Patents by Inventor Shinji Nakagawa
Shinji Nakagawa 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: 20230400486Abstract: A highly accurate feature extraction is performed on a signal with temporal variation in amplitude, and this signal is restored to detect a state of a transmission source (output source) of this signal to be normal or abnormal. A signal processing method includes: separating a signal X into an oscillation signal with a constant amplitude X1 and a signal with temporal variation in amplitude X2, the separating performed by a signal separator; performing processing of dimensionality reduction, compression, or the like, on the oscillation signal X1 so as to extract a feature value (information) included in the oscillation signal X1; and outputting a restored signal X1? that is restored from the oscillation signal X1 by performing processing inverse to the processing of dimensionality reduction, compression, or the like, based on the extracted feature value, performing the processing, the inverse processing, and the outputting performed by a signal X1 restorer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Shinji NAKAGAWA, Soichiro TANAKA, Masato KUNITOMO, Kazuaki TOKUNAGA
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Patent number: 11604440Abstract: There is provided a control device that prevents the occurrence of an abnormality in control using artificial intelligence in the case where an abnormality occurs in another terminal that performs the control using the artificial intelligence. A control means (a first control unit) performs the control using artificial intelligence. The control means (second control unit) performs control different from the artificial intelligence. A control switching unit (a switching determination means, a switch) is configured to, when another terminal having the control means (the first control unit) is normal, cause the own control means (the first control unit) to perform the control using artificial intelligence, and when an abnormality occurs in another terminal having the control means (the first control unit), cause the control means (the second control unit) to perform the control different from artificial intelligence.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11507032Abstract: A control device includes: an input information storage unit that stores track record input information that is information regarding an input signal having a track record; an artificial intelligence control unit that controls a control target using artificial intelligence based on the input signal; and an input signal evaluation unit that judges whether a value of the input signal is within a range having a track record based on the track record input information and, if the value of the input signal is within the range having the track record, permits transmission of the input signal to the artificial intelligence control unit. The safety of the control device using artificial intelligence is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Shinji Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20220367540Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a through wiring line. The first substrate includes a photoelectric conversion section and a first transistor in a first semiconductor substrate. The photoelectric conversion section and the first transistor are included in a sensor pixel. The second substrate is stacked on the first substrate and includes a second transistor and an opening that extends through a second semiconductor substrate. The second substrate has an adjuster on at least one of a side surface of the opening near a gate of the second transistor or a region of a surface opposed to the first transistor. The second transistor is included in the sensor pixel. The adjuster adjusts a threshold voltage of the second transistor. The through wiring line is in the opening and electrically couples the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki SAKA, Shigetaka MORI, Shintaro OKAMOTO, Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11440561Abstract: A control system includes a manipulation interface unit that generates manipulation quantity information and priority information, a plurality of automatic control units that generates automatic control outputs based on predetermined inputs, safety verification units that confirm safety of the automatic control outputs, and an output control unit that outputs a control output according to any one of a predetermined automatic control output and the manipulation quantity information. Based on the priority information, the output control unit selects an automatic control output having the highest selection priority from the automatic control outputs of which the safety is confirmed to generate the control output, generates the control output according to the manipulation quantity information when the safety verification units confirm the safety, or generates the control output according to the manipulation quantity information regardless of the safety confirmation results.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Shinji Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20220271070Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a first semiconductor layer including a photoelectric converter and an electric charge accumulation section for each pixel, the electric charge accumulation section in which a signal electric charge generated in the photoelectric converter is accumulated; a pixel separation section that is provided in the first semiconductor layer, and partitions a plurality of the pixels from each other; a second semiconductor layer that is provided with a pixel transistor and is stacked on the first semiconductor layer, the pixel transistor that reads the signal electric charge of the electric charge accumulation section; and a first shared coupling section that is provided between the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer, and is provided to straddle the pixel separation section and is electrically coupled to a plurality of the electric charge accumulation sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi NAKAZAWA, Koichiro ZAITSU, Nobutoshi FUJII, Yohei HIURA, Shigetaka MORI, Shintaro OKAMOTO, Keiji OHSHIMA, Shuji MANDA, Junpei YAMAMOTO, Yui YUGA, Shinichi MIYAKE, Tomoki KAMBE, Ryo OGATA, Tatsuki MIYAJI, Shinji NAKAGAWA, Hirofumi YAMASHITA, Yasushi HAMAMOTO, Naohiko KIMIZUKA
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Publication number: 20220187486Abstract: A computer system manages model information for defining a U-Net configured to execute, on the input time-series data, an encoding operation for extracting a feature map relating to the target wave by using downsampling blocks and a decoding operation for outputting data for predicting the first motion time of the target wave by using upsampling blocks, executes the encoding operation and the decoding operation on the input time-series data by using the model information. The downsampling blocks and the upsampling blocks each includes a residual block. The residual block includes a time attention block calculates a time attention for emphasizing a specific time domain in the feature map. The time attention block includes an arithmetic operation for calculating attentions different in time width, and calculates a feature map to which the time attention is added by using the attentions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Shimei KO, Shinji NAKAGAWA, Yuji SUWA, Kazuaki TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220173150Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus designed to improve sensitivity while preventing worsening of color mixing. A substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions provided in the substrate, a color filter provided on the upper side of the photoelectric conversion regions, a trench provided through the substrate and provided between the photoelectric conversion regions, and a recessed region including a plurality of recesses provided on the light-receiving surface side of the substrate above the photoelectric conversion regions are included. The color filter over adjacent two of the photoelectric conversion regions is of the same color. The number of the recesses of the recessed region is larger at a high image height than at an image height center. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated solid-state imaging apparatus etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: TOMOKI KUROSE, TOMOYUKI ARAI, HIROMASA SAITO, SHINJI NAKAGAWA, JUNJI HAYAFUJI, HIROFUMI YAMADA
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Publication number: 20220050439Abstract: Provided is a device control apparatus and a device control system capable of learning a range or area that needs to be taken as a relationship between a state of a control object and a state of a user, and suitably changing a control mode when the relationship is different from a normal one.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Nahoko MARUYAMA, Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 10956251Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an abnormality detection device that can detect a processing abnormality of various types of software. The abnormality detection device according to the invention divides an output data series which is output by software into one or more clusters, determines that the output data included in any cluster is normal, and determines that the output data not included in any cluster is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20200341435Abstract: A control device includes: an input information storage unit that stores track record input information that is information regarding an input signal having a track record; an artificial intelligence control unit that controls a control target using artificial intelligence based on the input signal; and an input signal evaluation unit that judges whether a value of the input signal is within a range having a track record based on the track record input information and, if the value of the input signal is within the range having the track record, permits transmission of the input signal to the artificial intelligence control unit. The safety of the control device using artificial intelligence is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 10697383Abstract: The present invention suppresses the worsening of stability due to a variation in EGR amounts between cylinders in a spark ignition engine. An engine control device for controlling a spark ignition engine equipped with an EGR means for recirculating exhaust gas in a combustion chamber and an air-fuel-ratio detection means for detecting the air-fuel ratio in each cylinder, the engine control device being characterized by being equipped with a means for changing the parameters for ignition control of a rich cylinder, when the air-fuel ratio of cylinders varies and there are richer cylinders and leaner cylinders relative to a prescribed air-fuel ratio during the execution of exhaust gas recirculation by the EGR means.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Toshio Hori
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Publication number: 20200189617Abstract: The present invention appropriately switches from autonomous driving to manual driving. A vehicle control device according to the present invention switches between autonomous driving and manual driving of a vehicle, and includes a first step of obtaining traveling route candidates of the vehicle, a second step of acquiring information that is at least one of information on an operation performed by a user at switching from the autonomous driving to the manual driving and biometric information on the user, and a third step of selecting a traveling route of the vehicle based on the information acquired in the second step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Nahoko TAKADA, Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 10677184Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a drive device of a fuel injection device which can increase the accuracy in an injected fuel injection amount by combining the fuel injections from a plurality of injection pulse widths. In the drive device of the fuel injection device which has a function of driving the fuel injection device such that the fuel injection is performed plural times in one combustion cycle, the fuel injection device is driven such that a fuel injection at a target opening level in which a valve element or a movable element of the fuel injection device reaches a regulation member and a fuel injection at an intermediate opening level in which the valve element does not reach the regulation member are included in the plural times of division injections performed in one combustion cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Toshihiro Aono, Motoyuki Abe, Takuya Mayuzumi, Masahiro Toyohara, Takashi Okamoto, Osamu Mukaihara, Shinji Nakagawa, Yusuke Kihara
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Publication number: 20200139988Abstract: A control system includes a manipulation interface unit that generates manipulation quantity information and priority information, a plurality of automatic control units that generates automatic control outputs based on predetermined inputs, safety verification units that confirm safety of the automatic control outputs, and an output control unit that outputs a control output according to any one of a predetermined automatic control output and the manipulation quantity information. Based on the priority information, the output control unit selects an automatic control output having the highest selection priority from the automatic control outputs of which the safety is confirmed to generate the control output, generates the control output according to the manipulation quantity information when the safety verification units confirm the safety, or generates the control output according to the manipulation quantity information regardless of the safety confirmation results.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyasu KANEKAWA, Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200026246Abstract: There is provided a control device that prevents the occurrence of an abnormality in control using artificial intelligence in the case where an abnormality occurs in another terminal that performs the control using the artificial intelligence. A control means (a first control unit) performs the control using artificial intelligence. The control means (second control unit) performs control different from the artificial intelligence. A control switching unit (a switching determination means, a switch) is configured to, when another terminal having the control means (the first control unit) is normal, cause the own control means (the first control unit) to perform the control using artificial intelligence, and when an abnormality occurs in another terminal having the control means (the first control unit), cause the control means (the second control unit) to perform the control different from artificial intelligence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200026268Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a control device and a diagnosis system, with which a more reliable diagnosis can be achieved while taking advantage of respective characteristics of rule-based diagnosis and learning-based diagnosis. The present invention is equipped with: a first diagnosis unit for diagnosing a control function with use of output data from the control function in accordance with predetermined rules; a second diagnosis unit for diagnosing the control function with use of the output data in accordance with rules which are mechanically learned on the basis of the output data; and a comparison unit for comparing diagnosis results of the first and second diagnosis units with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2016Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro MATSUBARA, Shinji NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 10508608Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to detect deterioration of dead time characteristics of an air-fuel ratio sensor with high accuracy without causing running performance and exhaust performance to worsen. The present invention provides a control device for an engine, characterized by being equipped with: a means for detecting an air-fuel ratio; a means for changing the air-fuel ratio in a predetermined cycle; and a means for sending a notification of an abnormality in the air-fuel ratio detection means or causing at least a portion of the engine control to run in a fail-safe mode when the amplitude of an output signal of the air-fuel ratio detection means at a predetermined frequency is within a predetermined range and the required time or required angle to arrive at a predetermined value of the output signal of the air-fuel ratio detection means from a reference position or reference time point of an engine-related parameter is equal to a predetermined value or higher.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Toshio Hori, Akihito Numata
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Patent number: 10215077Abstract: Provided is an engine control apparatus capable of detecting degradation in particulate filter performance. An input unit receives a first signal indicating an exhaust gas state (Tpf_2) inside or downstream of a particulate filter that traps particulate substance contained in engine exhaust gas. A determination unit 16a determines whether the particulate filter is degraded on the basis of the exhaust gas state (Tpf_2) indicated by the first signal in a period (fFC=1) in which fuel supply to the engine is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTDInventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Toshio Hori
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Patent number: 10195654Abstract: The present invention has the object of providing a metal showerhead lighter than previous, at a low cost. A showerhead 3 furnished with an outer cylinder 31 in which a metal plate is plastically deformed and formed into a cylindrical shape in which the base end portion thereof is left open; and a water conduit member 32 which is inserted from the open end of the base end portion side into the outer cylinder to supply hot or cold water supplied from a hose into outer cylinder 31; whereby a gripping portion 311 for holding outer cylinder 31 by hand is provided on the base end portion of outer cylinder 31, and a spray portion 33 is provided in which multiple spray holes 33b are formed to spray hot or cold water supplied by water conduit member 32 to the front end portion side of outer cylinder 31.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hideyasu Honda, Nobuyasu Reisen, Shinji Nakagawa, Kohei Sato