Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kubo
Masahiro Kubo 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: 20220319662Abstract: A rehabilitation work support apparatus, a rehabilitation work support method, and a program capable of efficiently managing patient's actual current ability values are provided. A rehabilitation work support apparatus (1) includes a change prediction unit (2) that predicts whether or not an actual current ability value of a patient during a rehabilitation period has changed from a latest ability value of that patient stored in a storage device based on an elapsed time from a time of an evaluation of the latest ability value of the patient stored in the storage device, and a change prediction output unit (3) that performs control so as to output a result of the prediction made by the change prediction unit (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuki Kosaka, Toshinori Hosoi, Masahiro Kubo, Yuan Luo, Shigemi Kitahara
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Publication number: 20220316020Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region ranging from a surface to a position of 20 ?m from the surface in a sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 0.01% to 5.0%, a metallographic structure in an internal region ranging from a position of more than 20 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction to a ¼thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 2.0% to 10.0%, the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the surface layer region is less than the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the internal region, and in the surface layer region, an average grain size of the secondary phase is 0.01 ?m to 4.0 ?m, and a texture in which an XODF{001}/{111} as the ratio of the intensity of {001} orientation to an intensity of {111} orientation in the ferrite is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro KUBO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Masahiro SAITO, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA
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Publication number: 20220285030Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit and a generating unit. The input unit accepts input of a first assessment value representing assessment of a subject at a predetermined moment and a second assessment value representing assessment of the subject after a lapse of a predetermined time from the predetermined moment for each of a plurality of items set in FIM (Functional Independence Measure). The generating unit generates a model for calculating the second assessment value with respect to the first assessment value for each of the plurality of items of the FIM based on information representing an association between the items of the FIM.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Toshinori HOSOI, Masahiro KUBO
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Patent number: 11436871Abstract: A living body determination device includes: a light irradiation device that irradiates a measuring object with a first light including a plurality of spectrums; a spectroscopic device that disperses a light at intensity depending on a wavelength and outputs the light; an image acquisition device that receives the light output by the spectroscopic device and outputs image information representing brightness depending on the intensity of the light; and a control unit. The control unit, for each spectrum of the first light, acquires image information with respect to the measuring object from the image acquisition device, based on the image information, selects one or more areas, for each of the areas, acquires spectroscopic information, and based on whether the spectroscopic information satisfies a predetermined condition, determines whether the measuring object is a living body.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Ohno, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Takeshi Akagawa, Tetsuri Ariyama
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Publication number: 20220139548Abstract: A nursing assistance device includes: a handling alert generation unit that generates a handling alert related to nursing based on nursing information and a nursing handling rule of a patient; and a handling alert output unit that outputs the handling alert to an output destination device related to a nursing attendant of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20220125338Abstract: The abnormality determination apparatus includes a movement quantity detection unit and an abnormality level determination unit. The movement quantity detection unit detects movement quantities of a plurality of parts of the monitored person. Restraint information is information indicating a restraint status of the monitored person. The abnormality level determination unit determines an abnormality level of the monitored person on the basis of the movement quantities of the plurality of parts detected by the movement quantity detection unit and the restraint information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuji OHNO, Masahiro KUBO, Toshinori HOSOI
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Patent number: 11311185Abstract: First illumination light having a first peak wavelength range and second illumination light having a second peak wavelength range different from the first peak wavelength range are automatically switched and emitted. Identification processing for allowing a first object to be observed and a second object to be observed to be identified in a composite display image is performed. The first object to be observed has a first absorption peak in the first peak wavelength range of the first illumination light and the second object to be observed has a second absorption peak in the second peak wavelength range of the second illumination light.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masahiro Kubo
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Publication number: 20220112569Abstract: A steel sheet includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.0015% to 0.0400%; Mn: 0.20% to 1.50%; P: 0.010% to 0.100%; Cr: 0.001% to 0.500%; Si: 0.200% or less; S: 0.020% or less; sol. Al: 0.200% or less; N: 0.0150% or less; Mo: 0% to 0.500%; B: 0% to 0.0100%; Nb: 0% to 0.200%; Ti: 0% to 0.200%; Ni: 0% to 0.200%; Cu: 0% to 0.100%; and a remainder including iron and impurities, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region includes ferrite having a volume fraction of 90% or more, and in the surface layer region, an average grain size of the ferrite is 1.0 ?m to 15.0 ?m, and a texture in which an XODF{001}/{111}, S as a ratio of an intensity of {001} orientation to an intensity of {111} orientation in the ferrite is 0.30 or more and less than 3.50 is included.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro KUBO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA
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Patent number: 11298031Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sphygmomanometer that has a high level of measurement accuracy and places a low burden upon a subject whose systolic pressure is being measured. To this end, the sphygmomanometer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: a cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit that detects cuff pressure and pulse waves; and a blood pressure calculating unit that divides pulse waves detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit into a plurality of sections within a specific period, and calculates an estimated value for systolic pressure on the basis of fluctuations in the symmetry of the pulse wave waveform in the plurality of sections, said fluctuations occurring along with variations in the cuff pressure detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuri Ariyama, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Takeshi Akagawa
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Publication number: 20220074015Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region ranging from a surface to a position of 20 ?m from the surface in a sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 1.0% to 15.0%, the metallographic structure in an internal region ranging from a position of more than 20 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction to a ¼ thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 5.0% to 25.0%, the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the surface layer region is less than the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the internal region, and in the surface layer region, the average grain size of the secondary phase is 0.5 ?m to 4.0 ?m, and a texture in which an XODF{001}/{111} as the ratio of the intensity of {001} orientation to an intensity of {111} orientation in the ferrite is 0.70 to 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro KUBO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Masahiro SAITO, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA
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Publication number: 20220022819Abstract: An internal state identification unit acquires sensor data of a person to be monitored, such as a patient, from a sensor group including one or a plurality of sensors. An identification model is a model for identifying an internal state of the person to be monitored. The identification model is generated using sensor data acquired in the past. The internal state identification unit identifies the internal state of the person to be monitored based on the acquired sensor data and the identification model. A determination unit determines whether or not a condition for generating another identification model is satisfied. A model generation unit generates, when the determination unit determines that the condition is satisfied, an identification model different from the identification model by using the sensor data of the person to be monitored acquired from the sensor group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuji OHNO, Masahiro KUBO, Toshinori HOSOI
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Patent number: 11231272Abstract: Optical measuring apparatus includes: a light source irradiating an object to be measured; a splitter splitting transmitted light or reflected light from the object to be measured; a phase changer changing a phase of a first light which is one of the lights split; a phase fixer maintaining a phase of a second light which is the other light split; a multiplexer multiplexing lights output from the phase changer and the phase fixer; a detector detecting the light (interference image) output from the multiplexer; and a controller that extracts a reference point from the interference image, when a displacement of the reference point is detected, corrects a luminance value for each pixel of the interference images in accordance with a displacement of the object to be measured indicated by a displacement of the reference point, constructs an interferogram based on the luminance value for each pixel of the interference images after the correction.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Tetsuri Ariyama, Ichiro Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20210383917Abstract: A nursing assistance device includes: a record omission determination unit that determines information whose record is omitted among nursing information related to nursing of a patient, based on a record omission determination condition related to the nursing information; and an output unit that outputs an input request for the determined information whose recording is omitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20210343413Abstract: A sentence extraction means extracts a sentence that is different from a cause or a coping method included in knowledge corresponding to a predetermined event and is related to the predetermined event, from an unconfirmed work record. A group selection means selects a group based on a similarity between a first character string of the extracted sentence that is likely to represent a cause or a coping method and a group generated in advance. A character string selection means selects a second character string from the group, and a replacement means replaces the first character string in the work record with the second character string. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, a knowledge generation means selects a character string from the group and generates new knowledge based on the character string.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO
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Patent number: 11161163Abstract: The method includes treating a metal sheet having a bcc structure and a surface satisfying conditions (a) or (b), molding the metal sheet to cause plane strain tensile deformation and biaxial tensile deformation, and allowing at least one part of the metal sheet to have a sheet thickness decrease rate of from 10% to 30%. Condition (a): an area fraction of crystal grains having a crystal orientation of 15° or less relative to a (001) plane parallel to a surface of the metal sheet is from 0.20 to 0.35. Condition (b): the area fraction of crystal grains having a crystal orientation of 15° or less relative to a (001) plane parallel to a surface of the metal sheet is 0.45 or less, the average crystal grain size thereof is 15 ?m or less. The molded product satisfies conditions (a) or (b).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Kubo, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210313018Abstract: A patient assessment support device includes an output unit which outputs estimated support information estimated based on question information relating to nursing care for a patient when a record of known support information relating to the patient is determined as being absent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuan LUO, Masahiro KUBO, Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Yuji OHNO, Yutaka UNO, Eiji YUMOTO, Shigemi KITAHARA
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Publication number: 20210252580Abstract: A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward the inside of the die hole, of from ?5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,550, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a plated steel sheet (a plated steel sheet including at least one kind of plating layer selected from the group consisting of a hot-dip galvanizing layer and a zinc nickel plating layer) that is to be subjected to hot press forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro KUBO, Naruhiko NOMURA, Toshiya SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11089943Abstract: In a mono-light emission mode, specific illumination light is emitted and a specific observation image obtained from the image pickup of an object to be observed illuminated with the specific illumination light is displayed on a monitor 18. In a multi-light emission mode, first illumination light and second illumination light are emitted while being switched according to a specific light emission pattern and a first observation image and a second observation image are displayed on the monitor 18 while being switched according to a specific display pattern. In a case where a designated condition set in advance by a user is satisfied, a mode is automatically switched to the mono-light emission mode from the multi-light emission mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masahiro Kubo
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Publication number: 20210249138Abstract: A disease risk prediction device 80 includes a prediction unit 81 and a prediction result output unit 82. The prediction unit 81 predicts a development risk of an infectious disease using a prediction model for predicting a development status of the infectious disease, the prediction model being learned based on electronic data of a patient. The prediction result output unit 82 outputs the predicted development risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Masahiro KUBO
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Publication number: 20210241464Abstract: A motion estimation system 80 includes a pose acquisition unit 81 and an action estimation unit 82. The pose acquisition unit 81 acquires, in time series, pose information representing a posture of one person and a posture of another person identified simultaneously in a situation in which a motion of the one person affects a motion of the other person. The action estimation unit 82 divides the acquired time series pose information on each person by unsupervised learning to estimate an action series that is a series of motions including two or more pieces of pose information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Yutaka UNO, Masahiro KUBO, Yuji OHNO, Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Yuan LUO, Eiji YUMOTO