Patents by Inventor Satoshi Suzuki

Satoshi Suzuki 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).

  • Patent number: 11592418
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes partially stabilized zirconia in which a stabilizer forms a solid solution in zirconia. The partially stabilized zirconia includes at least monoclinic phase particles and cubic phase particles as crystal particles that configure the partially stabilized zirconia, and an abundance ratio of the monoclinic phase particle is 5 to 25% by volume. The partially stabilized zirconia includes stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which concentration of the stabilizer at a particle center is equal to or less than 1 mol %, as the crystal particles. The stabilizer low-concentration phase particles have a particle-size distribution of number frequency thereof having a peak at which an average particle size is 0.6 to 1.0 ?m, and a particle size at 10% of a cumulative number is 0.5 ?m or greater, and of the overall low-concentration phase particles, 50% by volume or greater belong to the peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Satoshi Suzuki, Makoto Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230040282
    Abstract: Provided is a water-borne coating composition capable of forming a metallic coating film having high-design, and further capable of forming a coating film that exhibits good coating film properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Kazuaki SAKOYAMA, Hirotaka NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11564091
    Abstract: A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; display a first instruction screen; in a case where it is instructed that the target process is to be executed in a situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, send a public key to the first external device, wherein in a case where it is not instructed that the target process is to be executed in the situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, the public key is not sent; after the public key has been sent to the first external device, receive an authentication request from the first external device; send an authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hiroshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230016690
    Abstract: A seat system includes a seat including a sensor configured to acquire information for detection of a motion of an occupant seated on a seat body, a terminal device configured to acquire the information from the sensor, and a server capable of communicating with the terminal device. The terminal device executes a game using the sensor based on the information, and acquires an execution result corresponding to the occupant for a game played by the occupant. The server generates integrated data by integrating execution results of the game acquired from another terminal device, and computes a reference value for execution results of the game based on the integrated data. The terminal device or the server assigns a difficulty level of the game for the terminal device based on the execution result corresponding to the occupant and the reference value. The terminal device reflects the difficulty level on the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAKU, Hiroyuki NUMAJIRI, Takako MIYOSHI, Munetaka KOWA, Atsushi KUSANO, Ryuichiro HIROSE, Yoshikazu ITO, Yosuke HIGASHI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Ryosuke SATO, Satoru KANEDA
  • Publication number: 20230017063
    Abstract: A printer may accept a print instruction; start printing of a code image on a print medium; control an operation state of the printer, wherein in a case where the printing of the code image is completed after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a respondent state, and in a case where the printing of the code image is not completed due to an error occurring after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a non-respondent state; receive an authentication request from a first external device; send the authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the printer and a second external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Satoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11554492
    Abstract: Provided is a workpiece conveying system configured to convey a sheet-like workpiece to a downstream step, including: a workpiece conveyor configured to lift through attraction holding, by a workpiece holding unit, an uppermost workpiece W of a stack, and convey the uppermost workpiece W of the stack to the downstream step one by one; and a conveyed workpiece number detector configured to detect the number of workpieces W held by the workpiece holding unit at a detection timing, at which the workpiece W held and raised by the workpiece holding unit in accordance with a normal workpiece conveying operation performed by the workpiece conveyor reaches an upper limit position of raising the workpiece W, and at which a moving speed component of the workpiece W in a raising direction is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Takeda, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220398051
    Abstract: A terminal device may, in a case where a function executing operation is accepted, send, by using a target communication path, a function executing instruction for causing the function executing device. The terminal device may, in a case where a predetermined condition which includes a memory of the terminal device storing Virtual Private Network (VPN) communication information is satisfied, execute a related process related to switching the target communication path from a first communication path to a second communication path. The first communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via a local area network without using the Internet. The second communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220398143
    Abstract: As an embodiment of the present invention, a network monitoring apparatus includes a combination rule storage section where a combination rule is registered; and the combination rule includes a combination of a plurality of failure event information to be monitored, and new event information to which the combination of the plurality of failure event information is to be changed. In this state, the network monitoring apparatus collects a plurality of failure event information from network apparatuses; extracts, from the plurality of failure event information collected, a combination of a plurality of failure event information detected to occur within a unit time; and collates the combination of the plurality of failure event information extracted with the combination of the plurality of failure event information defined to be monitored in the combination rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Naomi MURATA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Fumika ASAI, Kazuaki AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20220375033
    Abstract: A deep feature generation unit (20) inputs an inference image from an input layer (21) of a neural network, performs forward propagation in the neural network, and outputs a plurality of frame images that each include a channel image and are aligned in a predetermined first sequence as intermediate output values from an intermediate layer (22), which is a predetermined layer that is not an output layer of the neural network. A rearrangement unit (30) rearranges the frame images aligned in the first sequence into frame images in a second sequence based on a predetermined rearrangement sequence from the first sequence to the second sequence, such that a total of degrees of similarity between adjacent frame images in the second sequence is greater than a total of degrees of similarity between adjacent frame images in the first sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Motohiro TAKAGI, Ryuichi TANIDA, Mayuko WATANABE, Hideaki KIMATA
  • Patent number: 11504626
    Abstract: A seat system includes a seat including a sensor configured to acquire information for detection of a motion of an occupant seated on a seat body, a terminal device configured to acquire the information from the sensor, and a server capable of communicating with the terminal device. The terminal device executes a game using the sensor based on the information, and acquires an execution result corresponding to the occupant for a game played by the occupant. The server generates integrated data by integrating execution results of the game acquired from another terminal device, and computes a reference value for execution results of the game based on the integrated data. The terminal device or the server assigns a difficulty level of the game for the terminal device based on the execution result corresponding to the occupant and the reference value. The terminal device reflects the difficulty level on the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Atsushi Kusano, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yosuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Satoru Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20220343086
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to realize highly-accurate machine translation even if a large amount of translation data cannot be prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220342788
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure acquires topology information representing a connection configuration between a plurality of apparatuses constituting a communication network and event information representing occurrence statuses of an event by the plurality of apparatuses, estimates, based on the topology information and the event information, a first apparatus corresponding to a failure factor location from among the plurality of apparatuses, estimates, based on an occurrence status of the event by a second apparatus whose connection relationship with the first apparatus estimated is defined by the topology information, whether an occurrence of the event by the second apparatus is caused by the failure factor location or by another anomaly, and estimates, based on a relationship between an occurrence status of the event by the first apparatus and an occurrence status of the event by a third apparatus whose connection relationship with the first apparatus is not defined by the topology information, whethe
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Taisuke YAKAWA, Naomi MURATA, Fumika ASAI
  • Publication number: 20220342746
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, a memory stores case performances on anomaly handling of a plurality of apparatuses. A hardware processor performs: identification processing of identifying an anomaly cause of an abnormal apparatus in the plurality of apparatuses; selection processing of selecting an estimation model for estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause from a plurality of estimation models based on the case performance of the abnormal apparatus; estimation processing of estimating a handling method suitable for the anomaly cause among a plurality of handling methods based on the selected estimation model; and output processing of outputting information indicating the estimated handling method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Naomi MURATA, Fumika ASAI, Kazuaki AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20220344400
    Abstract: An image capturing device includes: a first layer, including a photoelectric converting unit configured to photoelectrically convert light and produce electric charges; a second layer, stacked with the first layer, including a first circuit configured to process a signal based on electric charges produced by the photoelectric converting unit; and a third layer, stacked with the second layer, including an insulating layer provided between a second circuit for processing a signal processed by the first circuit and the second layer, and a heat conduction layer with higher heat conductivity than the insulating layer provided in the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220334914
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a prior probability is used by an approach of Bayesian statistics, for all nodes stored in fault handling history data or for a target node for which a fault cause has been identified and all nodes of the same type as the target node, restoration probabilities of handling methods for an identical fault cause are calculated, priorities are set for the handling methods based on the calculated restoration probabilities, and a handling method to be presented is determined in accordance with the priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Shunsuke KANAI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Satoshi SUZUKI, Fumika ASAI, Naomi MURATA, Kazuaki AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20220334941
    Abstract: A pattern extraction and rule generation device according to one embodiment includes a database where failure factor information including a failure factor location and a failure factor, an occurring failure event that is a failure event occurring due to a failure and a non-occurring failure event that is a failure event not occurring due to the failure, and a rule ID associated with a rule including condition parts and conclusion parts are registered, by a failure type, in association with each other, a unique determination unit that generates, by the failure type, all of one or more possible combinations of the occurring failure event and the non-occurring failure event included in a failure event group including the occurring failure event and the non-occurring failure event associated with a new failure, and extracts, from combinations of failure events of a new failure and combinations of failure events of one or more past failures, by the failure type, a unique pattern that is determined to be a combina
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumika ASAI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Taisuke YAKAWA, Naomi MURATA
  • Patent number: 11477460
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image processing unit configured to execute image processing on an image based on an input image and output a result of the image processing, the input image is a post-conversion image obtained by performing image conversion on an original image, and the conversion includes image conversion for further decreasing a data size of the original image while maintaining a feature quantity used in the image processing and processing accuracy of the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Motohiro Takagi, Kazuya Hayase, Atsushi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11477396
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, and a program that enable a wide angle of view video and a planar video that is a part of the wide angle of view video to be switched and viewed without a sense of incongruity. A video controller determines whether or not a line quality is capable of bearing a display of the wide angle of view video on the basis of the line quality including a line speed of the wide angle of view video supplied from a server or a remaining amount of buffer data of the wide angle of view video and the partial video. In a case where the line quality is not capable of bearing the display of the wide angle of view video, at a timing immediately before switching the display between the wide angle of view video and the partial video, after the wide angle of view video together with a white frame indicating the angle of view of the partial video corresponding to the wide angle of view video is displayed, and the display is switched to the partial video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ooi, Junji Oi, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220327013
    Abstract: An information analysis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit that inputs information indicating an apparatus that is a fault occurrence location in a communication network and a factor of a fault, a storage unit that stores a restoration handling method rule in which the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, the factor of the fault, and an appropriate restoration handling method for the fault are associated, and an analyzer that analyzes an appropriate restoration handling method for the apparatus and the factor indicated by the information that is input, based on information related to a past fault for the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, or a condition inherent in the apparatus that is the fault occurrence location, from the restoration handling method rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Haruhisa NOZUE, Shunsuke KANAI, Fumika ASAI, Naomi MURATA, Kenichi TAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220318843
    Abstract: The device according to the present invention is configured to be able to communicate with a managing device managed by a retail company that sells a product, and the device comprises: delivery means for delivering an instruction that at least describes promotion work for promoting a sale of the product, to the managing device; reception means for receiving one or more evidences showing a result of the promotion work performed at the retail company according to the instruction, from the managing device; and calculation means for calculating a degree of achievement of the promotion work at the retail company based on the one or more evidences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Itsuki SAKITSU