Patents by Inventor Shinya Ohtani
Shinya Ohtani 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: 11955919Abstract: An electric motor system includes a battery, an inverter, an electric motor, a zero-phase switching arm and a control unit. The inverter converts DC power output from the battery into three-phase AC power and outputs the three-phase AC power to the electric motor. A rotor of the electric motor rotates by the three-phase AC power output from the inverter. A neural point of the electric motor is connected to the zero-phase switching arm. A zero-phase current flowing through respective windings of the electric motor is adjusted by switching of the zero-phase switching arm. By this means, in the electric motor system, torque is generated at the rotor also using the zero-phase current as well as a three-phase AC current flowing through the respective windings.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Kazunari Moriya, Kenji Hiramoto, Hideo Nakai, Yuuko Ohtani, Shinya Urata, Masafumi Namba
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Publication number: 20230368603Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain a sense of expectation of a player and continue a game. The gaming machine includes a display including a scroll area where a video reel including a plurality of main symbols is scrolled, the main symbols are rearranged after the scrolling, and a game result of a unit game is displayed and a non-scroll area where the video reel is not scrolled, a sub-symbol different from the main symbols being displayed in the non-scroll area and moving from the non-scroll area to the scroll area, a memory that stores information concerning the main symbols and information concerning the sub-symbol, and a controller that controls display of the main symbols and the sub-symbol on the display, the controller determining display content of the sub-symbol based on at least one probability mode among a plurality of probability modes respectively associated with probabilities different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Jun NISHIOKA, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Teppei HIGASHI, Shinya OHTANI, Taiji SUGAI
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Publication number: 20230347980Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya SANNODO, Yuki MINASE
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Patent number: 11731702Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20220392316Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain expectation in a game in which a prize is selectively granted to a player and continue the game. The gaming machine includes a display that displays a video reel having a plurality of symbols including a predetermined symbol and a plurality of cells, to each of which a prize is allocated and a controller that executes a base game in which a bet is necessary and the plurality of symbols are rearranged after scrolling of the video reel, when the predetermined symbol is rearranged in the base game, displays content of a prize of a cell in which the content of the prize is not displayed, when contents of prizes of all of the plurality of cells are displayed, selects one cell from the plurality of cells by lottery, and, when content of a prize allocated to the one cell is a transition to a bonus game more advantageous than the base game, transitions the base game to the bonus game.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Sammy CorporationInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO, Masaaki KOJIMA, Shota TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11420679Abstract: A steering assist apparatus is configured to, when performing a steering assist control for parking, perform one or both of the following processes (a) and (b): (a) a first setting process for setting a movement path when an oncoming lane is present, the first setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a vehicle body does not enter the oncoming lane side from an own lane across a center line or a predetermined line obtained by translating the center line; and (b) a second setting process for setting the movement path when a following vehicle is present, the second setting process being a process for setting the movement path in such a manner that a distance between the vehicle body and a parking-possible region is less than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20220157125Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can achieve a balance between a profit given to a player and a profit of a gaming facility. The gaming machine is provided with: a display that displays a game result by scrolling a video reel including a plurality of symbols and then rearranging the plurality of symbols; and a controller that executes a base game and a plurality of chance games that require betting, and a plurality of free games that require no betting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO
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Publication number: 20220157124Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can allow active participation in a game without loss of interest even in the midst of a free game. The present invention includes: an operation reception device that receives an operation by a player; a display that scrolls a video reel on which a plurality of symbols are aligned, and then display a game result by rearranging the plurality of symbols; and a controller that executes a base game and a plurality of chance games that require betting, and a plurality of free games that require no betting. The controller executes, during execution of a free game, a skill game in which a video reel being scrolled is stopped in accordance with an operation by a player on the operation reception device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO
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Publication number: 20210338008Abstract: A server device, characterized by comprising: comprising: a memory and at least one processor configured to: detect a second cooking process performed by a user who is cooking according to a cooking recipe involving a first cooking process; and in a case where a predetermined condition that the second cooking process detected by the detection unit deviates from the first cooking process is met, performs control for outputting a modified cooking recipe resulting from subjecting the first cooking process to at least one of reordering relevant steps, adding a step, or removing a step based on a configuration of the first cooking process and a configuration of the second cooking process that meets the predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: Cookpad Inc.Inventors: Shinya OHTANI, Masayuki IOKI, Akihisa KANEKO, Tomomichi SUMI, Jun HARASHIMA
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Publication number: 20210316788Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHTANI, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20210312142Abstract: A recipe translation server, for translating quantitative recipe information into a second language based on recipe information written in a first language, comprising: a memory and at least one circuitry configured to acquire quantitative recipe information, wherein ,the quantitative recipe information being made by converting qualitative expressions described in the recipe information into quantitative expressions and the quantitative recipe information includes nodes each representing information on an ingredient of a dish and edges each provided between nodes and representing information on an action necessary for a cooking process of the dish; separate the quantitative recipe information into the nodes and the edges; acquire edge information made by translating the edges written in the first language into the second language from an edge translation unit associating the edges written in the first language with the edges in the second language; and acquire node information made by translating the nType: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Cookpad Inc.Inventors: Shinya OHTANI, Masayuki IOKI, Akihisa KANEKO, Tomomichi SUMI, Jun HARASHIMA
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Publication number: 20210312830Abstract: A server device includes a memory that stores recipe information, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to transmit, via a network, the recipe information to a terminal device; receive, via the network, user attribute information regarding an attribute of a user of the terminal device; receive, via the network, information regarding an information output mode available by the terminal device or a cooking appliance device; and perform control for outputting the recipe information by at least one of the terminal device or the cooking appliance device, based on the received information regarding the information output mode and the received user attribute information, the recipe information being output, by the cooking appliance device or the terminal device, in an output mode that matches the attribute of the user indicated by the user attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: Cookpad Inc.Inventors: Shinya OHTANI, Masayuki IOKI, Akihisa KANEKO, Tomomichi SUMI, Jun HARASHIMA
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Patent number: 11106769Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the basis of first information about a user that is acquired by a first apparatus from around a body of the user, and second information about a user that is acquired by a second apparatus different from the first apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Yuya Hirano, Katsuyoshi Kanemoto
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Patent number: 11074326Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the basis of first information about a user that is acquired by a first apparatus from around a body of the user, and second information about a user that is acquired by a second apparatus different from the first apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Yuya Hirano, Katsuyoshi Kanemoto
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Patent number: 11072367Abstract: Provided is a steering assist apparatus configured to perform a steering assist control for changing a steering angle of a vehicle in such a manner that the vehicle moves along a target path; determine whether a newly-detected object is a stationary object or a moving object; cancel the steering assist control and inform a driver that the steering assist control is cancelled when the newly-detected object is the stationary object and a cancel condition is satisfied; pause the steering assist control and inform the driver that the steering assist control is paused when the newly-detected object is the moving object and a pause condition is satisfied; and resume the steering assist control when a resume condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Shinya Sannodo, Yuki Minase
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Publication number: 20210212504Abstract: A server apparatus which includes a memory that stores recipe information including a plurality of cooking processes, and circuitry that acquires the recipe information, specifies, in the acquired recipe information, a cooking process described with a qualitative expression, searches the recipe information stored in the memory for the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process, converts the qualitative expression described in the specified cooking process into a quantitative expression based on a result of the search, and sends, to a user terminal via the internet, quantitative recipe information including the quantitative expression which corresponds to the acquired recipe information, for controlling a cooking appliance based on the quantitative recipe information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Cookpad Inc.Inventors: Shinya OHTANI, Masayuki IOKI, Akihisa KANEKO, Tomomichi SUMI
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Publication number: 20210216603Abstract: A recipe suggestion apparatus which includes a memory that stores a plurality of recipes, and circuitry that obtains, via the internet, spec information on a cooking appliance of a predetermined user from a user terminal of the predetermined user or the cooking appliance, the spec information indicating a performance upper limit of the cooking appliance, identifies, from the plurality of recipes, at least one target recipe in which a value of a cooking operation corresponding to a quantitative description falls within a predetermined range of the performance upper limit indicated by the spec information, and sends, via the internet, the identified target recipe to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Cookpad Inc.Inventors: Shinya OHTANI, Masayuki IOKI, Akihisa KANEKO, Tomomichi SUMI
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Patent number: 10661711Abstract: A warning output device includes a rear sensor unit and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when a shift position is an R range, based on information from the sensor unit indicating that a first obstacle is detected, output a warning for informing an occupant of the presence of the first obstacle, in a first state, output first predetermined warning display and first predetermined warning sound; and in a second state, output second predetermined warning display and second predetermined warning sound. The ECU is configured to, in the second state, output the second predetermined warning sound for a predetermined time, then stop the output of the second predetermined warning sound, and output the second predetermined warning display for a longer time than the second predetermined warning sound.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohtani, Masato Okuda, Akihiro Kida, Yuka Takagi, Toshihiro Takagi
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Patent number: 10621656Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to divide an amount of contribution to a plurality of creators in association with content into a first part and a second part on the basis of a certain division ratio, the first part being distributed on the basis of a first distribution ratio, the second part being distributed on the basis of a second distribution ratio, and to calculate distribution amounts of the contribution to the respective creators on the basis of an amount corresponding to the first part, an amount corresponding to the second part, the first distribution ratio, and the second distribution ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Haruto Takeda, Yoshihiro Wakita, Shinya Ohtani
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Patent number: 10601936Abstract: A server, a client, a control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that can promote social interactions of users attending a specific event. The server includes a communication unit configured to receive a profile of a user or an interest signal indicating interest in a specific event along with identification information of the user from a client; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the profile of the user in association with the identification information of the user; and a control unit configured to control the identification information to be stored in the accumulation unit in association with the specific event according to the interest signal, to search for a user having a profile similar to the received profile based on the identification information and create a group users of similar interests, and transmit information of the created group to the client before an opening of the specific event.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Tateno, Shinya Ohtani