet. The assessor assesses, based on the pet information, a pet status concerning at least one of an emotion of the pet or an action of the pet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Yuka NAKAMURA, Hiroaki OMAYU, Yasushi UESAKA, Masafumi SATO
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Patent number: 11302362Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation receiver, a storage, and a controller. The operation receiver receives an instruction indicating a switch of a candidate image from a user. The storage stores movie data. The controller controls the display to display a selection screen via which a frame image to be stored as a still image is selected from the movie data. The selection screen includes the candidate image, first marker information, and second marker information. The controller moves a frame position of the candidate image based on the position indicated by the first marker information or the second marker information in a case where the operation receiver receives the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Okamoto, Masafumi Sato, Hideaki Hatanaka, Yoshikazu Sakai
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Patent number: 10957920Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle capable of generating electric power in an optimum wet state is provided. A fuel cell vehicle including a fuel cell, a radiator configured to cool a coolant which has been warmed by cooling the fuel cell and send it back to the fuel cell, a grille shutter configured to adjust a flow rate of air taken into the radiator from an air intake, a sensor configured to measure an impedance of the fuel cell, and a control unit configured to control the grille shutter to open and close. The control unit controls the grille shutter to open when a measured value of the impedance becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Sato, Keita Yamaue
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Patent number: 10896014Abstract: In a print job transmitting apparatus, when the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with a server configured to spool a print job, a transmission destination confirming portion prioritizes the server over an image forming apparatus and confirms the server as a transmission destination of the print job. When the print job transmitting apparatus is not communicably connected with the server and is communicably connected with the image forming apparatus, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination, and even in a case where the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with the server, when a size of the print job is greater than or equal to a specific size, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari, Keiji Tsuda
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Patent number: 10896015Abstract: A print job transmitting apparatus includes a device communication portion configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus for executing a print job, and a server communication portion configured to communicate with a server for managing information relating to the image forming apparatus. The device communication portion, in addition to transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus, obtains, from the image forming apparatus, the information relating to the image forming apparatus. The server communication portion transmits, to the server, the information obtained by the device communication portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Keiji Tsuda, Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari
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Patent number: 10864869Abstract: A vehicle frame structure that includes a bumper reinforcement that includes a middle constituent portion that is positioned further toward a vehicle lower side than an upper wall portion configuring an upper surface of a upper constituent member, that is positioned further toward the vehicle lower side than a lower wall portion configuring a lower surface of a lower constituent member, and that is provided with load transmission inhibitors that inhibit load transmission from the middle constituent portion to a shock absorbing components in a case in which a load has been input to the bumper reinforcement from an opposite side from a shock absorbing components side.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20200335138Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation receiver, a storage, and a controller. The operation receiver receives an instruction indicating a switch of a candidate image from a user. The storage stores movie data. The controller controls the display to display a selection screen via which a frame image to be stored as a still image is selected from the movie data. The selection screen includes the candidate image, first marker information, and second marker information. The controller moves a frame position of the candidate image based on the position indicated by the first marker information or the second marker information in a case where the operation receiver receives the instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Wataru OKAMOTO, Masafumi SATO, Hideaki HATANAKA, Yoshikazu SAKAI
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Patent number: 10768877Abstract: A device communication portion 35a transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus 20 and obtains information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20. A server communication portion 35b transmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatus 20 to a server 40 which manages the information of the image forming apparatus 20. The device communication portion 35a obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20 with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Hiwatari, Keiji Tsuda, Masafumi Sato
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Patent number: 10748580Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation receiver, a storage, and a controller. The operation receiver receives an instruction indicating a switch of a candidate image from a user. The storage stores movie data. The controller controls the display to display a selection screen via which a frame image to be stored as a still image is selected from the movie data. The selection screen includes the candidate image, first marker information, and second maker information. The controller moves a frame position of the candidate image based on the position indicated by the first marker information or the second marker information in a case where the operation receiver receives the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Okamoto, Masafumi Sato, Hideaki Hatanaka, Yoshikazu Sakai
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Patent number: 10656886Abstract: Provided is a server that is capable of directly sending a notification of an error to a non-registered user who is not authenticated and permitted to use an image forming apparatus. An authenticating unit performs authentication permission according to authentication information of a user. A notification-event-setting unit sets to send a notification of a server error as a recognizable event to a non-registered user, who is not registered to perform authentication permission by the authenticating unit. An event-notifying unit notifies about the event set by the notification-event-setting unit when the error actually occurs.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari, Keiji Tsuda
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Patent number: 10627763Abstract: A master server includes a mapping management unit that returns, with respect to an address inquiry request for a site server to be in cooperation with a PC, the address inquiry request being sent from the PC, an IP address of the site server to be in cooperation with the PC that sent the address inquiry request. The site server includes an authentication processing unit that authenticates the user in response to an authentication request for the user from the PC, and returns an authentication result to the PC, a permission information providing unit that, when the authentication processing unit succeeds in authentication, obtains the permission information corresponding to the user from the second memory, and provides the permission information to the PC that sent the authentication request, and a second spooler that spools job data from the PC, and outputs the job data to the image forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato
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Patent number: 10609241Abstract: Provided is an image forming system capable of updating internal data of an external device according to an instruction from a server. An app-installing unit installs an application for updating internal data of card reader in an image forming apparatus. An internal-data-updating unit causes the image forming apparatus to execute the application installed by the app-installing unit. An app-acquiring unit acquires the application from the server according to an instruction from the server. An app-executing unit executes the app acquired by the app-acquiring unit and updates the external device to the internal data. As a result, the internal data of the card reader is updated.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Keiji Tsuda, Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun, Tatsuya Hiwatari
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Patent number: 10600056Abstract: A motion analysis device includes a first calculation unit that obtains a relation between a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of an exercise tool at a time of entering an impact and a posture of the ball hitting surface at the impact by using an output of an inertial sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20200089451Abstract: A device communication portion 35a transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus 20 and obtains information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20. A server communication portion 35b transmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatus 20 to a server 40 which manages the information of the image forming apparatus 20. The device communication portion 35a obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20 with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya HIWATARI, Keiji TSUDA, Masafumi SATO
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Publication number: 20200089453Abstract: A print job transmitting apparatus includes a device communication portion configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus for executing a print job, and a server communication portion configured to communicate with a server for managing information relating to the image forming apparatus. The device communication portion, in addition to transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus, obtains, from the image forming apparatus, the information relating to the image forming apparatus. The server communication portion transmits, to the server, the information obtained by the device communication portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Keiji Tsuda, Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari
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Publication number: 20200089450Abstract: In a print job transmitting apparatus, when the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with a server configured to spool a print job, a transmission destination confirming portion prioritizes the server over an image forming apparatus and confirms the server as a transmission destination of the print job. When the print job transmitting apparatus is not communicably connected with the server and is communicably connected with the image forming apparatus, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination, and even in a case where the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with the server, when a size of the print job is greater than or equal to a specific size, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari, Keiji Tsuda