Patents by Inventor Masayuki Murata
Masayuki Murata 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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Patent number: 9798939Abstract: To detect a distant object that may become an obstacle to a traveling destination of a moving vehicle or the like more accurately than the conventional, there is provided a detecting device, a program used in the detecting device, and a detecting method using the detecting device, where the detecting device includes: an acquisition section for acquiring two or more images captured in two or more imaging devices provided at different heights; and a detection section for detecting a rising portion of an identical object toward the imaging devices based on a difference between the lengths of the identical object in the height direction in the two or more images.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 9798938Abstract: To detect a distant object that may become an obstacle to a traveling destination of a moving vehicle or the like more accurately than the conventional, there is provided a detecting device, a program used in the detecting device, and a detecting method using the detecting device, where the detecting device includes: an acquisition section for acquiring two or more images captured in two or more imaging devices provided at different heights; and a detection section for detecting a rising portion of an identical object toward the imaging devices based on a difference between the lengths of the identical object in the height direction in the two or more images.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20170076163Abstract: To detect a distant object that may become an obstacle to a traveling destination of a moving vehicle or the like more accurately than the conventional, there is provided a detecting device, a program used in the detecting device, and a detecting method using the detecting device, where the detecting device includes: an acquisition section for acquiring two or more images captured in two or more imaging devices provided at different heights; and a detection section for detecting a rising portion of an identical object toward the imaging devices based on a difference between the lengths of the identical object in the height direction in the two or more images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20170004589Abstract: A method for interactive test-schedule adjustment is provided. The steps include: displaying a table including the importance and period of each test item; displaying a first optimum schedule obtained from an optimal solution based on values entered by a user into the table, the schedule including a use schedule of each test facilities used for each of the multiple test items; displaying a second optimum schedule obtained from an optimal solution recalculated by mathematical programming after a use schedule of a test item the importance of which is changed on the first optimum schedule is changed; and displaying a third optimum schedule based on neighborhood solutions obtained by a search method using a history of optimal solutions if no agreement between the users is obtained on the second schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Masayuki Murata, HIROAKI NAKAMURA, Junya Shimizu
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Publication number: 20160093057Abstract: To detect a distant object that may become an obstacle to a traveling destination of a moving vehicle or the like more accurately than the conventional, there is provided a detecting device, a program used in the detecting device, and a detecting method using the detecting device, where the detecting device includes: an acquisition section for acquiring two or more images captured in two or more imaging devices provided at different heights; and a detection section for detecting a rising portion of an identical object toward the imaging devices based on a difference between the lengths of the identical object in the height direction in the two or more images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 8787203Abstract: A virtual network control method, for adaptively controlling a topology of a virtual network formed on a physical network in response to environmental changes in the virtual network, is provided with: a step of storing the Langevin equation, as a fluctuation equation, which models the dynamics of the topology of the virtual network as a variable for controlling the number of wavelength paths on the physical network; a step of designing control parameters included in the fluctuation equation; and a step of controlling the topology of the virtual network by applying the control parameters to the fluctuation equation to change an order parameter included in the fluctuation equation when environmental changes occur in the virtual network, and by transitioning the solution of the fluctuation equation between attractors determined by the deterministic term of the fluctuation equation due to the fluctuation term of the fluctuation equation.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Osaka UniversityInventors: Takashi Miyamura, Kohei Shiomoto, Yuki Koizumi, Masayuki Murata, Shinichi Arakawa
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Publication number: 20120294617Abstract: A virtual network control method, for adaptively controlling a topology of a virtual network formed on a physical network in response to environmental changes in the virtual network, is provided with: a step of storing the Langevin equation, as a fluctuation equation, which models the dynamics of the topology of the virtual network as a variable for controlling the number of wavelength paths on the physical network; a step of designing control parameters included in the fluctuation equation; and a step of controlling the topology of the virtual network by applying the control parameters to the fluctuation equation to change an order parameter included in the fluctuation equation when environmental changes occur in the virtual network, and by transitioning the solution of the fluctuation equation between attractors determined by the deterministic term of the fluctuation equation due to the fluctuation term of the fluctuation equation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Takashi Miyamura, Kohei Shiomoto, Yuki Koizumi, Masayuki Murata, Shinichi Arakawa
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Patent number: 8228620Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable focal length lens system including a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group. The first to the fifth lens groups are arranged in order from an object side. The variable focal length lens system satisfies following conditional expressions (1) to (3): 0.95<f13T/ft<1.4??(1) 0.08<f2/f4<0.3??(2) 0.06<?3/ft<0.22??(3) where f13T is combined focal length of the first to third lens groups in the telephoto end state, ft is focal length of the lens system as a whole in the telephoto end state, f2 is focal length of the second lens group, f4 is focal length of the fourth lens group, and ?3 is an amount of travel of the third lens group from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Murata, Atsuo Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20110085248Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable focal length lens system including a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group. The first to the fifth lens groups are arranged in order from an object side. The variable focal length lens system satisfies following conditional expressions (1) to (3): 0.95<f13T/ft<1.4 ??(1) 0.08<f2/f4<0.3 ??(2) 0.06<?3/ft<0.22 ??(3) where f13T is combined focal length of the first to third lens groups in the telephoto end state, ft is focal length of the lens system as a whole in the telephoto end state, f2 is focal length of the second lens group, f4 is focal length of the fourth lens group, and ?3 is an amount of travel of the third lens group from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Murata, Atsuo Kikuchi
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Patent number: 7924509Abstract: A variable focal length lens system includes first to fourth lens groups which have positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively, and are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. An aperture diaphragm is arranged in the vicinity of the third lens group. The variable focal length lens system satisfies the following Conditional expressions 1 and 2: ?0.04<fw/R23<0.18, and??[Conditional expression 1] 0.48<fw/R24<0.72??[Conditional expression 2] (where fw indicates the focal length of the entire lens system at the wide-angle end, R23 indicates the curvature radius of a surface of the cemented lens closest to the object side in the second lens group, and R24 indicates the curvature radius of a cemented surface of the cemented lens in the second lens group).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Murata, Hiroshi Omichi, Hiroki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 7920327Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: at least one or more vertically movable lens groups among at least three or more lens groups, which constitute a zoom lens, movable in an optical axis direction, the vertically movable lens group being movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis; a zoom lens group among the three or more lens groups, the zoom lens group being movable in the optical axis direction; and a correction mechanism that corrects a position of the optical axis based on the three or more lens groups by moving the vertically movable lens group in a wide-angle end state to a predetermined position in the substantially perpendicular direction. When the vertically movable lens group is moved for the purpose of anti-vibration at each zoom position in the substantially perpendicular direction, the apparatus is configured to satisfy the following Conditional Expression (1). 0.7<(Lw+Bw)/Bt<1.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Ohata, Daisuke Kuroda, Masayuki Murata
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Publication number: 20100246027Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: at least one or more vertically movable lens groups among at least three or more lens groups, which constitute a zoom lens, movable in an optical axis direction, the vertically movable lens group being movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis; a zoom lens group among the three or more lens groups, the zoom lens group being movable in the optical axis direction; and a correction mechanism that corrects a position of the optical axis based on the three or more lens groups by moving the vertically movable lens group in a wide-angle end state to a predetermined position in the substantially perpendicular direction. When the vertically movable lens group is moved for the purpose of anti-vibration at each zoom position in the substantially perpendicular direction, the apparatus is configured to satisfy the following Conditional Expression (1). 0.7<(Lw+Bw)/Bt<1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Ohata, Daisuke Kuroda, Masayuki Murata
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Publication number: 20100195217Abstract: A variable focal length lens system includes first to fourth lens groups which have positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively, and are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. An aperture diaphragm is arranged in the vicinity of the third lens group. The variable focal length lens system satisfies the following Conditional expressions 1 and 2: ?0.04<fw/R23<0.18, and??[Conditional expression 1] 0.48<fw/R24<0.72??[Conditional expression 2] (where fw indicates the focal length of the entire lens system at the wide-angle end, R23 indicates the curvature radius of a surface of the cemented lens closest to the object side in the second lens group, and R24 indicates the curvature radius of a cemented surface of the cemented lens in the second lens group).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Motoyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Murata, Hiroshi Omichi, Hiroki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 7697890Abstract: A wireless multi-hop network of a communication system is structured with a number of the communication devices and the collecting communication device. Transmission information from each communication devices is sequentially relayed to reach the collecting communication device. Each communication device features a function for on/off control of a transmission/reception processing section.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Fukui, Naoki Wakamiya, Tetsuya Kawai, Masayuki Murata
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Publication number: 20070274248Abstract: A wireless multi-hop network of a communication system is structured with a number of the communication devices and the collecting communication device. Transmission information from each communication devices is sequentially relayed to reach the collecting communication device. Each communication device features a function for on/off control of a transmission/reception processing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicants: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Osaka UniversityInventors: Kiyoshi Fukui, Naoki Wakamiya, Tetsuya Kawai, Masayuki Murata
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Patent number: 7209298Abstract: A zoom lens having a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in the order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens having at least one aspherical surface arranged from the object side and satisfies the following condition: 0.4<D1/fw<0.66 where D1 represents a distance, inside the first lens group, between a lens surface closest to an object and a lens surface closest to an image, and fw represents a focal distance with the zoom lens set to a wide-angle position.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Nobuyuki Adachi, Masayuki Murata
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Patent number: 7177091Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens having a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in the mentioned order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens having at least one aspherical surface arranged in the mentioned order from the object side and satisfies a following inequality (1): 0.4<D1/fw<0.66 ??(1) where D1 represents a distance, inside the first lens group, between a lens surface closest to an object and a lens surface closest to an image, and fw represents a focal distance with the zoom lens set to a wide-angle position.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Nobuyuki Adachi, Masayuki Murata
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Publication number: 20070014030Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens having a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in the mentioned order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens having at least one aspherical surface arranged in the mentioned order from the object side and satisfies a following inequality (1): 0.4<D1/fw<0.66 ??(1) where D1 represents a distance, inside the first lens group, between a lens surface closest to an object and a lens surface closest to an image, and fw represents a focal distance with the zoom lens set to a wide-angle position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Nobuyuki Adachi, Masayuki Murata
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Publication number: 20060283610Abstract: A sub-soiler has a plow bottom for subsoil for opening a furrow in a subsoil layer and raising subsoil so as to discharge the subsoil on the surface on one or both sides of the furrow and a plow bottom for top soil, located on the subsoil discharge side posterior to the plow bottom for subsoil, for breaking a top soil layer and dispersing subsoil clods discharged on the surface by the plow bottom for subsoil. Permeability of the soil at the furrow opened in the subsoil layer is improved by dispersing clods of the discharged subsoil and breaking up the top soil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: Sugano Farm Machinery Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuya Sugano, Kazuharu Imai, Tsuyoshi Shimomura, Masayuki Murata, Hideki Ishigaki, Ryuji Tanaka, Tetsuya Saito, Takaharu Kozaki
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Publication number: 20060050405Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens having a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in the mentioned order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens having at least one aspherical surface arranged in the mentioned order from the object side and satisfies a following inequality (1): 0.4<D1/fw<0.66??(1) where D1 represents a distance, inside the first lens group, between a lens surface closest to an object and a lens surface closest to an image, and fw represents a focal distance with the zoom lens set to a wide-angle position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshito Iwasawa, Nobuyuki Adachi, Masayuki Murata