Patents by Inventor Takashi Aoki

Takashi Aoki 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: 20230064707
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates and outputs a virtual viewpoint image with reference to a position and an orientation of a target object included in an imaging region on the basis of a plurality of images obtained by imaging the imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices of which at least either of imaging positions or imaging directions are different, and controls a display aspect of the virtual viewpoint image according to an amount of temporal changes in at least one of the position or the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori MURAKAMI, Masahiko MIYATA, Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Kazunori TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230066192
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate in which wall surface portions of a pressure chamber are formed, an diaphragm that forms a top surface portion of the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element that is provided on the diaphragm, and a communication plate, in which an upper surface of the communication plate is bonded to a lower surface of the pressure chamber substrate by an adhesive, the upper surface of the communication plate is provided with a supply opening and a discharge opening, the pressure chamber is longitudinal in an X direction, acute angle portions are formed by the wall surface portions that mutually form an acute angle at each end in the X direction of a bottom surface portion of the pressure chamber, and the acute angle portions do not overlap with the supply opening and the discharge opening in a laminating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Shohei MIZUTA
  • Patent number: 11590444
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having a porous partition wall and a plugging portion provided so as to plug end at any one of the inflow end face side or the outflow end face side of the cell, wherein in a section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cell, the shape of the cell is hexagonal, the partition wall includes a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cell and the outflow cell and a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells, and the first partition wall has a porous trapping layer on its surface for trapping particulate matter in exhaust gas, and the second partition wall has no trapping layer on its surface or has a trapping layer thinner than the trapping layer disposed on the surface of the first partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Yasuyuki Furuta, Takahiro Honda, Koji Kuzutani
  • Publication number: 20230017841
    Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control steering of a vehicle by a steering actuator. The steering control includes a trajectory following control unit and an angle following control unit. The trajectory following control unit is configured to adjust a target angle of a steering angle given to a tire of the vehicle by a trajectory following control that causes a state quantity containing a position of the vehicle to follow a target trajectory. The angle following control unit is configured to adjust an instruction value that is given to the steering actuator and corresponds to an actual angle of the steering angle by an angle following control that causes the actual angle to follow the target angle. The trajectory following control unit is configured to forcibly set the target angle to be a fixed angle in a stop control period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: TAKASHI AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220401870
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having a porous partition wall and a plugging portion provided so as to plug end at any one of the inflow end face side or the outflow end face side of the cell, wherein in a section orthogonal to the extending direction of the cell, the shape of the cell is hexagonal, the partition wall includes a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cell and the outflow cell and a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells, and the first partition wall has a porous trapping layer on its surface for trapping particulate matter in exhaust gas, and the second partition wall has no trapping layer on its surface or has a trapping layer thinner than the trapping layer disposed on the surface of the first partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Yasuyuki FURUTA, Takahiro HONDA, Koji KUZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20220386468
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor device having a first land, a second land, and a third land, a wiring board having a substrate, and a fourth land, a fifth land, and a sixth land disposed on the main surface of the substrate, a chip component having a first electrode and a second electrode disposed across a distance in the longitudinal direction and being disposed between the wiring board and the semiconductor device, a first solder joint for bonding the first land, the fourth land, and the first electrode, a second solder joint for bonding the second land, the fifth land, and the second electrode, and a third solder joint for bonding the third land and the sixth land. The volume of the first solder joint and the volume of the second solder joint are each larger than the volume of the third solder joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya Karakawa, Mitsutoshi Hasegawa, Takashi Aoki, Noritake Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20220375246
    Abstract: The present invention provides a document display assistance system which estimates and highlights significant words in a document of a specific field. The system comprises: a database in which selection-target words and non-selection-target words are registered; a learned word-selection model having been applied with machine learning for estimating whether a word is a selection-target word; a text pre-processing unit which segments words from an accepted display-target document; a word classification unit which classifies, based on the database, the word into any of a selection-target word, a non-selection-target word, and an indeterminate word; a text post-processing unit which generates output data by imparting a predetermined attribute to a predetermined word in the display-target document; and an output unit which outputs the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Xcoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi AKABE, Toshiki TAKEUCHI, Takashi AOKI, Kunihiro NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220370906
    Abstract: A computer system displays a game image (IM1) during replacement play by a second user and a notification of operation details based on an operation input by the second user on a game screen (W1) displayed on a first terminal of a first user. The notification is, for example, a command input by the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Teppei MIYANO, Koji ASUNA, Kiyoshi MINAMI, Kenichi OGURA, Akio ONDA, Takashi AOKI, Shintaro MURAI
  • Patent number: 11497997
    Abstract: A server is configured to detect an option element of an advantage option for an option set player and customize a specification of the advantage option that has been set or to be set in the future, based on the option element thus detected, to increase the attractiveness of the advantage option so that the player will be more motivated to actively acquire the advantage option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Asuna, Kiyoshi Minami, Tatsuki Mizuno, Kenichi Ogura, Akio Onda, Takashi Aoki, Shintaro Murai, Yusuke Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20220353484
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor. The processor evaluates an imaging target region from a plurality of line-of-sight directions on the basis of one or more evaluation items by using a plurality of images obtained by imaging the imaging target region with a plurality of imaging devices having different viewpoints, and decides a line-of-sight direction of a virtual viewpoint, which is used to generate a virtual viewpoint video, on the basis of an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko MIYATA, Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Kazunori TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220348253
    Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control steering via a steering actuator of a vehicle. The steering control device includes a condition determination unit and a steering maintenance unit. The condition determination unit is configured to determine whether a maintenance condition required to keep a steering angle at a stop control angle is satisfied, the steering angle being given by the steering actuator to a tire of the vehicle, the stop control angle being the steering angle which is to be given at a stop position where the vehicle stops traveling. The steering maintenance unit is configured to keep the steering angle at the stop control angle in a pre-stop traveling section in which the vehicle travels until the vehicle arrives at the stop position after the maintenance condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220345680
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processor; and a memory that is connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor acquires imaging device position information regarding positions of a plurality of imaging devices and imaging direction information regarding an imaging direction of each of the plurality of imaging devices, derives virtual viewpoint range specification information capable of specifying a virtual viewpoint range in which a virtual viewpoint image is capable of being generated on the basis of a plurality of captured images obtained by being captured by the plurality of imaging devices, on the basis of the imaging device position information and the imaging direction information, and outputs information regarding the virtual viewpoint range specification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Kazunori TAMURA, Fuminori IRIE, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220329912
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor. The processor acquires viewpoint information regarding at least one virtual viewpoint, and presents quality information indicating a quality of a virtual viewpoint video that is creatable with the viewpoint information as a reference, on the basis of a plurality of motion picture data obtained by being captured by a plurality of imaging devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori IRIE, Takashi AOKI, Kazunori TAMURA, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220319737
    Abstract: A wiring component includes a first wiring portion including a plurality of wirings arranged side by side in a first direction, a second wiring portion including a plurality of wirings arranged side by side in a second direction, and a coupling portion configured to couple the first wiring portion and the second wiring portion to each other, wherein an angle formed by the first direction and the second direction is changeable by deformation of the coupling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Hasegawa, Noritake Tsuboi, Satoru Higuchi, Takashi Aoki, Koji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220319102
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor. The processor acquires reference imaging device information corresponding to a position, an imaging direction, and an angle of view of a reference imaging device, and generates the virtual viewpoint image by using the reference imaging device information as a reference, on a condition that an instruction to start generating a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices is given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori TAMURA, Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11445304
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes: an element storage case including a case-side diaphragm having a thickness direction along a directional axis; and an ultrasonic element accommodated in the element storage case and spaced apart from the case-side diaphragm. The ultrasonic element includes an element-side diaphragm having the thickness direction along the directional axis and provided by a thin part of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is arranged to provide a closed space between the case-side diaphragm and the element-side diaphragm. The semiconductor substrate is fixed and supported by the element-storage case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kamiya, Itaru Ishii, Tomoki Tanemura, Takashi Aoki, Tetsuya Katoh
  • Publication number: 20220141442
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a free viewpoint video based on at least one image among a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, and a reference video, the free viewpoint video indicating the imaging region in a case in which the imaging region is observed from a specific viewpoint position and a specific visual line direction, and an execution unit that executes a specific process in a case in which a difference degree between the free viewpoint video acquired by the acquisition unit and the reference video acquired by the acquisition unit is equal to or more than a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kazunori TAMURA, Fuminori IRIE, Takashi AOKI, Masahiko MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20220132261
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of pieces of sound information, sound collection device position information, and target subject position information. In addition, the information processing apparatus specifies a target sound of a region corresponding to a position of a target subject from the plurality of pieces of sound information based on the acquired sound collection device position information and the acquired target subject position information. Further, the information processing apparatus generates target subject emphasis sound information indicating a sound including a target subject emphasis sound in which the specified target sound is emphasized more than a sound emitted from a region different from the region corresponding to the position of the target subject indicated by the acquired target subject position information in a case in which a virtual viewpoint video is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Kazunori TAMURA, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11317013
    Abstract: Provided are a focus adjustment operation detection device, a focus adjustment operation detection method, a focus adjustment operation detection program, an imaging device main body, and an imaging device capable of accurately detecting a focus adjustment operation of an imaging lens. An optical image passed through the imaging lens is received, and a phase difference of the received optical image is detected for each of a plurality of divided areas. Whether or not the focus adjustment operation of the imaging lens is performed is detected based on the amount of change in the phase difference for each divided area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20220116581
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a three-dimensional position and a posture of an object in an instruction three-dimensional region having an enlarged or reduced relationship with an observation three-dimensional region in which a virtual viewpoint and a virtual visual line are defined, a derivation unit that derives the viewpoint and the visual line corresponding to detection results of the detection unit depending on positional relationship information indicating a relative positional relationship between the observation three-dimensional region and the instruction three-dimensional region, and an acquisition unit that acquires a virtual viewpoint image showing a subject in a case in which the subject is observed with the viewpoint and the visual line derived by the derivation unit, the virtual viewpoint image being based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region included in the observation three-dimensional region by a plurality of imaging appa
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiko MIYATA, Takashi AOKI, Kazunori TAMURA, Fuminori IRIE