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).

  • Publication number: 20200336780
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200319497
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200319669
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Masaharu MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200319498
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Masaharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10633095
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Asao, Masaharu Matsumoto, Keijiroh Nagano, Masaaki Higashida
  • Patent number: 10596870
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Yorozu Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kimura, Masaharu Matsumoto, Junichi Seki, Tomo Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 10582249
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kinoshita, Masaharu Matsumoto, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takuya Tanaka, Yuta Hachiri, Yumiko Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10489641
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10265762
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Yorozu Corporation
    Inventors: Shunzo Aoyama, Yasushi Kanno, Masaharu Matsumoto, Sadahiro Sekine
  • Publication number: 20190116394
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi KINOSHITA, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takuya TANAKA, Yuta HACHIRI, Yumiko NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10248375
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20190050638
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10186016
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Masaharu Matsumoto, Yoshifumi Asao, Tetsuhiro Kaya, Masahiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190012132
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10146999
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keijiroh Nagano, Hiroki Sunagawa, Yoshifumi Asao, Masaharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10112455
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Yorozu Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Yuki Usami
  • Publication number: 20180047135
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: KEIJIROH NAGANO, MASAHARU MATSUMOTO, YOSHIFUMI ASAO, TETSUHIRO KAYA, MASAHIKO YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170289463
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshifumi ASAO, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Keijiroh NAGANO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170144503
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Yorozu Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Yuki USAMI
  • Publication number: 20170144499
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Yorozu Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIMURA, Masaharu MATSUMOTO, Junichi SEKI, Tomo TSUCHIDA