Patents by Inventor Masaharu Matsumoto
Masaharu Matsumoto 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: 20200336780Abstract: An information display device attachable to a structure includes a display panel and a surface member. The display panel has a display surface and displays information on the display surface. The surface member is a surface member disposed on the display surface side of the display panel, and has a surface area larger than that of the display panel. When the display panel is turned on, only the information displayed on the display surface of the display panel becomes visible through the surface member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
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Publication number: 20200319497Abstract: An information display device attachable to a structure includes a display panel and a surface member. The display panel has a display surface and displays information on the display surface. The surface member is a surface member disposed on the display surface side of the display panel, and has a surface area larger than that of the display panel. When the display panel is turned on, only the information displayed on the display surface of the display panel becomes visible through the surface member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
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Publication number: 20200319669Abstract: An information display device attachable to a structure includes a plate-like body, a display panel, and a surface member. The plate-like body is a part of the structure and has a first attaching surface, a second attaching surface opposite to the first attaching surface, and a side portion that connects the first attaching surface and the second attaching surface to each other. The display panel is attached to the plate-like body and displays information on the display surface. The display surface is disposed from the first attaching surface to the second attaching surface of the plate-like body. The surface member is disposed on the display surface side of the display panel to cover the display panel and is in a state where only the information displayed on the display surface of the display panel is visible through the surface member when the display panel is turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20200319498Abstract: An information display device (1G) attachable to a structure includes a display panel (23) and a surface member (11). The display panel (23) has a display surface and displays information on the display surface. The surface member (11) is disposed on the display surface side of the display panel (23) and is in a state where only the information displayed on the display surface of the display panel (23) is visible through the surface member (11) when the display panel (23) is turned on. The surface member includes a first layer (71) disposed on a front side, and a second layer (72) that is disposed on the display panel (23) side with respect to the first layer (71) and adjusts light transmittance of the surface member (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10633095Abstract: An imaging system includes a first imaging device and a second imaging device disposed flanking the main wing of an aircraft. The first imaging device and the second imaging device are disposed so that at least part of a first imaging range of the first imaging device overlaps a second imaging range of the second imaging device. The first imaging device and the second imaging device are also disposed so that the first imaging range and the second imaging range overlap an extension of the pitch axis of the aircraft and do not overlap the roll axis of the aircraft or an extension thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Asao, Masaharu Matsumoto, Keijiroh Nagano, Masaaki Higashida
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Patent number: 10596870Abstract: Method of manufacturing a vehicular arm component having a particular torsional rigidity and a sufficient tensile strength. Method of manufacturing a vehicular arm component 1 having a hollow shape in open cross-section by subjecting workpiece W, which is a flat plate, extending in an XY plane to pressing in stages such that two side surfaces W1, W2 of the workpiece in an XZ plane formed by the X direction and a Z direction face one another across a gap G, the method including a restriking process in which a protrusion 113 disposed on a restriking die 110 to be extended in the X direction is arranged in the gap between the two side surfaces facing one another and the two side surfaces are brought into contact with the protrusion such that the workpiece is pressed from an outer periphery to an inner periphery.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Yorozu CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kimura, Masaharu Matsumoto, Junichi Seki, Tomo Tsuchida
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Patent number: 10582249Abstract: The cooking control device is installed on a moving object and is configured to communicably connect to a plurality of content display devices and one or more cooking apparatuses, each of the content display devices configured to playback content on a screen. The cooking control device comprises a processor and a transmitter. The processor receives content playback information for the plurality of content display devices respectively, determines one or more of the plurality of content display devices that finish playback of content within a given time based on the content playback information, and produces a preparation/cooking instruction for the one or more cooking apparatuses according to a number of the one or more of the plurality of content display devices. The transmitter transmits the preparation/cooking instruction to the one or more cooking apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kinoshita, Masaharu Matsumoto, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takuya Tanaka, Yuta Hachiri, Yumiko Nakayama
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Patent number: 10489641Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10265762Abstract: A projection of burr is provided by forming an appropriate gap to set a cast-in member to a cast-in mold, completely closing the gap when the cast-in mold is clamped, and correcting cast-in positioning (axis mating) to a die-cast component by a clamping operation of the die-cast mold, regardless of a dimensional precision of the cast-in member upon a manufacture. Steel plate cast-in member 2, wrapped cast except for a bonding portion 2b to a steel plate bonding member 3 upon molding a die-cast component 1, has a mold contact portion 4 at a boundary between a cast-in portion 2a wrapped cast with a die-cast component 1 and the bonding portion 2b. When a cast-in mold A is clamped, the mold contact portion 4 is brought into butting contact with the cast-in mold A, gap S between the cast-in member 2 and the cast-in mold A, cavity a, is closed.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Yorozu CorporationInventors: Shunzo Aoyama, Yasushi Kanno, Masaharu Matsumoto, Sadahiro Sekine
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Publication number: 20190116394Abstract: The cooking control device is installed on a moving object and is configured to communicably connect to a plurality of content display devices and one or more cooking apparatuses, each of the content display devices configured to playback content on a screen. The cooking control device comprises a processor and a transmitter. The processor receives content playback information for the plurality of content display devices respectively, determines one or more of the plurality of content display devices that finish playback of content within a given time based on the content playback information, and produces a preparation/cooking instruction for the one or more cooking apparatuses according to a number of the one or more of the plurality of content display devices. The transmitter transmits the preparation/cooking instruction to the one or more cooking apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Satoshi KINOSHITA, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takuya TANAKA, Yuta HACHIRI, Yumiko NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 10248375Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190050638Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10186016Abstract: An image processing device for generating a single image based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imaging devices having different pointing directions from each other includes a memory and a controller. The memory is configured to store information containing at least the pointing directions and fields of view of the plurality of imaging devices. The controller is configured to operate as follows: to acquire or generate, from the plurality of images, first image data and second image data whose imaging ranges do not overlap; to apply image processing to the first image data and the second image data in such a manner that the first image data and the second image data have angular ranges larger than the fields of view in at least one direction; and to generate a single piece of multi-directional image data containing the image-processed first image data and second image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Masaharu Matsumoto, Yoshifumi Asao, Tetsuhiro Kaya, Masahiko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190012132Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 10146999Abstract: A video management apparatus includes a video database for holding a plurality of pieces of video information each associated with an image position, a geographic information database for holding a plurality of pieces of geographic information each indicating a position of a different one of spots on a map, and a controller. The controller extracts spots located within a first range from a current position as a first spot group, based on the current position and the plurality of pieces of geographic information. Further, the controller extracts spots located within a second range from the image position as a second spot group, based on the image position and the plurality of pieces of geographic information. Then, the controller selects video information from the plurality of pieces of video information, based on a similarity degree of the second spot group with respect to the first spot group.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Hiroki Sunagawa, Yoshifumi Asao, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10112455Abstract: A torsion beam suspension capable of preventing an abrupt rigidity change in a connection part between a trailing arm and a torsion beam is provided. The present invention is characterized in that in a torsion beam suspension 100 in which to right and left trailing arms 50 extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body and swinging vertically, a torsion beam 16 extending in a right and left direction of the vehicle body is joined, two or more types of rigidity adjustment portions 15, 18, 24 and 25 which adjust a rigidity from the trailing arms to the torsion beam are disposed with positions of the rigidity adjustment portions displaced from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Yorozu CorporationInventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Yuki Usami
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Publication number: 20180047135Abstract: An image processing device for generating a single image based on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imaging devices having different pointing directions from each other includes a memory and a controller. The memory is configured to store information containing at least the pointing directions and fields of view of the plurality of imaging devices. The controller is configured to operate as follows: to acquire or generate, from the plurality of images, first image data and second image data whose imaging ranges do not overlap; to apply image processing to the first image data and the second image data in such a manner that the first image data and the second image data have angular ranges larger than the fields of view in at least one direction; and to generate a single piece of multi-directional image data containing the image-processed first image data and second image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: KEIJIROH NAGANO, MASAHARU MATSUMOTO, YOSHIFUMI ASAO, TETSUHIRO KAYA, MASAHIKO YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170289463Abstract: An imaging system includes a first imaging device and a second imaging device disposed flanking the main wing of an aircraft. The first imaging device and the second imaging device are disposed so that at least part of a first imaging range of the first imaging device overlaps a second imaging range of the second imaging device. The first imaging device and the second imaging device are also disposed so that the first imaging range and the second imaging range overlap an extension of the pitch axis of the aircraft and do not overlap the roll axis of the aircraft or an extension thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Yoshifumi ASAO, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Keijiroh NAGANO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA
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Publication number: 20170144503Abstract: A torsion beam suspension capable of preventing an abrupt rigidity change in a connection part between a trailing arm and a torsion beam is provided. The present invention is characterized in that in a torsion beam suspension 100 in which to right and left trailing arms 50 extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body and swinging vertically, a torsion beam 16 extending in a right and left direction of the vehicle body is joined, two or more types of rigidity adjustment portions 15, 18, 24 and 25 which adjust a rigidity from the trailing arms to the torsion beam are disposed with positions of the rigidity adjustment portions displaced from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: Yorozu CorporationInventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Yuki USAMI
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Publication number: 20170144499Abstract: Providing a method of manufacturing a vehicular arm component having a torsional rigidity of a predetermined level or less and a sufficient tensile strength in the entire circumferential direction. A method of manufacturing a vehicular arm component for manufacturing the vehicular arm component 1 having a hollow shape in open cross-section by subjecting a workpiece W, which is a flat plate, extending in an XY plane formed by an X direction and a Y direction to pressing in stages such that two side surfaces W1, W2 of the workpiece in an XZ plane formed by the X direction and a Z direction face one another across a gap G, the method including a restriking process in which a protrusion 113 disposed on a restriking die 110 to be extended in the X direction is arranged in the gap between the two side surfaces facing one another and the two side surfaces are brought into contact with the protrusion such that the workpiece is pressed from an outer periphery to an inner periphery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: Yorozu CorporationInventors: Hiroshi KIMURA, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Junichi SEKI, Tomo TSUCHIDA