Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Shimizu

Takayoshi 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).

  • Patent number: 11311164
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body portion, a secondary battery, an electric blower, a handle and a conductive member. The secondary battery is disposed in the main body portion. The electric blower operates by electric power supply from the secondary battery. The handle is one which a user contacts when the vacuum cleaner is used. At least a part of the conductive member is disposed at the handle and conducts static electricity generated due to operation of the electric blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Machida, Yusuke Abe, Naoko Shinagawa, Takayoshi Shimizu, Fumiki Mano
  • Patent number: 11272820
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a primary dust container that includes a container body, the container body delineating a dust collecting chamber that accumulates dust sucked into the vacuum cleaner and including a waste outlet that discharges the dust accumulated in the dust collecting chamber, the primary dust container also including a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes the waste outlet. A station includes a secondary dust container that accumulates the dust discharged from the primary dust container, and a driving source that generates opening driving force and closing driving force for the waste outlet. The electric vacuum cleaner generates a driving force for opening and closing an air passage connecting a primary dust container and a secondary dust container, without impairing convenience of a vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sato, Masatoshi Tanaka, You Torizawa, Yukio Machida, Hiromitsu Ichikawa, Hiromitsu Murata, Takayoshi Shimizu, Yuuji Ohtsuka
  • Patent number: 11250636
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit (110, 140) configured to acquire a captured image including a subject and three-dimensional subject position information indicating a three-dimensional position of the subject; and a content configuration information generation unit (150) configured to generate content configuration information including the captured image, the three-dimensional subject position information, and virtual space association information which is information used for an interaction in which the subject in the captured image displayed in the virtual space is involved and is information for associating the subject in the captured image with the three-dimensional subject position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11231591
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: an acquisition unit; and a motion control unit. The acquisition unit acquires motion information of a left eye of a user and motion information of a right eye of the user. The motion control unit controls, on a basis of a predetermined condition corresponding to human characteristics relating to motion of human eyes, motion of a left eye and motion of a right eye of a model of the user in association with each other so as to be non-linear with respect to the acquired motion information of the left eye and the acquired motion information of the right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220004250
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display control section. The display control section performs, when a display size of a plurality of virtual objects is changed, a notification regarding switching of a change mode of the display size of a specific virtual object among the plurality of virtual objects on the basis of display size change information set for the specific virtual object. This makes it possible to exhibit a high degree of usability to display the virtual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei YASUDA, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Kei TAKAHASHI, Junichi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20210333862
    Abstract: It is desirable to enhance the human-like motion of an object. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit configured to control, when an abnormality of a signal input for controlling a motion of an object is detected, the motion of the object such that the object continues a predetermined motion until a normality of the signal input is detected, the signal input responding to a motion of a user, in which until the motion of the object transitions to the predetermined motion after the detection of the abnormality of the signal input, the motion control unit controls the object such that the object performs at least one first intermediate motion, the at least one first intermediate motion being different from the motion of the object at the detection of the abnormality of the signal input and the predetermined motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20210328373
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a board body and pair of connection portions disposed at both ends of the board body. Each of the pair of connection portions is inserted into a connector. Each of the pair of connection portions includes a connection terminal electrically connected to the connector, and at least one of the pair of connection portions includes an extending portion extending from the connection terminal to an insertion leading end of the at least one of the pair of connection portion. The extending portion is disposed at a position to avoid a virtual line extending in an insertion direction through a position where the connector and the connection terminal are electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20210314557
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus that can suppress a user's uncomfortable feeling of a change in a video depending on a user's motion, an information processing method, and a program. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a display control unit. The display control unit controls a display apparatus to display an object having a movement parallax depending on a change in a position of a user's head in a display space in which a position of a viewpoint is substantially independently controlled with respect to the change in the position of the user's head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, JUNICHI SHIMIZU, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU, KEI TAKAHASHI, RYOUHEI YASUDA
  • Patent number: 11096532
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Abe, Yukio Machida, Fumiki Mano, Naoko Shinagawa, Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20210217248
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit (110, 140) configured to acquire a captured image including a subject and three-dimensional subject position information indicating a three-dimensional position of the subject; and a content configuration information generation unit (150) configured to generate content configuration information including the captured image, the three-dimensional subject position information, and virtual space association information which is information used for an interaction in which the subject in the captured image displayed in the virtual space is involved and is information for associating the subject in the captured image with the three-dimensional subject position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210037063
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enable to switch communication between virtual space and real space smoothly. The information processing device includes a communication control unit that controls communication performed in virtual space in which a virtual image corresponding to a real image of a user present in real space is created, interactively between users through the virtual image of the user; a user-information acquiring unit that acquires position information regarding a position of the user in the real space and attribute information including at least information regarding intimacy between the users at predetermined timing; and a switching control unit that controls switching between communication performed in the real space and communication performed in the virtual space according to at least either one of the position information and the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei TAKAHASHI, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Ryouhei YASUDA, Ayumi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200341284
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to guide the line of sight of a user in a more preferable manner. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding guidance of a line of sight of a user; and a control unit that controls second information to be presented to the user so as to guide the line of sight of the user, wherein the control unit controls, based on the first information, the second information so as to be localized in a route having a lower following load on the user with regard to the second information out of a first route and a second route connecting a start position and an end position regarding the guidance of the line of sight in accordance with a second coordinate that is independent of a first coordinate associated with an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: MIWA ICHIKAWA, TAKESHI OGITA, AKANE KONDO, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU, TAKURO NODA, RIE KAMIKUBO, RYO FUKAZAWA, TOMOYA NARITA
  • Patent number: 10800345
    Abstract: In a vehicular camera apparatus, at least one imaging unit captures an image of a region located outside a vehicle, and a first housing configured to install the at least one imaging unit thereto. A housing assembly includes a second housing configured as a separate member from the first housing, and includes a vehicle attachment provided to the second housing and attached to a part of the vehicle. The housing assembly is configured to fixedly support the first housing between the part of the vehicle and the second housing while the vehicle attachment is attached to the part of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Wato, Tatsuhiko Futamura, Shuuji Takamatsu, Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200315419
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a primary dust container that includes a container body, the container body delineating a dust collecting chamber that accumulates dust sucked into the vacuum cleaner and including a waste outlet that discharges the dust accumulated in the dust collecting chamber, the primary dust container also including a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes the waste outlet. A station includes a secondary dust container that accumulates the dust discharged from the primary dust container, and a driving source that generates opening driving force and closing driving force for the waste outlet. The electric vacuum cleaner generates a driving force for opening and closing an air passage connecting a primary dust container and a secondary dust container, without impairing convenience of a vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SATO, Masatoshi TANAKA, You TORIZAWA, Yukio MACHIDA, Hiromitsu ICHIKAWA, Hiromitsu MURATA, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Yuuji OHTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200100637
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body case which includes a main body connection port at a front side, a pair of wheels provided on the left and right side portions of the main body case to support the main body case movably and conceals at least a back surface of the main body case when viewed in a rotation axis direction, and a secondary battery provided in an area sandwiched between the pair of wheels and arranged in conformity with the shape of the main body case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi TANAKA, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Yukio MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190391402
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: an acquisition unit; and a motion control unit. The acquisition unit acquires motion information of a left eye of a user and motion information of a right eye of the user. The motion control unit controls, on a basis of a predetermined condition corresponding to human characteristics relating to motion of human eyes, motion of a left eye and motion of a right eye of a model of the user in association with each other so as to be non-linear with respect to the acquired motion information of the left eye and the acquired motion information of the right eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190174984
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum cleaner capable of efficiently utilizing exhaust of an electric blower when the vacuum cleaner is used as a blower. An exhaust air path (37) is arranged in a body portion (21) so as to communicate between an exhaust side of the electric blower and an exhaust port. A connecting port (34) is arranged on the body portion (21). A blower air path (38) is arranged in the body portion (21) so as to communicate between the exhaust side of the electric blower and the connecting port (34). A switching valve (39) is arranged capable of opening and closing the connecting port (34), so as to switch between the exhaust air path (37) and the blower air path (38) according to the opening and closing. An attachment (17), when being attached to the connecting port (34), communicates with the blower air path (38) upon switching by the switching valve (39).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio MACHIDA, Naoko SHINAGAWA, Yusuke ABE, Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Fumiki MANO
  • Publication number: 20190159643
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body portion, a secondary battery, an electric blower, a handle and a conductive member. The secondary battery is disposed in the main body portion. The electric blower operates by electric power supply from the secondary battery. The handle is one which a user contacts when the vacuum cleaner is used. At least a part of the conductive member is disposed at the handle and conducts static electricity generated due to operation of the electric blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Machida, Yusuke Abe, Naoko Shinagawa, Takayoshi Shimizu, Fumiki Mano
  • Publication number: 20190150685
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke ABE, Yukio Machida, Fumiki Mano, Naoko Shinagawa, Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190100158
    Abstract: In a vehicular camera apparatus, at least one imaging unit captures an image of a region located outside a vehicle, and a first housing configured to install the at least one imaging unit thereto. A housing assembly includes a second housing configured as a separate member from the first housing, and includes a vehicle attachment provided to the second housing and attached to a part of the vehicle. The housing assembly is configured to fixedly support the first housing between the part of the vehicle and the second housing while the vehicle attachment is attached to the part of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Koji WATO, Tatsuhiko FUTAMURA, Shuuji TAKAMATSU, Takayoshi SHIMIZU