Patents by Inventor Shimpei To

Shimpei To 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: 11991370
    Abstract: An intra predictor (181) for performing intra prediction on each of blocks obtained by dividing an original image in the form of a frame, the intra predictor (181) includes; a linear model calculator (1811a) configured to calculate a linear model of the luminance component and the chroma component of the target block using decoded pixel values of the luminance component and decoded pixel values of the chroma component around the target block on which the intra prediction is performed; a chroma component predictor (1811b) configured to predict pixel values of the chroma component of the target block by applying the linear model calculated by the linear model calculator (1811a) to decoded pixel values of a luminance component of the target block; and a chroma component corrector (1812) configured to correct predicted pixel values of the chroma component obtained by the chroma component predictor (1811b) using decoded pixel values that were not used to calculate a linear model by the linear model calculator (181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura, Atsuro Ichigaya, Shimpei Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11991367
    Abstract: An image encoding device (1) according to a first feature encodes blocks obtained by dividing an original image of a frame included in a video. The image encoding device (1) includes a code amount allocator (180) configured to allocate a code amount to each of a plurality of intra prediction modes defined in advance, a mode selector (171) configured to select an intra prediction mode to be applied to a target block of intra prediction from among the plurality of intra prediction modes, and an encoder (130) configured to encode identification information indicating the selected intra prediction mode in accordance with the allocated code amount. The code amount allocator (180) calculates a feature amount of a plurality of reference pixels adjacent to the target block and changes a manner of allocation of code amounts to the plurality of intra prediction modes based on the calculated feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Shimpei Nemoto, Shunsuke Iwamura, Atsuro Ichigaya
  • Patent number: 11991356
    Abstract: A deblocking filter control device that controls a deblocking filter process performed on a decoded image includes: a parameter deriver configured to derive a parameter value that controls a filter strength in the deblocking filter process; and a parameter transformer configured to output a transformed parameter value by transforming the parameter value based on an input bit depth that is a bit depth of the video signal, wherein when the input bit depth is smaller than a predetermined bit depth, the parameter transformer is configured to output the transformed parameter value by adding an offset value to the parameter value and making a bit shift of a result of the addition, and the parameter transformer is configured to change the offset value based on the input bit depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura, Shimpei Nemoto, Atsuro Ichigaya
  • Patent number: 11988911
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device includes a display area, a peripheral area, scanning lines, signal lines, a first driver in the peripheral area, and a second driver in the peripheral area. The display area has an arc-shaped corner. The first driver includes first and second buffers configured to apply voltage to the scanning lines, a first shift register unit configured to control the first buffer unit, and a second shift register unit configured to control the second buffer unit. At the corner, extension directions of the first buffer unit and the first shift register unit are equal to each other. Extension directions of the second buffer unit and the second shift register unit are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Shimpei Noshita, Junichi Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11990265
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body that includes a plurality of insulating layers laminated together, a coil that is embedded in the element body and that includes a coil conductor layer provided between the insulating layers, and a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode each of which is provided on at least one of outer surfaces of the element body and each of which is electrically connected to the coil. A dissimilar-material layer that is made of a material different from the insulating layers is provided on at least one of the outer surfaces of the element body that extend in a lamination direction in which the plurality of insulating layers are laminated together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimpei Tanabe, Morihiro Hamano
  • Publication number: 20240158883
    Abstract: To provide a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 1310 MPa or more that can achieve excellent press formability in a steel having a martensite-dominant microstructure with excellent delayed fracture resistance properties. Disclosed is a steel sheet including: a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.12-0.40%, Si: 1.5% or less, Mn: 1.7% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.010% or less, sol.Al: 1.00% or less, N: 0.010% or less, Ti: 0.002-0.080%, and B: 0.0002-0.0050%, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; a metallic structure in which an area ratio of martensite to an entire microstructure is 95% or more, and a ratio LS/LB satisfies a predetermined formula (1), where LS denotes a length of a sub-block boundary and LB denotes a length of a block boundary; and a tensile strength of 1310 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Shinjiro KANEKO, Yuma HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240149383
    Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment controls display of a state of a machine tool that includes (i) an attachment portion to which a tool is attachable, (ii) a numerical control unit for controlling (a) movement of the attachment portion and (b) a rotating speed of the tool in accordance with a machining program and (iii) a vibration detection unit for detecting vibration of the tool. This display control device includes a display control unit for controlling display of time-series data indicating (i) a change in a vibration level detected by the vibration detection unit and (ii) a change in the rotating speed of the tool. Upon receiving an instruction to change the rotating speed, the display control unit controls the display so that a marker indicating the change instruction is superimposed on the time-series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjiro ENOMOTO, Megumi OYA, Shimpei KODA, Toshitaka NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240152117
    Abstract: A cell controller controls a machining cell including a plurality of work resources. The plurality of work resources include at least one processing machine and at least one robot. The cell controller includes a PLC and a management device. The PLC controls operation of the work resources in accordance with an instruction from the management device, and acquires conditions of a plurality of work elements including the work resources and a workpiece. The management device, in response to occurrence of abnormal stop of the machining cell, specifies a recoverable condition of each work element, and presents to an operator a guide to a recovery procedure that enables each work element to transition to the recoverable condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Shimpei HORII
  • Publication number: 20240148350
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus configured to be able to communicate with a control apparatus includes: a radiation detecting unit configured to detect incident radiation rays to acquire a radiographic image; a storage unit configured to, in a case where radiographic imaging is performed when in a first imaging state, in which a state of communication with the control apparatus is abnormal, store radiographic imaging information from the radiographic imaging; and a communication control unit configured to, upon a transition from the first imaging state to a second imaging state, in which the state of communication with the control apparatus is normal, transmit the radiographic imaging information stored in the storage unit to the control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: SHIMPEI TEZUKA, AKIYA NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240154046
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detector includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and having an opening, a two-dimensional material layer extending from on the opening to on the insulating layer, including a connection part in contact with a peripheral part of the insulating layer facing the opening, and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, a first electrode part disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the two-dimensional material layer, a second electrode part electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, and a unipolar barrier layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the connection part of the two-dimensional material layer and electrically connected to each of the semiconductor layer and the two-dimensional material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi OKUDA, Shimpei OGAWA, Shoichiro FUKUSHIMA, Masaaki SHIMATANI
  • Patent number: 11974871
    Abstract: An imaging control unit in a radiation imaging apparatus causes imaging in a plurality of modes varying in a setting value, and causes standby driving to reduce signals stored in a plurality of pixels during a period in which the plurality of pixels is not irradiated with radiation. The plurality of modes includes a first mode for first imaging using a first setting value and a second mode for second imaging using a second setting value different from the first setting value after the first imaging. The imaging control unit causes the standby driving using a setting value closer to the second setting value than to the first setting value in response to end of the first imaging in causing the second imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shimpei Tezuka
  • Patent number: 11977487
    Abstract: In a management node that manages a distributed file and object storage that accessibly manages a file used by an application, the distributed file and object storage is accessible to a file managed by a storage of another site, and a management node includes a processor, and the processor is configured to specify an access circumstance relating to a file by an application, and control caching by the distributed file and object storage of the own site with respect to the file managed by the storage of the other site used by the application, before the application is executed, based on the access circumstance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei Nomura, Mitsuo Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20240139896
    Abstract: A display control device includes a calculation unit for calculating a first rotating speed on the basis of a vibration level detected by a vibration detection unit when the vibration level has exceeded a predetermined value, a change receiving unit for receiving a change instruction for changing a second rotating speed that is a rotating speed when the vibration level has exceeded the predetermined value to the first rotating speed, and a display control unit for performing control to display, on an operation screen, the first rotating speed, the second rotating speed, and a ratio display unit indicating a change ratio to a third rotating speed specified by a machining program, and performing control to display the first rotating speed at a position in the ratio display unit corresponding to a change ratio of the first rotating speed to the third rotating speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi OYA, Junjiro ENOMOTO, Shimpei KODA, Toshitaka NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240144492
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a position prediction program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising: first calculating, from each of a second positions of a positioning object at a plurality of prediction timings in the past, a third position of the positioning object at a prediction timing; second calculating, on the basis of the second position at a last prediction timing out of the plurality of prediction timings and a first position of the positioning object calculated from image data received from a shooting device after the last prediction timing, a fourth position of the positioning object at the prediction timing; and predicting the second position at the prediction timing on the basis of the third position and the fourth position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: Fujitsu Limited, Acuity Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHII, Kento IKKAKU, Satoru WADA, Ryoga SUZUKI, Yuma OYAMA, Shimpei SATO
  • Patent number: 11971327
    Abstract: A blowby gas treatment device includes a pressure control valve, a fresh air induction pipe, a first blowby gas pipe, a second blowby gas pipe, a shutoff valve, a one-way valve, and a PCV valve. A leak diagnosis includes a first-stage diagnosis to determine whether or not falling of a pressure in a crank case after closing of the shutoff valve under a non-supercharging condition is normal. A second-stage diagnosis is implemented by using an air fuel ratio feedback control, and determining whether or not a sensed intake air quantity obtained by an air flow meter is equal to an actual intake air quantity flowing into a cylinder set. When the sensed intake air quantity is equal to the actual intake air quantity, presence of an in-system leak is determined, and when the actual intake air quantity is larger, presence of an out-of-system leak is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yamagata, Akihito Takahashi, Shimpei Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240132986
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.20% or more and 0.40% or less, Si: more than 1.0% and 3.0% or less, Mn: 1.5% or more and 3.5% or less, P: 0.002% or more and 0.010% or less, S: 0.0002% or more and 0.0020% or less, sol. Al: 0.40% or less (not including 0%), and N: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities; and a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, tempered martensite: 45% or more and 83% or less, bainite: 15% or more and 53% or less, and retained austenite: 2% or more. Carbides in the tempered martensite have an average particle size of 0.40 ?m or less, an average amount of C in the retained austenite is 0.5% by mass or more, and a tensile strength is 1,470 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Hata, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240132987
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a certain chemical composition and a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, martensite: 40% or more and 78% or less, bainite: 20% or more and 58% or less, and retained austenite: 2% or more. Carbides in tempered martensite in the martensite have an average particle size of 0.40 ?m or less, an average amount of C in the retained austenite is 0.5% by mass or more, a Si concentration in a region within 100 ?m in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet is 1.3% by mass or less, and a tensile strength is 1,470 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Hata, Shimpei Yoshioka, Shinjiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240136026
    Abstract: Model setting step sets a trained model acquired by machine learning of a correspondence relationship between an explanatory variable including information related to a material composition or a manufacturing condition of a target material, and an objective variable including information related to the material characteristics of the target material, and prediction step inputs an explanatory variable related to a target material whose material characteristics is to be predicted to the trained model set in the model setting step, and outputs an objective variable related to information of the explanatory variable, so as to predict the material characteristics of the target material to be predicted based on the objective variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shimpei TAKEMOTO, Yoshishige OKUNO, Takeshi KANESHITA
  • Publication number: 20240128492
    Abstract: Provided is a non-aqueous electrolytic solution for a lithium ion secondary cell that uses an additive that can suppress gas generation due to the decomposition of the non-aqueous electrolytic solution and has a low environmental risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira KOHYAMA, Hiroto ASANO, Shimpei KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240129470
    Abstract: An encoding device encodes each encoding-target block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Shunsuke IWAMURA, Shimpei NEMOTO, Atsuro ICHIGAYA