Patents by Inventor Shuichi Shimizu

Shuichi Shimizu 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).

  • Publication number: 20180181821
    Abstract: The image processing device counts the number of lane marking feature points. The image processing device determines whether the count number of the lane marking feature points is equal to or greater than a first threshold. The image processing device arranges the setting to use the lane marking feature points in the lane marking detection process when the count number of the lane marking feature points is equal to or greater than the first threshold. On the other hand, the image processing device counts the number of Botts' Dot feature points when the count number of the lane marking feature points is smaller than the first threshold. The image processing device arranges the setting to use the Botts' Dot feature points in the lane marking detection process when the count number of the Botts' Dot feature points is equal to or greater than the second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Shuichi SHIMIZU, Kenji OKANO, Takamichi TORIKURA
  • Publication number: 20180043804
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi SHIMIZU, Yuji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20180046868
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180039843
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180025236
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20170334322
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pressure-receiving member disposed rearwardly of an occupant between left and right side frames, and a rocking mechanism configured to cause a left side or a right side of the pressure-receiving member to move frontward and rearward. The rocking mechanism includes a first link member provided pivotally, a second link member provided pivotally on the first link member and pivotally connected to the pressure-receiving member, and an actuator configured to cause the first link member and the second link member to pivot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIYAMA, Kazunori ISHIHARA, Shuichi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 9815393
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Shimizu, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9798939
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9798938
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20170267133
    Abstract: A seat backrest includes right and left side frame segments, a pressure receiving member disposed between the side frame segments movably in a front-back direction, and a cushion pad covering the front of the side frame segments and pressure receiving member. The pressure receiving member includes a main body part, and extending parts extending laterally from both sides of the main body part. The cushion pad includes a back receiving part covering the front of the main body part, and bank parts disposed on both sides of the back receiving part, protruding forward from both sides, and covering the front of the extending parts and side frame segments. A recess is formed at an area, facing a corresponding extending part of the extending parts, of a rear surface of each bank part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 9751434
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pressure-receiving member disposed rearwardly of an occupant between left and right side frames, and a rocking mechanism configured to cause a left side or a right side of the pressure-receiving member to move frontward and rearward. The rocking mechanism includes a first link member provided pivotally, a second link member provided pivotally on the first link member and pivotally connected to the pressure-receiving member, and an actuator configured to cause the first link member and the second link member to pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Kazunori Ishihara, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9694723
    Abstract: A seat backrest includes right and left side frame segments, a pressure receiving member disposed between the side frame segments movably in a front-back direction, and a cushion pad covering the front of the side frame segments and pressure receiving member. The pressure receiving member includes a main body part, and extending parts extending laterally from both sides of the main body part. The cushion pad includes a back receiving part covering the front of the main body part, and bank parts disposed on both sides of the back receiving part, protruding forward from both sides, and covering the front of the extending parts and side frame segments. A recess is formed at an area, facing a corresponding extending part of the extending parts, of a rear surface of each bank part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20170076163
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9563471
    Abstract: A simulation apparatus that performs parallel execution of multiple logical processes obtained by modeling a plurality of components included in a system to be simulated. The apparatus includes: (i) a condition generating unit configured to generate, on the basis of communication delays between the multiple logical processes, constraint conditions to be satisfied by initial time shifts given to the multiple logical processes and look-ahead times each to be permitted by a message sent from a logical process serving as a communication source to a logical process serving as a communication destination to permit look-ahead; and (ii) a solver unit configured to solve an optimization problem that satisfies the constraint conditions and minimizes overhead in communication of messages between the multiple logical processes, and obtain the initial time shifts of the multiple logical processes and the look-ahead times between the multiple logical processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishikawa, Asim Munawar, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20160093057
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Masayuki Murata, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9254763
    Abstract: A vehicle seat (car seat (S)) includes a seat cushion (S1), a seat back (S2), and a headrest (S3), the seat back (S2) including a seat back frame constituting a frame of the seat back (S2), and a seat back pad covering the seat back frame, and the vehicle seat being configured to allow an upper body of an occupant to sink into the seat back (S2) when a backward movement load acts on the seat back from the occupant's upper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Shimizu, Yuichiro Seki, Satoshi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150360594
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Shuichi SHIMIZU, Yuji TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9150131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Shimizu, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150274042
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pressure-receiving member disposed rearwardly of an occupant between left and right side frames, and a rocking mechanism configured to cause a left side or a right side of the pressure-receiving member to move frontward and rearward. The rocking mechanism includes a first link member provided pivotally, a second link member provided pivotally on the first link member and pivotally connected to the pressure-receiving member, and an actuator configured to cause the first link member and the second link member to pivot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Shinji SUGIYAMA, Kazunori ISHIHARA, Shuichi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 9147016
    Abstract: A method and system where a plurality of ECU is rapidly executed while avoiding deadlock by performing conservative event synchronization. The simulation system is provided with 4 layers, namely a processor emulator which is an ECU emulator, a plant simulator, a external peripheral scheduler, and a mutual peripheral scheduler. The external peripheral scheduler performs advanced execution of the plant simulator only during processor emulator reaction delay time (or the time until the next event). The notification to perform advanced execution of the plant simulator is provided until the actual plant simulator stop time. The mutual peripheral scheduler provides notification to the processor emulator to perform advanced execution only during communication delay timing between processor emulators (or the time until the next event). The processor emulator conservatively processes until the earliest time of the notification times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsumura, Shuichi Shimizu